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I keep seeing people asking ‘is solarpunk really punk?’ because it’s too happy and optimistic and stuff

and I’m picturing a perfect moment in a solarpunk community — the neighbourhood mayor standing with a shit-eating grin on her face when the cops come and cut them off from city power, and nothing turns off

This is my absolute favorite example of how solarpunk is punk. Also, Detroit (and a lot of other places) could probably use something similar for water. Especially in places where it’s illegal to harvest rainwater. I dunno, maybe water tanks cleverly designed as yard art?

Like… yeah it’s happy and optimistic, but my view of solarpunk at least is in complete defiance of many capitalist ideals so if that’s not punk … ‘Punk’ isn’t edgy, dark and gritty. Not to me. Building a society completely based on renewable resources, accessibility for all, and constant sharing is a big fuck you to the current system if you ask me.

Exactly. Near future solarpunk especially requires rebelling against the current system. Punk is about defiance (at least that’s what it’s come to mean colloquially). Defiance doesn’t have to be destruction and violence and grit, it can look like stubborn creation and community building and rejecting many of the dominant system’s values. 

Wait. Why would harvesting rainwater be illegal?

There’s an interpretation of the concept of property that says if something has value, then someone should be getting paid for it. Despite being flatly absurd and riddled with obvious logical flaws, this has been one of the major philosophies of property in the US, in some contexts (including water) for over a hundred years. This Washington Post article gets into it in detail. 

According to this logic, if there are water suppliers in a region, then they’re entitled to money when people get water. Collecting rainwater for yourself gets around that, so, in this concept of property, it’s a form of theft.

There have also been legal battles over people growing food in their lawns, generating their own electricity, etc. If you’re looking to extricate yourself from the systems wherein you have to serve the interests of specific wealthy people to survive, many parts of the western world are ready to use the force of government intervention to stop you.

I feel like a big chunk of the ‘dark, gritty’ aesthetic punk is associated with came as a reaction to the bright, glamorous ‘American Dream’ imagery and patronizing ad campaigns of the 50s. But now that we’re being sold “The future is bleak and dirty and there’s nothing you can do about it,” being optimistic and cheerful is the most punk and rebellious thing you can do

This is an extremely well put point.

Okay, last election post.

Democrats won with young people by a margin of 35-40 points. That is the largest age gap in American history. It has no historical precedent. Young people overwhelmingly rejecting one political party in such a high number has literally never happened before.

Republicans have literally no future - and also, we young people who should control our own future should fucking revolt for every moment they are in power.

These liberals of today will just be the ones of the future who send progressive, racially and sexually diverse deathsquads to peoples homes to enforce safey laws.

These young liberals of today will be the anarchist revolutionaries building autonomous communities based on love and mutual aid tomorrow.

Don’t be such a fucking cynic.

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Christianity and conservatism are not compatible ideologies. Conservatives, socially, are against refugees, against equality, and fiscally are against social programs and financial aid to those in need.

Jesus demanded they help refugees, demanded equality, and demanded aid to the poor.

To be conservative means to not be Christian, and to claim you are both is to be a hypocrite.

Something Jesus also condemned.

I don’t think you know much about either ideology

Sincerely, a conservative Christian

I’ve read the bible six times, I know what it says.

I’m also a polisci student, and pay attention to what conservatives do. In fact I’ve studied conservatism, in addition to the other political ideologies that exist in our world.

Jesus said:

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. (Leviticus 19:33-34)

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. (Leviticus 19:9-10)

He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. (Deuteronomy 10:18-19)

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. (Matthew 25:25-36)

Just to quote a very, very few.

Conservatives repeatedly repeal and cut back programs that feed the poor ,including poor children, cut back education, and cut back healthcare, all things vital to the poor. Conservatives repeatedly want no refugees, want no immigrants (travelers), including children. In fact, many conservatives want to throw the existing immagrants (travelers) out of the country (and need I remind you, Jesus was not a “legal” immagrant, so to claim ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ immigrants are any different is still to ignore what the bible has commanded of you.

I know exactly what each ideology is about. You are a hypocrite, and not a Christian. You only call yourself one while flaunting what was commanded of you.

in the field of religious studies, we often call jesus one of the first radical leftists. he was a social anarchist with communist leanings, and that’s why his draw was such a threat to the imperial system—because he was calling for the dismantling of oppressive power structures. the conservative romans were the ones who killed jesus, and conservatives after are the ones continuing to kill his message thousands of years after his death.

