Cutting off material support for Israel and putting out real arrest warrants for war criminals are two things I can think of we could do.

As individuals that means agitating and creating pressure on leaders to do these things but individual boycotts can also help.

I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?

Leave it to Musk to make Sam Altman seem like a reasonable adult.

As non insta user who’s being forced to dip my toes in for the purpose of community organizing: what are these and how do I use them?

I agree with you but can it be prevented? And if so how?

Tough, I just heard about it through word of mouth. You can try web searches but it will be hard because most coops are consumer coops which won’t necessarily have the same democratic rights for workers.

Damn that sucks. I bet there is one somewhere though, they may not have all of them listed in once place. Just as an example there is one not far from where I live that isn’t on that map.

Talking to other people who work there and reading reviews can help. But the real issue is hierarchical management style is always going to be vulnerable to abuse by bad actors because your managers have near total power over you.

In the private sector the solution is worker’s coops. I’m not sure what it would be called in the nonprofit world but there are likely more democratically run organizations in a similar vein.

Another alternative is finding somewhere with a strong union. Unions can also be toxic in some ways but usually far less so than normal work power dynamics.

First, contact as many people as you can, especially local ICE watch orgs. A lot have hotlines which you may be able to find with a web search. Next start recording. Delay as long as possible. Ask for a warrant, stay calm and maybe try to negotiate as a stall tactic. This will hopefully give community members time to arrive and record or hopefully apply pressure if they are brave and numerous enough. It is possible to intimidate and drive them back with enough numbers.

All else fails at this point I would not fight back and allow yourself to be arrested. Most citizens being arrested right now are being released. The courts are slow but still upholding the law for now. If you are not a citizen then your options might not be as good. Fighting back is likely to get you injured or killed but if you have an escape route it could be worthwhile, especially if you can escape in areas where motor vehicles can’t go. Their level of fitness is generally low so they can’t give chase for long, and as long as you’re not high profile you might be safe once you get away, though you’ll likely need to lie low somewhere.

If you’re asking what to do about the current political situation in a broader sense then I have different answers.

I’ll note that kissing is not culturally universal. Remember that colonialism has made a lot of European ideas and norms seem way more universal than they are.

That’s already the way the world works today, and violent people will certainly continue to exist, though some of the incentive to be violent won’t exist without the ability to accumulate infinite wealth. But the key difference is the state won’t forbid you from organizing community self-defense as needed.

I believe I already answered this? There is no ownership without a state to enforce your claim.

Same way animals do. You don’t need to enforce something that doesn’t exist in the first place.

If there’s no state to stop me from building a garden on some billionaire’s ranch, private property no longer exists.

I mean the Lemmy devs are objectively assholes. You don’t gotta be anti-communist to recognize that.

But if there’s more to this story than just vibes I’d be interested to read about it. Did they make some statement or where did you hear this? Because I’ve never heard anything about this.

lol what

Oh interesting. I’m more familiar with the amethyst deceiver which is pretty easy to ID but maybe it’s related to this one and just inherited the name?

I always wonder how they got this name.

Honestly that hasn’t been my experience but either way there’s always room for improvement.

Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It’s the internet so that’s not always easy but I do think that’s one of the things holding us back.

If only there was some way we could have known he wasn’t a good guy. Like if, for example, he had famously said it’s good for the economy to poison poor people. Or if he had resigned in disgrace as president of the nation’s university top university after making bigoted comments and involvement in a case of fraud. Or spearheaded the deregulation of the finance industry that directly led to the housing crisis. Just hypothetically, if someone had done all those things, no sane person would invite them to be on one of the most important and powerful corporate boards.

Right?