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  • Who Are We? — The General Strike

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  • just be supportive (irl or online) of the people in your life that need the most help. keep a tight circle. as your capabilities permit, slowly grow that circle outwards to include more activities or messages. resistance movements are not made overnight.

    the solution is not going to come in the form of a singular day of resistance, no matter what people tell you. even a worldwide general strike executed flawlessly will not upend the historical and cultural foundations that got us where we are today. we need a MOVEMENT. movements are made of people, like you and me.

    just by showing support, and talking candidly with others helps remind each other other that we have POWER when we all align our efforts.

  • Who Are We? — The General Strike

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  • it's true. we're seeing a lot of unconventional approaches to resistance nowadays. some might not work, some might only make a dent, some might help build solidarity but have little material effects. but something else is also true: no one, not the smartest of the smarty-pants historian economist or terminally online leftist post capitalist actually - KNOWS - the specific set of steps that will be sufficient to change things forever.

    all we can do is support people who are resisting in every way possible. sharing and reposting, donating money, signing petitions, calling reps, mobilizing unions, even more aggressive tactics (or giving aid to those who put themselves at risk directly).

    just help each other as hard as you can, build strong relationships because look around - we literally only have each other to count on right now. be a reliable and supportive ally and it will make a difference.

  • House Republican Budget Takes Away Health Care, Food Aid to Pay for Expanded Tax Cuts for Wealthy.

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  • 77 million / 155 million eligible voters.

    this is what the ultra wealthy made them want. the lumpen's desires are as manufactured as the hot cheeto dust caked upon their lips.

  • House Republican Budget Takes Away Health Care, Food Aid to Pay for Expanded Tax Cuts for Wealthy.

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  • Now, say it all together class:

    FUCK.

    THE.

    OLIGARCHY.

  • Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts

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  • Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill, say experts

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  • Political parties won't help us

    Corporations won't help us

    Government won't help us

    We have to help each other.

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  • they knew what they were signing up for.

    godspeed you glorious kamikaze children!

  • North Dakota House rejects bills to increase vaccine exemptions, ban fluoride in public water (

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  • I believe people who study public opinion about science have noted that confidence drops during outbreaks and epidemics... if that's the case, Covid does stand out to me as the first time in my life when laypeople began misusing and misunderstanding science at scale, loudly and as part of their proclaimed identity.

    makes sense that when a story of global 24/7 proportions eclipses all other news for 2+years straight, that it would become politicized and weaponized in the culture. our winner-takes-all first-past-the-post lesser-of-two-evils duopoly political system, combined with news as entertainment, and now we have folks that have made anti science their entire fucking identity.

    Carl Sagan refered to it as The Demon Haunted World (good book btw). Goya criticized it in his paintings. the Catholics burned people at the stakes because of it.

    History repeats; reactionary political/theological movements help ensure that it does.

  • Cold one rule

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  • Colby Jack.... tell me you're indecisive without telling me you're indecisive.

  • Americans’ confidence in air travel falls after string of plane crashes, poll shows

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  • most people aren't aware that Air Traffic Controllers are forced to retire at 55. no old, slow reaction employees allowed.

    when Reagan fired thousands of ATCs in the 80s, then hired and trained all new scabs, he inadvertently created an enormous cohort who would all be retiring at around the same time due to forced retirement.

    fast forward to today,

    • thousands of ATCs were aging out and being replaced with less experienced people (less of a prob now than 10ish yrs ago but still staffing is extremely lean due to Reagan)
    • add to that the obsolete legacy tracking tech
    • add to that cost saving (corner cutting) by aerospace corps like Boeing
    • add to that major dysfunction in pilot training, screening out baddies, inexperienced pilots, and dissatisfied airline workers and unions
    • add to that Trump administration purges and demoralization of federal workers
    • add to that Musk getting his SpaceX cronies hands all over the system to make 'upgrades'

    data nerds can point to historical accident statistics from the past 20 years up to what, 2020? all you like. trend lines don't often accurately predict the future, they merely describe the past.

    I recommend thinking twice before placing all your loved ones on a plane over the next couple years. there's going to be more of this.

