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alpaca-clouds · 9 months

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Money is worthless, actually

Just a quick something, I wanted to share with you guys. Because in a weird way I consider it to be quite hopeful.

See, here is the thing: Money is worthless. Technically it is worthless. You cannot do anything from money. You cannot make food from money. You cannot build a house from money. You cannot knit a sweater from it. Not from the coins, not from the paper, not from imaginary numbers on your bank account.

If for some reason money just vanished tomorrow, people would not in fact die. They just would find other ways to deal with it.

Money was originally probably partly invented, because it made both the collection of taxes - and the payment of people working for the "empire". Most societies before just... shared. They literally shared, because they knew that their society worked better if everyone just got, what they needed. Often it was on the basis of "gift" societies. To translate it into a modern understanding (because we still kinda do that): "You need eggs to make a cake? Sure. I will give you some. But next week, when I gonna need some butter, you will give me some of that."

It makes the economy trudge along just a bit easier. But it is not required for it to work.

Money has only worth as long as the people agree that it has that worth. Which is usually what happens whenever a currency collapses: People no longer agree that the currency holds any worth. Yes, we can now go and argue about all those methods of inflation and what not. But the baseline thing that happens really is not that there is too much money, but that people agree that the money hence is worthless.

So, basically... Money is worthless.

Right now it is mostly just used as a tool of oppression, because it is linked to power. It can buy you power more than it can buy you anything else.

But we would not need it to make a society function. Which is also why I like to build my utopias around the idea of societies without money. Where people just get what they need, because it is the best for everyone.

Because whenever there is something like money around, someone will hoard it and it will inevitably lead to bad things. So...

Yeah. In the second Doctor Strange movie it is played for laughs that there are many worlds without money where you not pay for stuff. But... Why play it for laughs? Why not take it serious. You know?

Just a thought.

#economy #anti capitalism #communism #anarcho communism #solarpunk #utopia #imagining a better world

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thursdayisbetterthanfriday · 2 months

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The Plague of Stability: What Prevents Us from Having Visions of the Future?

#adam curtis #imagining a better world #the curse of stability #politics #political thought #Youtube

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queeranarchism · 3 months

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If people make cutesy posts about growing food and herb spirals and composting but never talk about stuff like preventing and getting rid of rats in a garden, I get this suspision that they either haven't actually gardened much or they're more interested in presenting an aesthetically pleasing image than in actually preparing people to deal with a garden.

#Like the unrealistic gun hoarding bunker doomsday preppers of gardening #but instead of imagining a world without rules and community they imagine a world without rats and mold and plant virusses #Which is a better worldview than those preppers but not a more realistic one.

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girlbogg · 4 months

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hey has anyone else noticed that totk looks a lot like princess mononoke sometinms (<- guy who has never had an original thought)

#loz totk #zelda #ganondorf #tloz fanart #tears of the kingdom #tloz crossover #tloz au #i drew this back before i got very far in totk and i was convinced that the zonai would turn out to be dragons somehow #which wouldve made the game 150% cooler #i imagine eboshidorf would be kinda windwaker-esque #more like. reserved and genteel than totk dorf #trying to make a better life for his people but willing to kill gods and destroy the world to do it #meanwhile zelda lives in the forest and was raised by the gods (zonai)#and she meets link when he leaves his home village to find a cure for the gloom that is sapping everyone's health and nearly killed him #do you see my vision #my art

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houseswife · 4 months

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bro can you imagine being tritter. you’re a power hungry cop who just wants to get revenge on the asshole doctor who humiliated you, so you approach his prescribing physician saying “here’s cold hard proof that he committed several crimes and endangered your career”. and instead of testifying against him in light of this information he’s like nooo he didn’t do anything wrong!! it was my fault actually that he committed felonies without my knowledge!! don’t take him away!! send me to prison instead!!! like. what do you even do with that

#can’t get over the car scene where tritter is like ‘you’ll go to prison if you don’t tell the truth about him’#and wilson just goes ‘better me than him’#and tritter just gets inscreasingly baffled by his commitment to being number 1 house defender #gay people bro 😭😭 outside perspective on that relationship goes crazy #house md #hilson #house/wilson #gregory house #james wilson #or like alternatively #can you imagine being julie wilson #and your husband comes home one day and he’s like I lost my job #and u ask why #and he says that house committed too many crimes and you refused to get him fired #my man was down bad 😭 stand by your mannn and show the world you love him

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shanksxbuggy · 10 months

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Uta: Shanks, how do I get revenge on my enemies? Shanks: The best revenge in life is letting go and living well :)

Uta:

Uta: Buggy, how do I -

Buggy: Bomb.

