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Thanks, read full spectrum resistance” Aric McBay i will take a look at practical anarchism, i think that is the next step. I have took a lot in mentally, and i have had lots of conversations. I make small steps esp with my economical power. I also try to understand my language in empowering others.

I have also been trying to support small local groups.

I think the practical side is whats missing now.

Very cool Cherry. I'm learning myself (everyday is a school day and that's why work should end at 3pm 😁)

A good book I found was ""practical anarchism a guide for daily life" by Shuli Branson. Really helped make the principles simple and it's mainly about consensus and how to work with everyones views and "full spectrum resistance" Aric McBay

I've found it difficult to find a real life anarchist group but have joined Acorn the housing union

But more power to you, hope you find a way to get involved 💪🖖✊

This. And we need to stop thinking of anarchy and dissent as a bad thing. I do not like violence and will always choose to negotiate but we have rolled over too much and are being taken advantage off.

I am learning how to be a part of something.

Yes all of this. And somehow I'm already so pissed at Burnham that I think he will somehow do worse but with a northern accent

I get wanting to have hope but saying Starmer was the best PM in 14 years is a bar so low its unlimboable. And I'm not sure that it's even true, many of his policies built on the cruelty and inequality of the Tories and he has openly supported a genocide.

So please, please, please do have hope. Just not with the labour party. If you must support a party lend the greens your time and energy and support but government isn't going to save any of us. We need to work in community for ourselves. My personal belief is in anarchy but even supporting and organising your local LGBTQ+ groups is far more impactful than anything government will offer

Starmer was the best prime minister of the previous 14 years

I keep hearing this, but was he?

The Tory prime ministers didn't proscribe Palestine Action, hand the nation's medical data to Palantir, or push to end jury trials.

He's been less clear on that but generally on the correct side of trans issues. Other queer issues he has been a staunch ally, apparently even when it's apparently caused arguments with his own family, and calling out the pope while being Catholic. So please allow me this one tiny bit of hope - I had such high hopes for Starmer and they were all dashed and then hopes I didn't even know I had were dashed too... and Starmer was the best prime minister of the previous 14 years!

Not sure about that he has flip flopped in single sex spaces as he does with most things. Hopefully you are right but I'm not holding my breath

He's like to be better on queer issues, at least. Maybe my trans friends will be able to be a little less scared for the future https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/07/20/andy-burnham-new-prime-minister-lgbtq-issues/

Not meant to be impressed, just distracted

Most of the abolitionists weren't against slavery because they thought it was cruel and evil. They were against slavery because it made white people's labor less valuable.

A lot of big slave owners would import a European artisan [blacksmith, carpenter, glazier, etc.] and pay them to work and to train slaves to do the job. When the craftsman went home, the slave master would hire out his laves at a fraction of what a free man would charge for the same work.

Women in America only got the vote after they'd proved they could be relied on to go into the factories and take up the slack when the men went to war.

Most progress doesn't come from noble asperations.

Somehow "left unity" always means "stop voting to keep your human rights" and never "okay I guess I'll vote in support of your human rights too, you weirdo".

Why vote for the lowest common denominator when you can vote for united solidarity?

Exactly what the workers party has been saying for years.

Idk do they have paper warehouses there?

No

Then, in what sense are they “Labour”?

During the Industrial revolution where manufacturing replaced artisan creators among the serfs, it was almost required that a company build, own and operate whole towns, encouraging freelance workers to live near and work in their factories.

Companies owning homes is sort of an old idea, and while history may not repeat, it often rhymes. Now we we are beholden to (Land)Lords who are also companies, at least a couple of hundred years ago it was one or the other!

I agree fully. We are living in a housing crisis, not due to lack of housing but the lack of affordable housing, and the lack of available housing as some of these corporate owned property sit empty.

The fact that none of our governments attempted to counter this fairly new trend is an admission of who's side they are on.

I was actually going against myself when I said that, when my partner moved in she owned her own flat, so she rented it out to a pensioner who couldn’t be happier.

I can’t really imagine a situation where someone who is a landlord needing the tax relief on their rental profit but I suppose there is a niche case where someone can’t sell their rental home and really need it the relief. Under our current tax system I suppose it would be fairer.

You read my mind for the last few years. I think tax on the rental income should however depend on your total earnings for the year (which is easier to determine if the residential property is owned by an individual and not a company).

Fair question - I use it for the same reason I use Lemmy. There may be Nazis here but the vast majority of the people are not, and it's free and accessible for me.

Also fuck the Nazis, it they think we'll shy away and let them have a platform to themselves they have another thing coming.

Why use Substack? Isn't it a Nazi haven?

This is a good point, and I think that the correct answer is that it wasn't, and it isn't. I have never asked this question of my own country and I appreciate having read it because I think I need to start speaking it aloud.

I have little hope for this lot.