A proletarian think tank founded in 2013. Commentary, analysis, and theory on social, political, and economic issues from a working-class perspective.
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Youtube suddenly deleted 15 years worth of on-the-ground video documentation of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. This is how they systematically erase people's history and replace it with the oppressors viewpoint.
After over 15 years of having a Youtube account, now, while Israel is genociding Palestinians, Youtube has suddenly closed my account completely.
This is not coincidental. I had many videos which I took in Gaza, under Israel's bombs in 2009 & 2012...
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These billionaires salivate at the thought of us all killing each other over culture wars while they watch from their luxury bunkers. They fear the thought of us collectively directing our anger towards them in a class war.
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One of the biggest misconceptions about capitalism is that it rewards intelligence. First & foremost, it rewards privilege (being born into wealth). Beyond that, it rewards ruthlessness, manipulation & anyone willing to exploit others. The working class is full of "smart" people.
It blows my mind ocassionally you’ll find one of the smartest people you’ve ever met working some dumb 80k a year job
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Capitalism is such an inefficient and wasteful system. So much so that roughly a third of the world's food is ultimately discarded before consumed. This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons a year. Meanwhile, billions of people struggle with food insecurity.
A tiktoker shared video of the amount of food being thrown out at a Walmart. Just an unfathomable volume of needless waste.
Community note
The video the op used is from November 2017 after tornado
The food was dangerous
“ Unfortunately, due to a tornado that affected our store in Celina, Ohio on November 5, the food being disposed of was unsafe to eat after the store lost power for 14 hours,”
globalnews.ca/news/3861732/w…
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Joe Biden started his political career as a segregationist.
He's ending his political career by carrying out a genocide.
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If humanity survives capitalism and the US empire, the US will be looked back on in the same ways Nazi Germany is now. People have a way of minimizing or turning a blind eye to the horrors that exist in the moment, but *people's history* doesn't lie.
Holy shit. Abbott has installed these circular saws in the Rio Grande. Migrants have already been caught and died in these “river walls” and this is clearly meant to hurt and kill more.
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We're intentionally miseducated to obscure this connection. Capital is global & relies on colonialism/imperialism to steal land/resources & open cheap labor markets for capitalists. It all comes full circle when the working class within the imperial core is abandoned/liquidated.
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The richest man on earth cosplaying as a hardworking servant of the people is the pinnacle of virtue signaling.
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You can't commodify every single aspect of living and then not understand looting as a legitimate form of protest. Looting is the ultimate strike against a system that deems mass-produced objects to be far more precious than life itself. It is humanity demanding to be recognized.
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A president with a net worth of $4.1 billion employing an education secretary with a net worth of $3.2 billion to confiscate wages and social security from poor and working-class people for education debt is the epitome of America.
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Slave systems (from chattel slavery to feudalism to capitalism) have evolved and even loosened in their structure, but they have also maintained similar psychosocial dynamics throughout these transitions. One of the most notable of these is the laborer being convinced that
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Liberals and conservatives are different flavors of capitalists. Conservatives are more honest about capitalism being a ruthless system of winners & losers, albeit with a dishonest avoidance of how privilege far outweighs merit in determining one's outcome. In contrast, liberals
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78% of people in the US are now living paycheck-to-paycheck, while the 400 richest people added another $500 billion to their $4.5 trillion net worth last year.
Capitalism is working as intended, and this will only get worse if we allow it to continue.
Community note
This data is from a survey by payroll.org, which uses the data for marketing purposes
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Higher-quality surveys by the Federal Reserve have found that the median US family has a net worth of $192,000 and 54% of families have enough cash to cover three months of expenses
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If you're wondering how Israeli propaganda can be so astoundingly bad, it's important to note that this is also how US propaganda looks to those outside the US. Both populations are fully immersed in lies & delusions of exceptionalism that are laughable & frightening to others.
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On this day in 1969, Panthers Fred Hampton & Mark Clark were murdered by Chicago police, who were carrying out a political assassination directed by the FBI.
Why? Because they sought liberation for the masses.
Never forget. Never forgive. Never stop fighting for liberation.
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In an ironic twist, Americans basically got played by their own racism, which Reagan exploited to push through a corporate coup for the capitalist class. It was the beginning of the end of the US.
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This person thinks capitalists work the machines. Lord almighty.
Capitalism's ultimate revenge will be when socialists seize the means of production only to realize none of them have ever worked a machine before since capitalism let them all get wealthy studying feminist poetry and working for a radicalist collective newsletter.
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29.3% of Americans voted for Trump.
28.6% voted for Harris.
42% voted for neither.
Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005.
Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. We know collapse has been inevitable for decades.
