Is there a reminder bot on Lemmy? I bet you $20 in three months Pritzker will still have done absolutely nothing. Not one single agent will be arrested. This is a solid bet because one of them could ways roid out and kill someone in broad daylight, in which case it might be possible.
Doing this after Venezuela recently foiled bombing attempts and other terrorism in their country is certainly an optics strategy. Well, I’m sure they weren’t doing this before!
Okay dude I’m sure you were bombing the Israeli supply lines and not just doing drugs and fucking shit up like everyone else who didn’t know what to do. I live fifteen minutes away from a hike you don’t want to get into a window smashing or grass touching competition with me smdh
Yeah what has your years of disorganized criminal political activity accomplished? In what way did increasing my tally of shoplifted goods under Trump or Biden before prevent them from throwing immigrants into a pit? You think you’re the only who can smash a window? It doesn’t do shit without organization.
Man, I was looking for you arguing with people so I could laugh off you saying you don’t talk to trolls, but you get this is what I’m talking about right? I have not had an easy time here either (won’t elaborate, but it’s mostly my fault and other people have had it much harder than me) and seeing people go through the motions of liberal protest knowing they won’t stop it really pisses me off!
What have boycotts and bike rides ever done for people who get kicked out on the street?! Don’t you see what self-aggrandizing bullshit it is?
Yeah we actually started out with you guys “taking the bait”, realizing it’s too hard to argue with me, and now you’re just acting smug. Not gonna work on me.
Haha, look at this little cutie on the sidelines. Why don’t you try your hand at refuting it? What’s wrong? No brain?
Probably went directly into the desert concentration camp they were running
Yep that’s true, I’m getting these delightful batches of mentions about how liberal nonviolent strategies are going to stick it to the fascists, which make indistinguishable pleas for me to acknowledge the effectiveness of political irrelevance. Only boycotting is a step above stripping down in front of the Nazis and making a fool of yourself. If you don’t see how these events are part of the same ideological bent you should probably check on what the people involved with them are saying. What is needed are strikes, at bare minimum. If you are wondering “well how am I supposed to strike?” you’ve got a question that will build a whole roadmap ahead of you.
That’s correct, the difference is being aware that you are promoting inaction by framing a boycott as resistance against fascism. I am advocating for plotting an effective course of action rather than disorganized symbolic actions that make people feel good about themselves. You are advocating for following the boilerplate protest strategy that has been used to sabotage antiwar movements for decades.
Are you surprised we haven’t focused to that when we are stuck on debating the effectiveness of actions you know don’t work? They are purely symbolic and done chiefly to make people feel better about their powerlessness. That itself is harmful, because you are lying to people about a miracle cure for fascism called doing fuck all.
I already answered the question broadly of what would even make strategic inaction like boycotting capable of pressuring organizations or political figures, it’s an organization that has real leverage politically, not an NGO that plaintively asks for better institutions or malicious ones to reform themselves. An organization that can apply pressure with the legitimacy of those demands. Demands alone are not impressive, and reminding everyone over and over what a good boy who follows the rules of protests and nonviolence and boycotting you are reinforces you have zero intention of being a threat to the people euthanizing your homeless population! You think that’s going to manifest in delinking from the USA? We both get all of our goods from China one way or another. What the US is ripping you apart with now particularly, like the UK, is destroying public services, bringing in pvt equity and our infamous insurance companies. You cannot boycott your hiking rent and Perestroika. Think bigger.
Honestly they’re leaving money on the table by not doing this. They have a horde of mindless whales that are physically unable to stop themselves from buying the Golden LaSnooSnoo and posting about making it “moon”, the place is crypto bro idiot headquarters
“Wtf why did you depict me in a christlike fashion with a literal halo”
Oh so we don’t like heresies today?
You’d be surprised how valuable these technologies can be when they’re not only being developed to create new financialized services to overcharge people for. Manufacturing and shipping has huge capital and logistic buffers created by information gaps, production shortfalls, fraud, etcetera, and cryptographic ledgers are excellent for ensuring accurate production and inventory information is relayed to clients in realtime. What’s more, it has the potential to mediate international transactions without relying on Swift or global banking institutions that are an extension of US authority.
Notice how nothing I said was about fucking NFTs. The western financial system completely lost the plot doing super cocaine and became convinced they could just ask the rest of the world to stay slaves forever. They don’t even care about its potential! They want TrumpCoin.
The dems are happy to concede after making a show of a false struggle since it lets them off the hook from delivering the campaign-only promises their donors don’t want them to follow through on
Maybe the Angloidsphere ought to calm down, there is a silver lining to this. Take your l-theanine sweetie
Because you advocate for ineffectual solutions against brutal violence. You want to know a fun fact about Gandhi? He offered medical assistance to the soldiers of the British Empire. Pacifism in the face of evil is bad enough, but browbeating people and sucking all the air out of the room with disgusting antics is complicity. Don’t bother trying to hide it, because the double standards of when liberals choose to roll over and show their belly and when they hiss and scratch is pretty goddamn clear!
These are completely within normal levels for other foods and it’s mostly pea protein, which is bioaccumulating from the soil. This isn’t like the cinnamon lead scandal or something (which was caused by contamination from gas fumes in shipping because we destroyed Nigeria’s government to lower costs)