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yianiris, to WW3
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Seriously, let's say the the US/EU/NATO/ISRAEL/UKRAINE have been provoking to start eventually starts and you are stuck in a country that you feel is in the wrong side of the war-front?

What do you do?

Engage in guerrilla warfare against the people around you who blindly conform to their state? Become vocal and suicidal as a peace activist? Run away to a strange country on the other side of the war front?



pluralistic, to random
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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

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yianiris,
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All corporations are mini dictatorships, some not so mini, and some much larger than countries that lived through dictatorships.

But, all government institutions are ruled as dictatorships, and NGOs, and many NPs are dictatorships as well.

So to what parts of our social life do we experience democracy, family, village/community, neighborhood, municipality, school? During work we definitely live under dictatorial rule, without a justice that even dictatorships had.

@rvaughnmd @pluralistic

DrALJONES, to random
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    yianiris,
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    https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/11/surgeons_in_gaza

    "If our support stops, the
    occupation stops."

    Even the left in the US has its head so deep in the nearly racist supremacy hole that they think without their money a country can not go to war, or fight its own people.

    Do those ignorant idiots realize that #Israel has about the same or higher GDP/capita than the EU? If you subtract the Arabic population the the average goes as high as the US.

    @DrALJONES

    LeftistLawyer, to econ
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    Stein’s 2nd Law:

    “If infinite growth in a finite system cannot continue, it won’t.”

    That we have a thing separate and apart from physics called “economics” is testament to greed prevailing over logic.

    This becomes abundantly clear by simply asking the question: Why aren’t the negative externalities from production ever accounted for on a balance sheet? It’s intentional accounting myopia. It’s a direct affront to the physical laws of the universe.

    But, poof … economists call it “profit,” when in fact it is a loss.

    You read economists like Herman Daly, Steve Keen, and Philip Mirowski these truths just snap into place. Recently finished Mirowski’s “More Heat Than Light — Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics.”

    I highly recommend it.

    #econ #degrowth #StableStateEconomics #ClimateCrisis

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/864669.More_Heat_than_Light

    yianiris,
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    Inorganic matter on earth we can all conceive as finite and constant. Maybe changing forms but still being what it was. Organic matter, life, can easily be estimated as depleting due to environmental destruction, bio-diversity, extinction of species,.. which is in general what humanity relies for "food".

    This makes the economic system of finite resources even harsher in terms of describing the imminent disaster.
    @LeftistLawyer

    LeftistLawyer, (edited ) to climate
    @LeftistLawyer@kolektiva.social avatar

    Once upon a time a new species evolved that thought itself very intelligent.

    But this new smarty pants species had a terrible blind spot. It couldn't figure out how to stop shitting in its own nest.

    It wasn't a problem at first, because when the new species filled it's current nest with shit, it would just abandon the shitscape and start someplace new.

    But soon enough, the new species covered the globe and had nowhere else to create new shitnests. The species wound up drowning in its own shit and went extinct.

    There was much rejoicing from all the other species that had figured out how not to shit in their own nest.

    They never thought the new species was very intelligent to begin with.

    The End.

    yianiris,
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    They discovered what was already in the wild, isolated what "they thought" as useful, and made money selling overdoses of it, till the object mutated and evolved to be resistant to those profit making gadgets. At the end they have done much more harm than help, but we can't see this because we are trained to see the sick get better, when nearly we are all sick, and we are killing and dying miserably, and that is all that we do.

    @yianiris @LeftistLawyer @maggiejk

    ajsadauskas, to car
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    A rising road toll in the US. A rising road toll in Australia. Journalists give 1000 reasons why it could be happening.

    And they studiously avoid mentioning the growing proportion of massive SUVs and pickup trucks on the roads. If they mention it at all, it's only in passing: https://youtu.be/Hb5_RUNeC0g?si=uuns6D1I6fGINdpU

    But.

    If you have larger and heavier cars, with larger blind spots, of course you're going to have more fatalities!

    Remember kids: Every 10cm a vehicle's hood height increases, the risk of fatalities grows by 22%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

    @fuck_cars

    yianiris,
    @yianiris@libretooth.gr avatar

    Consumer freedom dictates that you'd rather kill than die, so the hood height is not the problem, capitalism is!

    @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars

    simon_brooke, to cycling
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    "electric cars aren’t truly zero-carbon – mining the raw materials for their batteries, manufacturing them and generating the electricity they run on produces emissions"

    #Cycling
    #ClimateEmergency

    https://theconversation.com/cycling-is-ten-times-more-important-than-electric-cars-for-reaching-net-zero-cities-157163

    yianiris,
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    And the vast majority of electricity in most countries is still produced by burning coal, oild and gas, not that burning biomass is even worse.

