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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 20:34:05 JST Jay Baker

   I'm amazed that we're in the Late Capitalism of conflicts, climate emergency, refugees blocked off from ring-fenced resources, and rising threat of nuclear wars, and somehow there are still people who claim to believe that mass concentrations of centralised power and nation states are a good idea.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 20:32:13 JST Jay Baker

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     I felt compelled to give this a boost because, you know, professional politicians are playing real-life Battleship for their votes and careers and corporate pals no matter how many people get slaughtered, so things are ramped up even more today. But by this rationale I'll be boosting it every day with the grim prospects ahead so it's pretty foolish of me. FFS we have to oppose the very principle of hierarchical government and nation states, we have to delegitimise them, undermine them with things like mutual aid; all that drained energy for voting and playing by their rules is making things worse - always has - and we've little time left. Every spare moment we have left is crucial. Every bit of energy we have left to use must create community resistance.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:50:36 JST Jay Baker

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     • HeavenlyPossum

     @HeavenlyPossum Exactly.

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     HeavenlyPossum (heavenlypossum@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:50:37 JST HeavenlyPossum

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     @MediaActivist

     There are still people who claim that things are obviously going catastrophically wrong but all we need to fix things is one more policy nudge, one more think tank study, one more electoral victory, and we’ll finally get back on the right track.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:16:34 JST Jay Baker

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     • George Laskowsky

     @glaskows I believe the problem *is* power.

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     George Laskowsky (glaskows@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:16:36 JST George Laskowsky

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     @MediaActivist While I understand where you are coming from, not voting in the current climate is a terrible idea.

     Right wing extremists are pretty well organized and motivated to vote. If moderate people don't vote, expect more right wing nuts in power.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:38:09 JST Jay Baker

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     • George Laskowsky

     @glaskows I don't believe that, though, either, which I'm sure you'd expect. As you say, you understand I believe that power itself is the problem - therefore I reject the claim that we have "democracies" under hierarchies with concentrations of centralised power consisting of a careerist class of professional politicians. The fact is, no government ever has liberated, nor ever will liberate, all its people from oppression. Pumping activist energies into doomed "get out the vote" drives is buying more time for capitalists while our planet is being destroyed. They're laughing at us. It's really too bad.

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     George Laskowsky (glaskows@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 22:38:10 JST George Laskowsky

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     @MediaActivist I understand you believe that. I just don't share your all or nothing view on it.

     Democracies are not perfect, and we still need to find ways to defend them from autocrats, fascism and capitalism, but I believe it is the best way to organize the desires and needs of billions of people.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:05:58 JST Jay Baker

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     • Jugular Malloy

     @jugularmalloy Well yeah obvs I was bring facetious in my expression of amazement. But good points!

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     Jugular Malloy (jugularmalloy@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 02:05:59 JST Jugular Malloy

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     @MediaActivist It's not amazing that people still think that mass concentrations of power are a good idea in Westernised cultures under Capitalism because imaginings of anything different are strictly kept out of school curriculums. Storytellers who imagine decentralised possibilities do not have large platforms on which to paint these possibilities because the power to create cultural platforms comes from that mass centralisation of power. We gotta decentralise culture.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 03:06:37 JST Jay Baker

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     • Jugular Malloy

     @jugularmalloy Ah not at all, haha, please keep sharing, I'm really loving your posts!

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     Jugular Malloy (jugularmalloy@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 03:06:38 JST Jugular Malloy

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     @MediaActivist ha ha aaah of course, sorry i was being a bit literal/looking for any excuse to say what's on my mind :)

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 03:33:58 JST Jay Baker

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     • Jugular Malloy

     @jugularmalloy It may well have been more a case of just finding it difficult to argue with, imho!

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     Jugular Malloy (jugularmalloy@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 03:33:59 JST Jugular Malloy

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     @MediaActivist aw thanks! Shame I probably overwhelmed the person I was replying to but nice to be appreciated anyhoo

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 03:46:43 JST Jay Baker

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     • Jugular Malloy

     @jugularmalloy No, no, I agree completely; there was nothing about it that needed to be argumentative. I think there were some really brilliant helpful useful points but sadly not everyone is ready or willing to learn different perspectives.

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     Jugular Malloy (jugularmalloy@kolektiva.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 03:46:44 JST Jugular Malloy

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     @MediaActivist That's a real shame because I was deliberately avoiding engaging in the form of an argument, and was just trying to answer the question they asked about what de-centralised political organisation might look like. I recognise how difficult it is for people to engage in a conversation about de-centralisation (or anarchism for that matter) without any frame of reference. They seemed like a thoughtful person so I was hoping they'd be interested in the answer.Maybe they're still fresh from Twitter.