Up now on my eBay! Classic anthropomorphic/furry comic from 1998! The Art of Usagi Yojimbo 2 by Stan Sakai, not only a great find for Sakai fans, but also the first ever comic series published by Radio Comix! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
The secert police are gearing up for continued fascism now.
Thank goodness you can currently purchase and own your own assault rifles and ammunition, that second amendment must be looking real appealing right now, right?
when it’s actually available to minorities and not a class/race privilege
Exactly! That’s why big US cities and places where most of the poor/racially diverse settle should have less gun restrictions/taxation instead of more. Wait? What? The Left has been running the cities for decades and actively work to disarm the population? The Left wants people defenseless when (not if in their argument) goes full fascist and starts attacking it’s own citizens? No, but that can’t be the case! The say they’re anti-fascist!
please for the love of god stop confusing the democrats and liberals
with the left, we want less gun restrictions/taxation in largely
minority areas too, like when you say “tax is theft” every ancom alive
will agree with you, you’re just missing the fact that profits are
unpaid wages and therefore also theft. We support the arming of the
people and the destruction of the state in favour of direct democracy
via federalised community assemblies, but we also acknowledge that such changes would be meaningless when the
private corporate sphere has at least as much influence over our lives
as the state, and there is no democracy there. The private sphere could
be similarly federalised into unions or worker co-ops so that people get
a say over the means of production and division of profits
There is a difference between the left (encompassing democrats, liberals, and The Left) and The Left, hence the capitalization. The Left doesn’t want less gun restrictions they want gun confiscation. I don’t agree taxation is theft on the whole, some taxation can be left (i.e. 90% of any dollar you make). I think we should take steps to limit the power of the federal government but a straight democrat vote in the current political climate is going to strip you of your rights as fast as the legislation gets signed. Unions have mostly run into the arms of The Left - just look at where their money goes.
Annarco-communism won’t work, it’s called a dictatorship and last time I checked those don’t usually end very well.
“The Left doesn’t want less gun restrictions they want gun confiscation”
please i am begging you to read absolutely anything about the actual left, read about the black panthers, read about the SRA, read about what marx actually said about gun rights, read any book, any book at all, my god,
“Annarco-communism won’t work, it’s called a dictatorship”
just any book, please,
Let me check that I’m understanding you correctly. You do not think that the Democratic Party in the US is “The Left.” Am I correct?
Black Panthers: In theory, not so much of a problem except the methods were a bit grey. Protecting against unlawful imprisonment: yay. Some of the other stuff they did: not so much yay.
SRA: Solicitors Regulation Authority? State Relief Administration? Satanic Ritual Abuse? Which one??
Marx: Yeah, guy said firearms shouldn’t be surrendered. Then why has every communist state started with confiscating firearms shortly after coming to power? In fact, I think when someone tried to go against the government, they were murdered. I guess I will have to double check that though.
Annarco-Communism: When/where has it worked without devolving into a dictatorship? Has it ever been implemented, anywhere, on a large scale, and worked? When it has failed in the past what would you do to ensure it doesn’t fail again?
Let
me check that I’m understanding you correctly. You do not think that
the Democratic Party in the US is “The Left.” Am I correct?
wrong. i’m esentially seconding this part:
There is a difference between the left (encompassing democrats, liberals, and The Left) and The Left, hence the capitalization.
while pointing out that this point:
The Left doesn’t want less gun restrictions they want gun confiscation
is dead wrong, the far left has made it clear through the existence of groups like the Socialist Rifle Association (please, just any book) that they are in support of gun rights. Similarly with the existence of the pro-gun black panthers (who ronny reagan tried to disarm, btw!) also, everything the black panthers did was extremely yay.
the claim that “every communist
state started with confiscating firearms shortly after coming to power” is dead wrong- while some socialist countries have regretably imposed gun restristions, the claim that they are far and away more likely to do so than capitalist countries simply does not hold up to scrutiny [link]
Annarco-Communism: When/where has it worked without devolving into a
dictatorship? Has it ever been implemented, anywhere, on a large scale,
and worked? When it has failed in the past what would you do to ensure it doesn’t fail again?
well, we could point to Rojava, or the
Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities. moreover, i’d dispute the implication here that Marxist-Leninist countries are “dictatorships” in the sense you’re refering to- in these countries the workers council system holds more power than any ceremonial figurehead. we can, of course, talk about various blunders committed by Anarcho-Communist or Marxist-Leninist countries- from Rojava regrettably working with the United States to the Dengist turn the PRC took- but to have a constructive conversation i feel like you’re going to have to learn a lot more about how what you’ve been told all your life is inaccurate, and you’re going to have to spend a lot of time Listening To People Who Lived Through Communism before you’re even equipped to have this conversation. here’s some starters:
If the SRA is for firearm rights why are they protesting to keep the socialist dictator that disarmed the Venezuelan people (and is now mowing them down with armored vehicles) in power?
