John Brisbin

i am what i eat ++ i am the change i want to see
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Natural capital is a fine concept as long as we agree that land is family, not an asset class.

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

Also: https://t.co/Q2yGDIAPTz

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

@Oscarthefarmer It's the underlying rules of the game that make everything more difficult when it comes to optimising at a social level.
My whataboutism doesn't help you make an incremental gain though, so I'm happy to withdraw., and wish you more power to your arm.

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

@Oscarthefarmer Fully support your dedicated efforts to find a more sensible social contract within this one domain.
I'm pretty confident you'll come a' cropper because to implement this "pretty simple" reform, you'll contravene any number of cultural norms re private gain from public goods.

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

@Oscarthefarmer Hmmmm...I take it seriously when I get your "trite" label.
Maybe I need to think a bit more about the point that appears pretty obvious from my perspective. Thanks for the bracing slap!

[DHCooper @DHCalifornicus]

@michaelevknight I still love this quote from Ursula Le Guin:

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
https://t.co/HL3K4qaseL

[Liza Balmain @BalmainLiza]

There are currently 3 fires🔥 burning in the gasfields of the Western Downs, Qld.

Gasfields in bushfire prone areas are a recipe for disaster ⚠️. Made ever more grievous by the fact that residents 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 in Qld have NO right to say no 🚫 to this forced fuel-induced coexistence.

Added to the current boiling pot🫕 is #QGC (Shell) having significantly cut staffing levels. Overstretched employees are even less equipped to contain risks.

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

But surely buffel has been a net economic benefit right? And the pastoral industry is happy to clean up any problems on public land, right??

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The US bases in Australia must be closed down, says this American presidential candidate.

You can see now why she gets no coverage by the corporate media — nor by our publicly-owned pro-establishment media.

@IPAusNet @WarPowersReform @MAPW_Australia

[Self-sufficiency @downshifting___]

Worried about climate but unsure what to do? Let me show you how simply I live with no electricity, gas, oil or a car. Growing my food and firewood. Keeping chickens. This life can be really harmonious!
Just to give you ideas, not preaching ❤️

[💧Jo @jo_noCSG]

Have a 👀 at the gas industry ripping into SW QLD in a big way, country is being pushed over to make way for pipelines & wellpads, most of the gas is for export. Help me get this out, it needs attention, no ones knows about the scope of these works
#CSG #AUSpol #CoalGas #Fracking

[Patricia @PatriciaNPino]

Like this:

[art4cc @ArtForCC]

"Norway is poised to move forward with plans to mine for seabed minerals along its continental shelf despite public opposition."
Apparently there is nowhere on Earth the rampaging ecocidal greedy bastards are unwilling to go for more. Fvck you Norway.
https://t.co/pY7p3cEFLo

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

Just saying...

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

"It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans."

- @kenshirriff, Wealth distribution in the United States https://t.co/3pXwjnM1fI

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.”

Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?”

Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.”

Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Biological systems at the molecular level are impossibly advanced nanotech that we are hopelessly far from engineering ourselves from scratch.

[John Brisbin @ethicalfeast]

WORD.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Never let your government tell you who your enemies are.

It's not the fault of middle eastern people that they live on top of a bunch of oil near crucial trade routes in a region which bridges three continents. And that's all this has ever been about. Not fighting "terrorism". Not spreading freedom and democracy. Not even protecting Israel. It's ultimately about controlling what happens in a geostrategically crucial and resource-rich stretch of land.

The people who live in that part of the world never did you any harm. They pose no threat to you. You're only being told to hate them because the world's most powerful people need to dominate west Asia in order to dominate the planet, and they need to inflict immense amounts of violence in order to do so. That's all this is.

Our rulers use all kinds of narratives from all around the world and across the political spectrum to justify their actions. They'll use Zionism, Christian fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, liberalism, conservatism, nationalism or woke identity politics to manufacture consent for their agendas wherever needed. They'll feed you whatever lines you need to hear in order to dupe you into thinking that disobedient populations in the middle east need military explosives dropped on them. That's all they care about.

Our rulers use their propagandists in the mainstream news media and their narrative managers in Silicon Valley to manipulate public perception toward these murderous agendas using half-truths, lies by omission, distortions, misleading headlines, reversing the victim and the aggressor, starting the timeline of events at convenient points, and uncritically repeating unproven allegations from untrustworthy sources. These manipulators are as critical to the operation of the imperial war machine as the actual people who drop the bombs.

What kind of groveling, slobbering bootlicker would play along with this? What kind of power-worshipping empire simp would consent to murder and abuse at mass scale against people who pose no threat to them whatsoever, just because the people in charge told them to feel that way? What a pathetic, profoundly undignified way to exist.

They work so hard to manufacture our consent for these atrocities because they absolutely require our consent. So don't give it to them. When all is said and done our rulers are at all times acutely aware of the fact that there are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and that we could very easily turn around and eat them all if we got it into our heads that that would be a good thing to do. Hold fast to your power, refuse to be taken in by their manipulations, and help wake everyone up to the fact that we are being continuously deceived into compliance, confusion and powerlessness by murderous psychopaths who want to rule the world.

Our real enemies are not in Iran.

Our real enemies are not in Lebanon.

Our real enemies are not in Gaza or the West Bank.

Our real enemies are not in Yemen, Syria, or Iraq.

Our real enemies are in Washington and London and Tel Aviv. In Berlin and Paris and Canberra. In secretive government agencies in the state of Virginia, and in imperial propaganda institutions in New York and Hollywood.

Our real enemies are not the Arabs and the Iranians, they're the managers of empire who are ruining our world, destroying our biosphere, siphoning our wealth and our resources, threatening us with nuclear brinkmanship, and making sure we stay too poor, sick, busy and brainwashed to figure out what's going on and take a stand against them.

Don't let them dupe you into believing otherwise. Fight against their manipulations, and oppose their abuses. We healthy human beings can absolutely win this thing, but even if we don't, at the very least we can prevent them from stealing our dignity and manipulating us into cheering for their depravity.

[Andrew Dessler @AndrewDessler]

[Very Nordhaus voice] “Because most economic activity occurs indoors, warming of several degrees Celsius will have a minimal impact on our economy.”