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  • Your argument boils down to this then.

    Beyond looking at some pretty pictures, you’ve clearly read fuck all about Solarpunk if you think it’s normal to say it could be built on slave labour. It’s generally depicted as some form of anarcho-communism, although other flavours do exist. But I guess that’s not your flavour of left, not Soviet enough for you, and must therefore be brandished as bad, evil, and fascist.

    As usual, the Marxist Leninists stomp on the Anarchists at the first opportunity. Aiding the Capitalists while professing to be on the side of the workers.

    Give some manual labour a go instead of putting down other left movements. Actually do some physically demanding work. It might help you appreciate why people who swing hammers all day, every day, don’t want to see hammers in their art after work.


  • Tell me you’ve never worked manual labour without telling me you’ve never worked manual labour.

    There’s always lads standing about, having a smoke, chatting shite, it’s not all swinging hammers and rolling up your sleeves. Labour is hard, people take rests all the time without it being an official break.

    But regardless, to call a movement fascist because their art doesn’t depict someone swinging a hammer in every image is bonkers.

    True liberation of the workers involves less work for the workers. As the Greeks put it, we should be eating figs, making art, and having orgies once our needs are met. Not working more for the sake of working. Solarpunk is utopian, utopia means rest and relaxation for the working class, not Sisyphean toil.






  • Governments and others with power are constantly finding new ways to suppress protest and silence critical voices. Global trends towards the militarization of police, the increase in the misuse of force by police at protests and shrinking civic space mean that it is becoming more difficult to stay safe while making your voice heard.

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/freedom-of-expression/protest/

    The way police and other state authorities engage with protesters has become increasingly militarized since the early 2000s. Militarization is happening in many ways, including the deployment of armed military forces to suppress protests and supplying police with equipment like armoured vehicles, military-grade aircraft, surveillance drones, guns and assault weapons, stun grenades and sound cannons.

    Military forces are organized, trained and equipped for war and defence and have no place at a protest, where police should be trained in de-escalation, mediation and keeping people safe.

    Governments try to justify this disproportionate escalation in the use of force by painting protesters as a threat to public safety, but in truth, these tactics are ultimately a way to intimidate people into silence.







  • I can, mental health services in this country are shit and taboo. But being autistic doesn’t excuse being a deviant arsehole.

    Pulling down a colleague’s trousers and then going “it’s because I’m autistic!” only solidifies that he’s an arsehole, trying to hide his actions behind a label that he thinks now makes him untouchable.

    Concessions and understanding should be shown to autistic people. Sudden changes in plans, for example, may cause a strong emotional reaction that “neurotypicals” wouldn’t experience, but it doesn’t mean autistic people are free to completely do as they wish without repercussions

    Actually, what am I saying? Yes, it should allow autistic people to be above the law! Brb, I’ve got a left wing government to install, nobody can stop me!