Jacob the Jacobin🌹🕊️🏳️‍🌈

@Npars01 @marcan these billionaires are simply trying to preserve hypercapitalism by destroying our atmosphere and our food for profits and using the funds to support a fascist political project to prevent the proletariat from waging class war.

Like 22 May 2023 at 14:54 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tech.lgbt

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Piousunyn

@jacobrogers256 @Npars01 @marcan

Fascism requires compliance, MAGA worshipping seems a start. Apathy and ignorance are part of the wholesale disregard for the world and society.

22 May 2023 at 15:07 | Open on universeodon.com

Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Fascism requires societal norms that promote:
1. Short term thinking
2. Information bubbles
3. Big Lie propaganda
4. Selfishness
5. Disregard for the common good
6. Privatization of public assets like enclosure acts, public lands, national resources
7. High cost of living so people are too busy surviving to get involved in public policy or voting
8. Sociopathy & anti-social conduct
9. Scapegoating a minority
10. Eroded institutions like education

22 May 2023 at 15:18 | Open on mstdn.social

Jacob the Jacobin🌹🕊️🏳️‍🌈

@Npars01 @Piousunyn @marcan fascism is the ultimate result of late capitalism.

22 May 2023 at 15:20 | Open on tech.lgbt

Nicole Parsons

@jacobrogers256 @Piousunyn @marcan

The last time the rich had accumulated this much wealth, it took two world wars to wrest control from Gilded Age robber barons & their allies in a fading aristocracy.

The globe couldn't withstand a nuclear version of that past solution.

Reforms are still possible if people vote for the right candidates. Vet thoroughly before supporting anyone.

There's a lot of shams like Kyrsten Sinema and Tricia Cotham.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168246535/north-carolina-democrats-republicans-tricia-cotham-abortion-vote

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/magazine/kyrsten-sinema-independent.html

@jacobrogers256 @Piousunyn @marcan

The last time the rich had accumulated this much wealth, it took two world wars to wrest control from Gilded Age robber barons & their allies in a fading aristocracy.

The globe couldn't withstand a nuclear version of that past solution.

Reforms are still possible if people vote for the right candidates. Vet thoroughly before supporting anyone.

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22 May 2023 at 15:29 | Open on mstdn.social

Piousunyn

@Npars01 enima an@jacobrogers256@tech.lgbt @marcan

Vetting politicians is almost an impossible task. Santos for example part of the whole Republican iceberg, Sinema and Manchin tips of the Democrat Party. Iceberg?

Damn, apathy must be pleasant

22 May 2023 at 15:38 | Open on universeodon.com

Piousunyn

@Npars01 @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Sorry, I refuse to pay for NYT anything, amusing when I can read Fox for free?

22 May 2023 at 15:44 | Open on universeodon.com

Jacob the Jacobin🌹🕊️🏳️‍🌈

@Piousunyn @Npars01 @marcan use archive.is

22 May 2023 at 15:44 | Open on tech.lgbt

Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Get a public library card.

Most paywalled material is available for free via your public library.

Mine uses PressReader to view NYT.

Now you know why Republicans and Tories defund public libraries.

Systems of exploitation require information asymmetry. ie where the rich know and no one else does. Information is deliberately withheld to strengthen the 1%.

Know the enemy.

22 May 2023 at 15:51 | Open on mstdn.social

Piousunyn

@Npars01 @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Will check it out, thanks again. Have not been to the library in years.

22 May 2023 at 15:54 | Open on universeodon.com

Nicole Parsons

@Piousunyn @jacobrogers256 @marcan

Don't need to go to a library in person. Usually.

You can obtain a library card by phone, internet, job, or school.

22 May 2023 at 15:56 | Open on mstdn.social