    @simon_brooke

    yianiris,
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    I am sure Scotland is many times better than the rest of the union but it can't possibly be that small of a percentage of the overall picture, which is qute horrible.
    https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/uk-electricity/

    Also, counting biomass as renewable is total nonsense and propaganda. It is not a "renewable" source, not in any significant way to replace other sources.

    @simon_brooke

    yianiris,
    @yianiris@libretooth.gr avatar

    24K GWh / 140K GWh

    And from those renewables not all exactly renewable. Scot/UK also use 20% nuclear

    Consumption has slightly declined, but emissions have gone up 20% 2013-2023

    https://www.gov.scot/publications/energy-statistics-for-scotland-q2-2022/pages/final-energy-consumption/

    @simon_brooke

    yianiris,
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    @simon_brooke

    worldmeter reports from ministry of energy

    What you present as 115% of consumption is beyond unreal and even if so it would still be useless even if exported to 4 countries

    yianiris,
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    The most unadressed issue with nuclear power (which the UK never intended reactors for, it was a mix between power and "other" uses, is the fact of disposing safely nuclear waste, especially the parts that are highly radiocative still. The UK is too densly populated to do it on its own soil, and doing it overseas requires an expensive overseas military support to guard it.

    The US spread nuclear powerplants around Europe with the promise of taking care of all waste. FALSE

    @simon_brooke

    SallyStrange, to Economics
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    "Debunking degrowth" or trying to, anyway

    "In the degrowth literature, a caricature of the typical economist is presented as believing in unlimited economic growth, and that growth should be pursued regardless of its environmental impact. This is a straw man. It would be a naïve economist who did not recognise that constraints exist. And economists usually limit their projections to a few decades to come, rather than to the infinite future, in which they supposedly believe in unlimited exponential economic growth. Certainly, there are theoretical economic growth models which portray the possibility of exponential growth into the infinite future, but economists have had enough common sense not to assume stylised theoretical models are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to public policy."

    Then why, Mr. Tunny, is it so hard to find an economist who can tell us when the economy should stop growing?

    https://www.cis.org.au/publication/debunking-degrowth/

    yianiris,
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    Other than Marxist theory on capital there is no real theory,. Empirical babble based on false assumptions all within the spectrum that there is nothing else other and beyond capitalism. It is the least scientific of all social science because of the role it plays to managing masses and justify the political atrocities committed in the name of democracy.

    My 2c

    @_chris_real @simon_brooke @SallyStrange

    yianiris,
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    The name rings a bell, but it seems we were in college about the same time, being nearly the same age.

    I have on/off read some 21st century pseudo economists, econometrics, and I thought it was all trash. They like to describe things being "dynamic" whenever they can't explain.
    No theory, no explanation.

    I probably agree with much more David Graeber has to say, thanks for the reference.

    Class for Marx though is too economistic, no power/authority

    @_chris_real @simon_brooke @SallyStrange

    SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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    yianiris,
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    An ancient murals had german written on them? :)
    This is a typographic font that gave the word font its meaning.

    @SmudgeTheInsultCat

    MikeDunnAuthor, to random
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    Democracy, it's what's for dinner!

    yianiris,
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    The oppressors may be in that class but not necessarily wealthy, and this part was not explained by the one dimensional economic theory on class.

    On the other hand, one may be wealthy and have no political power, disengaged from production, a Skroutz model.
    Engaged in production, wealth and/or government hierarchy, community hierarchy, even family hierarchy, cumulatively defines the class.

    Scientific theory must always allow for correction or fault. Marxists have denied it

    @MikeDunnAuthor

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    So, here's a problem I have with Mastodon: let's say I make a post and someone replies with a racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic comment. I can block the commenter, but that only hides it for me. Other people who come to my page will see the comment, and believe that I tacitly condone that behaviour. I'd like to be able to delete the reply from my replies list entirely. Or at least hide replies from blocked accounts. And, yes, I know that wouldn't delete it from the originating server.

    yianiris,
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    Somehow you make it sound like a post you make belongs to you (as in property) and you should be able to control who can respond to it.

    Let's act as adults and realize that once you make a public statement you no longer "own" this statement, it is there in public domain, people can agree/disagree, adopt, or reject it, or even modify it and restate the original. It is what we want, isn't it?

    @evan

    hembrow, to random
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    And the winner of the Dutch election is... The Dutch Media. They've spent decades hyping up every right wing racist party, allowing them to say the most outrageous things without any fact checking at all. The public has now given the most votes to a racist linked to Putin. I'm ashamed.

    yianiris,
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    One day is Hungary the next is Italy, then Argentina, now the Netherlands.

    Fascism, the final stage of capitalism.

    @hembrow

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