Chandler Patey
@sirskeltal.bsky.social
PDX activist, Sortition Socialist. Never tolerate authoritarianism, racism, bigotry, misogyny, or abuse 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🏴☠️ There's no point claiming the purpose of our government is to do what it constantly fails to do. This country is not a Democracy—but it can be.
Everyone is upset about a public execution, but the outcry is much quieter when the executions happen behind closed doors. Thousands of people have been murdered by ICE/CBP, but we only riot when we see videos of white people being murdered. Millions have died from US imperialism, but who cares?
"No way to prevent this" says economic regime specifically managed to maximize it
Not the first look at measuring gini coefficients in indus valley settlements, but i can never get enough on the indus valley civilization. How did they govern? Was it a return to primitive communism? Early democracy? Or maybe some spiritually enforced egalitarianism? Why are no weapons ever found?
Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro
Mohenjo-daro was a major city of the Indus Civilisation ( c . 2600–1900 BC), with excavations revealing evidence for public infrastructure, civic amenities and hundreds of residences. Archaeologists traditionally assume that urbanism is accompanied by economic stratification, but, at Mohenjo-daro, qualitative evidence of inequality is absent. Drawing on early excavation data, the authors here calculate Gini coefficients of residence area, providing a quantitative proxy of economic inequality. Their results indicate that Gini coefficients, and thus inequality, declined over time, coinciding with increased prosperity and the development of the city’s street plan, indicating that governance likely helped limit economic inequality.
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🇬🇧🍉 More than 250,000 protesters took to the streets of London, marking three years for the genocide of Gaza Footage: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Capitalism needs to exploit to survive. Exploit labor. Exploit land. Exploit life. In 2026, that exploitation is killing the planet that keeps us alive. That's not economics. That's immorality.
The banality of evil. The vast majority of people will see nothing wrong with this, because we never need to consider the severely disabled. The ones most in need of help are being hurt the most. Again. Democracy is supposed to be when we have a say in the laws which govern us. But we have no say.
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
I got my first "shiny post". I didnt know there was such a thing
Chandler Patey@sirskeltal.bsky.social · 2w agoInstead of selecting only wealthy and well connected elites like lawyers, judges, etc., the outcomes of an assembly tend to be much better when the selection process is stratified for diversity. In other words, normal people.
Why do we keep expecting our government to produce outcomes it has never produced before? Every act of progress in our country has come from open revolt against the government. Why do we defend the government. Why do we expect anything good from this government. They have never represented us.
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
This was on June 20th of 2020. That should make you feel greater urgency, not less urgency.
Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice
Oddly enough I was just thinking about this earlier. Girls should be taught self defense in public schools. Why is everything so awful? Why does the world need to be so evil?
The Mouthy Renegade Writer@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 2w agoThat would be much more useful than learning how to do-si-do.
