#capitalists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #capitalists, aggregated by home.social.
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"Students boo the commencement speaker who called #Ai 'the next industrial revolution'"
She is 100% right.
What the #hoipolloi don't get is that #Ai *IS* the next industrial revolution.Just like in the past, the working class got destroyed by the #capitalists destroying their labour with machines...
... So now capitalists are destroying "the elites", the intellectuals with AiSo much for class #solidarity
But on the other hand the last industrial revolution brought us #socialism and #communism, so there is hope.
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#capitalists #HedgeFunds #bankers #MeToo
"David Einhorn wants ladies in ‘sexy party clothes’ at his hedge fund party
Billionaire David Einhorn is throwing a party in New York this weekend to celebrate Greenlight Capital’s 30th anniversary.
If you squint, the invitation looks banal. Predictable theme ('Vegas Nightclub'), less predictable location ('Brooklyn'). But then comes the fine print. The dress code, just for 'the ladies', is more exacting: 'sexy party clothes'.
Yes, that’s right, Einhorn is openly telling women they better look hot or else to celebrate his hedge fund. You might think this is the invite for some frat party, instead of a multibillion-dollar money manager. You’d be wrong.
Meanwhile men get a free pass.
(. . .)
We had a hunch the #MeToo era that smacked Wall Street in the face nearly a decade ago had already been subsumed by cobwebs, forgotten to the winds of pre-Maga times. Maybe you remember this lovely quote that went viral from main FT last year, not long after Trump took office:
"Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at 'woke doctrine' and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.
'I feel liberated, said a top banker. 'We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”
https://www.ft.com/content/3a19252d-ea24-4027-ae1d-3f2c982340cıo
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#capitalists #HedgeFunds #bankers #MeToo
"David Einhorn wants ladies in ‘sexy party clothes’ at his hedge fund party
Billionaire David Einhorn is throwing a party in New York this weekend to celebrate Greenlight Capital’s 30th anniversary.
If you squint, the invitation looks banal. Predictable theme ('Vegas Nightclub'), less predictable location ('Brooklyn'). But then comes the fine print. The dress code, just for 'the ladies', is more exacting: 'sexy party clothes'.
Yes, that’s right, Einhorn is openly telling women they better look hot or else to celebrate his hedge fund. You might think this is the invite for some frat party, instead of a multibillion-dollar money manager. You’d be wrong.
Meanwhile men get a free pass.
(. . .)
We had a hunch the #MeToo era that smacked Wall Street in the face nearly a decade ago had already been subsumed by cobwebs, forgotten to the winds of pre-Maga times. Maybe you remember this lovely quote that went viral from main FT last year, not long after Trump took office:
"Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at 'woke doctrine' and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.
'I feel liberated, said a top banker. 'We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”
https://www.ft.com/content/3a19252d-ea24-4027-ae1d-3f2c982340cıo
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#capitalists #HedgeFunds #bankers #MeToo
"David Einhorn wants ladies in ‘sexy party clothes’ at his hedge fund party
Billionaire David Einhorn is throwing a party in New York this weekend to celebrate Greenlight Capital’s 30th anniversary.
If you squint, the invitation looks banal. Predictable theme ('Vegas Nightclub'), less predictable location ('Brooklyn'). But then comes the fine print. The dress code, just for 'the ladies', is more exacting: 'sexy party clothes'.
Yes, that’s right, Einhorn is openly telling women they better look hot or else to celebrate his hedge fund. You might think this is the invite for some frat party, instead of a multibillion-dollar money manager. You’d be wrong.
Meanwhile men get a free pass.
(. . .)
We had a hunch the #MeToo era that smacked Wall Street in the face nearly a decade ago had already been subsumed by cobwebs, forgotten to the winds of pre-Maga times. Maybe you remember this lovely quote that went viral from main FT last year, not long after Trump took office:
"Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at 'woke doctrine' and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.
