it's more like if we don't talk about how these schemes of oppression hand off to eachother, pass the baton, now, the knowledge becomes lost to everyone but the academics who study ur-fascism. i work to be very considered in how i phrase things because words have meaning. i also come at it from the angle that a lot of people living in the imperial cores of America, Russia, and China don't even recognize that they live in the hellscape outlined in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and that talking about capitalism v communism is not the fight most of the world at large is having, they're talking about fascism v anarchy.
unfortunately no. per my understanding the problem with starlink satellites burning up on re-entry are two fold:
- the aerosolized aluminum retains heat, not reflects it
- the aerosolized aluminum reacts with ozone, damaging a critical protective layer against the greenhouse effect
overt fascism. it contrasts itself from fascisms that hide themselves by claiming to be something they're not.
hyper fascist regimes:
- italian fascism
- national socialism
- sharia
- christofascism
- israeli zionism
- japanese imperial militarism
- post soviet russia
covert fascist regimes:
- neoliberalism
- feudalism
- republicanism (the roman concept, not the us political party, they actually fit into the above)
- bolshevism/stalinism/marxist-leninism
- anarcho-capitalism
- technocracy
oh i know. but that's the promise the fascists make. "let us take away some rights and things will get easier for you" when what they're really saying is "we will change nothing, you will get nothing"
like Shane Gillis is someone you want on your side…
i genuinely think what we have to do is start speaking in terms of the future we desire. fascism presents no hopeful vision of the future and only offers a return to an imagined past. i think the best way to dislodge people from the right wing beast is to offer them hope. the lower classes are suffering currently, and the right wing is saying to them "it used to be easier, didn't it? back when the police beat rodney king to within an inch of his life? we could go back to that"
but the reality is they want to take us back to when we were all property. never forget that black people were enslaved by europeans around the time european serfs demanded and won their freedom. backsliding on slavery will not make anyone freer, it will just get everyone closer to being enslaved. same goes for women's rights, gay rights, trans rights, civil rights, everything.
the only way for any of us to be free is to work together towards a shared future where everyone is fed, everyone has shelter, and no one has hoards of what anyone else needs. for the record, i'm an anarchocommunist (and i coalition most closely with religious anarchists from my time learning from jewish and native american anarchocommunists). this is our vision for the future. and lest anyone from a post soviet country think i'm advocating for bolshevism, i am decidedly not. any system that requires gulags to sustain itself is not a system that any anarchist can agree with. i believe in freedom from structures of power. that includes fascism, authoritarian communism, capital holders, and organized crime. the power must belong to the people because we are the ultimate originators of all of it.
when the greedy parasites declare war, who do they draft? us. when the greedy parasites get hungry, who feeds them? us. when the greedy parasites needs their homes heated and connected to water, who do they call? us. it's always us. we're who runs all this machinery. we just need to awaken to the power that we have: the power we have always had
political radicalization. in the past 100 years Japan has seen:
- hypermilitarization
- hyperfascism
- hyperbombs
- hyperdepression
- hypercolonialism
- hyperindustrialization
- hypercapitalism
- hyperrecession
and a lot of people want to know if there will ever be an end to everything being so damn extra all the time, or if Japan is simply expected to burn itself out working. and as is always the case when the people start askrng these questions, there's a rightwing reaction promising to restore Japan to the glory of an imagined past
they just aerosolize creating even faster global warming
start getting critical. have conversations with our neighbors to shift what's possible. organize ourselves in the streets because the streets is where we win. refuse to accept that this is just the way things must be
yes. obviously trump is an Epstein client. can we please, PLEASE, move on from gathering evidence for something we've known for a decade and start fucking talking about what to do about it?
non zero chance at least some of them are, too
it's televised on network TV, unlike the NBA and the women run plays you'd be familiar with unlike in the NBA. it's much more like the game you play with your friends or that's played in international 5 on 5 competitions. if you find it hard to watch i think you might just not be giving it a chance