Don’t forget he fought against slut-shaming, embraced alcoholics and the homeless, and straight up said you can’t get into heaven if you die rich.

When I say conservative Christians would deport Jesus if they actually saw him or blacklist him if they heard him…this is why. And it’s funny because those fools are the Pharisees and can’t even see that.

The greatest commandment of Christianity is to love your neighbor like yourself and that’s not what conservatives do.

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i hate when someone says “don’t make jokes about rednecks and hillbillies” and some white 21 year old trying to be ‘woke’ says “haha… go ahead and cry your white tears sweatie (:”

no one thinks it’s a racial issue against white people. that’s not why people say to stop that shit. it’s an issue of classism. because the truth is that the majority of y’all who think you’re amazing activists just REALLY fucking hate appalachian people, and i know that because y’all think it’s funny to say “karma’s a bitch!” when something bad happens to an appalachian state.

you don’t care about the poverty in the appalachia and you don’t care about queer people and/or people of color who live in the appalachia. you don’t care about education in the appalachia and you don’t care that these low rates of education mean higher rates of poverty and child poverty, which persist over the years. rural children are twice as likely to live in areas with persistent poverty. you care that poverty stricken children are statistically less likely to not have timely immunizations, have higher delinquency rates, and have lower academic achievement — but only when we’re talking about urban areas outside of the appalachia.

people in our region die earlier than most. mortality rates are higher in the appalachia, and they’re even higher for people of color that live in the appalachia. suicide rates are higher than anywhere else in the country by 17% — it’s 31% higher in central appalachia, and in rural areas within the appalachia, it’s 27% higher than metro appalachia. cancer morality rate is 10% higher, and it’s 15% higher in rural appalachia than metro appalachia. COPD mortality rate is 27% higher, and 55% higher in rural appalachia than metro appalachia. injury mortality rate is 33% higher, and it’s 47% higher in rural appalachia than in metro appalachia. stroke mortality rate is 14% higher — and you guessed it’s, these rates are higher in rural areas vs metro areas by 8%. the rate of Years of Potential Life Lost, which measures premmature mortality from all causes of death, is 25% higher in appalachia, and 40% higher in rural vs metro areas.

the appalachia has an opioid epidemic. in 2015, our rate of death with drugs was 65% higher than the national average. 69% of those drug deaths were from opioids. these deaths have a connection to our poverty and education rates. the poorer you are, and the less educated you are, the more likely you are to die from an opioid death.

when i say “don’t make jokes about rednecks and hillbillies”, that doesn’t mean i think you’re being racist against white people (and again — the majority of people who claim this also happen to be white 🙄). i say that because you are perpetuating extremely toxic rhetoric about our region, you are promoting stigma, you are encouraging blatant classism, and you are furthering the idea that we somehow “deserve” it because our elected officials vote republican. it’s not cute. stop acting like none of us have the right to call you out on your classist bullshit. like i’m sorry if this comes off as too aggressive but i am sooooo sick of y’all thinking it’s funny that our region is suffering.

and before anyone asks me for resources and links: google exists. i did my research and you can do it too.

EDIT: https://www.arc.gov/assets/research_reports/Health_Disparities_in_Appalachia_Trends_in_Appalachian_Health.pdf here, since y’all are too fucking obnoxiously incapable of taking 2.3 seconds google and instead want to claim I pulled random numbers from my asshole

also here https://www.arc.gov/assets/research_reports/Health_Disparities_in_Appalachia_August_2017.pdf

a big problem with the people who say stuff like this is they don’t realize just how many “rednecks and hillbillies” are non-white. there are so many appalachian and southern POC that also suffer through these conditions but people like to cling to their idea that the only hicks are white hicks, so they couldnt care less if places like WV or KY just fell off the map, and to hell with who it is that’s actually hurting.

people also act like it’s only appalachian and southern whites that voted for trump and that vote republican and it’s not true - half of all white women voted for trump. the rich ones and the poor ones. it’s not a problem that’s tied specifically to southern and appalachian white people but it’s an easy scapegoat and allows people to not think about what they’re actually saying.

as long as they can say that it’s just them shitty racist white hicks that are suffering, then they don’t have to actually care about them. they can ignore them and not do anything to help them. like another person said in the notes, the teacher strike in WV is a better example of leftist organization than a whole lot of the people saying shit about hillbillies have ever done but they don’t care about that because, well, theyre just white hillbillies so what does it matter?

