Free_Appalachia

Productivity is such a bullshit idea… Like how do you measure productivity? In GDP? Because in that sense, inflation increases productivity (nevermind that what that really means is that more money moved around simply because everything costs more). Or are you measuring units shipped? What units? In what way could these be equivalent. Output for outputs sake is the definition of bullshit jobs. Most of this productivity people talk about is actually just meaningless toiling for meaningless output. We aren’t building homes or harvesting food or in any way bettering our lives, we are toiling towards tricking rocks into being forced to suffer consciousness or something as closely approximating that as possible. Leave the pretty rocks alone and do something useful, for something other than GDPee growth. In what way is making the number go whirrrrr worth destroying the biosphere? Nobody is happy. The rich are miserable because as it turns out even being the first person to a trillion net worth can’t fill the dad shaped hole in your heart and the poor are miserable because meaningless toil is not a great recipe for fulfillment. This whole system up to and including AI needs to go full sui, so we can get back to picking fleas of eachother’s backs… Or you know, whatever the fuck you feel like doing when society doesn’t have a gun to your head.

Fascism is here. It requires no acceleration. I am talking about sabotaging it, not accelerating towards some unknown end. I don’t think it serves anybody to pretend the democrats are just failing at socialism and not actually also in favor of fascism (which is their actual position). People went looking for the solution to Neoliberalism and as is the historical precedent, they landed on fascism. That already happened. That is not something that may happen in the future. So currently the appropriate response to this strengthening and consolidation of fascism is to try to sabotage that process any way you can… Even if it hurts everyday people at times. We are no longer in the battle for hearts and minds, we lost that battle in the US. We are in the resistance and sabotage stage and from your response, I am reminded that people still don’t seem to know that yet for some reason. I knew that when Elon gave the Nazi salute and Democrats came out of the woodwork to defend that. Helping fascism limp along helps nobody. We need to give it’s collapse a hand. While fascism’s biggest enemy is the misery of the conditions it creates on its own. Left to fail on its own could take a century or more. I don’t have that kind of time, because for me and the people I know enduring some of the worst parts of this, we need this to end much more quickly. Economics is the best way you could choose to fight that unless you just want to armchair forever as it seems supposed leftists are quite content to do. Progressives are being pummeled and all they ever have done when they win elections is just not accelerate fascism, but look where we are. We currently have concentration camps… If thats progressives winning leave me out of that bullshit.

I think the more economic harm this does, the better. Trump can’t expand an empire that can’t hold itself up under the weight of his stupid decisions. Does it hurt us back here in the US? Absolutely it does. But this is the politics we have done everything in our power not to change, so I think we clearly need to be hurting as a result of our decisions if we want any chance of people starting to make different ones. This pain is nowhere near deep enough yet, despite the fact that GDP adjusted to consider inflation has been worse than flat. Despite the impending bond market collapse. Despite the K shaped economy and the very clear AI pump and dump that will become a dump any day now. We are on the precipice of several unavoidable economic crises in the US… We will not see different decisions until people stop making money from the things that are a cash cow for them currently. AI is being hyped as having the ability to change our lives and everything will be better (despite only apparent negative consequences visible so far)… Eventually that is going to fall out, just like crypto did. People should be heading for the proverbial hills, but they aren’t. AmeriKKKa has been propped up for so long by subsidies for oligarchs that we can sort of coast through a crisis for a while before being forced to course correct. I would say we have reached the confluence of these crises already and the gas prices just make all of these crises intensify more quickly. The sooner it crumbles… The sooner we can change it. So I think this coasting we are doing now, actually serves to make for a much deeper crisis later. For those of us that know that nothing will get better until we can knock down all of these structures first, that is a good thing. To those who were hoping to retire with what used to be the AmeriKKKan standard of living… Probably might want to consider moving to a country with single payer healthcare and standards of decency for their citizens. Our prioritization of capital has ensured that the people in the US will have no safety net while all of the systems they thought they could rely on violently collapse. I’d be pulling my money out now if I hadn’t already done that when Trump got elected. Everything they do is a pump and dump that relies on you following them into bad investments that they get out of once sufficiently pumped and you get left with a bunch of worthless stock or crypto or whatever. Gas prices are going to be the least of your worries soon.

I would hope to see a massive shift towards e-bikes… I have heard people talk about them. Have i seen anybody shift in that direction? No.

baahahahahahahahaha. oh… uh. Wait, are we the joke?