In this thread: People so upset about using the word cunt they are willing to ignore the actions of some celebrity contributing to the culture of excess that is harmful to our world, while at the same time making herself look like an uneducated child by tossing threats that have no bite. She’s now Mini-Elon to me.
Well they only need the content their users are subscribed to, not all content on the fediverse.
Lemmy servers aren’t meant to be “big”. I left lemmy.world for a smaller instance. If the admins of Lemmy.World want to just keep growing and thus increasing their costs, that is their choice. It doesn’t mean all the users need to cough up money. THAT is capitalist propaganda. If the person who runs an instance can’t afford to run it, then don’t run it. You can escape from the system that is stacked against you, the system that demands you pay for every little experience you have, every little resource you use. You do that by giving and sharing with each other and quit acting like a vulture looking for scraps.
In general society, biological females can and do identify as women. You cannot just say “biological women don’t exist” when you are just arguing a difference in accepted meaning between “woman” and “female”.
The term two x chromosomes is not transphobic in any way. It is a community for cis-women. There are communities for trans-people as well. To try and declare that cis-women talking together about the struggles they face is hate speech only speaks to your own hate.
It’s no different than if someone wanted to shut down a support for trans-women community by calling it hate-speech.
A trans-woman is a woman whose gender identity is not based on their biological gender. A cis-woman is a woman whose gender identity matches their biological gender…or their two x chromosomes.
If you find hate in that, then you should consider all communities that support any specific gender, cis and trans, to be hate speech since they are inherently exclusionary on their stated focus.
But that’s absurd. Support for one group is not hating all others.
So if the community is abandoned, then do to it as any other abandoned community is managed. But it should not in any way be removed as hate.
Tolerance, OP. Everyone needs to have it.
I personally don’t accept that picking from two old capitalists offered to us by the rich is a real choice. Voting today, in the US, is participating in the illusion of choice. And as I have said, we all should do what we think is best for ourselves, for our community and for our environment.
Voting for a president isn’t going to do anything for me. And I’m willing to theorize that it’s not going to do anything for the majority of voters either. Nothing against you or anyone who buys into that system.
I’ve just got better things to do with my time that have real effects in my world.
Oh I don’t feel completely screwed. I feel like we are preparing to live with nature and still use tech to have very enjoyable lives outside of their system. If you wait for everyone to change, you will never see change. You make your change. You have great arguments for just keeping on doing what hasn’t been working. We’ve know about climate change for over a hundred years. Are we closer to solutions? Well we have the tech, but there is no profit in abandoning capitalism and living off clean energy. Those who control the system want you to stay within the system. I’m not asking you to leave it, either. If that somehow brings you hope, then do it. If voting for anyone for president instills in you the feeling that you have helped make a difference, go ahead. I simply choose a different personal course and my actions won’t affect anyone who also chooses to come make an off-grid, self sufficient community.
And sure, the government can come in with guns and bulldozers anytime, whether or not you are participating in capitalism. My opinion is this: little off-grid communities that are just being clean and living quietly, growing gardens and tending to the local environment in which they live are not going to really be in the government’s priority to destroy. If they are bulldozing communities and murdering people who have no guns, nobody is safe. To me, that’s just one of those “what if this” situations we come up with to justify staying within the system.
Sure, it can be really scary to think about doing. It’s not right for eveyone. So you fight your fight how you see fit. For me? Done with fighting. Done with arguing. I’m going to live how I think is best for me and the planet.
Will that be a complete disconnect from the greater society? Probably not. We would want to still communicate and still be able to help others in our area, even if they don’t belong to our community. I’m not an isolationist. I feel that serious climate changes are going to continue. My plan is to be prepared to adapt to it and survive with a healthy quality lifestyle.
I have 20 acres in the mountains of Appalachia. I have fruit trees, a greenhouse, chickens, clean water, and abundance of unprocessed food sources. I have multiple energy sources. I have a few friends who want to start building toward a common goal. If we aren’t stockpiling guns or abusing children, we won’t even be on anyone’s radar.
My point is, if you want change, you aren’t going to find it in a voting booth or a political candidate. You just get out there and start making changes. Real action that may inspire others. That’s my vision of change, not waiting for the capitalist overlords to just willingly give up their control of you. :)
Your participation in the system only functions within the rules of that system. We know where it’s heading. No politician is going to get anything meaningful done. This particular politician will not even get one electoral vote. You know that,. I know that. Everyone knows that. Because the system isn’t about choice. After the election, ask yourself…what did my efforts accomplish? How much of my time and resources did I devote to something that was flawed from the start. The idea that voting is a luxury is another lie that is part of the system to keep the masses from organizing. The entire voting system is designed to provide the illusion of having a say. You go vote and you think to yourself you are fighting the good fight. And, now you feel invested in the government that ensures you keep being a productive cog in the capitalist wheel. You have participated. You have aligned yourself with the right side! Then what? Nothing. Why? Because the system of two parties is the perfect way to ensure gridlock without suspicion of the system. Each side points to the other and blames them. They fight back and forth and the billionaires keep living in excess. The public will not unite and thus the government is not worried about a true people’s revolt. No. I stopped voting. Not because of apathy, but because that’s not my world anymore.