Too relevant, yet again: THE LEGACY OF SOCIAL DARWINISM IN APPALACHIAN SCHOLARSHIP

I LITERALLY MADE A POST ELSEWHERE ABOUT THIS.  Because I have gotten a lot of anti-rural life jokes thrown at me. Most people don’t know I’m from a rural area, because I currently live in a big ass concrete city, so like… The concept of rural is super obscure. I told someone where I live, and they thought I meant some place with some farms, so they were like “ugh, rednecks, that must be awful.” Fuck off, because I come from a place with real farms & rural land, and just cause you think we work at a super progressive place, and because you think “rural” folks are all Trump-humpin’ far religious right, LGBT-hatin’, POC hatin’ folks, that’s your problem.  So the place I grew up in? Yes, it tends to vote Republican, but in the current primary? There are folks runnin’ for Republican that very specifically want to support things what we need: there’s a major development that the city side of the state wants to produce, which means it would royally fuck over the rural side–it would destroy environmental reserves, especially, which is what we all survive off of in the rural areas. The Democratic side is literally the “bad” guy in the race. Destroying the natural resources of the area would be terrible for everyone–if you only care about POC, yes, it would screw them over too. Because we all live off the land.  A lot of the redneck types require the land, because remember: it’s cheaper to buy a box of bullets than it is to buy meat for the year. That’s how most folks I know who are poor survive… And this is why I struggle in the city. I’m used to thinking “If I need to, I could always trust the forest & river.” If I need food, it’s there. It’s in the land; I can plant it, or I can hunt, fish, and forage. If I need something, I could… Make it. Because materials… They exist. Somewhere, out there. But the city? I have to fucking buy berries? So I don’t eat them too much. I need wood? I have to fucking buy it, what the hell??? I need leather? I have to buy it; I can’t just ask a friend to barter for it (or maybe pay ‘em, but the leather out here is more pricey). Especially as an artist, this astounds & disgusts me in some way. You can barter, too. I helped out a friend on their family cow farm; they gave me meat & a skull. You can  weave and whittle. There’s a sort of backup.  But the city is harsh and expensive. We can’t maintain a garden here. I can’t trust the land to provide. Even suburbia suffers that. So the poorer you are, the less you can live in a city. And its not like it’s all happy & fun in the rural areas. Poverty is shit. But to me, I feel a little safer. Sometimes you barter… (At least its pretty; the city isn’t very peaceful or beautiful.)  And yea??? There are queer folks in rural areas. And a lot of the ones I know find it horrifying, the idea of leaving. I went back early this year & chatted to one woman I know, who is a lesbian, and she was… Sort of disgusted at the idea of leaving and of the hatred that city folk have of rural areas, especially through an LGBT lens. There’s a major communicative disconnect, because what works for LGBT rights in the city doesn’t work for the rural areas, and this ends up drowning out the rural folks’ voices. Which is especially dangerous, because they may not be great support for the issues of rural LGBT folks. This stereotyping or hate of rednecks/hillbillies/rurality is damaging the people ya’ll claim to say you’re trying to help.

Honestly, I’d prefer not be shot by a hick than allow you to die while living out your ridiculous revolution fantasy.

If you think hicks dont all have guns anyway i don’t even know what to tell you chief.

Also you do realize there are a lot of hick communists right? For example the Redneck Revolt?

Revolution is a fantasy for you. Just because your will doesn’t allow you to risk your life or safety doesn’t mean it isn’t a real everyday struggle for others. There are plenty of people battling oppression all over this country and planet in ways you don’t see or care to know. So please don’t denounce other’s fights as “fantasy” because you only fight in your dreams.

What the hell are you and an AR-15 (or any gun) gonna do against the United States Government? Actually though, what? What could a thousand communists with AR-15s do? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Not a damn thing. I’m sick of you Blanquists pretending a couple of dudes with pea shooters will save all the rest of us from capitalism. I’m willing to die for my rights, I’m willing to kill for them, but I’m not willing to sacrifice others, and I’m not foolish enough to think that murder will convince anyone of my beliefs, or that I can overcome the most powerful nation ever with a semi-automatic rifle.

