Americans have been picnicking at unprecedented scale.

I saw a thread about it where someone asked “Ok, but what are our demands this time? All this turnout is useless if we don’t do anything with it”.

The answer given? Vote.

… That was all. …

Democracy under capitalism isn’t difficult, it’s impossible.

“I can fix them.”

Them: the graveyard of social movements.

What would Machiavelli do? is a fine continuation of that energy.

I get what you mean, but there’s no such thing as unbiased. The very idea is a trap that facilitates accepting implicit biases uncritically.

… and it is only in so far as the appropriation of even more and more wealth in the abstract becomes the sole motive of his operations, that he functions as a capitalist, that is, as capital personified and endowed with consciousness and a will.