“Does anyone know why this is happening?”

Yes. Thom Hartmann and others have written about this. It started after the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, peacenik, environmental, etc movements of the 1960s and early 70s.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated specifically because he was uniting poor Whites with Blacks, calling for Socialism, and launching the Poor People’s Campaign.

It was a conscious, deliberate response by the elite — against the economic and political warfare conducted by the middle class in order to eliminate the classist systemz of oppression.

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

see also Thom Hartmann’s book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War on America’s Middle Class”

also: “

**Why Oligarchs Don't Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too ** The deeper reason why the powerful and wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

see above article — one of the best. chock-full of the best history lessons — including England’s maximum wage law back a few centuries ago.

It makes us an ECOSYSTEM!

We’re not really “human” we”re more like… … a planet.

or a forest, at least (soil, mycelium, roots, microbes, ferns, shrubs, squirrels, trees, clouds, rain, rivers…)

(imho)

iirc Brave has a terrible policy Not good More like … a honeypot

At least Ecosia supposedly plants lots of trees (which we desperately need)

We need like a quadrillion NET more trees than we have right now

it’s not just carbon sinks it’s also water vapor (evapotranspiration) it either forms clouds that rain (if lots of trees) or it just makes the atmosphere hotter

the internet has a big physical footprint

i don’t think tokens help.

for us boys, it’s our backpack or satchel or messenger bag or briefcase

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

“Power attracts the corruptible.

Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible.”

— DUNE, by Frank Herbert

But that wouldn’t generate as much profit, see! You gotta have Scarcity, otherwise ya cannot jack up the prices so high!

also: permaculture regenerative agriculture ecological stability dynamic equilibrium etc

also, news: India’s regenerative water permaculture development

lol i know

thank you for the kind reply

aaannnd art is in the eye of the beholder so idk not necessarily for the OP needing to read it

moreso for those who (as w many of us) hv poor/low sense of self-value/self-resilience

i just hear that a lot from tech nerds “my body is stupid/irrational” etc

and it’s like “or maybe we need better models to listen to & make sense of it”

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy Goes back to the 1960s (see also the Lewis Powell memo)

(also see “The Democracy Project” by David Graeber get it cash from a used bookstore leave no trace LNT )

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

::shrug:: Just my experience, I guess.

@[email protected] any idea why I can’t see that post in-app by going to RenWillis’ timeline, but why I can see it via a public web browser?

Four criteria to consider:

1. What are you good at (or hv potential to become good at)?
2. What is i. fulfilling & ii. replenishing for you?
3. What does the world most need?

Find an intersection of those three.

Then make a LiberaPay or OpenCollective for the fourth (what supports your livelihood). Also courses in entrepreneurship/small-biz/TooQuiet2Market.

both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that

not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::

CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body

both of you PLEASE put a CW warning on that

not everyone has huge screens so we tap it and then ::vomit::

CW morbid human nervous system anatomy, decoupled from rest of body

Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.

Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)

Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.

or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).

Looks like a lot! Hope it’s being split 2x ways.

My response to those sorts of ridiculous claims is, •Huh. I guess you haven’t heard of “intersex”. What do you call a human baby who was biologically born with bits of both??

That usually stumps them for a bit. Data-does-not-compute. Oe they ignore it and go back to their original point. … at which pt i have to hold empathy-space & validation (≠ does not equate with agreement/condoning, see footnote [1])… … and then — if and only if they seem open — ask them about if they’re aware that some human babies — to be clear, not trans folx in most case (well except by way of uninformed/nonconsent at birth, ugh) — but some human babies are born intersex.

usually tho i just leave it and no pt in doing so online usually

[1] hold empathy-space & validation does not equal & does not equate with agreement/condoning btw, as any good de-escalation specialist (like an fbi hostage negotiator or a therapist or life-coach) can tell explain better than i can rn.