China is the same, but better at propaganda. There can be no centralized solution.

Dutch style bike infrastructure in the US.

Thanks!

Yeah, Kairos is a project I’ve been working on for a bit. The goal is to turn it into a book. I think I’ve got the majority of the first draft done. I have one or two more sections to write, then I need to clean it up.

For what it’s worth, this is also a bit of a draft. I’m basically writing a book in public. Feedback, including grammar, pointing out spelling and typos, or any clarifying questions, is all very welcome. I have added a section to the intro (for right now) to include acknowledgements. If you provide feedback, please let me know if you would not like to be included or if you’d like to be included in a specific way other than just your handle.

Exactly. Part of my thinking here was definitely influenced by Butler’s “Parable of the Sower.” She made pretty on point predictions about the direction of things by just observing the world. It’s pretty clear where this is going, and that’s exactly it.

Like… this is already Flint. This is already Detroit. The suburban ponzi scheme is running really thin. Things are going to change really radically or this is happening in the next 10 years (and probably a lot sooner).

I’ll have to remember to add a link to that in the essay. Thanks for the heads up!

They deport US citizens all the time.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-us-keeps-mistakenly-deporting-its-own-citizens/

“Rights” only make sense within an individualistic context. Rights can be asserted with violence alone, it is thus that only those with the capacity to express violence, or who can convince others to express violence on their behalf, have “rights.” We should, then, abandon the concept of “rights” entirely. We have, instead, obligations. We are obliged to defend the freedom of others that they may defend ours. We are obliged to support the community that has grown us. Our obligations build over time, and we fulfill them to the degree to which we have the ability to do so. We have obligations to our ancestors, and to those who come after us. Then we can’t simply walk away from others who are suffering and say, “I have my rights, and you have to fight for yours.”

This is simply more true to our reality than the concept of “rights” which itself comes from Roman laws about how men may control the slaves and women they “own.”

I’m sure Simone Weil said it better, but I only have a passing knowledge of her framework.

Cars are inherently reactionary.

Hey, what a cool way to find out about a really interesting community and term of which I hadn’t been aware. Cool stuff, subscribed!

I didn’t even realize she was still making content after whatever horrible take she had like 5 or 6 years ago or something. She did some great work early on, but unfortunately she kept going.

Call me when they go full on 1970’s urban guerilla and start kidnapping and executing oil execs, blowing up pipelines, and robbing banks that fund the industry. I honestly would be amazed if anything less worked.

Absolutely not.

This is Sports as a Weapon and InRangeTV. This is exactly what Tactical Girlfriend does. Anarchists and those who are close have been doing this FOR YEARS. Just stop ignoring us and listen to us.

Edit: I’m so sick of liberals erasing all of our work and then “coming up with a great strategy” that’s exactly the one we’ve been trying to get them to follow for almost a decade.

Edit: also, this is almost entirely the wrong take. Fash dump insane amounts of money in to brainwashing and the burning of the 3rd precinct was more popular than either political party. One fucking Luigi and their whole machine exploded in their face. The take away is that they are really fragile and really bad at this shit. We should celebrate and keep pushing.

You know what would help a lot? If liberals stopped fucking over leftists all the time. Just listen to anarchists instead of erasing us!

Edit: ffs.

Pretty sure the future isn’t every person carrying around multiple tons of steel with them every time they need some milk. The push isn’t to full sized electric cars, it’s to electric bikes and micro cars. But yes, China is doing both and the US auto Industry will collapse because it doesn’t care that people don’t want to drive something bigger than a tank.

It will not, but it will destroy everything it built and make capitalism impossible.

Then yeah, also congrats on not being American.

Oh, do you happen to have a military? That’s actually a big chunk of the reason Americans have such a high carbon footprint… That and an entire society built around making it almost impossible to live without a car.

Oh, you should stop by Amsterdam.

This is all that ever needs to be said any time anyone mentions the idea of a flying car.

https://youtu.be/6fcWOivJ6bs