Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@dynamic @LeoSammallahti There seem to be a lot of physical and mental health reasons to work against dense urban centers. There's also the self-sustainment issues (food as well as natural resources).

The Federal Reserve just took a major step forward on climate https://grist.org/climate/the-federal-reserve-just-took-a-major-step-forward-on-climate/

These ladies love natural gas! Too bad they aren’t real. https://grist.org/climate/these-ladies-love-natural-gas-too-bad-they-arent-real/

What California’s farmworkers can teach us during a season of giving https://grist.org/justice/what-californias-farmworkers-can-teach-us-during-a-season-of-giving/

Fuck colonialism. Make them a state or a country, but if we do the latter, we need to give them back their money.

https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/deconstructed-puerto-rico-statehood/

Trump to CIA: Say Goodbye to Your War on Terror https://theintercept.com/2020/12/19/trump-pentagon-cia-biden/

This is the real story on the pandemic and what capitalist healthcare brings to the people.

Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff and Supplies. Now They’re Not Ready for the Next Wave.
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/20/covid-hospital-ceos-nurses/

Time to burn City Hall.

Detroit is Suing Black Lives Matter Protesters for “Civil Conspiracy”
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/21/detroit-black-lives-matter-lawsuit/

This falls under the #FTFY category. The article totally ignores polling on progressive issues. If anything, progressives need to get louder and more entrenched.

Progressives are a minority in America. To win, they need to compromise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/dec/19/progressives-us-democrats-power-new-deal

If We Don’t Break Up Big Tech, We’ll All Be Uber Drivers Soon https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-gig-workers-labor-rights-antitrust-laws-break-up-uber

There Are Only 300 Wolverines Left in the Lower 48. Why Won’t the Government Protect Them? https://inthesetimes.com/article/wolverine-endangered-species-act-climate-change

The Numbers Show Covid Is a Mental Health Crisis - The U.S. mental health system was already in tatters. https://inthesetimes.com/article/mental-health-covid-pandemic-medicare-for-all-single-payer

@LeoSammallahti @dynamic Yes, some people don't want to be rats in a cage.

Harry Chapin's The Cat's in the Cradle has to be the most depressing song ever. Combine it with Descendent's Suburban Home and you have the blueprint for #FML.

@dynamic @LeoSammallahti IANAE. Why are big cities formed? It's surely not just about socializing. Most people don't have millions of friends and family they need to be in close proximity with. Trade for necessities doesn't require it. It limits travel for specialized needs, but how often do such needs arise? It would be hard to find any instance of a large city that wasn't formed around some centralized power structure. i.e., money, religion, government.

@dynamic @LeoSammallahti I'm referring to scale. Small communities used to have stores, that were much like the corner store in a large urban neighborhood. Evan at smaller scale you have producers and services. The rush to capital has driven those things out of the community and into centralized bigger locations. The cost of cheaper goods has been lower wages and less jobs. Urbanization is largely a byproduct of a need for a cheaper local workforce.