Posts by wilbr@glitch.social
(DIR) Post #AdPj7hcEzSwkTevyQi by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-01-01T21:08:02Z
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@tek @4bz it also mostly came to mean racist recently. Before then it was proudly worn (even intentionally with a red bandana) as a political symbol for the poor working class exploited by landowners and financiers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck#Political_term_for_poor_farmers
(DIR) Post #AdQ0JpkYGx3eOtBxMe by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-01-02T00:20:44Z
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@tek @4bz Woodie Guthrie core 2024
(DIR) Post #AhWmCWQE0MOF1gGem0 by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-05-03T22:13:42Z
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@adiz because it's super profitable to exploit us and if we make a fuss about it they send riot police after us and we haven't gotten the balls of French farmers yet
(DIR) Post #AhdMwTM0VS9i87GT4a by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-05-06T06:31:36Z
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@TimWardCam @ramsey @paninid counterpoint, I played flight sim as a kid and then took the wheel of a Cessna also as a kid. I could've landed if I'd said yes to the offer and I could've handled the rudder if my feet had reached. Only reason any of that was possible was flight sim. I think there's absolutely a maximum of skill you can get with a game, but that skill is not zero. On a plane with a bunch of people who don't know what angle of attack or VOR are, I'd be the best choice to land.
(DIR) Post #AhvbfWCfefeSCaYAHA by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-05-15T21:43:26Z
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@Wolven "Think of it as *your* panopticon, for the next generation!"
(DIR) Post #AiGtpRuCMsR3GKx9sW by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-05-25T17:19:03Z
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@MLE_online I once asked a spring shop owner (who regaled me with stories of springs long past) for a custom spring. He literally took a screen door spring, bent and cut it with needle nose pliers, handed it to me and charged me $7
(DIR) Post #AiY64petWksw2JTYrQ by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-06-03T11:23:23Z
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@futurebird when they're not boosting themselves or even people so much as ideas and other sources. I'm not particularly here to fight for Bisan Owda even though I'm sure she's worthy, I'm here fighting for the idea that a random person should be secure in their home, job, food, street, against being harmed. I'm certainly not fighting for the government of Ukraine, but I think a random person should be secure in their apartment from being bombed. Just so happens there's a lot of detail to that.
(DIR) Post #AjAO2dOK4dmf5PVpWy by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-06-20T17:57:51Z
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@Rihilism bonus, Echinacea purpurea is a traditional medicine and indigenous to North America!
(DIR) Post #AjbMvPm0C5ugbLsxN2 by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-04T23:08:25Z
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@Radical_EgoCom making ourselves ungovernable in a thousand different ways. Centralized efforts to overthrow and socialize will also have single points of failure and advance singularly powerful people who will inevitably be singularly corrupt due to the nature of power, whereas a balkanized/indigenized continent will be harder to govern and more naturally address the needs of its people.Given climate collapse this may happen anyway, and indeed has been previewed with state cannabis legality
(DIR) Post #AjbPK7P5pPx0mG4qie by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-04T23:35:20Z
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@Radical_EgoCom maybe, but that presumes that we all agree as to the tasks that need to be carried out.A power vacuum is surely dangerous, but consider futile efforts to control splintered bands with divided loyalties like middle eastern "warlords." America is already almost fifty countries (with even more micro-nations within, indigenous and otherwise) so it's barely a union. We're also seeing armed governor and Fed clashes.I don't dream of a nuclear United Socialist States of America.
(DIR) Post #AjbQUdDAWTrCHF4oKm by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-04T23:48:27Z
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@Radical_EgoCom some cooperation certainly, but to me centralized sounds like one party for the entire country to 1:1 replace the existing national government. And that's what has me questioning its corruptibility, inherent authoritarianism (and associated violence/injustice), and inherent Euro-centric-colonial ideals.
