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How bad do we let things get? Should we wait until the planet can't sustain life anymore? Should we wait until it's 100 degrees F in the Artic? Until wildfires blanket entire continents or the last glacier is gone? Should we wait until fascist billionaires take even more from us? Until there are Flock cameras at every mail box? Maybe we should wait until the wells run dry or the tornadoes never stop. When is it going to be enough? I'm so tired of seeing things getting worse. Every. Single. Day. I'm ready. I've been ready. How about you?

How do we coordinate? How do we look after each other? What is the signal? If we don't work together then we are just continuing our slow march to destruction to the drum of the parasitic billionaires. Please, for us, for the cats, the dogs, the birds and trees. The fish and the whales, the beatles and the centipedes. Please tell me it's worth it to you, that you're willing to get uncomfortable, that you're willing to fight. There are more of us than them, and we are rapidly running out of time to make that mean something.

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[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, that might have to happen. Historically it's how things tend to go. And in the mean time, boycott everything you can, hit them in the hip pocket, find groups with listings that make it clear what's owned by "the bad guys" unsubscribe, disengage and lock down privacy, they make money from you, by you just engaging. There's a creator who led a boycott on Kelloggs after the ceo said, when asked about the cost of living, how people should cope, he said people should eat cereal (which had recently doubled in price) I'm retelling it poorly, but it drove people to gather and start a boycott. And it was big.

If we led instructors on how to unsubscribe, disengage and engage privacy, that would hit their hip pocket.

If we figured out who sucks the most, and targeted them, one by one, boycotting, they'd feel it.

Figure out and share reports on local candidates and politicians, because the news is owned by the billionaires.

Remember that they want you to believe change isn't possible, they will fight you with big shows of how what you're doing isn't causing change and isn't worth the risk, by putting people in prison for ridiculous lengths of proposed time, and filming their own atrocities to keep everyone in fight or flight, (in a head space where you can't organise and fight back)

A lot of their warfare against the public consists of driving you into despair, driving you into fight or flight, etc. You can see that, in some of the ansers here. People who have or are giving up and exasperated, thinking what they're doing isn't making a change. A huge way to prepare yourself for the fight is learning nervous system regulation tools and practicing them daily. You need your faculties about you. Let the turkeys around you gobble all they want, keep on your path.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boycott it's not enough. Firebomb Nestlé

[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

You're my kinda people