Evan Berry
@ecothought.bsky.social
Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️
Compromising in advance and signaling to extralegal agents of violence that they will not face consequences is kinda how we got here in the first place. There have been literally thousands of assaults and kidnappings, which seem to me a good place to start fixing our broken nation.
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Compromising in advance and signaling to extralegal agents of violence that they will not face consequences is kinda how we got here in the first place. There have been literally thousands of assaults and kidnappings, which seem to me a good place to start fixing our broken nation.
Epidemic levels of late capitalist Dunning-Kruger effect
November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Epidemic levels of late capitalist Dunning-Kruger effect
Reposted by Evan Berry
Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.
(Norway's oil fund is about $2 trillion [about $350k per person], built from oil reserves and past production that are about 10x smaller than America's. Which puts the hypothetical US oil fund in a parallel universe at $20 trillion or so, very roughly.)
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Imagine a parallel-universe US with a ~$20 trillion public wealth fund, built from the profits that O&G owners/executives/major shareholders took in our universe. Imagine how much better US health care, education, infrastructure, childcare, retirement support, etc. could be. Breaks the brain a bit.
This moment requires leadership. You don’t have what it takes.
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This moment requires leadership. You don’t have what it takes.
So the idea here is that people in Caribbean nations are all poor? Should all be poor? Are guilty of something if they’re not poor?
November 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So the idea here is that people in Caribbean nations are all poor? Should all be poor? Are guilty of something if they’re not poor?
Corporate oligarchical control of American democracy, even under Obama, maybe especially under Obama, has lulled people into believing that only the wealthy can be agents of change, and that we better learn to like the change they’re making on us. Screw that.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Corporate oligarchical control of American democracy, even under Obama, maybe especially under Obama, has lulled people into believing that only the wealthy can be agents of change, and that we better learn to like the change they’re making on us. Screw that.
That's what is so great about capitalism: the market solves rich people's imaginary problems, which mostly stem from not wanting to be associated with poor people, and then in time, poor people can inherit those same problems and purchase moderately priced fixes!
November 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
That's what is so great about capitalism: the market solves rich people's imaginary problems, which mostly stem from not wanting to be associated with poor people, and then in time, poor people can inherit those same problems and purchase moderately priced fixes!
This is why the Dem establishment is lukewarm: they don’t want to confront the reality that radical change, not mediocre reform, is the only viable path away from fascism.
November 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
This is why the Dem establishment is lukewarm: they don’t want to confront the reality that radical change, not mediocre reform, is the only viable path away from fascism.
Reposted by Evan Berry
I can't think of anything to say
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I can't think of anything to say