Forwarded from Antifascist Solidarity
"What is happening at Boeing is happening in every industry. A general trend toward financialisation & hedge fund culture that sees only numbers, not peoples lives or wellbeing. It's just that aviation has a way of making the corruption impossible to hide. It's the dead canary." - Ben King
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Israel is trying to leverage their political power to dismantle the main aid group providing to Gaza.
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Hot take with Nucleo hour
We need to defend our golf courses. They're cultural relics. Not only do they represent the peak of European social and cultural progress, they also have played an important role in history. Think for a minute: Who among the greatest men in geo-politics of the last 30 years has not been an avid golfer?
Now, I understand the concerns some have about the potential effects of dedicating so much land and resources to the esteemed sport, but 1. Think of the catastrophic consequences of "banning" golf (golf can never truly be banned, some beautiful rebel somewhere will always have a club in hand) and 2. Most of the "challenges" golf creates can easily be offset. It wouldn't be too hard to create a device to remove toxic chemicals from the soil and water, (think carbon capture, but for the Earth) in fact, I'm sure some investor somewhere is already working on it. As for land use? That's an efficiency problem. We pump a few billion into vertical farming, and then, after that, we halve the size of studio apartments. They already give people way more room than they need. Where's the land use issue now?
Anyway,April Fools!
We need to defend our golf courses. They're cultural relics. Not only do they represent the peak of European social and cultural progress, they also have played an important role in history. Think for a minute: Who among the greatest men in geo-politics of the last 30 years has not been an avid golfer?
Now, I understand the concerns some have about the potential effects of dedicating so much land and resources to the esteemed sport, but 1. Think of the catastrophic consequences of "banning" golf (golf can never truly be banned, some beautiful rebel somewhere will always have a club in hand) and 2. Most of the "challenges" golf creates can easily be offset. It wouldn't be too hard to create a device to remove toxic chemicals from the soil and water, (think carbon capture, but for the Earth) in fact, I'm sure some investor somewhere is already working on it. As for land use? That's an efficiency problem. We pump a few billion into vertical farming, and then, after that, we halve the size of studio apartments. They already give people way more room than they need. Where's the land use issue now?
Anyway,
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(While I understand there are issues with "establishment media" particularly in regards to social control mechanisms such as manufactured consent, I much prefer it to the paid off hucksters that currently dominate social media "news sharing," especially given what the article discusses)
This, but also, do more than call your reps, do direct work to improve your community on the ground. The post is fine and I agree with it, but you should also work to progress society beyond just electoralism, even if electoralism is big important
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Y'all hoes wanna reject false dichotomies so bad? Reject the electoralism or praxis dichotomy
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