And before y'all start shoutin about vietnam or some horse shit realize that America was able to sacrifice Vietnam and still fuckin exist. Beating America in America requires literally the complete surrender of the us military and destruction of its government.To get that your gonna half to bring the whole thing to its knees, not just make fighting cost a ton like in nam. You ain’t doin that with AR-15s

Then let the US bomb itself and all of it’s assets for years. Any action they take benefits us when they “own” everything.

And even if they eventually burn themselves to the ground? What then? How will we survive in that empire of ash as the planet literally dies around us? What makes you think any meaningful communist movement will be left? Y'all act like we got the political upper hand in this country but tell me, honestly, if america falls, today, what kind of government rises from its corpse? Because if you really think its anything resembling communism your a goddam fool and need to pull your head out of your ass and look around.

Im completely fine with dying so long as capitalists get hurt too. The people who the goverment haven’t killed will rebuild in the ashes. And yes, i do think that if you weren’t subjected to oppression by private property and the state, you woule end up as a communist. It’s the best way to exist in a post civ society.

I ain’t talking about you or I as individuals dying. Little thought experiment what do you suppose melting down 13 nuclear reactors in the oceans of the world do to the ecology of everything? Wheres your beautiful post civ society then? Thats not even going into the fact that the States has enough nukes to remove the crust of the fucking planet.

As for communism being what everyone will always choose, I’m sure that’s why the Germans all became communists after their empire was brought to its knees in the 20s. Oh wait no that’s not right.

Is their actual plan to destroy everything and assume whoever is left will be a communist? Like, that sounds like a joke argument. It’s got to be, right?

Honestly, I’d prefer not be shot by a hick than allow you to die while living out your ridiculous revolution fantasy.

If you think hicks dont all have guns anyway i don’t even know what to tell you chief.

Also you do realize there are a lot of hick communists right? For example the Redneck Revolt?

Revolution is a fantasy for you. Just because your will doesn’t allow you to risk your life or safety doesn’t mean it isn’t a real everyday struggle for others. There are plenty of people battling oppression all over this country and planet in ways you don’t see or care to know. So please don’t denounce other’s fights as “fantasy” because you only fight in your dreams.

What the hell are you and an AR-15 (or any gun) gonna do against the United States Government? Actually though, what? What could a thousand communists with AR-15s do? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Not a damn thing. I’m sick of you Blanquists pretending a couple of dudes with pea shooters will save all the rest of us from capitalism. I’m willing to die for my rights, I’m willing to kill for them, but I’m not willing to sacrifice others, and I’m not foolish enough to think that murder will convince anyone of my beliefs, or that I can overcome the most powerful nation ever with a semi-automatic rifle.

And before y'all start shoutin about vietnam or some horse shit realize that America was able to sacrifice Vietnam and still fuckin exist. Beating America in America requires literally the complete surrender of the us military and destruction of its government.To get that your gonna half to bring the whole thing to its knees, not just make fighting cost a ton like in nam. You ain’t doin that with AR-15s

Then let the US bomb itself and all of it’s assets for years. Any action they take benefits us when they “own” everything.

And even if they eventually burn themselves to the ground? What then? How will we survive in that empire of ash as the planet literally dies around us? What makes you think any meaningful communist movement will be left? Y'all act like we got the political upper hand in this country but tell me, honestly, if america falls, today, what kind of government rises from its corpse? Because if you really think its anything resembling communism your a goddam fool and need to pull your head out of your ass and look around.

Im completely fine with dying so long as capitalists get hurt too. The people who the goverment haven’t killed will rebuild in the ashes. And yes, i do think that if you weren’t subjected to oppression by private property and the state, you woule end up as a communist. It’s the best way to exist in a post civ society.

I ain’t talking about you or I as individuals dying. Little thought experiment what do you suppose melting down 13 nuclear reactors in the oceans of the world do to the ecology of everything? Wheres your beautiful post civ society then? Thats not even going into the fact that the States has enough nukes to remove the crust of the fucking planet.

As for communism being what everyone will always choose, I’m sure that’s why the Germans all became communists after their empire was brought to its knees in the 20s. Oh wait no that’s not right.

Honestly, I’d prefer not be shot by a hick than allow you to die while living out your ridiculous revolution fantasy.

If you think hicks dont all have guns anyway i don’t even know what to tell you chief.

