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• Rebuild cities and towns along sound ecological and energy-saving principals, with an emphasis on beauty. We should all have human, beautiful places to live. Walkable neighborhoods are key, as are local shops.

• Full democracy and worker ownership in ALL workplaces.

• A vast cut in the work week.

• Guaranteed healthy and safe food, water, shelter, electricity, and communication for all.

• Elimination of landlordism.

• Complete overhaul of health and safety regulation for food, water, medication, and everything else.

I like to think about this question sometimes; it helps me feel better about the future.

How can we make the world better after we're free of capitalism and the oligarchs?

Some of my answers:

• Eliminate fossil fuel cars. Replace them with bicycles, adult tricycles, electric cars, expanded inter-city light rail, and massively expanded public transportation.

• Massive reforestation efforts worldwide.

• Eliminate or at least ENORMOUSLY reduce the fossil fuel industry, reserving fossil fuels for area in which replacing them would be difficult or impossible: precursor chemicals or lubrication, at a guess.

• Massive decarbonization of the world economy.

• Free education for all, including adults.

• Adoption of the "four freedoms".

I have more, but I'll stop there for now. What are some of YOUR ideas?

#Politics #Solarpunk #Future #Hope #Postcapitalism #Postoligarchy

@FediGarden @Larvitz

What kind of nerds? Tech, SF, other?

I got curious and looked up "Vote Blue No Matter Who". That led me to some discussions for liberals and Democrats.

AMAZING how they manage to completely eliminate the whole issue of genocide from their minds! It simply doesn't exist at all to 95% of them or more.

How can they do that? What's WRONG with them?

#Politics #Genocide #VoteBlueNoMatterWho #Democrats #Liberals

@mxchara
I'd suggest trying "A Planet Called Treason" (1979). It's pretty good. Please note that Card rewrote and expanded it as "Treason" (1988), ruining it in the process. But even the original includes some of Card's...•odd• attitudes about homosexuality.

"Songmaster" (1980) is also powerful and compelling. But Card dials up his weirdness about gays several notches higher.

After "Ender's Game" (1985) and possibly "Speaker For The Dead"(1986), Card just descended into his own madness, repeating his schtick of creepily precocious genius children with incestuous overtones and nasty representations of homosexuality as a mental illness. His talent is gone.

Good riddance.

Edit: What the hell, I'll make this my daily recommendation. I'm too tired to work up another one.

"A Planet Called Treason" can be borrowed from the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/planetcalledtrea00card

#BookRecs #BookRecommendations #ScienceFiction #quasitbookrecs

@mxchara
If only Orson Scott Card wasn't such a total bastard! But as things stand, I'm glad he lost his gift for writing.