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gnome-punk · 1 year
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Text: When someone asks my political views
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perturbedlesbian · 1 year
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hot tips, if there happens to be a strike.
1. buy gas and keep your tanks full. Crude oil is one of the main commodities shipped via rail, and prices will shoot up after labor unrest.
2. commuter railroads will shut down, also increasing gas prices and worsening traffic.
3. Trucking capacity will dry up in the US, so the vast majority of consumer goods being shipped over the road will experience significant delays. Get those Christmas gifts rn
The important thing to remember is that the rail strike will have significant long-term impacts, and the true impact will not necessarily be felt in the immediate aftermath. while it may seem unimportant now, this will have a monumental impact on the US economy and send the US further into a recession.
Prepare, but remember that it doesn’t have to be this way if we support our workers and advocate for a fair and just labor movement.
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commiepinkofag · 1 day
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plan for the apocalypse you want, not the one you could help avert…
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spideylilparker · 2 years
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angelholme · 6 months
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The government is dictating the policy for the entire country because of something that affects half a million people.
Sunak is doing all of this because of polling during one by election in the outskirts of London.
And because of that he is putting kids lives at risk across the country.
No slow zones.
Massive limitations to public transport.
No safe areas for kids to walk.
Emissions up all over the country.
Kids having limited access to public transport.
Sunak is screwing over the children of the nation because a few hundred people around London told him to.
Which is pretty much how Tory policy always seems to work.
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indizombie · 1 year
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Tribal communities face marginalisation and oppression on multiple fronts — in terms of their lands, their forests, their access to basic services, and overall discrimination. However, government policy has not treated any of these as priorities. In the case of forest and land rights, it has been actively undermining the rights of these communities. This needs to stop if genuine development or empowerment is to take place.
Shankar Gopalkrishnan, manager at the tribal interest group Campaign for Survival and Dignity
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atheostic · 1 year
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Interesting how the New Zealand government says that only people who believe in magic get to be protected from persecution.
Oh, I'm not joking or being melodramatic:
All extradition treaties and Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters agreements with foreign countries provide that New Zealand may refuse assistance or extradition if it is suspected that the offence for which the person is sought relates to their religion but do not provide protection for those who are sought because they have no religion.
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sheepsies · 10 months
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- France banned domestic short haul flights where there are train alternatives in order to cut carbon emissions - there are few exceptions (between Paris and some other major cities)
- Connecting flights are unaffected
- Some within the airlines industry say this will only have minimal effects and the government should find other more effective solutions
- UFC-Que Choisir and other climate activists want lawmakers to go back to banning plane journeys if rail alternatives under 4h were available - this was originally suggested n 2019 but revised and changed to 2.5h
- Domestic flights currently produce the most emissions per passenger per km travelled (taking both CO2 emissions and non CO2 emissions into account)
- article summary by bhavya ☆
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zuhaaair · 2 years
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loz37 · 2 years
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So glad we bought our hovel when we did but mortgage rates are still a bitch.
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walkinginquiry · 2 years
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Want people to get interested in politics, I have the solution! (Looking at you congress)
Simply allow me to sit in on the sidelines of any political meeting/event heckling the congressmen and officials. I don't even need to be paid, just provide snacks. As an independent, I will be able to heckle anyone and everyone with no favor towards party. I will especially disagree with: transphobes, homophobes, racists, sexists, xenophobes, and rapists, so I feel I will have a lot to work with if implemented in the U.S. government.
How is this supposed to get people interested in politics you may ask. Well, this would turn those meetings into prime television AND I would also take suggestions from the public (something not even Congress has thought to do!). After all, the people will be interested in politics as soon as they feel represented!
In fact, we could even have people start paying to be able to heckle, and with all that money, we could lower taxes! Doesn't that sound nice! We will all be able to pay what the 1% pays on taxes!
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levinletlive · 2 years
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I'm watching this TV show about a shelter in the UK that takes in and rehomes dogs, and some of the episodes are cute (they're certainly filmed that way), but then they had this one dog get handed in called Bear--a pomeranian--because he had an issue with his legs and the owner couldn't afford the vet bill, and that got me thinking.
Wouldn't it be cheaper for the shelters just to cover the vet bills and give them back to their owners, rather than separate them, spend thousands in vet bills, and then sell them off to another family?
Not to mention the ethical aspect. Dogs are familial animals. Taking them from their families can be seriously traumatic. Then you're holding them in what is essentially a cell, where they're alone the majority of the time, looking for a wealthier family to take them when they already had a loving family.
And in the case of this particular dog, they ended up not operating on him after all and didn't call the owner back. That pissed me off. They didn't even have to put up the money for the dog, and the owner was crying when they parted. The shelter still held onto the dog and tried to adopt him out in the same episode.
That got me fucking heated. Instinctively I felt it was morally incorrect, policy be damned.
I've always thought the state was just as responsible for the welfare of the animals within their borders as the people. It's more expensive to run these shelters and all the peripheral services rather than just cover some or all of the associated costs, and it's frankly just the right thing to do. We bred these animals to be totally dependent on us and now we are morally obligated to them. I particularly believe that should fall to the state because of the reasons we can't afford to just keep and care for our animals. The same dirty legislation that is erasing the middle class is funneling pets out of loving homes into a machine that sorts the ones wealthy people want from those they don't, and what happens when you can't afford your pet and a wealthier person doesn't want them? They die.
