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“Conservationists are trained to notice what most people do not see: a reef that has lost its vibrancy and color, a forest that no longer holds the same birds, a river that carries less life each season. They are trained to count, to measure, to document change with discipline. But they are also people who entered the work because they love something outside themselves. A species. A place. A living world that felt worth protecting.”
— The cost of caring for a dying world
“Elon’s not an environmentalist. He’s a huckster of Trumpian proportions. Elon is completely of the Trump Era. What else can you call someone who takes a 150 year old technology like electric cars and sells it as new, championed by far too many American environmentalists. But you have to understand, American environmentalism, despite the absolute sincerity of many, is overwhelming about saving the American hyper-consumptive lifestyle. Elon lets them believe they can save what is one of the most energy wasteful practices of modernity, transporting 170 pound people encased in 4000 pound vehicles. Electrifying American car culture is no answer to anything.”
— Is Peter Navarro a Moron?
“As Ocasio-Cortez’s own voters told her directly, the reason her constituents split the ticket between her and Trump wasn’t because they were drawn to Trump’s right-wing policies or his ugly rhetoric. It was because they wanted change, because they viewed both Trump and her as fighting for the working-class and bucking the establishment, because of disgust with the Gaza genocide.”
— Four Myths About Kamala Harris’s Loss
"Wealth isn't "stuff", its the social relationship of command."
Oh fuck thats an amazing point.
This, this, and this.
Christofascism is a failure of ideas, devoid of rational thought. It's an ideology of ignorance.
“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions…”
— Teddy Roosevelt
This is your warning.
Maybe it’s a time for the working class of this country to have a little bit of power in Washington, rather than your billionaire campaign contributors.
Bernie Sanders (via azspot)
Nah dude, some police are genuinely trying to make the world a better place. They go through a lot of shit so that they can try and help people. I hate most of the shit police do. I don't like being told what to do either. But people are fucking killing cops. That's people killin people and it's fucked. You're the death of your own cause if you condone violence and murder ya dumb fuck. Black lives matter, let's protect them by not murdering good people and giving nazis any sort of argument.
Gonna break down this response as clearly as possible.Â
The origins of the police are evil.Â
It has been shown repeatedly that the police were formed to oppress the working class and (1, 2) and enforce white supremacy (1, 2, 3). In fact, the early U.S. police grew directly out of slavery.
The police aren’t the people you think they are.
The police don’t care about you – they don’t even have a constitutional duty to protect you. They’re allowed to take your property without your consent (the NYPD seizes so much property they can’t even log it in their computers). In fact, cops are more likely to steal your property than burglars are. They commit hundreds of crimes and human rights violations against people like you & me and get away with it because they cover for each other.
Cops tend to be unusually aggressive, authoritarian, and secretive (Greene & Heilbrun, 2011). They are more than twice as likely to commit domestic violence than the rest of the population, and (once again) they cover for each other when doing so. The police are on the side of neo-Nazis (1, 2). In fact, many times the police themselves are the neo-Nazis/klansmen (1, 2, 3). And even besides all this, cops do all kinds of other shady shit – for instance, undercover police are used to instigate fights during protests and rallies.
The police terrorize those of us who are marginalized.
The police disproportionately arrest Black people for drugs even though white people use drugs more often. They disproportionately pull Black people over for traffic stops. The police terrorize people with disabilities.They are viciously anti-indigenous – and always have been. Police terrorize sex workers. There are countless examples of police brutalizing homeless people (1, 2, 3). The police have a lengthy history of brutality against the LGBT community (1, 2). They terrorize women of color and get away with it (1, 2, 3). They kill massive numbers of people each year – and a disproportionate number of their victims are Black and native. On top of that, recent data suggests cops may kill up to twice as many people as we even thought they did. And while police love to defend themselves by saying they have the most dangerous job, that’s not even close to being true.
The police’s best kept secret: We don’t need them!Â
A world without the police is completely possible (1, 2, 3, 4). We have resources for resolving violence as communities without the need for state intervention (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 – as some examples). We as communities are better capable of resolving violence than the police are, because we don’t have the vested interest in the status quo that they have. Even if a few cops are well-intentioned here or there, it doesn’t change that the role of the police is to work against the vast majority of us in the interests of the (white) elite few.Â
Why are you so invested in the police when they are complicit in your dehumanization?
Thread by @samswey: "For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based o and data. A thread. (1/x) Lesson 1. Everything you’ve probably heard is a lie. Specifically, the most discus […]"
Reblog if you are antifascist.
This brings me back to the first question: Do progressive voters owe their vote to anybody that runs against Trump? I want to dispute the very manner in which I initially framed this question. Voting is a right that citizens hold, not a duty they discharge. Elections can be moments in which power inverts — times when large swathes of populations, heretofore invisible, are cast into voting blocs that politicians take seriously. To ask voters to pledge their vote before being won over takes away this bargaining power — and in turn, radically changes the electoral game. It is the candidates’ job to win voters over, not voters’ to submit to a choice between two evils. So if you feel like shaming someone into voting for a candidate who actively disregards their demands, consider who you’re really asking and what’s really at stake: Of all the unwanted jobs shouldered by marginalized communities in this country, this should not be one of them.