'I feel liberated, said a top banker. 'We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”
https://www.ft.com/content/3a19252d-ea24-4027-ae1d-3f2c982340cıo
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#capitalists #HedgeFunds #bankers #MeToo
"David Einhorn wants ladies in ‘sexy party clothes’ at his hedge fund party
Billionaire David Einhorn is throwing a party in New York this weekend to celebrate Greenlight Capital’s 30th anniversary.
If you squint, the invitation looks banal. Predictable theme ('Vegas Nightclub'), less predictable location ('Brooklyn'). But then comes the fine print. The dress code, just for 'the ladies', is more exacting: 'sexy party clothes'.
Yes, that’s right, Einhorn is openly telling women they better look hot or else to celebrate his hedge fund. You might think this is the invite for some frat party, instead of a multibillion-dollar money manager. You’d be wrong.
Meanwhile men get a free pass.
(. . .)
We had a hunch the #MeToo era that smacked Wall Street in the face nearly a decade ago had already been subsumed by cobwebs, forgotten to the winds of pre-Maga times. Maybe you remember this lovely quote that went viral from main FT last year, not long after Trump took office:
"Even the way people on Wall Street talk and interact is changing. Bankers and financiers say Trump’s victory has emboldened those who chafed at 'woke doctrine' and felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people.
'I feel liberated, said a top banker. 'We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.'”
https://www.ft.com/content/3a19252d-ea24-4027-ae1d-3f2c982340cıo
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[Read thread above first]
While I understand the motivation behind this -- the world actually has become more dangerous -- I think it is an extremely dangerous idea which will lead to catastrophic arms races and thus to war.
#Capitalists have been able to profiteer from war for a long time. The threat of war makes it easy to extract revenue from taxpayers. By securitising defence budgets, this proposal will incentivise arms companies to foment international conflict.
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A #subsidy is undeserved merit. It's free money. We give a boatload of free money to #fake #capitalists unwilling to work for real and #arms #dealers every day. And the United States has become the number one #terrorist #organization in the world. Stand up or die ugly. #MissKitty doesn't lose.
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she is right it's about making #capitalism work for everyone, #ungleichheit #inequality #tax of #worker in #germany is 43% and tax for #millionaire #rich is 24% it is always the same... the #capitalists (in #Germany the #neoliberal party is the #yellow #fdp) lacking foresight #economy goes to shit, everyone complains, no one but me has solutions X-D #marlene die letzte stimme der #vernunft in #deutschland
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she is right it's about making #capitalism work for everyone, #ungleichheit #inequality #tax of #worker in #germany is 43% and tax for #millionaire #rich is 24% it is always the same... the #capitalists (in #Germany the #neoliberal party is the #yellow #fdp) lacking foresight #economy goes to shit, everyone complains, no one but me has solutions X-D #marlene die letzte stimme der #vernunft in #deutschland
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she is right it's about making #capitalism work for everyone, #ungleichheit #inequality #tax of #worker in #germany is 43% and tax for #millionaire #rich is 24% it is always the same... the #capitalists (in #Germany the #neoliberal party is the #yellow #fdp) lacking foresight #economy goes to shit, everyone complains, no one but me has solutions X-D #marlene die letzte stimme der #vernunft in #deutschland
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I recently binge-watched the latest season of A&E's "HOARDERS" on Netflix. Sadly, I've known six hoarders as close friends during my lifetime, and perhaps more. It's a pernicious mental illness, highly acerbated by our consumerist culture. #A&E #hoarders #hoarding #hoarder #consume #consumeristculture #Capitalism #capitalist #capitalists #endcapitalism #trash #treasure #trashortreasure #onemanstrash #junk #junkcollector #junkcollectors #saving #crowded #overcrowded #overcrowding #stuff
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www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/suicidal-b... "Rather than investing in their own #population, they #work to keep their own population #poor and #needy so that out-of-state #capitalists might want to come and build a #factory where they can #employ them cheaply and without a #union " #democracy #elections
Suicidal Bootlicking as a Meth... -
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/suicidal-bootlicking-as-a-method
"Rather than investing in their own #population, they #work to keep their own population #poor and #needy so that out-of-state #capitalists might want to come and build a #factory where they can #employ them cheaply and without a #union "
Can be observed globally! Which is why we need #global #solidarity against the #exploiters and #oppressors.
