interestingasfuck

With all the uneducated, divisive disinformation, and faith-based worldviews out there it's hard to even get people to agree that a problem exists, and therefore even harder to convince the electorate how to appropriately address it. Public medicine would fix this problem like it has in the rest of the world yet still many Americans believe it's Marxism for some stupid reason.

Yeah there's 350 million of us but only one of these incidents in the decade+ since Occupy Wall Street?

We don't have the guts.

All we can do it keep moving forward and try to take care of each other as we go.

People love to use examples like MLK and Gandhi as the poster children for peaceful protest achieving results, and years ago I'd have naively agreed.

But the reality of it is that they could not have succeeded without the threat of violence from more militant alternatives, such as Malcolm X/The Black Panthers or the Ghadar revolutionaries/Babbar Akali Sikhs.

It's the carrot-and-stick metaphor. The powers that be will ignore any nonviolent attempts for reform until a violent movement makes the nonviolent alternative more appealing.

Capitalism has long asserted that there are checks in place to protect people. Consumer protection laws, industry regulations, collective bargaining, and voting with your wallet are some of the myths that capitalism says are supposed to stop bad businesses from hurting people. But when we see these systems failing en masse, and the powers that be refuse to do anything about it, what recourse is left?

Organized labor can also take some non violent action like general strikes. The important thing is the organization part, once you're organized you've got power whether it's violent or not.

A smaller less organized population can definitely use violence effectively, but it still takes critical mass to affect permanent change.

Join or create community groups and labour unions

I spend my working life surrounded by PhDs, have done so for ~28 years now, and let me assure you: education and intelligence are orthogonal.

I'm guessing he kept it all intentionally. He had the manifesto on him, probably expecting "accidental" suicide by cop in hopes that his message would continue and not be painted over by the media. Yeah, he could have ditched the gun, but again, perhaps he didn't want there to be any shadow of a doubt that he is guilty. This was an intentional sacrifice in hopes of making a change.

Part of him probably wanted to got caught. The guy showed an extreme respect for justice, more than the current US legal system, and he knew what he had done.

Doesn't look like the guy to me.

history’s first incel

What definition of incel are you using that eliminates the rest of history?

He is ID'd the sources of issue more precisely.

Internet liberated the flow info enough for a smart person to connect the dots better.

Uncle Ted was working within the framework of the old world. A lot of shit that is common knowledge to a wage slave now, was reserved to the elites.

Ted's thesis was not wrong but it was very crude.

I like the part of Industrial Society where he spend the first 10 pages just bashing on liberals