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labor, degrowth ecosocialism, revolution
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wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
Dems in the Senate voted at 2AM to appoint Rahm Emmanuel as the US Ambassador to Japan

while there, he's mostly tried to downplay protests in Okinawa against (expanding) the US military base there - the soldiers regularly rape Okinawan women, with few consequences
🇵🇸🇯🇵Thoton Akimoto @AkimotoThn The Okinawa police arrested the prominent antiwar activist Akino Miyagi. Although the charges have not yet been revealed, she was staging protests against the sexual assaults of Japanese women by U.S. servicemen, which have frequently taken place on the island in recent months. [selfie of a masked woman standing in the road, with blocking many US military trucks] Rihito says 我的推特账户已被归还 @RihitoPhysicist US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emmanuel said "US military bases in Okinawa are not a burden but their responsibility,it's a national interest of US & Japan". Telling Okinawans what to think?This demon is the worst US Ambassador by far. I heard he was a horrible Chicago mayor as well [screenshot of headline: US Ambassador to Japan Emmanuel: Okinawa bases are not a burden but a responsibility]
November 14, 2024 at 1:02 AM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
since 2020, Dem Mayor Andre Dickens and the Biden admin have done everything they can to force the construction of Cop City against the will of Atlantans

the "party to save democracy" charged people w felonies for passing out flyers

it is highly possible that this cost Dems 1000s of votes in GA
Many of the organizers that are in the Vote to Stop Cop City Coalition and that have criticized the city's obstructionist tactics in the referendum are the same organizations that helped deliver thestate to President Biden in 2020 by a thin margin. A slim victory that Elias worked hard to prevent Trump from overturning. "The margin of victory in Georgia was 11,000 votes. If I'm in the Georgia Democrats, I'm freaking out. Because if they don't put [Cop City] on the ballot, it will have political repercussions," said the representative from Vote to Stop Cop City coalition, who previously worked for a prominent Georgia-based voting rights organization. "They're choosing to erode democracy over this facility."
November 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
new to bluesky - does this mean you're blocked or I am?
November 13, 2024 at 6:43 PM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
yo dog, I heard you like bikes
November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
a declassified US State Dept memo from 1960 admits that the Cuban govt has broad support, & proposes sanctions to cause "hunger, desperation, and overthrow"

64 years later, these sanctions have not ended the Revolution. but they HAVE caused hunger and desperation

nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/274...
a scan of a memo Date: Apr 6, 1960 Description: This memo, written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Lestor Mallory, provides the original, unvarnished, policy rationale for imposing trade restrictions on Cuba. Fidel Castro’s revolution is quite popular in Cuba, Mallory points out; since there is no effective opposition against him, the only way to undercut Castro’s support is “through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship.” Mallory advocates a set of punitive economic actions designed to deny “money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of [the] government.” Source: National Archives
November 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
given that neither the Dems nor the GOP are interested in radical ecological action or reparations to the Global South, frankly it feels like in a few years, the mainstream discourse over the border will be:

GOP: shoot the migrants!
Dems: how terrible! we should just put them in camps 💞
screenshot of a tweet Peter Dynes @PGDynes It's predicted that 3 billion people will live in #uninhabitable zones (black areas) by 2070, under 50 years. Current #climate trends look like they are bringing that timeframe forward considerably. #Migration levels will be beyond anything ever witnessed in the next 3 decades. 6:19 AM · Mar 16, 2024 112.9K Views [image of a global map labeled "Uninhabitable regions in 2070" large regions along the equator are uninhabitable]
November 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
wellredlibrarian.bsky.social
Matt Christman had an insightful take in 2017, after the Nazis marched with tiki torches in Charlottesville, VA
on fascism, ecological collapse and the US-Mexico border:
"Fascism arises because of the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions. That's how we got Trump and that's [how] we're gonna get what's coming next after him, that's gonna be even worse, because if you think that there's not gonna be more ecological & economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unsuited to fucking deal with and that that failure is not gonna lead to fascism filling that fucking hole, you've got another thing coming. And that's what these guys are. These guys who marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of the zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and it's going to either require mass redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the First World, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said "If that's the choice, I choose genocide." And they're getting everybody else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be OK when it happens. Why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away so we can watch them die with clear consciences because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, you have the people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everbody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence," and that is what we want, and that is the fucking real difference between these two. And you can tell that to the next asshole who says they're two sides of the same coin." - Matt Christman
November 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM