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"#MarkFisher was the first great thinker of the digital age, with most of his writing remaining online. He never thought that #digitalculture was itself the problem, slowly cancelling the future; it is #capitalism that is responsible for the digital crises of the present, and its claim of monopoly on digitality is only a recent development, albeit one Mark foresaw with great clarity."
https://xenogothic.com/2025/08/23/digital-culture-is-not-the-problem-the-problem-is-capitalism/
Trump2's violent, shadowy federal police state
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/24/how-trump-is-building-a-violent-shadowy-federal-police-force_partner
Comment: Heritage Foundation puppet Republican Party, & Trump - amidst noise of the existential threat posed by trans persons (we're not, btw) - posted all this 2y in advance of 2024 elections.
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115113395783224651
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #IMVE #SCOTUS 🇨🇦 #Trumpism
Wedge issue/distraction: #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TransRights #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
There's only so much you can "learn" from a movie, particularly one about dancing, but when I was young one of my formative experiences involved watching a flick called "Swing Kids." In many ways the film was typical Hollywood fare; a group of teens who love swing music and are alienated from the society around them are determined to dance the nights away even though adults don't understand and regard swing music as a dangerous moral perversion. The catch however, is that the teens are German, and the society they're alienated from is a country falling step by step into Nazism during the 1930's.
Like many movies loosely based on historical events, the film took a few liberties with the source material, but the part about it that stuck out to me is the way it depicted a fascist effort to target young people by simultaneously stamping out forms of expression that threatened Nazi cultural hegemony, and actively educating (and re-educating through coercion) German youth with fascist ideology, sometimes against the will of wiser adults around them. Unlike many films about Hitler's "Third Reich," Swing Kids didn't pretend fascism was something that "just happened" but instead actively explored the idea that racialized hatred, extreme nationalism, and fascist ideas were something you had to indoctrinate people into, and that the Nazis knew it would work better if they got to their targets while they were young.
Of course, it was just a movie; yet even then it instilled in me a desire to spend a significant portion of my life studying the question of "how fascism could happen." Astonishingly, when I later found myself studying the rise of Nazism in Germany, I discovered that this silly movie had in fact gotten that bit right; the Nazis succeeded in part by targeting German youth and teaching them to be the kind of monsters that could support Nazism without question and would even turn on their own parents.
I bring this up because I'm concerned that adults in the Pig Empire haven't been watching what fascists (of all stripes) have been doing to our education system and the young people we're sending off to be shaped by it:
https://truthout.org/articles/the-rights-push-to-whitewash-history-is-a-precursor-to-fascism/
The Right’s Push to Whitewash History Is a Precursor to Fascism
"Beneath this sweeping repression aimed at silencing dissent, free speech and critical inquiry lies a series of right-wing policies that threaten to undermine education’s role as a democratic public sphere and its commitment to fostering critical thinking. In this environment, we can expect a sustained assault on critical pedagogy, historical understanding, informed judgment, faculty job security, critical literacy, civic awareness, and any effort to connect learning with civic engagement and democratic values.
For instance, far right legislators in states like Florida, Tennessee and Idaho are banning books and prohibiting the teaching of concepts related to race, LGBTQ+ issues and social justice. Public and higher education institutions are being defunded, particularly if they address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Many public school libraries are being stripped of resources, with some being transformed into detention centers. Students are bankrupting their future because of high tuition costs and staggering student debt."
While the quote I featured here naturally focuses on the fascist American right's attempt to erase history and thereby legitimize white supremacy, extreme nationalism, and the demonization of LGBTQ identities, it's important to understand that this transformation of education centers into a functional arm of a reactionary police state is by no means restricted to the Republican Party and its adherents. The transformation of American students and educators speaking out about and opposing extractivism, imperialism, and an unfolding US-backed genocide by Israel in Gaza, into criminals, terrorists, and "violent antisemites" is widely supported by so-called "liberal" administrators and lawmakers in the "brave new world" of our modern Pig Empire. Teaching and enforcing fascism via coercion remains the same, serves the same purpose, and produces the same results no matter who is doing it or what justifications they offer for doing so.