(DIR) Post #AjbU2sc83wNvkum3Wq by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T00:28:15Z
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@Radical_EgoCom ah yes, just eliminate corruption among a small extremely powerful cabal of people organizing an overthrow of a huge country without themselves getting assassinated (yet somehow remaining accountable to The People) it's such a good thing that the country is already so experienced at accomplishing that and not defaulting to fascism, self-serving greed, and "might makes right"If that was more likely than distributed horizontal resistance I think we'd have fixed society already
(DIR) Post #AjbWZVp01bmoWyTxJY by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T00:34:10Z
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@Radical_EgoCom one thing capitalism and fascism have going for it (besides their ultimate undoing) is that they basically ask everyone to be selfish cutthroats and whoever wins "deserves" to win. That sucks but it scales. We've seen how empires don't scale and how power corrupts so IMO the next best thing is to ask everyone to make the most moral choices they can in their own spheres of influence which are kept small: attempting to exert control (vs liberation and cooperation) is in itself evil
(DIR) Post #AjbfzAcoM4iduK5gpc by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T02:42:03Z
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@Radical_EgoCom maybe, I just haven't seen centralized governments transition to things that actually respect autonomy (the power is too tempting, the time is never right) and I think we have different ideas about what form revolution might take. Super successful long-lasting "revolutions" can be like the "industrial revolution" or the halting chaotic global transition away from monarchy, where an idea's time has simply come. Violent central revolts can be co-opted and repressed too. No masters.
(DIR) Post #AjbhzUTQl3ArNKz2Lg by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T02:46:14Z
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@Radical_EgoCom specifically, once you have a handful of people with the means and responsibility to decide who needs to die and who doesn't, it's historically really really hard to make that choice in a way that doesn't inspire its own very righteous backlash and taints any moral claims the new powers might make. The paranoid surveillance, secret police, loyalty demands, and suppression of any information the party doesn't like makes it hard to claim that the result is actually "by the people"
(DIR) Post #AjbjnlMMLmceBCDBFw by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T03:24:48Z
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@Radical_EgoCom you keep using hand wavy words like necessary, effective, control, and benefits, that don't really assuage the concerns of someone who really doesn't like abuses of power especially at the hands of The People's Police and The People's Army (very likely to be the same people, more or less, that currently impose on the populace just with new leadership [we hope] and branding.) Necessary for who and for what? Benefiting who? A bureaucracy needs bureaucrats, and guess who that is?
(DIR) Post #AjblMenKqmSFuO22me by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T03:31:07Z
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@Radical_EgoCom in the end, you're basically proposing a relatively short and bloody revolution where 99% of the country's population remains the leaders get swapped out and you cross your fingers that popular ideas or re-education are enough. But change that comes quickly can be undone quickly, and the American populace is much less receptive to centralized authority then they are to individual freedom.
(DIR) Post #AjbyInv2He5oS77vxQ by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-05T06:07:16Z
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@Radical_EgoCom you haven't actually said much though. Partly due to character limits, but you haven't really explained, moreso asserted circular reasoning that central dictatorial authority is good because it's necessary, and won't be abused because of reasons. So far it seems about as much of a fantasy as a joyful grassroots anarchist revolution sans guillotines. Yes you can ally with China, roll tanks into DC and institute a new order, but I'm unsure it would be better for average Americans.
(DIR) Post #AkL07lmzntlLJSg04u by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-07-26T23:28:39Z
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Democrats fighting Republicans at the national level needs to feel to you like Zuck and Elon challenging each other to a cage match. Not only is the best outcome that they both spontaneously combust, but also it's not going to happen and also it primarily serves to distract from the very real harm they're both doing. Every word and second spent on it is a waste, because real liberty and justice aren't found within that charade. It's bread and circuses minus the bread.
(DIR) Post #AkbuMcRBYjtQcBUV6G by wilbr@glitch.social
2024-08-04T02:31:28Z
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Much like internet shitposters, my respect for goths boils down to their commitment to the bit. Name me anyone else who will wear a sweater and full makeup outdoors on a 90°F day for the aesthetic. Above and beyond finding beauty in disaster, they have plenty of monks beat in pure dedication.