NaeOct 13, 2022

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

Show threadNaeOct 13, 2022
So when people say 'the Royal Mail needs to modernise because it's not making enough money' you should hear a massive tick whining that the body it is a parasite upon is not producing enough blood
Show threadNaeOct 13, 2022
The solution to the Royal Mail's problems is not to starve the workers who are the body and organs of the postal service. It is to cut off the parasite.
Show threadNaeOct 13, 2022
The parasites have burrowed deep into our public services over the past few decades. The capitalist parasites must be surgically removed, and then our public services must be given the vital care they need.
Show threadNaeOct 15, 2022

Been pointed out to me that it is not of benefit to use the overly emotive and fear inducing language of disease and parasitism, that to do this is a tactic beneath us, one also used by the fash.
Perhaps I would have been better to say that capitalism is exploitative and privatises profit while nationalising losses.
Also it's non-consensual- we're forced to take part in the exploitation in order to live anything but a wood hermit life.

Another world is possible Ⓐ

Show threadNaeOct 15, 2022
And ending capitalism before it strips the world of the bounty it has left (a bounty that belongs to all creatures, not just the wealthiest of the humans), before it further depletes our ecodiversity, and further pollutes the air and water, and further changes the climate, is as time critical as it can get.
Show threadevil Ariadne is on Kitsu now!
@fuchsiashock i will be shocked if it will be ended in my lifespan because none of us has taken the steps to do so
Nov 14, 2023 at 6:23amWeb