I wonder what possible motivation they could have to paint these events in a positive light? I don’t shy away from the dark parts of American history, there’s some fucked up shit there and last time I checked the only perfect being was Jesus. (Can we also rule out rape as a “yay” and agree everyone has stuff they wish didn’t happen?)
Large scale examples? The one’s you’re bringing up are small self governing bodies, nothing large scale. Rojava, the entirety of it, is less than ¼th the population of New York City.
I have talked to people who lived through Communism - they fled because their friends and family were executed for peacefully protesting.
One hardly needs to support the entirety of the policy of Maduro to oppose a brazen attempt to stir up a military coup to install an unelected US puppet like Guaido into power- and i notice your attempt to frame the coup as if they’re the masses of “the venezuelan people” and brush over the reality that they are a US-supported violent military coup.
It seems interesting that you seem very Concerned about how a possible pro-marxist bias might influence my source, but don’t seem to mind the anti-marxist bias of the material you immerse yourself in. Surely, if you’re interested in learning what marxists actually think, you might want to see what the marxists themselves have to say, instead of only hearing about marxism from it’s opponents.
declaring that a country with a multi-million population is small potatoes leads me to believe this is a goal-post moving tactic, and no matter how large the example i gave was, you’d poo-poo it for being too small.
if you’re going to get an accurate impression of life in the soviet era, you’re going to want to get a census from more than whatever small handful of people you have encountered in right-wing circles, and to actually see what the overall view of the population is rather than a minuscule sampling of anecdotes. are you willing to even address the statistics i linked, or are you going to ignore them?
lolz on many counts - including you think the people I know fled from the Soviets decades ago? A lot closer to home and a lot sooner. Have a good one.
P.S. It would be considered a goal post move if I hadn’t specified large scale before your response.
“lolz on many counts - including you think the people I know fled from
the Soviets decades ago? A lot closer to home and a lot sooner”
bro the soviet union broke up twenty eight years ago lmaoooo how did they “flee from the soviets” more recently than that? they time travelers? dumbass?
When did I type the phrase “flee from the soviets” in the above thread?
theindependentconservative literally said “decades ago” but leviathan-supersystem will just ignore that part so they can try to make their opponent look dumb
Also “everything the black panthers did was yay” oh yeah im super yay about the leaders of a minor terrorist organization raping black women as practice for raping white women, in their own words. So yay.
“theindependentconservative literally said “decades ago” but
leviathan-supersystem will just ignore that part so they can try to make
their opponent look dumb”
they said “decades ago” in the context of saying:
“lolz on many counts - including you think the people I know fled from
the Soviets decades ago? A lot closer to home”
in other words, they’re saying that i am incorrect to assume the people in question fled the soviets decades ago. i know reading can be hard for someone with your mental abilities, but just sound the words out, c’mon, i know you can do it.
you are, of course, badly mangling a reference to a quote from eldridge cleaver when he was relating his criminal past before turning his back on his old abhorrent ways, and explaining how the black panthers helped him to leave this past behind.
you might argue that it’s unforgivable to tolerate someone who did something that repulsive even if they claim they’ve changed- and i’ll grant that’s a fair critique. but i’d hope you’d apply it consistently, since eldridge cleaver later became a conservative republican and even spoke at republican events. surely, if his disgusting past reflects poorly on the black panther party, it reflects just as poorly on the republican party as well.
Electric cars and solar panels are the most visible signs of California’s ambitious climate change policies. But now the state is setting its sights on a lower-tech way to cut carbon emissions: soil.
It’s spending millions of dollars to help farmers grow plants, which absorb carbon and help move it into the soil where it can be stored long-term. This makes California home to some of the first official “carbon farmers” in the country.
Not that almond grower Jose Robles thinks of himself that way.
Climate is something they talk about in the state capital Sacramento, he says, not around Modesto, where he lives and works.
But in December, the ground under Robles’ almond trees was a carpet of green, full of mustard plant and clover. It’s not a common sight in the Central Valley. After all, most farmers hate weeds.
