We need to build a "big tent" to defeat fascism. Purity testing and divisive language make our tent smaller and lower our chance of success. It IS important to take more direct action, to not be a slacktivist, but we have to encourage people to do it, not try to shame them into it.
Just read his Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 31, 1936. The whole thing still feels very relevant and is a worthwhile (and not too long) read. The quote that stuck with me today was:
We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Well my week is up and I still don't know. There are some symbols on the bottom of the bottle but I can't make heads or tails of them. Here are some pics, I thought their overall shape was a little unique, many fliptops I see in the YouTube videos often look more like wine bottles. I'll see if I can find out more the next time I'm at the store.
I won't be able to tell you for a week unfortunately. They were what our local brewing store had available that were safe for carbonation. Not sure on the size but we get 3 full per gallon with plenty leftover to feed the next gallon.
If you're a little technically inclined I went with the "Self-hosted LiveSync" community plugin and really recommend it. It requires setting up (and maintaining) a couchdb instance and going through the plugin's setup. Not the easiest thing in the world but not too bad either. End result, I have end-to-end encrypted LiveSync on all my devices.
This is the real problem, I don't feel like we desperately need legislation to stop people losing their life savings on these, it's the fucking institutional investors I don't trust. They risk my savings account for their grift and the government has to bail them out.
In some sense our large contributions to Ukraine earlier in the war could be seen as us fighting Russia via proxy. If I recall correctly our involvement with conflicts in Syria were also seen similarly, as us fighting a Russian proxy state. My understanding is that war between nuclear powers often looks like this because all out war could escalate to nuclear weapons too quickly. All this to say, I think we were already at war with Russia before Trump regained office.
The 13M type numbers came out early and captured a lot of attention but didn't have much legitimacy, but they anchored people's expectations. The smaller numbers are coming out now and have much more legitimacy. They may be smaller but in the big picture this is all still impressive, the movement is big and growing
These rallies/protests/whatever are exactly how you build momentum for a general strike.
A general strike is useless without a significant percentage of the population joining. As these protests keep happening the attendees trust that the networks that are drawing them together will step with them into more drastic action, like a general strike. We are building a small amount of trust and cooperation between literally millions of people. It's not going to happen overnight.
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We need to build a "big tent" to defeat fascism. Purity testing and divisive language make our tent smaller and lower our chance of success. It IS important to take more direct action, to not be a slacktivist, but we have to encourage people to do it, not try to shame them into it.