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Wordsmith, Film Enthusiast, Student of the Radical Imaginary and Chinese Food Eater https://monartosafariland.bandcamp.com/
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has been perfect for the present situation. I'd definitely recommend reading it, right now at this present point in time. It's a pretty short/quick read, too.
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It's analysis of the need to fill leisure time with endless image-objects, hyperreality and spectacles to reinforce hierarchies. The [counter]revolution of the bourgeoisie being the only real successful revolution to have occurred and the disillusionment and falling away of the illusionary imaginary
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Safely say that any cerebral approach to policy making has left Washington replaced by Action Barbie
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Hey, can you speak to someone about getting this "tax billionaires" design made up into stickers, so I can stickerbomb the CBD with them?
Was out stickerbombing Nth Tce the other week, but some stuff with your policies on it would probably work better.
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Wasn't aware they were unregistered though.
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Saw a bunch of this guys supporters down at semaphore not long ago. Bunch of old boomers carrying a sign that said "it's not about right or left, it's about right and wrong"
Looked up their policies they want a militant Christian Australia and to take over the local councils.
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Now instead of everything going up 7% a quarter it'll only go up 2%. Without a period of deflation caused by massive and sustained oversupply, prices are gonna keep increasing just by nowhere near as much.
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I mean
www.forbes.com/sites/derekn...
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But hey "something, something, marxist DEI" I'm sure not having enough qualified labour to power your advanced economy will work out great.
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This true, both here in Australia and there in the US.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The offshoring of manufacturing and production work, means western economies have shifted to more technology, service and knowledge-based economies. Thus, needing more higher ed graduates.
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The only discussion that's gonna happen is "stop trying to tax and fine techcapitalists and let our companies operate with impunity"
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Labor needs to get with the program and realize the US isn't our ally anymore.
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And agreed. Although, all the jobs I have done, were in manufacturing and production. So, more of a theoretical representation of what I believe cubical drone work is like.
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Never read the books, so can't personally speak to whether or not it's a good adaptation of the source material. But as a fan of all things dystopian and social commentary on hierarchical systems of class, I have highly enjoyed the first 2 seasons. Probably, more so than Snowpiercer's TV adaptation.
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I liked it, the sterile dread and fluorescent lighting of a newly renovated Centrelink office mixed with compartmentalized dynamic of work and life. Different strokes for different folks, though.
Have you tried Silo? That's a bit like Snowpiercer.
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Protests can be important for building our power and our community, for letting people know they're not alone, putting pressure on various local stake holders in meaningful ways, and opening opportunities for direct action. But locking down in an intersection isn't gonna make that more effective
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Does this mean I don't think you should protest? No. Protest is a core tool in the toolkit for a reason. But we should not put our effort, planning and time into doing something symbolic that will definitely end in our arrests, nor focus on protest as a site of communication or demand leveraging.
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If that was the case, UKlabor wouldn't be losing ground in the polls and pretty much hated by everyone. At least from what I've seen anyway.
Anyway man, it's dinner time here and I got start making some food. You have a good night and that.
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Can't speak to UK politics, in Australia.
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True, but oversimplified. It assumes their is no competing corporate interests, bankrolling different sets of policy.
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Agreed.
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I mean "climate change" is poorly formed terminology vs say anthropogenic global warming. It largely plays into RW talking points about how "the climate is always changing" and minimizes the anthropogenic nature of what we are talking about.
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Not mine, so I can't take credit for it. It's the title of a Howard Zinn book.
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Saying "my value-free research says we should stop the train because it's gonna crash head first into a brick wall" without helping people, trying to stop the train. Isn't useful to anyone.
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P.s what good is all this science and knowledge, if not used to argue for the betterment of society; socially, politically and economically?
And who better to make those arguments than scholars and scientists?