It warms my heart to see appeasing oppressors working so well. From the individual, to the global scale.

• Make israel Palestine again (MiPA)

Ouuu I guess I get to learn how to pickle things! And I will be planting lots of beans this year too.

I think there will be a lot of openings for Revolutionaries. Whether you are a planner, cook, maintenance, driver, prefer to educate or provide healthcare, or if you fancy yourself a fighter, I’m sure there is a role for you!

It’d be a shame if that shipment never made it…

Speed running empire collapse.

I’m honestly surprised that non-western states haven’t pulled away sooner. But now that the paper tiger is showing its pathetic pedo claws, every one knows it is a farce.

While I don’t expect the west to actually pull away any time soon, believing in its own propaganda too fiercely, cracks like that shown by Spain give me hope.

Given that it already had the largest relative and absolute prison population the world has ever seen, this will literally be unprecedented. It’s just giving more credence to the real name of the country “The Great Satan”.

The wonderful thing about your comment is how blatantly it disregards the scale of the “atrocities” committed by the empire

Lol. Human nature.

If you mean “here take this money and give us your country or we will kill you” then yeah.

But I suspect you actually are referring to some weird “humans are greedy! Look! Billionaires!” While ignoring how often we freely help and associate with other humans. For example: on this website.

Yeah I tend to boycott genocide, racism, slavery, regime change, that sort of thing. So you might consider me some kind of anti-US .

Also “living in traditional ways” is at best misleading. There is already more than enough to go around when we consider actual physical resources. Using market mechanisms to determine how things are distributed works very poorly in terms of meeting everyones needs, and blinds us to actual solutions.

The idea of overshooting earths capacity is firmly rooted in extractive ideology (which is a cornerstone of capitalist economies) and doesn’t even begin to consider how an adjustment in economic output to meet real demand and not whatever is the most profitable, would result in massive changes in the way we do things.

Food production could become more regenerative because we need to feed people not make money.

Clothing industries would cut gigantic amounts of waste simply by ceasing the destruction of clothing to maintain high prices.

And these 2 ideas alone could revolutionize nearly every aspect of our existence.

Indigenous ways of doing is not extractive. It is better described as a collaboration with nature. Managing natural resources to meet our needs, and the needs of (often specifically) the next 7 generations. It means managing forests to make more forests, with all the flora and fauna that entails. Among other things

The fascist part is:

Ohh humans are the problem Okay, which humans? Who decides who gets what? Who lives and who dies? Is there any consideration for the power dynamics in our society (spoiler, no there is not)

In short the quote who ever said it:

Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.

Nneeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrdddddddd

But only as a term of endearment.

And also, it’s a silly comic

Because as capitalist states struggle to maintain profits and control through soft means, the only other option is through direct control and violence. As the state gets more and more cozy with corporate and moneyed interests, and starts lashing out at the usual scape goats (trans/queer, communists, socialists, trade unionists, immigrants), we have what we call fascism.

Its the predictable end to a profit driven system that requires infinite growth to continue its existence.

It is okay to accept that the US is bad. You don’t have to cope by saying “ohhh yeah but wait until China!”

Its understandable you would think this. Bill Gates spent butt loads of money to scrub his image clean, buying up media companies to make it more effective, and using charities to hide behind to appear philanthropic. All the while being a typical oligarch, and using the free money given to charity to get more tax breaks and increase his wealth and power.

Its been very effective

Yeah like frig China. Why aren’t you killing them? Whats wrong with you? Clearly the most morally correct thing to do is exterminate them, what are you trying to hide?

VOOOOOOTTTEEEE HARDER! I’m sure at some point it will change. Its not like having all the power sitting in the hands of the few will stop you from making positive changes right? Just keep playing their game … I’m sure it will work this time…

Yes, and this time you are part of the management, and so is almost everyone. Instead of management being a few rich arseholes.

Good point, when has using violence to protect yourself from the state, which is oppressing you through violence, ever helped?

Ohh, right. That is the only way oppressed people’s have ever won their freedom.

How quickly are we talking? Then we can talk about concrete answers, and strategies to make it work for you specifically. And whats the goal? Temporary (like for a day or 2) or more permanent?