Ironically, piracy develops more ethical consumers

Glue?

And we should probably consider the very wealth as an aristocracy of sorts for that to be effective.

Arguably not in the recent past, but let us not forget that the suffragettes were very committed protesters. They did more than just organize symbolic protests though. They also carried out bombings and arson campaigns and one of them ended up cutting Winston Churchill’s face with a dogwhip.

I read that they must pay a price at the bullet box and got excited for a moment. Voting them out, really? They just cemented their power, why would they allow peaking voting to get in the way of that?

Not for them. Ghouls

I smell a collaborator

Weighing the cost to the relationship to a fascist state must be the dumbest math possible.

You know what they say, if there’s a will, there’s a dynamite

Weak sauce.

I can understand cheering for this to be released as we can imagine that these fascists would suffer some sort of consequence or comeuppance.

But let’s not kid ourselves, they control the media and they’re immune to the sort of legal consequences that could come from any sort of exposé. He’s already a fascist doing fascist things!

I just wished that we realized that if we want them to suffer the consequences of being fascists, we have to do it ourselves and not by staying behind a screen.

Grapes of Wrath with extra fascist steps, jfc

You can’t really stand up to power by voting, unfortunately. All your choices are just different ways of giving these jackals power with more or fewer steps.

I hope there are local groups and organizations where you’re at that you can join to start to organize a grassroots movement.

Is Gartner one of those sources that causes avalanches in the VC / tech world? Because it would be lovely to see this popping asap

Yeah! That and the fact that our society has erased several or most of our ways to communally build identity and shifted us to build identity based on consumption items

Damn right! It was about time that we finally get the message (again I might add) and deconstruct the fake boundaries that were put up to divide us.

I don’t grasp basic economics. Can someone help me understand what Japan selling these US Treasuries would mean? Doesn’t someone else have to buy them?

Not money, but time. In my experience, finding a local mutual aid group or place is a great place to start doing meaningful work and also a great way to meet awesome people.

The amount of high quality tools that “just” ship with KDE is bonkers. I hope they are getting enough donations :)

And still not enough to curb the amount of trash being produced, shipped around the world and then trashed locally when it doesn’t match the expectations of the buyer / rips after putting it on.

A bit off-topic, sorry, but the difference between the answers to similar questions in this community (Lemmy) and others is quite staggering. Here we have people talking openly about non monogamous approaches in healthy and mature ways. Love it!