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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 9h

“The global economy is a depressing conveyor belt of self-destruction: resources go in, nothing comes out. Everything disappears forever into a black hole of extinction”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 13h

“Most of us are designed to be sheep, not heroes: we will avoid personal sacrifice that serves the common good, and steer clear of short-term personal risk even if it comes with long-term benefits for society”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 19h

“While old fascism dismantled political parties, the meta terror state has made them identical, effectively achieving the same result. Voting is pointless when the necrosystem owns us”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 19h

“Capitalism is a trap that lured humans into believing they had created a stable world. Indeed, an economy where everyone exploits everyone else is surprisingly stable in the short term”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 19h

Modern business is out to kill us all. Our post-industrial business model may be profitable for the business owner, but it is overwhelmingly a loss maker for equality, environment, climate and everything that lives and breathes on Earth
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 19h

“Are we all just going to wait for the end of the world in front of our laptops, becoming executive assistants to our own extinction?”
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Why Revolutions Happen, Why They Don’t, And Why They Should

Fear, Suppression, and Mythology

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“It is hard to grieve for nature when no one around you is doing the same. You are made to feel like you are grieving an imaginary friend that never existed”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Becoming anti-business does not mean you are anti-human, in fact the opposite is true: the vast majority of business today is by its definition anti-planet, which effectively makes it anti-human”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Becoming anti-business does not mean you are anti-human, in fact the opposite is true: the vast majority of business today is by its definition anti-planet, which effectively makes it anti-human”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“A revolution against this system can only materialise once our actual bodies begin to process the psychosomatic trauma of living in this civilisation”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“It is hard to grieve for nature when no one around you is doing the same. You are made to feel like you are grieving an imaginary friend that never existed”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Very few humans can imagine themselves outside their modern slavery not because they lack imagination, but because they have forbidden themselves to imagine”
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Why Revolutions Happen, Why They Don’t, And Why They Should

Fear, Suppression, and Mythology

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Revolutions are seen as “freak” events when in fact they are natural, integral parts of the lifecycle of any healthy society”
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Why Revolutions Happen, Why They Don’t, And Why They Should

Fear, Suppression, and Mythology

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 1d

“Every slave master always miscalculates the physical breaking point of their slaves, assuming that they will have an infinite tolerance for abuse”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is a terrorist organisation funded by the US government and deployed against its own people

The time to rise and resist is now

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is a terrorist organisation funded by the US government and deployed against its own people

The time to rise and resist is now

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

“If degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

Civilisations collapse because they don’t even know what a collapse is. It is simply not in their DNA to understand it
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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 3d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

“We are part of an economic system that bribes us every day so that we can turn a blind eye to the crimes that fund these bribes”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

“If degrowth and the management of our resources continue to be seen as perversions of society, then we are in desperate need for the most perverted, subversive, disruptive and renegade deviants as a matter of urgency. Because these are the only humans who can survive”

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 3d

“As long as there is greed, people will always look for problems to profit from, and ways to create these problems beforehand. This is because problems are monetizable, while true happiness isn’t”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4d

“As it evolved, capitalist civilisation became a snowball of self-fraud: humans created products they didn’t need, jobs they didn’t like, and places they couldn’t live in”
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4d

Israel is a nation that exists because of violence, cultivates violence, teaches violence and raises war criminals. It is time for the world to stand up to Israel

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