Chris PetrilliThem: if you set aside all the ethical concerns…
Me: this is what evil is. This is how evil talks.
The Three Fingers@petrillic evil is always a bullshit concept. anyone who uses words like that has serious mental problems.
Violet MadderHow about torture, rape, or double-tap bombing hospitals?
If that isn't evil what the fuck is it?
CyIt's what the news wants you to care about, so you don't focus on improving the life of yourself and people around you, and remain a helpless little obedient worker drone.
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Why on earth would caring about something stop me from taking action to stop it?
Can you take action to stop it? If not, then why care about it?
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Damn right we can do something.
The belief we can't is what keeps us in worker-droning despair.
Well I'm sitting at my computer right now. It's a sunny day outside. I can go dig up dandelions, or work on the shopping list. What am I supposed to do about all this torture, rape, or hospital bombing again?
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Let the dandelions grow and do some permaculture.
Pick whatever tools you can reach in the wide range of options in mutual aid, direct action, labor organizing, community defense, alternative economies, and/or disaster preparedness. Learn to trace the chains of cause and effect that lead from small accomplishments to bigger changes. Keep reminding the people around you that such achievements matter, and that all this heinous crap is in fact intolerably heinous.
The more resilient your community is, the better you can stand up for yourself and the harder you are to silence or exploit.
I'd like to let them grow, but my mother hates weeds, so I try to humor her a bit. I'm much more worried about the blackberries and the buttercup, and the english ivy, and the "bullet seed" and the arum, and the columbine, and the oregano, and the mint.
There isn't any mutual aid groups in this neighborhood. The WFWA does some labor organizing, but not much these days, and I'm not employed so I have no one to organize against. Also they're kinda culty. I'd love alternate economies, like if people around here had a buyer's club or something. Really the biggest issue is there's no shared space to plan all this. Can't use a church, or they'll lose their tax exempt status. That's kind of why I joke about opening a bar, when I don't drink a lick of alcohol.
Anyway I am looking for solutions, but I'm not going to care about what I must do with these hypothetical solutions, until I have them. I can only care so much, and wasting it on unactionable bullshit is not exactly a productive use of my fucks to give.
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There isn't any mutual aid groups in this neighborhood. The WFWA does some labor organizing, but not much these days, and I'm not employed so I have no one to organize against. Also they're kinda culty. I'd love alternate economies, like if people around here had a buyer's club or something. Really the biggest issue is there's no shared space to plan all this. Can't use a church, or they'll lose their tax exempt status. That's kind of why I joke about opening a bar, when I don't drink a lick of alcohol.
Anyway I am looking for solutions, but I'm not going to care about what I must do with these hypothetical solutions, until I have them. I can only care so much, and wasting it on unactionable bullshit is not exactly a productive use of my fucks to give.
CC: @[email protected] @[email protected]