I could write an entire other thing on how LA stole all the water from the Owens valley and basically killed an entire agricultural region off. They’re getting ready to do the exact same thing to the San Joaquin valley but I don’t wanna do a writeup in defence of White farmers in the valley given they are basically settlers and to this day they oppress tf out of immigrant labour. A fight between the reactionary city libs and the reactionary (mostly White) rural farm owners is a fight i truly do not give a fuck about. It’s kind of a “play stupid games win stupid prizes” moment

they have such a long history of this. they did this massive to the Black community some decades ago, moving a lot of them up to the desert so they could gentrify neighbourhoods and build more freeways. the defence industry was supposed to provide all these great jobs for everybody in the desert, but they didn’t and basically the high desert region just because even poorer and more disaffected.

they’re doing it again btw. the new mayor has the cops telling unhoused people to move up to the desert and guess what? i have something like 50 solar plants i manage in that area and now all the wire has been stolen from nearly all of them because the cops sent a bunch of unhoused people to camp up there with no resources and they’re desperate.

which is funny lol. we have insurance, i don’t care if they wanna steal our wire, but that being said, it’s extremely dangerous for them to be doing that and I’m really afraid i’m gonna find a dead person who got electrocuted someday

It’s really interesting. I have lived here for a long time, and I have lived in different major cities in the state. I was here in 2020 when we were getting arrested protesting, and I have supported strikes and done other on-the-ground organising with the org i used to be a part of.

I think it’s really important to remember that the vast majority of the people in this city, by population, are struggling working class, non-white people. The people who hold power are viscious liberals who engage in the some of the most naked cutthrought neoliberal politics imaginable, but the people are not. I think that most of the population in the cities is not inherently reactionary. There’s just nobody who has presented them with a coherent left wing project so most of them are just disaffected and not engaged politically.

Among people in my social circle (20-30 year old queer people) the realities of the US’s criminal history aren’t controversial. The problem I run into is more the indoctrination against “authoritarianism” which everybody gets a healthy dose of in school, that being said, if you bring up the Black Panthers, it’s pretty easy to get people on board because everybody respects what that group did.

I guess what I’m saying, is that I feel it’s much easier to organise a large volume of struggling warehouse/service industry workers than it is to organise the rural folks who are still in complete denial about the genocide and imperialism they are directly benefitting from. People in the city benefit from it t0o, but it’s much easier to get them to understand and reckon with that whereas the rural folks seem to be more strongly attached to the myth of personal success and more invested in reaction.

My point is, a united front against fascism could be organised across tendency boundaries in the city. There are people doing this work, but it’s hard and we need more.

yup. it’s really sad, and it’s also terrifying to me as a minority person

edit: i should mention that a LOT of countries sterilise trans people. like, it’s a requirement to transition in a LOT of places

I posted about this on one of my subreddits too. Time to get the ban hammer out for the comment section

i like listening to radio havana at night https://www.radiohc.cu/audio_en_tiempo_real

uwu

uwu i’m still here! i’ve been going through all kinds of shit lately changing jobs and stuff lol. i have neglected my online duties

idfk i usually do one of a few things

sometimes i write in Juan Guiado (if the US loves him so much, then they can elect him)

sometimes i write in a nice encouraging note to the ballot counter (“you are a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day” this does two things, it’s super annoying cause it has to be manually reviewed, and also maybe some random person will smile)

sometimes when it’s like a local election there’s actually a tiny bit of incremental good that can happen so i vote for those sometimes like in a school board situation where there’s someone who will do a better free lunch program or something small like that

hoenstly this year i just threw the entire ballot in the trash. i’m too discouraged to even go through it

alright, here is what I will do. for the time being, I will make the archive available in an sqlite format. it will have text and comments + URLs for videos and images

in a second archive I will include images by submission I’d

in a third archive I will place videos

I should have time to get it together and up on my site during the last week of this month>

probably going to do the lemmy archive community idea. i could provide it as a download, but it would be massive lol, it’s a lot of content.

ya it would but i’m a terrible web admin so we’ll see if it happens lol

of course!

epically based! yes indeed

I used to but I stopped hosting it because it was clunky (i wrote it in PHP lmfao)

I think a lemmy instance would be much nicer looking. I think either a GZD archive community here or a dedicated archive instance that is federated would be nice.

it does and federation is working

i wonder how long before some redditors start fucking with it

ya, i’ve thought about doing that but it kind of defeats the point of using matrix. im still undecided on it

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tysm to u/Ancient_Might_5820 for suggesting the picture!!!