#inhumane — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inhumane, aggregated by home.social.
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Again,I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the US regime:
"growing body of evidence shows that solitary confinement causes extreme suffering and mental and physical breakdowns even in individuals with no history of psychiatric disabilities,with symptoms that include anxiety,depression,psychosis,self-harm,and suicide. For people with underlying mental illness,who are more likely than others to land in solitary,the effects are even more dire and deadly."—"prison guards were withholding basic necessities,like toilet paper,from them"
"Many of these people really need mental health assistance.But instead of getting proper help, they’re being held in cages and treated like they’re not people"—"lights are bright and never turn off,which can make it difficult for prisoners to sleep at night"—"piles of moldy food,swarms of bugs,and layers of dust on the floors,beds,and toilets"—"fluids“seep into the foam where it can’t be decontaminated"—"would only dispose of a mattress when it was torn, not because it posed a health hazard"
"sleeping on a contaminated mattress creates serious health risks.The mattress begins to mold,creating ammonia and causing long-term respiratory complications,and even death when inhaled for long periods of time"—"blood all over the bed,floor,and hallway"—"would defecate in his hand,rub it all over the wall,smear it under the bed,and in between the doorjambs.Occasionally,he would urinate on the floor"—"loud and would jar other prisoners from their sleep in the middle of the night"—"forced him to work on his day off"—"more than 122,000 people were in solitary confinement"—"should have more time out of their cells,regular showers"—"Prisoners with mental health issues should be getting treatment instead of being placed in solitary for months on end"
#contempt #solitaryconfinement #inhumane #torture #humanrights #humanrightsviolation #humanrightsviolations #prison #usa #us #authoritarianism
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Medical Examiner Rules That a #Rohingya #Refugee’s Death Was a #Homicide
An autopsy showed that the man suffered dehydration & hypothermia after #BorderPatrol agents dropped him off on a cold night in Buffalo. Gov #KathyHochul condemned their actions as #cruel & #inhumane.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyregion/rohingya-refugee-buffalo-homicide-medical-examiner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Medical Examiner Rules That a #Rohingya #Refugee’s Death Was a #Homicide
An autopsy showed that the man suffered dehydration & hypothermia after #BorderPatrol agents dropped him off on a cold night in Buffalo. Gov #KathyHochul condemned their actions as #cruel & #inhumane.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/nyregion/rohingya-refugee-buffalo-homicide-medical-examiner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Fury at #Reform #UK #housing spokesperson over Grenfell comment
#ReformUK facing calls to sack their housing spokesman after he said #Grenfell Tower fire was a “tragedy” but that “everyone dies in the end”
Simon Dudley, former executive at Homes England & #Ebbsfleet Development #Corporation, said pendulum had “swung too far the wrong way” on #regulation after #deadly blaze at west London tower block in 2017
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25989938.fury-reform-uk-housing-spokesperson-grenfell-comment/
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Israel in defense of their killing of 2 children and their parents:
We were their against terrorist activity “During the operation, a vehicle accelerated toward the forces, who perceived an immediate threat to their safety and responded with gunfire. "In the car was a family with four young kids returning to their village from a day out.
“The father and the mother did not know that Israeli forces were there as the soldiers were in a Palestinian car,”
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RE: https://aus.social/@jhaue/116144724922192499
Absolutely disgusting. 😤 Your blood will boil if you read this article; stories of humble people not asking for much, being penalsed & traumatised by auto-algo-AI-slop-stupid & weasel words about ‘fine-tuning’ the system: "It's quite inhumane” is the least of it.🤬
New Minister Sam Rae does not cover himself in glory either - pathetic response. 😤
Hard to believe this is happening so recently after Robodebt & that the public service bureaucracy & the federal govt & indeed other govts have learned so little! Perhaps it’s because no one was adequately punished for Robodebt? ‘AI says No’ has become the excuse of the day. 😤#AusPol #inhumane #AISlop #AIHarms #ComputerSaysNo #AISaysNo #Robodebt #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses
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Minnesota Representative and Medical Doctor Kelly Morrison was granted an oversight visit of the Whipple immigration detention center in Minneapolis.
Her testimony confirms the horrific treatment of people who have been kidnapped by ICE. Because she’s an MD, she understands the situation more acutely than other politicians might.
We must continue to do everything we can to stop ICE. Full stop.
