It's called propaganda of the deed and it's time we brought it back. Luigi was a great start but it's nothing compared to early 20th century anarchists.

I tell this to them all the time, but falls on deaf ears or they throw logic out the window. Something else I mention is the difference in logistics to pull off something of that scale in the US vs their home country. For example in France they only have one major city being Paris. Scheduling a meaningful protest of sorts would be trivial vs how it would be here in the US. They often forget this. Even communication across these distances without leaking anything to a government who has shown its colors is damn near impossible. This takes time. If they want to accelerate this then come over and show us how it's done, but I'm not gonna lose sleep when they get blasted just touching the fence out front and nothing happens.

I think we should just in general start beating people's asses when they step out of line. Some tech bro/politician/billionaire says some unhinged shit? Immediately punched in the mouth. I think it'd do a lot of good if people were afraid to be assholes again.

I agree about the psych evaluation. But regarding the exam: a politician is basically a combination of manager and sales person. Of neither role do I expect (deeper) understanding of the things they manage or sell. They need different skills.

But they need to listen to the experts in their ministries and be able to convey their results and concerns to other politicians who are even farther away from their topics and to the public. What they absolutely should not do is push some own agenda; especially not an agenda they somehow profit from.

The same but for voters too. If you don't even understand the cycle of water, you can't be trusted with weighing on decisions on environmentalism, let alone affordable urban design or how to feed people.

This is good. I'll be in charge of the independent evaluation panel.

You are not alone thus you have your answer.

Most people value their own life so it first must become so bad that dying while trying to change stuff is preferable to keep living in those conditions.

So relax, have fun while you can, this will sort itself out.

We are most often cowards as individuals unless we have a mental break and snap like Luigi where self preservation takes a back seat, we'd handle it better as an organised group but clearly none of us know how to begin and/or there's not enough appetite for it to happen yet. I've heard it said nobody is willing until things get bad enough like if food becomes scarce. Idk. I've only known peace times with my needs met as they're slowly eroded in a declining society, so I'm completely out of my element. How do I theoretically convince my union to drag the boss out of their house and cave their head in without being ineffectual and jailed/killed as another single day news cycle headline labeled a crazed solo mad man who is promptly forgotten.

One thing for sure is it ain't gonna happen on censored social media owned by our enemies enforcing status quo or Fediverse instances that ban talk like this out of legal trouble fears like LW who also enforce status quo. Everyone likes to fantasize and maybe that cathartic release is part of the problem because the internet allows us to vent that frustration instead of harnessing it, but you actually get serious? You build a guillotine instead of posting guillotine.webp? Banned for inciting violence.

Yeah, but that's less than 1% of the price I initially thought it was