#impoverishment — Public Fediverse posts
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There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financialsecurity #freedom #frugality #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
When she asked why she was being detained, an officer told her his supervisor had instructed him to hold her. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
#EU #TravelWarning #USA #EconomicAssault #Kidnapping #Bonuses #Travelers #Retirees #TravelIndustry #Impoverishment #Detention
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Corrosion Of Conformity - Nothing Left to Say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueaBhEuY4Is
You're living hand to hand
Isolated man, hard to understand
Nowhere else to hide#CorrosionOfConformity #NothingLeftToSay #SouthernRock #Music #Impoverishment #NoEscape #Isolation #Truth #Inaction #Pray
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Argentina: Mass protests against Milei's anti-labour laws
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/16/argentina-mass-protests-against-mileis-anti-labour-laws/
Hundreds of injuries reported as Senate approves strike restrictions, 12-hour working day…
#Argentina #Protests #AntiLabor #Laws #12HourWorkday #AntiStrike #AntiEmploymentBenefits #Slavery #Milei #Fascism #UnionBuster #PoliceState #BuenosAires #SeparationOfPowers #HumanRights #Unlivable #Brutality #Injuries #Repression #Pensions #Unemployment #Impoverishment #BillionaireProfits #Slavery #Trump
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There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financial security #freedom #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Helth is like munny, we never hav a true idea ov its value untill we lose it.
[Health is like money; we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1875-05 (1875 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/79960/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #health #illness #impoverishment #loss #money #poverty
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A quotation from Frederick Douglass
The American people have this lesson to learn: That where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1886-04-16), “Strong to Suffer, and Yet Strong to Strive,” Israel Bethel Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.More info about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #classism #economicinjustice #ignorance #impoverishment #injustice #nojusticenopeace #othering #poverty #racism #socialills #socialinjustice #socialunrest #society #unrest #classwarfare #unrest
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YACHT POLITICS
Zack Polanski knows#Immigration #Scapegoat #Impoverishment #OuplentClass #ClassWar #MoreYachts #CorruptGovernments #Yacht #Politics #ZackPolanski
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A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…
#Plutocracy #USA #NoLimits #Corruption #Bribery #Disenfranchise #99Percent #Billionaires #Control #ToxicEnvironment #Impoverishment #Gentrification #DeathPanels
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"Interest payments in the US are on a path to consume 30% of the federal government’s revenue by 2035, compared with 9% in 2021. But most important, this will also feed through to the interest charged on all borrowing by companies and household mortgages. If businesses can’t get access to credit, that can halt investment and lead to job losses over time. First-time buyers and those wishing to move home could also face higher costs"
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/donald-trumps-big-beautiful-tax-bill/ -
A quotation from Josh Billings
Confess yure sorrows, yure fears, yure hopes, yure love, and even yure deviltrys tew men, but don’t let them git a smell ov yure poverty—poverty haz no friends, not even among paupers.
[Confess your sorrows, your fears, your hopes, your love, and even your deviltries to men, but don’t let them get a smell of your poverty — poverty has no friends, not even among paupers.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/76728/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bias #candor #economicinjustice #honesty #impoverishment #poverty #prejudice #relationship #shame #transparency
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May Day Protests Erupt From Coast-to-Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEchx-XAcBg
Workers all across the country (and the world) stand united in the fight for fair and dignified work, where billionaires don’t exist and workers share in the wealth we help create.
#MayDay #Protests #USA #Workers #Dignity #Billionaires #Greed #Share #Wealth #Decline #Impoverishment #ClassWar
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On the plus side, more Americans are now #learning the fundamentals about how not to govern — especially how not to craft & impose economic #policies.
#civics #cautionaryLessons #silverLinings #policyFailure #impoverishment #plunder #dismantlement #disruption -
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - and humans are the reason
"Our activities have become a planet-shaping force, from changing the climate through our emissions to farming 44% of all habitable land. As our footprint has expanded, other species have been pushed to extinction."
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https://theconversation.com/invisible-losses-thousands-of-plant-species-are-missing-from-places-they-could-thrive-and-humans-are-the-reason-252378
#biodiversity #loss #destruction #ecosystems #impoverishment #flora #sprawl #roads #infrastructure #graziers #livestock #LoggingImpacts #pollution #DarkDiversity #extinction -
CLASS WAR
behind all the headlines#ClassWar #BoughtGovernment #Billionaires #Greed #Impoverishment #WorkingClass #Control #Musk #Bezos #Zuckerberg #You
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THRIVING AT 30%
collective punishment instead#ClassWar #CollectivePunishment #Thriving #Overworked #LaborTheft #Capitalism #Greed #Impoverishment #Power #Corruption
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"Israel is burning children alive" - Veteran Disrupts Congressional Hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJ8sMj2q3M
“Israel is burning children alive, and Congress is complicit!”