“Everybody wants to have the orchards nice and clean,” Robles says.
His neighbors really don’t understand it.
“I’ve heard them say, ‘We’re in the business of growing almonds, not in the business of growing weeds,’” he says, laughing.
Robles got the idea a few years ago, during California’s severe drought, when he had to cut back on watering his trees.
“We had no water,” he says. “It made us look at things different.”
Robles knew that richer earth with more microorganisms holds moisture longer, but there wasn’t a lot of organic matter in his orchard to build the soil up. Like most farmers, he sprayed herbicides to kill weeds.
So he decided to grow organic matter specifically to feed his soil. He planted species that most people commonly see as weeds, but when sown on purpose are known as a “cover crop.”
Once they get a few feet tall, he mows them and lets them decompose, along with some extra compost and mulch. A $21,000 grant from California helps cover his extra costs and labor.
It can be tricky, because almonds are harvested from the ground after they’re shaken off the trees. Having mulch or weed remnants on the ground would interfere with that, so Robles has to make sure the organic matter breaks down before harvest begins.
He’s already seen a difference.
“The trees, they don’t stress as much, because they hold the moisture a lot longer,” Robles says.
Before leaving office, Gov. Jerry Brown set a goal for California to be carbon neutral by 2045. That will likely mean not just reducing carbon emissions — from electricity production, cars and buildings — but also absorbing carbon that’s already in the air.
California’s Healthy Soils initiative is now in its third year, and designed to be part of the state’s climate strategy. A state report finds that farms and forests could absorb as much as 20 percent of California’s current level of emissions.
“I think there’s great potential for agriculture to play a really important role” in reaching the state’s climate goals, says Kate Scow, professor of soil microbial ecology at the University of California-Davis.
We have very ambitious climate goals, and without natural and working lands, California simply won’t get there.
Jeanne Merrill, policy director, California Climate and Agriculture Network
As we talk, she’s standing in a large wheat field at Russell Ranch, seven miles west of the campus, where the university plants crops to study sustainable agriculture.
“Soil is alive,” she says. “There’s farmers that know that.”
To show me, Scow starts enthusiastically digging in the dirt. “All right, see, we’re starting to hit the mineral soil,” she says.
This is where the carbon is stored. Plants soak up the carbon dioxide in the air to build their leaves and stems. Their roots pump the carbon down into the earth. Then, when the plant dies, its organic matter gets broken down by microbes and fungi.
“The deeper you can get [carbon] in the soil, especially below the plow layer, the more stable and secure it’s going to be,” she says. That’s key to prevent the carbon from being released back into the air.
“We have very ambitious climate goals, and without natural and working lands, California simply won’t get there,” says Jeanne Merrill, with the California Climate & Agriculture Network, a coalition of ag groups working on climate policy.
Merrill says California’s farmers are already on the front lines of facing climate impacts, like more extreme weather.
“Some are willing to say that it’s climate change,” she says. “Others are unsure. But I think many know that things are changing and they need different tools.”
Farmers are interested in the climate programs, Merrill says, if only because it can help them weather extended droughts.
Hundreds have signed up. But state climate officials say the Healthy Soils program needs to be five times larger to have real impact. Gov. Gavin Newsom has requested more money for the program, but a decision will be up to state lawmakers as they craft a budget in coming weeks.
Merrill says expanding the healthy soils initiative would send a signal that California’s climate efforts need help from the entire state, not just coastal cities.
I’ve seen a lot of arguments from non-farmers against the idea of cover crops because of this exact scenario: : “It can be tricky, because almonds are harvested from the ground after
they’re shaken off the trees. Having mulch or weed remnants on the
ground would interfere with that.” And yet actual farmers prove that they’re perfectly capable of dealing with that situation with careful timing…
Wait someone out there is against cover crops what the everliving fuck??
Also a huge environmental thing not mentioned in this article is that the soil in the orchards and other forms of woody agriculture are in much better shape than the ones planted with annuals crops that are tilled multiple times a year.
I don’t care if you’re growing in super organic unicorn manure, every time you till into the earth you’re literally destroying the fungal networks that predominantly live in the top 4″ of the soil. It is in these fungal networks that carbon is stored, that plants form their “underground internet” and swap things like nutrients and water. A diverse mix of cover crops + roller crimper (aka no spray) is the way to go until we stop growing so many freaking annuals for everything.
