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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/117021003223185402 I imagine a world with libraries for everything. Vacation home libraries, boat libraries, bike libraries, tool libraries, labor libraries, skill libraries, childcare libraries, garden libraries, data libraries, software libraries…. A library economy, everything is shared, accessed, and returned. Not charity. A system where the default is access, not ownership. The blueprint has already been laid out. Let’s start implementing our own libraries. #gifteconomy #mutualaid #economy

The United States has been an apartheid, settler-colonial, genocidal project since 1492. It was built on stolen land, stolen labor, and stolen lives. It has never stopped being that. We can work together to build something better and stop it. How many of us are we willing to lose before we do something…?

Flint still doesn’t have drinkable water yet $90 million dollars was spent on one senate primary. How many Michigan schools could have had black mold treated and leaky roofs fixed for $90 million? The system is working as designed. It was designed to extract from us, not to serve us. #flint #michigan #abdulelsayed #HaleyStevens #capitalism #classconciousness

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116978284012014337 Trump can be as bold as he wants bc there are no consequences. The press covers him as if he were a normal president. The Democratic Party has no strategy or even will to stop him. The people are disorganized and exhausted, waiting for someone else to do the work. The checks and balances clearly do not work. Is everyone waiting to vote their way out of this while he wears a 2028 hat on full display? #trump #democracy #fascism #classwar

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I shouldn’t be as shocked because history, but I was unprepared for the amount of democrats and “centrists” that will openly align with fascists bc they are scared of “the left.” Why would we be scared of working toward a balanced ecosystem? Of distributing resources equitably? Of giving power to the people? Ideology is dangerous when it replaces reality.

@nikoleavic@fe.disroot.org I agree completely. The technofeudal extraction is real and accelerating. That is exactly why we need to build parallel systems - libraries of tools, skills, data, and care - that bypass their control. We cannot wait for the system to collapse or reform itself. We have to start building the nodes of the new world inside the shell of the old one. I believe our survival quite literally depends on it. We can share our skills, our labor and our resources with each other ✊❤️

@jake4480@c.im I honestly thought dysentery was gonna get me

@violetmadder@kolektiva.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al I wrote about where I believe this all stems from yesterday. The vast majority of our issues are structural even when they feel very personal https://mastodon.social/@floridamarx/116981077111090508

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party this is exactly what Edward Bernays figured out a century ago. He literally wrote the book on manufacturing consent - ‘Propaganda.' He was Freud's nephew and he invented the modern PR industry. There’s a great old PBS doc called 'The Century of the Self' that traces how his ideas shaped everything from consumer culture to politics. It explains why we are in exactly this pickle. https://youtu.be/DnPmg0R1M04?is=KGfKY3mAixG_qMXT

@jospoortvliet@fosstodon.org @aral@mastodon.ar.al what about collective governance? Workers per industry manage production schedules through federated councils. Communities decide land use & housing through neighborhood assemblies. These coordinate up to balance resource flows using same logistics software Amazon/FedEx, w transparency & ecological limits over profits. We have the tech. We have the computational capacity. We have the logistics knowledge. What we lack is the permission structure.

@foolishowl@social.coop @burnoutqueen@todon.nl a friend of mine was invited to a woman’s group in central Florida. This is exactly how she described it except she was in person and quietly left when she realized what was going on.

@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au this is so beautiful. Thank you so much. We can build this. I know we can.

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange It's not just the inhumanity, nor destroying our ecosystem. What tires me most is that so many reproduce it without question and fight those who suggest another way. I shared a structural analysis with a psychiatrist once, and she called the police for a wellness check. I refrained from analyzing the officer’s career choice. Wellness checks are more likely to be fatal than responses to shootings. Disabled people are disproportionately the victims.

@parents4future@climatejustice.global if you haven’t already read The Shock Doctrine, I highly recommend it.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I got a big chuckle over this

@ehproque@neopaquita.es @parents4future@climatejustice.global exactly. Crisis is an opportunity for collective resources (land, water, public infrastructure) to be transferred into private hands while attention is on the emergency, not the transaction. In Spain, the law blocks immediate rezoning for 30 years. Developers buy cheap in the shock, then wait & lobby to weaken the protections. We don’t have those protections in the USA, but pattern is the same. Release the commons back to the people!