Russians can no longer pay for Netflix and Spotify with their bank cards, they also can no longer use Apple pay or Google pay. Before we get rid of cash and go fully down this path, it's worth thinking both about the fragility of the system, and who can turn it off and on.
This photo is especially clear in terms of how fast basic aspects of society can already cease to function when electronic payment goes down
And makes it clear that these sanction target and hurt working class people.
I'm not an expert, nor do I claim to be, but the straightforward thinking embedded here about how this stuff is escalating tensions with a nuclear power makes good sense:
White supremacists are now marching in Charleston, West Virginia. With no police in sight.
I’m sure every politician in the country will release statements denouncing this.
As others have said, no cops in uniform in sight. Or no violent attacks on people by police here. That's reserved for students protesting genocide, apparently.
There's a ton of police brutality right now, but there's also more and more of this: students standing their ground and refusing to be forced into silence. Thread.
If this Labor Day feels a little different, that’s because it is.
Workers are fighting and winning in a way we haven't seen in decades.
And this could be just the beginning. Thread 🧵
1. There’s so much good news it’s hard to know where to start.
Maybe the biggest and clearest sign of real change is that more new workers joined unions in the first half of 2023 than we’ve seen in over 20 years. jphilll.com/p/this-labor-d…
2. There’s also a powerful energy in the air, which is changing the culture in this country and making people more and more excited about unions and labor.
That energy is translating into support for labor struggles:
It just isn't serious when people claim to be on the left then insist on assessing each billionaire by how nice and kind they are rather than understanding their position as shapers and upholders of policy and of this oppressive capitalist system more broadly.
We can work towards a world where we treat those who currently oppose us with kindness and where we build a world of abundance, while understanding that there are very powerful people actively working to maintain the current status quo and all the violence it requires.
These are people who not only create and maintain conditions of mass poverty and death, but work to eliminate regulations, work to keep housing precarious, work to keep people hungry. They are responsible for a number of deaths and an amount of misery that is hard to calculate.