If they escalate, so do those they oppress.
The alternative is… this.
Oligarch’s AI deciding if your children are worth healing or if they’ve already been exploited too much to make it worth it to them.
The violence is happening now. I reject the notion that we should continue to just take it because the slaughter is quiet and according to plan.
This is quiet, not peace. Have you been to our tent cities? Do those victims of our economy look like they’re at peace?
If you think we’ll ever get universal healthcare without prying the capitalist’s claws out of their well bribed government first, you haven’t been paying attention.
Their bribe checks > any quaint peaceful protest that can be mustered.
I mean, would you prefer the symbol of a revolution against entrenched power be this?
The allies murdered a lot of Nazis.
Whats the bfd?
War is mass murder, we just feel uncomfortable saying that so we’re bullshitted into saying “it’s not murder… It’s war!” War being that thing where old men send young men to murder one another to either increase or retain their power.
Historically, murder solves shit, sorry. If the long arm of history truly does bend towards justice, thank murder, because the times passivism effected significant change are few and far between historically speaking. Sometimes the powerful goes too far in their decadence, they have, they limit the peasant’s non-violent options, they have, and the alternative to violence is subjecting your kids and their kids to the very same cruelty.
Sometimes enough is enough. Peasants were murdered yesterday, are today, will be tomorrow in the name of profit.
It being sanctioned by our captured state doesn’t make it not murder. Moreover it’s not just murder, it’s a one sided, ongoing slaughter for profit.
Luigi’s single murder merely put a new spotlight on what some of us already knew for the rest. May all of us be judged by how we react to that spotlight. The ones calling it wrong and evil end of story responding “turn off that spotlight so we can go back to pretending our society isn’t fucked right now.”
When you take away people’s reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate…
…you might not be glad that you did.
glares in Nick Fury
Even better
🤐
(no lie was spoken)
Psychologist here:
You’re stuck on number 4 mate.
It was legal to force African Americans to give up their seats to whites on the bus, until a lot of highly moral activity that was illegal at the time changed that.
Jim Crow would likely still be in full force today had it not been for adult levels of moral outrage, with accompanying illegal demonstration, that superceded immoral laws.
It’s a tragic mistake to conflate legality with morality.
Yeah that is strange, the affluent usually have gold plated plans that aren’t subject to the same murderous tyranny most’s base level and/or employer provided garbage is. I thought those are the plans they point to as the US having the “best Healthcare in the world…” for the right people, god’s chosen affluenza sociopaths.
I always saw those plans as the “In the little self-protecting country club” plans provided for the owners fellow owners in actual good faith since they’re seen as bona fide human beings and not exploitation livestock.
As with anything in the owner’s completely seperate, segregated world, from vacation spots to Healthcare, the only gate they need to keep is prohibitive expense.
Wow, thank you for the clarity!
Much obliged, and thank you!
Edit-I agree with his overarching point:
An active War is being waged upon the non-wealthy masses by the owners, a war sanctioned by our own government that will not intervene, whether the non-wealthy masses peacefully line up as is expected of them to get executed like good lil boys and girls in the name of private profit or not.
Can he talk to the public while in custody? Is that a right that he has or are there legal mechanisms to keep him segregated from making any public statements if they don’t like what he wants to say?
I’ve always said crypto isn’t completely useless, it should just be what it was always meant to be and no more:
A currency to buy drugs anonymously on the darknet.
Could have just stopped at OG bitcoin for that. All the rest is idiocy. It’s good for that niche, and nothing else.
A well trained, well beaten dog.
An economic Uncle Ruckus. They train us from birth to see shame in not being wealthy, it sadly works. Some of our economy’s victims internalize their own dehumanization and see it as the natural order to report on their fellow inferiors to their betters.
The same people mourning BriBris loss by hilariously trying to shame everyone for not condemning his murder while conveniently ignoring all the people he murdered through policy, and whose policies murdered people yesterday, and will today, tomorrow…
The owners are trying to stop us from being able to.
GoFundMe, a for profit organization, took down an attempt to raise money for him.
He allegedly killed a low level owner, after all! Not some poorie livestock!
Raise all the money for poories you like though. Use GoFundMe, a percentage of your charitable transaction will go to their glorious private shareholders!
(don’t use GoFundMe anymore)
Exactly. Housing is finite and other people live here too.
People who don’t eat or have shelter quickly don’t figure anything out.
They die.
Regardless of identity, some things are universal to the human condition.
I’m also not against a politician celebrating LGBTQ culture. Im completely for it.
…As long as their voting record doesn’t stand directly against their interests, and instead align with their claimed advocacy and you probably know problems like homelessness disproportionately effect LGBTQ individuals.
How about housing?
As with anything else, It’s more important to care about any group in order of those within it that need the most help to those that need the least.
It’s more important for a politician to set policies for poor trans people to have a home and a bed than it is for that same politician to profess their solidarity with their identity on Ellen DeGeneres for a photo op.
What the hell does solidarity mean in that case? Be free to die horribly on the street of exposure as who you are? Wow thanks?
They aren’t a substitute in lieu of governance or political progress either, and are often treated like they are by neoliberals.
“LGBTQ people” are people who need to eat too. Rainbow ribbons aren’t hurting anyone, but they aren’t edible either.
The American people aren’t getting their physiological and safety needs taken care of on Maslow’s hierarchy, paying lip service to the top of the pyramid while intentionally letting the base rot away is only patronizing. It’s only opportunism.
Its the difference between saying you love someone and being in a position to show them and never doing so. You want to give them credit for the clearly self-serving platitude with no action behind it?
Here I’ll do what you’ve been doing, why do you have a problem with poor LGBTQ people who need more than affirmation if they are to survive?
Im glad we agree on the problem, Im sorry we can’t on the only possible solution.
You can’t organize a mass labor movement or major party under the current power structure for one important reason, one of the reasons Unions have been all but defeated from their height, the owners simply have a bigger pulpit, the biggest pulpit, the for profit media pulpit. They also have the pulpits of almost all elected officials. They don’t need to use this pulpit to win any argument, merely divide this new renewed labor movement over petty divisions as they’ve done repeatedly over the last 60 years.
They own the means of production, they own the means of state violence, and they own the bully pulpit. All that is left is direct action or acceptance of the futility of the situation until climate change induced collapse.
Because before that climate change induced collapse, they’ll also soon have virtually unlimited bipedal robots they can use to fight their battles for them, which will also eliminate direct action, which will effectively make the only possible agency anyone can exercise suicide.
This is last call for even a slim hope. If it requires generational struggle, it’s already over. This isn’t ebbs and flows of history, our technology and greed enabling are very well set to put a period on that in our lifetimes.