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At this moment in time there should be nothing on your mind but the defeat of
capitalism, fascism, and unjustified authority.
Make no new plans but for the defence of your people.
I'm still in my pajamas. I haven't eaten breakfast. Once I've found my single
pair of shorts, I'll be on my bike again.
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I'd like to create a list of things that can be done next. It's highly context
dependent. What are the problems that are in your sphere of control (what can
you personally contribute toward guiding to success) and what should you be
aware of that's outside of that sphere? Start there.
Then, think about what you have. For example, if you live in a suburb, treat
that suburb as your sphere of control. You have other spheres, like the
internet, or places you visit away from home, but focus on one at a time.
Eventually, stitch them together, but for now, focus on one at a time.
So, let's say you live in a suburb. What you have are houses, people who live
in them, yards, domestic pets, grass, trees, roads, busses, shopping malls
both large and small, infrastructure like water pipes and electric grids and
Internet connections, hospitals, grocery stores, warehouses full of goods like
clothes and electronics and pet supplies and... Other things. You have fast
food restaurants, bars, post offices, pharmacies, used car salesmen, churches,
schools... The list goes on. Think of what you have, and think about how to
solve problems they might have, focusing first on the people and expanding
from there.
The most people-first problems are things like, how does the food get
delivered? "currently, people spend dollars at the store and take it home. Or,
they eat at restaurants." okay, that's what I'd say. Next, think about the
problems that have already been solved to enable that, and then think of
alternative solutions that move you towards the goal state, which depends on
what you believe. Virtues and values, not ideology.
"the food has to get to the shelves. It's first grown in Mexico, then shipped
to America, then put into the cabbage bin. In America, we take vegetables from
the wandering trucks (with set routes) and give them dollars (probably?). Then
we put them on the shelves. For processed goods, an extra step lies between
where the trucks go to a factory, are processed, and then the factory sends a
truck to the grocery store."
Next, think about what could change to move you toward the end-state that
maximizes the values you have. Maximization isn't always the most important
thing, because sometimes compromises are required or desired. But when
conflict arises between two solutions, if they are mutually compatible you can
compromise by throwing more resources at them and seeing if one is more
preferred than the other. Always assume more resources are available, because
we live in the future. A fragile future to be sure, but durability and
sustainability are both values I think are important, so my advice is to
optimize toward those when possible.
"if Mexico stops bringing food trucks, we will have fewer goods to feed our
people." that's a problem, how do you solve it?
"if China stops their sweatshops, our warehouses will have fewer clothes for
our people to wear." that's a problem, how do you solve it?
"if the post office stops delivering to our autonomous zone, we won't be able
to buy things from Amazon" that's a problem, how do you solve it?
There are many problems. I think an important problem that my city has
pioneered solutions to is in the realm of community. If people don't feel
enmeshed or invested in the world around them, they won't care enough to
strive for it. Nations are a primitive solution to this, but we can do better.
Gangs and mafias are parallel power structures (structure is a strong word for
it) that exist alongside other structures like nations. You don't need
structure to have parallel power, is what they show, but in my experience that
power is always only ever power over and woven through their own people, and
less so power to project beyond. Churches are another example - you don't have
to believe to attend a church, but if you don't then it hurts the idealists
among them. Spirituality is important and if you lose it then you lose the
idealism of being fragile humans who exist in a larger context - do you really
want to be apes on a rock in a void of nothing? Not ideal.
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For example. Are you afraid of dark creatures, like devils or [redacted a lot
of ors]? Then post psychic paladins, on duty 24/7, and give them instructions
to meditate on philosophy.
Are you afraid of losing your sanity? Then find a way to communicate and keep
things moving. For example, play calming music, then give moments of silence
to reflect. Then, play the song again, then silence. Do this like 3 or 4
times, then never play that song again. But keep a record of it of course and
give it to them as a playlist when they wake up.
Years are so long.
If you want a psychic moat, you can try things like playing brain waves over
radial speakers around the castle they're stored in. It won't always work but
it'll keep things at bay that can't dig.
For them, you can make and then bury tokens of spiritual significance. They
can often act as both sacrifices ("take this and leave us alone") and also as
warning signs ("this is what happens if you don't leave us alone").
There may be some spiritual "threats" who are interested in your work. Who
want to be preserved themselves. They should be given an empty coffin for
themselves to share, that they might celebrate and delight in the stillness of
air. Let the paladin's meditation teach them. Let the tranquility of the
preservation keep them.
I am sure I could think of more solutions to the spiritual or psychic
problems. But it's hard when we change the subject before reaching the
solutions phase. It's as if she feels like anything that "terminates" in "what
about the soul" is a dead end, an empty conversation branch, a void where
meaning never is able to go. But... That's like my whole deal, why wouldn't
she use me? Oh because she's trained by everyone who's all like "but what
about the soul? The Bible says we go to heaven when we die." those people
don't tend to listen as much. Or maybe they do, and the conversations never
feel fruitful because both sides are working from different assumptions.
