I am of the belief that revolution isn’t going to happen, and if one did happen if would only be hijacked to maximize a select set of individuals authority. Capitalism has entrenched itself inside each and every single individual, much beyond the capacity of any one governments control in my view

I believe that the only solution is for each and every individual to reject capitalism, and opt out. That said it is not easy to leave the infinite monopoly game, I reckon sustainable self sufficient individuals or communities are likely the only way to achieve this and each community or individual will have to do this by their own free accord.

And even if there is a will to opt out, which will likely come from individuals almost exclusively, you need land and skills, land which is being brought up by corporations, skills and knowledge increasingly locked behind pay walls. And once you have gotten it all together, you are totally off the grid. Well you still have to convince everyone else.

Although as more people achieve this, the challenge drops. Once a few people have done it joining up gets easier, many hands make light work after all.

As for how to obtain that land and those skills, I suppose then it’s a question of how much are you will to bend or break the law, or risk it all. The Governments role here isn’t all that great, its just to make breaking the law less risky or not a requirement

But hell maybe I’m wrong and the revolution is well on its way.

You forgot the two paragraphs of ramble about what a fall is

Not enough JPEG

Seeing around this thread you clearly know your stuff. So it feels appropriate to reply to you with questions I have,

Somewhere in this thread one you thing you mentioned was the state/administration would have its exploitative elements removed and would just become an administrative and directive organization, slowly withering away. To me this feels contradictory, the same process that allow an organization to direct resources are surely the same process that allow an organization to exploit people?

I’ve probably failed to word that correctly, so to illustrate what I mean, the guy who control who gets what, can just say “do what I want or I’ll deny you blah”, now what the administrator wants can of course be influenced by money, like today’s politicians, but I’m sure there are plenty of other things people want and could seek to gain - or even just the joy of controlling people.

I suppose you can have checks, but that feels like a band aid if you accept what I said early, the institution in power is inherently able to exploit people - all checks have done is make it more difficult.

To me this is not a consequence of the state/administration being exploitative, rather a consequence of the state having authority to control resource flow at all.

I always camped in the areas of anarchist leftism, but I’m interested to see what you think and I’m not well read enough to comment properly so I imagine there’s a lot of mistakes in this reply so sorry in advance

I have more questions, but this is quite long already so I’ll leave it here

I started using Organic Maps recently, it’s incredible that so much of Google Maps can be done offline, and the maps are sooooo pretty. It was certainly something I didn’t expect to find and was a pleasant surprise.

Thank you so much, I got a little carried away! I’ll write another one for a different game later this week or next. I kind of like the idea of getting others involved and maybe branching out into other areas of software etc. Too many ideas. It might be worth putting the rules in the sidebar along with a defintion of what libreculture is? Not sure though.

I hate the picture you just painted

Ok that is a great link actually, so the agenda against trans people continues obviously, Although noticably the rate of change in the year to year trans bills has decreased significantly, jumping from 75 to 185 from 2022 to 2023 but staying at about 185 for 2024. That is probably what gave me the hunch, I was expecting this year to be twice as bad as last year and in fact it’s only slightly worse.

That would indicate a loss in momentum for the transphobic policy line, although This could just be a point of inflection like in 2022 and that will see another surge in 2025.

But yeah overall that lines up with what I thought was going on, although I was more optimistic than the data shows, thinking that transphobic policy had gone down this year.

I’ve been slowly growing a smallish server with content, I find growing the numbers to be almost more fun than actually consuming the content I have gained possession of.

Too short