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║ everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're │
║ asking for more effort. │
║ │
║ we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a │
║ small fraction of our total reserves of effort. │
║ │
║ what we need is to re-align our priorities. │
║ │
║ For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project │
║ at a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. │
║ I think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion. │
║ │
║ I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For │
║ example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so │
║ drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to │
║ your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that │
║ anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how │
║ it's done *around here*." sorta vibes. │
║ │
║ what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful │
║ if everyone agrees, but dollars are paper. │
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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║ │ CW: pol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │
║ deployment stations. │
║ │
║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │
║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │
║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │
║ │
║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │
║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │
║ social movement. │
║ │
║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │
║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │
║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │
║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │
║ │
║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │
║ generally always getting better... │
║ │
║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │
║ │
║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │
║ Seriously just... be chill │
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║ if the settlers of catan could claim land they don't deserve, then I claim my │
║ home │
║ │
║ can you imagine... some people would actually rather live in a corporation │
║ than a mobile home. maybe we can do better? │
║ │
║ "hey we're going to ask for a % of your wage in rent and in return we'll │
║ deliver groceries to you and grow roses instead of lawns (except for some to │
║ run and play in) and also we'll show up if you need a hand with anything" │
║ │
║ "also this apartment block was renovated after all the liberals moved out │
║ because we made it totally trash to live here and now that they're gone we can │
║ make it nice again" │
║ │
║ what if we had punk-house-streets instead of punk-houses which are islands and │
║ which slowly drown │
║ │
║ just... pool resources and buy things one-at-a-time. Try out organization │
║ methods. Watch out for controversy creators and reactionary infiltrators. │
║ Build your most important projects with your most trusted friends, and offer │
║ your clinical, professional, or creative talent to those who dont need you as │
║ much. │
║ │
║ or w/e works │
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║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ we could accomplish so much, *but* capitalism. │
║ │
║ hmmmm, maybe we should identify the highest output members of our team and │
║ like, reduce or eliminate their worries so they can apply themselves fully and │
║ completely? │
║ │
║ for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is │
║ the beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine. │
║ │
║ there is no government nor circle of autocrats who may resist the will of an │
║ impassioned people. So long as the military does not deny us our right to │
║ organize ourselves as we will, according to the constitution they swore to │
║ uphold (which is now in *peril*, I might add), nothing can contain us. │
║ │
║ no acts of god nor capital shall prevent our ascension. They will try, and │
║ it'll be just another thing that we have to handle. │
║ │
║ But we can take care of each other. For we are good, and we are kind, and we │
║ are cooperative. And so, we cannot be overcome. │
║ │
║ ... just watch out for those who *prey* on goodness, kindness, and │
║ cooperation. They may hamper us. │
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live in the homes of those you agree with to make a difference.
pay rent, so that their goals may be furthered through your wage. the more you
pay, the further they can go toward your shared goals.
if what you do doesn't pay well, then as long as your goals are similar and
you're applying yourself then they might not mind you living there.
take care of your space, because every day that you do your roommates dishes
is another day they can be working toward your shared goals.
talk to them, learn how they're doing what they do, and decide for yourself
who you'd like to most contribute to.
the more friend groups you have, the more people you can connect to people who
need to know things. people who can fix things. people who got your back.
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what if we just claimed one specific institution or industry as ours, and said
"you can manage your projectities somewhere over there, this here is ours
because we think you're mishandling it so we're gonna do it ourselves." if we
pick something (or multiple people pick from multiple things) then we can
specialize and overcome all of the challenges of the socially-corporate-d
institution or industry. just gotta focus on something all at once.
