Love living in a society that thinks not wanting the entire Earth to die is "insane".
Most scientists think we should be doing more than just protesting btw, so I guess they must be 'insane' too.
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I would honestly donate my time and money to see those petit bourgeois burning man libertarians suffer. God bless those protestors.
I hate it so much. I used to live out there, and every year around this time they drive their shitboxes crammed full of shit out into this pristine desert and make a huge fucking mess then leave it for somebody else to clean up. Literally a trail of shredded trailer tires, shattered solar panels, water bottles, piss jugs, and piss lillies line the highway from Kfalls to the black rock desert when, the week before, you might find bits of dispersed litter along the same stretch of highway. I've driven the stretch many times, and between Winnemucca, NV and Kfalls, OR only encountered maximum 2 other cars on the entire 300+ mile stretch.
That's funny. I met burners IRL, and they're really proud that they left no trace, but I always thought it was a bit sus.
They will absolutely tell you that, but they left it and a bunch of others cleaned it up for them. They're worse than goddamn toddlers.
"We see you, we hear you, we want climate justice to. But please let my monster-truck with 110 gallons of gasoline into the bazinga fest."
Isn't it cool how the tribal ranger arresting and brutalizing the native American protester is clearly a white dude?
He even fucked up his truck because he's a baby back bitch who can't handle conflict without extreme projection of violence.
tHeY'rE tRyiNg To gEt tO wOrK.
The USA is a totalitarian police state which utilizes terror against even mild critique (as could be seen here). Also shown is the usage and threat of tasers and extreme physical violence even if the other people aren't physically resisting.
:acab
The militarization and what imperial, colonial powers do in the periphery falls back into the core once more. In addition to the methods used against indigenous or BIPoC in any case.
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@MrMe1280: Great job to the officers. This madness of thinking its ok to block roads has to stop! You have the right to protest but you do not have the right to interfere with other people's lives.
I could say a lot about this whole scene. Its kinda silly. But the characters speak for themselves lol.
At least link to Invidious or something https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=-ZczfmgWDHI
Please just post the original Youtube link and let us use our own privacy redirects.
Sorry I'm out of the loop. What's the advantage of this?
I kept shuffling video sources because every source I found was cringe.
I'm sure that the videos with the most hate views are the ones filled with treat-brained Amerikkkans. I appreciate your effort.
The shitlibs are often the most vocal about this type of thing.
I HATE BURNING MAN
I HATE BURNING MAN
It's been a pretentious orgy of rich assholes and their sycophantic followers for decades now. Any vestige of what it supposedly used to be about is long gone.
Can we please just put even a few of the attendees inside of the wicker man when they burn it? In addition to getting rid of tech bros it would also result in a bountiful harvest!
only if theres bees also.
Becoming a MTWist in real time as I watch this. I get it now.
What is an MTW?
Maoist Third Worldist, presumably.
this seems silly, what did they hope to accomplish.
Probably hope to stop billionaires and nepobabies from wasting resources and maybe confront them with their consumption
yeah i get the sentiment but, obviously this method is futile i just hate seeing poc getting brutalized for no real reason. idk i just think sabotage would be far more effective. its a dessert you know. maybe if they had 5 times more people out there and (in a perfect world) guns the road block would work but yeah literally the only outcome of a crowd this small trying to block the road is them getting arrested at best. call me a doomer ig
There's 75 miles between Nixon, NV and Black Rock and about 80 miles between Eaglevile, CA and Black Rock. That's nearly 150 miles of mostly uninhabited road where one could properly space about 1000 spiky bois over the stretch and cause way more damage and chaos. A group of 3 or 4 people could weld up 1000 caltrops in less than a day for about $150.
see now youre cooking
Oh yeah for sure, but there's also a question of what you can get away with and what you're comfortable with doing.
true true, im not exactly doing more than flowerbombimg and wheatpasting myself (when i comes to illegal things lol). critical support of course.
I love seeing it, but I have to agree with you slightly. The people waiting might have been slowed down about an hour getting to black rock.
I guarantee other lines of traffic had to wait longer because the shitbox ahead of them flipped their RV shitbox going around a corner because they loaded it improperly with too much shit, then stood there looking at the mess with their hands on the head pacing back and forth while waiting for somebody else to come clean it up. I can't tell you how many times I've seen it. The only joy I'd get out of the delay is when I finally got to drive by the mess, I got to slow down and tell them how goddamn stupid they look and that I feel sorry for their mothers. Then I'd make it far enough just to get slowed down again by another horde of idiots that did the same thing.
this seems silly, what did they hope to accomplish.
Well could be many things. Likely they are individual eco conscious liberals which are connected to the climate strike (small numbers speak for that). Then it is mostly a symbolic action till they are cleared. What they did manage to show though is the disproportionate response of police against minor infractions like could be seen here.
They did get some screen time though and the argument of "people having to work" are a bit silly when the work is handing out alcohol at burning man and cleaning toilets for rich people taking drugs.
