"Because of this difference, Fascism will never succeed as completely as Russian Bolshevism in freeing itself from the power of liberal ideas. Only under the fresh impression of the murders and atrocities perpetrated by the supporters of the Soviets were Germans and Italians able to block out the remembrance of the traditional restraints of justice and morality and find the impulse to bloody counteraction. The deeds of the Fascists and of other parties corresponding to them were emotional reflex actions evoked by indignation at the deeds of the Bolsheviks and Communists." — Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism (1927).
https://fee.org/ebooks/liberalism-by-ludwig-von-mises/
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capitalism
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera - Zohran Mamdani
https://www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-see-this-mamdani-ad/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvVSpN0BXg&t=100s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera
Sylvia Rivera, “Y’all Better Quiet Down” Original Authorized Video, 1973 Gay Pride Rally NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-JIOWUw1o
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
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"Whatever our view of its utility or its practicability, it must be admitted that the idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. Even its most determined opponents will not be able to deny it a detailed examination. We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit. The attempt to erect society on a new basis while breaking with all traditional forms of social organization, to conceive a new world plan and foresee the form which all human affairs must assume in the future — this is so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to conquer Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside."
https://mises.org/library/book/socialism-economic-and-sociological-analysis
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When I first started calling Silicon Valley’s business model “people farming” I was told I was being hyperbolic and alarmist.
I don’t get told that much anymore.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
HEADLINE: "Oil Industry Deceived Public on Plastics Recycling for More Than 50 Years"
Is anyone surprised by this? Of course they lied. That's what capitalists do. They ALWAYS put profits ahead of truthfulness, ahead of human rights, ahead of a healthy biosphere.
Here's more...
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The plastics industry has ‘sold’ plastic recycling to the American public to sell plastic, according to a report by the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), a nonprofit organization that advocates for legal action to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable.
Petrochemical companies and the plastics industry have known of the technical and economic limitations that make plastics unrecyclable for more than half a century, and “have failed to overcome them,” the report states. “Despite this knowledge, the plastics industry has continued to increase plastic production, while carrying out a well-coordinated campaign to deceive consumers, policymakers, and regulators about plastic recycling.”
“This evidence shows that many of the same fossil fuel companies that knew and lied for decades about how their products cause climate change have also known and lied to the public about plastic recycling,” Richard Wiles, CCI’s president, said in a press release. “The oil industry’s lies are at the heart of the two most catastrophic pollution crises in human history.”
Plastics manufacturers and industry groups, including some of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, have spent more than 50 years funding and pushing plastics recycling in order to stave off regulatory action – all while knowing that only a small fraction of plastic waste could ever be recycled.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/15/recycling-plastic-center-for-climate-integrity-report-fraud/
REPORT SOURCE -- https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing
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🩸 #BOYCOTT #ELECTORAL_VOTING = 21st Century #ILLEGAL_REDLINING = #RASCISM Gamified 🎮 and #Digitally INCENTIVIZED 🤑 🛰️ #Voter 📡 Surveillance in the USA??
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Do We Really Live Under Capitalism? Is DEMOCRACY DEAD?
#DAVIDV.. #NEED_PROOF?? Short Story here..
Went to a restaurant in #NewPort_Beach #Rode_Island. My host had a 🧧 🧧 #Private #RED_TICKET that said " #Red_liners " on it??
🧠 KNOCK, KNOCK HELLO ANYONE HOME?
..so that we could sit in the REDLINING SECTION (all #window and #balcony seats BTW). This restaurant still has 🚢 #SLAVE_TRADE ⚓ dungeons in the basement from the '#REAL' SLAVE PIRATES ( 🏴☠️ #usa) #RUM_TRADE.. (NOT SOME HOLLYWOOD DRUNKEN #FOOL 🃏 EITHER!) from the days of #Colonialism which still EXISTS TODAY!
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One of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is "we don't have real capitalism, we have corporatism" or " #crony_capitalism" or even " #techno_feudalism."
These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point.
🚔 Let's talk about #capitalism, #corporatism, and #cronyism.
1. https://youtu.be/yGa1D_W3WaA
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Do We Really Live Under Capitalism? Is DEMOCRACY DEAD?
#DAVIDV.. #NEED_PROOF?? Short Story here..
