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All american cities were built that way until the suburbs were deliberately built to destroy that, because there was more profit in the system of private vehicles. (Along with everything else that falls on each individual in the suburbs, which also prevents us from organizing, which benefits the designers of this system)
Your problem is assuming if it can't be done by one person, single-handedly, then it can't be done at all. For every person that thinks like this, our capacity as a class is reduced.
lmao, speak for yourself dude. There are plenty organizations doing this work; not just handing out pamphlets but actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization, etc; you just haven't gone looking for them and by default you exist in an ecosystem that suppresses them from your view.
Sure, and you let me know when your city council; or any politician at any level of government for that matter; does anything to materially improve conditions for the working class, completely unprompted by working class people organizing and making demands. And you let me know too if they are faithful to those demands and give any credit to the organizations that pushed it through, or give just enough to shut people up and present it as if it was all part of their plan the whole time.
Thank you for making my point. You can think what you want. Mutual aid is great, and it's great you have the means for it, but it's a band aid at best and it isn't an organized movement aimed at addressing the fact that our system is more dedicated to the needs of capital than it is to the needs of people. That's why the city won't do shit, because they aren't serving you.
Real mature lmao. You got me. You must have done some real deep historical analysis and gotten a whole lot done over there to feel so much authority to say what works and what doesn't. I can't believe your city doesn't listen to you! You clearly have all the answers... I guess they're just stinky meany heads and there's no systemic reason for that whatsoever, at least not one worth questioning.
Man, gee whiz, you really set me straight!! I can't believe leftists aren't out there handing out pamphlets!! How can they expect any change or crumbs to fall out of our unflinchingly static system if they aren't handing out pamphlets!? If we just vote for the right politician, and hand out enough of the right pamphlets, surely they will betray their own class interests simply out of selflessness and a strong sense of moral duty!
The carrot's right there, I even got a taste of it once! Hey, stupid leftists, stop going after the guy with the stick. I can't get the carrot while he's beating us with the stick!!!! The stick guy said we might even get the whole carrot if we just jump high enough!! They're simple rules, why don't you just follow them?!
edit: also, sorry, I just can't get over how silly you're being over very minor transgressions. It's very funny to me that you decided to equate "actual organizing, direct action, education, mobilization" with not engaging with community at all or pressing government for change, because I gave support with very minimal critique of mutual aid specifically.
I guess nothing else matters if I'm not committing time and money I don't have to do chores for my neighbors. Anyways, why bother fighting for a world where as-needed aid is baked into the system? If we just do enough mutual aid then we'll never need the government to respond to our demands! Is that the logic? I guess anyone living paycheck-to-paycheck can forget about doing any resistance whatsoever. Lmfao. Very serious and hopeful person over here.
Upvoting for the first reasonable thing you've said in this entire exchange.