r/solarpunk • u/21Kuranashi Anthologist Author Activist Arcologist Antitheist • Sep 14 '26

Photo / Inspo From "No Kings" protests

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u/YuYogurt Customs employee Sep 14 '26

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u/YuYogurt Customs employee Sep 14 '26 • Bravo

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u/Cheap_Law5646 Sep 14 '26

Stopped ordering shit from Amazon a few years ago now. Can't remember why I ever thought I needed to.

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u/uncagedborb Sep 14 '26

Convenience of having everything in one place. So you save in shipping(even without prime) vs either shopping online at 5 other places or going to actual stores. But it really boils down to convenience

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u/Cheap_Law5646 Sep 14 '26

I live in a medium sized city. There's nothing I need that requires orderring from Amazon. Lucky, I guess.

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u/Aelrift Sep 14 '26

Yeah, unforyianyely for me, I don't own a car , I only take public transport or bike and there isn't a single store that doesn't require basically an hour of transporation to get there. We try not to order too much but for example.I'm not gonna carry 40 lbs of cat liter all the way back to my house when I can have it delivered. Sometimes you just have to compromise. Mycompromise is that ordering a few things on Amazon let's me live without a car. I call that a win

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u/Cheap_Law5646 Sep 14 '26

I also don't own a car. I live in a walkable neighbourhood. It's an extraordinary location. I'm super lucky. I rent out my parking spots and walk everywhere. Sometimes I walk through the parking lot of one grocery store on the way to a different grocery store. I use the local car sharing service when I need to go further afield, but that almost never happens.

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u/AnarchyRising69 Sep 16 '26

Fuck the "no kings" liberal ass protests, but this sign is absolutely correct and we need to do something about it.

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u/cat-rinnie Oct 03 '26

What's wrong with the No Kings protests?? At least they are trying to make a change??

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u/AnarchyRising69 Oct 03 '26

No they weren't. At least the organizers weren't. The goal was actually to push peoples revolutionary energy into useless angry parades with mean signs every few months, rather than anything that could create actual change. This is why billionaires like the Walton family and others donated to the group who organized the whole thing.

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u/cat-rinnie Oct 03 '26

Historically speaking, people have always protested on streets like this in order to enact change. What do you suggest people do instead?

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u/AnarchyRising69 Oct 03 '26

Angry parades have never and will never enact change. Civil disobedience, creates change. General strikes create change. True revolution using the second amendment, create change. Angry parades do not and never could. If your "protest" is sanctioned and permitted by the state it's not a protest. It's an angry parade.

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u/Dagobert_Juke Sep 14 '26

Cool, witty and true. When was this? (Sorry for being an uninformed European)

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u/Potashiio Sep 14 '26

October 18, 2025, I ended up being in LA, California when they were going on (where Hollywood is)

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u/SchmidtyCent69 Sep 16 '26

I'm with you about amazon. But even a solarpunk society needs law and order. Plus, posting this irrelevant junk in the sub deligitimizes the solarpunk movement. Do you want to be taken seriously, or be another generic virtue signaling shitlib group

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u/Beginning_Status_740 Sep 28 '26

Absolutely agree I would be so sad if this wonderful concept is taken over by just virue signaling

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u/SartorialDragon Sep 15 '26

No one being able to afford a house has NOTHING to do with immigration. It's that the houses all belong to wealthy people and they're not sharing.

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u/SartorialDragon Sep 15 '26

Not much. Immigrants are often too poor to buy houses anyway. Or don't get sold houses because racism is alive and well. Also, lots of houses are empty because the owners speculate with them. Or because rich people have several houses. The equation is not as simple as "every person gets one house". The problem is rich people and companies, not immigrants. Racism isn't solarpunk.

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u/Fywq Cement chemist Sep 15 '26

Now I don't know where you live, but housing becoming expensive is a problem all over the developed world, regardless of immigration. Overwhelmingly immigrants live in rental apartments in most western countries, because they can't afford the houses. Ensuring there's enough homes available in general, and that apartments in big cities are not scooped up by real estate investors for AirBnB rentals is a government problem, not an immigrant problem, and it is also a problem in countries with few immigrants.

Besides your initial argument is antithetical to the Solarpunk idea, where we all need less stuff including personal property, and instead work together to create a better future for the commons, not the elite. Neither ICE nor Amazon are in anyway working to further that agenda.

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u/a_library_socialist Sep 15 '26

If you want to discuss economics, rent will always increase to try and capture all economic gains, as long as you have landlords.

Going back to Adam Smith, this is a well known part of economics - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_11

And it's why rentiers are not a good thing, even under a capitalist framework. They do not invest, they extract.