The uncomfortable truth here is that as our society becomes increasingly authoritarian across a bipartisan spectrum and as dictated by capital, this repression, indoctrination and assault on critical thinking is both a logical outcome, and a perquisite condition. After all, if you're going to kill billions of people as neocolonial capitalism boils the planet like soup for the benefit of ruling class billionaires, you can't rightly teach the next generation of leaders and drones that this is morally unacceptable and must be fought. How do you expect folks to make the trains run on time while that slaughter continues if you don't teach them to be fascists while they're young?
#HappyDisabiltyPrideMonth #fediverse
I'm celebrating by being slowly killed by #capitalism and #facism
Isn't it great to be a #disabled full-time caretaker for my elderly disabled mother and dying slowly?
What are you doing this #DisabilityPride Month?
Let me know, tell me all your secrets to #MutualAid and #SupportDisabledArtists
Yup... I'm a pissy bitch
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Changing tracts for a moment; scientists have made an incredible discovery that alters not only how we understand the deep ocean, but also may alter what we know about the Earth's supply of the very oxygen we breathe - and unsurprisingly, capitalists are already working on fucking that up without the slightest care in the world for the harm it may cause our biosphere.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo
Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean
"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesizing - something that requires sunlight.
Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic “nodules” which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen."
The article goes on to describe how we discovered these deep sea nodules which may take millions of years to form, what it means that oxygen is being produced without marine plant photosynthesis, and how this probably changes our understanding of deep sea life that likely depends on that oxygen (fish need oxygen, they just get it differently than we do.) Science lovers are encourage to read the whole piece.
What I want to focus on here however, is the fact that immediately after we've discovered this natural wonder, deep sea mining companies and resource-hungry capitalists are looking to literally rip these metallic nodules from the sea floor with virtually no concern for how that might affect our oceans, or even life on Earth.
"And because these nodules contain metals like lithium, cobalt and copper - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.
But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures."
Are life-giving, water oxygenating metallic nodules our only source of lithium, cobalt, and copper? Nope. Have deep sea mining companies studied the potential harm harvesting these nodules might cause? Nope. Might ripping them out of the water affect the delicate balance of not only ocean life but potentially how the oxygen we breath is distributed across multiple ecosystems and even the whole planet? Yeap. Does capitalism give a shit about any of that? Apparently not. The simple truth here is that we don't know how important these nodules are, and if the capitalists have their way we're going to start destroying them to make batteries before we even find out.
Look you can call me an alarmist if it'll make you feel better, but this story is merely a microcosm of the entire reason you're living on a boiling planet, facing down a mass extinction event that may well wipe out billions of people and destroy a habitable biosphere for countless other species as well.
We live in an extractivist culture, driven by the capitalist profit motive, where time and time again the need to keep stacking money for incomprehensibly rich ghouls is prioritized over not only nature, but the very survival of the human species. Capitalism is killing us, and literally nobody in the wealthy ruling classes, or the governments they've bought lock stock and barrel is doing anything about it, or shows any signs of even *trying* to do anything about it.
I don't know if tearing metallic nodules that produce dark oxygen from the ocean floor to make more Tesla batteries will compromise the planet's supply of the precious air we all breathe or not. But neither do the rich bastards that want to do it anyway. And you and I both know that if even if they did know, they wouldn't care.
At some point the human species is going to have to get serious about prioritizing life on Earth over the material demands of capitalists and rich people, or we're going to run out of life to commodify; or you know, the very air necessary to sustain our own existence as animals on a planet uniquely capable of supporting that life. One thing I *can* tell you is that after hundreds of years of capitalist predation of our shared biosphere, it is clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that neither the capitalists, nor the states they own, are going to make the right choices to ensure our survival, for us.
"Billionaires spent just as much trying to defeat #Mamdani than if they just paid their taxes"
Yeah because it's not just about the money. It's about the misery. Misery makes for obedient workers. Can't have people walking around with pocket change because the bus is free, and a clear head because their kids are well taken care of. Who's working an extra twenty hours a week in those conditions?
#Capitalism is built on capital but it thrives on misery.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115516571652076611
#capitalism thrives on misery because the no.1 mission of capitalists is to produce poverty ―it’s the only way they can inflate the value of their holdings, invent wealth thru valuations & restrict access to money.
once that’s done, they move on to their second goal: monopolies. so they manufacture scarcity. there is no creative destruction, there’s only financial violence. capitalists destroy small businesses, whole industries, governments, nations to destroy the competition.
