Political Memes

Pitchforks! Get ya pitchforks here! Torches, prelit or pretarred! Free to all those in need!

My personal thought of the day:

If we keep referring to them as the ruling class we will never diminish the power they wield.

They are the undeserved wealthy. The takers of value and the destroyers of a balanced economy. They are often mocked, but instead they should be pushed off their gilded pedestals through progressive marginal tax rates that are equal to those of the early 20th century.

A revolution will never happen and if it did we would just end up with some lunatic in charge. A power vacuum always attracts the people you do not want at the top. We'd just end up with some fascist system again.

People's negative beliefs that the revolution would never happen is itself a tactic to prevent the revolution. More people believe that this cycle of destruction, exploitation, and death needs to end than believe we should allow it to continue.

This would be me, except I don't like to stand in the tick fields.

LFG = Looking for group

lenin literally wrote a manual for revolution, and the method works consistently. just saying.

Haha yeah.....

The silence is deafening.

Revolution sounds fun! If we did a revolution Friday do you think I could get back sometime Sunday? I have plans, and I really would hate to cancel.

I am of the belief that revolution isn't going to happen, and if one did happen if would only be hijacked to maximize a select set of individuals authority. Capitalism has entrenched itself inside each and every single individual, much beyond the capacity of any one governments control in my view

I believe that the only solution is for each and every individual to reject capitalism, and opt out. That said it is not easy to leave the infinite monopoly game, I reckon sustainable self sufficient individuals or communities are likely the only way to achieve this and each community or individual will have to do this by their own free accord.

And even if there is a will to opt out, which will likely come from individuals almost exclusively, you need land and skills, land which is being brought up by corporations, skills and knowledge increasingly locked behind pay walls. And once you have gotten it all together, you are totally off the grid. Well you still have to convince everyone else.

Although as more people achieve this, the challenge drops. Once a few people have done it joining up gets easier, many hands make light work after all.

As for how to obtain that land and those skills, I suppose then it's a question of how much are you will to bend or break the law, or risk it all. The Governments role here isn't all that great, its just to make breaking the law less risky or not a requirement

But hell maybe I'm wrong and the revolution is well on its way.

Erm, no, lol. Not even close. They can kill some or maybe all of the human race. The planet though? It's been through way more dramatic climate change in just the last 100,000 years than us pesky humans could even dream about causing.

Nuclear Armageddon you say? Even a nuclear winter can only last so long. Modern nukes are much more about blast shockwave, and burning things than spreading radioactive materials anyway. Chernobyl released way more radionuclides than your average bomb, and that was comparatively not a big deal.

The biggest extinction events are always super volcanoes. Short of interference from the outside universe like a gamma ray burst or the sun dying the volcanoes will still be the source of the most severe extinction events. Do you really think we could do something a giant meteor couldn't? Piss off.

Preventing climate change is all about saving our own arses and the arses of those unlucky species currently stuck with us.