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#cnn #cnn10 #basura #trash #propaganda #brainwash #bias #capitalists #elonmusk #corruption #liberalsaresellouts #MSM not worth the mouth it comes out of. Not worth being printed on toilet paper. Not worth sharing. #evil
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I always thought that #JRRTolkien's #Smaug was a metaphor for the #IndustrialAge and #WealthHoarding. It seems I'm not alone! #Tolkien was actually an #environmentalist and possibly a #socialist (though he describes himself as an #anarchist). Does that mean #LOTR will be banned by #Fascistic #Capitalists? Hmmmm...
#Dragonomics: Smaug and #ClimateChange
Posted on February 22, 2019 by Richard Fahey
Excerpt: "Today, we talk about dragons. I refer specifically to the greedy, northern (often fire-breathing) variety as described in Beowulf and featured in Tolkien’s #Hobbit, and I will consider how these monsters present #EnvironmentalCatastrophe as a direct result of #hoarding and #greed.
"My discussion of dragons and climate change continues my recent series of blogs interested in placing medieval literature (and in this case also modern medievalism) in conversation with current crises. This blog develops an earlier argument made in a paper at a 'Tolkien in Vermont' conference (2014), titled 'Dragonomics: Smaug and #Pollution on Middle-Earth,' in which I argue that pollution in Tolkien’s Hobbit is linked to both the literal destruction by the dragon, and the rampant greed that motivates Smaug and ultimately initiates the plunder and violence at the Battle of Five Armies."
#MiddleEarth #Capitalism #ClimateCrisis #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CapitalismMustDie
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Essay - How the climate conversation went punk
From #SlowFashion to #GuerrillaGardening, the internet has transformed solarpunk, a literary movement, into an alternative lifestyle trend.
Written by Sonal Gupta
Mumbai | Updated: November 20, 2025Excerpt: "In 2020, #SolarPunkFarms cropped up in California as a #communal living space whose inhabitants grow and share their own food. The leftovers are sent to local markets. They have designed their #greenhouse after the animations of #HayaoMiyazaki. In fact, the works of the #StudioGhibli founder have found resonance among solarpunks, as he places nature as a character in his plots. In his visions, nature is at its most beautiful—lush greenery, rays of light, the dew on leaves, and the wind blowing life into trees.
"Though these changes are encouraging, it’s ironic that as we move past dystopian visions, the #capitalists of the world, running in the #AI race, threaten to steer us to the very future. The use of AI itself depletes water resources and generates immense amounts of greenhouse gases and electronic waste. If we are to live in a world where technology exists in harmony with #nature, #activists, stakeholders, and individuals must actively call for more #SustainableSolutions, #AffirmativeAction, and policy changes.
"If cyberpunk warned us of what happens when technology consumes humanity, solarpunk invites us to imagine what is possible when humanity reclaims technology. It reminds us that hope, like sunlight, is a renewable resource too."
Read more:
https://indianexpress.com/article/fresh-take/what-is-solarpunk-climate-change-10334376/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/8loNL#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #HopePunk #DeGrowth #DeCapitalize #RightToRepair #NatureRocks #AISucks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow #GrowYourOwnFood #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation
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Essay - How the climate conversation went punk
From #SlowFashion to #GuerrillaGardening, the internet has transformed solarpunk, a literary movement, into an alternative lifestyle trend.