Went to a restaurant in #NewPort_Beach #Rode_Island. My host had a 🧧 🧧 #Private #RED_TICKET that said " #Red_liners " on it??
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..so that we could sit in the REDLINING SECTION (all #window and #balcony seats BTW). This restaurant still has 🚢 #SLAVE_TRADE ⚓ dungeons in the basement from the '#REAL' SLAVE PIRATES ( 🏴☠️ #usa) #RUM_TRADE.. (NOT SOME HOLLYWOOD DRUNKEN #FOOL 🃏 EITHER!) from the days of #Colonialism which still EXISTS TODAY!
In fact just down the road is #Bristol THE #HEART OF #ILLEGAL_COLONIALISM and the Actual 🚢 #SHIP_BUILDERS for the Slave Trade.
WAKE UP!
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BOYCOTT ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE in exchange for WE THE PEOPLE's #POPULAR VOTE!! And impeach BOTH presidents and supreme court for Past #VOTER_INTERFERENCE!
Electoral Voting has CURRENTLY been #GAMIFIED for active REDLINING AND #VOTER_$URVEILLANCE via #Digital_ID's???!
One of the most common objections to critiques of capitalism is "we don't have real capitalism, we have corporatism" or " #crony_capitalism" or even " #techno_feudalism."
These claims are often well-intentioned, but they miss the point.
🚔 Let's talk about #capitalism, #corporatism, and #cronyism.
1. https://youtu.be/yGa1D_W3WaA
BONUS: #Trump's Showdown (full documentary) | FRONTLINE | 10,691,964 views Oct 19, 2021
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If you've been cruising the Fediverse recently, you've no doubt seen a number of amusing posts under the hashtag #CDCSays, about why the U.S. Center for Disease Control is probably trying to kill you for capitalism; in particular as that relates to their updated COVID isolation guidelines. While these posts are objectively hilarious, the simple truth is that these aren't really jokes, and pretty much everyone who understands this virus and how it works, thinks the CDC has sold us all down the river for capitalists, corporations, and the bosses, to keep the fuckbarrelTM churning.
Of course, there's only so much these folks can communicate in a joke on social media, so today I thought I'd share a recent article by Reina Sultan on Self.com. Inside, she talks to three medically qualified experts who work in this field about why the CDC's new guidelines, and the drastic reduction of the isolation period recommended if you've contracted COVID, are wishful thinking at best and quite possibly capitalist death cult propaganda:
https://www.self.com/story/cdc-new-covid-19-isolation-guidelines
Although it's definitely worth reading the entire short article, let's look at some important highlights here for folks who're absolutely not gonna click on a link about COVID because they'd rather pretend everything is fine:
- reducing COVID isolation recommendations from 5 days, to 24 hours "if you’ve been fever-free" and "your symptoms are improving" will "likely make more people sick—and this approach increasingly places the burden of public health on individual people, which is dangerous for everyone, but especially for those at a higher risk of complications from the virus."
- changing testing from a way to determine if you can leave isolation, to merely something you might want to use to "assist" your decision making, is a terrible idea.
- COVID is most certainly not over; "wastewater analysis data suggests there are still more than 760,000 new cases of COVID a day in the US—meaning roughly 1 in 63 people are actively infectious."
- Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, says "There is no evidence to suggest that these waves (of COVID infections) are becoming smaller on average over time, or that we're having fewer waves.”
- Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH says "that the CDC’s messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has “ceased to be a threat,” and that it “stops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.” According to Dr. Jirmanus, "infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if you’re testing positive on rapid tests, you’re very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine."
- Shortening the isolation period "supports economic interests and is not in the interest of protecting health." Yes, this means that the bosses and capitalists are okay with making you sick and maybe even killing you, so they can keep extracting wealth from our labor.
- In fact, Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD says the CDC’s updated recommendations are moving in the wrong direction. “COVID isolation should be expanded, not reduced or eliminated. There is no change in the scientific evidence around COVID transmission that would support reducing the recommended isolation period below five days... Extending isolation beyond five days would be a safer approach, both to prevent viral spread and to allow people adequate time to recover.” Ideally, she recommends you isolate "for 10 to 14 days, if you have that option, and take two rapid tests with negative results at least 24 hours apart before going about your daily life as usual again" but acknowledges that without sick leave, this will be impossible for many workers, who she then advises to wear "a well-fitting respirator and limit in-person activities only to what is essential.”
