Climbed the fences at the state fair with some friends.

Found out I could GPS spoof my signal for my work app due to faulty security measures. I could sign into it, enable the spoof app, then “start” my round and repeat when I need to log that I “visited” a location. It was for a security guard gig at a shitty company. Exploitative practices and low pay, literally no days off, had to use my vehicle but no gas or maintenance reimbursement. So, I said fuck em. It was during COVID, the position had no oversight, and they had already fucked me twice over before. All the buildings were empty anyway. I just checked in on them when I felt and fibbed all the logs for what they actually wanted from me.

Bro was running on fumes 💨

It is sad how much people underestimate just how insidious businesses can be when it comes to manipulation of consumers. If it isn’t explicitly illegal and easily enforceable, then it is a safe bet to assume that those who sit at the top are going to use it to its fullest extent in the pursuit of profit.

Italy is also home of the people who responded to that regime by dragging Mussolini and his wife’s bodies after their assassination across the country back to Milan, where they were unceremoniously dumped in a town square to be humiliated and desecrated, then hung on girders above a service station in the square by their ankles until they fell and subsequently were buried in unmarked graves.

It is an incredibly niche part of the gender nonconformity movement in that some nonbinary individuals don’t want to use the neutral “they”, and instead want unique pronouns such as “xi/xir” or some such.

I personally don’t agree with it. I’ll just continue to use the singular “they”, as it is gender neutral and works independently of where the individual being referred to sits on the gender spectrum, or use their name, as it is already the unique designation to refer to the specific individual.

Just in case, for the non-Americans from regions that do not have the specific brand, the sub name is in reference to prepackaged “Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice” which is used in this specific mushroom growing tek.

Yes, the state hierarchy has employed authoritarian violence against the people of the region… which will inevitably happen any time workers attempt to threaten the power of the dominant system and take back control over what is rightfully theirs from an unjust authority. That is just the logical outcome. It was the same when Feudalism’s system of absolute monarchy was being threatened by the growing popularity of capitalist Liberalism’s system of constitutional monarchy.

Hierarchical authority enforces its power over the people through implied violence of the system. “Obey the law (i.e. the will of those who hold authority in written form) or we will arrest/fine you (i.e. restrict your personal autonomy and/or access to goods and services).” When people disobey that system and disregard the threat of implied violence, it will always resort to employing overt violence to maintain their enforcement of their authority through the institution that is known as the police. This is why we say ACAB.

It just means workers need to be prepared for it so they can stand their ground and exert their own authority, even by engaging in their own acts of violence if necessary. All authority must enforce its control for it to be considered legitimate afterall.

Or the much closer Zapatistas.

Couldn’t be more proud of every one of those workers. Take back what is yours, boys!

Fuck the Panama State for, as expected, employing authoritarian violence against workers standing up to oppression from a soulless corporate entity.

Goes to show who the state really cares about. It isn’t the people.

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.” — Immortan Joe

Happening all over the globe. The capitalist hegemony is getting scared because their system is collapsing in on itself and, through the imperial boomerang, are beginning to employ practices only performed abroad on the interior in order to maintain their power. The US is just far ahead of the curve due to its lack of a functioning political leftwing keeping things in check.

Now is most certainly the time for people to unionize and start relearning why unions formed in the first place: so workers can band together to exert their political will and take ownership over their workplace from a parasitic class that has only ever existed to exploit our labor.

The problem is you still care about companies. I don’t. My position isn’t “fuck the current players for not innovating” it is “fuck them for exploiting the needs of people, in this specific instance the need of transportation, for profits and their unjust system of private ownership that allows for it to occur.”

The only thing Chinese cars being shipped here does is provide more cars. That’s a good thing for people who need cars. Anything beyond this isn’t my concern. I don’t care if it is bad for the owners of companies; that’s the fault of the system that requires them to compete for profit in order to be a valid business under the capitalist system. Manufacturing in this country can adapt and change their production and distribution to a different economic model, or they can get fucked honestly. If they don’t, then, eventually, the system that gives them control over these resources will collapse, which to me is a good thing, and then people can take back control of what is rightfully ours from the parasitic class, and we can change the economic model without the need for their input.

All of your arguments are still based around the capitalist system. I don’t care about it, if my needs and desires make it “bad for business”, then boohoo. Change the system so it is no longer a problem. The interests of companies and their owners mean nothing to me.

So your solution is change the whole system so you can buy a dumped Chinese car without any guilt?

And for the record, I wasn’t attacking you personally. I was calling you out for using rhetoric, quoted above, that was deliberately phrased to undermine my argument. That was a bad faith argument and I was heated as I didn’t appreciate my argument being blatantly misrepresented.

Never said a reliance. Just because they dump cars here doesn’t mean we lose our abilities to make our own. It just means we have more cars available. Which is a good thing. The only thing it is bad for is owners of business under the capitalist system but fuck the owners of businesses under the capitalist system.

Balrum

Beautiful isometric game inspired by 80’s and 90’s CRPGs.

Die.

A LOT

“buy”

How can you buy something in a system that doesn’t utilize monetary economics nor private systems of ownership?

And having easy access to transportation is but one of many reasons to change the system. Don’t act dumb with bad faith arguments like trying to frame it as the only reason.

The problem is that people are not exercising their political power to the fullest extent.

Going to a demonstration where people are just standing around and voice their concerns doesn’t actually exert any legitimate political power. It is toothless. Failure to listen to demands doesn’t hold any consequences for them or threaten their control. They know we will all still have to go home and participate in the system that they control and gives them their power over us.

Protests of the past worked because the people stopped listening to their authority and threatened to take back control for themselves. That took monumental efforts of organizing to allow people to exert their own political power over their labor in order to put a wrench into the gears of the system.

The point of a protest is for, the reason it worked in the past was due to, people taking a stand to say “change this system to better benefit us or we are going to change it without you”

It’s time to start changing.

This country is so fucking stupid and brainwashed.

The establishment has spent the last century doing everything in its power to control the narrative around the Civil Rights Movement (and, even though not mentioned, the Labor Movement before it) into this idealized “peaceful revolution”, making sure to erase any mentions of the effective methods which were able to buckle the system and force it to listen to demands from our education.

This article explains exactly why and proves that they were effective in their efforts. Now, when we need to do the same thing as our forefathers, no one knows what we need to do, and insist on copying half measures without understanding the full picture of why those methods worked in the first place. People have this idealized vision of that time period; a vision that was tailor made to ensure compliance and that they be wary of those who actually know the truth and advocate for effective methods of protest or alternatives.

I remember when that documentary came out.

That feels like a lifetime ago. Everyone I knew thought it was over exaggerating and sensationalizing things.

God I hate how stubborn people are.