Written by Sonal Gupta
Mumbai | Updated: November 20, 2025Excerpt: "In 2020, #SolarPunkFarms cropped up in California as a #communal living space whose inhabitants grow and share their own food. The leftovers are sent to local markets. They have designed their #greenhouse after the animations of #HayaoMiyazaki. In fact, the works of the #StudioGhibli founder have found resonance among solarpunks, as he places nature as a character in his plots. In his visions, nature is at its most beautiful—lush greenery, rays of light, the dew on leaves, and the wind blowing life into trees.
"Though these changes are encouraging, it’s ironic that as we move past dystopian visions, the #capitalists of the world, running in the #AI race, threaten to steer us to the very future. The use of AI itself depletes water resources and generates immense amounts of greenhouse gases and electronic waste. If we are to live in a world where technology exists in harmony with #nature, #activists, stakeholders, and individuals must actively call for more #SustainableSolutions, #AffirmativeAction, and policy changes.
"If cyberpunk warned us of what happens when technology consumes humanity, solarpunk invites us to imagine what is possible when humanity reclaims technology. It reminds us that hope, like sunlight, is a renewable resource too."
Read more:
https://indianexpress.com/article/fresh-take/what-is-solarpunk-climate-change-10334376/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/8loNL#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #HopePunk #DeGrowth #DeCapitalize #RightToRepair #NatureRocks #AISucks #ClimateChange #RenewablesNow #GrowYourOwnFood #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWorld #ClimateAdaptation
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If a #worker ask for a #salary rise of around 5-10%, usually the answer by the #capitalists is: we can't afford it, it will be a disaster for the economy.
The richest man in the world, that managed to make an important company literally burn billions, asks for an extra #Trillion of dollars and the #shareholders of the company agrees to it.But again, the problem is the working class trying to just earn enough to survive.....
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Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors
New cases seeking compensation for loss and damage have been launched against fossil fuel and cement companies in the U.K. and Germany on behalf of people in the Philippines and Pakistan who suffered through devastating typhoons and floods…
#ClimateDestruction #Capitalists #LegalAction #ClimateJustice #GlobalSouth #GlobalNorth #CarbonMajors #EU #Phillipines #Pakistan
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@dangillmor I have gone one stage further by never having subscribed to Prime in the first place!
I haven't used Amazon for years on account of how they treat their employees and "sub-contractors".
If stuff is cheap is cheap then it means that people in the supply chain are earning (much) less than you are
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#colonizing #capitalists, much like the alleged 'cain', are simply angry that they didnt take the time to do something nice, cos they were too focused on bossing us around, so they ending up making a sand turd instead of a sandcastle, then got further pissed cos they had loudly bragged "best castle on the beach" and we saw it and laughed...so now we must all pay by having our real and shared efforts destroyed..and in favour of the bullys feelings2?
fckn revenge masked as grief.
ha, nah. pass. -
#colonizing #capitalists, much like the alleged 'cain', are simply angry that they didnt take the time to do something nice, cos they were too focused on bossing us around, so they ending up making a sand turd instead of a sandcastle, then got further pissed cos they had loudly bragged "best castle on the beach" and we saw it and laughed...so now we must all pay by having our real and shared efforts destroyed..and in favour of the bullys feelings2?
fckn revenge masked as grief.
ha, nah. pass. -
#colonizing #capitalists, much like the alleged 'cain', are simply angry that they didnt take the time to do something nice, cos they were too focused on bossing us around, so they ending up making a sand turd instead of a sandcastle, then got further pissed cos they had loudly bragged "best castle on the beach" and we saw it and laughed...so now we must all pay by having our real and shared efforts destroyed..and in favour of the bullys feelings2?
fckn revenge masked as grief.
ha, nah. pass. -
#colonizing #capitalists, much like the alleged 'cain', are simply angry that they didnt take the time to do something nice, cos they were too focused on bossing us around, so they ending up making a sand turd instead of a sandcastle, then got further pissed cos they had loudly bragged "best castle on the beach" and we saw it and laughed...so now we must all pay by having our real and shared efforts destroyed..and in favour of the bullys feelings2?
fckn revenge masked as grief.