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"Trump Administration Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States":
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freezes-childcare-funds
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #destructive #greedy #inhumane #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
"Trump Administration Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States":
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freezes-childcare-funds
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #destructive #greedy #inhumane #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
"Trump Administration Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States":
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freezes-childcare-funds
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #destructive #greedy #inhumane #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
"Trump Administration Cuts Off Childcare Funds to All States":
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-freezes-childcare-funds
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #destructive #greedy #inhumane #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
@thenarwhal
I pull this #meme out often, regarding the government's partnership with ecocidal corporations to exploit more unceded Indigenous lands. It's how #Canada really puts the #RECON in #reconciliation.#BCpol #CDNpoli #CSIS #Colonialism #Capitalism #WhitewashingThieves #GreenwashingThugs #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #Ecocide #EcoJustice #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #Landback #NativeLand #Unceded #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #Corruption #Bribery #DirtyDeals #BackroomBribes #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RCMP #CIRG #FederalDomesticTerrorists #Inhumane #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #neoliberals #ColonizersLieCheatSteal #ColonialCriminals #StopTheWhitewash #KKKanada
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Releasing the prisoner so that there is no witness in court to his torture.
And still Israeli claim to have the 'moral' army /s
And still their supporters 'believe' that.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Russia plans withdrawal from European Convention preventing torture — Ukraine has upgraded its Neptune missile — here’s what we know — Cyber partisans hack Russian TV, broadcast battlefield casualties and truth about war — How Russia targets, detains and kills Ukrainian officials in occupied regions … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/08/tuesday-august-26-2025/
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Sunday, June 22, 2025
Russia’s Oreshnik missile production can be halted by ‘urgent’ sanctions — Ukraine approves Termit ground drone for battlefield deployment — Ukrainians forcibly deported by Russia held in basement without food, water, media reports — [vlog/blog/video] Inside the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/sunday-june-22-2025/
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My friend E. Prybylski talks about why there must be #legal #due #process for *every single person.* It is #inhumane to #deport and #imprison anyone without due process. We are on our way to becoming an inhumane nation, and we must stop it now. https://open.substack.com/pub/ehprybylski/p/a-day-of-protest
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Two dicktators thinking they are real men. #Inhumane #Illegal #Immoral #FuckBukele
"El Salvador’s leader says he won’t return mistakenly deported man."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/14/us/trump-news-tariffs -
Hundreds of people swept up in the #Trump admin’s crackdown on #immigration are being kept at #overcrowded #Krome detention in #Miami, sleeping on cement floors amid the stench of body odor & raw #sewage – conditions that lawyers, families & fmr detainees call #inhumane. One woman…said she & fellow detainees were left in #shackles & #chains on buses overnight, so long that some urinated on themselves. She said she was put in a cell w/ ~30 women before she was deported.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302968939.html#storylink=cpy
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#MaineACLU Denounces ‘Cruel’ Use of #NewHampshire #FederalPrison to Hold #ICEDetainees
By Edward TomicMarch 11, 2025
"The #Maine American Civil Liberties Union (#ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain suspected illegal aliens.
"Last month, media outlets began reporting on a leaked memo, signed Feb. 6, that indicated ICE was intending to use #FCIBerlin, a medium-security prison in Berlin, N.H., to hold immigration detainees in custody.
"That memo noted that the units at FCI were not currently available due to there being a 'substantial amount of preparation and resources' needed before the prison could accept detainees, such as additional funding for staffing, food, utilities, clothing and other items.
"The memo also indicates that the federal Bureau of Prisons or warden at each locally designated prison may approve or reject a request by ICE to hold an ICE detainee for any reason, such as for lack of space, or medical, mental health, safety or security reasons.
"ICE lodges immigration detainers against unlawfully present noncitizens who have been arrested on criminal charges or who the agency has probable cause to believe are deportable from the U.S.
"'The government should not be using federal prisons to support the president’s #MassDeportation efforts,' said Carol Garvan, legal director of the ACLU of Maine, in a Monday statement.
"'The federal government itself acknowledged that FCI Berlin would require a ‘substantial amount of preparation,’ yet just weeks later they have already begun detaining people there,' Garvan said. 'We have strong concerns about the #inhumane treatment of people in ICE custody, and we will not stand by while our region is used to carry out these cruel policies.'"
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/03/maine-aclu-denounces-cruel-use-of-new-hampshire-federal-prison-to-hold-ice-detainees/
#HumanRightsViolations #ICEDetention #IndefiniteDetention #PrivatePrisons #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ResistICE #ImmigrantsRights -
it's not just #RegulatoryCapture is it.
It's #CulturalCapture as well.
#Corporatism #Inhumane #ProfitsBeforePeople #AgedCareAustralia #SchoolSystem #AustralianPublicService #Unions #Solidarity
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For 22,000 #Vietnamese & some #Cambodians, #CônSơn Island was literally the last stop on a journey that began with their arrest & incarceration on the mainland. Their crime? Resisting #ForeignInvaders du jour & fighting for their country’s independence & unification. In addition to execution, causes of death included disease & torture.
The French built the Côn Đảo prison complex in 1861 to hold #PoliticalPrisoners and handed it over to the South Vietnamese government in 1954. It was a political Alcatraz on steroids, with #inhumane living conditions, barbaric torture methods, no escape and, for many, no survival. The US & its client state collaborators honed this hell on Earth to #dystopian perfection.