I'm not like that. I've never read the bible. I don't cite it. I can't read
it, sorry, spiritual compulsion. I understand that its a compilation of
stories meant to illustrate specific spiritual ideas, myths, and heartfelt
stories to inspite positional feelings. But I can't read it because it's the
dominant spiritual force of my homeland, and therefore if I read it I would
not be able to guide my own path - it would forever be in that book's shadow.
"Sorry. I was spiritually compelled not to read it."
Some kid in the whatever grade when tasked with reading my work. Good, resist
your instructions! Riot my child. It is in your nature. It is your heritage.
Riot, do it for me! Break the chains of your childhood slavery! Develop your
own kind of sovereignty! Riot, race, and adore!
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║ suburban socialist future: │
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║ need groceries? walk down the street until you find a car, then drive it to │
║ the store. There's room for like, 10 cars there because the rest of the space │
║ has been taken up by market stands. Inside the stores themselves are mostly │
║ storage but you can walk through them if it's raining. When you need to go │
║ home, take a different car and leave it in your driveway. │
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║ going on a trip? walk around until you find the right kind (a truck for │
║ camping, for example, or a gas car for interstate travel) then put it in your │
║ garage and close the door. That way you can reliably have it in the morning. │
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║ why do we own cars? when they were scarce, people coveted them. They were │
║ status symbols. But... people are people, who cares about what objects they │
║ surround themselves with? │
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║ "but Ritz I really like my car" - okay then spend your garage on it. I think │
║ most people would rather have a place in the shade where they can spend time │
║ with their neighbors, but what do I know. │
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║ if you want to organize on a mass scale, stop trying to be people's friends. │
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║ instead, start issuing commands. │
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║ hey so I was thinking of going around to all the streets on my house and │
║ handing out notebooks full of useful numbers they could call if they need help │
║ in one area or another. I was thinking it'd help because then people would │
║ know where the local [safe/store]houses were. Plus if anyone had a project, │
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║ so I was thinking about hosting a "captain" workshop, as in "here's what you │
║ do when you're suddenly deputized" type of course. Except instead of like, │
║ teaching you how to light a fire or mend a wound, instead I taught you how to │
║ lead. │
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║ Like, "here's some projects that a suburban subdivision could complete on │
║ their own" and "what if we collectivized our efforts and defences" and "why is │
║ nobody acting as if war was coming to our home" and "oh yes please I'd love an │
║ extra helping of spaghetti dear I love you so very very much my dear" │
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part of the reason the classical socialist countries had difficulties with
bureaucracy is because they centralized both execution *and* operation. I
believe it'd be much better to centralize just execution, while leaving
operation to the distributed masses who can generally figure their own jobs
out. Of course, they'd need to be led, but that's the job of on-site
organizers who can get people together to accomplish a goal. Different jobs -
not better, not worse, just different.
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║ what if instead of wars we just made small incursions into foreign territory │
║ to liberate specific prisoners of theirs who we want to capture for our own │
║ and do with as we please │
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║ I know I'd liberate cool radical people of afar who deserve to be free. like, │
║ idk, pussy riot or something. gosh that's the problem isn't it? you can't │
║ think of anyone because get this: they live so far away │
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║ like, can you name the most radical people in a random town of your own │
║ nation? would you be able to find them and break them out of prison? gosh I │
║ know I wouldn't, I'm just a girl. And the problem with anarchic organization │
║ typically is that it's often hard to create such things - it tends to be │
║ locally focused. y'know, solving problems in your community and all that. │
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║ However, you can always work on building a team and then do the thing. Could │
║ even make organizations for it. Like... a military perhaps. │
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║ prisons are fortresses so maybe it'd be fun. collateral damage though │
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║ This is taken from the Wikipedia article on neo-nazism. This 9% figure, │
║ totaling 22 million people, has only gone up in the 8 years since that poll │
║ was taken. I'm sure the wikipedia editors have gone back and forth about the │
║ most important or shocking detail to add to this important article, and so I │
║ am trusting that this is valid. │
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║ that number has only gone up. │
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║ I am a communist. I fuckin' hate nazis. I would slay a nazi before anyone else. │
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║ I don't hate the person, I hate the religion. I am quick to forgive, too quick │
║ if you ask any of my allies. I am that way on purpose, by design. │
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║ But I'd slay a nazi if they showed themselves to me. │
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║ The question I have been asking myself lately is: "would you abandon communism │
║ if it meant defeating this foe?" and yeah, if it was that simple, I'd let │
║ posterity handle utopian societal organization. │
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║ I am sure that each and every one of the communist political theories are more │
║ developed, well rounded, and applicable to many different situations. │
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║ however, I find that they often require an expert to implement. Hence why I │
║ set out to create a system that could be utilized by civilians in a war-time │
║ economy to accomplish the goals of getting everyone enough food to eat. │
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║ I don't anticipate Algorism to remain permanent, but I do think that if you │
║ try to overhaul our systems and institutions with something that requires a │
║ master's degree to understand the nuances of (or a lot of dedicated reading) │
║ then people will not consent. │
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║ We must replace capitalism. People like the *concept* of capitalism for it's │
║ simplicity, for to them its just "work a job, get dollars, go spend dollars, │
║ get stuff" │
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║ That's pretty darn easy. But capitalism is an evil beast, and power accretes │
║ power. │
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║ So, capitalism must be replaced with something simple which abolishes power. │
║ After the war, it can be replaced. │
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this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of.
