In Warframe there's this debt internment colony called Fortuna you can ally with. The workers there are slaves who are working to pay off their debts. Most of those debts come from them buying expensive cybernetics which are necessary for them to work in the first place. If they can't make their payments, their robotic body parts will be "repossessed". Brilliant critique of capitalism.
Anyway, you can join Fortuna's union and help them with industrial actions against their oppressors. And in a really good nugget of writing, your contact always refers to stealing as taxing. "Go tax their supply shipments, Tenno". The people of Fortuna are so financially abused that their word for theft is "tax". They don't have a word for stealing anymore other than the euphemism corporations use.
There's a simpler way. After step 2, draw 1 vertical line in the top left box, 2 vertical lines in the top right and bottom left box, and 1 vertical line with a horizontal line in the last box.
You're a shill. The entire petrochemical industry should be obliterated, and anyone who says different is arguably an enemy to the planet.
I don't fucking joke about this shit. This is a blood feud on a scale the planet has never encountered before, and it's only going to get worse as the industry causes everything's extinction. This abomination of corporation will be destroyed, one way or another.
It wasn't a good one because that isn't even the right term. Doesn't really matter, the point stands. I'm not gonna chill about innocent people dying for these greedy corporations and you thinking I should is fucking sad.
I am embarrassed, for you all. The planet's dying, and y'all are fine with it. Nothing more embarrassing than that. Y'all genuinely make me wish I wasn't part of the human species. At least the people that care enough to take action like in the post remind me that not all of us are stupidly evil. Hard to tell that from the internet, anymore.
Update: this is why you use /s, on the internet. Unless the comment is so incredibly outlandish it can without doubt not be taken seriously, it's liable to be misinterpreted. I've heard arguments like you made before "in genuine" because people are paid to say terrible wrong shit by this industry. Anything that can be construed as support for them or an attack of their competitors must be clarified as a joke if you don't want people to get (fairly) pissed.
That's such a stupid crossing, no one ever pays attention there, impossible to get over without a brick. Glad they're installing driver attention incentives
This is the way. Blocking roads and making people late for work is not effective. Deface their advertising on a mass scale. Deny them their propaganda.
Probably depends on the country but often it is not allowed to disregard these stickers on a mailbox. Unless it says please, then it's just a suggestion as had been ruled in Germany.
Exactly. No one is mentioning their country but it makes all the difference in the world.
In Switzerland, people must subscribe if they want a junk-free mailbox which costs them the equivalent of $/€ 30/year. I don’t suppose anyone is enthusiastic about paying that heafty fee, but the upside is that it works. If someone puts junk in your Swiss mailbox, it’s strictly enforced. The perp gets a fine, which I don’t recall if any of that goes toward compensating the victim.
In Belgium, it’s free to put a sticker on your mailbox. And it’s illegal for people to junk up your mailbox if you have the sticker. But it’s unenforced. So the level of junk mail drops a little with the sticker, but it never stops the flow of junk completely because everyone knows it’s unenforced.
No more flyers and religious pamphlets. Essentially, anything that isn't addressed. Where I live, the postal service honours signs like these.
It keeps my mailbox clear and reduces waste. I'm tired of being bombarded with advertisements without consent. And judging by how the recycling bin next to the mailboxes is always full of ads, my neighbours feel the same.
Two years on, I'm still getting mail addressed to the guy I bought the place from (he died shortly after). I write "Deceased. Please Forward". I've been up to the post office they swear they will take care of it but still it come. His realtor says they did a forwarding to his daughters and even paid for the "extra" forwarding. I think the mailman is a dick.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."
When it comes to door-knocking, it's less about your opinions and more about listening to and addressing their concerns. So you don't really want to just hammer with what comes across as a propaganda sledgehammer, as much as listen and converse. With extra emphasis on listen. Have to be flexible.
With a phone bank, probably have to stick to a script.
There's other things too though, registration drives and giving people rides to polling places on election day, teaching people how mail-in works, stuff like that. Just generic get-out-the-vote stuff.
Also, some organizations do (politically agnostic) postcard / letter writing campaigns to encourage people to go vote. I did one of these campaigns in 2020.
Search for something like "send postcards encourage voting".
I am planning to join up with one of these again for 2024. I find writing much more in my comfort zone and skill set than face to face or phone banks.
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