It is not messaging. The messaging of conservatives is terrible too. It is about owning media to play the propaganda game. Policies are irrelevant, image is everything.

Of course the working class cares deeply about their social and economic well being.

They vote opposite to that. I know it sounds elitist, but it is also factual: someone poor who votes for Trump votes against their interests and does so out of ignorance.

Why do the Dems refuse to run on these issues?

They don’t?. See, they did not shout their message loud enough if you haven’t heard it. There is not a single “identity politics” item, that’s how conservatives have framed this and that’s their message you imprinted.

So fuck the platform, the same would have happened with Sanders. The problem is that the message is not being placarded loud enough into social media, TV, newspapers, that not enough people get bribed to tell voters they are stupid if they don’t vote for dems.

The gloves should have been taken off a while ago. The battlefield is the widely ignorant voter population. Either you find a way to educate them or you accept to play the propaganda game.

I don’t think you fully grasp the dynamics, but from an outside perspective I’m sure it’s difficult to truly appreciate.

Quite honestly, I often think that Americans are more confused about their own politics than the rest of the world.

I do believe the working class would be better off with Bernie Sanders than Harris, but also better off with Harris than Trump. That’s fairly obvious. So why do you believe that being more pro-working-class would help Harris win their vote?

The working class does not care about the working class. That’s the thing. The main error of the left is to not own medias like conservatives do to aggressively push their views.

And I wish at one point progressives will try to reconquer the conservative electorate instead of infighting.

A female DA against a rapist who should be in jail. I don’t know in what universe it wasnt a good match.

Applying the law but wanting it to change is what is called “rule of law” and democracy. Not understanding it is a part of what makes it so easy to slide into fascism.

“Nuance” my ass. Expecting a DA to follow its conviction instead of the law is the opposite of what you want.

I don’t know if the point of view of a foreigner is welcomed or relevant but hey, you know, American politics invites itself too much into European politics so I’ll give my opinion anyway.

we ran a shitty candidate again?

A week ago, Harris was hailed like the second coming of Christ and now she is the cause of the fall of USA into fascism. The dumb personification in US politics is super tiring.

He won. The DNC is to blame.

No, the half of your country that is fine with fascism is to blame. The issue is not with democrats or the DNC, it is the fact that Trump’s numbers are very stable despite all the bullshit he does and say. The DNC is the tool to motivate the other half of the electorate, but don’t lose sight of the half that is responsible for it.

What exactly are we protesting at this stage?

A protest has two functions: showing discontent to the rulers but also to meet, organize and network in order to resist. A protest is a social gathering where people who care enough about issues to come and spend a whole day on it can meet each other.

Or is it that we’re protesting only in the blue states or cities where it seems unfair to be governed by the will of the hillbilly underbelly.

To know the theme, you had to be there. The media NEVER represents a protest accurately.

If you really believe that Trump is going to install a fascist dictatorship, you are supposed to start organize the resistance.

Fuck.

Please don’t

Thing is, it is possible to make it profitable. Trees fixating carbon produce wood. Cut trees, sell wood. New wood grows. Repeat. The more wood we use in construction, furniture, paper, the more carbon is removed from the atmosphere.

Can’t this be said of almost every sizable minority voting block?

The perplexing part of this for me is charging laptops. Inverters are wildly inefficient but I’m not sure of a way to sufficiently charge (or power) a laptop without one. What are some solutions here?

What you want is called a downconverter. It will accept a wide range of inputs e.g. 22-40V and will output the voltage you need. Example. I am powering a small computer from a 48V e-bike battery with one of those. (Well not that one exactly as they do not accept up to 48V, but the same type of thing)

Check on your laptop power supply what output voltage it has. 19V is common but there are 12V ones as well. You will need to solder a fitting connector. Some can be bought, but more often than not, they cost the same as a second hand supply.

Isn’t optimism the raison d’être of solarpunk? It is a reaction to dystopias and proposes an optimistic view of the future.

Or maybe we start reclaiming some terms. I am tired of changing labels because some conservative decided to coopt a cool movement. If tomorrow Musk and his followers declare to be solarpunks are we going to nod and move away from the term?

I don’t see how being critical and optimistic about tech is mutually exclusive. And tech is solving some of our issues and will solve more in the future. Not all of them, but to me being tech-positive and understanding technologies can be sustainable is at the core of solarpunk.

About longtermism, ok, I did had that definition of the term. But to me solarpunk is not about being delusional about the climate crisis but still being optimistic about the horizon past it.

What is not solarpunk about longtermism and techno-optimism?

This map was made by French so it may have a bias there. But I know there is a very active lowtech community here in France. As a techno-utopian I spent a long time ignoring them until someone told me that the raspberry pi is lowtech and that I am doing lowtech robotics (wth?) . Here it basically seems to be a synonym for open hardware, with an emphasis on community rather than projects. It is actually pretty chill.

My feeling is that it is a label for anarcho-communists who got tired of explaining their relationships (or lack thereof) with marxist communism. Also used by “communistes libertaires” to emphasize they reject the authoritarian regimes that called themselves communist.

Ain’t humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?

Good to know, thanks!

Ah that must be it sorry. I thought they had decorelated phone numbers and IDs

with a focus on how technologies that incorporate fungus can provide an alternative to plastic, leather, and other problematic materials, as well as provide fuel and clean our air and water.

Plus some are just delicious.