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I never did stop I’ve been pirating things for damn near 30 years
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FTFY
It goes without saying that boycotts by themselves are an ineffective system of effecting change, and that everyone who wants to fight against fascism must take further action.
I encourage everyone to get involved in local activist efforts, join or form a union, join the IWW, read through an anarchist FAQ, get involved in protests, vote for the most progressive candidates possible including in primaries, and use every possible tool and avenue of resistance at your disposal, both legal and illegal.
Your link is broken btw
I uploaded an image through the Sync app. It shows as a link for you?
Yeah, the image’s URL has a space in it so it doesn’t show up properly
If only the masses had the will to fight their own subjugation.
Ah, back to spreading nihilism again, I see. I’ll share the same thing I said last time:
I understand how you feel, but we actually do have the power to change our world. We need to first recognize that something needs to be done, build a popular consensus, network and build connections with like-minded people, and start a real movement for change.
Electoralism has not solved our problems in the past, and it won’t do so in the future. At best, it is harm prevention, and at worst, it’s a distraction from more effective efforts. I encourage people to vote for the candidates they feel best, but to be aware that it’s not a real, long term solution. It’s always just the best of two terrible candidates, both of whom ultimately serve the ruling class.
The problems we have did not start and will not end with Trump, they are in the fundamental roots of our society, and the road to change our society is a long and difficult one, but it is a journey we have to undertake. We are going to have to act if we want to live in a better world. Simply giving in to nihlism is not an option.
You have no actual plan other than a plea to “try”. Funny that you criticize the nihilist’s lack of trying but not the general population’s. Even though both result in the same inaction. Atleast the nihilist usually once cared, unlike the masses who can’t be bothered to ever care. Good luck though. Keep pleading with the wall of indifference, laziness and self-interest that keeps people from ever taking group action.
I am a union rep and organizer, I have a front row seat to the movement which is building and growing every day.
Everything you say is rationalization. If change is impossible, that lets you justify your own inaction.
The indifference, laziness and self-interest you perceive is just your own reflection staring back at you.
If you’re a union rep and organizer then you should know better. Unions have been dying for 60 years and only came into existence because people were so poorly treated they were willing to fight, and possibly die, as some did, instead of labour. Their bargaining position was also considerably stronger, not having to compete against a world labour market or the viability of moving production to other nations.
The extremity of the situation provoked action, organizing only facilitated, it didn’t provoke it. You are doing a significant amount of rationalizing on your end. Change isn’t impossible, it happens all the time, but intentional change through group effort is not caused by eager organizers who just believe enough. People en masse must be provoked to action by circumstance.
There is a habitually lying, child rapist, conman and fraud, whose been granted legally immunity to violate the constitution and all laws, twice elected, and sitting in the White House, supported by the entire GOP and half the nation. People can’t seem to figure out they should act to deal with that. Good ideas and wise choices don’t make people act, desperation, necessity and self-interest do. Circumstances do. That’s why propaganda and distractions work so well, they are the circumstances.
Nihilism and realism look the same to an optimist. That’s you right now. Rationalizing away observed history to retain your will to act because you can’t face a harsh truth about the disappointment and inefficacy of convincing mass behavior out of people.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. In the last year or so there has been a huge surge of people getting involved after realizing that shit has to change. I have heard so many stories of how people are becoming radicalized.
People are waking up, they are doing what you say they should be, while you’re sitting around, doing nothing but bringing negativity, and justifying it to yourself.
Do nothing if you want, we don’t need you, but keep your defeatist attitude to yourself.
And why did they get active? Because things got bad enough it affected their life personally, circumstances provoked it, not their wisdom, or foresight, or morals or good ideas. Where were they while things were getting here? Change happens when circumstances provoked it, not when an organizer tries to explain why they should care and act. They aren’t waking up, they’re suffering. As soon as they are soothed and safe, they’ll go right back to being part of problem. And if they’re intimidated or frightened, they’ll cower and hide, betraying the movement.
Sometimes, but not always. Many people were radicalized by Gaza, others were radicalized by Trump threatening to invade Greenland, others still by local stories and events. I know from my colleagues in the US that ICE in MN radicalized many people, too. Most of our new members actually weren’t personally affected, unless you count seeing TikToks of atrocities as being affected.
Look, I understand where you’re coming from, I’ve been in this fight since I was 17, and I know how it has felt like swimming against the tide for a long time, but I am categorically telling you that things are actually finally changing. You can be a part of it, or not, but please can you just stop trying to discourage others from doing something to help?
I remember that day of the “general strike” where the simple idea was to not spend any money on big corps. I got confused, because to me, that’s a 365-day-a-year lifestyle thing for me.
Maybe I’m lucky that I don’t have lifestyle needs like pet food, baby supplies, etc, and markets have been cornered there. But there’s plenty of forms of entertainment and leisure without giving it to Disney or Amazon and the like.
When I was young I pirated because I didn’t have an income and couldn’t pay. Now I pirate because I don’t want to give any money to terrible companies.
There was a period in the middle where I didn’t pirate anything, but that’s beside the point.
As an European, my mindset for this year has been “its amoral to not pirate American media”
Me too. Fuck usa. No money for them
I feel the same about all media. I’m doing my part to hasten the collapse of capitalism by keeping my spending to an absolute minimum, pirating everything, buying second hand where possible, and avoiding eating out or ordering takeout as much as possible.
I understand everything, except the eating out. I mean, I don’t do it because I don’t have the money, but aren’t moet restaurants and takeout places local?
