“If they persist” = “as long as everyone keeps rolling over and allowing it”
Right-o, then: Protesty protest. Whoops, I got bagged by facial recognition and sent to El Salvador by gustapo. At least the media completely ignored the protest and no one even knows it happened.
A guy just got kicked out of Madison Square Garden. He was banned for life for a shirt he sold online that called for the removal of the MSG Ceo. He didn’t buy the tickets he was using, and hasn’t been to an MSG property in 20 years. They picked him out of the crowd using facial recognition, which was linked to his social media, which was matched to a list of banned people. This is just the actions of a private entity, how deep do you think the governments abilities reach?
Protesting these days is a lot bigger ask than it was even 20 years ago. Proper resistance even harder still. I agree we need action, drastic action, and soon. But I don’t fault ordinary people for being afraid to lose everything for what they believe.
Important distinction: to lose everything for someone else for ever diminishing returns
If I didn’t have to support anyone I’d already be organizing marches
True. But we have other leverage. Some 70% of the economy is consumer spending. Stop buying things and the complicit corporations that are dependent on quarterly growth will change their tune quickly. Even if they don’t get to have another tax cut.
Have you seen the mass protests protesting the mass protestors getting imprisoned for protesting?
Sounds like it’s time to try something that isn’t as easily ignored.
This is the part where Americans shirk responsibility by telling me “you first” and then telling me “then keep your mouth shut” when they hear I’m not from the states- which is 1) hilarious coming from Americans and 2) helps them to go on pretending someone else will come to save them.
Protests are important. But our biggest tool is the general strike.
If you insist on non-violence, why are we not seeing more cyberwarfare? Ransomware. MITM attacks. Social engineering. Catfishing. Expose the thousands of pedophiles in the GOP- politicians AND voters. Disrupt or intercept communication. Hit them financially. Protests are easily ignored. Cyberattacks aren’t.
Out-tech these guys. Outsmart them. Even the clever, crafty alt-right assholes at the end of the day aren’t PARTICULARLY bright. The “left” in the US, such as it is, is very much not living up to its self-proclaimed intelligence relative to the right.
Expose the thousands of pedophiles in the GOP
I mean, this exists:
And those are just the officials who have been caught by law enforcement.
I say, open season on the voters themselves as well- by everyone. Out them to their families, employers, religious groups- go wild.
Lol wut. That happens all the time. But DoS doesn’t take down fascists and the courts apparently dont care if you’re a rapist if you’re a billionaire.
I’m talking mostly about the voters, not the party leaders.
But hey, if you don’t like the non-violent option, there’s always the other one.
May 1 2028 mark your calenders
Well, that’s the plan.
As a European who studied in the US and since moved back to Europe after working in Silicon Valley for a while I am actually more and more ashamed about the US section of my CV.
I don’t even mention my time in the US in my cover letters anymore when applying for jobs.
well, Silicon Valley used to be good 5+ years ago. The enshittification cycle only started somewhere around 2018 imho.
It certainly kicked into overdrive around then.
“I love the poorly educated” -Trump, 2016
When HitlerPig’s wars start, he’s going to need a draft to fill the ranks, and in the past, college students were deferred. By destroying the age and role of colleges in pur society, he can lay the groundwork of not allowing them to be an excuse to avoid mandatory military service.
There will still be ways to opt out, but they will all be extremely expensive, and require other qualifications such as proof of ideology, clean social media record, a loyalty oath, etc. But mostly money. Pay enough, you can avoid the draft. They might even resurrect the Civil War era custom of hiring someone to take your place. The bottom line is that the wealthy won’t have to go, if they are willing to pay enough to save their children’s lives.
America would burn if he tried to draft people to invade Canada
The only reason to join the military to invade Canada, is to defect once you get there.
That could be a great strategy for “The Enemy.” Just make it known to the American military draftees that if they defect, they will be richly rewarded with amnesty and assistance in settling in their new country. If my son was drafted, and was heading off to war, I would encourage him to defect the first chance he got. He wouldn’t be alone, thousands would do the same thing, crippling any strategies the military was attempting.
Bone spurs. Everyone should start claiming bone spurs. Incurable.
The US draft system hasn’t had college deferments since the latter part of the Vietnam war.
We haven’t had a draft since the latter part of the Vietnam War. They both ended at the exact time. What’s your point?
I had the impression that college deferment ended about a year before the draft did.
I don’t expect college draft deferment to be a thing again until the boomers die.
Never thought stupid comedy relief movies about college life were going to be historical records of how US society used to be before becoming a hellhole that doesn’t value higher education.
“The End of College Life…” I think that’s the whole point.
Claim bone spurs, then conscientious objector and if all fails, there’s fragging.
As to my understanding of the background behind this and the greater context:
Economic growth on Earth is slowing down significantly; that is because quantitative growth is not possible without damaging the planet, and qualitative growth (such as infotainment, IT) are slowing down as well (consider “enshittification” as a symptom of poor vision for the IT industry).
For one, that is why people want to go to Mars. I’m definitely not a Musk fanboy, but people have wanted /thought about going to Mars before Musk. (consider Robert Zubrin 2000 “The Case For Mars”). If it is doable, and it probably is considering there’s enough water on Mars to sustain a civilization, they are hoping/predicting that it might become a booming market. I don’t want to be a “lunatic” or whatever you’d call me; but i’d argue i’ve done more research about this project than you, in case you’ve watched a YouTube video that says “it’s dumb/impossible”.
