Notices by #StopGargronCity (noyovo@rage.love)

claiming that certain people are cops/snitches/etc. *without producing evidence* is often an easier way to attack people's legitimacy than making a political argument, because arguments can be contentious, resting on assumptions & values that aren't "agreed upon" the way that "cops ruin social movements" is. it's also quite popular with actual cops & snitches, who use it to deflect suspicion from themselves.

don't copjacket or snitchjacket. there can be good reasons to be *suspicious* of people, to investigate, ask pointed questions, or preemptively keep your distance. but the shitty truth is that most of us are capable of all kinds of fuckups without being on government payroll.

A lot of people have been saying for a while that the official #Mastodon mobile app is shit because it explicitly removes lots of features & we believe them

We usually use #Semaphore (browser based) & #Tusky (android) tho neither are flawless & we welcome alternative suggestions in the replies of this post

In general, once you feel like you get the space on a basic level you may wanna consider starting to look at alternatives to a lot of official/default fediverse stuff. Even if you decide you don't like them you get an idea of what's out there

#AFLCIA is a super racist union that spent the 20th century attacking anyone they felt was a communist, both within & without the u.s. They endorse conservative democrats in elections, & their reaction to the #BLM movement has been to repeatedly shut down attempts by their own members to kick out the thousands of cops, prison guards, & other fascists they count among their members. Leftists beware #1u

https://union.place/@aflcio/109323947885315822

Do people have opinions about #Akkoma, #Calckey, & #Foundkey they'd like to share, especially in comparison to masto forks?

From a guardian article about the leaked section of an upcoming IPCC report:

"The top 10% of emitters globally, who are the wealthiest 10%, contribute between 36 and 45% of emissions, which is 10 times as much as the poorest 10%, who are responsible for only about three to 5%, the report finds. “The consumption patterns of higher income consumers are associated with large carbon footprints. Top emitters dominate emissions in key sectors, for example the top 1% account for 50% of emissions from aviation,” the summary says."

We've said this before but we'll say it again:

If you talk about how "we" are "destroying the planet" or how "humanity" is responsible for global warming, you are effectively covering up the fact that *specific* people have taken *specific* actions to create this situation.

Those people are overwhelmingly white & overwhelmingly wealthy.

To act like it's "everyone's" responsibility is effectively victim blaming.

It's equally important to note that those outside the global elite live in a world largely *designed* by this elite. So when someone in "the middle" takes an international flight to visit family, for example, no, they do not share equal responsibility with everyone else who got on a plane that day.

A transnational capitalist flying on business, a european homeowner flying on vacation, & an immigrant worker being deported might each take up one seat, but their roles in creating the *world* in which people travel by plane or any other means are enormously different.

Both complicity & resistance can happen at all levels of society but when a lot of white progressives & people who think like white progressives talk about this shit they are very quick to re-impose white universalism when that viewpoint is largely responsible for the plethora of genocides & ecocides we're currently in the middle of.

For context:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/07/how-much-money-you-need-to-be-in-the-richest-10-percent-worldwide.html

"According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute...

A net worth of $93,170 U.S. is enough to make you richer than 90 percent of people around the world... The institute defines net worth, or 'wealth,' as 'the value of financial assets plus real assets (principally housing) owned by households, minus their debts...

If you have just $4,210 to your name, you're still richer than half of the world's residents."

These are pre-pandemic numbers so if anything we would guess these numbers have actually decreased (meaning it takes even less for someone to be relatively wealthy on a global scale).

$ 93,170 U.S. =
€ 78.954,26
¥ 603.499,36
CFA 52.009.664,86
B$ 488.294,65
Rs 6.910.116,10

$4,210 U.S. =
€ 3.567,97
¥ 27.269,85
CFA 2.350.120,09
B$ 22.056,61
Rs 312.242,02

persia.social

The person who started this instance is a persian monarchist, aka a fascist. If you don't know what that means:

The instance's official symbol is a lion-and-sun flag, which was the symbol of the persian empire for centuries until the shah (#iran's former monarch) was overthrown in 1979. This is an empire where the elite were literally importing Black people as slaves into the 20th century. The last shah tried to build a reputation as a "modernizer", which in practice meant turning iran into a petro-state, building up one of the most vicious & violent political police forces ever (SAVAK), & ramping up genocide against the diverse peoples living under the regime by pushing a nationalist, we're-all-iranian identity (that's part of what the frequent use of 'persian' is about - supremacy over kurds, baloch, azerbaijani, turkmen, arabs, & numerous other peoples the empire oppresses). They also play on european racism a lot by shouting "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC" at every opportunity.

Supporting fascists just because they're against the current government is a shit political position to take, don't do it when there are other options.

Some sample posts from the admin:
https://persia.social/@kambiz/109668198238339330
https://persia.social/@kambiz/109666881737483583
https://persia.social/@kambiz/109660013732855467

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