Link: https://twitter.com/StefTsitsipas/status/1348175474573377536
By far the most rage inducing aspect of the climate crisis is just how solvable it is, but yeah everyone getting teslas is not it
Eating some fried potatoes with beans right now... yum yum :bean:
OK so I was bored because I have to explain the background a bit, unis in Greece are all public and there's a lot of leftist organizing going on there (also how I got organized). Anyways one of the leftist orgs doing the organizing is KKE, the Communist Party of Greece, which is one of the largest and most powerful ML parties in Europe (if not the largest), one of the few that participate in parliament. However they're old guard commies with an aging voter base so they're pretty bad on some stuff (for instance they're little better than a conservative party on LGBT+ issues since their older members mostly adhere to the "bourgeois decadence" doctrine, and they also sometimes take positions more moderate than they should on some stuff, although to their credit they do tons of militant workplace organizing, which will however stop being the case if they keep refusing to stop being boomers and start being more open to working with other leftist orgs without trying to appropriate them).
A few years ago there was this dude in my uni who was recently organized to KKE and he was trying to explain socialism to some kids he was trying to recruit, but he was a noob so he didn't really know what he was talking about yet. So he started talking about the final stage of communism (which is kind of a dumb thing to bring up to people at first, but I guess it's better than trying to redpill people on Stalin which is what his older comrades tried to do to me the first time they talked to me lol), and someone asked "so if there is no money, how does stuff move around?". The dude started explaining that "well, you don't need money, you could have, for instance, potatoes. So maybe you have a toaster, and I need your toaster, so I give you 50 potatoes for the toaster". The result was that the conversation ended up being about a potato based communist economy, it was pretty funny before some other organizer came in to steer the conversation back into something sane again.
Lmao that's great. That's funny his mind went to potatoe based economy right away.
before some other organizer came in to steer the conversation back into something sane again
Tell me about how it was steered. I for one wouldn't approve of pre-capitalist modes of exchanges, that never existed except in the heads of economists.
Tell me about how it was steered
I don't remember tbh, it was a few years ago.
Btw this dude bought a Tesla last year even though he couldn't even drive "for when I learn".
:doomjak:
He is 22, when he bought the tesla he was like 20 or 21. He was born in '98.
I don't know where the fuck he lives now (I think France? He seems to live somewhere else every 3 weeks) but he mostly grew up in Greece, and you can't take a license here before 18 (I believe it is the same in France or wherever he is). However it's not "normal" to not know how to drive by 20 especially when you're a fucking millionaire. I think he just doesn't see the point since he has his mom to drive him around everywhere.
is this the 'unemployed people should learn to code' of climate change?
r/tennis always makes fun of this guy for stealing "deep" quotes and passing himself as a philodopher. Never thought that I would see his tweets on chapo. He does have a nice backhand tho
He's Greece's own Marie Antoinette. He does something dumb and obnoxious every week or so, the left shits on him and libs defend him. There's soooo much content from him I could post here.
The workers needed to sustain the lifestyle of the Tesla crowd are commuting longer distances in at least decade old petrol cars because they cant afford rent near where they work.
Famously expensive Sparks, Nevada. You realize Tesla and others are leaving California for literally this reason among others, yes?
Tesla crowd as in the yuppies and gentrifier who own the cars not those involved in its production (not that those can't overlap).
Yeah, I knew that's what "Tesla crowd" meant, but you said the workers can't afford rent near where they work, which like yes, this is literally the reasoning for Tesla's current actions. Along with covid shit tbf
billions of people (and animals) will die because of dumbassery like this
EDIT: sorry for being a little too doomer. just frustrated