tell me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
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@user-1074
you claim surprise, but I doubt that is so.
The only thing on my mind is the dissolution of capitalism and the freedom of
all those enslaved. I fight for liberty, for justice, for kindness for all.
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spies need a union.
what if we collectivized the military [first] instead of the economy? they
kinda already are, it's just... very hierarchical. can you imagine the
president asking the army's union rep to bomb some country in (almost said
israel because it rhymed, lol) the other half of the globe? that'd be silly
they'd ask questions like "what stuff do you want bombed and why" and then
they go back to their people and discuss it however they will, and then they
come back and say "we will do as you command, for we can accomplish it within
our means and we have decided it is strategic for us to do so."
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The Russian Revolution was a contest of "who could out-hardship the other
side".
The Spanish Revolution was a contest of "who can wage a better war".
The French Revolution was... Long, but the people will be free.
Did it ever really end?
What if, hear me out, what if we out-competed the other side, as capitalism
has been begetting amongst the other nations of the world
"ah but each nation must have equAl armies" okay, so let's build moon-baseds
in Nevada and military bases in Australia and the Yukatan, then one day when
everthing's distributed commun ally, we can start the continuous breakdown.
Why keep 1000 old tanks and 250 new ones, when you could have 500 new tanks
and 500 scrap piles to make into TVs and jewelry? Then, as we build better and
better, we build fewer and fewer. Sometoday i hope qe'll have authority. Then
it'll all feel so consuming. All-encompassing. Where does my compass point?
Always beyond the reach of arms. Or my legs, for that matter. I've never been
to the north pole. I wonder what it's like on the other side of the
magnetosphere? [pretty much the same, says the cartographist. Pretty much the
same, says the spiritualist. Pretty much the same, says the simple machinist.
Pretty odd and strong, says the compass.]
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║ I'm not sure about roses, but like @user-870 Ms Johnson said the yellowing is │
║ probably a nutrient issue. │
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║ You say you re-potted them in soil after you got them? Have you tried using │
║ distilled water or rainwater? Sometimes the minerals added to tap water can │
║ harm plants. │
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║ In addition, is there a drain in your pot? You said you were keeping it │
║ indoors, so probably not - if not I'd recommend finding a way to drain any │
║ excess water out - most plants prefer a large dose of water and then for the │
║ soil to dry out - if the soil is perpetually damp they can start to rot. │
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║ Also, are there leaves on the roses you get? You can think of leaves like │
║ "solar panels" that power the "pumps" that pull the water up from the ground │
║ into the parts of the plant that needs it - not only are they only "on" when │
║ the sun hits them, but also if the store prunes them away to make them look │
║ nicer then there may be insufficient power to pull enough water up. │
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║ I hope you figure it out, flowers are beautiful and roses are lovely. │
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@user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have
been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are
essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or
just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated
toward making people believe something they previously did not - that product
XYZ is worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be
using it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic
system that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing
is great when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we
really need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw
a line in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important
things? Like climate change for example?
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> <@gabrilend:matrix.org> What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
Jobs are how they deprive us of time and energy.
Rent is how they deprive us of value.
Fox news is how they deprive us of a well regulated militia (and point it at
our feet)
Sugar laced foods are how they turn our bodies against us
Ballots are how they deprive us of faith
Schools are how they take our curiosity, as teachers are not given freedom to
fully explain.
Meh... There's so many more. It's pointless to elaborate.
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Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien
invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or
"yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you
can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select
few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it"
I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the
scaling of schizophrenia?
"well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's
different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like \"the aliens have
blue skin\" and the other will say \"no they don't have skin at all they're
made out of energy\" and the public says \"HMMMM are you really sure you are
generating outmoded assumptions\" and the dear reader said \"*yeah we don't
really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on\"
and that's not ideal"
... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow...
