Capitalism has ethics. Even if the profit motive were supreme, that would be an ethic. Choosing to be evil is an ethical stance.

But in practice capitalists are always ready to sacrifice their profits and prosperity to maintain hierarchies, and more specifically white supremacy. Capitalists will pay billions to bail out banks so that the banks maintain their hierarchy over the capital of the petit bourgeoisie.

Capitalists will pay trillions to fight wars to destroy a nation’s production capacity to prevent them from becoming socialist egalitarian, or to secure control of oil deposits that will produce mere billions in profits to shore up their dominance over the market.

Capitalists will burn down a low-status corporate department and spend millions on temporary replacements rather than admit their work is necessary. They will work employees to the bone rather than profit off their relaxed creativity.

Capitalist insurance companies will rather waste billions of dollars on birth complications rather than tell doctors to defer to midwives on birth positions. They will rather be in the lurch for millions of dollars of emergency healthcare for the medically bankrupt than provide preventative care.

In capitalism, profit is an excuse for exploitation. If you intend to exploit people and you’re upper class, there are always venture capitalists willing to give your idea a try. If you intend to empower people and have scientific studies to prove it’s profitable, then sadly they just need a couple more studies believe you.

And if you manage to crowdsource the funding to do the profitable empowering thing, inspectors and cops and vandals will come crawling out of the woodwork to tear you down. And if none of that sticks, they will create a competitor to operate at a loss to drive you out of business and restore the capitalist hierarchy.

Glad we agree liberal democracy is not a bulwark against fascism.

It’s odd because the trash in the corner on the left is consistent, and the blood pattern is the same, and even the cracks on the wall behind them are the same, but the pillar shifts location and color.

It seems to me like there was a reference image. Whether it’s the AI plagiarizing something it was trained on, or an actual image that was thrown through a processing pipeline with AI.

But of course, the most charitable guess is as always that it’s deliberate Mossad misinformation, because we just spent a couple hundred collective hours analyzing an image rather than burning down an embassy because they did actually murder children.

That seems pretty simple. Use the small snow plow that clears cycling lanes clear the raised sidewalk lengthwise, then have the snow plow that clears car lanes drive over it without being weighed down.

…you do have a snow plow for non-cars, right?

Right?

Also, more generally, building a 5-15 minute city means snow plows don’t need to clear nearly as much area. A city built for people can afford to spend more time clearing pedestrian infrastructure and modal filters, because it’s still less than clearing ten thousand kilometers of suburb.

With the reduced driving time for emergency services, you can even waste some time clearing a path ahead of them or having ambulance personnel walk, and keep side streets unplowed if the weather is right.

That’s a very outdated view of traffic engineering and psychology. People (and animals in general) don’t stop doing things in response to punishment unless they have a very high chance of expected punishment, way higher that any society could afford in case of traffic control.

If you want people to stop, you’ve got to build the infrastructure in a way that makes it psychologically natural to stop. Some paint on an otherwise Amercan road won’t do shit. You’ve got to visually and physically narrow the space for drivers to make it uncomfortable or even damaging for them to pass through at unsafe speed.

That low speed is also slow enough that drivers don’t feel like they’re losing as much by stopping, making them feel like stopping for pedestrians is a lot more fair.

Look at Dutch traffic engineering standards for pedestrian crossings. They’re a car-centric country that puts a lot of effort into getting cars everywhere in a relatively safe way.

The drivers are actors, and the pedestrians probably are too. It would definitely be illegal to jump this sort of thing on drivers without their consent or knowledge.

Yes, it is very understandable that an old white guy would side with a multi-millionaire old white guy against the lower class women that accuse him of rape while describing those women as hysterical vultures. When you join the old boys’ club, you agree to look out for each other and you leave your ideological differences at the door. And then maybe one of the old boys likes the cut of your jib and invites you to be a guest on their TV show, and hey, now you’re the most famous anarchist of your generation. You scratch their backs, they scratch yours.

It is genuinely very understandable. But to call someone doing that ‘a victim’ because people found out? That’s not a good lock.

The revolution will not be televised. Sharing identifiable information about insurrectionary activity, especially your own, is dangerous and stupid. If all that is holding you back is that you’re not seeing stuff happening online, please, for all that is holy, physically travel to an anarchist or other activist community near you. See what is happening in places where recording devices are banned.

Also, I’m not USAmerican.

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Fresh air shops already exist. If the need grows, the supply will grow.

If atmospheric CO2 becomes a health risk, I could imagine future buildings having an attached greenhouse that provides a steady supply of fresh air.

According to this source, “Crops grown in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) production systems such as greenhouses and vertical farms in warehouses consume CO2 as they undergo photosynthesis when exposed to light. A typical greenhouse crop will use 4.8-9.6 kg per hour per acre. This process can drop the concentration of CO2 from ambient levels (around 400 ppm) to as low as 100 ppm if the production site is not ventilated.”

