Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop), page 15

- "Governments are bad for capitalism"
- "Dude governments are VITAL for capitalism. Who's gonna enforce the artificial scarcity you need to thrive?"
- "Hey that's not capitalism, that's cronyism, we never had TRUE capitalism"
- "So you're telling me capitalism only works on paper?"
- "..." *clueless silence follows*

(Inspired by a true story)

If we are to live in the cyberpunk world, at least give us the badass company names.

https://social.coop/media/a2FXGRFgpfR9xd4Somo

Some of the sweet #cooperative school buses in Malta

https://social.coop/media/EiSTApcgUlqAzGajjCE

@animeirl
> No one cares
- That's the problem. There are plenty of ways to get out of our current situation (eg. the circular economy, cooperative ownership, commoning etc...) but people can't be bothered with them. All people want is the new, shiny tech gimmick and the social status associated with it.

"If you are vegetarian and you walk around with your halo of virtue but you are eating tofu that comes from Brazilian soy, then you’re just as complicit in all of this as if you are eating the beef fed on Brazilian soy,” Prof Patel said. (...)“Capitalism is involved. The capitalist will take your vegetarianism and make money from it with the same kind of techniques they’ve honed in meat manufacture(...)"

#CapitalismKills

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/mass-extinction-life-on-earth-farming-industrial-agriculture-professor-raj-patel-a7914616.html

2017: Liberals politely invite neo-fascists to debate their opinions in TV, then prove them wrong with their witty arguments. White supremacy, *phobia and neo-fascism promptly disappear from the public discourse.

https://social.coop/media/KcDBuMbWxdda2f-KRWU

What is yours?

https://social.coop/media/JT7JLAPBAydBHkAGnQg

"A review of thousands of internal company documents and witness statements published on Tuesday points to the Anglo-Dutch organisation’s alleged involvement in the brutal campaign to silence protesters in the oil-producing Ogoniland region in the 1990s."

This doesn't come as a surprise at all. Corporations have a long history of silencing (read: killing) environmental activists in third world countries...
#CapitalismKills

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/nov/28/amnesty-seeks-criminal-inquiry-into-shell-over-alleged-complicity-in-murder-and-torture-in-nigeria

"The alt-right uses a lexicon filled with memes, stolen left-wing terminology with altered meanings, and in-jokes. Whether this is because the alt-right is just a bunch of cringey manchildren or because they hope to hide their racist intentions, the world may never know. (spoiler: it's both) "

Just brilliant

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alt-right_glossary

Status update call in one hour from now!

The face people make when I tell them we make no money out of #SocialCoop

I love it how capitalists are prophets of the "delayed gratification" religion when it comes to paying decent wages, but when it's time to pay taxes (that will in time pay or their pension, medical bills etc.) they suddenly don't feel very inclined to delaying their gratification and proceed to hide billions in off-shore banks. Just adorable.

I just noticed the new logo on the homepage and in the favicon! Thanks @mayel :D

@pnathan @dartigen I beg to differ. It was not the focus on decentralization (which even today is hardly a "mainstream left" topic) that disempowered the left, but rather the lack of credible proposals to counteract the neoliberal paradigm, which spread like wildfire across the west. Millions of jobs were moved to China or elsewhere, de facto destroying the very concept of "working class" the left relied on. Nostalgia-ridden discourse and an ageing leadership did the rest...

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
- Ronald Wright

@emelie one way to do so is to embrace the cooperative ownership model, like we do on social.coop: having users be the owners of the instance changes everything...

Yesterday's "March of Independence" held by the Polish neo-fascists is a telling sign of what will soon happen across all of Europe if we let them go unchallenged. Be it by direct action or other means, we all need to fight against the fascist scum, unless we want to see history repeat itself...

I just discovered there's a cab company in Malta that only uses electric cars. Guess they just found a new customer...

The ultra-conservative Polish think tank Ordo Iuris (!) wants to inflict 3yrs of #prison to whoever travels abroad to do an #abortion. Poland's slow drift towards fascism seems unstoppable, but make no mistake: it wont' stop in Warsaw. The fascist plague is already spreading across all of Europe, and the time is ticking out...

Asking the right questions

https://social.coop/media/W1mur-XTkqvawXMZCtE