[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Might create an epidemic of pregnancies and STDs, however. Eh... It'd be totally worth it tho.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

That's pretty quick as far as UK bureaucracy is concerned.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago

Super-soakers full of LSD and MDMA.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I agree with all of this, but it doesn't answer the question. For many many people, people like my brother, who live a life of benefit from the capitalist system that is cooking our planet - where do they fit into the hypothetical revolution? All those words you've typed are things I've been trying to talk to him, my family, and everyone about. They just go "yeah it sucks," and continue spending more time working for capitalists than spending time with their own family. They simply aren't willing to listen, they don't care, and why should they? Why would they give up their privileges? And if a massive climate disaster event occurs, do you think that'll be enough to convince them? Or will their lifetime of invested loyalty have them double down to defend centralized food corporations that decide who does or doesn't get to eat because "they offered me a competitive salary to work for them"? Because depending on a climate-collapse-induced-revolution I think is extremely pie-eyed, most people will happily side with fascists if they're the one providing food and "jobs." To some extent, people like my brother are already doing that. So what of them?

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

So what can my brother do, who works for a finance firm that invested $9billion into Palantir, who still thinks "High GDP = Human Progress" and capitalism is good, has a maths degree, has multiple kids who's futures he thinks is totally fine because "money," who has faith that technology will solve all our climate issues so investing into oil companies ain't that bad, and even if his firm isn't doing good for the earth at least he donates 25% of his salary to tax-reclaimable charities? Who believes in "effective altruism"? Who considers himself among "the capitalist class" because he now has enough money to make investments? Who still believes that everyone is responsible for their own circumstance, and if you're poor it's because you were financially irresponsible and lazy? Who thinks "material circumstances" are a cop-out? Who thinks Einstein is a brilliant man but can't take 20 minutes to read his "why socialism" article?

For the millions of people with any spending power who can afford to buy their own home and afford private healthcare, their salaries depend on them to believe in the system, love capitalism, and protect that status quo... Where do they fit in this hypothetical revolution?

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

So we should show up to work tomorrow to keep this capitalist system alive and cooking?

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

The only thing they're half-competent at is hiring local police to help kill civil rights leaders. Other than that these agencies fucking suck at their jobs and are really expensive about it too.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Speaking of Snowden and 9/11, I'm a fan of his take on the "conspiracy."

Not that it was an inside job and the alphabet agencies purposely took down those buildings. The way I remember Snowden describing it was that CIA, FBI, NSA, and others knew about the attack ahead of time, but each of those departments wanted to be THE ONE TO STOP IT. So instead of working together, which if they had done they might've actually been able to thwart it, they would instead compete against eachother with more government funding being the prize. The conspiracy isn't some financial cover up, or a false flag event, or a reptilian sacrifice to their death god or whatever. The conspiracy is that these agencies are more concerned about competing against one another for funding instead of working together to prevent attacks and loss of life. Just classic capitalism shit.

Then speaking of classic capitalism shit, because the attacks were known about ahead of time, insider trading happened and that would explain the shorting of United Airline stocks in the week before it happened. A lot of people saw opportunity from that tragedy, that could've been avoided, but wasn't due to greed, competitiveness, and hubris.

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[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 161 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, because a video of a Nazi salute isn't antisemetic but a jewish college student protesting apartheid and wearing a keffiyeh is! What a time to be alive!

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