Pitchforks! Get ya pitchforks here! Torches, prelit or pretarred! Free to all those in need!
One pitchfork - do you have a blue one? - and a torch please. Preferably lavender scented.
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Against tanks, riot shields, and bombs. Sure buddy, sure. Grab your pitchfork, I'll grab popcorn. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Bangladesh_quota_reform_movement
now that I've had my fun maybe you'd be interested in this very recent example
My personal thought of the day:
If we keep referring to them as the ruling class we will never diminish the power they wield.
They are the undeserved wealthy. The takers of value and the destroyers of a balanced economy. They are often mocked, but instead they should be pushed off their gilded pedestals through progressive marginal tax rates that are equal to those of the early 20th century.
I call them owners. But it doesn't matter because they hold all the power through threat of violence and access to violence.
Maybe there is a better solution but at this point I think violence is the right answer against such a threat.
A revolution will never happen and if it did we would just end up with some lunatic in charge. A power vacuum always attracts the people you do not want at the top. We'd just end up with some fascist system again.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
People's negative beliefs that the revolution would never happen is itself a tactic to prevent the revolution. More people believe that this cycle of destruction, exploitation, and death needs to end than believe we should allow it to continue.
This would be me, except I don't like to stand in the tick fields.
LFG = Looking for group
I think the author intended it to mean "let's fucking go"
But LFG is how my brain will always read it. (WoW BC thru WOTLK)
If OP is actually looking for allies I can't help but imagine the comedy drama of some guy getting tricked by a Chinese Psyop into going places and doing things because he thinks he's a part of some sort of grass roots resistance lol.
"So when are we going to meet up?"
"It's not safe right now, did you get my package?"
"Yeah, the one with the mandarin on the side?"
"Ignore that, it's shipped from my brother in San Francisco."
"That's cool, my sister lives in LA."
I'll join. DM invite.
Just go lay in the grass in a park near you and I'll be there.
lenin literally wrote a manual for revolution, and the method works consistently. just saying.
Yeah cause that shit turned out great for Russia. Maybe we (Americans) should follow our own history and do what Woodrow Wilson and FDR did. Tax the bastards, tax them till they bleed.
Revolution sounds fun! If we did a revolution Friday do you think I could get back sometime Sunday? I have plans, and I really would hate to cancel.
Haha yeah.....
The silence is deafening.
Erm, no, lol. Not even close. They can kill some or maybe all of the human race. The planet though? It's been through way more dramatic climate change in just the last 100,000 years than us pesky humans could even dream about causing.
Nuclear Armageddon you say? Even a nuclear winter can only last so long. Modern nukes are much more about blast shockwave, and burning things than spreading radioactive materials anyway. Chernobyl released way more radionuclides than your average bomb, and that was comparatively not a big deal.
The biggest extinction events are always super volcanoes. Short of interference from the outside universe like a gamma ray burst or the sun dying the volcanoes will still be the source of the most severe extinction events. Do you really think we could do something a giant meteor couldn't? Piss off.
Preventing climate change is all about saving our own arses and the arses of those unlucky species currently stuck with us.
Fun fact: The Earth has not had oxygen for a longer time than it has had oxygen, and it changes states.
I am of the belief that revolution isn't going to happen, and if one did happen if would only be hijacked to maximize a select set of individuals authority. Capitalism has entrenched itself inside each and every single individual, much beyond the capacity of any one governments control in my view
I believe that the only solution is for each and every individual to reject capitalism, and opt out. That said it is not easy to leave the infinite monopoly game, I reckon sustainable self sufficient individuals or communities are likely the only way to achieve this and each community or individual will have to do this by their own free accord.
And even if there is a will to opt out, which will likely come from individuals almost exclusively, you need land and skills, land which is being brought up by corporations, skills and knowledge increasingly locked behind pay walls. And once you have gotten it all together, you are totally off the grid. Well you still have to convince everyone else.
Although as more people achieve this, the challenge drops. Once a few people have done it joining up gets easier, many hands make light work after all.
As for how to obtain that land and those skills, I suppose then it's a question of how much are you will to bend or break the law, or risk it all. The Governments role here isn't all that great, its just to make breaking the law less risky or not a requirement
But hell maybe I'm wrong and the revolution is well on its way.
At this point, I'm 50/50 on whether the revolution will be enacted by bots.
I'm just kinda tired of so many people distilling our issues down to singular and often mysterious groups like "they" or the "ruling class". If only our issues were that simple, but most things are far more complicated than just bad people doing bad things. I think of a lot of our issues (e.g. climate change) like trying to root through a box of Christmas lights. They are a tangled web of knots and twists. It takes a lot of work to figure out how to untangle each bind. Most of our global issues are incredibly complex and need to be broken down into smaller parts if we want to solve them. Some people are doing good. Some people are doing harm. Most people aren't doing anything at all.
Even if all carbon production stopped today, it would not be possible for humans to survive.
This thinking plays into the hands of the oil execs and billionaires, if you truly believe this it should spur you into more action not inaction.
You can lie down and die right now, if you want.
Nope.
Humanity will survive until the last star in the galactic neighborhood goes out.
Humans though. Sure, we got like 90 years at best most of the time lol. I'm sure we will be able to change that enough in the future. Sadly I wasn't able to make it that far.
And if you're serious... Stop drinking the flavor aid lol.
Go back to beehaw lmao. Even democracies struggle to vote for people actually working towards a greener future. Surely this time a revolution will bring a solution
because they are not actually democracies.
I'm not speaking about the U.S. with its screwed electoral college and first-past the post system. I'm speaking out of the perspective of a German where we have a strong representative democracy with rampant populist parties having major influence in politics due to the amount of people that vote for them.
"even democracies" as if China isn't pretty much kicking every western democracy's ass at going green right now...
I don't support China's authoritarian state but being in a liberal democracy is exactly why we're having a hard time, corporations buy and sell political will in a liberal democracy.
End capitalism
