90 percent of my money is in Illinois farm land. Part of 2025 is to end farm subsidies. I suspect that this is because it’s already difficult for farmers to make money with out then and ending subsidies will for a lot of them to sell to conglomerates at less then optimal prices
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Well, at least you won’t be scammed twice by a Ponzi crypto scam endorsed by your president…
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I bought crypto in 2010 to buy acid off the dark web. I had second thoughts and kept it. What was initial a joke to me to own crypto turned into a windfall
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no compraste #carajocoin al dip??
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No, soy zurdo (literal y metafórico).
Also, don’t joke about it. The same dudes that did Libra did the Trump coin.
I am unironically happy for all the people that made money off crypto in this way and only this way
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It’s the only acceptable way and I still feel embarrassed bringing it up.
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Actually @xhekros I did a little digging and found out we do have a plan
We aren’t going to buy anything……for one whole day 
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Don’t give your money to Wal-Mart, instead give it to the local small business tyrant! We’re resisting!
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Make sure to stock up on treats the 27th!
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Lol I hate to be a naysayer from the comfort of my home - it’s hard out there, if doing stuff like that makes you feel better then by all means do it - but it reminds me of the slipshod local protests too. Let’s all march to city hall because we hate the president! A protest for our general unhappiness
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Yes! I even wait six months when buying a used game for it to turn up at my local game store. A disc replay which is a corporation but is not game stop. I bought my osvr2 there used. It’s an independent enough store that the controllers were in ziplocks.
Make a relationship with your local Do It Best. They’re great folks and they often over hire people and retired experts and you’ll learn things going there. Shop at a privately owned grocery. Meijer is even one so you don’t have to go to some place where a line costs 2 dollars. Go to estate sales to get furniture and kitchen items. Those people are almost always local and ask off the money stays on the community. You don’t have to bend yourself into a pretzel to do this. You just have to do a little research.
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I’ve talked about this in the #booktok thread, but I highly highly recommend if we burn by Vincent Bevins.
Essentially the book is a history of “the protest decade” of the 2010’s where shit was popping off from Brazil to the Arab spring and everywhere in between. How come so much hullabaloo resulted in minimal material change for the left and even a regression in some cases?
The answer is a lack of organization and unclear aim. In the few instances that did succeed, it was thanks to a laser sharp focus and tangible demands brought forward by an unrelenting core group of people that somehow resisted co-opting from others.
Maybe not the best elevator pitch for it but again highly recommended for anyone interested in mass change and what it takes to get there.
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Is why it’s still important to vote for your neoliberal shill rather than a the authoritarian party or not voting at all
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idk how to cross-post because I am bad at technology but we were just talking about this sort of consumption as not-quite-political activism on the Television Thread last week
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They want you to think consumption is not political JUST as the new season of white lotus comes out. Right…
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i’m liking an nodding my head and hoping no one asks me what white lotus is.
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it’s a cable tv show for women
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it’s a sometimes funny sometimes tiresome send-up about luxury resorts, the world-weary folks who patronize them, and “the help” that make it all work. it can be a good show in spite of itself.
i mostly made the joke because i know hunter is watching it based on a post he made in the tv thread and because i think it’s a really funny example of “tv as praxis” because it’s just believable enough that someone might think that (that someone is me).
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Hey, even if it is for one day, you’re doing less harm by boycotting and that’s a good thing.
Anyways living in a van nonstop 365 for 7 years will have you never take running water for granted ever again. Especially heated water. I also lived in a warehouse with running water as a kid but it took us 8 months to get a water heater. All my at-home-in-van hand washing was with a Zepp Spray Bottle for 7 years. I went through one sprayer a year on average. I grew up living in a car where I was taught to use the same water I swish my mouth with to rinse my toothbrush after brushing.
Rural areas with potable or even mineral tap water sources are cool. In the city doing vanlife I always got my water from the glacier machines which are reverse osmosis filtered. When I’m in a house I always use installed reverse osmosis, in fact I’m about to buy one to install in the apartment I moved into this week!
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