I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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Chelsea E. Manning
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if a system cannot support people during a continued period of crisis, why do we consent to its continued legitimacy? if it refuses to carry out even its most basic functions, why does it exist at all?
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Chelsea E. Manning
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this isn’t about being informed, or being educated, or engaging in discussion anymore — everyone knows what the problems are — so what do we do about it
Muertoweirdo
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Mar 3
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Because people are scared of it
Chelsea E. Manning
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Mar 3
it’s scary af
@xychelsea
if a system cannot support people during a continued period of crisis, why do we consent to its continued legitimacy? if it refuses to carry out even its most basic functions, why does it exist at all?
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Chelsea E. Manning
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this isn’t about being informed, or being educated, or engaging in discussion anymore — everyone knows what the problems are — so what do we do about it
Muertoweirdo
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Because people are scared of it
Chelsea E. Manning
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Mar 3
it’s scary af
yung
walken
@as_a_worker
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the big 1980s trope about the USSR was that the economy was basically fake. all the false optimism hid a deep dysfunction and terminal decline USA today is the same: soaring markets alongside zombie corps, hidden jobless, crumbling infrastructure failing economy, failed state
walken
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the big 1980s trope about the USSR was that the economy was basically fake. all the false optimism hid a deep dysfunction and terminal decline USA today is the same: soaring markets alongside zombie corps, hidden jobless, crumbling infrastructure failing economy, failed state
storm for not discovering hte truth sooner.
yung
walken
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what’s interesting is how absolutely nobody outside the USSR had any idea it was teetering on collapse til the whole thing fell. ghw bush and the rest of the natsec blob were famously furious that the CIA was totally blindsided by it
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Who needs capitalism when you can steal.
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Walgreens shutters 10 stores in San Francisco as residents point to rampant shoplifting
Pharmacy giant Walgreens has closed its 10th store in the San Francisco area, prompting residents to blame rampant shoplifting caused by the city's soft-on-crime policies.
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oldngray
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Who needs capitalism when you can steal.
Walgreens shutters 10 stores in San Francisco as residents point to rampant shoplifting
Pharmacy giant Walgreens has closed its 10th store in the San Francisco area, prompting residents to blame rampant shoplifting caused by the city's soft-on-crime policies.
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capitalism especially imperialism really is theft.Who needs capitalism when you can steal.
Walgreens shutters 10 stores in San Francisco as residents point to rampant shoplifting
Pharmacy giant Walgreens has closed its 10th store in the San Francisco area, prompting residents to blame rampant shoplifting caused by the city's soft-on-crime policies.
we have an insane problem with that too here. mind you i think both our nations were founded on theft.Who needs capitalism when you can steal.
Walgreens shutters 10 stores in San Francisco as residents point to rampant shoplifting
Pharmacy giant Walgreens has closed its 10th store in the San Francisco area, prompting residents to blame rampant shoplifting caused by the city's soft-on-crime policies.
these canknuckleheads came up with a website to buy from small biz:
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Dan Price
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Mar 5
As a small business owner, you know what would really help me compete with big chains? *Have them pay taxes like I do *Enact universal health care so our benefits are on equal footing *Send them to jail when they do illegal things so they won't keep cheating us with impunity
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Dan Price
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Mar 5
As a small business owner, you know what would really help me compete with big chains? *Have them pay taxes like I do *Enact universal health care so our benefits are on equal footing *Send them to jail when they do illegal things so they won't keep cheating us with impunity
Like Campbell, much of my own family comes from the rural working class, many espousing prejudices my father, a Presbyterian minister, regularly condemned from the pulpit. Through a combination of luck and scholarships to elite schools, I got out. They never did. My grandfather, intellectually gifted, was forced to drop out of high school his senior year when his sister’s husband died. He had to work the farm to feed her children. If you are poor in America, you rarely get more than one chance. And many do not get one. He lost his.
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Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
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Old Man Jingles
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I may have to read what Chris Hedges has to say this time!Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
This is what I posted on Facebook a couple days ago:
Old Man Jingles
Rat out of a cage
no he was talking about some civil rights guy
chris hedges has alot of conservative positions about following the rule of law, no nsa spying, right to trial, etc. he has a whole book called death of the liberal class, he wrote it 10 years ago how they are sellouts. hes my favorite because he got me from doing nothing to doing something. but hes a very dark guy.
china has srong govt interventions but also decentralized for entrepreneurs. they have 4 of the top 10 high tech companies in the world, this transformation was done starting in 2010. he attributes china to getting hte world out of the 2008 crisis. china did not practice austerity they borrowed more. he says they retain many of their socialist ideals like for example wanting to eliminate poverty by 2022 or wanting to have a fully socialist sustainable economy by 2050 i believe was the year he said which is of course way too late.
this is a good interview i watched this whole series. i think he said every generatoin needs to update the myth and thats where the matrix came in. they will probably try it again with the new movie coming out this year.
Olayemi Olurin
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I really hate the “no person who works a full time job should live in poverty” discourse because it should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We gotta let go of this idea that we work in exchange for worth. People are innately worthy + deserving of the basics
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I really hate the “no person who works a full time job should live in poverty” discourse because it should simply be that nobody deserves to live in poverty. We gotta let go of this idea that we work in exchange for worth. People are innately worthy + deserving of the basics
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