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Smallscale you want a laugh?
10 odd yrs ago we and a friend were exploring and abandoned building......had 13 squaddies and a chopper on us....had reportd we were stealing lead (we werent....obv) yet when our forests burn our gov cant send a chopper with water......shits been burning over a week now.
Priorities!?!?!?
I guess you don't live in an area surrounded by the wealthy. You and I both know that if you did, those choppers would be there a week ago. Our government doesn't serve we the people, and that's why we are in this mess and desperately need change.
Rioting is illegal and usually it's poor people smashing the windows of other poor people's shops.
The word you're looking for is "uprising" or "revolution"
I see where you're coming from, but that's why we need targeted action and leadership. An uprising or revolution would be just as illegal.
Universal basic income would be a huge way to facilitate this. When we have a bit of a safety net, we can afford to take a few weeks off for a general strike. We can leave that evil corporate job, or educate ourselves on issues that need our attention. Studies have shown that with a little more time each week, people tend to invest more in the community or mutual aid. Not to mention, we could compel billionaires to join and facilitate the greatest redistribution of wealth in history. There's a foundation (ITSA) attempting to start it's own UBI with an app called comingle if you are interested in getting started at the grass roots level.
You just gave them more reasons to deny UBI.
I applaud the initiative (because at least they are actively trying instead of just talking about it), despite the inevitably devastating outcome this will have.
For anyone who would be interested in joining, be aware that not only will you lose everything you send there, the lawyers will strip you bare throughout the decades long legal battles, after what is basically an insurance company you helped to crowdfund goes belly up.
UBI will be used to control us. It sounds good, but it won't be. As evidence I would like to point to everything humans have ever done.
Are you guys fucking nuts?
You can't even utilize the tools giving to you to muster a solid defense online. You're all just showing up everyday giving up/down votes and reading your daily alloted news article about Trump in your over moderate hug box.
You probably had to review multiple rules just to post this message in case you pissed off some almost homeless 18 year old moderator. I know the instinct is to say fuck me over this stuff. But think how moderation is actually a tool to destroy creativity, originality and effort. Moderation is a tool created by corporations to sanitize the internet so it could be sold piecemeal to advertisers. But what this also does is prevent us from keeping events in the forefront. If i have a political content community that only allows one type of content, that is fucking boring and stifling. When we separate our politics into [discussion], [political memes] [news] it may look nice but you kill free form thought and how people actually communicate. This is what feels different from the internet back in the day and the internet today. We have moderation sanitize our efforts. Compare this to MAGA or the right whose spaces are more creative. They combine multiple types of media into a menagerie that keeps things alive and interesting. Their spaces are filled with new, memes, in jokes plus calls to action. Because that's exciting. That's how content works. There's collaboration and mixing of media to create new stuff, like we use to before 15 years ago.
The left has been boxed in on purpose. We are in a snuff box. MAGA seized every platform that's full of kindling and energy while we placed ourselves into a snuff box. Until we fix some core problems and understand how the internet works to engage people then nobody should be encouraging any kind of revolution. If you cannot fight in an online digital space and get measurable victories in a low effort maximum impact environment then a revolution is just going to get people killed and laws that push us towards more authoritarian state.
And maybe I'm wrong. Could be full of shit. But if you want things to change we need to look at us as a whole and address our faults because we all fucked up big time. For decades the left went from a dominate culturally relevant position to a fucking joke. We're still using the most outdated playbooks and refusing to adapt to a new world. MAGA fucking sucks. But their victories is directly related to how we reacted and interacted. How did we show up for no kings with millions and nothing happened. How did we show up to BLM and only thing that lasted was the idea that the organization was corrupt and stealing millions. How did we show up for the woman's march and still they're dying in states because they can't access abortion. What we did is not working and I think it's a systematic problem in the left that needs to be reviewed before attempting anything.
I don't think it's quite as bad as you suggest, but I understand where you're coming from here. I think it's also worth considering who stands to benefit from our lack of organization. When the right wing wins, the billionaires win, but when the left wing wins, the billionaires lose. Left wing leaders are systematically targeted and repressed. MLK Jr wasn't assassinated until his message started to reach more than just poor black people. When he started encouraging all people to throw off the yolk of the ruling class, by providing for themselves instead of being good little capitalist consumers, that's when he became so dangerous it was worth it to murder him. We need leadership, yes, but we also need a message that endures through whatever they throw at us. I think it's possible, and I hope we can make it happen.
I never read the rules before posting btw, I just went for it.
What if you choose another path instead? The government that installed the flock cameras is usually 5 overworked people trying to do the best they can for their community. Go to a city council meeting and speak to them as though they have not been radicalized yet.