I want to propose Commons Based Peer Production as an economic model capable of representing #opensource work, #carework, #volunteering and similar efforts, where traditional #capitalism can not.
Would this allow us to describe a path towards a #solarpunk #postscarcity future?
Mao Zedong planted the seeds of people's power, while Chiang Kai-shek* pruned the old dying branches of bourgeois and reactionary nationalism.
*Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) was the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 until 1949 and then as the leader of the government in Taiwan until his death. He was the head of the Kuomintang (KMT), or the Nationalist Party, which was opposed to the Communist Party of China (CPC).
3 step guide to become a #socialist by recent scientific evidence!
1 - #Inequality is connected to social issues: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/the-spirit-level-at-15/
2 - #capitalism is the cause of the rising inequality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century
3 - the #needs of everyone on Earth could be met with 30% of our current economic output: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
This is bad news, obviously, but let’s not pretend things weren’t already terrible. Led by the Biden administration, the US became the world’s #1 producer of fossil fuels.
That’s what you get when short-sighted capitalists take complete ownership of the political system and the government — under both parties.
Now it will just get worse.
➡️ https://grist.org/politics/trump-climate-actions-day-one-energy-emergency/
#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism
Well, there's a headline that certainly captures the moment: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential.
“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month."
"The stunning conclusion indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time."
"Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17."
https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/
h/t @ai6yr
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Banking
Corporations will not stand up to fascism. They are engines to create profit for shareholders so protecting profit is their only guiding principle. They will bend to the felon-in-chief rather than face costly repercussions from a petty tyrant who wields unconstitutional power without any oversight.
My blog, misaligned markets is named so because market capitalism has caused markets to become misaligned from the purpose they're supposed to serve. But what is misalignment?
Read about Aristotle's great insight about greed and how it applies to everything from money to climate change.
CEOs have a paternalistic attitude towards those below them in the economic and social hierarchy.
Tech CEOs doubly so.
This is another reason to more equally distribute power and wealth among workers.
#antiCapitalism #oligarchy #techOligarchy #capitalism #socialism
Marx's "Capital" Explained in 8 minutes
#socialism #communism #capitalism #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics
If you live in America, print out copies of this image and give them out to people in your community, put them up on street poles, and leave them in places for people to take. The time for the working class of America to organize is now!
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anticapitalism #anticapitalist
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To congradulate themselves on cutting benefits for disabled people, UK MPs give themselves pay rise to almost £100K.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07krpmlnv8o
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/dwp-benefits-cuts-full-six-31165262
Trump is a disaster. No question about that. But our troubles did not begin with him.
Corporate Democrats are just as eager to sell us out and destroy everything for the sake of Business As Usual, Wall Street, and Big Oil.
Listen to the clip below from an interview Barack Obama gave last year.
He says climate change might be a problem, but we can handle it. Although there's no way now to keep global warming below 2°C, that shouldn’t be so bad. And if we work hard, we might be able to stay at around 3°C … but the important thing is, stop worrying! Don't complain about the system. Everything is under control.
This is absolutely criminal. That much extra heat will destroy modern civilization. Billions of people will die, along with millions of species of plants and animals going extinct. The world as we know it will end.
There still *could* be a way to prevent all that. But it requires system change. The end of capitalism. It requires #Degrowth.
And no one in a position of power wants to hear that.
▶️ https://youtu.be/jAYVKZSWXhY?t=929
#USA #Trump #Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
#TNI #TransnationalInstitute is a group that mostly releases great reports, analysis, etc, on #techgiants, #capitalism #resourcecolonialism #labor etc
But when it comes to #China, they'll somehow willingly publish pro-CCP propaganda-lite, factually dubious BS like this, romanticizing the #Mao era, regurgitating South-South solidarity talk points & of course, ignoring the #CCP's glaring similarities to Israel in its treatment of #Uyghurs #Tibetans & #HongKongers
https://www.tni.org/en/article/from-global-anti-imperialism-to-the-dandelion-fighters
Tomato Sandwiches are #AntiCapitalist
Today's post is about #communist breadlines. Kind of. Not really.
It's about how our current system destroys diversity and the health of ourselves, our worlds, and our planet. This is a product of multiple factors such as #capitalism, specialized labor, or democratized demand.
It even destroys our tomato sandwiches.
https://www.revoluciana.net/tomato-sandwiches-are-anti-capitalist/