Being local doesn’t magically make something good, though. Everything is local to somewhere.
My problem is with capitalism itself, not specifically American businesses or big businesses or whatever. Small business owners are a major part of the economy. If the small business owners aren’t feeling the pain of capitalism too, they do not have incentive to join the rest of the working class as part of a social revolution.
So do you grow your own food and harvest your own electricity and smelt you own ore to make your own electronic devices to post on the internet that you’re accessing via your own isp?
“Small business owners” feels like an arbitrary line. Sure, there’s those that are doing it because they’re bootlickers and capitalists, but restaurants are terrible investments. If you’re avoiding chains and conglomerates, you’re more likely to be supporting a comrade who is trying to survive in a capitalist country. This is not an ACAB situation. There are employee owned small businesses and work places that treat workers fairly.
As I said, I just do everything I can to minimize spending, because spending keeps the economy afloat. Cooking my own food is just cheaper, and thus reduces spending overall. You don’t need to follow my example if you disagree, that’s totally fine, do what you feel is right.
I don’t necessarily boycott businesses just to achieve some higher purpose like beating fascism away or whatever- most of the time it’s cuz I know the owner(s) are assholes to their workers. Fuck those guys. Plus, most food served outside is inferior to the one I make at home, so not much of value is lost.
And here I am not realizing that food counts as media.
Notice the period/full stop between the words “media” and “I’m”? That denotes the end of one sentence, and the beginning of another, which is a helpful clue that those two things I wrote are seperate thoughts.
Na too late. My mind is already blown and creating a new reality where food is media. I like this new world and don’t intend to leave.
Fair enough, I suppose from a certain perspective you could argue that it is - especially if you make a smiley face with breakfast food. Or get one of those toasters that makes Jesus appear on a slice of toast.
And here I am finding out that Jesus isnt talking to other people regularily through the medium of toast.
This but I’m Australian and it’s called “Reparations for Pine Gap”
So, Netflix is still good?
None of them are good, they’re all a bunch of exploitative bastards, but some of them are part of a far-right propaganda apparatus owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, a close friend anf supporter of Donald Trump.
I never did; torrenting since I remember.
Speaking of which, if anyone has an invite to spare for a good private tracker, please DM me. Private tracker I used since highschool has finally lost the plot.
Real debrid + jdownloader + hdencode
How much do private trackers improve the experience? My friend that pirates says he hasn’t had any problems with public ones yet.
I’m mainly using it to fill a small niche gap in my existing pirate fleet.
If you’re willing to spend a bit of money to pirate, just go with usenet. I was a private tracker guy for years, but I got sick of keeping up ratio when I mainly wanted shit that wasn’t super in demand. Have been so much happier since I made the move, and my downloads finish much faster than they ever did before.
Got a link to a “pirate on Usenet for dummies”?
Request for media <> Servarr Stack + Usenet Indexer <> Download Client + Usenet Provider <> Media Server
Dummy here, thanks, but what does this mean? Do you know any Ressources on how to get started with this?
Right on brother, I’m already on Usenet, mainly looking for a private tracker as a next to last resort.
Be careful with what you are watching in the next few years. Hollywood gave itself a diverse face in the last few years. Put in black actors, had some strong women in lead roles, had some gay characters and so on. I’m afraid that we will see some movies pushing hart right MAGA topics in the next time. Movies that are pushing for traditional gender roles, have gay people as evil masterminds, immigrants as criminals and so on. We already saw that with all those movies with evil arab guys in the bush era. Hollywood was taken over by Trump’s tech billionaires, you will see this turn it in the media you are watching. That will influence you and maybe you shouldn’t watch such stuff
This is true, but the bigger threat I see is the mainstream news media and social media, as the Ellison media empire expands it continues to encompass more and more news channels, it already contains CBS and TikTok, with the upcoming merger it’ll also include CNN. Other Trump supporters include Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post and Elon Musk who owns Twitter.
have gay people as evil masterminds
<Looks at current tech billionaires>
Being gay doesn’t stop you from being evil.
INT. FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE - DAY
JOHN RAMBO
“Cap, these gay immigrants want to stop generative AI. We gotta to stop them.”BATMAN
“Rambo’s right, these lesbian Democrat voters will stop at nothing.”INDIANA JONES
“Understood, Batman. We have to protect our billionaires’ way of life. And we’ve got might on our side. I know Hunt, McClane, and Reacher are in and, all the way from across the pond, so is Bond. But do we have Bourne and Skywalker?”CYBERDYNE SYSTEMS MODEL 101
“Both have answered the call! And we have Toretto and Blade.”HANNIBAL LECTER
“Now hold on a minute. Toretto and Blade are both… un-white.”Coming soon to a movie theatre near you. And every streaming service. And as an unskipable 3hr 30min ad on Youtube.
We’ll get a J6 biopic with the finalized version the self-myth the regime wants to cement.
Birth of a Nation 2: Electric Boogaloo
Don’t stop there! Replace all Big Tech apps:
I like to point people to privacyguides.org and fmhy.net instead. Best to prioritize open source to avoid inevitable enshittification wherever possible.
Hey all. I’m the original creator of this graphic. Just wanted to note that the skull and bones I used is from an actual pirate flag from the 19th century. Just a fun fact.
I can’t pirate no harder, a terabyte a week I’m downloading! Ive been downloaded from dawn to dusk!
Maybe you could pirate From Dusk Till Dawn next? :p
We got pirated pussy!
Stop making goddamned excuses and just get it done. All of it.