Volunteer for and show up to city council sponsored events. The very same people who make decisions about the flock cameras put on these events and they will be there. Get involved in your community and get to know the leaders.
All of the city council people I know are either idealistic and trying to build a better community or they are tired and looking for someone to give their seat to. If you can't convince enough council members to change their mind get them replaced.
The tricky part is going to be the rest of your life.
All the city council people i know got their job because the big developers in the area backed them. One of them even owns 100k+ stock in palantir. We need ranked choice voting so bad
Some of your neighbors still think it’s fine. Global warming is bullshit because we still have super cold winters sometimes.
Start by changing their minds. All the rioting in the world will just make them dig their heels in. But if they understood the issue then maybe rioting wouldn’t be necessary.
until it’s 100 degrees F in the Artic
that was 6 years ago:
https://www.livescience.com/un-confirms-arctic-hottest-temperature
I guess we should wait for 110 degrees then.
Well, for one, stop posting about it online if you're actually going to do something.
Hot take. Why is it that people want to "save the earth" all of the time? The planet dirt will be fine. The only ones that are going to die, are those who are unfit. Admittedly, that's nearly all of us. It will continue until we are a society that remembers what sacrifice, and duty are. Someone has to do the work. Our slaves don't seem to be cutting the mustard anymore. Down with New Guinea!
"admittedly, that's all of us" ftfy
Idk the animals didn’t deserve our destruction.
Fed posting.
But: There are countries where millions of the population lives without working plumbing and dies frequently of preventable diseases while more well off groups live in modern developed infrastructure with good life expectancy. There are countries where a majority of the population doesn't own their own house or property. They aren't "rioting." What makes you think any of us will?
Why aren't those in charge fixing anything? They're probably riot proof also.
Don't look on the internet, you won't find the community you're looking for here. Find the coolest candidate running in your local area and volunteer for their campaign. Even if they kinda suck, show up for their events. You aren't there to meet the candidate, you're there to meet other people who care about their community. Talk to the other volunteers. You'll be surprised at who you meet.
This is a good approach, thank you for the suggestion.
You're welcome! I hope you find your people, we're going to need a lot of local organization to get through this.
This is the best advice for sure.
Local action is the most approachable and effective for the average person. Unless you have tons and tons of money, its hard to move things higher up as an individual.
If anything is done it's done offline. The best way to fight back is to build community and solidarity. Meet your neighbors, volunteer, get out there off the computer.
Universal basic income would be a huge way to facilitate this. When we have a bit of a safety net, we can afford to take a few weeks off for a general strike. We can leave that evil corporate job, or educate ourselves on issues that need our attention. Studies have shown that with a little more time each week, people tend to invest more in the community or mutual aid. Not to mention, we could compel billionaires to join and facilitate the greatest redistribution of wealth in history. There's a foundation (ITSA) attempting to start it's own UBI via an app I recently joined. DM me if you want the link :)
Some places don't have a lot of third spaces unfortunately
I know I'll get downvoted for this, but...Lemmy and related are an "echo-chamber" of sorts. You'll find that a vast amount of people "in the real world" don't share this sort of imminently apocalyptic mentality. I really mean no offense in my phrasing and I'm not trying to shit on anyone here. It's just the way things are.
I remember being almost surprised at how "normal" life was when I first moved to a place that had polar opposite political views than me. Life went on...in mostly the same way it did when I was surrounded by people who mostly shared my ideologies. Life goes on...especially in the western world. Even in different parts of the US, it's a far cry from some place like Somalia or Iran or Israel/Palestine or North Korea.
Idk. Sorry I got a bit rambly. Suffice to say that I don't think you're ever going to find what you seek.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. I try to talk to people every day about the greed of billionaires, the invasion of our privacy, the fascist takeover of the US government and the actions of ICE, and the horrible state of our climate. And I've yet to have anyone argue against me in real life. If anything, it's worse on lemmy. We can do something about this, but we have to do it together, and that doesn't happen without talking to people face to face. So many people know the situation is terrible, but feel completely helpless. We have to support each other so they see they aren't alone.
Your fellow countrymen are rounding up people of colour and putting them in concentration camps and you’re right that, for you, life goes on.
I know I'll get downvoted for this, but...Lemmy and related are an "echo-chamber" of sorts. You'll find that a vast amount of people "in the real world" don't share this sort of imminently apocalyptic mentality.
Not really sure about the echo-chamber thing though, but I feel like most people outside the Fediverse only doomscroll “brain-rot” content on social media.
Politics, climate change, science, Star Wars/Trek, programming, GNU/Linux, etc, are such niche topics that don’t drive that much interest, unless it’s rage-bait.
Life goes on...
... until it doesn't.
or, one could say life goes on even in mad max world