This is from a news article published late last year in London...
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has announced that as well as tackling her usual area of climate action and awareness-spreading, she has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system.
Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at her book launch in London, she claimed that the world’s current “normal” — dictated by the people in power — has caused the climate breakdown.
She said: “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
Expressing views that seemed more radical than in the past, she added that the climate crisis “has its roots in racist
... Show more...This is from a news article published late last year in London...
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has announced that as well as tackling her usual area of climate action and awareness-spreading, she has now thrown her weight behind defeating the West’s “oppressive” capitalist system.
Calling for a “system-wide transformation” at her book launch in London, she claimed that the world’s current “normal” — dictated by the people in power — has caused the climate breakdown.
She said: “We are never going back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis. What we refer to as normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet. It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called Global North to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
Expressing views that seemed more radical than in the past, she added that the climate crisis “has its roots in racist, oppressive extractivism that is exploiting both people and the planet to maximise short-term profits for a few.”
People were quick to point out the political emphasis on social media, with one best-selling author saying “this is proof that Greta hates capitalism for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with climate change.”
When asked by Samira Ahmed of the BBC whether she thought it was as simple as making laws that outlaw things, she responded: “While there are many things we can do within our current system, we have to realise that we need a system-wide transformation. We need to change everything because right now our current system is on a collision course with the future of humanity and the future of our civilization.”
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Rod Hilton
in reply to Rod Hilton • • •Yo this is getting boosted enough that I'm getting a lot of replies talking about the technical precautions that are taken to make this safe so let me be clear:
Folks like me were talking about how nervous it makes us that tech companies are keeping so much data on stuff like locations and even menstruation cycles. Folks like you called us paranoid.
Then states made abortion illegal & immediately police started subpoenaing that data to arrest women.
You're wrong. Consistently and dangerously.
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in reply to Rod Hilton • • •The precautions that tech companies put in place (because historically they're so very careful right?) are irrelevant when the people trying to bypass those precautions have the threat of state-sanctioned violence backing them up implicitly.
"Unlock your phone so I can make sure that isn't a lock screen wallpaper"
See how easy that was? They can say whatever the fuck they want.
You ever try to "show your ID" by leaving it in your wallet? They make you take it out. Why? Because fuck you.
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Rod Hilton
in reply to Rod Hilton • • •You know what you can't be doing if you hand your phone to a police officer, whether it remains locked on the ID or not?
You can't be recording the police officer on that phone.
So let me say it real loud for the people at the back who think that the convenience of not carrying a 10mm piece of plastic is worth putting folks who are disproportionately targeted by police in even greater risk:
DO NOT PUT YOUR FUCKING STATE ID ON YOUR FUCKING PHONE.
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in reply to Rod Hilton • • •Here's a case where a man got shot for reaching for his phone, the officer involved thought it was a gun.
"Hold on sir, don't unlock that. There have been reports of people triggering explosives with their phones. Hand it to me and give me your passcode."
This is easy as fuck. I could come up with 10 bullshit excuses to make you unlock your phone in as many minutes.
Don't give cops a reason to take your phone. Your recording is likely your only protection.
cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramen…
Rod Hilton
in reply to Rod Hilton • • •Goddamn even if the cops leave the phone locked to view the ID, they'll just pocket the phone afterwards and "give it back to you when we're done here" - you willingly handed it over to them, they can keep it.
Now they know you can't be recording them. You want to hand over the one thing that they know might keep them honest?
Are people just not paying attention? How the fuck can anyone be in favor of this? You want your ID on your phone so bad, get a sticky ID holder and slap it on the back.