Post #1315321
2026-04-12 16:22 UTC
@pluralistic
Cory also argues, in other posts, that an open internet isn't the single defining issue of our time. But if we lose it, we lose our ability to fight the many other problems we face.
Which I think is entirely consistent with Naomi Klein's (I think, and doubtless others) position that all struggle for justice is rooted in climate action. (or maybe it was the other way around).
The oligarchs are counting on us acting as individuals whose only agency is choosing what to buy. And failing that, that they can partition our resistance into silos of limited scope (and ideally opposing goals): surveillance capitalism, racial equity, gender equity, climate action.
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@plantarum@ottawa.place 2026-04-12 16:25
@pluralistic When the endangered species people, the pollution people, the urban sprawl people, etc, all united under the banner of environmentalism, their individual movements grew in influence. We need to do that again.
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@gypsyvegan@sfba.social 2026-04-12 16:41
@plantarum @pluralistic It's all connected. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk