Mysteriarch ☀️ @ Mysteriarch @slrpnk.net

Belgian, libertarian-marxist, political philosopher, civil servant, cat-dad

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found the SUV driver!

I mean, fits within the whole extreme private property fetish going on within N-VA, and western society at large.

Normalize seizing more things, I'd say. Seize Russian assets. Seize assets of corporations that pollute and kill. Seize assets of the overly rich. Seize the means of production.

Sardonis, where are the days! De Mens is a fixture in my playlists, love 'em!

I'll start with this one: Ghentian jazzy prog-rock from the seventies, Kandahar - Eyes of Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV4IhD-kRU

We're on a crossroads in history where we're deciding that doing something against climate change is too hard, we'll just fight for it. Probably Mad Max style, but think of the shareholder value!

Google's most difficult for me too, with the whole Android ecosystem and the fact that I can't just ditch it since I need it for work. Most of the rest I got rid off a few years ago, but it's a bit of a hassle.

Good to note that the game Half-Earth Socialism was developed as an extra to the book of the same title, by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass, that also combines fiction chapters with non-fiction.

Oh wow, interesting to see renewed Belgian interest here! Been using Lemmy since the Reddit exodus of 2023, but as expected most didn't stick. It's pretty calm here, but feel free to post more stuff here, it's a bit more do-it-yourself since we're only little.

It's a great target to show how capitalism causes multiple, interlocking crises and, inversely, the ideal stage for different struggles to combine forces.

It's war mongering and ever since the invasion of Ukraine, emotion has taken over. 10 years ago we were all remembering the First World War and how it should never happen again, and yet here we are: attacking anyone who tries to argue for peace as being a traitor...

Some thoughts:

• All wars end in negotiations, so the sooner the better;
• We need to get the fuck out of NATO - the US is a rogue state and we, as Europeans, have no say whatsoever in its functioning;
• We need a European defense alliance that's credible - meaning: if we say it's about defense and our so-called western values, we shouldn't be part of imperialist adventures;
• Russia isn't going to attack the EU, it makes no sense - the amount of mental gymnastics that pundits are making to make Russia both menacing as incompetent is staggering;
• Europe already spends three times as much on defense as Russia - if there's one sector that could really use some of that magic Free Market Efficiency™, this would be the prime candidate for austerity;
• Rearmament doesn't make the world safer, on the contrary, it makes war more likely - if all you have is an army, everything looks like a military conflict;
• Rearmament will only line the pockets of the industrialists and other capitalists and cost the working people in their well being or even their lives if we start throwing them into the meat grinder.

I think both are quite unhelpful. Mocking him doesn't do anything to him or his base. Worse, it often takes the form of ableism and then you're just hurting people around you. Organizing does. It's the only thing the ruling elites fear. Join a protest, a union, a strike, and get more people involved.

I didn't say anything against organizing? I have something against petty bourgeois libs spouting bullshit in the media and not doing anything useful. I applaud people actually organizing, especially those in labor (unions)!

I did - all these types of 'backlash against Trump' that are being reported on are mostly hot air.

Sure, but usually, like here, it's limited to some social media and press moments. Liberal posturing doesn't stop fascists. I hope there's better organizing happening on the ground, but I'm not seeing much from where I am in Europe.

"Widespread backlash" isn't really something that has any repercussions to him, his entourage or his base.

For some less optimistic, but still combative climate literature:

Climate Change as Class War, by Matthew T. Huber

Slow Down, by Kohei Saito

and right now I'm reading I Want a Better Catastrophe, by Andrew Boyd, and so far it's interesting (and accessible).

Ah yes, that'll do it

What's wrong with a car-sharing setup? Less space needed, people don't need a car 24/7 so others can use them, it's cheaper and less wasteful and polluting.

Why? That seems like a great addition to his resume in this administration?

They also don't use much energy. You can do a lot of reading on one charge.