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As capitalism continues its slide into a more overt form of fascism, the rich must become more openly loyal to the corporate state in order to preserve their personal wealth and privilege. There is historical precedence for these types of cultural shifts.
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It's becoming clear that the dire situation for Palestinians is the likely future for the working-class masses worldwide. If you can't see this, then ask yourself why the capitalist ruling class has been responding to economic collapse with overpopulation rhetoric, cop cities &
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Overpopulation is a Malthusian myth. There are 7.7 billion people. 95% of us occupy only 10% of the land. We produce enough food to satisfy 10 billion people & can double that, in a more sustainable way. We have a profit & distribution problem (capitalism), not a people problem.
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Trump's second term will be a disaster for most of us. Just like Biden was. Just like Trump's first term was. Just like Obama was. Just like W. Bush was. Just like Clinton was....
The working class will not be saved by the ruling class.
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The next two lines to this quote are the most important, yet they're frequently left out:
"We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism."
"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with #solidarity."
— Fred Hampton
#BlackHistoryMonth
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-Cuba has offered to set up free medical clinics in the US.
- Venezuela has offered to provide free oil/gas to heat poor communities in the US.
The US government has declined every time.
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Everyone is broke. Credit/debt can't sustain forever when there's very little income to supplement it.
BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, first day traffic for Amazon Prime Day is down 41%, per Bloomberg.
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Disaffected boys of the former industrialized "middle classes" spent 2 decades on 4chan trying to figure out who to blame for their newfound struggles. The absence of material analysis combined with targeted propaganda campaigns led them to
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Fred Hampton & Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago PD & the FBI on this day in 1969. Chairman Fred was only 21 yrs old. He died a champion of the people, advocating international proletarian revolution, and was the ultimate threat to capitalism/imperialism & white supremacy.
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we *need* the owner. That, without the owner, we would have no direction, no purpose, and no way to survive. This mentality is drilled into us by ruling-class institutions and becomes so powerful that many of us actively sabotage our own freedom out of fear.
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The US uses armed agents of the state to violently evict an elderly citizen in her 70s. The woman becomes frantic, fights with the 40 yr old *lord of the property* & decides to shoot herself in the head to avoid homelessness &/or jail.
But it's Russia & China that are evil. 🤔
#BREAKING: A shooting in Northridge Friday morning was the result of an eviction dispute, police say. The suspect, a woman in her 70s, died by suicide. trib.al/qpIB0Df
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The US government will happily allow this public promotion of genocide, but that doesn't mean the people will. We shall see.
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This may seem like a joke, but it is perfectly consistent with a society that has allowed its rich to rob the masses. As people become more vengeful, more laws will be passed to classify the rich as a protected class. This is another aspect of capitalism's shift to overt fascism.
“New York state is considering creating a special hotline exclusively for CEOs to report perceived threats” kenklippenstein.com/p/new-cr…
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The purpose of deregulation is to privatize (profitize) every aspect of life. Capitalists want everything (land, shelter, food, education, healthcare, water) privatized so they can hoard it for profit. Leaving us to consume poison is of no concern to them in this pursuit.
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At the end of the day, the capitalist ruling class is unified by shared interests. Their children attend the same private schools, they live in the same gated communities, they vacation at the same luxury getaways, they have identical stock portfolios, etc. And we pay the price.
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"Blue states" are capitalist states. "Red states" are capitalist states. The US government is capitalist.
They ALL fail us because they serve capital/property, not people.
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believe capitalism can coexist with democracy & be tamed by government to create a more egalitarian society. Neither side is capable of meaningful analysis because they have embraced the narrow view that capitalism is the end of history. That's why emotion/reaction drives both.
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"Lazy" is a term capitalists use to describe anyone who (1) refuses to be exploited by them, or (2) refuses to join them in exploiting others.
It’s funny how ppl call Marx lazy and jobless. He was a fairly prolific journalist. He was in like every major publication of the time.
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The US is rapidly deteriorating because capitalism was thrown into overdrive in the 1970s/80s under the banner of neoliberalism. Massive deregulation ironically led to the formation of a full-fledged corporate state, which allowed capitalists to siphon trillions of dollars from
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The United States is imploding at a very fast rate. 1% of the country has stolen 90% of the wealth. Federal debt is higher than the GDP for the 8th consecutive year, an unprecedented phenomenon that is only growing. Safety nets have been gutted. Food stamps are being drastically
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What stage of capitalism is it when people are having prosthetic limbs repoed?
Insurers refusing to cover prosthetic limbs, and lenders repossessing prosthetic limbs for non-payment.
Again, it feels like we are approaching an endgame.
What it is or when it will be, I don’t know.
But it’s coming.
