You go far enough left, you get your guns back

Beware - Death Grips

highest grossing movie in Idiocracy!

This seems to have worked with my boomer mom: "be that as it may, wouldn't we all be better off by reducing pollution?"

Saw a cool trick on IG, bit wasteful but works if you really want to save the container (I agree we should switch away from plastics - someday..). Piece of paper towel or napkin, drop of dish soap, a splash of hot water, close tight and shake thoroughly so the paper goes all around the inside, remove paper, rinse, wash normally.

Like the US. And the EU.

I'll add A Serbian Film, and Ex Drummer. Great or at least interesting/insightful movies, extremely difficult to watch, completely depressing. I saw them as a teen, though, so I wonder if they would have the same effect.. but I'm not going to try.

I sometimes manage to console myself by looking at it all as a bizzarre blip in the universe, we will go as we came - unnoticed. Maybe Earth is the next Mars. Just takes a bit of that soul-crushing gravity off, so that I don't feel like a failure for not always being able to fight, all day, every day.

and we all secretly know it

Soo happy I don't live in the US :P but lest we forget: Europe spawned it/them (the US)

They're (we're) not monsters, they (we) are kept in fear and made complicit/complacent of a dehumanizing system.

I feel like it should be both. Purely top down decisions eventually lead to distortions and resentment (e.g. USSR). There needs to also be the grinding and mostly thankless work of shifting the cultural hegemony (this is Gramsci, and I tend to believe him).