#feudalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state has performed one execution in that period.
#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital
#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
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Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state has performed one execution in that period.
#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital
#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy -
Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state has performed one execution in that period.
#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital
#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy -
Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state has performed one execution in that period.
#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital
#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy -
Since the start of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
The state has performed one execution in that period.
#carceralState #prisons #financialNews #legalNews #societyImprisoned #usApartheid #feudalism #nationalSocialism #plutocracy #Law #CriminalJustice #Prison #Justice #Redistribution #capitalPunishment #punishmentByCapital
#Georgia Is Spending More on Lethal Injections, For Profits Not #Justice, Shifting Public Savings To Privatesector, Parasitic Investors
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-lethal-injections-costs-secrecy -
Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgiaReport: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html -
Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgiaReport: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html -
Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgiaReport: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html -
Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgiaReport: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html -
Red States are in general the ones hardest hit both by "austerity" measures, and outright #plunder like these parasitic tariff scams.
#redistribution #plutocracy #feudalism #economics #financialNews #georgiaReport: Republican Tariffs cost #Georgians $4,771 per household
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/article_d0753d70-e0fc-48f0-b36f-789c0f2a912a.html -
#FOSS governance is digital #feudalism - coders as gatekeepers, projects organised around personal authority.
The lesson from history is simple, never trust a king, even a well-meaning one.
The #meta problem is that we keep repeating old power patterns inside new technology. The libertarian “just fork it” answer feels increasingly pointless in this stage of the mess. We need better collective governance, not just more individual exit routes.
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"WeLib describes itself as an “endless library” founded on the principle that “education and literature belong to everyone.” The publishers, however, clearly don’t agree with the library framing, noting libraries can be trusted; pirate sites not.
“Libraries are trusted institutions that serve the communities that fund them by lending books and other publications they have lawfully acquired. Using this label for WeLib explicitly misleads the public and allows WeLib to hijack the goodwill that libraries enjoy and have legitimately earned.”
“WeLib is no more than a pirate website that reproduces and distributes works of authorship owned by others to users for a profit, without authorization from or compensation to the copyright owners,” the complaint adds.
The complaint notes that WeLib’s operators made efforts to keep their identities hidden. However, the site itself quickly became a go-to portal for many book pirates.
The complaint notes that, by WeLib’s own account, its collection includes 43 million books and 98 million articles. The site reportedly has over 80,000 active monthly users who accessed more than 51.7 million books and downloaded 14.5 million files last month."
https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/
#AnnasArchive #Copyright #IP #Piracy #Monopolies #Rentism #Feudalism
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“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…
Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…
“Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt…
If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.
A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.
On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.
A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.
That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.
His name was Wat Tyler…
[Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]
… Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.
The revolt failed.
But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.
The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.
Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.
Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.
There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.
History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…
(Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”
* “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network
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As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.
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Capitalism is the same as Neo-feudalism. Billionaires have absolute control over nations like the United States. Billionaires are just as powerful as monarchs.
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Why Capitalism is Dead and Its Heir is Neo-feudalism
https://medium.com/coping-with-capitalism/why-capitalism-is-dead-and-its-heir-is-neo-feudalism-56c6250b0e38 -
Neo-feudalism is what killed capitalism. You as the worker barely have any power in the corporate world. Employers can abuse the shit out of you. Without labor unions, corporations have too much power over you.
#neofeudalism
#technofeudalism
#feudalism
#workerrights
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SACR and its members harp on the idea that America is in a fatal stage of rot, and that they are an oppressed people waiting to rise up on behalf of a silent majority.
The SACR website speaks to the deeply held grievance and sense of a lack of masculine purpose which animates the group.
SACR exists, the website says, because “a man is no longer encouraged to fly to the stars,”
because “those who rule today spit on such ambitions;
they corrupt the sinews of America.”“They have alienated men from family, community, and God.
We counter and conquer this poison, rebuilding a society where a man can find genuine fulfilment,
true to his nature and calling,
rejoicing in virtue and vitality,” the website says,
before offering a Google docs link where men can apply.At the end of the day, SACR’s members are not oppressed.
Claremont is free to publish whatever it likes
— it’s widely seen as tremendously influential on the right generally and in MAGA circles specifically.SACR chapters can meet; Haywood can blog
— in fact, on Tuesday he wrote an encomium to The Camp of the Saints, a 1970s French novel in which a horde of Indian immigrants overwhelms, degrades, and exterminates the white West.“The goal of the Left was always total expropriation of white people and then, if at all possible, their extermination,
a goal made explicit by many powerful people in 2020,” Haywood wrote.“How, given this history, should white Americans respond?”
SACR may be his answer.
In emails from November 2020, Yenor wrote to Skyler Kressin, the head of the SACR chapter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and on the group’s national board.
Yenor sent a screenshot of an Amazon link to
“The Super Afrikaners,”
a 1979 nonfiction account of the #Afrikaner #Broederbond,
a semi-secret society which ruled South Africa under apartheid.“That good?” Yenor titled the subject line, highlighting the book — long out of print — and its $95.62 price.
“That’s the one,” Kressin replied.
South Africa, with its visions of white settlers driven away from status and wealth, appear consistently in Haywood’s writings, and in Fischer’s as well.