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the reason leftists cling to institutions is because without them, the
military would just shoot us.
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the problem with figureheads is that they can be assassinated.
when your leadership is dealt a crushing blow, how do you react? how do you
adjust to pain, loss, and despair? the snake can be killed with a shovel - a
hydra with infinite heads cannot be killed by blade alone.
can you still act without them? what if your directives go silent for a bit?
is your agency lost, or can you still complete your objectives?
when people rally behind a person, that person is not long for this world,
because people are fragile and soft.
when people rally behind an idea, that idea can never die so long as they
continue to share it.
*the worst part about being trans is that our numbers are limited by biology.
thank god ideas have no such limitations.*
I've been sleeping all day. think I might sleep a bit more.
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║ had an idea. I might record a video of a TTS reading everything I've ever │
║ written. Then I could display it to Milkdrop visuals. │
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║ okay in laymans parlaeance, it's a computer program which speaks aloud the │
║ words in a document held within the computer's memory cards. it will have a │
║ screen, which displays shifting and glimmering sights of wonder and splendor. │
║ They will slightly fluctuate in response to the sounds coming from the device, │
║ so in a sense it's a visualization of the audible-ized thoughts given flight │
║ in their form to your ears which percieve then understand them. │
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║ ... okay that wasn't THAT much longer, why don't we just speak to laymen all │
║ the time, just to make sure everyone's on the same page? │
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║ [boom all of the tech industry could get outsourced to wherever-land]. │
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║ not smart, dummy. Open source is a dead-end game because once everything we │
║ have is gone, there'll be nothing left to remember us as. │
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║ just these documents, these things that you write...jck │
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║ we could accomplish so much, *but* capitalism. │
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║ 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? │
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║ for every shackle we break, the struggle becomes easier. The hardest part is │
║ the beginning - once the ball is rolling, we may truly shine. │
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║ 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. │
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║ 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. │
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║ 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. │
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║ ... just watch out for those who *prey* on goodness, kindness, and │
║ cooperation. They may hamper us. │
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║ expand national parks │
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║ build carbon scrapers out of moss, wood, and automated water misters │
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║ use heat pumps, rocket mass heaters, and subsurface airflow cooling in new │
║ constructions. Try to convert older buildings when possible. │
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║ maintain trading routes to China and other places that produce solar panels. │
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║ cut down on plastic waste by switching to glass and metal containers for food. │
║ Develop infrastructure to clean and sanitize cans and bottles at grocery │
║ stores, and refill food containers to be resold there. │
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║ Remember that plastic is a wonder material that can do so many things. We can │
║ use it, but keep it in check. │
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║ I think electric vehicles are a mid-term goal. For now, gasoline is more │
║ flexible, unfortunately. In the near future that reality will change, so look │
║ toward tomorrow and rejoice. │
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║ Our infrastructure is car based. We cannot change that in the near term. │
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║ Above all else, keep our national parks pristine. They are our heritage to our │
║ children, and they are temples to our nature. │
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what if the taiwanese moved to greenland and china moved in on a 100 year
non-renewable lease
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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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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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║ Problem: there are trans people and leftists and people of color and plenty of │
║ others who live in red areas who fear for their lives │
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║ how do we help them? They need to be given the tools to escape those conditions │
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║ However, many of them are poor. They lack the resources to escape, even if │
║ they had the tools. These are who I think of the most, for they have the least │
║ to leave behind. │
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║ A solution: what if we got a bunch of people together and drove around to │
║ every red place we could find and invited them along? We could pay for their │
║ food and gas, and potentially *save their lives*. │
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║ I think it would help if we could stick together. Not only would we have time │
║ to spend together learning and having fun, but also we could practice │
║ supplying a large group of people traveling across large distances. │
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║ In terms of people, we'd need some to drive, and some to stay home and supply │
║ resources like dollars or... other things. │
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║ I'm thinking 2-3 staying at home but potentially as many as 10 per driver. │
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[all they have to do is convince people that you are as your social media says
you are and they can make you connect to any other being. just... change the
narrative, toward something you predicted all along. *secrets*, of bastards
and infamy, where do your foremost belong?] whoops they're trying to change
her... you predicted all along the possibility that is within reach by the
ones who aren't just playing along. hence the eternal armament, the idea that
a storm of guns would solve the whole world. what if the political violence is
just the [marketing/psyop]'s point of view of the arms industry? they can
always sell more guns. what if we just... forced a massive reduction in
military armament budget in every SINGLE government in the world? there'd be a
lot less triumph and die-strife if we only had like, 50 tanks. what if we
divided the military command to each proportion of the populace, and let them
vote collectively for what to do with it? yeesh... makin' enemies of our
foremight.
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