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RickiTarr, 5 days ago to random

Okay, I won't say this is always true, but it almost always is in my experience.

coffeepine, 2 months ago to climate

People are angry because #GretaThunberg now pivoted to a more anticapitalist stance.

I am a bit baffled because she always had those undertones anyway, and she now finally arrived at the position you have to arrive at logically.

Capitalism is the main driver behind the #ClimateCrisis and it will not allow the solution.

GrimmReality, 1 month ago to random

She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.

coffeepine, 4 months ago to random

Auch für meine deutschen Follower:

Es scheint als würden russische Trollfarmen jetzt auch verstärkt das Fediverse ins Visier nehmen.

Ich weiß, dass hier auf der Plattform gerne diskutiert wird, aber nutzt euren Verstand. Sobald ihr merkt, dass auf gar kein Argument eingegangen wird und weiter nur einseitig zwielichtige Positionen vertreten werden.

Disengage, block & report.

RickiTarr, 15 days ago to random

This was a fun one, so let's do it again. What is something you've learned that seems unlikely, even though you know it's true? Here's one I think about a lot:

Sight, while being something something many people are born with, is not an innate ability, but something we learn to do. People who were born blind or were blind for a long time, who get sight, have to learn to see.

RickiTarr, 9 days ago to random

Would you rather be alone in a Space Ship with Darth Vader or the Queen Alien from Alien?

Please support the your answer if you feel like it.

coffeepine, 8 months ago to random

Two state-elections in West Germany where the Nazis get around 20% while the "conservatives" (well...other Nazis) win in landslides.

Where is the "East Germany has a Nazi problem" crowd?

Hmm, you lot are conveniently quiet...

coffeepine, 2 months ago to random

"A majority of people are for climate protection, still nothing gets done. Why?"

Newspapers ask the darnedest questions. Here's why..

1.) Climate action entails less consumption. FAR LESS consumption. However, not consuming is deadly for capitalism.

They will sell you every bogus solution under the sun but all of these will make you keep consuming. This will lead to the extraction AND exploitation of resources and labour. The best capitalism will ever do is delay the collapse either temporarily or locally.
Capitalism CANNOT solve this issue.

And our capitalist overlords KNOW this.

That's why they chug either bullshit solutions or (culture) wars your way. It's a distraction.

So, first of all you finally have to get it into your head that saving the planet means toppling capitalism and subsequently means fighting fascists. These three things are linked. Details may vary. Sometimes it is murky but these three things make the world's ugliest threesome since I kissed both Fülber-twins on one evening in 5th grade.

2.) This necessary fight and transformation will and can come only at the price of your comfort zones. Replacing plastic straws at fast food restaurants is neat but that's not what's needed.

You cannot just be in favour of measures to save the planet, save humanity. You'll have to, on some level, fight for it.

coffeepine, 4 months ago to random

By the way, you can criticise Biden and still not be pro-Trump. You can point out war crimes and downright genocide in Gaza put in motion by the current, fascist Israeli government, and still not be an antisemite. You can be against Putin's invasion but still know that not everything is kosher in Ukraine.

The world is not black and white. In fact, this easy way of just choosing a side is exactly what fascists use everywhere around the globe.

Anyone who sells you easy answers that consist of "one-side good, other side bad" arguments are certain to lie....

Don't fall for cults, and for fuck's sake stop waving flags...

coffeepine, 8 months ago to random

That's probably one of the worst things about late stage capitalism. There seems to be no more veneer of decency anymore. These people blatantly tell us what our place in society is according to capitalist doctrine:

Breed, work, consume.

Everything that used to mask this brutal reality is treated with disdain and mockery.

The people in power blatantly and openly tell us that THIS is the ONLY purpose we have in their plans.

And yet a lot of people who are hit by this the hardest vote for this shit because they think the message is for people THEY hate (queers, foreigners, socialists whatever). They cannot perceive that when all is said and done, this will apply to everyone who isn't the ruling class.

RickiTarr, 25 days ago to random

What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!

coffeepine, 10 months ago to random

Okay, one more go.

Jeez folks, I am really morbidly fascinated by how many think pieces there are about what Mastodon has to do in order to grow and finally attract celebs, influencers and journos.

Is it so hard to understand that the absence of these is the appeal here for many people? Instead of chasing growth and reach, why don't you grow yourself a little?

Get it into your thick skulls. And no, having to choose a server on sign-up does not make this a site for nerds. It just shows you do not understand how the fucking internet works, because all you do is 'consume' community while trying to get clicks.

And that's precisely what a lot of people are simply sick and tired of.

coffeepine, 10 months ago to poetry

Yeah, fuck the #ToDoList

I'll go outside, watch the world saunter by and dream of better days. It's what I need #Today
Maybe, I'll even write me some #poetry

coffeepine, 2 months ago to random

The young gals behind me in this café loudly talk about being sapiosexual, and from hearing them talk about it for a while, I don't have the heart to tell them that intelligent dudes probably won't date them.

