No, nostalgia has little if anything to do with it. Oil has a fragile supply line. Oligarchs can easily disrupt the supply line, driving a global energy crisis and economic fall, which amounts to a discount on labor and capital for the capitalists who then buy up stocks and get richer.

You can't easily manipulate global energy markets to crash economies for discounted capital and labor with renewables. That's the main reason. Oil also works as a convenient "justification" for imperialism.

"bountiful, free, clean energy" = more difficult if not impossible to manipulate global energy prices. The whole crashing the energy market thing is intentional, as it leads to economic downturn, which is just a massive discount on labor and capital for the capitalists.

The American gestapo abducted an 85 year-old widow.

Was she one of the worst of the worst? No, her step-son, a retired Alabama state trooper, got ICE to put her in a detention center to deport her because he wanted all of his father's inheritance.

Sounds like the son is the worst of the worst.

The only president stupid enough to do it.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Also, I have to wonder what sacrifices she's made, seeing as how she's telling other people they need to do so.

I don't get how it's apparently so difficult to realize that mutual aid is a necessary precondition for any shot at a general strike. It should be obvious that if you want people to stop working, you have to make sure they can be fed while doing so. Kinda necessary for the whole "being alive" thing

A useful one (contagious doesn't automatically mean bad... I'm sure some parts of human microbiomes are contagious). Mostly because consciousness is thought in the theory to have spread in a somewhat memetic fashion.

It's subsequent collapse (if it is proven to be true, I personally feel the evidence is fairly compelling that something akin to it is true) into consciousness could be thought of as a social contagion as well. If the theory is at all correct, consciousness may well be a social contagion, albeit...

I mean there is some vague sense in which social contagions may exist, but absolutely not anything to do with sexual identity. In some ways thought terminating cliches (like those fascism is riddled with) operate like social contagions. Deeper still, bicameral mentality (or something like it) and...

You're looking at it as if it's a system designed to work for the people. It isn't, and never really was.

Oh, looking at your account it seems you're not an American. That explains how you are so ridiculously out of touch with just how dire things are here. America doesn't really have social safety net. For most Americans, not working means not eating and having no healthcare. That is not sustainable.

Impoverishment?

Comprehension of this very simple (and generally obvious to anyone without massive piles of cash) point in some ways implies that is the case. Most Americans have to work to *not die*. How is hard to understand that stopping that work without sufficient mutual aid inevitably results in...

Again. A general strike will. Not. Happen. Unless mutual aid is sufficient to cover the needs of people (a general strike includes not working, which most people can't afford), it's not happening, and pretending it is is just plain silly. Are you wealthy by any chance? Because your lack of...

It's because Israel told him they'd give him money and praise if he destroyed the deal, most likely.

Money will be made by Iran, since your deal just allowed them to charge $2 million per ship to pass through—a fee that never existed prior to the war.

The ceasefire was always a lie. It was never meant to actually happen.

Israel has been actively engaged in constant war crimes for years. Israel prevented IDF soldiers who were on tape raping a Palestinian with a knife from being held accountable. This war was also started by the US and Israel. And Israel never stopped attacking Lebanon, so everyone seems to realize...

Crowd*

The "nothing ever happens" crows is real quiet nowadays.

A general strike is unrealistic because of the distinct lack of mutual aid and community assistance organizations. People need to eat. Get people fed. Then we can talk about a general strike.

Omg yes the whole "don't make it political" thing has been something of a mind virus in the US as well. Like I'm sorry but everything in our lives relate to politics, and as someone else said "you might not want anything to do with politics, but politics always wants everything to do with you"

There's pretty convincing evidence that this dude raped children. There's no bottom to the infinite moral perforation in his soul. We're not actually feigning surprise, right?

Don't bother asking Republicans for help. That's like asking the man holding a knife buried in your chest if he'd "kindly consider removing it, please".

Apathy in the face of fascism is for all intents and purposes no better than fascism itself.

To vote, that is usually the total extent of their actions. We need more than voting, especially now.

I did manage to convince a friend of mine to vote who was on the fence for this reason, and I think they realize now how badly they would've regretted abstaining. The other problem is that Americans not only don't vote, they generally don't engage with politics, and if you can manage to get them...

Yes yes certainly. Too many people on the left refused to vote for Harris because of her support for Israel. They were oblivious to the fact that it was her or trump, who also supports Israel. By refusing to vote for Harris, they allowed an even more strongly pro Israel candidate to win...