Their signs were:
- degrowth now
- abolish capitalism
- general strike - for climate 🦾
- burners of the world (and an image of the globe burning)
- keep oil in the ground
Group says the blockade’s purpose is to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown along with protesting against the popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.
Video by Oliya Scootercaster Desk@freedomnews.tv to license
i guess ive had enough symbolic actions that result in harm for poc. and if this is purely about messaging far far more normies are gonna be turned off by this than for it. now see i dont care about messaging so who gives a fuck, but if thats literally the only point of what your doing it should be effective in its one goal, and its so clearly not look at any comment section or just ask a normal person. also we have enough far far far more shocking bloody videos of policy brutality, we truly do not need anymore. no one who isnt already radicalized is getting radicalized by watching people block a road and then get arrested for it. not trying to be overly negative, I just think this shit is genuinely so harmful and useless. all anyone cares about is spectacle especially leftist. I truly think we would make HUGE progress if everyone wasnt so singularly obsessed with internet clicks and veiws. also whats wrong with degrowth.
also we have enough far far far more shocking bloody videos of policy brutality,
True, after Floyd it is absurd to continue with just that action. But some white individual eco people do retain the way of Gene Sharp and a reduced non violence discourse which doesn't build power.
Though blocking Burners from their festival is quite a bit of fun.
Though blocking Burners from their festival is quite a bit of fun.
it really is isnt it?
This is liberal of me but degrowth is just not possible politically. It's like how a general strike sign or Twitter post doesn't do anything, because a general strike needs unions to help strikers stay fed and housed, but 100x worse. If you tell people that they can't have a hot shower every day, because the energy required to heat the water of every person on earth would cook the earth too much, they will not give up hot showers. You cannot implement degrowth without coercion from a socialist state which, at best, gets legitimacy from most people saying "well I hate doing this, but the only way for the planet to survive is if we all sacrifice together". Under capitalism it's a nonstarter of course, people won't even wear masks during a pandemic let alone make sacrifices. But there is not going to be a socialist state with this kind of power in the US for decades, if ever.
You can probably get some half-assed solution where people accept things that nudge them in the direction of less consumption. Bikeable cities. Showers that turn off every few seconds, like the ones at campgrounds, to encourage you to use less hot water. But actual degrowth is so far from possible right now, in the complete absence of any ecosocialist power, that asking for it seems like putting the cart before the horse to me.
It's kind of like veganism. Some people are tenderhearted idealists like me, but if you look at a group of individuals they're not going to give up eating flesh for anything immaterial. Can we get state pushed/mandated veganism? Well, not without a state. And we can't rally around the final goal because by definition it's not popular yet (otherwise we wouldn't need a state to do it), so must start with other vegan goals. Curb the worst excesses of the climate criminals, build up a movement. Slow down growth. Then we can try to implement degrowth.
I can't rip on them too much because they're out there doing shit and I'm in bed on my phone. But this is why I don't like degrowth. Conceptually it's ok.
P.S. also it is basically full communism, in terms of how vigorously capital will oppose it. GDP is basically 1:1 with energy consumption
1.I think we understand degrowth very differently
- there has been a problem of self described communist opposing degrowth under communism
3, I mean My hope Is that the global south will get together, build socialism and bring the imperial core crashing to its knees. I want every drop of resources to be used for the betterment of people in the global south and only after every need has been met they will sell their leftovers to the imperial core at ridiculously exorbitant rates forcing degrowth upon them. but thats just what i fantasize about.
Degrowth is sometimes lumped in with eugenicist talking points which can trigger reflexive pushback. I always like to reply to “overpopulation” concerns with “let’s start with white Americans to get the most bang for our buck”
It’s a relatively small portion of humanity living unsustainable lifestyles, and if we removed the profit motive that would be even smaller.
The conversation is moot though, degrowth is happening whether we like it or not. Laihana is degrowth.
The conversation is moot though, degrowth is happening whether we like it or not. Laihana is degrowth.
truly wild take lol. no hate lol thats just too doomer and horrifying for me that the world will just burn and hundreds of people will die and that will fix everything
Hey sorry for the late reply I was offline (amazing tbh)
I don’t think it’s so much a question of it fixing anything it’s just the inevitable outcome of carrying on the way that we are. If we are to avoid the worst consequences of climate change we need to radically restructure society and learn to do with less particularly in the imperial core. Not talking return to monke either, more like no blueberries in December. No more driving your SUV 30 minutes to go buy groceries. No more private planes for billionaires.
Needless to say this will require a completely new government and a centralized economy and redistribution of resources. But planned or unplanned it’s gonna be degrowth either way. We are like a car speeding towards a concrete barrier. Whether or not we choose to apply the brakes, we are stopping.
ahck, i remember being on 
and looking at the comments and just being so disappointed.
Mr. Enlightened Centrist in the hand cast pretending like he gives a fuck when hes really just there to get fucked up.