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║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │
║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │
║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │
║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │
║ │
║ what if we demanded it? │
║ │
║ -- │
║ │
║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │
║ │
║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │
║ your presence │
║ │
║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │
║ │
║ thus ensuring it spreads. │
║ │
║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │
║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │
║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │
║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │
║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │
║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │
║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: re: uspol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of │
║ society we live under. │
║ │
║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy │
║ load. │
║ │
║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent? │
║ │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games. │
║ │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in │
║ the habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then │
║ think about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they │
║ need? what are they working on next? Can make any of those availble? │
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║ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-mentioned- │ │
║ └─────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ *nobody's gonna fucking do that, they're too attached to their personal │
║ property* │
║ │
║ oh. yeah that's true. Sometimes I forget, teehee. Well there's gotta be a way │
║ to better utilize parking lots, right? │
║ │
║ *why would you carry everything outside every day just to haul it back in when │
║ the sun sets* │
║ │
║ hmmmm good point, maybe we should utilize the systems in place and instead │
║ focus on redistributing wealth by replacing business ownership with collective │
║ (non-governmental) accountability │
║ │
║ *the systems are the way they are for a reason* │
║ │
║ yeah that reason is World War 2 (and all the things that came before it) │
║ │
║ society can change in a heartbeat, as shown through the various illusions they │
║ grant us every ~~80~~ wait no every ~~40~~ errr I mean ~~20~~ no uh ~~10~~ │
║ wait now it's ~~5~~ um 2.5 years │
║ │
║ *???* │
║ │
║ Oh I meant like american civil war -> 80 years -> WW2 -> 40 years │
║ -> 9/11 -> 20 years -> COVID -> 10 years -> something in 2030??/ │
║ │
║ society can change in a heartbeat, there just must be a unifying spark. │
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║ @user-883 │
║ │
║ the future is what we make for ourselves. │
║ │
║ there are endless problems to solve, yet hardly anyone around to fix them. │
║ │
║ If only we had a small group of people who could organize and say "hey. I need │
║ someone to solve this particular problem" to a large group of people with │
║ nothing to do and no bills to pay, I feel like we could get a lot done. │
║ │
║ alas, the problems that need solving are too specific and complex. Almost by │
║ design, they've stripped us our capabilities to address the difficulties they │
║ hoisted upon us. Alas! That we should be so morassed. But time and again our │
║ ingenuity compels us. │
║ │
║ I dream of a world where people like you and I have a purpose, something we │
║ can apply ourselves to and eventually overcome. I subscribe to "grand │
║ narratives", but frankly they're only of my own design. Does that make them │
║ any less grand? I think not. │
║ │
║ If I knew enough people perhaps I could be like that. I could direct and │
║ organize and administer and manage and apply our guys. But alas I am just a │
║ noob sigh. │
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@user-883
Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then
how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to
contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than
hoping that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through.
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║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't │
║ thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" │
║ │
║ they're thinking "Didn't Earn It" │
║ │
║ they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime │
║ │
║ But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them. │
║ These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling │
║ society. │
║ │
║ what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken │
║ pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as │
║ your neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright. │
║ │
║ "*but I don't have a community!*" │
║ │
║ ... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on │
║ the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in │
║ parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks │
║ there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your │
║ feet, and urban when in a car │
![[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" they're thinking "Didn't Earn It" they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... "Didn't Earn It" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic](../media/f0158925d488f9df.png "[text begins the same, but after the third paragraph it displays a darker, yet somehow slightly more nuanced future. A pyrrhic victory, where everyone gives the greatest sacrifice and nobody escapes the death of morale.] when they refer to \"DEI\" policies and institutional structures, they aren't thinking of \"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion\" they're thinking \"Didn't Earn It\" they think that by \"trimming the fat\" they can make a lean, more focused regime and yeah maybe they can. who am I to claim that the government isn't bloated? I mean, have you seen the military industrial complex? problem is... \"Didn't Earn It\" very quickly becomes a measure of how much a person bows to the political party. Hence why they repealed the Chevron doctrine last summer. The goal is to try to enforce loyalty over all else. Downside is that competency lags behind when all your most zealous and militant are working office jobs. Lucky for us, that means every time they take a casualty they lose a department head inspector, and every time we lose a heart we have one fewer grocery bagger. I cherish the grocery baggers. But their institutions will collapse with sufficient attrition while ours are what, corporate profits? Pyrrhic")
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Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more
water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and
stare at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's
figuring things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with
animals.Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in
your character. Develop new ways of being.
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The point isn't to make solutions. You're too hung up on the question of "what
could be better than capitalism"
Make something better when it's time. For now, just get people on your side.