#Buggy and Uta vibe this way #i like to imagine a scenario where one of the Figarlands say something derogatory towards Shanks #and while Shanks would bear with it and be the better person Buggy and Uta would make their life hell #the people Shanks loves the most in the world are all insane :)#one piece #one piece incorrect #uta #buggy #shanks #op uta #buggy the clown #akagami no shanks #redhaired shanks #red haired shanks #one piece uta #one piece quotes #shuggy #shanks x buggy

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arkham-prisoner · 5 months

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Kratos as The God of War

Kratos as The God of Hope

#Valhalla was everything I never knew I wanted from god of war #Kratos’ growth through the Norse games has been beyond incredible #Santa Monica deserve so much praise for their world building and character writing #Christopher Judge was PERFECTION again #the ending was better than I imagined #god of war #god of war spoilers #god of war ragnarok #god of war Ragnarok spoilers #god of war valhalla #god of war Valhalla spoilers #kratos #santa monica studio #Christopher judge

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uncanny-tranny · 4 months

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The absolute biggest thing I've learned as a trans guy: there is nothing more masculine and manly than not caring about looking or acting masculine or manly. Growing your masculinity or manhood takes time and care - you have no obligation to let the world water your garden when you can do that just fine (and you can, even if it doesn't feel like you can!)

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #trans advice #got a stereotypically 'feminine/woman' piercing and. i feel like a man *inverted shania twain riff from man! i feel like a woman*#nothing affirms my manhood more than not caring about the genuinely toxic imaginings that the world has about manhood and men like me 👍#yes it can be a struggle ESPECIALLY if you're somebody who actively has to defend your masculinity/manhood...#...it's hard for me too sometimes. i had to not only build my manhood but jealously defend it from the 'phobes...#...but i am all the better for it because this is MINE. i have never truly owned something in this way...#...i don't own other people nor my cats nor even my material possessions - not in the way i own my manhood...#...i own it like a tiger owns his territory and i defend it similarly...#...i do not WANT to own my loved ones or possessions the same as i own my manhood and masculinity. this is special to me #my manhood was *made* for me to be owned anyway. i feel that applies to every trans person who hasn't felt able to own themselves #this is in the same vein as learning to cast aside the cissexist views of bodies&experiences that can make dysphoria worae

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cruelsister-moved2 · 7 months

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lets say hypothetically that i wanted men to die and suffer for all time

#which is more than the money made annually by the 50 biggest companies in the world btw #apparently icelandic women went on an unpaid labour strike in the 70s and it brought the whole country to a standstill can we pLEASE bring #this back!!#a;so the countries with the smallest divides #it isnt that the men do more #its countries with better social care etc #WHICH MEANS the gap still exists #just becomes a class AND gender gap #the average USamerican woman spends more than 4h a day doing unpaid work #which is literally like a second job #imagine what u coudl do with an extra four hours in ur day

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fever-venom · 3 months

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albuquerque if the pistol walter white put under his chin in episode 1 had a round in the chamber

#imagine a world where walter white was found in his little underwear with his brains out in the pilot #brba #breaking bad #walter white #exposure tags #brbabcs #bcs #jesse pinkman #saul goodman #jimmy mcgill #better call saul #gus fring #mike ehrmantraut #breaking bad meme #brba bcs

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alpaca-clouds · 9 months

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Rambling about my own Solarpunk Worldbuilding

Alright. Let me talk for a moment about my own writing stuff as it relates to Solarpunk. Because, no, I do not only write fanfiction, I also do original writing. And I just wanted to share with you how I went about my worldbuilding for the Solarpunk stuff, given that both Solarpunk worlds I write start out with "our" world and go into the future/alternate history.

