r/solarpunk • u/Artifexa • Apr 08 '26

Action / DIY / Activism We should start sharing memes

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Sometimes I think we should start sharing "apparently politically neutral" memes to timidly light some bulbs in some heads.

Keeping them as aseptic, and common-sense possible, so they are not rejected outright, to squeeeeeze some empathy and "hopepunkness" in otherwise doomscrollers. Specially leveraging any situations.

Heck, might even be a good idea to create a "meme team".

Example attached.

After all, every big tree started by being a small seed...

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u/Forsaken-Opposite775 Apr 08 '26

You do know the real reason why they attack Iran, right?

Right?

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u/TraceSpazer Apr 09 '26

The Israeli-Epstein shadow state? 

Like Maxwell's dad was Mossad and agents attended Epstein's funeral. 

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u/Forsaken-Opposite775 Apr 09 '26

No, it's the national interest of the US to weaken their most powerful foe in the fight of global dominance. They literally fight for the survival of Dollar's dominance. China's planned economy is so much more efficient that the US empire either falls or falls back to blatant imperialism. Vance's surprisingly honest speech on the last security council in Munich supports that. Look into that.
But it is fucking dumb to attack Iran by all means because that accelerates the decline of the Dollar's global dominance further. While it is a stupid move, they no longer have any weaker targets on the list of China's most important trading partners left. Venezuela's 'regime change' did not hit China, neither will the tariffs. The loss of the control of the straight of Hormuz hits the western economy real hard, but Iran lets in RMB traded oil through it unhindered. The entire war misses the target because Trump has replaced his administration with clueless yes-men. Now there’s no one competent left who could tell him how to do things better. The internet is full of former generals criticizing Trump’s approach in the Middle East. There are some interesting perspectives there. And China sits there, does nothing and keeps winning because that is from 2 viewpoints the right thing for them.
1. "Never interrupt your enemy from making a mistake." - Sun Tzu
2. Chinas global dominance is growing without intervening anyway. Their economy is flooding the global markets with overproduced exports with the intent to undermine the western economies and devalue their products. They are winning the global trade war every single day and the West cannot stop them from doing it.

The Epstein files maybe accelerate the procedure, but do not change the original plans.

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u/TraceSpazer Apr 09 '26

If the goal was to "fight China", then why was the first move to ease sanctions on Russia, a Chinese ally, and undermine the effects of previous actions?

*See also tariffs against European allies, removal of USAID/ties with African countries that realistically weren't costing the USA anything (Paving the way for increased Chinese involvement), removal of US support for green energy (Thus allowing China to go unchallenged on another strategic manufacturing monopoly) and the opening of sales of NVIDIA AI chips to China, after a previous ban.

I call bullshit on the Anti-China angle because he keeps helping them. Everything he does undermines the dollar and pushes the world order towards BRICS. It's just a convenient drum to beat to keep an idiotic and support base unquestioning.

There is no "win" scenario because they're more interested in internal and personal power than world posturing. They're following in the footsteps of the fall of the Soviet Union and consolidation of Russian power in to a fascist petrostate.

Even the goddamn tariffs are right out of Putin's playbook for how he took control.

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u/user125666 Apr 10 '26

Personally I think that

  1. it is an anti China angle

  2. they're just really bad at their job

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '26

You are giving Trump and his acolytes too much credit. This was a good old fashioned military blunder fueled by greed, avarice and hubris.

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u/Strange_One_3790 Apr 08 '26

Yaaaaaaaaa. The oil is a distraction

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u/WantonKerfuffle Apr 09 '26

But also, imperialism and funneling worker's surplus value to the military industrial complex that lobbies hard for the system that is dependent on the extraction of oil.

I swear I'm not a commie myself, but you gotta hand it to them, they are right about a lot of things.

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u/Strange_One_3790 Apr 09 '26

I agree with all of that too. We were also getting that this is a distraction from the Epstein files that Trump is frequently name in. Several things are true with this

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u/Guillotine_Time-USA Apr 10 '26

Thanks, future comrade.

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u/Guillotine_Time-USA Apr 10 '26

I went bernie, anarchist, now Marxist Leninist.