Walking to my grocery store and back would be an all day affair and I’d have to have help hauling everything because I’m married with two kids, so our two week grocery bill runs between $200 and $300 depending on what all we need. My closest Walmart is 25 miles away. My closest local grocery store is about 7. And there is no public transportation here.
I mean its less us-pilled and more us-locked. If I could snap my fingers and make every city over 500 people walkable, mix-zoned, and locally owned, I would in a heartbeat. But no one built any cities that way outside of the east coast, and even if all the capital in the US was used responsibly, fixing us would be a century-long project. Now show me one politically effective American capable of seeing past tomorrow; I’ll wait.
All american cities were built that way until the suburbs were deliberately built to destroy that, because there was more profit in the system of private vehicles. (Along with everything else that falls on each individual in the suburbs, which also prevents us from organizing, which benefits the designers of this system)
Your problem is assuming if it can’t be done by one person, single-handedly, then it can’t be done at all. For every person that thinks like this, our capacity as a class is reduced.
I never said it could be done by one person; my point is that there is not even one politically effective person that wants this, let alone a group. Sure, we have leftists in America; we just bitch on Lemmy instead of actually stand on street corners handing out pamphlets.
Sure, we have leftists in America; we just removed on Lemmy instead of actually stand on street corners handing out pamphlets.
lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven’t gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.
Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.
Lol I’ll let you know when they do that when prompted; See I know you don’t organize because I spend damn near every weekend engaging with mutual aid, and we all joke about how our city won’t do shit. Only the most performative assholes get pissed.
Fair enough. Idk why someone downvoted you; I shitpost all the time, you’re good. Although, good luck to anyone wanting to emigrate, lol. Even if it was financially feasible, I truly wonder how welcome we’ll be if America keeps down this fascist route. I’d imagine the Germans that left in '33 were a bit more well liked than the ones who left in '46, though 😂
I gotta be honest: As much as I’m trying to leave the US, I don’t think I could ever go for Germany after Israel. Obviously the US is Israel’s biggest sponsor, but for as much discourse as there is about the UK being right behind us, I’m convinced that Germany is worse (than the UK).
AFAIK the other EU/EFTA countries aren’t much better when it comes to rightwing authoritarianism. Even the ones that currently have center-left governments usually have a strong far right opposition waiting for next election, and a lot of the time the center-left governments are already enacting rightwing authoritarian policies (see UK).
But fair, Germany should know better given its history, but instead it just made them more vulnerable to Israeli propaganda and blackmail.
Walking to my grocery store and back would be an all day affair and I’d have to have help hauling everything because I’m married with two kids, so our two week grocery bill runs between $200 and $300 depending on what all we need. My closest Walmart is 25 miles away. My closest local grocery store is about 7. And there is no public transportation here.
US pilled
I mean its less us-pilled and more us-locked. If I could snap my fingers and make every city over 500 people walkable, mix-zoned, and locally owned, I would in a heartbeat. But no one built any cities that way outside of the east coast, and even if all the capital in the US was used responsibly, fixing us would be a century-long project. Now show me one politically effective American capable of seeing past tomorrow; I’ll wait.
All american cities were built that way until the suburbs were deliberately built to destroy that, because there was more profit in the system of private vehicles. (Along with everything else that falls on each individual in the suburbs, which also prevents us from organizing, which benefits the designers of this system)
Your problem is assuming if it can’t be done by one person, single-handedly, then it can’t be done at all. For every person that thinks like this, our capacity as a class is reduced.
I never said it could be done by one person; my point is that there is not even one politically effective person that wants this, let alone a group. Sure, we have leftists in America; we just bitch on Lemmy instead of actually stand on street corners handing out pamphlets.
lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven’t gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.
Uh-huh. Let me know when they win a city council seat, lol. Leftists be like ”I’m politically effective! I’ve convinced no one."
Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.
Lol I’ll let you know when they do that when prompted; See I know you don’t organize because I spend damn near every weekend engaging with mutual aid, and we all joke about how our city won’t do shit. Only the most performative assholes get pissed.
My call out was not constructive, but it wasn’t intended to be. You can always emigrate.
Fair enough. Idk why someone downvoted you; I shitpost all the time, you’re good. Although, good luck to anyone wanting to emigrate, lol. Even if it was financially feasible, I truly wonder how welcome we’ll be if America keeps down this fascist route. I’d imagine the Germans that left in '33 were a bit more well liked than the ones who left in '46, though 😂
Germany is going to turn you away because they’re also becoming rightwing authoritarian, not because they think US immigrants are too fascist.
Also, they’re too scared of the US to officially grant US citizens asylum, even if they did want to do that.
I gotta be honest: As much as I’m trying to leave the US, I don’t think I could ever go for Germany after Israel. Obviously the US is Israel’s biggest sponsor, but for as much discourse as there is about the UK being right behind us, I’m convinced that Germany is worse (than the UK).
AFAIK the other EU/EFTA countries aren’t much better when it comes to rightwing authoritarianism. Even the ones that currently have center-left governments usually have a strong far right opposition waiting for next election, and a lot of the time the center-left governments are already enacting rightwing authoritarian policies (see UK).
But fair, Germany should know better given its history, but instead it just made them more vulnerable to Israeli propaganda and blackmail.
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Rough!
I have 3 large supermarkets in less than a 10 minute walk and another small one that would be “walking from the parking lot” distance.
We also have a local sourdough bakery and a sort of farmers market pickup point within walking distance.
We must have grown up on the same street. Lol