  • The Pentagon Has Decided Climate Change Security Risks Are ‘Woke’

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  • collapse is almost definitely coming. I for one accept it though and believe there's a low probability of a silver lining outcome for a small number of survivors to build something new after society as we know it comes crashing down.

    post collapse Earth will be irrevocably different from the one we inhabit today, but it won't be all bad. i suspect not everyone will suffer the same fate from war, famine, or catastrophes. humans inhabit every corner and valley of this immense planet and not every place will be made uninhabitable for everyone, simultaneously.

    those who decouple from capitalism now and work towards a different kind of society, might fare better. it will be challenging, brutal, and at times exhausting for sure. but at least the orphan crushing machine we know today will finally come to a grinding stop.

  • The Pentagon Has Decided Climate Change Security Risks Are ‘Woke’

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  • bingo. to those accustomed to a lifetime of privilege, equality feels like oppression.

  • 'Shocking': Global Glacier Ice Loss Accelerates by 36% in Last Decade

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  • that's an important (yet debatable) prediction. historically, in subsistence based economies where more farmhands=more food I think that's been true. and holds true up to the point where costs of living don't exceed net household wages (picture Dickens era chimney sweep kids laboring for a pittance).

    what's interesting is that it's not true AT ALL for any other species in nature, only humans in the post ~1800s era have developed a seeming unlimited capability to secure more food for their young. wild deer populations naturally reduce themselves when food is scarce, but humans found a cheat code to growing forever.

    hard to say. but it's worth mentioning that although the doubling time for population has been contracting since 1800, it now appears to have flattened and is reversing direction.

    maybe more accurate to compare say, fewer people choosing to have children vs fewer kids surviving to adulthood and what conditions contribute more to each

  • The Fu¢k luigi mangione reddit sub is not satire, it is gross corpo bootlicking on full display

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  • I don't believe for a second that some sleuthing podcasters have created some impeachable, wholly accurate representation of a whole ass person based solely on their goodreads posts or random trail of breadcrumbs left in Facebook selfies... give me a break with the parasocial psychoanalysis. no one fucking knows shit about anyone if all you have to go on is their posts or what their college classmate said.

    more importantly, who fucking cares? folks need to stop pretending they were best friends with Anthony Bourdain or they SO RELATE to Taylor Swift. you don't know someone because you listened to a podcast or followed their insta. same applies to Luigi.

    Actions >> (online bullshit, speculation, hype)

  • Valve Releases Team Fortress 2 Full Client and Source Code

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  • that's kind of incredible.

  • Oops: Senate Democrats regret voting for some Trump Cabinet nominees

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  • spineless cowards, all of them.

  • Trump can’t shut down birthright citizenship, appeals court rules

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  • facts.

    sadly though, even if they stop one thing, they will not stop em all. he's setting a precedent every future President king of America will use to further the agenda of the ruling class (unless an FDR figure emerges to redirect that power at wealth redistribution).

    the president may in fact now be a king and both parties (one party really - the ultra rich) has either actively enabled or done almost nothing to dismantle executive authority since at least Reagan.

    the monarchists won control of the country, backed by corporatist billionaires. time will tell if it's reversible or even salvageable. might be wise to begin building the figurative life rafts.

  • 'Shocking': Global Glacier Ice Loss Accelerates by 36% in Last Decade

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  • our only hope at this point is probably

    1. people globally deciding to have fewer and fewer children due to rapidly deteriorating standards of living paired with rising inequality (no one will be able to afford kids let alone a home or healthcare)
    2. perpetual multi-crises and climate catastrophes disrupting supply chains and halting economic growth/consumption
    3. global economic collapse due to war, mass refugee migration, reshaping of national borders in a race to extract dwindling reserves of precious minerals and ore, also resulting in plummeting per capita consumption and/or birthrate
    4. all of the above in a self-reinforcing feedback loop

    .... fuck, this was supposed to be the hopeful scenario. smh, we live in interesting times.

  • Upcoming US Protests

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  • you have to crawl before you can walk.

    the point isn't to impact companies... no one's expecting a single day boycott to end capitalism. that's ridiculous.

    small events leading up to bigger ones is part of growing a movement, of testing how far you can count on people to support your cause. these types of actions are test runs to see if people have any capacity whatsoever for organizing and acting together in unison.

    some leftists (other commenters in this thread who were gatekeeping) are too smart for their own good, and think that we can get millions to go on a general strike overnight or enact some dramatic v for vendetta moment. turns out, deeply individualist Americans conditioned by a lifetime of isolation and atomized existence need a little gradual coaxing sometimes.