Systemic problems cannot be solved at individual level.
@yogthos Yes. Exactly. It's 50 years since the practice of sorting garbage for recycling became common, and for some reason that's beyond human comprehension, recycling is not yet a public utility like water and sewerage.
When told that X packaging material "cannot" be recycled, the average punter believes it (!!!) when what it really means is "We don't want to spend the capital for the equipment that could recycle it" or some other operational reason that could be easily overcome if the recycling service was state owned.
Some well-meaning people even *post* recyclables like plastic bottle tops to destinations many hundreds of kms away. Yes, really! The manufacturers get free materials, with the freight paid for by the donors. Is "suckers" too harsh a word? .
Demand that your government makes sorting and recycling of "all" waste a state- owned public utility.
@anne_twain @yogthos Or better yet: get rid of "governments" and make people govern themselves!
@ZoidbergForPresident @anne_twain so get rid of governments and create a... government?
@yogthos @anne_twain Well, we don't want chaos but arnachism. So a government but with noone above anyone else.
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The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman

@yogthos Excellent article. Thanks for posting it. I can think of so many examples, in my own experience, of what she describes.

@yogthos @anne_twain No, anarchism IS a structure.

Try to research stuff before talking out of your ass: I don't have time for your sillyness.

@ZoidbergForPresident @anne_twain I have researched "stuff" and that's how I know you're talking out of your ass here.

There are no actual examples of anarchist structures working effectively at scale in the real world. That's the elephant in the room.

There's a reason anarchism exists exclusively in the imperial core.

@yogthos this is the original source for the article btw: https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/06/bezos-privatjets.html
Frau trennt Joghurtbecher in Karton und Plastik, während 95 Privatjets zur Hochzeit von Jeff Bezos in Venedig landen

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@yogthos

I stopped recycling plastics when I realised they were being sold, not recycled.

Now I try not to buy them in the first place.

This is going better than the recycling.

@yogthos They can be, you just have to target the right individuals with the right methodology.

Legally, this post does not condone violence. Practically, guillotines are relatively cheap, easy to assemble, and efficient (for chopping fruits and vegetables and NOTHING ELSE, wink wink).

@Merk_94 individuals will be replaced by others, they don't just pop out of a different dimension to rule over us. They are a product of the material relations in our society, and until those changes the problem won't go away.
@yogthos Idk, "private jets" sound pretty individual level to me.
@kibrika So because they don't use public transportation they cannot be organized or work to maintain a centralized control apparatus? @yogthos
@adiz @yogthos They can make an impact on pollution reduction by using public transport.
But yeah, yeah. I'm with you on they should follow rules and get one vote like the rest of us. Just that the jet users are the few people on the planet whose individual decisions do have an impact.
@yogthos Yes, and it's individuals collectively that make systemic changes.
@jautero that's the transformation of quantity into quality, but the key part is that individuals need to have a unified collective understanding of the problems and the solutions that are necessary in order to speak with one voice
@yogthos Which you get either by agreement or by coercion.
@jautero agreement comes from education, that's how people develop a shared understanding of the problems. This is why Marxist approach of having a vanguard has succeeded time and again.
@yogthos Depends on the individual, right