It’d be a shame if that shipment never made it…

Speed running empire collapse.

I’m honestly surprised that non-western states haven’t pulled away sooner. But now that the paper tiger is showing its pathetic pedo claws, every one knows it is a farce.

While I don’t expect the west to actually pull away any time soon, believing in its own propaganda too fiercely, cracks like that shown by Spain give me hope.

Given that it already had the largest relative and absolute prison population the world has ever seen, this will literally be unprecedented. It’s just giving more credence to the real name of the country “The Great Satan”.

What about going through the gay son to thot daughter pipeline?

I really like to own stupid things. The only smart things I want in my life are people, and my cats

I mean, presently there isn’t a bounty on my head for being trans, so like… Maybe opposing the cheeto Reich is still a good thing…

Its one of those things that can’t necessarily have words put to it. Think of it like this:

The people we are, and become, is hugely influenced by those we surround ourselves with. Our relationships with each other are dialectical. I, as a trans woman, have found it enormously affirming/helpful/wonderful/etc. to have cis women as friends. Because its not “just” about things like clothes and makeup, in fact I am basically the most femme of my female friends so those things sort of fall on me funnily enough. There are sooo many other aspects to it. From emotional support, to finding out how similar many of your experiences are, and bonding. The number of times I have been told and experienced “we girls look out for eachother” makes me emotional just thinking about it.

What can a cis woman help you learn? Idk. Depends on who she is. But I would highly recommend befriending a cis woman. Because you like spending time with her (just like everyone else you befriend) and both of you will become better versions of yourself, and in the case of being a trans woman, you’ll learn how to be a woman through basically osmosis.

I know its easier said than done. But finding female friends through people you already know is key. And it is scary. But everyone on this sub belongs to a group of some of the most courageous people I know. So you can do it. You will have to be uncomfortable. But take time to be gentle with yourself, and things will get better.

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One of two things imo, (1) either purely ideological, or (2) intentionally putting up a new fence to restrict access to a commodity for greater profits.

(1) The government enacting these regulations stifles innovation, making it impossible to find better solutions for healthier teeth, and preventing communities (individuals really) from making their own decisions about their body.

(2) The most efficient way to do things (fluoride for teeth) is collectively through municipal water sources. This is bad for profits/gdp. By not providing it (and potentially destroying old infrastructure) new markets are opened or expanded for fluoride, and a new “need” for new infrastructure is created, resulting in new profits/increased gdp.

Bonus background reason: The more you can convince the citizens of your country of, the easier it is to control them

Bonus Bonus reason: It gives “opposing” factions something to fight about that isn’t the class war, effectively distracting people from the on-going -gestures wildly at everything the west does-

Basically using these 4 things as a starting point for all “why are government doing” questions in the west can help us understand it, and not fall down the thought terminating (cough liberal cough) rabbit hole of “gawd they are so stupid/evil! I can’t wait until the wet cheeto isn’t in power anymore! #love”

Yeah, but you can’t say that in media because what do you want? Stalin nazi Mao vuvuzalea? Yeah those authoritarian nazis killed so many, capitalism is the best we got! Even if its not perfect.

But I think the number of people disenfranchised with capitalism is rising, and socialism isn’t nearly as bad a word as it used to be. Communism is less hated too.

Tin soldiers and Donnie coming. We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four dead in Mich-i-gan.

I think it will take a fairly big reaction from the military to erode trust enough that it starts to crumble. And while the context is a little different now, I suspect the military will need to respond more violently than they did at Kent state.

But the wonderful thing is restoring trust is very difficult (the empire has managed to restore it before, mind you), and maybe impossible given the current material conditions.

The wonderful thing about your comment is how blatantly it disregards the scale of the “atrocities” committed by the empire

3 months on hrt. Horny et. al.

Lol. Human nature.

If you mean “here take this money and give us your country or we will kill you” then yeah.

But I suspect you actually are referring to some weird “humans are greedy! Look! Billionaires!” While ignoring how often we freely help and associate with other humans. For example: on this website.

Yeah I tend to boycott genocide, racism, slavery, regime change, that sort of thing. So you might consider me some kind of anti-US .

Also “living in traditional ways” is at best misleading. There is already more than enough to go around when we consider actual physical resources. Using market mechanisms to determine how things are distributed works very poorly in terms of meeting everyones needs, and blinds us to actual solutions.

The idea of overshooting earths capacity is firmly rooted in extractive ideology (which is a cornerstone of capitalist economies) and doesn’t even begin to consider how an adjustment in economic output to meet real demand and not whatever is the most profitable, would result in massive changes in the way we do things.

Food production could become more regenerative because we need to feed people not make money.

Clothing industries would cut gigantic amounts of waste simply by ceasing the destruction of clothing to maintain high prices.

And these 2 ideas alone could revolutionize nearly every aspect of our existence.

Indigenous ways of doing is not extractive. It is better described as a collaboration with nature. Managing natural resources to meet our needs, and the needs of (often specifically) the next 7 generations. It means managing forests to make more forests, with all the flora and fauna that entails. Among other things

The fascist part is:

Ohh humans are the problem Okay, which humans? Who decides who gets what? Who lives and who dies? Is there any consideration for the power dynamics in our society (spoiler, no there is not)

In short the quote who ever said it:

Environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.

Nneeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrdddddddd

But only as a term of endearment.

And also, it’s a silly comic

Because as capitalist states struggle to maintain profits and control through soft means, the only other option is through direct control and violence. As the state gets more and more cozy with corporate and moneyed interests, and starts lashing out at the usual scape goats (trans/queer, communists, socialists, trade unionists, immigrants), we have what we call fascism.

Its the predictable end to a profit driven system that requires infinite growth to continue its existence.

Whoopsie somehow those Soviet missiles are still there…

It is okay to accept that the US is bad. You don’t have to cope by saying “ohhh yeah but wait until China!”

Its understandable you would think this. Bill Gates spent butt loads of money to scrub his image clean, buying up media companies to make it more effective, and using charities to hide behind to appear philanthropic. All the while being a typical oligarch, and using the free money given to charity to get more tax breaks and increase his wealth and power.

Its been very effective