DessertStorms @ DessertStorms @kbin.social

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fear of violence

so it's fine for poor people to not only fear systemic violence, but experience it daily, but gods forbid the handful of people in charge of said system who are actively and deliberately inflicting violence and death on millions if not billions of people the globe daily, and for posterity, and for their own benefit, fear some violent self defence..

Violence against poor people: you sleep
Violence against our rich overlords: real shit

The level of bootlicking is gross..

government regulation (and federal prison)

how's that been working out? (hint: it isn't, because capitalism cannot be reformed, by design. And the point of eat the rich isn't to just keep killing them, it's to give them the option to end their exploitative system and give up their power for the benefit of society at large, and when they refuse, because they will, make that decision for them. Once the system is abolished any "heirs", and former rich people who realise they'd rather live as equals to others than die filthy rich, will have no power to take the "top" position again, because there will be no top position, nor will they have any resources to try with).

We are kind of unique in our ability to sit on chairs

Not a cat person? 😹

ITT: a bunch of smug Europeans with their heads so far up their asses the only way they might see day light is if they opened their mouths wide enough.

If you don't see the threat, or active existence, of fascism in your country (it sure as fuck is already here in the UK), that's not because it isn't there, it's because you're not looking hard enough (or at all) past the bare minimum they've provided you (health care! yes, defunded in to uselessness. Workers rights! yes, to keep slaving away while the obscenely rich keep getting richer off of your labour while you struggle to afford rent, let alone qualify for a mortgage), and the one developed country where it's worse for you to point and laugh at, instead of act to ensure you don't suffer the exact same fate, which you, we, are hurtling towards at light speed in an epic race to the bottom.

I don't think that this post is a serious attempt at anything really, but fuck me if the replies to it aren't a dire indictment of the state of apathy and wilful ignorance in the general population - globally.

I vape a load of weed put my headphones on and have a Trance Party

I would also like to know.

Asking for myself.

This post, along with your bio, makes you seem like a marketing bot, just saying..

More than anything, this photo offends my olfactory system.. 😂

What makes you think they don't/won't have anti-aircraft and anti missile defences? I'm pretty sure they don't plan on going down peacefully..

There is no "trigger", you not having dealt with people like that enough to recognise all of the glaring red flags (or perhaps being the one who posted them in the first place?) doesn't mean they aren't there, that post is 100% a troll. As is this one.
There has been a lot of MRA style rage bait being posted recently, my guess is they have fewer people to troll on reddit (not because there are significantly fewer people, but because most of those who would actively disagree with them are no longer there to) so they're trying to feed their sad little egos on here instead.
The solution is to block and move on, as I will proceed to do now..

For the young'uns, in case they don't know the legend that is keyboard cat

https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/

If people aren‘t mindful enough to stop buying a particular kind of yoghurt, how are you ever going to get them to vote, much less stage a revolution? I think we need to get out of our passivity

How about people who aren't mindful enough of those who can't stop buying one brand or another, but especially of the reasons why??? (like - they only have one local store that only carries the one brand, or they carry two brand made by the same parent company, or they have three brands, two by the same company and the third by another one with just-as-bad practices. Or they're too poor to buy the more "ethical" brand, or they simply don't have the time in their day to even be aware of a boycott over exploitative practices, because they themselves are being exploited at 3 different jobs just to survive) I guarantee that a lack of that kind of mindfulness hurts the working class significantly more than the kind you're angry about.

If you want people to stop being "passive" - you destroy the system designed to keep them that way (not actually passive at all, they're probably more active than you'll ever be, just deliberately kept undereducated and too busy trying to survive), insisting on them continuing to play by the rules said system has made available to them (precisely because they have no real impact) only serves those in power to maintain the status quo.

It doesn't matter, because boycotts are generally futile since they at best only address skin level symptoms (at worst, and almost always - you're just giving your money to a different scummy capitalist), they can't cure the cancer, which is precisely why they're touted as a wonderful solution (by capitalists trying to ensure the public don't take any meaningful action against them).

I'm disabled myself, in the UK, where the government has already openly set its sites on killing disabled people (tens of thousands already dead in the past 13 years or so due to a deliberately nightmarish claiming system alone, never mind the defunding of our health and social care systems and the innumerable deaths that has lead to), and I can tell you that sadly your fears are well founded.

If you can, find leftist disability activists near you, and see if there is anything you can do to help (it can be anything from donating and spreading info online, to being present at demos and taking other direct action).

They aren't just going to leave us alone.

Oh, ecofascism is very real. Society in general has a massive ableist bias, and the media play a huge part in promoting that. Disabled people and those with long term conditions are often framed as basically disposable. It's everywhere, but it really feeds well in to the often white supremacist and otherwise privileged liberal "eco worrier" movement, but also right wingers who hide their genocidal intentions under a guise of concern for the environment, and even some anarcho-primitivists who insist we "go back to monke" without any regard for the lives of those who depend on technology and modern medicine. The more you look, the more of it you'll see.

If they were pro birth they'd be providing, if nothing else, pre and post natal healthcare as well as paid parental leave. But they don't and deaths related to births are on the rise.

I mean, the whole idea of credit scores in general is just a scam to keep poor people poor (and more specifically - in debt), and to create work for a new kind of companies - those standing between us and our "score" (which isn't even measured consistently, but changes from agency to agency) and who we have to provide with access to our most personal and sensitive data to access (which they then sell on to add to their record profits).

There should be no rent - housing is a human right, and there is enough to go around, people shouldn't be allowed to own more than they could reasonably use.

if that ideology is expansionist, it will by necessity become an existential threat to other ideologies.

This is it right here, and it's why the world didn't really care what a threat Putin was until he fully invaded Ukraine, or about the Uyghur genocide, or the treatment of North Koreans, or Gazans, or Kurds, and on and on - the people responsible for those are, quite deliberately, trying to keep their actions as much as they can within their own territory to avoid giving any other country reason to physically get involved (though they are deeply involved otherwise in the supports, financial and otherwise, that they provide, often to both sides of a conflict).

You can say it became a threat to their power, but is that not also a threat to their ideology? Perhaps I’m using an overly broad conception of ideology here.

No, you're right here too, the "good guys" aren't that good at all, and are only acting to defend their own interests - hoarding wealth and power, and maintaining the systems that enable them to do that at the expense of everyone else.
In actuality capitalistic imperialism specifically has and continues to claim more lives than probably all of the others combined (not only directly through war and invasion, but also through hunger poverty and preventable diseases which are a requirement and an inevitable result of artificial scarcity and commodification of what are basic human rights for profit), but history is written by the victors, and we are indoctrinated from birth in to false ideas of what humanity, freedom, and justice actually mean, in service of keeping us in line.