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The United States was founded by wealthy slaveowners. The Constitution/government was deliberately set up to protect the wealthy ruling minority from the toiling working majority. In 1913, Charles Beard told us about the financial interests that guided this new ruling class in
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Landlords don't even pay taxes on their own property. Their tenants do. Yet landlords get credit for these payments, benefit from write-offs & gain a lifetime worth of equity despite never paying a dime. Tenants surrender 50% of our income for a temporary roof over our heads.
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The top 10% has all the money. The bottom 90% does all the work. The US is a plantation.
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A 27-yr-old youtuber wearing million-dollar trunks just proclaimed it's "the era of good & truth" after beating a senior citizen in a quasi-scripted boxing spectacle while millions of us who are living paycheck-to-paycheck watched in amazement. Nothing feels real in 2024 America.
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The birthrate in the US has plummeted because the working class has been priced out of life, can't afford basic needs, and see no future beyond the next paycheck. This is another consequence of late-stage capitalism within a dying empire where the rich have looted the country.
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Capitalists have taken every pillar of a functioning society - health, education, homes, food, community, security, justice, etc - and turned them into ruthless profit schemes.
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We've been conditioned to believe the welfare state is a form of socialism when, in fact, it is a feature of capitalism.
When land and the means of production are placed in private hands for profit (as they are under capitalism), the masses are rendered landless and homeless..
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H/t to Fox News for showing how the socialist model is far superior to the capitalist model.
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If elected, Mamdani will be sabotaged at every angle by the pig class (billionaires, Wall St, landlords, business owners, NYPD) if the people don't remain heavily involved beyond the election. A large network of tenant/working-class task forces will need to flood all 5 boroughs.
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The US model has failed. It has created a ruthless, money-obsessed culture with little humanity left. If you're an American looking for hope, find it in other countries that are challenging this model. Keep fighting and understand that humanity can still prevail despite the US.
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Anti-communism in the US does not come from "free thinking."
It comes from the most extensive and long-lasting government propaganda/psychological operation in history.
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A majority of the working class is "broke" because that is what capitalism requires. Being "broke" is a *systemic* reality, not an individual failure. To say we must stop being human, stop loving, stop relationships, stop having children, etc. is a form of self-imposed eugenics.
If you’re broke and down bad , WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO DATE???? I be so confused . Like I really don’t get it? Your focus needs to be on getting your shit together.
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Cuba has been sending doctors all over the world for decades. They are highly trained, highly respected, and carry out genuine humanitarian missions. Rubio is attacking them because they proudly serve humanity and not money, which is a dangerous concept for the US ruling class.
Marco Rubio landed in Jamaica aiming to smear Cuban doctors providing crucial free healthcare across the region. But the Jamaican prime minister shut him down, making it clear he had no right to speak for Jamaica or undermine the work of the Cuban doctors.
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The point of US military occupations is to open markets for global capital, steal natural resources, create geopolitical positioning for global dominance, obstruct/destroy socialist movements (ie. self-determination), and boost arms industry profits...
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Capitalism breaks our spirit by forcing us to claw our way through life as commodities. It pits us against one another. It rips away our humanity. It destroys empathy. It destroys our sense of community. It destroys families. It orders us to chase that next paycheck AT ALL COSTS.
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Bernie is showing in real time how invaluable socdems are to fascism. Whether he means well or not, he is now working to redirect organic working-class rage back into the capitalist/imperialist/fascist Democrat Party FOR THE 3RD TIME IN 10 YEARS after enabling Biden & genocide.
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It has become increasingly clear that student debt was never meant to be paid off. It was intended to create a generation(s) of indentured servants whose entire lives and anything they ever attempt to own automatically become property of the capitalist state.
Over 42 million people have student loan debt.
ALT Headline: Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will 'crash the economy'
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Tate was murdered 2 yrs later. Evidence suggests her murder was tied to CIA's MKUltra & CHAOS, which paralleled FBI's COINTELPRO. All targeting black liberation movements & the Panthers, who were Marxist-Leninists influenced by Mao. Fred Hampton was murdered 4 months after Tate.
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If you're constantly left wondering why the worst possible people own/control all the wealth/power in the US, it's the same reason why the worst possible people are typically promoted in our workplaces: capitalism incentivizes/rewards the most despicable, anti-human attributes.
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Capitalism has always been the elephant in the room when it comes to mental illness. Living paycheck to paycheck causes anxiety. Not being able to see a doctor is stressful. Choosing between paying rent or having heat/electricity feels hopeless. Working multiple jobs and..
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X is not allowing people to follow @Pal_ActionUS, likely due to orders from the US and/or Israeli governments. We've attempted to follow them 4 times over the past 24 hours, only to be removed each time. Their following has gone from 10k+ to 1,700 as a result.
