Dragon
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Dragon@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
3·2 years agoI don’t know, that might be true. Certainly at some price it becomes a good deal.
Dragon@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
1·2 years agoI mean I was talking about a used car sale, which doesn’t financially contribute to the company. It bothers me that people object to simply owning a Tesla (not buying) to the point that they feel like they have to get rid of one they already have. This mentality speaks to a sickness of identity which ties ones indicators of belonging to a commercial brand. I am not even talking about consumer choices like whether to shop at Amazon. I am talking about publicly visible choices like clothing, cars, watches. To suggest that these should communicate ones political alignment or disalignment is to buy into the idea of brand as identity.
Dragon@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
1·2 years agoIdk I haven’t been paying much attention I’ve only heard about the cyber truck specifically having issues
Dragon@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
3·2 years agoI guess it depends on how much used Tesla are going for. If enough people want to get rid of them the price should keep falling.
Dragon@lemmy.mlto
politics @lemmy.world•Sheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'
619·2 years agoIf it was within my budget I would buy a used Tesla. They’re pretty decent cars. The idea that your car should communicate your values or identity is Bourgeois ideology that I fully reject.
Dragon@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own communityEnglish
1·2 years agoHolochain is an interesting option I haven’t seen mentioned.
That would help
IMO the only way around this problem in the USA is to either (A) get a third party to the point of legitimacy where people will take them seriously be winning seats in the house and senate, and eventually running for the presidency, or (B) win a primary in one of the two major parties. By election day there is nothing to do but vote for the least worst option.
Good point, fixed
Exactly. And they will be highly educated and bring new ideas to the revolution.
Are you doing that on Lemmy? In what communities?
I mentioned examples. I don’t know of any counter-examples.
Why what happened? As far as why Anarchists were attacked by communists, it is ppssible the USSR was more interested in developing a strategic ally than simply fighting Fascists. As far as why Franco won, I think the biggest reason was his much greater international support from Germany, Italy, and even American corporate powers.
I don’t know how the war would have gone if those events hadn’t taken place, but it seems to have undermined the strength of the popular front. And from what I’ve read the anarchists were sufficiently organized. The type of Anarchism popular amongst the Spanish was a syndicalist strain very different from the hyper-individualism people expect from anarchists today.
I’m not sure they did, at least not preemptively. Do you have examples?
USSR-aligned groups, where they had power in Spain, in many instances used that power to imprison, smear, and seize weapons from, and attack non-USSR-aligned groups. You can look up José Cazorla’s anti-subversion measures in Madrid, or PSUC’s attacks on POUM during the Barcelona May Days.
Are you referring to instances in which Anarchist groups in the Spanish Civil War took actions to hurt Communist groups? I won’t claim it didn’t happen, but I don’t know of examples.

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