A lot. I’ve posted ideas elsewhere. I get the sense you would report me if I posted mine here.
But what actually are yours? Or do you just cry about your favorite oligarch losing a probably-rigged popularity contest, so you have an excuse to feel like a good person while still hating those damn dirty commies?
Oh my god I’m so fucking sick of hearing about voting. I’m not even going to have the detailed argument with you about this with you.
We could waste time arguing how much shorter GHG reductions would fall of the ‘dont end all life’ line under Harris. Yeah. But the fact is we wouldnt get there, we would still have a deep seated fascism problem in thus country, and the government would still be an existential threat to life on earth. It just wouldnt single me out for being queer-which admittedly would have been nice. Oh well.
Begging establishment mommy wasn’t going to keep humanity as a whole alive any longer than begging establishment creepy pedo uncle will (though, yeah, would have been nice to lower the rape risk when doing so; at least for cis people).
So tell me: what are you actually going to do about it? Like, picks and shovels, not lanyards and ballots. Autocad not outlook. What are you going to actually DO?
Same machine
Yes. Kinda the point.
extremes make everything harder
Yeah extremes do suck.
My first idea, spoilered because its very long:
Convert all luxury manufacturing to solar and wind power, where possible, and start training people to build and maintain them. Put alternators on every treadmill and exercise bike. Strip them out of cars if you have to. The point is as much to drive home the desperation as it is to generate power. Recover every joule everywhere you can. Not every factory, not every resource can be a part of this, but where factory owners object, take them out of the picture however you see fit.
No more fast fashion disposable tech bullshit. Everything should be built to last.
Kill the wealthy. They could probably be coerced into joining civilization, but it will take too long and they will do too much damage. The lives lost and existential threat that time would take simply is not worth it. The ones who just come over should absolutely be spared; prince linpopo was a better outcome than princess anastasia, and should be a goal where possible. If mark zuckerberg is immediately willing to be a (closely watched) creepy doll-man who jacks off to the roman empire and lives in a 1 bedroom above his dojo/arena; I say let him. Making an example of the ones who won’t or can’t be trusted may be necessary.
No new gas cars, no new coal or oil infrastructure. No exceptions. Enforce this violently if you have to. The governments are owned, you will noy get them on board.
Build and retrofit nuclear. There will be disasters. They will suck. Put our best and brightest on this to minimize the risk. Its not a forever fix, but it will buy us time while we figure out load balancing.
Switch to trains and nuclear/wind barges. No new asphalt roads. Sorry, they’re just not energy efficient. Start tearing up city streets for trolleys and urban freight rail. Don’t ask, beyond calling 811, and your engineer or foamer friend for expert advice and standards. Plan and execute. If you keep to trolleys, they won’t be heavier than modern trucks, and things like weight concerns won’t factor in-you and your friends can do this with hand tools if necessary, like they did 150 years ago.
No more air travel. No more frivolous air freight or next day shipping, unless somebody cones up with some very cool logistics. Maybe we can bring in hyperefficiemt solar gliders, or some sort of hybrid PV air ship in a few years, once we’ve sorted food and power out. Wouldnt that kick ass?
No more beef or pork for a while. I know. Shit’s gonna be lean for a few years. Fuck I’m gonna miss cheese. Keep enough cows and pigs alive to breed them back, work on greening that shit however we can until we can get some amount of it back. Our grandkids should have cheeseburgers. Maybe us in fifteen years. Cut down on chicken and fish.
Generally fix agriculture. This monoculture shit where we adapt the natural world to our machines? It’s not earth friendly, its not sustainable, and its not even that healthy long term.
No more “artificial intelligence” or fucking crypto bullshit… That shit guzzles resources we desperately need, and it provides no value. Let the computer scientists keep working on crap that isn’t a dead end. Give free liberated gpu’s to every gamer, just to fuck with the fossil lobby’s political base, and have enough left over for super computers, should we need them for stuff.
Tell capitalism to fuck off. Stop accepting money. Start doing stuff because you believe in it in your spare time. Maybe steal shit, when it’s held by corporations instead of people, just to grate at the taboo. Thus isn’t just because I already wanted to do it; the ideology of ownership-as-value will always tend towards cheating, conflict, exploitation, and stagnation. There’s no more time to fuck around with that shit, and also:
Be inclusive. No I mean it; this isn’t just hippie shit. Every person you leave behind or exclude is a weakness, is someone with no reason not to undermine you. Whether you exclude them for a disability, their birth place, or any demographic info, you should fucking consider if its worth the cost. It’s better to have some folks who eat 2000 calories a day and live in a studio apartment. Let the old folks find ways to give people purpose (should they want it), maybe tell stories or help watch kids.
