thats the sad truth of it, they ain't massacring us because we ain't a threat. but back when we were, in not-so-distant past, workers were murdered for disrupting and striking.

they don't care about climate change beyond how it affects their power. they will not just repent and hand the world over.

See, I wonder about this. Perhaps left leaning people are just far less likely to do things that draw attention to their gun ownership. You say gun culture is dominated by the right wing, and I don't disagree with you. Maybe it's just that right wing people make it a cultural thing more.

Yes, corporations with billions and private "security ", backed by governments with billions, police armed like the military, and an army, can be defeated by a bunch of good progressists with guns.

Guns aren't the only way to make a revolution, tho

Your assuming we all live in America where guns are legal. Good luck getting one in the UK.

We need them on our side!

It was made by and is maintained by Communists, along Communist principles. Hard not to be at least aware.

Taking the expression ‘going out on top’ a little too seriously….

The biggest issue isn’t who is in charge, it’s the fact that humans are fundamentally incapable of cooperating across large groups.

I'm not so sure that this is an inherent problem with humanity so much as it is a symptom of our current political and economic systems and culture.

Take you pandemic/mask example for instance. Pretty much everyone was on board with masks, social distancing, etc, until a few weeks/months in when it got politicized. Conservative leaders saw they could rile up their base by take a stance against the science. And they took advantage of our cultural preference for individualism where we could instead have a more collectivist culture.

These systems and cultural norms aren't inherent to humans. It's inherent to our shitty half-democracy, capitalism, etc.

But those same salt of the earth workers are going to negotiate climate controls with China?

The oil lobby pays shit loads of money to propagandize the population in the exact same way the tobacco industry did it. Start dealing with that, and the workers won't buy the bullshit propaganda anymore.

Cooperating across large groups is one of our defining characteristics, as a species.

We could get the population to wear masks, in very large part, because certain ultra wealthy interest groups didn't want to close the economy down and make a little bit less money. So, they polluted the avaliable information. Post working class revolution, the idea would be for them to not have the power to do that.

We can't use a problem caused by the system as an argument against changing the system.

We couldn’t even get the population to wear masks during a global pandemic killing so many people that hospitals needed to bring in refrigerator trucks to store the bodies.

Meanwhile China managed to for years

What a great game!

Seems to have worked pretty well for libertarians with Bitcoin. Maybe we need a wildcat strike app.

2040 baby! (MIT said so)

Civilization as we know it probably has to collapse anyway if we wanna see the changes that would help everyone.

A daily announcement of what percentage of the ~~country is on fire~~ countries are at war