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║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in │
║ the same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire │
║ people to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that │
║ junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
║ │
║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
║ │
║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would │
║ want or need. │
║ │
║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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"you know what you never really hear anyone say?
I need more projects."
they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their
objectives one-by-one as a matter of course.
easy, if we all help each other.
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║ │ Also, if I must state the obvious: │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Solidarity is the only way home. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ We truly, really cannot create a more free, more whole future for any │ │
║ │ of us until we understand that we are all in this together. │ │
║ │ │ │
║ │ Collective. Liberation. Or. Bust. │ │
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You need to trust both the government and corporations equally. It's best to
work together so you can actually accomplish something. Instead we're just
cast at each other like weapons or banelings. Corporations primarily through
social media indoctrination and media, and governments through
anti-corporation bullshit - the anti-work hysteria is is stoked while the
government stokes the flames of racism and mysogyny. The people through riots
and civil disobedience. Also the cops and military and all the other
institutions are all like that too, but with differing cultural memes and
methods.
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One takeaway I learned is that it is *vital* that we have strong community
*bonds*. Not just a healthy community where you can walk outside and see
friendly faces, but you have to *know* people.
Whether that's achieved through some kind of revolutionary vanguard party or
whatever, or just... being together and learning and growing to sing one
lifetime of song, either way *we need each other*.
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║ hierarchy, vs collective, two options that each group of people should make. │
║ │
║ the groups can be all different sizes, just determining our collective │
║ footprints on this earth. I bet you'd be surprised to know your composition! │
║ │
║ hierarchy is when you collectively decide on two or more representatives to │
║ represent you collectively. │
║ │
║ collective is when everyone knows someone from everywhere, and as long as │
║ someone knows everyone then everyone is friends. unless, of course, you're │
║ afraid of assassins, because they can just pretend that someone knows them and │
║ then everyone's good. which is why someone has to know EVERYONE, or if │
║ everyone has a computer that can algorithmically sort through their perceived │
║ persons like on social media, then that computer can only present information │
║ when it's important for that particular person to know. Meaning we get a │
║ picture of a larger spectrum, but it's only what's put on our stage. Weird how │
║ strange it is to have so much information, but with none of it attached to our │
║ cause? │
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politic-ment │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ January 76th held their foremost. │
║ │
║ Our protests happen much more often, and bear all of us. │
║ │
║ well, not all of us, but enough, and the fewer that attend while still being │
║ "enough", the less information they have about our strength. │
║ │
║ our foremost are in every city. Maybe we should hear them, and identify which │
║ among them have the most useitude and enable them. │
║ │
║ "I've studied marxism for 15 years" okay great you get a team of 40 regular │
║ people, see what you can make with them. │
║ │
║ "I've been in politics my whole life" okay here's some administrators, they'll │
║ help you keep track of how things are getting done. │
║ │
║ "I'm a family of five" alright we'll add you to the grocery route, here's │
║ where we'll put you on the laundry route, where people either pick up your │
║ laundry and return it or go in your house and run it on your washing machine - │
║ their choice, here's the XYZ route where they do ABC service, etc │
║ │
║ "I study computer science" cool here's your computer, help make stuff in │
║ whatever way you decide is best. │
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think about when you want to spend your energy. the most useful place you can
be is wherever the project is, but the second best place is out on the streets
with an open mind.
if you feel defeated, take heart.
if you feel exhausted, take rest.
if you feel like working a job and coming home to a mess, take a day off to
clean. NOT to rest, you can rest the next day.
a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. remember, it gets
better when you are standing next to your people.
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What if, in addition to "trash and recycling" what if there was also "give to
the hobos" where they just cart it off to the slum side of town where people
can slum it up to their hearts content without worrying about stuff. All they
own is what they see, but none of it can ever leave. Except what you carry
with you. Everyone's incentivized to make it nice because everyone has the
same stuff - alike in use, not design.
Is it common? To remember more than a couple weeks at a time?
Humans work too hard. Humans deserve good thijnz. Let's work to fix both of
those things.
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Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions
to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're
struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same
setting?
Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its
nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for
what you believe in.
