It’s not just cowardice. It’s also strategy. There are many Americans out there who hate Nazis but support fascist beliefs as long as they aren’t coming from Nazis. There are many social media moderators out there who will immediately ban self-admitted Nazis but approve of fascist posts and beliefs - this is especially common on modern Reddit where the most important thing is not to scare off advertisers. So Neo-Nazis online learned a long, long time ago to hide their power level, so they can keep posting fascist shit without being banned and gradually radicalize people into agreeing with them.
It’s also cowardice, of course. I’ve found cowards are often authoritarians. They feel more secure with a “big man” backing them. It’s why bullies at school attack their targets in gangs and then run to the teacher to cry if the target fights back. And it’s also why teachers typically take the bully’s side and punish the target for fighting back. Cowardly authoritarians gravitate to careers that give them power over children, and they protect their own.
(Now that I write that, there seems to be a clear parallel with Stonetoss spewing vile shit at minorities for like a decade and running to Elon the minute he faces any personal consequences for his hate. Fascists gonna fash, I guess.)
Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you’re still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying “well I buy a cheap used laptop” or “well I buy...
I would think the exact opposite. Apple’s monopoly practices (you notice they just got mega sued by the USG for antitrust violations, right?) mean if you want to effectively collaborate with people inside the Apple ecosystem you need to use Apple products.
On the other hand, Starbucks is easily replaceable, unless you’re in some sort of food desert urban wasteland, there are local coffee shops everywhere.
I don’t want to read at library where people are getting lit - and it misses the whole point of having a healthy third place to be. Take your book to a bar if you want that 😆
Image description: four men in tunics and sandals beating a naked man with sticks; the image may be depicting the Roman policy of decimation (having one in ten soldiers in a unit beaten to death by their fellow soldiers, to punish the entire unit for cowardice or desertion). The caption reads “four out of five citizens love...
Tumblr is the social media equivalent of those little hellstrips of lawn squeezed between the sidewalk and the street - useless for any profitable purpose and generally full of dog shit. I love it so much.
The fun thing about Banksy is how they spotlight the arrogant pretension of the white upper class art world. They produce deliberately bad art. Graffiti and vandalism and complete trash no different from any 12-year-old with a spray can and an attitude. And when it’s good, it draws on the culture and traditions of poor, mostly black and Hispanic America, that the white upper class are world holds in absolute contempt.
And the Sotheby’s crowd fawns on Banksy. Solely because they have a recognizable name and other art critics have praised them.
It really emphasizes how much modern art is a popularity contest and how little the actual art matters.
It’s propaganda, basically. A display of loyalty to the leader and the government. And it lets propagandists pretend the leader is overwhelmingly popular with his people, because look at these voting statistics!
You may laugh, but there are socialists in the US who insist election results in North Korea and Cuba and so on represent genuine support for their leaders, and contrast it unfavourably with the divided US electorate.
Some of you might be interested to know that wearing raw denim and babying it for fades by never washing it is actually the most ecologically sustainable thing you can do 😆
Absolutely. But is that good enough to keep the alternative business plans going? According to this article, I’m not sure it is.
I posted this on degrowth because the rise of secondhand fashion seems to be an example of degrowth in action - a business shifting from production of new items to refurbishing and reselling existing products.
What works - and what doesn’t work - in the battle against fast fashion is an important lesson for degrowth proponents everywhere.
self sufficiency and community sufficiency - both are necessary, neither are sufficient (slrpnk.net)
sometimes reddit is based (slrpnk.net)
you don't need consumerism or mass media to be happy (slrpnk.net)
Leaked Stonetoss chat log contains support for Nazis, rape, and murder (www.dailykos.com)
are they wrong tho (slrpnk.net)
how can something be so courageous and yet so true (slrpnk.net)
Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you’re still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying “well I buy a cheap used laptop” or “well I buy...
California tribe becomes the first to manage land with National Park Service | Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken during the gold rush, will get 125 acres returned (www.theguardian.com)
What if public libraries... (slrpnk.net)
specialization is for insects (slrpnk.net)
a great chart comparing emissions per kcal/water use per kcal for various foods - quantify the impact of going plant based for the environment (www.reddit.com)
back the blue (slrpnk.net)
democracy in action (slrpnk.net)
Image description: four men in tunics and sandals beating a naked man with sticks; the image may be depicting the Roman policy of decimation (having one in ten soldiers in a unit beaten to death by their fellow soldiers, to punish the entire unit for cowardice or desertion). The caption reads “four out of five citizens love...
(not actually official) (sadly) (slrpnk.net)
Banksy confirms north London tree mural is his work (www.theguardian.com)
A mural that appeared overnight on a residential building in north London is the work of Banksy, the anonymous street artist has confirmed....
why waste time sleeping when you could waste it paying for your CEO's lambo (slrpnk.net)
Man detained in Moscow for writing ‘Putin is a murderer’ on his ballot (novayagazeta.eu)
Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)
it's not greedy or entitled to want to live (slrpnk.net)
Plants can take up CWD-causing prions from soil in the lab. What happens if they are eaten? (www.cidrap.umn.edu)
The remaking of the American jean | what makes a pair of jeans more or less sustainable (www.washingtonpost.com)
Some of you might be interested to know that wearing raw denim and babying it for fades by never washing it is actually the most ecologically sustainable thing you can do 😆
The trendy second-hand clothing market is huge and still growing – yet nobody is turning a profit (www.bbc.com)