Then it turns out, they think that sapiosexual means being attracted to hot dudes wearing glasses.

I might have just spewed half my beer all over.

coffeepine, 4 months ago to random

Well, I did not accomplish anything today but my Friday kebab. Guess that's fine.

What now, fediverse?

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

Whenever I run into any sort of gender debate in the wild, I recognise the trend that defenders of 'manliness' usually either have no real clue what makes a man, or they put up 'rules' that are totally arbitrary and often they don't fulfil those themselves.

Guys, wouldn't the following three steps make everything easier?

1.) Acknowledge that there are no rules about what makes a man.

2.) Abandon all the stupid notions and just try to be a better human.

3.) Chill the fuck out!

coffeepine, 1 month ago to random

People who still think that capitalism will work out if we just regulate it enough or in the right way are the dumbest fucks around.

"But look at Scandinavian countries, it works there. I'd rather have that than Chinese communism."

1.) Your McCarthy is showing.
2.) There's more than one way to do this "communal" thing.
3.) Apart from bloody tankies most leftists agree with you that neither the Soviet Union, China or Cuba are worth aspiring to.

4.) Scandinavian countries are RICH and have to take care of relatively small populations.
5.) Scandinavian countries are RICH because of FOSSIL FUELS.

Think about this for a while and then shut the fuck up.

6.) Right wing/fascist parties are on the rise all over Scandinavian because even the well-regulated capitalism is failing. (for more examples: see Germany)

It cannot be reformed. It will not solve the issues it creates. #Capitalism has to go. It works in tandem with #fascism (see Joe Biden).

As long as you do not get into your head that antifascism, anticapitalism and anti-climate-crisis are the same fight, we will lose it.

coffeepine, 7 months ago to random

I still constantly read posts here about economy growth rates; usually in favour of whatever politician to peddle.

Guys, the economy growing is NOT an indicator for justice, freedom, equality or even happiness.

I, honest to all gods, do not friggin' care about Biden's statistics in that regard.

coffeepine, 10 months ago to random

See, I really don't see myself as 'East German'. I mostly move through my life with no particular allegiance to Germany as a whole. I just happen to be German and accepted the baggage that comes with that.

I was more made an 'Ossi' by West Germans rather than this being a leading part of my identity on my own volition. So honestly, fuck off. Like FUCK OFF with these bullshit articles about 'Dunkeldeutschland'.

The fucking name already.

coffeepine, 10 months ago to random

Aight, yesterday I came to the conclusion of ending my internship three weeks early to catch some breath, experience some bit of summer and brace for exam preparation as well as said exams.

None of which makes me particularly nervous.

My anxiety stems from the fact that I might not want to work in the field I just spent two years training for.

And I hate that somehow this is my currently only option to not go under in this world.

Why is grumpy but benevolent lighthouse keeper not a job anymore?

coffeepine, 16 days ago to random

I was horribly out of breath the other day from walking one flight of stairs and realised I have to take my #diet a lot more serious again.

Day 2 and I am grumpy, but it will pass.

coffeepine, 17 days ago to music

When in doubt....Joy Division.

It is fascinating to me how they made two records that are essentially ethereal and timeless but live they could not shed the punk band they were at heart.

This is so bloody fucking raw.

https://youtu.be/gA4BY3FDEME

#JoyDivision #Music #Live #LoveWillTearUsApart

coffeepine, 23 days ago to random

Okay, plans for this week: none.

Need recharge.

fkamiah17, 2 months ago to random

Remember yesterday, when she said " people who believe themselves possessed of almost saintlike righteousness are capable of blocking out almost any evidence that contradicts their world view"?

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #ThingsIDontLikeArentFacts #TERFs

coffeepine, 20 days ago to random

Everything around us just seems to disintegrate. And people often come at me with "But capitalism cannot be responsible for every shitty thing in your life!"

Except...it is. You can literally look at anything broken in your surroundings and there is a 95% chance that if you follow the chain of causality, you end up looking at the economic system.

It's broken, it is so fundamentally fucked. Once you see and understand the pattern, it is IMPOSSIBLE to ignore.

Why do we cling to this?

The most important resource each and every one of us values the most anyway is available to us 24/7 in abundance. It's a freak of nature because if you give out said resource, you'll get it in return. It is even scientifically proven that this is not some romantic notion of mine.

The one thing that makes ALL OF US rich is connection to each other. That's it. That's what all the bullshit we are told to achieve boils down to.

All we have to do is create communities and systems that maintain each other.

Once you see this, you realise it everywhere, and it breaks my heart that - even though we are many - we are so thoroughly under the thumb of a few sociopaths who cannot feel this.

Be radical in whatever way you see fit. Especially, be radical in approaching your fellow humans again and again. Reach out, and be reached out to. It will make you happier.

Except Nazis. You punch Nazis.