This morning, a 17-year veteran and intelligence officer disrupted the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to call out the billions its members send to fund genocide while veterans are left behind.#DomesticTerrorism #GovernmentTerrorism #AIPAC #WarCrimes #NoRepresentation #Israel #Impoverishment #Veterans #Genocide
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Look up "Banana Wars"
It highlights just one portion of centuries of #displacement, #subjugation & #impoverishment for families such as Sabi's
It shows how luxuries experienced in the US & Europe were & are at the expense of families in Central & South America
You may not directly cause hurt, but you benefit from it
Please Help #Homeless #Disabled #Indigenous #Latina Family
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Wage theft now outnumbers all other types of theft in the U.S., reaching $482 million
More than 100 times the amount stolen in robberies.
#WageTheft #ClassWar #GovernentComplicity #USA #Epidemic #Impoverishment #Fascism
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... GO ON ...
explain it#ClassWar #Impoverishment #Gaslighting #Capitalism #Suffering #Change
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The Great Capitalist Lie (Part Three)
https://beneaththepavement.substack.com/p/the-great-capitalist-lie-part-three-poverty
Hunger, crippling poverty, rising inequality — putting capitalist misery into concrete numbers. The evidence is clear: we live in a dystopian hellscape.
#capitalism #hellscape #domination #control #impoverishment #classwar #sociopaths
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State Crime.
https://radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.com/2023/09/state-crime.html
So here we are in Great Britain, a country that can afford to throw £millions into prolonging a blood bath in Ukraine but spouts no money to afford to eradicate child poverty at home… Again the dice is loaded against you if you come from a larger family. 42% of children living in families of 3 or more children are living in poverty. Of course we shouldn't forget, the adult poverty that lives along side this tsunami of child poverty…
#StateCrime #PovertyMaintained #CapitalismSupport #LaborCoercion #impoverishment #homelessness #weaponized #economicwar #ClassWar -
Global Poverty is Preventable Genocide
with Thomas Poggehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwRD74Ubtt4&ab_channel=MoneylessSociety
Is global poverty improving, or getting worse? In this episode we explore the true reality of the horror of deprivation and mass death from a lack of the basic necessities or generic drugs to cure medieval diseases-- from a lack of money.
Capitalist apologists claim poverty is decreasing, while the line is set at a measly $2 a day-- increase it by even 2 more and the number of people in extreme poverty explodes. 18 million people die every year, 20,000 CHILDREN every day, and 1 in 2 people lives on less than $5.50 a day.
To explore this topic we brought on one of if not THE greatest expert on global poverty, professor Thomas Pogge to counter the establishment narrative that everything is getting better, and work to eradicate poverty as we know it through systemic change.
#Poverty #Violence #Genocide #Preventable #Capitalism #Apologists #Reality #ThomasPogge #GlobalPoverty #Impoverishment #Expert -
AQUAMAN 2
the greatest depressionIn 1930, during the Great Depression, the average salary in the US was just under $5k. This is around $90k when adjusted for inflation. The average worker doesn't earn $90k. They earn less than half of that!
But, hey, at least we have Aquaman 2 coming out soon!#greatdepression #impoverishment #greaterdepression #earnings #exploitation
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The goal of public impoverishment is to make everyone more exploitable. - Fascism 101
Florida made a boondoggle of Inflation Reduction Act funds | Commentary
#Florida #DeSantis #impoverishment #program #fascism #billionaires #workerexploitation #climateassault #punchdown
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Breaking Down Kenya's Class War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRp1dbwaqh0&ab_channel=red.
As anti-government protests resume in Kenya watch Communist Party of Kenya National Vice Chairperson Booker Ngesa Omole argue that:
Kenya only has 'two tribes' the 'haves and have-nots' and that the 'war we have in our country is a class war'.
Booker also blasts President William Ruto for his decision to cut subsidies to Kenyans living in poverty as well as the subservience of the bourgeois Kenyan political class to international capitalist institutions like the IMF and The World Bank.
#Kenya #ClassWar #IMF #WorldBank #Impoverishment #Division #Neocolonialism #politicians #pander
