We need to normalize not just starting worker owned and run co-ops, but taking over businesses and converting them to these co-ops.

Federate the co-ops, establish a shared workforce (one co-op goes under/not enough business at x? Come work at y) and have them become actual workers councils

The Marxist critiques of this are not lost on me, co-ops are not immune to exploitation and fool proof by virtue of existing under capitalism but I think we need them for two reasons:

Sitting around and waiting for a revolution from a small group of people with one idea of how to run things is a bad idea

We need to practice what actual day to day life will look like. I think the experiences and connections made will far outweigh all of the bookclubs, protests and other purely political avenues of organizing

It doesn’t need to be all central planning and state owned, it doesn’t all have to be zaney pure communal experimentation right from the start …people could just literally experience going to work at a normal job but feel the agency of having a say in their workplace, not live in fear of an overbearing boss, decide their wages, always have a place in case their job implodes or they become redundant (bounce to co-op y).

Need Russians in the streets protesting the war and oligarchs. Things can’t be going too well if their capital is getting strikes

Even if boycotting were illegal how in the fuck would that be enforceable?

Why do we allow these people to exist comfortably? They brazenly flaunt that they want to kill and imprison people and we just let them.

Small business people are every bit as insufferable as big business people

US cloud supports our military endeavors and it spies on you. That AI facial recognition drones and police are using are powered in large part by google and other big tech companies. The immensity of the data centers and how much they cost to build and operate is staggering. You have no idea how much simply not using google would impact the world as google has it’s hands in everything.

Stop using American tech.

Tamarian

Oh they’re totally preparing to see how far they can invade us and how far in we’ll invite them in before fighting back

America is compromised, to what extent we know they aren’t our friends or what extent we are willingly letting them gain the advantage I am not sure. I think this administration is so full of useful idiots and paid off assets it doesn’t matter the end result is the same: no more allies, new “allies” that are poised to invade and win without support of the former allies

Man I remember one of my friends got a flat panel about a decade ago and he is a huge movie buff, tons of old horror and sci fi VHS and DVDs. He would invite me to watch movies and it just always boggled my mind how fucking shitty and unwatchable the movies were.

It was years later when I realized it was that smooth motion garbage. I really do not understand how people can put up with how trash that feature is

Conservativism is 100% identity politics.

This is why the means to commit these atrocities should not exist. Evil will always exist no matter the framework or environment, good people can always be made to do bad things. You give the most oppressed and agrieved people the weapons, money, hierarchy and financial incentive to oppress and they will

That’s why I feel it’s so important to make a society that defaults to “morality” and limits the tools for harm without requiring utopian ideas of universal goodwill and altruism amongst all citizens to keep the system inherently good and altruistic

It takes a crazy amount of resources to set up a society be okay with torture, to shape media just right to allow apathy or ignorance, to wage wars and to gin up the support of these wars that require billions to wage.

Even when you’re banned you have to delete your account. May as well try as an experiment

I would get your family out of America. People downplaying this are willfully ignorant. Maga pretending it’s all hysterics are wrong, tankies pretending this is business as usual because “America bad” are wrong.

All the groundwork is laid to mass imprison and deport dissidents, the definition of dissident is widening, we are witnessing a complete lack of checks and if your last hope is violence from the populace or the military to fix this then I think Americans need to trust their gut and recognize this place isn’t worth staying

You rule for your comment. The mental gymnastics conservative leftists go to justify the current state of affairs while propping up counties that have literally nothing to do with socialism is insane. They’re as programmed as maga. They argue in bad faith and their ideology is incoherent

I usually pick a random word and hope for the best. I was pleasantly surprised that the word toilet basically paid off right from the start

Self fulfilling prophecy. It’s a doomsday cult and they’re trying to bring the end times instead of waiting

When they said we’re living in the end times it wasn’t a prediction it was a threat

I still see great TV’s for dirt cheap or free at thrift stores and the side of the road. The retro crt market is very strange, unless you’re chasing hard to find pvms it feels silly to spend hundreds on them

I legit walked away from a 36 inch trinitron for 20 bucks at the thrift store. I just simply had no room or ability to transport but spotting it in the wild for that cheap was a thrill lol

I also think while yelling racial slurs should not be illegal, organizing and mobilizing under a racist ideology that promises to eliminate free speech should be criminalized. The tricky part is doing it in a way that won’t be abused ie calling things that aren’t racist and supremacist ideology those things to criminalize them.

If only there was an art vs porn emergency button encoded into the law. You just know it when you see it and can call things what they are

I’m very excited I’ve been wanting to play this version of daytona

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