DessertStorms

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Dots connected

Or just abolish the police entirely. From their inception their sole reason to exist has been to protect the rich and their property, and to oppress the people in the name of the state.

Otherwise, you're spot on with the haves vs have-nots and keeping us divided, because it isn't just money that there are haves and have nots but other privileges too, which those in charge have artificially created to divide us further in service of gaining and maintaining their money and the power it gives them.

(on a side note, "gypsy" is a slur used against Roma and other Traveller people, and should really only be used if it is being reclaimed by one of them)

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Dots connected

Most folks are fairly ignorant of their rights due to a combination of lack of schools educating us on rights along with the desperate struggle to keep a roof over our heads

spot on

which those taking our rights understand have purposefully designed to be that way.

We need to seriously encourage real journalism hold shitty police action accountable

Never going to happen, since the mainstream media is also in service/under control of those taking our rights.

demand that out rights are met

Yes, By force. Because force is what we're facing, and asking nicely (or writing exposés) is never going to free us from under it.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in First meme (hopefully good)

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DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in First meme (hopefully good)

I see what you're saying, and I think it would probably appeal more to those with left leanings who aren't actually anarchists (yet 🤞), because it isn't as big a shock to the system to think about fixing a thing they know vs abolishing that thing and starting something completely unfamiliar and most likely still foreign to them (even as an anarchist, thinking outside of the indoctrination, and constructs I've/we've been socialised with since birth can be a challenge), but then I'm also a big believer in not coddling people in to change - facing and sitting with the discomfort of seeing the box we're kept in and starting to think outside of it is a huge and really important part of unlearning what we know and even how we are, so personally I generally favour blunt and to the point lol

I think having these conversations in the comments can be more helpful than posting an alternative, because the people your meme speaks to can read on and hopefully broaden their views!

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£

So you're annoyed that someone (who took the time to go to a charity shop, list the book online, and ship it to you) charged you the RRP for the book, that you didn't have to buy from them?

I hope you have the same kind of energy for when mega-corporations charge anything from tens to thousands of pounds for products that often cost single pounds or even pennies to manufacture (due to underpaying for labour and materials that were in turn manufactured by underpaid labour as well), and the snowballing impact they have on the rest of the economy (by pricing out smaller companies, monopolising industries, avoiding tax, and so on).

The person you bought this from likely works for themsleves, trolling charity shops all day for bargains, and almost certainly pays tax on their income. I'm as anti-capitalist as they get, but even I can't take issue with this. If they had charged you more than the RRP, sure, that'd pushing it, but if you didn't want to pay full price, you should have spent your own time looking for the bargain. ¯*(ツ)*/¯

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in First meme (hopefully good)

Love it, though would have put "abolish the system" rather than "fix the system" myself, since that implies trying to work within the existing framework, rather than completely outside of it.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to 196 in Donald Duck says eat the rich rule

I never said or even implied we have no agency, but I'm also not deluded enough to think we have free choice under capitalism. We are not only literally indoctrinated from birth and essentially brainwashed our entire lives from that point in to consumerism and "keeping up with the Joneses", but we are also entirely dependant on participation in the system for survival because it is designed that way. You wanting to think you're somehow above it (even if you have learned to identify some of the propaganda and try to avoid it, which is simply impossible to do), or wanting to blame those who aren't "above it" for the system instead of those actively implementing and profiting directly from it, doesn't change that.

Freedom, and specifically freedom of choice, is capitalism's biggest con.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to 196 in Donald Duck says eat the rich rule

The point is that the "desire" is entirely artificial and enforced on us as society by those who profit from doing so (and their trillion dollar industries dedicated to this task), not that some people are struggling, because all of us but a tiny miniscule percent of humanity, are struggling (including the non-existent "middle class", another lie there to maintain division in the working class, and the illusion of "aspiration"), we're just made to believe it's normal and part of human nature, when it is anything but.

Whatever "truth" Buddhism has is honestly irrelevant, especially because it predates Adam Smith and the levels of unprecedented social engineering and indoctrination we're subjected to in the name of capitalism by so long, its idea of "desire" is completely detached from yours, but even if it wasn't, all that "truth" is is victim blaming, and shifting responsibility for systemic issues on to individuals, which is a classic tactic employed by those in charge (be it kings, feudal lords, "gods" prophets and whatever other religious figurehead, or capitalists) because it serves them and only them, for us to be pointing fingers at one another (while ignoring literally all of the environmental factors they impose on us) instead of at them.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to 196 in Donald Duck says eat the rich rule

But most people don't directly benefit from, and are directly involved in, the systems that encourage such behaviour, like the ones at the top are.
Most people are just grinding away selling their labour to survive while convinced by the wealthy-owned media and trillion dollar marketing industrial complex that they're just temporarily embarrassed millionaires who just need to consume more to make their lives better.
Insert "we are not the same" meme here

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love

Fighting fascism is getting my shit together (if you'd bothered reading past that first sentence you might actually hear that my "shit" being the way it is is down to systemic issues, and no amount of "self work" can "get it together").

Also what's the point of trying to "swim" if you're in a toxic pond? If we're going to drag the metaphor out - get out of the fucking pond, help those around you out, so together you can all turn off the sewage pipe, and then get to cleaning up each other, and the pond. That is self care.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love

I need to upvote this like a million more times... Jfc.. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

DessertStorms , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Lefty Memes in How I Defeated Fascism With the Power of Love

Also this whole "love yourself first" is nothing but another divisive distraction - keep people individualised rather than coming together as a community, and also perpetuate the idea that our problems are personal rather than systemic.

I don't love myself, don't think I ever have, don't think I ever will, yet I don't see how that would or should stop me from fighting fascism.

If anything, I'm able to recognise that in large part, if not entirely, my feelings come down to the world we live in and how, as an "other" in many categories, my life is seen as both worthless and also somehow such a thereat that, in both cases, it needs to be destroyed, and the idea that I shouldn't act until I manage to "get over" all of that (and potentially get comfortable enough, or at least accept, the status quo), is beyond ridiculous. In reality it's the exact opposite - I must act if there is any hope for others to have a world where they don't feel like I and so many others are made to, because not loving myself has no bearing on my wanting good for others (and no, they don't have to be "loved ones", I don't even have to know them, that's the point of wanting a better society for everyone).

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Memes in freedom!

Thanks for letting me know, I'm glad someone found it helpful!

And yeah, they absolutely would..

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to Memes in freedom!

Image ID: on the left is a red button with the label "I don't want the government telling me what to do", on the right is a red button with the label "If he did what the cop told him to, he'd still be alive", bellow is a sweaty Gadsden flag faced man struggling to choose.

DessertStorms , 1 month ago to 196 in shared rule is log(rule)

Thanks for the reminder..

(though I second them being a little creepy)