VerticaGG

joined 5 months ago
[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely -- being fed up with the state of the industry -- but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here's what's kept me optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to "reject isms/be your own ism"

Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Lmao get out you weird bigot

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

https://resonate.coop/ is a spotify alternative which has been goin on for several years now. Support for small artists goes far, solidarity for all workers, Co-Ops represent a neccesary stepping stone towards a sustainable society so Subvert is nice to learn about :)

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No way you even read all that. More proof you're not here in good faith. Dont be surprised noone wants to engage with your mindtrack even in the most milktoast-mild of leftist community. Byyeeeee

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

As someone who's not a doomer, with her Rage fueled Hope, and Hope fueled Rage:

Deep down, I know you cant believe this status quo can stand for much longer than it has.

If someone earns a dollar they didnt work for, someone else worked for a dollar they didnt earn.

As someone who's transitioned out of economic privilege, I know how hollow all that iPicketFence really is.

You cant really expect others to aspire to that plastic existence.

You can't really believe that endless colonization, that your comfort depending on someone of lower economic class existing, wont eventually result in fascism.

So that's why the "Scratch a lib and a fash bleeds" phrase rings true. Thank you for airing out all your laundry for all to screencap, demonstrating just how that when we discuss what neoliberalism pushes, we can see it for thr prefiguration of a right wing authoritarian regime waiting to cannibalize it's own nation.

Austerity Kills. Food Not Bombs. Housing is a human right. No Human is Illegal. Threats to the bodily autonomy of any Non-Man or Non-White are a threat for all. These are not utopia or naive, these are the bare basic conditions of humanity that have been stolen from the people, and causes for which local organizing today can tangibly improve lives being lived now AND prefigure a society that we can maybe even, someday have good reason to be proud of. Screw the fear, screw the dread, go build some connections with folks who are also putting in the work for these things, it reinvigorates the soul. (And sure helps reduce time spent with your pocket amulet)

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Ive got much better things to do and a painful awareness of how much time gets sucked into these apps. As such, I engage on my terms:

Dont wait or engage too much with bait like the poster im replying to comrades. Organize, be out with your local community and build that dual power. Dont let the threat of state violence or surveillance cow you into policing your own beliefs. Fight for your rights bc you need them, because Only We Keep Us Safe.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

🎵 The price of convenience will be our defeat 🎵

I'd also reccomend Skyline Blvd, John's Song and Times New Roman. Oh and Sleepwalker, from the Destroy What Destroys you album

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can take those 3 arrows out of your pfp now. Ancap ass or 3-letter agent bullshit is all you espouse. Working class traitor

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Youth liberation is so key.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9r_BYSBia9HLaEV1kaInTB_ltiC1v4R

Ive seen most all of Andrewisms entries to this.

Indeed, Trans Kids are Deserving of the Choice to avert a puberty they Clearly Do. Not. Want.

Anything else is heirarchal domination and authoritarian violence; and speaking firsthand as a person who got to her late 20's b4 realizing she was in denial: is deeply traumatizing.

The good news is therapy works. The bad news is "To con someone is easy, you need only to pull one over on their intelect. To convince that same person they've been conned is much harder: you have to overcome their ego."

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

For whoever's interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0

Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.

As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:

https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Thanks, the added context makes sense of it.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Woulda thought you were a transphobe had i not checked your post history...(not that trans folks cant be transphobic...so...) what do you mean by this?

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