Anyway, I could go on about that forever if allowed, but my time is worth more to me so I'm cutting it here.
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navachar · 1 year
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celiottjohnston · 2 years
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Relevant: Bakunin on Technocracy (1873)
I recently stumbled upon this fascinating and somewhat prophetic passage from 19th century Russian Anarchist Mikhail Bakunin's commentary "Critique of the Marxist Theory of the State". Though in general I don't agree with many of Bakunin's assertions, this quote, where he forewarns against a empiricism-driven technocratic state, feels incredibly applicable to our current bureaucratic quagmire.
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There is no road leading from metaphysics to the realities of life. Theory and fact are separated by an abyss. It is impossible to leap across this abyss by what Hegel called a “qualitative jump” from the world of logic to the world of nature and of real life.
The road leading from concrete fact to theory and vice versa is the method of science and is the true road. In the practical world, it is the movement of society toward forms of organization that will to the greatest possible extent reflect life itself in all its aspects and complexity.
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The way of the gentlemen metaphysicians is completely different. Metaphysician is the term we use for the disciples of Hegel and for the positivists, and in general, for all the worshippers of science as a goddess, all those modern Procrusteans who, in one way or another, have created an ideal of social organization, a narrow mold into which they would force future generations, all those who, instead of seeing science as only one of the essential manifestations of natural and social life, insist that all of life is encompassed in their necessarily tentative scientific theories. Metaphysicians and positivists, all these gentlemen who consider it their mission to prescribe the laws of life in the name of science, are consciously or unconsciously reactionaries.
This is very easy to demonstrate.
Science in the true sense of that word, real science, is at this time within reach of only an insignificant minority. For example, among us in Russia, how many accomplished savants are there in a population of eighty million? Probably a thousand are engaged in science, but hardly more than a few hundred could be considered first-rate, serious scientists. If science were to dictate the laws, the overwhelming majority, many millions of men, would be ruled by one or two hundred experts. Actually it would be even fewer than that, because not all of science is concerned with the administration of society. This would be the task of sociology – the science of sciences – which presupposes in the case of a well-trained sociologist that he have an adequate knowledge of all the other sciences. How many such people are there in Russia – in all Europe? Twenty or thirty – and these twenty or thirty would rule the world? Can anyone imagine a more absurd and abject despotism?
It is almost certain that these twenty or thirty experts would quarrel among themselves, and if they did agree on common policies, it would be at the expense of mankind. The principal vice of the average specialist is his inclination to exaggerate his own knowledge and deprecate everyone else’s. Give him control and he will become an insufferable tyrant. To be the slave of pedants – what a destiny for humanity! Give them full power and they will begin by performing on human beings the same experiments that the scientists are now performing on rabbits and dogs.
We must respect the scientists for their merits and achievements, but in order to prevent them from corrupting their own high moral and intellectual standards, they should be granted no special privileges and no rights other than those possessed by everyone – for example, the liberty to express their convictions, thought, and knowledge. Neither they nor any other special group should be given power over others. He who is given power will inevitably become an oppressor and exploiter of society.
But we are told: “Science will not always be the patrimony of a few. There will come a time when it will be accessible to all.” Such a time is still far away and there will be many social upheavals before this dream will come true, and even then, who would want to put his fate in the hands of the priests of science?
It seems to us that anyone who thinks that after a social revolution everybody will be equally educated is very much mistaken. Science, then as now, will remain one of the many specialized fields, though it will cease to be accessible only to a very few of the privileged class. With the elimination of class distinctions, education will be within the reach of all those who will have the ability and the desire to pursue it, but not to the detriment of manual labor, which will be compulsory for all.
Available to everyone will be a general scientific education, especially the learning of the scientific method, the habit of correct thinking, the ability to generalize from facts and make more or less correct deductions. But of encyclopedic minds and advanced sociologists there will be very few. It would be sad for mankind if at any time theoretical speculation became the only source of guidance for society, if science alone were in charge of all social administration. Life would wither, and human society would turn into a voiceless and servile herd. The domination of life by science can have no other result than the brutalization of mankind.
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Idealists of all kinds – metaphysicians, positivists, those who support the rule of science over life, doctrinaire revolutionists – all defend the idea of state and state power with equal eloquence, because they see in it, as a consequence of their own systems, the only salvation for society. Quite logically, since they have accepted the basic premise (which we consider completely mistaken) that thought precedes life, that theory is prior to social experience, and, therefore, that social science has to be the starting point for all social upheavals and reconstructions. They then arrive unavoidably at the conclusion that because thought, theory, and science, at least in our times, are in the possession of very few, these few ought to be the leaders of social life, not only the initiators, but also the leaders of all popular movements. On the day following the revolution the new social order should not be organized by the free association of people’s organizations or unions, local and regional, from the bottom up, in accordance with the demands and instincts of the people, but only by the dictatorial power of this learned minority, which presumes to express the will of the people.
This fiction of a pseudo-representative government serves to conceal the domination of the masses by a handful of privileged elite; an elite elected by hordes of people who are rounded up and do not know for whom or for what they vote. Upon this artificial and abstract expression of what they falsely imagine to be the will of the people and of which the real living people have not the least idea, they construct both the theory of statism as well as the theory of so-called revolutionary dictatorship."
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