Climate change is no longer one of those, “we gotta stop it now or it’s too late” situations. It’s already too late to stop it. And to suggest that US politics can somehow change the world makes me want to just shake my head and smile. So you keep playing that game, and my friends and I will go play ours. We will adapt and prepare, then when you’re ready, you come join us.
we unfortunately still have to work within the shitpile we have
Capitalists expect you to believe there is no escape from capitalism. The government cannot force you to participate in capitalism. There are ways to survive, not primitively, that we are conditioned to believe cannot work.
I am open to moving if it does cause problems – slrpnk may well recieve a lot of pushback from liberals
Anarchists don’t elect presidents. Participating in elections is a method to keep the public docile because they believe the lie they are told that they are the power! They chose the president! Did they? Or did they choose between two candidates that the capitalists told them they can vote for?
I am not opposed to you being here and having a community here. I think your heart is in the right place, but the suggested course of action will have no result. If you want people here to get excited, talk about plans to create communities people can join. Real places. Use campaign funds and buy cheap land out in the rural areas. Gather people with the right basic skill sets. The smart way is to get a solid group of people who have all the skills needed, then when new communities start, move these “seeds” to new communities so they can teach those people all they need to do to succeed.
Stop thinking about liberals and conservatives. Let them do their things and everyone else do theirs. Each community will learn all the skills (trust me, they will still have lots of free time) needed over time, so that it becomes a mesh network of skills, no community is ever dependent on one individual for a skill.
You have passion, but I feel like it is being wasted on efforts that require you to remain within the constraints of the capitalist system. Maybe think smaller. Small communities, spread out over the country. Each one a new light in a network of solarpunk communities. New lights until the darkness of exploitation and forced labor (yes forced, they don’t hold a gun to you, but if you don’t work for a company that gives you money, you cannot eat or have a place to live.) are only memories we tell our grandchildren.
Anyone can call for the abolition of capitalism. However the President cannot just abolish it. The government does not impose capitalism, nor can it abolish it. Nothing is stopping people from sharing freely, from bartering good and services, or any particular economic theory. The US is not a capitalist country. It’s a country run by capitalists, imposing capitalism on the masses because they can.
Saying he wants to abolish capitalism and that’s one reason he’s running for president just shows me there is either a significant gap in understanding what a President can do, or they know and don’t care. Either way, I have no confidence that this person is on the path to actual change.
You want actual change? Abandon capitalism. Abandon materialism. Come together in communities, solarpunk communities. Forget the politics and politicians. If we wait on some magical candidate to get elected, we will be waiting forever. Take action. Small communities can be self sustaining with all kinds of energy sources, from wind, solar, water, to just riding stationary bikes to charge up batteries. We grow our own gardens. Cook, eat, and live in common areas, sleep in our tiny homes.
Have your leader keep track of all the communities that pop up, so they can network with each other, give them real information and real support. Train people. Take the campaign money and seed tens of thousands of small solarpunk communities across the nation. Each one will unplug people from mainstream capitalism, if not fully, by a significant factor.
But to do this, you have to stop thinking like a capitalist. Looking at costs and values and profits. The real value in solarpunk communities is the growth of human empathy, as we let go of personal materialism and shift our focus to being stewards of where we live.
The revolution doesn’t have to be violent. Hell, it can happen quietly as people just drop out of capitalism and begin their off-grid lives. It just takes some strong pioneers to get it going, being an example that people can live together in harmony with their environment without having to give up technology and quality of life. People will learn that the 40+ hour work week in order to survive is a lie indoctrinated by the capitalists in order that each new generation is born into being labor.
Labor is the true power. Not money. As labor drops out of the exploitative system of capitalism, the power slowly drains from the “rich”, They are dependents. Dependent upon us. In a small solarpunk community, once it’s established and stable, people will find they have a lot more free time for self-improvement and socialization.
This is the way to abolish capitalism. Drop out of it. And frankly, anyone who wants to stay in that system is welcome to do so. Let them remain capitalists. And when that life continues to suck more and they ask to come be a solarpunk with you, then smile and open your arms to them. Empathy, acceptance, support. For the environment and for each other.
We need action, not a president. Presidents are useless.
A candidate who is playing by the rules of the system cannot change the system and only contributes to its continued operation.
No candidate will ever be part of the solution.
I wonder if this is abandoned. I clicked on the “what kind of gardener are you” survey and it’s closed. I look for a place to contact them and let them know and I click on the link to their slack and it too is no longer valid. Anyone know the status of this?
In what way would Google profit from restricting 3rd party launchers? I can see why Twitter and Reddit want to charge access for 3rd party apps. Profit. Lots of profit. I don’t see where Google would have anything to gain from restricting a very significant customization option in Android.
Just joined today and I feel like I’ve found my tribe.
In the US, if you don’t want to agree with someone, you don’t attack their points, you attack them personally. That way you don’t have to argue against the points and can distract the focus of the conversation altogether.