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I’m granting the Seattle Polyweb charge of the PNW's mass-line infrastructure

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[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Literacy campaign and re-education camps for reformable fash.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Patience of a literal saint! It is good that someone is willing to step up.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

I have family members I would try to re-educate before I would have them face the wall, and I can only assume that’s the same for a lot of people here.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Reintroduce the American Bison to the Great Plains of this beautiful continent, and let wolf populations return to natural levels. If any rancher kulaks complain, they will be hunted by the wolves.

Edit: A couple months back I saw a cool video about the food systems of the eastern Indians that they grew before the maize-beans-squash crop system became dominant. Many of these plants still grow wild today and would be familiar to people just a few decades ago but are becoming rarer because of the loss of field strips, fallow areas, etc., and the overuse of herbicides. Allowing these plants to run rampant and rewild our natural lands would be a priority.

[–] himeneko@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

maybe its boring work to some but huge investment in finally stopping electricity (and carbon pollution) problems by large investments in solar, wind, and battery storage as well as large investment in the transmission infrastructure. if they can be trusted, maybe some nuclear too.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm driving the reeducation steamroller

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 14 points 4 days ago

I'm sorry but we all know Amerikkka will break down into warring tribes of former militants who got a hold of some abandoned former States military equipment and claimed land.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i'm driving the lawnmower-but-it-rewilds-lawns

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

hell it could be just the one machine yeah, now that's communist efficiency rat-salute-2

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sick AF. Imagine some Dr. Seuss contraption that rips lawns, vomits mulch, then water blasts out native seed mixes.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

and it makes a series of funny honking/squeaking noises

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

Oh, ya gotta! I mean otherwise what's the point? Maybe it could have two of the wheels on the same axle where one is like a funny shaped tank tread and the other is a series of boots on spokes. You get it, I can tell you're an it-getter.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

I'd work on the transition plan for making food production worker/community controlled, because that's the one that's most important not to fuck up.

But if you want a more fun answer - obviously we should replace all the Netflix clones with one free one that has everything. Which one's infrastructure will withstand that? I'd sort that out, then repeat for all the other redundant tech businesses.

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

a taco truck on every corner

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Organize a task force to ruthlessly hunt down any and all who supported Israel and have them savagely beaten and executed in public.

This is why I shouldn't be in power.

[–] Inui@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The other day I said that if I had psychic super powers, I'd pop the heads of every Youtube commentor immediately to rid the Earth of them. My partner said they'd use their powers to change their minds (magically and instantly) so they become socialists. Like damn okay stop flexing on me.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm renaming any manmade or geographical feature that contains any variation of "America". Then it's anything to do with Confederate names.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

doing union and "america" ones before confederate ones is unironically a great bit

"of course they can wait, they've been dead and harmless for way longer"

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Look Trump triggered me with that gulf of America shit and I'm not afraid to admit it.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I'll give you a real pet project: in Norway, a lot of road signs, manhole covers, government buildings and such depict municipal coats of arms. Almost every municipality in Norway has a coat of arms designed in the style and according to the principles of this guy, and I've always been very fond of these municipal coats of arms because they have this unified style yet they're all distinct from each other. The Norwegian municipal coats of arms are all simple, striking, timeless, memorable, and above all else meaningful. Sometimes those meanings are a bit of a cop-out like "oh our shield's got a wave because we're a coastal town" as if that's at all unique, but other times the symbolism is like "our shield depicts an ornament from the local thousand year old church" or "our shield depicts the Norse god that used to be venerated at a local temple here" or "our shield depicts a local traditional handicraft/industry that developed based on the particular challenges of local terrain" or something like that. Basically just bits of trivia that are genuinely distinctive and interesting and really emphasize how even the most unremarkable of rural podunk towns are areas that have been continuously inhabited for thousands of years.

…You don't really get that in Seppoland because the whole system there is built around making people forget about that whole "this land has been continuously inhabited for thousands of years" thing. On top of that the development of municipal symbolism in Seppoland has always been strongly impacted by the country's particular relationship to nationalism and white supremacy, which is why city flags in Seppoland tend to be some combination of bland, butt ugly, and neo-Confederate. But if we're basically doing a hard reset on the whole country… then I think it would be pretty poggers if Turtle Island municipal symbolism were done in the Norwegian style and filled with allusions to Indigenous history and present-day community unique to each location.

Now this plan would of course require a lot of dialog with the Indigenous communities represented to be done in an appropriate way, because I wouldn't want to impose a European cultural norm onto a colonized country and then decide for the colonized people how they should represent themselves; but if you do that dialog, then the result should be pretty nifty and leave everybody with a new perspective of and appreciation for their homes.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'll run the Bear Country project. Preserving habitats of the North American Grizzly, reforestation, advocating for the North American Grizzly Bear to be the animal representation of the nation, and putting grizzly bear symbolism on everything it could possibly look okay on. If anyone complains, I'm just advocating for visibility and celebration of Turtle Island's native wildlife. (But actually, I just love bears and want there to be more of them and more forests for them to live in. Like you said, pet project. It's wasteful and single minded, but most pet projects are.)

Reeducating the fascists and the idiot centrists is all well and good, but that takes a far more patient comrade than myself. I'll stick to trying to improve the ecosystem and undo the horrors colonialism has wrought upon nature. (Boy, when I put it that way I sound like an environmental crusader, not just someone who really likes bears.)

[–] wideopenarms@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Forming ~~intelligence~~ intellectual groups to go ~~after~~ meet whoever possibly escaped justice to ~~teach~~ lecture them on the importance and inevitability of consequences.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Personal motor vehicle ownership is now illegal. You may drive a vehicle owned by the city/state or the cooperative you work for, but you don't get to have your own. You can take the train, ride your government-provided ebike, or in case of special needs you will be provided a shuttle service.

Agroecology everywhere. All agricultural land in the US is to be commonly held and worked, under the permission and collaboration with native Americans.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Demolishing the suburbs and exurbs

I'd envision sort of an inverse Pol Pot. Build a shit ton of commie blocks and march all the suburbians out of their cul-de-sac hellholes.