Trump is a paper tiger, he was defeated by Ansar Allah in Yemen and China just defeated his stupid trade war.

If we compare it to the trade war with China, the US only kept it up for a few weeks and backed down. There are material realities that force the US to bend, it actually can’t just do whatever it wants. So, if there was an international flotilla sent to Cuba to deliver much needed supplies, the US would retaliate at first and then back down when it realized the entire world was against it.

Would it really take a navy?

If all these countries started sending joint floatillas to Cuba loaded with supplies, what would the US actually do? Blow them up? Seize them and arrest the crew?

I kinda doubt it. Maybe if Mexico did it by themselves or something they’d try, but all its allies at the same time? Would the US destroy itself just to enforce this embargo?

Central authority is a tool. In different hands it does different things, but if you disarm yourself you’ll lose.

If you do not choose your leaders they will choose themselves. We tried the whole leaderless, decentralized anti-authority thing throughout the 2010s. At best you might be able to collapse the central authority of the currently existing government regime, but what comes after that is always much much worse: civil war, invasion, or an even more repressive government regime. But, more likely, the movement will just collapse because it lacks the structure to actually sustain itself.

We need to be centralized and we need to be ready to assert our authority when the old one is destroyed, or we will lose.

Imagine believing you can defeat capitalism without central authority.

There’s no way to enforce that without massive privacy violations.

You want to be asked to scan your ID every time you use a mature website?

AI of some kind will replace parts of our jobs, but LLM chatbots won’t except in some specific cases. This is just a hype bubble.

I have a phone case that is also a wallet/billfold, so I’m already in the brick zone lol

ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.

It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn’t realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.

The mask is off. That’s all.

We will not survive if we add literally any additional fossil fuel capacity. It has to be negative or we die.

Adding 7.5% additional fossil fuels is extremely bad! It needs to be 0%

Is that actually true? Total energy capacity increased, which gives the impression that renewable energy is just being added on top of the existing fossil fuels with very little being decommissioned.

Is this supposed to be a community for real uplifting news or just a circlejerk where no one can question anything?

The fact that literally any of the new power capacity isn’t renewable energy is very bad.

Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia. You are very smart.

Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm for prehistory. It’s the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.

I guess? But it’s also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I’m doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

Chelsea* Manning

But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don’t think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we’ve handed over to our tech overlords.