Before I ramble about it, I should say: The main differing factor is that one of the worlds involves magic and grows out of an urban fantasy setting - the other is a somewhat realistic, though idealized world without magic.

And yes, I know that there is discussion about whether a Solarpunk world can have magic, whether it makes it Lunarpunk and what not. But just roll with me.

The Magical Concept

For this concept I should say, that basically all my Urban Fantasy writing takes places within the same world, that I have christened "Manmade Myths". With the basical concept being that "Clap your hands if you believe" holds in fact true for the world. Aka: Everything that enough people believe in is real. That is true for magic, for vampires, and for gods.

Other than in most versions of the trope I have seen, I meanwhile build strongly on the fact that religion and mythology is not constant but is shifting. So what a god might be, might change over time. In some cases it will also change the relationship between gods. (YHW as a Canaanite God still had a wife for example.)

The gods for the most part are very aware of them existing only because humans believe in them. And that brings them into a pickle, because they are very much able to see climate change coming and other things through which humans destroy themselves. And if humans die out, the gods will die as well. And no god is almightly and can just snap their fingers and prevent it. More than that: The gods conflict over the question whether it is belief or worship that gives them their powers. If it is belief, humans cannot KNOW that they are real. Because as soon as you know you no longer believe!

However, Loki is very certain it is worship. Not the least because of his complicated history - but also because he found out that the uptick of fictionalized depiction of his in media has actually given him more power. In fact making him the most powerful god in his pantheon. So... Loki decides to shatter the veil, make the existence of magic and gods public knowledge - and bring back magic to the world.

And that... is basically what the Solarpunk world arrises from: Loki brings back magic. Through stuff that I am not going to go into further he makes our world much more magical than it currently is. And through this he also revives some of the natural guardian spirits, who had been killed through human activity. And those spirits? They won't have human bullshit about destroying the nature. So they fucking demand the humans do better. Hence... the rise of a magical Solarpunk world.

The Non-Magic Concept

Now, I am going to warn you: The non-magical concept does involve a lot more... strive, than the magical one. Because it obviously does not involve gods being able to force the humans to make adjustments. So... Humans need to fight for it themselves.

The worldbuilding here starts in the late 2020s with some revolutionary movements in Western Africa, where the collaps of a mine owned by European money leads the people to protest against those mines and the working conditions and - while they are on it - the entire neocolonial bullshit still going on. During those rebellions weapons are stolen and in fact the revolutionary groups manage to win and hold a local region, where they establish their own socialist government.

While the government is obviously not recognized by the world powers, the rebellion does inspire imitators with the movement first spreading throughout western and central Africa, but soon also spreading to other colonized regions.

This in the end inspires a group in France to try as well with stolen weapons and after some bloody street weapon they in fact manage to overtake parts of Paris.

This is the moment where the western governments no longer can ignore this growing movement and they react with widespread violence that escalates over three years, before finally ending in what amounts to another world war. And not to go into the finer details: France is won by the rebellion in total - and this is what leads to the old government to nuke Paris. Only that they have not quite calculated correctly what this does to the optics of the war. And the standing governemtns loose support, with only more revolutionary action happening.

So, in the end, it is 2039 that the war is won by the revolutionary forcers.

Technically there is still some old world forces holding out in some parts of the former USA, but by 2046 those last outholds have fallen as well.

In the end a lot of political action - but in the end it involves nearly breaking down the concept of national states, paying reparations for half a millennium of colonialization and slowly making movements towards a more just system. Which includes climate justice and action to prevent the worst fall out of climate change.

Most of my Solarpunk short stories take place in the non-magical world. But I also have this novel idea which would take place in the magical version.

So, yeah... we will see what I am doing with all of this.

#solarpunk #solarpunk worldbuilding #worldbuilding #revolution #lunarpunk #urban fantasy #alternate history #war #imagining a better world #anarchism #decolonisation #anti capitalism

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captaincolorblob · 2 years

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Everyday i think about this screenboard scene that got semi-scrapped from Donnie vs Witch Town, like it just explains so much about Donnie as a character and i’m very sad we didnt get to see it entirely