It stands to reason the lining up process was all that was keeping him alive... I know that we have our own political assassinations in the West but this whole affair is still wild.
It might have evolved, but Mussolini's fascists initially made their money being hired thugs for the wealthy and industrialists who wanted to directly attack and scupper organising workers.
Similar in Nazi Germany with the Brownshirts iirc.
I guess under Neoliberalism you can kind of just skip the street gangs and use cops to attack unionists, so it's a different set of material conditions these days but the patterns are there.
Jesus, that's a bit rough. I mean, the death stuff - why say that? I understand you're being hyperbolic but - again - why put that out there? Noone deserves to die for riding through traffic, what a thing to say...
Yeah, God, that's a difficult position to be put in.
Sorry man - you shouldn't have to make choices like that... if you do have to take it, I'd try to ease my concious by redirecting their money. Like, I did that when I had to work for a for-profit contract company staffing Australias social services. KPIs for welfare phone lines staffed by undertrained whoevers. They'd penalise us for taking the time to help vulnerable people. Disgusting company - left the second I could afford to. I put something aside for local mutual aids and environmental groups.
Nah - the ABC was pretty big on its twitter integration. We had a few long running, decade+ old forum-style shows where people could/would tweet in live to be part of the program.
This is a big thing for Aunty, in terms of its culture.
No argument here - I'm earnestly just scared at this point we aren't going to collectively evolve beyond our cultural fetish for greed before we turn the/our planet into an open air mausoleum.
Consider my previous comment thinly veiled grief, tbh.
Also worth noting the unnecessary and insane amount of emissions from this practice. We're in a climate crisis and they're throwing fuel into the fire with real world consequences for the sake of a legal loophole.
It stands to reason the lining up process was all that was keeping him alive... I know that we have our own political assassinations in the West but this whole affair is still wild.