The Broederbond, an Afrikaner-only, Calvinist-only group of elites which functioned as a series of hundreds of independent “cells” across the country, offers an eerie reflection of SACR’s structure.
Williams told TPM that the Afrikaner Broederbond came up in conversations over what SACR would be, but denied that it served as a model for the group.
The grievance, perceived loss of status, and lack of metaphysical meaning that these men feel are very real, to them.
But there’s enough in America’s own history to understand the aims and tradition in which SACR is operating.
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Perhaps the most startling element of SACR is one of its long-term objectives.
Per the mission statement obtained by TPM, SACR aims to have its members form the government of an “aligned future regime.”
“They would be next generation
—not founding participants, but those who joined as the project of civic renewal grows deep roots,” the document reads.“That is, men who ‘grow up in the system.’”
Other goals include providing “preferential treatment for members, especially in business,”
and to both “coordinate allied fraternal networks”
and “defend fraternal networks … against attacks by those opposed to civic renewal, and strongly deter such attacks.”In Yenor’s Boise chapter, SACR members attempted to craft a “#Statement on #Marriage” in which local church leaders would proclaim an “intentional effort to celebrate the benefits of family life” because the “culture is hostile to Christian marriage.”
To do that, the group would “promote marriage publicly through a pro-marriage sticker” to be spread around the Boise region.
The same group held events with speakers, including writer and policy researcher #Aaron #Renn.
At one point, emails show, Yenor pitched an Idaho news website to Claremont funders called Action Idaho, saying that SACR would take care of back-end work for the venture.
Other public remarks from members point towards the group’s activities.
After The Guardian published its initial story on the group over the summer, a small controversy erupted among evangelicals who regarded Haywood’s views as dangerous and the prospect of a certain strain of Christianity taking control of the government as troubling.
Fischer hit back in a podcast appearance, describing SACR as a “big-tent thing where men get together.”
“So the local chapters or lodges will have a meeting and maybe 15 guys get together and a speaker comes in and talks about something political, sometimes it’s a political candidate or whatever.
And then we learn and sometimes we just hang out,” he said.“There’s no sort of great #secrecy associated with it. There’s a little degree of #confidentiality because there’s guys there who are at companies where even being associated with a group that is all men would be seen as suspicious.”
#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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If you make it in, you’re asked to pay regular dues and appear at meetings once a month.
Chapter members’ names are hidden, as are “national or Chapter initiatives.”
Fischer posted a copy of a mission statement and objectives already previously obtained by TPM on Twitter Thursday evening.
The group has public and non-public descriptions of its purpose and goals.
In an “internal” version of the mission statement, SACR says “we are un-hyphenated Americans and we believe in a particular Christianity that is not blurred by modernist philosophies.”
“We are willing to act decisively to secure permanently, as much as anything is permanent, the political and social dominance of that ideal,” the document says.
#faithfulness #virtue #alignment #influence #capability #entrepreneurship #lawfare #cybersecurity #wealth #Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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A “SACR Membership Criteria & Recruiting Guide” obtained via TPM’s public records requests shows questions that the group puts to prospective members.
🔸What are your thoughts on the Republican Party?
🔸What are your thoughts on “Christian Nationalism”?
🔸Comment on the Trump presidency and what it entails for the future.
🔸Describe the dynamic of your household in terms of your role and that of your wife.
🔸Describe your church community and your and your family’s involvement there
Other criteria for membership include #faithfulness (“adherence to traditional Christian sexual ethics”),
#virtue (“restraint and self-denial; household management; leadership and orderliness”),
and #alignment, defined as: “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and an acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.”Finally, members are asked to possess one of these three qualities:
#influence,
#capability (“any skill conducive to the technical work of productive #entrepreneurship;
#lawfare;
#cybersecurity”),
or #wealth.#Trinitarian #Christianity #Women #cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
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Who is excluded, in some sense, reveals more about SACR than who is allowed in.
The group bans anyone who is not Christian:
Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and others.But it goes further than that and bars “non-trinitarian” Christians;
Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and others cannot be SACR members.Williams said that the religious exclusivity came from the “long and robust tradition of the intersection between #Trinitarian #Christianity in a broad sort of ecumenical sense and American civic leadership and statesmanship.”
“Too much ecumenism is sometimes counterproductive in these sorts of ventures,” he added.
“Which is not to say that we don’t of course have nothing but toleration in the great American tradition for all faiths as long as they’re genuinely
— as long as they are not hostile to American principles and notions of natural rights and constitutionalism.”#Women are not allowed in SACR, whatever their faith.
The group emphasizes a traditional role for the man in the household, a robust and muscular exercise of temporal authority by men, and the forceful application of male dominion in civic affairs.
Yenor, the Boise State professor, told TPM in a text that the group’s exclusivity was a way “to bring men together for real community and fraternity,” allowing members to “build each other up and encourage responsibility” in public and private life.
#cold #civil #war #Charles #Haywood #feudalism #armed #patronage #Williams #Beck #Americanized #assimilated #mission #statement #prayers #Scott #Yenor #mini #state #Christian #men #patriarchal #force #authority #democracy #sacker #SACR #Christian #traditionalist #white #financial #politics #Claremont #Institute #Harvard #Law #theocracy #alignment #deference #patriarchal #leadership #Natural #Law