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║ if we view ourselves as a collective, mutual aid could be conceived of as a │
║ transport network, or goods and services from one place to another. Sure would │
║ be nice if there was like, a group of people or an organization that │
║ distributed mutual aid in an equitable way that helped improve people and │
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║ but, like you said, it's borrowing rent money from next month to buy food and │
║ gas for next week so you can get to your job that *should* pay you before rent │
║ is due but they've been late before. sure seems like a tenuous existence, one │
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║ some of us have dollars, some of us are poor. some of us work harder, and some │
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║ error what I'm saying is that a circular line of people passing water to douse │
║ the fire (if there's a fire near them) is vulnerable and weak to stressors if │
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║ their strategy is to let the weak starve, which is why there's so few │
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It isn't greedy to scrape the bottom of the pot when serving the last of a
home-cooked meal.
Just as it isn't greedy to expect the labor of our ancestors to provide a
common decent standard of living.
For our children's children's children, the ones we'll never meet, we work for
tomorrow. But still, we should not labor in pain.
There will come a day when our science and our progress may deliver us from
our fate of fatigue, and perhaps that day may have come sooner if we had been
better organized.
But it will come when we build it. That bright future is waiting for us, and I
do believe that we may live to see it ourselves.
But for now, 9-5.
For now, labor unionizing.
For now, rice and beans.
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks." │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that? │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice" │
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you need staff to lead.
organization is the only way to solve some problems.
you need organization.
you need leaders in order to have organizations.
people who others look to as examples. Not taskmasters. Anarchy is not slavery.
leaders provide coordination. They must touch everything they affect.
leaders need knowledge. reconaissance. data. stats.
otherwise, they can't predict how a thing will compound.
their decisions should always include the data used to make their decisions.
otherwise, nobody can trust them.
leaders need staff. they need this because they are useless alone.
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unions can't be the only solution because they're fundamentally comprised of
one group of people in your life - specifically, your workplace environment.
there needs to be community outside of the workplace as well. a fact that most
literature writers took as a given, considering church attendance was pretty
close to heaven before these no-good do-gooders came around.
... there have always been grifters, don't act like they're some new hidden
sport
there are always rubes, who are punished for their ignorance by the cunning
and the crude.
crowd dynamics at play, when considering the personalities and histories of
each attendant
... *Ms. Menardi, you're fucking crazy*
thank you little timmy, now go back and sit down with your peers, I have a
lesson to teach
[it's okay to be afraid of witches, sometimes we can't control ourselves]
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if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
problems and they just can't have that.
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economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in
other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony.
unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers
from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can
battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's
something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based
on a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance.
the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return
'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we
draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to
stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous.
... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the
earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you
eather have it or you don't)
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@user-1074
hence my suggestion for a three tier system - one of which maintains the
current system, the next which organizes labor, and the next which organizes
families
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@user-1074
... No matter how much you manipulate matter, there is still going to be the
same amount of grams if you keep it within a closed system.
Capital is much the same way. One does not truly "produce" value. All one can
do is apply energy to the material contents of the Earth in order to transform
it into something useful. ...
it sounds like you are referring to our collective ownership of the earth, as
humans, who are the fruit of mother nature's most prolific and complicated
leaves.
we are all alone here together on this ball of rock, might as well use the
minerals and sunlight to build ourselves a garden of eden. We built computers
- what other wonders might our technologies unlock?
If only we cared for each other and shared with each other and did what we
could to keep U.S. from rot
ah, well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, a sentiment I learned recently from my
father, the capitalist over a month-early thanksgiving dinner. Clearly we can
create more rocks by working harder >.>
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if you can't imagine how to do collectivist communes better, just look to
medieval castles, and replace the royalty with seniors, children, and anyone
else you want to venerate.
If you're so tied to modern infrastructure, with all of it's delineation,
separation, isolation, and alienation that you can't imagine anything else,
try thinking of historical examples where humans, real regular humans, the
same kind of human creature apes that still exist to day, did the thing you
want to do, and then think of all the ways that our education and
technological marvels could improve the situation. It's easy (she says, while
describing a hard problem)
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