The fact that an aspiring autocrat has won an election does not oblige us to submit to him. No one should excuse being complicit in tyranny on the grounds that other people voted for it.

https://crimethinc.com/democracy

People will scribble in a box for any number of reasons—misinformation, advertising, bigotry, fantasies of power—regardless of whether it is actually in their best interests. But what we do every day determines what kind of society we live in.

Möchtegernautokrat Donald Trump hat die Wahl gewonnen. Was ist bloss mit der US-amerikanischen Gesellschaft los? https://www.woz.ch/!EA4B370PAJX6

Actually most humans are not responsible for climate change. It's not the individual's fault. It's the fault of the collective and not all collectives.

Indigenous folks are not responsible for climate change
Neither are working class folks. Neither are people in developing countries.

The world is held hostage by colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Oil companies have been lobbying for keeping fossil fuels the main source of energy worldwide, it's not like common people wake up every day fetishizing oil-dependency.

African energy ministers and states in general do not represent the will of the people. They're states. They also play a role in the climate crisis.

It's not the fault of working class americans. It's the fault of american capitalists, european capitalists, chinese capitalists, and capitalism globally as a whole. The class war against the world's working class is already happening. I want the working class to strike back because no amount of change under this system will solve climate change. You can't reform capitalism. The exploitation of human and natural capital is at its core.

Really I'm not interested in changing the minds of the hundreds of people buying cybertrucks. They're irrelevant. That's like saying, how are you going to fight climate change if you don't have Adam bitcoin miner tech bro on your side? Their personal change in lifestyle is irrelevant. Their scale is irrelevant. Their opinions are irrelevant.

What is relevant -and always has been- is giving the working class and communities ownership of the means of production. And the working class has to do this, not cybertruck owners, not the rich, not capitalists. Here it is explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69DFis2WgMQ

"Across the entire set of analyses presented, status threat was the most consistent predictor of a number of beliefs and attitudes. This includes beliefs in conspiracies (paranoid social cognition), feelings about demographic change, belief in a sexism shift, and the Great Replacement Theory".

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#StatusThreat #ConspiracyBeliefs #DemographicChange #SexismShift #GreatReplacementTheory

Fox News has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward over the period 2000–2020: "An increase of 0.05 rating points in Fox News viewership, induced by exogenous changes in channel placement, has increased Republican vote shares by at least 0.5 percentage points."

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#FoxNews #PartisanIdentity #PoliticalShift #VoterBehavior #MediaInfluence

“REAGAN HOOD Rob from the poor give to the rich”1980 pinback
https://redd.it/1gmjt0c
@r_propagandaposters

TIL in 1916, Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election on the slogan "He kept us out of war," promising to maintain neutrality during World War I. But shortly after his surprise win, he led the US into the war in 1917, sparking significant backlash and dramatically shifting the nation's foreign policy. [source, comments]

TIL Gunter Schabowski accidentally announced the opening of the Berlin Wall at a press conference in 1989. He had not reviewed the press release noscript and was absent during the Politburo deliberations. [source, comments]

Song of the Day 🧘🏾‍♂️❤️: https://open.spotify.com/track/3sdmC4XD7vCmiZmrljv6jO

Putin sagt «Grüezi», Köppel bettelt um ein Interview – so antwortet der Kreml-Chef https://www.watson.ch/!705827643

Das feministische Aufbäumen der letzten Jahre hat nicht gereicht: Mit Donald Trumps erneutem Wahlsieg geraten marginalisierte Gruppen in den USA unter grossen Druck. Historikerin Barbara Lüthi über die Gewalt, die in Trumps chauvinistischem Projekt steckt. https://www.woz.ch/!R9KQ9SXH7YR9

This is a good time to make sure that everyone in your broader community is using Signal. This flier offers QR codes to make it easy. You can print out this design here:

https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/articles/2024/11/09/signal.pdf

You could use the blank space on the flier to add a third QR code directing people to a local announcements-only Signal thread to stay abreast of developments.

You can learn how to set one up here:

https://crimethinc.com/announcementsonly