Stop tolerating violence in defence of the old order. Thats anti homeless sweeps and traditional militaries.
Get fucking organized. Find people who know how to do stuff, and find the shit they need to do it. Find people with nothing better to do and find any task you can offer them; nobody likes doing nothing for too long.
Fix everything. Find the little wastes. Streaming ‘the office’ ten times a year is a waste when you could just download it. Dont ask permission when a corporation is involved.
We dont take radical action and fix this immediately, literally everyone dies, and not in a fast pretty ‘nuclear apocalypse’ kinda way.
Nothing is unjustified when compared to inaction. No amount of violence or hardship we can inflict will match what we will experience if we do nothing.
It may already be too late.
The people currently in power are at best useless. Dont tell me to beg them. Would take too long anyway; we do not have time to waste on their shit.
So until there’s a better idea, gimme everything you’ve got.
Heat pumps work at >100% thermal efficiency.
Air conditioners dont.
As a Californian, I’m also, hesitantly, with you.
So what are we gonna do about it?
We let this keep happening, everybody dies. Literally everybody. So let’s not upld back ideas because they’re slipshot or ridiculously violent.
What are we going to do about it?
Just kill ourselves?
No. All manner of meeting. Long lost friends, coworkers at the water cooler, high noon and moonlight duels, anonymous sex, strangers on a train, roadside banditry, love at first sight, street corner begging and door-to-door sales, all distilled down into a yellow-brown paste, stabilized with a bit of gluten and guar gum, and ground up for your burrito. Its why so much of their stuff is vegan.
No. Jokes are funny. Its that thing fascists do where they say it was a joke if you call them on their shit.
Maybe we shouldnt rely on the state, give them the fruits of our labor, or respect their enforcers?
Maybe these occupying armies in our cities should be looked upon less favorably?
Maybe judges should be afraid someone will find out where they live, and congressmen should be really skittish?
See, the idea of obeying the government because its the right thing to do only makes sense when the government is a pooling of collective resources for collective good, and stuff at a scale it would be a bother to fund/organize individually. It only makes sense when the government is yours. Is for your benefit.
I’ve only met the beneficiaries of this government a couple times. I thought about guillotines every moment of those interactions.
You think it ever wasn’t him?
your machine
Thats what they said.
No but see also not that.
Okay, thats more like it; ‘personally fuck them up up wherever I see them’!
Now start thinking about how.
Every allegation a fascist makes is a confession. I was not being vague.
1a the law, sane republicans
The Law Is Not A Magic Spell. It’s a set of agreements enforced by violence. All the enforcers are fanatical fascists. And the last sane republican I know of died in February 2012. He hadn’t voted for president this century. If those were still a thing; we wouldnt be in this position.
1b: the law, sane republicans
So, still not a magic spell. I’m afraid you dont know how cultists, social conformity, or sunk costs work. They’re going to have endorsed the horrible things that happen here. They can’t accept culpability for that. You know what they say;
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Or something.
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The coup failed because hisbpeople were profoundly incompetent and mostly senile. You’ll notice the police and military dispatchers we suspiciously slow that day. It was just the poor rubes already on the ground there responding to this shit. The courts largely declined to ounish abuobe involved; all thd s um eho organized it got off clean, and even the worst of the nazis on the ground got milder sentences than any ive seen for juat being near someone who broke a window in 2020. What does any of this have to do with primaries? Why would they hold a primary?
Okay, but consider youre an 18 year old trans man trying to get validation for his gender, or an 18 year old trans woman trying really hard to repress and deny she’s that. Is that still a minus?
‘Endure’
Okay but when the death squads come that advice isn’t going to help much. Reads as kind of a dodge.
Again, why are you replying ic not to engage with what I’m saying? You’re just trying to insult(?) me so you don’t have to, but you could have just clicked past my reply. That shows either my previous content was correct, or you’re really profoundly lonely and are using this platform in leiu of human intimacy. No judgement if it’s that second one; shit can be pretty grim out there.
So, nothing?