MattsAlt [comrade/them]

Yeah I’ll renounce my citizenship too, but I’m just mid

Fed-up people

Counted them

I can understand that, but I’d be surprised to see an Iranian president who didn’t speak out against the entity

Again, not saying I’m happy about it

You may be misreading my post, I’m not celebrating his death, only questioning why leftists are seemingly mourning his death outside of the impacts it could have to Iran

My point was seeing it as something like the death of Putin on a smaller scale: aware it will cause internal and external political ripples which could be bad for the people but not someone we should be mourning

It was pretty recently after the crash so I’m willing to believe it could be sensationalism

Wasn’t he pretty involved in the suppression of women? All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran

I can understand people feeling concern for Iran’s people and trajectory during a tumultuous time like this, but I don’t think anyone should feel bad he’s gone. He wasn’t a good person

's brilliant plan for reaching Mars

So Cuba should dissolve a government widely approved of by the people and return to client state gang run institutions for the ability to receive food? You’re a fucking idiot. Calling people sith lords, please learn to engage in world politics by using meaningful vocabulary instead of trying to equate everything to your favorite work of fiction

China should run port blockade

Pretty much what the researcher I was speaking with told me, the US is an entire generation of engineers behind China as it stands

Just as a glimpse into the American side, because we’ve created import bans on Chinese chip making components recently but previously offshored anything and everything to save a dime, public universities are unable to do significant research on developing PV cells because the only source for some niche aspects of the process are only made in China now.

As an added note, there is an incredible amount of concern about IP because ‘China will steal it’ and badmouthing of the Chinese government for, checks notes, subsiding R&D for PV cells and storage technology at a rate that massively outclips Biden’s flimsy recent CHIPS Act (which still hasn’t started distributing funds yet)

I hold no love for JFK, but it is admirable he was hoping to conduct joint missions with the USSR to the moon. For something as catastrophic as climate catastrophe, you’d think we’d all want to cooperate on creating the most efficient harvesting and storage technology as possible, but no, or proooofiittsss and IPPPPPPPP.

It’s things like this that make any alien movie or otherwise that shows humanity uniting for the continuation of the species laughable. The US would use it as an opportunity to nuke China then see if they could sell the aliens some oil.

There’s certainly a reason hardcore activists in the environmentalist and animal rights movements were targeted so heavily. I’m partial to the belief that it’s something way too many people might empathize with or even worse, copy. It’s also a pipeline into real leftism and anti-capitalism that can’t be countered with muh 100 gorgiollion dead from cummunism

I’m conflicted, as I do believe that action for the sake of the climate is morally correct, but that these actions aren’t accomplishing much of anything at this point.

Andreas Malm has done a few talks about XR, Just Stop Oil, or Insulate Brittain vs groups like Tyre Extinguishers, Ende Gelända, or Les Soulèvements de la Terre: his conclusion is that the former groups have done some amount of good with consciousness raising but at this point those who are going to be moved or sympathetic have been ‘activated’ and further nuisance activities alone will not advance the cause further and could instead harden people against the movement because it is action that is seemingly targeting ‘regular people’ and not the ones responsible for the situation we are in. He commends the groups for targeting banks and other institutions but doesn’t believe actions like blocking roads for the sake of doing so (obstruction of access to specific targets is another story) or throwing powder on a game advance the cause.

He goes on to say that arrests should never been seen as some kind of virtuous thing and instead should be seen as failures because it is taking people out of the movement and making their further contributions more difficult and potentially dangerous for their continued freedom.

I generally defend blocking roads as an act of protest, but I also understand the idea that there needs to be further escalation targeting the actual polluters because you will never turn all of the western public to your side.

Here are a couple of the talks I’m referring to, interesting to listen to the perspectives:

Panel discussion on potential future of the movement

Individual talk about where we stand today

Agreed there, vanity is really the only reason Trump got into all this in my eyes

Oh yeah I still think it’s a coin flip if he’s president in a year and change, don’t get me wrong, I just think Bush was able to accomplish all Trump did and much more with even less consequence

Say what you will, but that’s stupid to me.

He has the bag and then suffers consequences for apparently no gain besides saying what hogs want to hear whereas Bush also cut taxes, literally stole 2 elections, and lied the US into trillion dollar wars with no consequence and is seen as a painter now who makes Masterclasses

Well if you have to have 28 of them…

I think the DNC votes for it, not sure to be honest. vs vs showdown with possible special guests pritzger and newsom