irelephant

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[–] irelephant 8 points 5 days 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 5 days ago
[–] irelephant 3 points 5 days ago

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

[–] irelephant 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Horseshoe theory is literally just

[–] irelephant 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought maga communism was a joke.

[–] irelephant 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] irelephant 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Most sites strip metadata thankfully.

[–] irelephant 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] irelephant 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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

[–] irelephant 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately it's the wealthy people who decide.

[–] irelephant 151 points 6 days ago (16 children)

No, we'd simply find some other difference to get divided on.

 

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TranscriptWafrn post by @wafrn (note: its an unofficial account.) saying " [update time]
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  • Wafrn is now made in scratch mit edu
  • the important code is written on a piece of paper i lost in the forest, yes all of it. ADDITIONS
  • multiplied the amount of grass there was by 10 (there was none anyways)
  • invented arguments
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It has the tags "#fake, #satire and #unreal". It has two likes. It was posted two years ago.

 
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TranscriptA post by Dr. Amy Psy.D. @[email protected] saying: So I had to stop by Best Buy and the sales guy was going really hard trying to get me to sign up for the credit card. Like I said I didn’t want it and he was like “does YOUR card get you 15% off I don’t think so” and I was like buddy I know they make you push it but please stop and he was like actually they don’t, I just really like the Best Buy credit card. And then he wouldn’t tear my receipt off because he said the chemicals would take away his testosterone. Anyway this is why I shop online.

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