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As capitalism continues into its late, cannibalistic stages, we will see more attempts to redefine poverty & quality of life. Eventually, living in storage containers & surviving on noodles & beans with rationed water will be considered "stable." This is how immiseration works.
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Choosing between Job A ($8.50/hr), Job B (9.75/ hr) or Job C ($13/hr but 40 miles from home) when you need $22/hr to live.
Choosing between Apt A ($850/month), Apt B ($900/month) or Apt C ($1100/month) when all you can afford is $600/month.
Pro-capitalists call this "freedom."
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Artificial scarcity is a feature of capitalism. Empty houses surround homeless people, tons of food waste encircle hungry people & unused medical resources sit idle near dying people. A commodified world that "takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes"-MLK
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The people who cry "they're destroying their own communities!" really have no grasp of reality. The working majority has been systematically alienated from community. Nothing vested & nothing returned, except exploitation & oppression. That's what capitalism & white supremacy do.
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If socialism "doesn't work," why'd they have to murder Martin, Malcolm, Lumumba, Sankara, Allende, Che, Chairman Fred, and so many others? 🤔
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$15/hour was proposed over a decade ago. Too little, too late in 2021. Workers need $20 to $25 an hour now, depending on where we live. $25 doesn't even cut it in many places.
Until we can abolish capitalism & its exploitative wage system, we must demand *actual* living wages.
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"We’re gonna organize & dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power & fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution. That’s what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people."
- Fred Hampton
Born on this day 72 years ago.
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"THE UNPAID CARE WORK DONE BY WOMEN IS ESTIMATED $10.8 TRILLION A YEAR - THREE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE TECH INDUSTRY."
(Per Oxfam)
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Crazy to think WW3 could spark off because a reality star was secretly recorded having sex with a child, so he gained access to the most powerful empire in history to avoid being outed by his handlers, who wish to destroy the world to bring about the second coming of Christ.
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The realization that any potential US president, from Trump to Bernie Sanders, would be wholeheartedly supporting Israel's ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people should tell you all you need to know about the limits of bourgeois politics in the heart of a global empire.
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Capitalism is long past its expiration date. It's been nothing more than a pyramid scheme since the 1970s and is driving most of the world into destitution while attempting to birth trillionaires.
The richest 1% of people now own nearly 45% of all wealth, while 44% of humanity are living below the World Bank poverty line of $6.85 per day, per Oxfam.
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Capitalists are gouging us from every angle.
Auto insurance rates in the US have increased by 84% over the past 5 years. That's the biggest 5-year spike on record.
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The 2A is a beautiful thing when utilized by forces of good.
Community Defense in Lincoln Heights, Ohio. Make the Nazis and YT Supremacists afraid again. 🔴⚫️🟢
Community note
Important context needed: the actions in this video are in response to a gathering of armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags on Friday 2/7/25 in a nearby area.
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DailyKos raising $85,000 to send 25,000 roses to Nancy Pelosi (net worth $100 million) at Capitol Hill, which is only a few blocks away from actual homeless encampments, pretty much sums up liberalism and the Democratic Party.
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Periodic crashes are good for the rich. Bottoming out stocks, gutting the working class, destroying small biz/landlords & creating widespread foreclosures allows big capitalists to scoop everything up cheap. And the corporate state is there to protect/insure them in the process.
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> The planet's 2,640 billionaires are worth $12.2 trillion.
> Each day, between 7,750 and 15,345 people die from hunger and malnutrition.
These two things are related.
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Capitalism destroyed sports. Games are now corporate spectacles. Players are marketing brands. Tickets are unaffordable. Youth leagues are unaffordable. TV is unaffordable. As with all profit industries, working-class people have largely been phased out, both on & off the field.
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If the Communist Party of China took over the US tomorrow and immediately applied their laws, every member of Congress would likely be jailed or executed on bribery charges. Not surprisingly, this type of justice is what US politicians and US media refer to as "authoritarianism."
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Capitalism has been in decay for five decades, which means we are neck-deep in a transition to overt fascism. Both capitalist parties are on board with this. So, this election is actually one of the most *insignificant* ever because neither candidate will change this trajectory.
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Genocide is now comedy as the crowd bursts into laughter while thousands of toddlers have their limbs blown off.
SNL is a very liberal crowd btw.
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Capitalists don't believe in a common good. They don't believe in communities or even society. They believe in profit. This widespread degradation - from no housing & healthcare to inflation & neglected infrastructure - is the cost all of us are paying for their pursuit of profit
ALT Ben King @Grimeandreason What is happening at Boeing is happening in every industry. A general trend toward financialisation & hedge fund culture that sees only numbers, not peoples lives or wellbeing. It's just that aviation has a way of making the corruption impossible to hide. It's the dead canary.
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