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Cake day: April 17th, 2019

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  • Someone defending the US few weeks ago said: “decisions are made by those who show up and vote”.

    No, decisions are made by those who hold economic and political power. That is NOT the citizenry of capitalist dictatorships. Having elections also serves a lot of ideological functions like:

    • Building consent / subservience for the capitalist dictatorship.
    • Creating the illusion of democracy.
    • Being an entertaining and distracting theatre piece.
    • Serving as a platform for capitalist ideas and talking points, making everything else seem “illegitimate”
    • Being used as a tool of western chauvinism, labeling any other system (even substantive people’s democracies) as “undemocratic”.


  • Someone versed in urban ecosystems could chime in better, because there’s gotta be proper terms for city to city transport, city to neighborhood, neighborhood to street, street to home.

    Bikes or some kind of personal vehicle are still probably necessary to get you from city to home, because they can’t put train stations next to every house (unless they figure out how to shoot us through tubes or something).