RevolucianaJun 21, 2023

I'm laughing at memes about billionaires who can't pull themselves up to the surface by their own bootstraps, but in reality I'm furious.

I'm furious I was accused of human smuggling by FRONTEX (European border agency) for being part of a sea rescue operation that saved 1000+ lives of refugees fleeing war & terrorism.

I'm furious at the money & international effort being spent to rescue these billionaires when operations like ours cost so little and save so many lives, but are punished.

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Show threadRevolucianaJun 21, 2023

I'm furious about the money & international effort spent on both the causes of the desperate migration of refugees, and the money & effort spent to block and punish rescuers & refugees alike, and to force rescuers to leave thousands of people to die.

A couple billionaires drown on an $$$ and ill-advised tourist trip and it's tragedy. Thousands of refugees die and it's punishment for their crime of what? Color of their skin? Location of their birth? The amount of capital they don't own?

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Show threadRevolucianaJun 21, 2023

If you're concerned about the billionaires but can't have the slightest amount of compassion for refugees drowning at sea, you're the problem.

I'm looking at every nation, media outlet, and yes, Billionaire, that gives this amount of coverage, money, and international resources to this rescue operation but contribute to the opposite to migrants fleeing oppression and violence.

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Show threadSane ThinkerJun 21, 2023
@revoluciana There needs to be a maximum wage, and we need to tax the shit out of these people. Maybe Alito and Thomas will look into it.
Show threadRevolucianaJun 21, 2023

@gdeihl Billionaires don't make money from wages, they make it from hoarding capital and exploiting the wage labor of others who have no choice but to be exploited.

Billionaires should not exist. Wage labor should not exist. Capitalism should not exist.

Show threadSomeone Jun 23, 2023
@revoluciana Capitalism *should* exist. It's the best we have, it just should be better regulated and not be treated as a silver bullet that can magically solve every human problem, because it can't. There are parts of society where socialist policies would work much better (legal system, housing and healthcare are the obvious ones), but capitalism doesn't need to be the enemy.
Show threadTwee Jack
@person @revoluciana
Capitalism is the only system that has been proven to destroy the beautiful planetary systems that made our home so wonderful for human inhabitants.

It has also proven too unruly a beast for us mere humans to sufficiently regulate for it to work in our (or nature's) favour.

If the best you have doesn't work, then get another.
Jun 23, 2023 at 11:32amWeb
Show threadSane ThinkerJun 24, 2023
@jackdweeb @person @revoluciana Yes, capitalism has to be abolished ASAP or we're all dead.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-we-need-to-save-ourselves
The Economy We Need to Save Ourselves

Consumption is Killing Us

Sane Thoughts for Insane Times
Show threadAccordionBruceJun 24, 2023

@jackdweeb @person @revoluciana
Somebody else may have said, but “big C” Communism did a tremendous job at destroying the environment when it had the chance (see also mass murder at least as well or better)

There may be better options than Capitalism, but we have to make our alternatives explicit

I anticipate a breakdown, and fear it will be ugly, and don’t know what to do [edit: oh, I had an idea 💡]

Show threadRevolucianaJun 24, 2023
@AccordionBruce @jackdweeb @person Communism is not differentiated by capitalized and lowercase letters, so if your impression is that communism = mass murder, you need to educate yourself further than Capitalist propaganda. Also, there have been plenty of forms of communism, socialism, and anarchism that have done very well for working with the environment. You might check out the work of Murray Bookchin for more help that way.
Show threadAccordionBruceJun 24, 2023

@revoluciana @jackdweeb @person
Lots of fine work from eco-socialists

Bookchin is a big influence

I was uncomfortable when posters like the above were saying Only capitalists had damaged the planet, when some people who claimed to be very anti-capitalist had covered up things like the Kyshtym disaster

(I couldn’t remember the name so save anybody else in this thread from looking it up):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

Kyshtym disaster - Wikipedia

Show threadAccordionBruceJun 24, 2023

@jackdweeb @person @revoluciana
Definitely agree, an economic system with no billionaires is probably a baseline necessity for global survival

If an #Accordion tune from @Geoffberner is appropriate …
🪗✊🏼🎶

I used to think this song was too simplistic, now I think it’s just straightforward and obvious:

'Take the Billionaire's Money Away'
https://youtu.be/vkU4bvpvNA8

Geoff Berner 'Take the Billionaire's Money Away'

YouTube
Show threadSomeone Jun 26, 2023
@jackdweeb Humanity is destroying nature because that is what nature teached it. Genetically encoded instincts don't materialize without reason and they certainly don't disappear in a century or two. Why do we blame the creation and not the creator?
Show threadTwee JackJun 26, 2023
@person No.