Post AyEUsK5mxsZ52DPOL2 by oberstenzian@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AyEMMAmnENrdGtgM5I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-15T12:45:15Z
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It's literally the candles budget meme."Can someone who is good with understanding violence please help? My country is dying. USA BudgetFood 400Transportation 50Guns 900000""Have fewer guns.""NO."
(DIR) Post #AyEMeirVHAwSAWjM5Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-15T12:48:36Z
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When you try to solve a problem but ignore the obvious solution everyone just starts reading things off of their wish list of things they always wanted to do anyway. In this case it's some kind of call to either kill or otherwise silence "the left."If I can't get fewer guns I guess I'll go for "Build a center in every city where people can study insects." What's on your wish list?
(DIR) Post #AyENXuV9haMGCAapLU by richpuchalsky@mastodon.social
2025-09-15T12:58:28Z
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@futurebird Nothing about fascism is about solving problems. The call to kill or otherwise silence everyone is what it is about.
(DIR) Post #AyENpwrpe2nEkFniuO by benfulton@urbanists.social
2025-09-15T13:01:46Z
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@futurebird Ban private jets. Build high-speed rail. Stop arming Israel.
(DIR) Post #AyEOF7amuFg7FQpeYy by officerripley@mastodon.social
2025-09-15T13:06:18Z
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@futurebird That our county library would finally start using the bookmobile truck they purchased 2 yrs. ago.
(DIR) Post #AyETLxYB8liDtugwlc by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2025-09-15T14:03:37Z
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@futurebird If we cannot have fewer guns; we could simply have fewer bullets.(I was reading about Swiss gun control laws lately. As well as having far fewer guns per person than here, the Swiss government has phased in restrictions on purchases and storage of ammunition.)
(DIR) Post #AyETTV1P5pZZjmxNei by mzedp@mas.to
2025-09-15T14:04:56Z
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@futurebird "One of these is not like the others"
(DIR) Post #AyEUsK5mxsZ52DPOL2 by oberstenzian@mastodon.social
2025-09-15T14:20:40Z
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@futurebird Use guns to acquire food?
(DIR) Post #AyEfRBJ4cYaxSmsnNQ by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2025-09-15T16:19:01Z
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@futurebird Change the hideous, bulbous NYC logo that you see on municipal everything.I actually think Mamdani, with his design sense, will do this.
(DIR) Post #AyEjpvXyke8zdruTJ2 by passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social
2025-09-15T17:08:16Z
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@futurebird vacancy fees. If you operate a rental and it isn’t rented for the month, you pay the local government what you were charging or you lower it 10% each month until you have a marketable price. Use the money to help the homeless because empty homes are what caused them.
(DIR) Post #AyEoPonphg22xzhA9I by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2025-09-15T13:53:43Z
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@benfulton @futurebird I'm all for inconveniencing the super-rich, but banning private jets won't do much more than that. Solid second and third suggestions.
(DIR) Post #AyEoPq5wto7KyTB91c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-15T17:59:27Z
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@hypolite @benfulton IDK per person they are pretty bad.
(DIR) Post #AyEw3cbp9r8CPY0MqG by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2025-09-15T18:17:26Z
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@futurebird @benfulton Yes but it won't have a significant impact on global emissions because it concerns so few people. As a way to reduce inequality, such a ban would be worth it, but the overall carbon footprint of private jets is negligible (2% of all aviation in 2023).
(DIR) Post #AyEw3dTLwpwv5Z37HE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-15T19:25:12Z
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@hypolite @benfulton I agree. But I also think it will be hard, unreasonable even to expect everyone to adapt to pull the breaks on the climate crisis as long as a bunch of the richest jerks you can think of keep flying around in jets.We need to replace shorter plane flights with trains for example. Some people will think that's a downgrade (it's not but whatever) It's symbolically important.
(DIR) Post #AyEx1k1uhFWCnjsKRc by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2025-09-15T19:30:36Z
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@futurebird @benfulton Agree about the symbolism. In itself it's almost useless but it makes perfect sense as part of a host of other measures aiming at the same goal.
(DIR) Post #AyEx1lF4BpdMYp2LaK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-09-15T19:36:04Z
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@hypolite @benfulton To the extent that addressing the climate crisis looks anything like austerity the richest must go first and take the biggest hit. That's just ... fair.
(DIR) Post #AyFZQqJiFrjLnXb55k by baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
2025-09-16T02:46:25Z
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@futurebird If we're not going to stop police and civilian gun violence, build housing or do basic income? Maybe we could normalize more napping by building and maintaining public hammock parks and sleeping pods.