All american cities were built that way until the suburbs were deliberately built to destroy that, because there was more profit in the system of private vehicles. (Along with everything else that falls on each individual in the suburbs, which also prevents us from organizing, which benefits the designers of this system)
Your problem is assuming if it can’t be done by one person, single-handedly, then it can’t be done at all. For every person that thinks like this, our capacity as a class is reduced.
Sure, we have leftists in America; we just removed on Lemmy instead of actually stand on street corners handing out pamphlets.
lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven’t gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.
Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.
Thank you for making my point. You can think what you want. Mutual aid is great, and it’s great you have the means for it, but it’s a band aid at best and it isn’t an organized movement aimed at addressing the fact that our system is more dedicated to the needs of capital than it is to the needs of people. That’s why the city won’t do shit, because they aren’t serving you.
AFAIK the other EU/EFTA countries aren’t much better when it comes to rightwing authoritarianism. Even the ones that currently have center-left governments usually have a strong far right opposition waiting for next election, and a lot of the time the center-left governments are already enacting rightwing authoritarian policies (see UK).
But fair, Germany should know better given its history, but instead it just made them more vulnerable to Israeli propaganda and blackmail.
US pilled
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All american cities were built that way until the suburbs were deliberately built to destroy that, because there was more profit in the system of private vehicles. (Along with everything else that falls on each individual in the suburbs, which also prevents us from organizing, which benefits the designers of this system)
Your problem is assuming if it can’t be done by one person, single-handedly, then it can’t be done at all. For every person that thinks like this, our capacity as a class is reduced.
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lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven’t gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.
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Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.
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Thank you for making my point. You can think what you want. Mutual aid is great, and it’s great you have the means for it, but it’s a band aid at best and it isn’t an organized movement aimed at addressing the fact that our system is more dedicated to the needs of capital than it is to the needs of people. That’s why the city won’t do shit, because they aren’t serving you.
My call out was not constructive, but it wasn’t intended to be. You can always emigrate.
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Germany is going to turn you away because they’re also becoming rightwing authoritarian, not because they think US immigrants are too fascist.
Also, they’re too scared of the US to officially grant US citizens asylum, even if they did want to do that.
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AFAIK the other EU/EFTA countries aren’t much better when it comes to rightwing authoritarianism. Even the ones that currently have center-left governments usually have a strong far right opposition waiting for next election, and a lot of the time the center-left governments are already enacting rightwing authoritarian policies (see UK).
But fair, Germany should know better given its history, but instead it just made them more vulnerable to Israeli propaganda and blackmail.
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