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  • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.org•how's your week going, BeehawEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I appreciate that Pete has a contingency plan (I am known to switch over to colonial warfare rations when pressed for cash myself).

    However let’s also not pretend like reporters get paid enough by corpo employers so to me, Pete, passing you a fistful of ones on kofi is more akin to supporting FOSS or artists than any sort of “charity” or even mutual aid.

  • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•How do we shift power to the state level? Can we break up the US?
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    15 days ago

    Because the United States was founded as a loosely confederated colonial slave empire, and it benefits the caste of people who founded the empire and still control it to continue this form of government, I don’t think “shifting to state’s rights” is going to bring us any closer to freedom. Fascist slave empires shouldn’t exist. You shouldn’t contribute to them. Individually, if you are trapped in a fascist slave empire, you should seek to distance yourself from it in whatever ways you can. You should slow and stop spending money where possible. You should leave the country if you can, and remove yourself from the direct power of petty lords if not by moving out of their jurisdictions. If you are adamant about staying where you are at, you can build and contribute to a local mutual aid network, but understand that makes you ‘the local mutual aid network within a Fascist captured zone.’

    Governments are not immortal. Fascist governments have risen and died before. Unfortunately fascists steal their people’s futures. I liked my future a lot better before I heard about Trump but he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last American Fascist.

  • ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.orgtoHumanities & Cultures@beehaw.org•Two scenarios for the years ahead
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    6 days ago
    Grousing about Mr. Graff's silly hyperbolic description of the DOT

    Want to take this seriously as much of it merits serious discussion, but I just don’t know what to do with weird nonsense like this:

    The Transportation Department, which has had such a literal renaissance of imagination, innovation, and investment under Mayor Pete and the flood of infrastructure money from the Inflation Reduction Act, would be cut back extensively.

    Here is the DOT’s own propaganda: US DOT highlights infrastructure accomplishments What the heck does “literal renaissance of imagination, innovation-” mean here? Gosh Biden’s years were such a letdown, and then they tout the barest accomplishment of their jobs as the second coming as if people don’t have eyes and ears.

    What if suddenly living in Denver versus Austin or Charlotte versus Tampa start to come with very different sets of rights as an individual in terms of your family’s access to basic health care, what books your child gets to read in school, whether you can walk the streets without carrying your “papers,” whether your kid’s school requires basic vaccines, or even whether the public water supply is considered safe?

    This is already the case in the Rust Belt. Default is you don’t have basic healthcare, your kid goes to some fake voucher school or an extremely underfunded school (books comment is weird, Texas decides most of the books already), you can’t get vaxed or operate in the economy without your “papers”, public water supplies are not safe by modern standards. This crumbling ramped up during Trump 1 and became the default in the pandemic and the region didn’t really recover.

    Anyway the Fed isn’t my friend and the decline of that faction isn’t the part of this mess that has me worried. Has the Fed been really helpful or a positive influence where you are located? Mostly to me they are ICE and FBI offices and I don’t think those folks do good work.