Additionally, these experts point out that long COVID is real, remains poorly understood, and is therefore something we should absolutely not be fucking around with as a society by continuing to "let er rip" and reducing protective measures; which is precisely what the CDC has done here with its joke ass updated isolation guidelines. Finally, all three experts also remind us that these policy updates all seem to be designed with non-disabled, non-immunocompromised people in mind; which is pretty alarming when you realize that roughly “4 out of 10 Americans have chronic diseases that put them at higher risk of COVID.” All of which just reinforces the argument I've been making for a while; rich people and their captured regulatory bodies will absolutely toss disabled people, sick people, and the elderly into the furnace for five points a share.
Look folks, I get that we're all tired of this virus and this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but these are highly qualified doctors telling you in so many words that "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you." And the CDC at least, sure is.
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Privatização, Terceirização e Morte
JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/jd-vance-suggests-trans-people-pose-a-domestic-threat-fbi-plans-to-target-trans-people
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #SCOTUS #antiLGBTQ #AmericanReich #AmericanGulag #AmeriKKKa #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism
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“CEO Jim McNerney…repeatedly invoked a slur…Those who cared too much about the integrity of the planes and not enough about the stock price were “phenomenally talented assholes,” and he encouraged his deputies to ostracize them into leaving…He initially refused to let nearly any of these talented assholes work on the 787 Dreamliner, instead outsourcing…development…The plan would save money while busting unions, a win-win, he promised investors.”
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
《An estimated 92% of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds safety limits, according to the World Health Organization》
#Pollution #AirPollution #Safety #Health #WHO #Capitalism #Hypocrisy #Corruption #CorporateGreed
Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?
Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...
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"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"
The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.
As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.
But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.
Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.
The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/
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John Oliver Destroys Bari Weiss In Defense of Transgender People 🙏
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/john-oliver-destroys-bari-weiss-in
#JohnOliver
Last Week Tonight w. John Oliver
* longtime, consistent, authoritative defender of trans persons 🙏
2015: Transgender Rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoAX9f6MOc
2022: Transgender Rights II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns8NvPPHX5Y
Apr 2025: Trans Athletes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism 🇨🇦 #Trumpism
Wedge #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TLM
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Australia is still a deeply racist country when it comes to Aboriginal people.
This is some of the oldest written communications on Earth.
This rock art was already ~40,000 years old when the Giza pyramids were an ongoing capital works project by the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
But because Aboriginal and created it, we treat it as worthless.
I can't stress this enough.
This should be a source of deep and profound shame for every non-Aboriginal Australian.
We, collectively, see irreplaceable 50,000 year old cultural artifacts as having less value than a tank full of petrol.
Because we view Aboriginal history as essentially worthless.
"The oldest petroglyphs in the world are deemed to be those at Murujuga in Western Australia, which are 40,000–50,000 years old. Some petroglyphs are classified as protected monuments and some have been added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites, or such status has been applied for."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph
"The Albanese government agreed to weaken conditions it had proposed to protect world heritage-listed Indigenous rock art from Woodside’s giant North West Shelf gas development after the fossil fuel company argued it could be forced to shut the plant.
"The change is explained in a “statement of reasons” document setting out why the environment minister, Murray Watt, approved an application to extend the operating life of one of the world’s biggest and most polluting gas export developments until 2070.
"The statement shows Watt accepted environment department advice that “multiple lines of scientific and other evidence” suggested industrial emissions were having a “significant adverse impact” on rocks in Murujuga, a cultural landscape in northern Western Australia that is home to more than 1m pieces of rock art, known as petroglyphs.
"The minister also accepted advice that future pollution from the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility could cause “degradation, damage, notable alteration, modification, obscuring or diminishing” of the area’s natural heritage."
...
"Watt provisionally ruled in May that Woodside could continue operating the LNG plant beyond 2030 only if it cut acidic pollution – particularly nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide – so that there were no air emissions “above the detectable limit” that affect rock art.
"But Woodside responded this was “not technically feasible”. It said the conditions were an “effective refusal” of the development that would lead to the “cessation of business as usual operations” at the end of 2030.