You don’t owe Joe Biden anything: Shaming the left is immoral — and bad politics (via azspot)
Bernie Sanders has routinely called Trump a “pathological liar.” The term pathological liar, a controversial one for psychiatrists, in common usage coveys someone who is an extraordinarily unrestrained liar. And so, Bernie knows that it is in no way radical to use this term to describe the unrelentingly self-serving Trump who unhesitatingly lies if he More
“ Biden’s well-publicized record of lying should be well-known to those who pull the strings of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)—those who have been orchestrating Biden’s nomination. This compels several questions: Is the DNC so stupid so as to not realize what a gift a Biden candidacy is to Trump, who can easily use the facts of Biden’s lying to suppress the Blue Team vote? Is it not obvious that many Blue Team voters will stay home rather than vote to replace one liar with another? Or is the DNC and its masters so evil that they really don’t mind having Trump win again? So evil that opting for an alternative to Biden who could beat Trump but who is slightly less oligarchy-friendly than Biden was out of the question for them? “
Six years after the city of Flint, Michigan, began using a toxic water source that sickened its residents, VICE uncovered payoffs, the silencing of a whistleblower, a shady financial deal, a coverup, and the former governor who presided over it all.
“Hundreds of confidential pages of documents obtained by VICE, along with emails and interviews, reveal a coordinated, five-year cover-up overseen by Snyder and his top officials to prevent news of Flint’s deadly water from going public—while there was still time to save lives—and then limit the damage after the crisis made global headlines.“
From 2016, I don’t know the original author.
"An 18 year old with a shit life ahead of them doesn’t want or need a dose of centrist reality from a Liz Kendall or of slow, pragmatically-obtained progress from an Yvette Cooper or a Hillary Clinton; they want and need to be able to afford somewhere decent to live in a community worth living in and to have a job to go to after they finish their education."
 This, right here, is what moderates and conservatives don't understand. You think young people support Sanders because they want "free stuff"? Well, what the hell are you offering them? Literally nothing. You're telling them "Yes, the system is rigged against you, but play it anyway," but you're giving them exactly no motivation to do so.
 Wait another decade for social progress, kid, because we've been doing this civil rights thing for sixty years and they're still killing the black dudes in the street...but trust us, our conciliatory way of doing things is the only way. Go to college, that's the way to have a great career and get wealthy... except it just isn't, anymore, and that's a fact. Go out and get a job, except nobody wants to pay you a living wage and they'll figure out every way in the book to deny you benefits and then call you a Commie when you look to that government to help out because you'd rather see your tax money go to helping you and your fellow Americans than to pointless and horrific wars or to bail out sociopathic speculators who see the entirety of the American economy as a game of online Texas hold 'em.
 What, precisely, are you offering them that Sanders isn't? You say he can't get them any of the things he's talking about, but you're not even willing to try. Maybe next generation, kid.
 I wonder how many of you understand how close we are to general strikes or worse. You can keep people in line if you give them nothing but hope. Take away the hope and they'll cut your throat. History bears that out time and time again.
 And even if Sanders loses, you're fucked. Because you'll do nothing of value for the kids, or you'll make things worse, and that Sanders Presidency That Might Have Been - the one that never has to face the harsh light of political reality - will pass into myth, even more so than Gore 2000 did. Sanders won't even have to get elected to win, because for the rest of their lives they'll be trying to recapture this moment.
 And nobody else will offer them anything else to get behind and believe in. If you really wanted to defeat socialism, you'd do better to give Bernie a single term to fuck everything up. But that's not how political people think, which is why I don't have much use for them. Businesspeople see Q1 of next year. Wonks see the next election cycle. But the smart eyes are always on the horizon.
 So you're fucked no matter what. The GOP is dead in the water. It's the party of racists and crazy people who have absolutely nothing to offer anyone and greedheads and people who believe angels check their Facebook timeline to see if they got enough likes to cure their cancer. It's not the party of better jobs, pragmatic economics. It brings nothing to the table but guns and gilded cages.
 But the Democratic Party is fucked too, because nobody has any faith in it anymore. And why should they? The Dems have zero vision. They're the designated drivers. People like me only vote Democratic because the GOP look like a bunch of wolverines dressed up like a Klan rally to us - and if you think I'm exaggerating or in the minority, you really are out of touch with the kids.
 Sanders gets the kids because none of them actually believe in Clinton or anybody like her. The old liberals love her because she resonates with their careful, methodical idea of how progress is made. She makes them think of the Sixties and the Seventies, of upstanding citizens committed to respectable change that does fundraisers in a suit and tie with Fleetwood Mac playing on the PA.
 But everybody's tired of thinking about tomorrow, there, Lindsey Buckingham. They want to think about today. Nobody wants to wait another generation to see things get better anymore. And unless you haven't noticed, the kids don't much give a shit what you think about that anymore.
 If Sanders wins, it might be an object lesson in political pragmatism. Or he might actually make things happen. Clinton won't. The GOP can't win because all of their candidates are mentally ill Bond villains, and the only change they can effect is to up the timetable for actual violent revolution in this country.
 Yeah, that. I just came out and said it. But it's in the air. It's still a long way off, but you can smell it if you know which way the wind is blowing. People are tired of racism and sexism and the church of corporate capitalism, and it's a lot harder to pacify them than it was back when they could jump in the game and get rich themselves. They're poor and gonna stay poor, and if you try to tell them how to live their poor lives too, that they can't have equality or reproductive rights? Man, they're gonna come at you, and I don't care how many guns you've got. The kids can stick C4 on a drone. They can wipe out your bank account with a laptop. The day Anonymous stops being a bunch of hippies and neckbeards and Burning Man doofballs - the day it stops feeling the need to be anonymous anymore - you are fucked.
 But keep pushing them. Keep patting them on the head. Keep backing them into the corner and telling them you know best because you marched for the ERA once and said some very harsh things about apartheid at a rally before a Sting concert in 1988. Keep thinking they're on your side. Keep thinking they see this the way you do. They don't. This is good and evil for them. And for me and a lot of us aging hipsters too.
Things are about to jump off one way or another. The Sanders campaign is the weatherman telling you which way the wind is blowing. If you can't see that, God help you, because nobody else can. Or will."
