We have renewed our passports for sure. The only other option here is just doing ideology atm, no material analysis whatsoever. Just today I saw a political lib post about how groundbreaking it is to consider how right wing populism is about rhetoric and how with rhetoric they are getting all this support.

The leftish parties just point at these rightwing nuts in outrage with no alternatives given, and then move on to the next outrage. They aren’t engaging in an analysis of the material conditions of these movements because if they did, they would get an answer they don’t like. And this is why I think things are going to get very bad before they get better.

I’m a bit over 40 and have moved fully to the left just in the past years. Getting a better paying job has just made me see the contradictions better.

As long as you are aware of the brainworms around you, they can’t get to you.

I also very much choose to focus on humanity, in my choice of media and in the things I pay attention to. I’d much rather make a note of the person helping someone else cross a street than a person behaving selfishly, because it matters. I feel the most nihilist people around me just pick and choose the most negative things that affirm their already shitty worldview to justify and uphold said worldview and through that their own apathy and lack of kindness.

Superstition by Stevie Wonder has to be up there, was the first that came to mind.

My take is that the focus on this as “a solution” is essentially a grift that gives libs a sense of “something is being done” much the same way recycling or many other green tech related things are. I don’t trust that it would be scalable or possible resource wise if the people telling me it is operate from the system we currently live in.

If we were not doing profit, I think stuff like this could be tried and studied absolutely, but then again humans could live without meat just fine too. So to me putting those resources to farming soy would make much more sense than manifacturing fake meat in factories.

It seems like it’s a luxury product for a world of scarcity to make some feel that they better off than others. Essentially the whole thing feels very capitalist logic coded.

Oh my goodness, as a woman I’m so glad A MAN is there to make sure a freaking flashlight doesn’t come with a too complicated UI for my lady brain…

A wild mushrooms salad is really nice. The salad has preserved mushrooms, onions and mayo in it, can use vegan mayo.

Pickled onions, mushrooms, cumumbers and other pickles are good too.

I really like a tomato, basil & mozzarella sandwich, but this isn’t vegan.

Bell peppers on a sandwich are also really good raw, they have such a good crunch. I often have sliced bell pepper with some fresh cheese product, ricotta or such.

A paste with sun dried tomatoes and olive oil is very good.

Vegan cheese is also pretty easy to make so I sometimes use that.

Then I make this vegan lax from carrots that is amazing on a sandwich. It’s all flavour and very easy to make. You pickle a carrot that has been thinly sliced lenghtwise in salt, liquid smoke, sugar and spices of choice overnight.

A bit of a side tract, but ffs how shitty it is that these ghouls have just taken all these words and names from lotr and use them in their imperialism to make it sound cool and good actually. Our poor good western world just fighting againts the dark lords of the world, just like Aragorn. It is nauseating because it is so deeply disingenious (unless these people believe in their own bullshit).

This really is such a breath of fresh air.

I was just telling a lib friend tonight who said they are constantly disappointed in other people not thinking for themselves or seriously engaging with anything, that I have found this corner on the internet where I can enjoy reading the smartest most thoughtfull and well sourced takes on pretty much everything. And that it has greatly increased my life quality and mental health. It’s like the discussion club I never had, even though I rarely take part. I love reading the discussions here.

Also great shitposting.

Yeah. Where I live the smaller towns used to have a rule where street lights would turn off at 11pm every night. A few still do. That alone would make a huge difference.

I used to live on an actual island as a kid and that real darkness and those stars I will never forget and will always miss. The sleep you get in real dark (and silence) is just different.

Living in a city now that wants to be very modern and touristy they are ruining everything with lights, even most historic buildings get these stupid huge ad screens attached on them. Everything from bus stops to parks is just bright as day 24/7.

I could also expand this to sound, or car noise. It is so taxing.

Same. We went to visit the seaside this weekend and someone had built a big luxury housing unit right next to the ocean with these really bright street lights on the yard. The lights blinded the cabins we were in from seeing the night sky and I am sure nobody who lives in that luxury building can see the stars at all. Like why would you decide to go live in a place like that and then just ruin the things that are great about it.

I also feel like the lighting thing has gotten fully out of hand in the last decades with cheap and way too bright led lighting, every little nook and corner is now littered with bright lights. We get northern lights where I live, saw the most pathetic shade of one here last winter after walking to a park where there is a tiny tiny corner of less light and it just made me feel incredibly sad. Like this wonder that should be a part of our experiences as humans gets taken from us and is treated like it’s nothing. We are alienated from darkness and silence both, we would need both I feel.

Not sure if this is the most radical, but light pollution has to go or lessen. In urban areas nobody can even see the stars anymore. In my country it is impossible to see the milky way, it was still visible about ten years ago in remote areas.

It also affects trees and plants, stresses out wildlife and just in general is bad. Also pointless energy consumption.

Also ban big ad screens that blink or exist in cities or roadsides.

This is definitely political, but I struggle to think of anything that isn’t.

Thanks for the dedication, this show used to my weekly tv date for years.

Have started posting a lot more ML stuff on the Mastodon side of things and have noticed my posts get a lot less action now, even stuff fully unrelated to politics.

Wondering if there is a way to see how blocked by other instances you are? I am on a tiny server, but used to get a lot more “visibility” for my posts. I know most severs are full into the “no tankies”-thing but it feels a bit disheartening.

This is a link to the profile: https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti

Did not link the original as it is visible from the server I myself am on. You can find the screenshotted post in his replies.

Doesn’t it just? It also feels incredibly condesending and high horsy in a shitty “nordic” way that becomes very familiar to you if you live here.

Yeah pretty much same. When I was still a radlib I considered voting for them at least once, the Greens I did vote for and will always regret that in hindsight.

I think it was the last election when I read their political program just to see if they have even one thing in it addressing the economy or challenging capitalism, they did not. Asked the guy who was running on Twitter why that is, got some wishywashy answer on how they think it is still best to just try and “regulate it better”.

It also has a very libertarian vibe as a party.

Yes. This is about the nordic model imo, he opens with “as a nordic”.

I’m pretty sure it isn’t. I think it’s defending nordic capitalism that guys like these think is somehow very socialism, because the government did stuff decades ago. Or it’s a defense of the Nordic welfare state that was and is very much modelled after a very different sort of project, the kind that is explained here: https://hexbear.net/post/2585093

It really is. It is one of the more angering and sad bits of the bourge rewritinh of our history. Especially how succesful it has been.

I remember growing up people like my grandpa were proud Lenin guys, not many decades later it is a taboo. It alignes a lot with the CIA deployed “finlandization” propaganda, the fall of the Soviet and the shock therapy lite they implemented here in the 90s.

News related, mainly highlights how Finland is sliding more and more to the side of US imperialism and how history gets rewritten in real time.

https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/the-lenin-museum-in-finland-will-be-closed-down-in-2024/