This means one acre of greenhouse can provide fresh air to about 15-30 people. That same greenhouse could also provide enough food to feed 5-7 people. Extreme weather will make 20th century style industrial agriculture increasingly fragile, so we’re going to need to switch to food forests and greenhouses anyway. Hooking those greenhouses up to housing so people can breathe would be a nice synergy.

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Okay, so they have at least 9 more months of free reign and they’re already disappearing citizens to concentration camps. Or considering you’re talking about a third term, maybe 21 months?

Don’t get me wrong, good that you have some standards, but maybe you want to win? Just a thought.

If the right wing wins, liberals get to be the heroes from their stories as they heroically beat back the fascist menace. If the left wing wins, liberals are the villains and people dance on their graves. So I get why their heart isn’t in it.

As for leftists spreading leftist information… Hi! We don’t have capitalists funding us so it’s just me right now.

Looking at how they calculate the CAT fair share, they do not address my critique that it’s unfair that if someone buys a polluting product, only the producer is held responsible. This “fair share” score still unfairly gives economies that export services and import goods a free pass.

I trust those scientists to have gotten an accurate measurement of their working definition of fairness, but I have no reason to trust the procedure that gave them that working definition.

Er, I am not American. But as far as greenwashing is concerned, my nation is using American greenwashing rhetoric for plastic recycling, subsidizing American electric cars because they’re good for the environment while cutting funding for public transit, letting American companies advertise their greenwashing initiatives on television and billboards, etc. Chinese corporations keep quiet and there’s propaganda associating them with environmental harm through fast fashion and products that are quick to fall apart or made of poison.

American greenwashing is endemic, treated as inevitable and as the best option possible. China has the benefit of being the alternative to that dominant lie, but it’s still merely “the alternative”.

Ah, but there’s the beauty. The only way an anarchist is going to have the power to act on a global scale is if they’ve acted in good faith.

Humans are multi-faceted beings. We develop the parts of ourselves that help us in the environment we find ourselves in. All humans are capable of good faith and of bad faith depending on what they think will help them. Capitalism rewards bad faith behavior, resulting in people cultivating their bad faith sides. Anarchism does the opposite.

Because anarchism is free association, the only anarchist communities that survive are the ones that maintain a culture of acting in good faith with one another; the ones that don’t become places nobody wants to go to. And because anonymous currency, hoarding of goods, and other forms of amassing wealth are red flags to be unmade, people can’t raid one anarchist commons to get a leg up in the next; whatever damage they cause results in them having less power than if they cooperated.

Anarchist societies continuously develop new procedures to prevent the development of hierarchy, abuse of power, and other bad faith activity, as their situation evolves and as they learn new ways from other anarchist groups or through experience. Ones that don’t get corrupted and fall apart, which none of their members want because society is where everything they like is. So everyone is working to improve the procedures to make bad faith actions harder and harder.

By the time you’re working with communes that can trade punches with multinationals and nation-states, they have risen above such a gauntlet of bad faith people intentionally or unintentionally trying to tear them down that there’s a very good chance they can handle the next conflict in good faith too.

This isn’t blind trust, of course; blind trust is a great way for bad faith to flourish. Anarchist societies that succeed cultivate a culture of checking each other’s work. Guerillas would be expected to be as transparent as opsec allows, and there would be reporters on location ready to get the homefront to revoke their material support for the guerilla the moment things get unacceptable.

Expanding the number of supreme court seats to ensure a DNC-aligned majority. Fillibusters. Executive orders. Gerrymandering. Giving state rights to left-leaning territories and split states to create extra DNC-aligned senate seats. Attack ads. Restrict campaign funding for major donors so Republicans have less propaganda funding than Democrats do. Give migrants citizenship so they vote Democrat.

Basically, use every trick they can get away with to push the Democrat agenda through and to increase the chances of Democrats winning future elections.

Only by stretching “resource war” to the point it’s meaningless.

Yes, every place that has people will have resources that can be taken when those resources are gone. But the people themselves also have economic value that is destroyed when they are killed, and many wars end in material losses for the aggressor. These “resource wars” mean destroying the wealth of someone else, where you can at best claim a remainder that is less than what you spent to destroy them.

The US invasion of Afghanistan was not profitable to the US state. The German extermination of Jews and Slavs was not profitable for the Germans. World War 1 was not profitable to any party.

Supremacy is far more important than resources. Violence by people who would rather suffer than see another prosper and grow more powerful than them.

This is incredibly misnamed. Neither a “worker’s” nor a “handbook” nor “to the apocalypse”. It has no consideration for the needs of workers, no proposals for action, and no advice for surviving change.

Where are the guides on how to facilitate mass migration? Where are the guides for agriculture in the absence of international supply lines and fertilizer? Where are the checklists of supplies for individuals, small communities, and large communities?

I am a “doomer” too. But I understand that we can be the difference between 9 billion and 2 billion deaths, between 98% of species and 80% of species going extinct, and it would be nice if a handbook to the apocalypse helped in any way to bring those numbers down.

And there you have it. Teach your child that they don’t have empathy and they will not understand how to be empathetic. Add patriarchy and an unempathetic AMAB asshole can become a whole-ass adult without ever being made to stop and imagine how others feel.