Post #1246362
2026-04-10 13:39 UTC
@HI_Greens you're not entirely wrong, they're interconnected, but they're also kinda on different axes of oppression, it's all intersectional
Capitalism enables and feeds from patriarchy, patriarchy enables and feeds from capitalism. They both enable and feed from racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc as well, but they're not the same thing
They're all different issues and they all need to be tackled. Replacing patriarchy with matriarchy wouldn't be a solution though, because it would preserve a gender hierarchy, and that hierarchy would still enable all the other ones going on, it doesn't matter who's on top
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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-04-11 06:26
@hazelnot @HI_Greens Y'all are missing an essential difference: that lithium (more for battery storage than for wind turbines, and on the way out in favour of sodium, which is as common as sea water), cobalt, rare earth metals (like niobium for the magnets in the direct-drive dynamos) is not *consumed*. It is *incorporated*, and then stays there for 20 years or so, before it is either discarded or recycled. The volumes are very different from oil and gas. There won't ever be a Strait of Hormuz for those things. Replacement technologies or alternative extraction options will always be way cheaper and faster than war, even for those parasites not themselves paying the human price.