irelephant

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[–] irelephant 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] irelephant 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The results of this are horrifying me

[–] irelephant 4 points 22 hours ago

Sure, but custom emojis are like collections of these saved for people to use.

Also: they're sized better.

[–] irelephant 8 points 23 hours ago

Actually, forbes is so bad I want to mention this article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2023/05/01/why-blowing-up-pipelines-will-not-solve-the-climate-crisis/?ctpv=searchpage
It's clearly written by a guy who didn't read the book.

One of the first points made is that the public doesn't support disruption. No shit, I don't think people supported the suffragettes' disruption, but that got women their rights.

Some might argue that violence against property is different from violence against people, and property violence against corporations is different from say burning down the home of an individual. We disagree. The modern corporation’s functional logic is to pool resources from shareholders (both individuals and institutional investors such as pension funds) and use them to run a business. Eventually, violence against corporations is an attack on the livelihood and financial security of people whose assets the corporation manages.

Won't someone please think of the poor shareholders!

The risk-return trade-off is a part of the bargain shareholders strike with corporations. And if shareholders consider corporate actions or inaction to be harmful, they can use economic and legal mechanisms such as shareholders’ vote or even divest.

One problem with this, the shareholders make money from harmful actions, and actively encourage them.

What if property violence against corporations hurts the livelihood of impoverished communities? There is widespread poverty in many fossil fuel communities. They often view climate change as an elite issue favored by a predominantly urban climate movement. Might these communities view violence against fossil fuel infrastructure as an attack on their livelihood—on their very existence?

Even lesser actions such as transportation disruption can invite a backlash from affected parties. Consider the incident in London in 2019: “as XR began a second two-week mass mobilization in London, one local branch staged an action in Canning Town, a predominantly Black and Asian working-class neighborhood, in which several XR members clambered onto a subway car, preventing the train from leaving. Commuters dragged the protesters down onto the platform and beat them.”

These points show nothing except that the writer didn't read the book. The XR train protest was severly critised by the author, and the author addresses poorer people who depend on fossil fuels.

This is all very fitting, because the author of the book calls forbes a billionaire rag in the book.

[–] irelephant 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] irelephant 2 points 23 hours ago

I (ab)use zero width spaces for posts I can't think of titles for.

[–] irelephant 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Horseshoe theory is literally just

[–] irelephant 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I thought maga communism was a joke.

[–] irelephant 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, but I was thinking of this as someone else viewing the photo seeing the metadata.

[–] irelephant 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Most sites strip metadata thankfully.

[–] irelephant 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think you're a dipshit so unfortunately I cannot.

[–] irelephant 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I didn't make it, its probably made by the guy originally behind VTC.

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Chomsky yes-honey (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I totally didn't steal this from hexbear.

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TranscriptA tumblr post saying "i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?"

 

TranscriptA tumblr post by mihai-florescu saying "The lion does not consern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling". It has a reblog by the same person saying "The lion will never financially recover from this". Both the post and the reblog were posted on July 18. The post has 10,269 notes.

 

 
 

TranscriptA tweet saying "bruh the economy isn't even real, we literally fucking made it up, just let people have food wtf"

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