Buying clubs = buying bulk with friends. Save money and packaging, get better quality. More work because you are acting as your own casual retailer and have to manage storage and some paperwork keeping track of who got what, and placing orders.

Can be simple like going to Costco and splitting it with the neighbours. Easy and casual.

Can be complex like getting an account with a wholesaler and arranging orders and delivery/pickup once a month; usually requires a minimum of 6 or 10 households, and some good spreadsheet skills. Lots of volunteer hours.

Can spill over into food storage collaboration, like canning 20 crates of peaches that are ripe TODAY so you need a crew who want canned peaches for payment.

It isn’t always food. It can be lots of things. I know of 5 households who got together to buy an entire 20-ft shipping container full of solar panels. Cheap!

It can be housing. I am friends with a bunch of people who live in a 6-story building that they bought and built together, 20 apartments or so, and they made it the way they want, lots if amenities and shared spaces. Small kitchens so they can have one big awesome dining room and regular bulk meals, again, cheaply. Board games and couches scattered around.They built less parking than code required because a lot of them just use car co-ops. So they made a music room and workshop with the extra basement space.

Oh yeah, car-co-ops, and I guess tool co-ops too, are another kind of buying club.

If you ever have been in any kind of club, it’s kind of the same, just focused on saving money or keeping control over daily expenses.

Costco, is, at heart, a buying club. Your membership gets you in the door, but also gives you group purchasing power.

Extend that down to personal scale. Organize bulk purchases with friends, socializing while splitting up the loot. Vacuum seal, put things in jars and zipper bags, learn to can, and dehydrate.

Ask around once you get a fever for it, there are often more formal buying groups that are large enough to purchase wholesale. Don’t start one yourself at first, join one, as the logistics and spreadsheet action can be complicated. This is a really great way to afford higher quality organic food, for instance.

Buying bulk skillfully means a healthier diet, generally, as you get leas heavily processed foods on your menu. You also can massively reduce shit packaging.

Most of TFG’s legal troubles are related to financial fraud, especially real-estate related. It’s more projection.

Carpenter Media = foreign influence organization.

Why the Fuck are Canadians ignoring this shit?

Note how much of this oligarch’s stew is made of opinion shaping ventures.

You’d think. Maybe. We don’t know for sure. Thomas was a contemporary so same generation.

I’m butchering a 2 millennia story, but it illustrates how christianity fares in hinduism, and it even has some evidentiary support, so…

When the apostle Thomas was sent to India, he wound up in Cochin and began establishing a ministry or fellowship there.

He was frustrated by the lack of convincing required, or resistance to his ideas, without singular devotion.

The creator instantiating one more avatar is no stretch as Hinduism is pretty sophisticated in narratives, so Issa/Jesus just got added to the list that includes Krishna, and to this day you can buy hindu iconography with Jesus teaching compassion.

(Dude did succeed in forming a strictly Christian community though, and so arguably the oldest Christian sect is there.)

Fadear Creek Road, about 45 kilometres northeast of Kamloops.

Nah you are correct, but the autocorrect is 'murrican and gaslit me.

Well, yes and no.

Mass social change requires protests as a baseline of dissent. They should be menacing, but remain only a threat to power, which is their primary purpose. A non-peaceful protest is unskilled and uncoordinated use of violence,and gives authoritarians an alibi for escalating repression. This is why they send in agent provocateurs.

A march turned mob is a huge error. You need coordination and planning for revolutionary violence, even mass rebellion.

In between the necessary peaceful marches and that hopefully avoidable bloody rebellion, there is the opportunity for a lot of targeted activism, based on the leverage that the threat provides. It’s also a period of targeted sabotage and vandalism, as well as widespread passive resistance. More importantly, it is a delay in which to network, organize, and develop coordinated strategies. Fail to plan, plan to fail.

This way, there is a time tested path to rule by the people, AKA democracy, without violence. Failure of this method is the violent insurrection, which can lead to interesting things like Nepal (though the violence was VERY disciplined, despite appearances). It can also lead to Pol Pot.

Pol Pot killed 30% of the nation using words.

Oh yay, slavery and torture for our enemies, that will fix everything.

Ehrm. That’s reactionary, not revolutionary. Not even funny, really.

Annotations could be a separate call based on a simple section tag with an id, very compatible.

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I am pretty sure that was generalized to all the population.

I interviewed old timers who were involved in the early unionization struggles of auto workers and other industries. Those folks really lived under the thumb of landlords and employers and segregation and so much more bullshit than people remember.

Resistance to employer shit and abuse develops by people being neighbourly and helpful, by building bonds, by sharing their common outrage, and by connecting the dots.

Talk about pay with coworkers, it’s illegal for an employer to restrict such talk. You don’t necessarily have to unionize, but you do have to organize. This means finding solidarity at work, even if the coworkers are boring or misogynistic or different.

You know, apes strong together and all that. Build community around resistance to authoritarianism.

What would you have a normal person who likely can’t afford to miss much in the way of work do? I am asking sincerely.

Thank you for honouring the spirit of a forum. The honest answer, from an old fuck’s perspective, is that it entirely depends on

• what you know
• what you are capable of
• what opportunity you have
• and who you know

Outside of throwing everything away to Luigi it up, I’m not sure what a single person could hope to accomplish.

Ah, then that suggests is the first few steps should be seen as ‘helpful training’, until you develop a sense of the first item, what you know. A single person can in fact achieve a huge amount, even without thinking so.

So read and watch about resistance to authoritarianism, wherever it arises. Develop a personal curriculum. Ask old folks like me who have been involved in people’s resistance to authoritarianism for a long time, who they like to read.

Unless, of course, if studying history or political thought isn’t your thing.

In that case, start at grassroots in a service position so you can connect with the issues of the people who are the worst victims of abuse, find out how they got there, and what they need. A soup kitchen or something. Maybe stick to secular organizations.

Even considering the protests, which one would think have had enough people to accomplish something an individual could not… what exactly are they to do that would make things better? Seems like the nonviolent protests are just being ignored to me, but even if they were violent, what exactly are they to direct it towards?

Antonio Gramsci was imprisoned by the OG fascists for years, but he smuggled out his writings, which included an analysis of how social movements turn into hegemonic power, which kind of answers your question.

TL;DR: think of social change as walking like a millipede, not a person. There are many leaders, many strikes and protests, many interests coming together, and culture or propaganda is a big part of it working. Educate yourself and your peers.

It’s a thing I have been wondering in the face of the calls to “do something”, and I don’t know the answer to what this “something” is.

Yeah, if you’re a lawyer you don’t really have to ask this question. If you’re a retail worker or a warehouse gnome, okay then, those are limiting circumstances so just bide your time and listen to audiobooks or lectures on the bus, then put in a couple of hours a week or month at a soup kitchen etc…

That ‘something’ just boils down to actively making a better society, however you can, but you know, all the time really. It will develop from there.

I think that was an actual question and invitation to dialogue, and your first response is to disavow? You mistake genuine concern for anger?

Why?

That’s not logical, nobody but you is saying that.

In English, “you” can refer to an individual or a group.

Apply the group in this context. Each member of a group taking care of their individual mandate of responsibility is collective action.

So no, to your question, no-one meant that.