But back to the article:
Since growth of Earth’s economy is slowing down, demand for human labor is decreasing. Since the labor market is a market, less demand at equal supply leads to lower prices (wages). That is why “cost of living” appears to be skyrocketing. Food prices have not gone up in the recent years (because the means of food production did not change much in recent years), but real wages have gone down, if you subtract inflation. That is how it should be looked at.
Lower wages lead to a significantly lower quality of life for workers, as they are arguably one of the most decisive factors for quality of life. That is why “everything seems to get more difficult” over time.
I honestly don’t see a solution for this; demand for human labor could not easily be stimulated more than has already been tried in the last 15+ years. If automation still replaces labor, it will not lead to mass unemployedness (such is a thing of the past, when people were either employed or unemployed), but instead to drastic drops in wages (which makes it more attractive for companies to employ people or keep them in employment). I know laborers are proud of their labor, and are going to feel it as a “shock” that wages go down. I still think it’s necessary for the Quality of Life (which is very important, maybe the most important thing that politics should talk about) to introduce some sort of subsidy (like Universal Basic Income). I know some people are gonna be against it (notably without giving a good argument); but i do deem it necessary. That would give more buying power to the people and people could more easily deal with the rising cost of everything, including education.
Bro wtf…
Wages have to go down?
No, either companies have to pay higher wages or we spiral into depression. There’s no other way out of this. At least according to this regime. A new public works to tackle employment and cure our aging infrastructure, higher taxes and wealth redistribution would actually be the way to go. But there’s a snowballs chance in he’ll that will ever happen.
You just got insight into the mind of a Trumper little bro
You aren’t wrong… absolutely screw these people.
It’s not just “DT”… Genocide Joe was attacking students too. They’re both just continuing decades of pro-genocide policies. Basically every politician is on the AIPAC payroll. Almost zero politicians are standing up for these students.
It’s literally the entire fascist state.
Why the fuck is anyone (other than a provocateur) talking about Biden???
GTFO troll.
Tagged as propagandist.
Yeah, they were railing against scientists in another thread, technocrit is braindead
“Scientist” as a general concept doesn’t have an inherent positive or negative value. Some scientists have invented things that saved lives or expanded our understanding of the universe. Others experimented on prisoners, or developed addicting drugs for big pharma. Personally I’d say scientists are more likely to resemble the first, not the second, but what defines the value is not the profession, but the actions they take as individuals.
His comment appeared to describe the issues with approval of scientists as a baseline, when the capitalist system they’re trapped within has other incentives and agendas. It’s a point one can certainly disagree with, but it is a coherent argument.
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Sorry, technocrit is contextually braindead.
I’d imagine for the same reasons that people study the past and try and understand how events unfold. People still mention the name Chamberlain when discussing the rise of the third reich for instance.
When Snowden released his collection of files way back when, he made the argument that the panopticon that was being built wasn’t being used in the worst way at the time of his decision to whistleblow. But his point was that the construction of such tools could not be justified based on their eventual use by a worse form of American govt.
When the liberal mainstream—and this includes Biden, major media, and most other center/center-left politicians and pundits over the last year and a half—presided over the framing of anti-semitism as the act of being critical of Israeli govt actions and supported that govt in a year long punishment campaign to destroy an ethnic group, they normalized the positions that are now being used to deport green card holders and leverage higher ed into submission. Free speech on this issue was fought over last year, and generally, the anti-free speech side won.
It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re worse, or even equal in vileness to the current admin, but it is a point worth recognizing. Enshrining Trump, as horrid as he is, as an exception may be comforting, but it removes the broader narrative that brought our present about. If we don’t work to understand this sequence with clear eyed judgment, our resistance to it will likely fail.
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You may not be technically wrong, but whataboutism in the face of the new Nazi regime will likely not be well-received. It’s hard to make any reasonable comparison between Biden and the abject authoritarianism happening today with the Trump admin and DOGE.
Nobody stands up for students, and it’s getting far worse under Trump. I don’t see what Biden has to do with that.
Well the fact is that we tried “vote blue no matter who” and it failed. The dems won’t even bot do genocide so what’s the point? That’s how less engaged people think, the ones who aren’t debating politics online. Voting for Chuck schumer isn’t gonna fix anything
When you realize Trump represents what Biden represents which is what Obama, Clinton, Bush etc… Then you’ll realize that USA has always been evil. Trump is simply saying out loud the quiet part. To show my point I’ll list a bunch of things they all did in unison.
Genocide, not one president didn’t genocide Arabs. Not one. Obama started 5 wars in the middle East, look at how Syria is turning out because of US interference.
All of them talk about China as a great war engine. A country that has not gone to war in over 40 years.
They all spread lies about human rights issues in other nations as well as force their allies to confirm what they’re saying. Though hilariously Trump isn’t doing well on that last part.
But you know, we should keep thinking our votes matter, so let’s not whataboutism, just lay the blame on the current administration.
Edit. I take back a little bit of what I said. The biggest difference with Trump is the American people are suffering too. At least with prior presidents, they stole resources for America. Trump does not seem to be doing that part and that’s why more people are upset.
Donald Trump does something evil. Random internet troll must ‘both sides’ it, instead of calling out the evil in front of their face.
Enlightened centrist DNA
If one cannot learn from history, it will repeat. The actions that led to this moment are important to understand if one wants to be able to counter them and avoid them in the future.
