Artemis

We're not going to first have the "revolution" & THEN try to sort things out & help people.

The problem-solving & mutual help IS the revolution. They cannot be separated.

Old systems must be torn down. Part of tearing them down is creating new ways of living.

Begin creating the world you want to live in NOW. Don't wait.

Or perhaps a better way to put it: not all disruption is destructive.

Community gardens are disruptive to capitalism. Sharing food & clothes & other needed resources is disruptive. Reallocating public space for the public good is disruptive. Creating networks that help trans people access medical treatment they are being denied is disruptive.

We can BUILD things now.

Yes, the fash will try to tear them down. They always will.

But we can still build while we fight back.

Let's not forget the Black people (including INFANTS) murdered in cold blood—for whom we rarely get even the most meager semblance of "justice."

What amount of suffering, unrest, & violence would be worth resisting?

But perhaps more importantly, why do you envision resistance as purely disruptive?

Bringing the new world into being means dismantling the old systems, yes, but it also means creating new ones NOW, not sometime in the future.

"I can't endorse radical political change because the disruption would harm too many people."

Do you SEE the world we are in? Do you SEE how bad things are now & how much worse they are likely to get in the NEAR future?

More people slip below the poverty line, unable to feed themselves & their families, unable to access healthcare, abused by a system they are too poor to resist.

Immigrants (& those who would defend them) are abducted & imprisoned.

When is that disruption going to be enough?

Reading a long series of interactions of several people with a reply guy in someone else's replies, & it's amazing that this person is telling everyone that they missed their point.

Bud, if everyone is "misunderstanding" you it's likely that either a) you are not communicating your point in a way other people can understand or b) (more likely) YOU don't understand the point you're making & think it has merit & makes sense, & it doesn't

Or c) you're just full of shit. That one's very common.

Suppose you *could* through constant labor, strenuous planning, & deprivation manage to feed yourself & your family on a tiny budget, that would still be extreme poverty.

I hate that people who aren't in poverty try to explain to those who are "no, really, you can survive. You just need to find a way to suffer a little more."

The problem is not a lack of ingenuity & creativity. The problem is poverty. No one should have to struggle every moment of every day just to live.

"You can feed 4 people on $300 a month. In this video, I will show you how to make a thin rice gruel..."

(The first sentence is really from a real person. The second is what I assume came next)