• S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pub
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    It’s unbelievable how much more powerful, livable, and culturally cohesive you could be as a country, if you had a government that wanted to actually solve systematic problems to make life better for all Americans. Imagine an alternate reality where the US gov actually worked to provide you with the essentials you need to survive? The US could’ve become objectively, the strongest cornerstone of western democracy, cemented in a history of moral altruism.

    This website visualises the ultra wealthy to scale, with examples of issues that could’ve been solved using this money, such as:

    • ** Chemotherapy for Every Cancer Patient**: The site states that the annual cost of chemotherapy for all cancer patients is approximately $9 billion. It then points out that Jeff Bezos made that much money in just 40 days in 2018.
    • Malaria Eradication: It highlights that a tiny fraction of the wealth of the 400 richest Americans could eradicate malaria globally.
    • Ending Homelessness: The visualization includes the cost to house every homeless veteran in the United States.
    • **Clean Water: **It estimates the cost of providing clean water and waste disposal to every human on earth.
    • Testing for COVID-19: During the pandemic, the site was updated to show that **Bezos’s wealth could easily pay to test every single person in the U.S. for the virus. ** and the US would still easily be the richest country in the world. This is without even taking into account the sheer amount of wealth the US and it’s politicians possess as a whole country.

    So in short, if the US gov actually wanted to help support their own population the US could have: **- Eradicated homelessness, malaria, chemotherapy costs, water scarcity + waste colonialism, and COVID-19 test costs.

    • Provided universal free chemotherapy to every single cancer patient in the US
    • The best and most affordable healthcare system in the world
    • The best education system
    • The most affordable housing system
    • The best Transport
    • Solved** and you’d still have more than enough money to invest in your military, intelligence agencies, and crucial architecture that big business relies on.

    Yes that means that every single problem that Americans suffer with, is optional. The only reason Americans don’t have all these things, is because the wealthiest people in the world have decided that instead of working in symbiosis with the rest of humanity, they would rather feed off of and suppress the 99%.

    The top 1% wants ownership over the whole planet. It isn’t enough to live obscenely luxurious lives, they want **total control **over peoples **values, beliefs, actions, and decisions.**They want to own you, they want to own me, and they want to own everyone else. To them we’re the equivalent of house squatters living off THEIR real-estate.

    So how exactly do they solve that problem? They can’t exactly go and evict 9 billion people without serious repercussions. Yet BlackRock bought Christmas Island and has invested so much in housing. and along with billionaires like Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos,even bought their own islands. So what do they do if they can’t evict us? They do the next best thing; destroy our autonomy, forcing us to rely entirely on them, through legal retribution. How? By criminalising ownership, and forcing everyone to **pay subscription fees for everything. **

    First it was music and podcasts. Then movies and TV shows, digital and audio books, as well as social media. So what’s left? Well, the only thing not on that list are the essentials, and they’re already coming for those too. Think housing, water, food, cars (eventually public transport). If you thought communism, is bad, oligarchy is much worse, just look at Russia.

    If you’re someone that thinks this will never happen to us, think again. Musk is already looking at implementing paid subscriptions to unlock features in Tesla cars

    We can fight back. We can stop things from getting worse, and we can undo the damage that’s been done. But only if we can overcome the social divisions they are purposely funding in order to keep everyone from organising against them. We have to become active participants in our communities, if we want to ever live in a truly free world. That might look like something as small as spending time with your family and friends, or helping volunteer with clean up in your council. Whatever you do it is clear, the only way for humanity to survive the commercialized corporate hellscape Earth is becoming, is by coming together in spite of our differences, to fight for something bigger than all of us individually; a world whose freedoms are no longer held hostage by the top 1%.

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      This. We need to get out of the weeds and get back on track. We’d need a bit of guidance though as we’ve become accustomed to our own isolation due to current lack of community. C’mon you extroverts with heart and soul, come back and lead the rest of us out of this cave and we’ll do the rest. If you relate any of this to money then we’re all screwed.

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    If they spend money on something it’s because they expect it will give them a greater return.

    If they refuse to spend money on something it’s because they expect it will not give them a greater return.

    If you are wondering what return they get from war, I suggest you consider maintaining elite status as part of it, i.e. “have to postpone midterm elections due to the war” etc.

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    Vote in a right wing government get right wing policy. Pretty simple

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      So where’s the left wing government to vote, because it sure as fuck ain’t the two capitalist parties?

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        Ok youre one of the people voting for right wing policy then.

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            Do we really still need to have this discussion in 2026? I’m happy to go through it as many times as it takes to prevent Americans from voting Trump in a 3rd time.

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              people who didn’t vote for Trump aren’t responsible for his election. the people who did vote for Trump are the only ones to blame for his election.

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                If you’re eligible to vote and you voted for trumo, voted 3rd parry or abstained you’re responsible. You were happy with either outcome. So you’re morally scum like maga.

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            Let me guess, you voted for whoever that third party lady was.

            Hm wonder where she’s run off to.

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    Talking about the problems without also talking about the solution just angers people who don’t know how to fix things, which is not productive.

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          Depends on whether your comment involves threats of violence or not. Threats of violence are almost always met with a comment removed at minimum.

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              I ain’t your dad. However I do find such statements counter productive as it just scares people away from what anarchism is really about.

              As for politicians, I’d rather make them equal to the rest of us. For those who’ve spent all their lives pampered in privilege that would feel intolerable. Of course the fash can get bashed

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        17 hours ago

        So find the mods and change their minds. Or, start a lemmy community with less moderation.

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      16 hours ago

      Leftists: posts agitprop meme

      Liberals: “you can’t just be angry, you need solutions!”

      Leftists: posts meme with appropriate historical context and potential solutions

      Liberals: “you leftists always talk too much, give me a tl;dr”

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        Not what is happening. You’re a good example of what I’m talking about though. Thanks for that.

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          I’m illustrating the pattern you liberals always use in response to our memes. The through line is that we never do it the “right” way. You came to an anarchist space to criticize our agitprop, and then get confused when we don’t play your game. Why do we need a dissertation to go along with our agitprop?

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      If people aren’t sufficiently angry at the system, they won’t bother to listen to a solution.

      Gotta raise the discontent and class consciousness first.

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        It’s raised as far as it’s going to get. The system will have to get worse, but there won’t be the “until it gets better” part. It’s just going to keep getting worse until it’s so far gone no one can fix it.