#auspol #wapol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Australia #Perth #WesternAustralia #capitalism #business #ausbiz
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Are you experiencing job insecurity, burnout, high-stress levels, unaffordable healthcare, housing insecurity, debt burdens, social isolation, mental health issues, or poverty? You may be suffering from #capitalism. An immediate extraction is recommended for your health and safety. If an immediate extraction is impossible at the moment, please contact your nearest #IWW chapter for further instructions.
Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.
We need system change NOW.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Edited 1y ago
Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.
And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.
Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.
Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.
People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.
Because the wealth would trickle down.
Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.
So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.
But they said the wealth would trickle down.
Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.
So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.
(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)
And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.
But they said the wealth would trickle down.
Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.
The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!
And First Nations!
And trans people!
And neurodivergent people!
Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.
So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)
But they said the wealth would trickle down.
So did the wealth trickle down?
Well...
A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.
It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.
It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.
The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.
The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.
So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.
And they bought GPUs.
Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.
All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.
In the end, it didn't trickle down.
And instead of all the public goods it could have bought...
...We'll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.
#ChatGPT #Claude #AI #LLM #capitalism #socialism #business #politics #Nvidia
Edited 21d ago
Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done so. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together more effectively as a team."
Me: :Downloads the stupid app:
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "You have a message!"
Notification: "You have a task due later today."
Notification: "Here are some random files from the intranet that might be relevant to your meeting."
Notification: "Rate us on the app store!"
Notification at 8am on Sunday morning because Sharon from accounts wants to let everyone know she's a workaholic with no life: "You have a message!"
Notification: "Here's an AI summary of your upcoming tasks!"
Notification: "Love using Megahappyfunproductivityapp at work? Check out Megahappyfunproductivityapp Personal Edition!"
Notification: "Join our upcoming user conference in Melbourne to hear tips, tricks, case studies, thought leadership, and best practices"
Notification: "Don't miss out! Upgrade to Megahappyfunproductivityapp Premium Edition today and SAVE 15%!* T&Cs apply."
Me: :Deselects everything except critical notifications and message notifications:
Notification: "We've updated our terms of service" (We won't mention it was because our lawyers weren't 100% certain "share your data with third party vendors" would prevent us getting sued for selling your data to ChatGPT. So we're making it explicit, and burying it on page 327 of our terms of service.)
Notification: "Someone is trying to message you on our app!"
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Rate our customer service."
Notification: "Check out our new AI features!"
Notification: "DON'T FORGET! You still haven't rated our customer service!"
Notification: "We miss you 🥹"
Notification: "Here's your AI task report"
Notification: "Here's some people you might know!"
Me: :Disables notification:
Colleague: "Did you get my urgent message on Megahappyfunproductivityapp?"
Me: "Nope, I turned off notifications."
Colleague: "Okay, can you turn on notifications so you don't miss another important message like that?"
#tech #enshittification #iOS #Android #capitalism #latecapitalism #business
Edited 19d ago
Getting personal for a minute:
If a company describes itself as "a family"
RUN! It's a huge red flag.
I'm 54 and am of the generation told to go to college, land a good job, work your way up "the ladder," and remain until you retire.
I quickly discovered that is capitalist propaganda.
During my 20-year corporate career, I experienced overt and subtle racism, and denial of career advancement opportunities.
I witnessed inexperienced and untrained individuals be hired and promoted due to nepotism. I've witnessed folk sleep their way to being promoted. I've dealt with toxic bosses, inane office politics, and shifty business practices.
Several years before the pandemic, I began working for myself, remotely. BEST decision I've ever made. My intent is to never work in a corporate office again.
Companies do not care about you. Period.
"Political Scientist #LalehKhalili joins us to discuss her new book, #ExtractiveCapitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, out now from Verso."
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1861-laleh-khalili
#capitalism #extractivism #inequality #polycrisis #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Edited 18d ago
How the Bathroom Bill Weaponizes Transphobia Against Public Institutions
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-bathroom-bill-weaponizes-transphobia
* legal expert called new anti-trans Texas bathroom law “most plainly unlawful, undemocratic, legislation I’ve seen in recent history”
Discrediting/debunking the transphobic "bathroom predator" myth
https://persagen.org/docs/transgender_bathroom_meme.html
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
This isn't an Xbox. This is greed, pure greed.
#Microsoft #Xbox #Gamepass #Cloud #Gaming #VideoGames #CorporateGreed #Capitalism