ha, nah. pass. -
From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
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From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
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From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
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From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
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From 2019: On #WillemVanSpronsen’s Action against the #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #TacomaWashington
Including the Full Text of His Final Statement
2019-07-14
Excerpt: "On July 13, Willem Van Spronsen was killed by police while apparently taking action to disable the fleet of buses that serve the Northwest Detention Center, a private immigration detainment facility. His final statement, reproduced below, conveys that he was acting in response to the continuous raids and deportations carried out by Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE). His action occurred on the one-year anniversary of a hunger strike inside the Northwest Detention Center and an encampment outside. You can read a list of other acts of resistance that have occurred inside the Northwest Detention Center here.
"We understand why Willem Van Spronsen decided to give his life to interrupt the violence that is perpetrated against undocumented people in the United States every day.
"It is not hyperbole to say that the #ICERaids are targeting our friends and neighbors, people who have lived and worked alongside us for years or even decades. The vulnerability of long-term undocumented people as a hyper-exploitable class has helped billionaires like #DonaldTrump to profit even more than they could have by legal means. To put the icing on the cake, #capitalists then turn to the other workers they are exploiting and tell them that the poverty and misfortunes they experience are the fault of those who are poorer and more oppressed than them. It’s hard to imagine a more cynical strategy.
"The disparity in rights between the documented and undocumented is a construct—just as the disparity in value that the #Nazis constructed between Jewish people and gentiles was a construct. Both are mere inventions; they have no intrinsic existence except as a means for a powerful group to justify violence against a less powerful group. Those who justify obedience to the law as a good in itself stand alongside the Nazis whose laws condemned millions to the death camps, not to mention the racists who passed the #FugitiveSlaveAct and the #JimCrowLaws in the American South.
"Laws are just constructs. They have no value in and of themselves. They often serve to legitimize injustice that people would otherwise take action to oppose.
"The further that the proponents of racist violence are permitted to legitimize invented concepts like slavery and citizenship, the more violence they will perpetrate—up to and including roundups, concentration camps, and mass extermination. We have seen this before, in Nazi Germany and elsewhere, and we are seeing it again today in the United States. The thousands of deaths that take place in the borderlands and the thousands murdered by police are just a foretaste of what is possible."
#ResistICE #ICEKidnappings #ICESucks #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #TrumpSucks
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My favorite part is when @dkthomp.bsky.social is asked about critiques of #WealthConcentration he goes straight to "not all #corporations are bad." Dude: what about rapacious #capitalists hoarding wealth? Surely we can all agree that's bad!! @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @waleedshahid.bsky.social
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This is my home town of San Diego, California, where citizens confronted ICE on a restaurant raid.
https://imgur.com/gallery/san-diego-residents-confront-ice-after-they-raid-restaurant-qhpbqU6
#ice #fascists #nazis #whitesupremacy #racist #trump #republicans #conservatives #capitalists #sandiego #confront #standup #solidarity
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🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
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I watched #HowToBlowUpAPipeline the other day. My TV is against the east wall, and were it transparent, I'd be looking across at Canada largest #oilRefinery.
The characters in that movie could be me, or any number of people I know who have been affected or killed by environmental contamination by careless #capitalists.
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#Bourgeois #propaganda focusing on #capitalistic allies fighting #nazi #germany instead of #german #capitalists funding #hitler's #election / #american capitalists #profiting from nazi #government - #UK releasing nazi #collaborators to fight #Greek communists - US hiring nazi #war #criminals to fight communism
https://t.me/crapitalism/422 -
PRESSING THAT BUTTON
exploitation#exploitation #button #billionaires #capitalists #devaluing #humanlife #commonstruggle #ClassSolidarity
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@epistatacadam Absolutely! IMF and World Bank loans come with all sorts of strings attached, and cause countries to become indebted and have to sell off their natural resources to pay back those debts. There should be #IMFDebt #LoanForgiveness -- paid for by the interest rich #capitalists make!
