In a just world people like this would be in re-education camps.

I would seriously look into buying an entire town or city.

From there I would invite in workers able to work at least 30 hours a week of physical labor. Specifically looking for the following at first

• Farmers to try to set up an internal food production.

• Construction workers to build new units and repair old ones.

• A few lawyers to cover my ass. (They also have other work if there isn't lawyering to be done.)

• People with expertise on how to create factories for manufacturing certain products. With the goal of creating income for the town outside of my dwindling wealth. I have no idea what though. This is the area I am the least knowledgeable about.

• Personally I'm a useless tech guy. So I'd set up a jellyfin server to replace streaming for everyone in town and some other self hosted solutions that I could make available for everyone in town. Outside of that I guess I'd manage and organize the other people. 🤷

I think I'd set something up so if you live in town for like 5 years I just give you the unit/ house your staying in. Before that it's free to stay assuming you're working in town. But with stipulations you can't sell it to folks from outside of town. ( I want to avoid rich people buying up blocks of town to resell for profit.)

My ultimate goal would be to grow the town into a city sized commune. Transition all of the little businesses into co-ops and obviously transition the company town style power id have over the place at first into something more democratic

History shows that sustained, organized labor action (strikes, unions, collective bargaining) has done more to improve working conditions than any fire ever has.

the Haitian Revolution, literally started with enslaved workers burning hundreds of plantations to the ground.

The American Revolution (torching the HMS Gaspée)

The French Revolution (burning the Paris toll barriers).

Pretending that literal fire and sabotage haven't historically been the exact sparks that destroy oppressive systems is just painfully naive.

Accounts on the right will use them to paint all workers as dangerous radicals. Both are exploiting real suffering for engagement. Neither is offering solutions.

The right is already putting people in camps. This event doesn't give them an excuse to hurt workers. They already are.

The solution is socialism. The workers must own the means of production. Having a few private individuals own and control so much of the wealth is the problem and ending it is the solution

I also find the idea that the left is exploiting real suffering because of the celebration of these fires, so silly its laughable.

But celebrating arson isn't solidarity. It's spectacle.

What do you think working class people bonding over celebrating these fires leads too? This doesn't hurt class solidarity but you know what does? Comments lecturing people that liking it is bad.

put your energy into the things that have historically worked: organizing, striking, voting, and building collective power.

Definitely agree with organizing/collective power and striking which is just an exercise of that power but voting? Source needed lol.

Summary: your comment was silly and you should feel silly. 🫳🎤

Can someone smarter than me tell me if I should be worried about the Chinese century as an American? I'm just hoping to get a good deal on one of those byd cars eventually lol

That dude is a bad ass

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect

Wanna help get those numbers up?

This guy really proves that there are no good billionaires thing. Being good stopped him from staying a billionaire. Anyone who hoards wealth while others suffer from impoverishment and starvation is evil.

Thanks for letting me know stranger. Seeing all these dumb takes on the other parts of Lemmy is just grinding me.

This breaks rule 2. "No misinformation" Israel is not a 1000 years old it is less than 100 years old

My theory: I think framing like this is an attempt to create infighting on the left. I remember her doing poorly because she's center right and wasn't the most well known center right dem in the 2020 race. Notably Biden had similar positions and was much more widely known.

Democrats are too spineless for this. They'll just wait patiently for the Republicans to take power and do this to them instead.

This Biden protection is crazy. we need a candidate who actually stands a chance against Trump. this is insane. It's 2016 all over again.