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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 07:54:48 JST Jay Baker

   So some still believe it's important to pick one capitalist master over another as the planet is being destroyed by an ideology of endless growth? Firstly, has history taught them nothing? Obama/Biden leads to Trump just as Starmer will lead to Farage; the lack of genuine, urgently-needed alternatives to capitalist business-as-usual is what keeps people from mobilising like they actually desperately tried to do for even laughably mild social democrats like Bernie and Corbyn, who were cynically sabotaged by the same ghouls you want us to now vote for and reward. Some of us remember it, and were damaged for it, yet at least then saw state power for what it was: the same game that justifies dominant hierarchies of one group over another, extraction capitalism of supposedly "endless" profit and growth that will destroy us all. I will never applaud, or accept, a "leader," of any kind - but certainly never one who supports smears, genocide, the military industrial complex, cops, and capitalists. Instead, we must determinedly, steadfastly, pro-actively undermine the state and all the systems that legitimise it; we must reject false choices presented to us by the powerful, and we must destroy power itself, taking away its oppressive might.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 08:10:13 JST Jay Baker

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     There are many effective ways to do this (and developing a decentralised radical media network will be crucial to raising awareness, connecting communities, and an intersectional approach), but just some are mutual aid initiatives like mask blocs, continued mobilised resistance to oppression, workplace organising, renters unions, strikes, boycotts, and abolitionist movements, to name a few - all intersectional and horizontal, with community at their core, and direct democracy as their aim. And good grief, a major concern is the precious limited energy available for wonderful things like these being at risk of getting sucked into "get out the vote" drives, when we have so little time left to save ourselves. Switching the seats on the sinking ship and picking a different captain is obviously not going to help us when we need to be taking care of each other with lifeboats (literally and figuratively). "The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking." - Murray Bookchin

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 18:32:35 JST Jay Baker

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     • it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧

     @kathimmel Haha this atheist appreciates that!

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     it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧 (kathimmel@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 18:32:39 JST it's kat! 🍉✊🇱🇧

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     @MediaActivist i'm an atheist, but 'hallelujah!' seems the appropriate response to this.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 07:30:47 JST Jay Baker

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     Well that certainly provoked a few reactions (mostly good - which restores some faith, so keep believing, folks!)