novibe @ novibe @lemmy.ml

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Ah it’s a “co-op”….

Consumer co-ops are the biggest scams lmao

(as in they pretend to be progressive and leftist for cookie points and earning dollars from “progressive” people)

How different was he from Labour in the UK during Blair’s years? Or the Democratic Party in the US?

Populism with policies that benefit the big banks and corporations. Band-aid fixes for the poor so they stop complaining. Funnelling wealth into the uber-rich.

Why was the capitalist class in Brazil perfectly content during the first Lula years? They only rebelled under Dilma.

Sure when Europe recovers forested areas the size of the rainforests in Africa, South America and Asia, then we can all stop deforesting…

Or how about as a species we actually put a value on nature and pay countries to protect their forests and biomes?

Why would payment imply capitalism? Pay in resources idk, who cares. Europe is rich because of the material wealth from South America, Africa and Asia.

For Brazil to forgo exploiting its material wealth, it has to be compensated.

Or it will forever exist in a subservient and underdeveloped state.

That’s just pure logic, I’m not sure what is wrong with what I said.

The past few centuries have been carefully and slowly built to disempower people like you and me, and empower the newly-minted elites. It was the period of power consolidation for capitalism, when it fully overtook feudalism and other pre-capitalist systems over the whole planet.

You and me have no choice in how people’s lives are lived. The systems of control built in steer the masses into living exactly as they live.

We might individually live marginally less negative lives, but to completely eliminate our negative impact on the world, we have to completely remove ourselves from society.

The solution is not piecemeal changes and fixes to our individual attitudes and behaviours.

We have to completely change the system. We need to dismantle it and build something better from the lessons we learned.

Recycling cardboard and shopping at thrift shops is not it.

And I’m not sure we have many other options now, other than the old burning down the banks and guillotine routine.

Bro the big oil corporations spent decades at the beginning of the 20th century creating and forcing the demand and dependency on oil. Watch “How Big Oil Conquered the World” from James Corbett.

It’s not like WE chose this to be the way things are. The people who control industry, and marketing, and media and THE GOVERNMENT, all MADE us and it all this way.

Never said anything about that. But the focus is always on the poor colonised countries to protect their nature and not develop. While Europe destroyed its forests and much of the forests of the world through centuries of colonialism.

What about this. If the developed world wants the Amazon and other rainforests to stay intact, why don’t they pay Brazil, Bolivia, Indonesia etc.?

Yeah Bolsonaro is not a liberal, more like a wannabe fascist. And Lula is the actual neoliberal. All about the politics and platitudes and light populism. But still, the Brazilian’s private banks profited more during all of Lula’s years as president…

The truth is there can’t be a left in Brazil. The CIA would never allow it. When someone slightly left to the center (Dilma) tries to do any sensible actual social democratic idea she gets couped.

Let’s hear about reforestation in Europe and Asia. You guys destroyed your forests hundreds of years ago…

Nah man. I don’t have anything explicitly against you, so I respect your ideas. But that’s not what I meant at all.

Castro was pretty based to be honest, but I don’t “support” individuals in any way. I mean that doesn’t even make sense specially for a dead person.

But individuals, as cosmos, are complicated. So he was based and made a lot of wrong choices. I’m under no illusion I wouldn’t have made even more wronger choices.

But I do know what I’m better than, descendants of Cuban slave owners who actively lobby against Cuba today. Those are the Gusanos.

I have no quarrels with people feeling Cuba for a better life. Not that life in Cuba is so bad mind you.

Identity is cringe in general, no?

What I call people is more about my attempts to make the world make sense through categorisation. I don’t think my labels represent “reality” in any way. I understand every individual is a “cosmos” in themselves. So honestly reducing oneself to labels is rather silly and cringe no?

It’s a bad way to approach self-discovery and understanding. It just externalises the self into idealistic creations of others, aka, identities.

Like I never wanted for nations to exist, why would I abide by 18-19th century bourgeois ideologies of nationalism?

Having your ancestors be born in specific land makes you nothing.

But just to make it clear, if I like you I’ll respect you and your ideas. If I don’t, I won’t. I don’t respect Gusanos, because they are fascists. Many “Cuban-Americans” are not Gusanos.

Gusanos* in Florida. The Cubans live in Cuba.

There’s a name for that buddy. Ignorance.

The memes are in general not “funny” per se, but the situation sure is. Are you implying otherwise?

Honestly most self-described right-libertarians are really differing levels of feudalists. With the uber-feudalists being the “anarcho-capitalists”. Which is the dumbest term ever but that’s not the point.

So I’m always very very suspicious of someone who says they are a libertarian…

Has it been updated in TestFlight yet? Still shows version 0.06 for me :(