Also you do realize there are a lot of hick communists right? For example the Redneck Revolt?

Revolution is a fantasy for you. Just because your will doesn’t allow you to risk your life or safety doesn’t mean it isn’t a real everyday struggle for others. There are plenty of people battling oppression all over this country and planet in ways you don’t see or care to know. So please don’t denounce other’s fights as “fantasy” because you only fight in your dreams.

What the hell are you and an AR-15 (or any gun) gonna do against the United States Government? Actually though, what? What could a thousand communists with AR-15s do? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Not a damn thing. I’m sick of you Blanquists pretending a couple of dudes with pea shooters will save all the rest of us from capitalism. I’m willing to die for my rights, I’m willing to kill for them, but I’m not willing to sacrifice others, and I’m not foolish enough to think that murder will convince anyone of my beliefs, or that I can overcome the most powerful nation ever with a semi-automatic rifle.

Im gonna kill a rich guy and take his house, what else?

“what can a few thousand communists do against the US government?”

Ah yes, I remember that time when the USA was overthrown by the Vietnamese and they installed a communist government. Also, isn’t Vietnam just a shining example of what we want out of a revolution?

Honestly, I’d prefer not be shot by a hick than allow you to die while living out your ridiculous revolution fantasy.

If you think hicks dont all have guns anyway i don’t even know what to tell you chief.

Also you do realize there are a lot of hick communists right? For example the Redneck Revolt?

Revolution is a fantasy for you. Just because your will doesn’t allow you to risk your life or safety doesn’t mean it isn’t a real everyday struggle for others. There are plenty of people battling oppression all over this country and planet in ways you don’t see or care to know. So please don’t denounce other’s fights as “fantasy” because you only fight in your dreams.

What the hell are you and an AR-15 (or any gun) gonna do against the United States Government? Actually though, what? What could a thousand communists with AR-15s do? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? Not a damn thing. I’m sick of you Blanquists pretending a couple of dudes with pea shooters will save all the rest of us from capitalism. I’m willing to die for my rights, I’m willing to kill for them, but I’m not willing to sacrifice others, and I’m not foolish enough to think that murder will convince anyone of my beliefs, or that I can overcome the most powerful nation ever with a semi-automatic rifle.

Honestly, I’d prefer not be shot by a hick than allow you to die while living out your ridiculous revolution fantasy.

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i feel like this is important for black travelers who are driving long distances:

but what are some sundown towns do y’all know of? like if someone were to do a cross-country trip, what are some towns they should absolutely not go through?

Small towns in south ga and noth fla

Ga: Jonesboro, tifton, Albany, valdosta, Macon

Fla: Gainesville, Perry, Madison, Marianna, Quincy, Jefferson county, hell I wouldn’t stop in Tallahassee either

Texas: Vidor, Orange, Deep Santa Fe

Texas: Jasper & Lumberton

I’m from Albany and recently the police beat up a young brother for no reason. They were attempting to say he had drugs but he of course had nothing.

If you go to Stone Mountain and find yourself on the trails close to night leave because they still have active Klan rallys up there

I was driving through north Florida during the day and I felt uncomfortable

The Negro Motorist Green Book was guide for black folk traveling in the 60s. It’s gives a breakdown of sundown towns. 50 years later, I’m sure it’s still relevant.

I feel like the Deep South is just a gamble.

Ohio…just in general

Central Florida, especially the little towns. If you must stop to pump gas, pay away the pump and get outta there asap

Once you get out of St. Louis county start being careful.

St. Genevieve, MO is definitely a no go for me if I’m traveling south.

If traveling in Louisiana stay away from small town with low speeding zones. If you are to go into those please drive the speed limit and don’t stop for gas. You will get a ticket for tint of your car. If your military I pay you drive the speed limit and don’t have a military tag. Get gas in the daylight.

I’m glad you’re looking out for your bros, at the same time it’s a pathetic look at the country in the 21st century.

Saving this and reblogging for myself and my tumblr fam stay safe love you guys (also check the notes for comments on more cities to avoid)

Ohio: Hartville, Sebring, Salem are all in NE Ohio. Had the worst experience of my life in Hartville.

Tennessee: Polk county and the ones surrounding it probably aren’t good either

Not just Gainesville, FL but pretty much all of Alachua County. Especially Waldo. Especially especially Trenton and Newberry.

Harrison, AR has a KKK chapter.

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