Post AVaVFPQrkCsIudGNPc by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #AVaP0p6FQp14RxHTgO by BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to
       2023-05-12T15:40:47Z
       
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       It's amazing how many institutional aspects that we live under became a lot better under covid only for that shit to get ripped away once corporations and rich fucks felt like they lost the narrative.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVaVFPQrkCsIudGNPc by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
       2023-05-12T18:31:49Z
       
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       @BlackAzizAnansi This is honestly what convinced me that the next 10 years are going to be really scary.If positive change to avert catastrophe (societal and climatological) was going to happen, it would have began in earnest from the societal impacts of covid. A decisive majority of average everyday people were ready for systematic change, but the aftermath of covid made clear this is irrelevant. We will continue on off this cliff.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVaVFQ7PC2u12ZALia by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
       2023-05-12T18:36:54Z
       
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       @BlackAzizAnansi Covid laid bare that collapse is the only realistic future as no amount of public support for radical change changes the fundamental power calculus.The only question now is how true collapse in a modern society looks and how well do we build mutual aid networks to deal with it.Collapse won't look like mad max, more like you can't get your prescription for no reason, all the doctors left the area and staggering amounts of death is normalized alongside everyday life.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVaW5Nu0g4dxE3g9AG by JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk
       2023-05-12T16:02:48Z
       
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       @BlackAzizAnansi Thoroughly depressing, isn't it. "Oh shit, we've just demonstrated that socialism works. We can't be having any of that now, can we."
       
 (DIR) Post #AVaXb9QG9HQHXQTTyi by virtualbri@mastodon.online
       2023-05-12T19:07:13Z
       
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       @Alonealastalovedalongthe @BlackAzizAnansi "no amount of public support for radical change changes the fundamental power calculus." Not sure I agree.  I think sadly, there just *isn't* the amount of support needed in the US.  I keep thinking of all the countries like France where they'd be blocking roads with burning tires over 1/4 what we are living with.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVaXbAPwRwlMcjKk7c by Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe
       2023-05-12T19:18:10Z
       
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       @virtualbri @BlackAzizAnansi Fair enough, I have no interest in convincing you that the system cannot be fixed. I know it can't, but doing our best to fix it still saves lives and lessens the immediate impacts of collapse.I see absolutely zero evidence that more support in the US would meaningfully move the needle however. The problem isn't the average person in the US is just stupid and doesn't care, no matter how many times we tell that story about ourselves it doesnt make it true.