LibertyLizard

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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 15 minutes ago

Tough, I just heard about it through word of mouth. You can try web searches but it will be hard because most coops are consumer coops which won't necessarily have the same democratic rights for workers.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago) (2 children)

Damn that sucks. I bet there is one somewhere though, they may not have all of them listed in once place. Just as an example there is one not far from where I live that isn't on that map.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I'm not sure why that's so different than the numbers in the oxfam study. Your numbers are after tax but I wouldn't necessarily assume people are paying over 50% of their income in taxes.

However I think that's still well above the median income in most western countries. But maybe more like upper middle class.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

Talking to other people who work there and reading reviews can help. But the real issue is hierarchical management style is always going to be vulnerable to abuse by bad actors because your managers have near total power over you.

In the private sector the solution is worker's coops. I'm not sure what it would be called in the nonprofit world but there are likely more democratically run organizations in a similar vein.

Another alternative is finding somewhere with a strong union. Unions can also be toxic in some ways but usually far less so than normal work power dynamics.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 hour ago

It's being recorded and the world is watching. It will be in some history books but who will have access to those books is a bigger question.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 hours ago

We don't expect you to be a communist, just think and act like our hyper-specific sect of "communism" at all times or face an immediate ban. Sure.

The irony is that the whole existence of this sub is living proof of how catastrophic their ideas would be if implemented more broadly, and I have no doubt they've educated many lemmings on this fact unintentionally.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Why is SDF integration desirable?

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think that's totally accurate. A lot of those are just not paying attention and annoyed with the economy, so they just punish whoever is in power. That said there are tens of millions who are really that deluded and hateful and I don't know what to do with them. Let me them form their own little autonomous territories maybe, I'm not sure.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 106 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So basically this proves every ICE agent on the scene was an accomplice.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Better perhaps but still a weak case. The j6 riot was a singular event that was handled by normal law enforcement. The insurrection act in my opinion shouldn't exist but to the extent that it has a purpose it's for like civil wars or other ongoing situations where the feds have lost control over entire regions for a period of time.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's not MAGA who I'm hoping will act. A massive coalition of leftists, run of the mill liberals or even non-maga conservatives needs to form and remove Trump from power.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I hope he does it. The people need to feel some pain to motivate us to put a stop to this madness, unfortunately.

 

One of the more detailed analyses I've seen of this attack.

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The Miser Plan (miserplan.carrd.co)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

Not sure how many people follow Miser but he's been a big influence on pushing for change in the NYC area. Apparently Mamdani asked him to come up with a plan to make the city's streets better and this is what he came up with. Pretty incredible work and I hope it can be implemented!

But I'd like to see people pushing for this in every city, not just NYC. If you haven't already connected with local urbanist activists, I highly encourage it. I've been surprised how few people it takes to make an impact. If you're not sure where to start, check to see if your area has a local strong towns chapter.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/21841057

The Trump administration has said it will rescind Bill Clinton’s roadless rule, more than two decades after its introduction appeared to mark the end of the bitter battle between environmentalists and loggers over the future of America’s best remaining woodland.

The rule is “overly restrictive” and an “absurd obstacle” to development, according to Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, as she outlined its demise in June. The administration is in a hurry – an unusually short public comment period of 21 days for this rescission has just ended, following a Trump “emergency” order to swiftly fell trees across the US’s network of national forests, spanning 280 million acres.

“We are freeing up our forests so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money,” Trump has said. “We have massive forests. We just aren’t allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics who stopped us.”

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Crap, not again! (slrpnk.net)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net to c/treehuggers@slrpnk.net
 

Please don’t do this to your trees. It hurts my soul.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/39080622

 

It’s been a good year. It’s probably past time to pull out some of the summer stuff and plant some fall crops but I always have a hard time pulling out healthy plants. The tomatoes in particular look good but have very little fruit.

 

An interesting historical analysis that examines what constitutes effective resistance and what doesn’t.

This is a discussion about violence in resistance, and the stupidest form of resistance violence: assassination.

Right now, people are screaming about political violence having no place in our democracy, as if this democracy wasn't built on calculated bloodshed. The Boston Massacre wasn't spontaneous - Samuel Adams orchestrated it after studying how British troops firing on protesters in London created martyrs that transformed public opinion. Dead colonials would turn British authority from irritating to tyrannical. That's strategic violence.

But assassination? That's different. When resistance movements try to kill leaders, they consistently make things worse. The socialists who killed Czar Alexander II in 1881 got worse oppression under Alexander III. The Black Hand thought killing Franz Ferdinand would unite Serbia - instead they triggered World War I and lost a quarter of their population. Even killing Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, accelerated the genocide. The Nazis named Operation Reinhard after him and murdered 1.5 million Jews in his memory.

The resistance movements that actually worked during World War II learned to target the machinery, not the symbols. The Polish Home Army killed 945 prison guards and deportation clerks. The Danish resistance eliminated 400 informers. The French assassinated local collaborators who knew faces and names. No glory in shooting a clerk outside a café, but the trains ran late, the deportations slowed, the resistance networks survived. They understood that occupation runs on middle management - people who are irreplaceable in ways generals aren't.

This matters now because claims about "radical left violence" in America make no sense. That radical left doesn't exist here. The American left has been domesticated - they file permits for protests in designated free speech zones while begging to be heard. When someone screams about radical left violence while the actual left is filling out paperwork for candlelight vigils, they're not describing reality.

The historical lesson isn't that violence doesn't work - it's that symbolic violence is a waste. Assassination is what you do when you want to lose heroically. Real resistance understands how power actually works, not how it looks. Most people who reach for violence are committing elaborate suicide. The ones who succeed map the machine first.

 

Supervisor Joel Engardio was ousted by voters who were angry that he helped turn a thoroughfare into a park.

Mirror: https://archive.ph/WbeZm

 

What could be more important than traffic throughput?

CW: Animated traffic violence

 
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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net to c/PLT@sh.itjust.works
 

An overview of this very unique and beautiful tree of the US Pacific coast, as well as a peek into the world of an arborist who works on them.

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