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@epistatacadam Absolutely! IMF and World Bank loans come with all sorts of strings attached, and cause countries to become indebted and have to sell off their natural resources to pay back those debts. There should be #IMFDebt #LoanForgiveness -- paid for by the interest rich #capitalists make!
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@epistatacadam Absolutely! IMF and World Bank loans come with all sorts of strings attached, and cause countries to become indebted and have to sell off their natural resources to pay back those debts. There should be #IMFDebt #LoanForgiveness -- paid for by the interest rich #capitalists make!
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@epistatacadam Absolutely! IMF and World Bank loans come with all sorts of strings attached, and cause countries to become indebted and have to sell off their natural resources to pay back those debts. There should be #IMFDebt #LoanForgiveness -- paid for by the interest rich #capitalists make!
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@epistatacadam Absolutely! IMF and World Bank loans come with all sorts of strings attached, and cause countries to become indebted and have to sell off their natural resources to pay back those debts. There should be #IMFDebt #LoanForgiveness -- paid for by the interest rich #capitalists make!
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This is what capitalism does, poozers. Even when ya' build new housin', the super-rich just snatch 'em up an' leave 'em empty. The rich use 'em like off-the-books banks, or rent 'em out fer Air B&Bs.
We need actual housin' fer actual people. An' I love that Poison Ivy tackled this issue.
(Art sampled from "Poison Ivy" Vol. 1 #13. Edits: Altered Colors and Background.)
#capitalism #capitalists #eattherich #anticapitalist #leftism #socialism #communism #poisonivy #killercroc #dccomics #comics
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CW: Tiktok
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRvPSwwH/
#SocialSecurity #SS #Budget #FederalReserve #Congress #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory #Banks #Seniors #Audit #Corporations #WallStreet #GDP #Medicare #Elderly #Oldsters #WorkingClass #WeThePeople #Money #GOP #Republicans #Fed #Capitalists #FederalReserve #Politics #Priorities #Economy #Trillions #Clinton #Bush #Obama #ForeignBankers
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Pavlov's House - Black Blocs & Red Brigades ft Lee Reed (OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO)
Hamilton, Ontario & Bristol UK link up! @leereed from KKKanada joins Bobbi QELD & Charlie el Poeta on a track to get you hype for the next civil disturbance, whether your flag is black, red or both.
#empire #fascists #capitalists #abolition #blackblocs #redbrigades #pavlovshouse #blackflag #redflag #letsgo
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once again rich #capitalists treat #safety #regulations as a pesky way for the #government to take #money away from them and not as the literal #testament in #blood of all the #people that have #died or been #injured because of #unsafe #situations
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"you're just never going to have a realistic #analysis of #capitalist #food #production until you really process that #farm #owners are not the #working #class, the #people who #work on those farms are. this should be #evident in the term "#factory farm" drawing a straightforward #comparison with #factories (owned by #capitalists, #worked in by #workers), but many people still have this #idea that any opposition to these large #companies is inherently opposition to the #individual workers who are #exploited there.
when there are so many people who understand that criticizing #Amazon is not being against people who work in #warehouses, but believe that criticizing Cargill #Meat Solutions is harming poor workers, idk what to say except you are not immune to #propaganda"
https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/716772972739870720?source=share
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"you're just never going to have a realistic #analysis of #capitalist #food #production until you really process that #farm #owners are not the #working #class, the #people who #work on those farms are. this should be #evident in the term "#factory farm" drawing a straightforward #comparison with #factories (owned by #capitalists, #worked in by #workers), but many people still have this #idea that any opposition to these large #companies is inherently opposition to the #individual workers who are #exploited there.
when there are so many people who understand that criticizing #Amazon is not being against people who work in #warehouses, but believe that criticizing Cargill #Meat Solutions is harming poor workers, idk what to say except you are not immune to #propaganda"
https://www.tumblr.com/theconcealedweapon/716772972739870720?source=share
