Notices by Lucifer ☄️ (lucifermorningstar@evil.social)

@jeffowski@mastodon.world This is a little something to remind our American friends of a time when they knew what to do with fascists

Americans, a shocking amount of your laws aren't written by legislators, they're written by private corporations and promoted by publications taking press releases from think tanks funded by the same dark money

https://prospect.org/power/2023-10-04-alec-50-years-right-wing-law-factory/

They keep on finding that leaving homeless people on the street is more expensive than just giving them housing, or in this case, money.

Never let your political leadership deny that homelessness is a policy choice, not a fact of life or an unchangeable reality.

@feld@bikeshed.party I think my first suggestion would be for people to recognize they have power, but only if they use it.
If you use yours to argue that everything is hopeless, you're right but in a self-fulfilling-prediction way, not in the way you want.

The reason a mass strike is unlikely is that nobody talks to people about the value of unions and Fox News won't shut up about how they steal your money and make America poor.
Go talk to your friends about how when they killed off unions they also killed off the American middle class and the way to get it back is by reestablishing labor's negotiating power and getting money out of politics

@feld@bikeshed.party Well if negotiation requires the threat of violence, it's worth acknowledging that the status quo is enforced with that same threat.

If you want change, you have to play the game as it is
And you can't pretend there's a 'right' way that doesn't upset power
That privilege is reserved for status-quo stans that would really rather you rolled over without a fight

@feld@bikeshed.party What part of 'self-governance' or 'negotiation' says violence to you? Genuinely curious

@feld@bikeshed.party It's worth noting that the system that exists is rooted in the notion of self-governance and if the people don't like the deal on offer, the deal is subject to negotiation

Shitposting to troll the 'but the economy' people every time they demand human sacrifice for the economy's sake