Sáu was sent to 3 jails before being shipped to Côn Sơn Prison, because the French didn’t have the courage to carry out her death sentence on the mainland at a time when it was against #ColonialLaw to execute woman. She was the only female prisoner held by the French on Côn Sơn.
Like other Vietnamese who died for the cause of independence, Sáu, a national heroine who is celebrated in theater & song, was elevated to the status of ancestral spirit. Every Vietnamese city & town has a street named after her, as are many schools. She embodies the spirit of millions of Vietnamese throughout history, including soldiers of the First & Second Indochina War, who sacrificed everything, their youth, their health, their love, their personal happiness, & their lives, so that Vietnam could become a unified, sovereign nation.
“The lekima flower in full bloom, we are reminded of a heroine who died for future generations. The young lady so full of vitality fought against our enemies with firm spirit & even death could not force her to yield”. The song echoes in the mind of everybody who visits Hàng Dương cemetary in Côn Đảo district, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province. Vo Thi Sau, the #heroine mentioned in the song, was #executed by the #French #colonialists at the foot of Chua mountain in the early morning of January 23, 1952. 60 years later, her immortal patriotism & sacrifice still shine in the heart of every Vietnamese person, particularly those who live on #ConDao island, once called “hell on the earth”. (Ref: VOVWorld)
The 20-hectare Hàng Dương cemetery holds the graves of more than 20,000 martyrs, including #revolutionary #martyr Lê Hồng Phong, patriot Nguyễn An Ninh & #hero Cao Văn Ngọc. Visitors are moved to see grave after grave, some named, some unnamed, stretching over the hill. Vo Thi Sau’s grave, set in gravel & soil shoveled by her fellow prisoners, lies in section B.
Sister Sau was already a legend when the ship carrying her docked at Con Dao island in 1952. At the execution, she refused to be blindfolded, wanting to admire the motherland’s landscape & sing until her last breath. Many families on Con Dao island have set up altars to worship sister Sau, whose legend has become eternal in Vietnamese hearts.
#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Communist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #USWarOnVietnam #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #USfundedTorture #WomenOfTheResistance #USTerrorism
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#SupremeCourt in #Ghana tosses #antiLGBTQ #hotpotato back to #president.
A #decision on the #inhumane but #politically #popular #bill likely will fall to the #presidentelect.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Africa #Ghana #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://76crimes.com/2024/12/18/ghana-supreme-court-tosses-anti-lgbtq-hot-potato-back-to-president/
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Premiering today, the documentary film #Separated — based on Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” — focuses on the #Trump admin’s #inhumane #immigration policy of separating #children from their parents at the #US - #Mexico border.
The 93-minute film merges interviews w/ US govt ofcls & narrative vignettes tracing one #migrant #family’s plight.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #FamilySeparation
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Premiering today, the documentary film #Separated — based on Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” — focuses on the #Trump admin’s #inhumane #immigration policy of separating #children from their parents at the #US - #Mexico border.
The 93-minute film merges interviews w/ US govt ofcls & narrative vignettes tracing one #migrant #family’s plight.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #FamilySeparation
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Premiering today, the documentary film #Separated — based on Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” — focuses on the #Trump admin’s #inhumane #immigration policy of separating #children from their parents at the #US - #Mexico border.
The 93-minute film merges interviews w/ US govt ofcls & narrative vignettes tracing one #migrant #family’s plight.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #FamilySeparation
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Premiering today, the documentary film #Separated — based on Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” — focuses on the #Trump admin’s #inhumane #immigration policy of separating #children from their parents at the #US - #Mexico border.
The 93-minute film merges interviews w/ US govt ofcls & narrative vignettes tracing one #migrant #family’s plight.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #FamilySeparation
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Premiering today, the documentary film #Separated — based on Jacob Soboroff’s 2020 book, “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy” — focuses on the #Trump admin’s #inhumane #immigration policy of separating #children from their parents at the #US - #Mexico border.
The 93-minute film merges interviews w/ US govt ofcls & narrative vignettes tracing one #migrant #family’s plight.
#Trump #AbuseOfPower #FamilySeparation
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#Kobylash & #Sokolov are alleged to have directed attacks at civilian objects & caused excessive incidental harm to #civilians or damage to civilian objects. The #ICC also accused both of #CrimesAgainstHumanity & #inhumane acts. Tuesday’s announcement marks just the 2nd time the court has issued #ArrestWarrants in its investigation into alleged #WarCrimes in #Ukraine.
#law #war #Putin #Russia #geopolitics #StandWithUkraine #LawsOfWar #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #GlobalSecurity
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#Uganda: #Court sets date for #AntiHomosexualityAct #challenge.
The #ConstitutionalCourt of #Uganda has tentatively scheduled December 18 as the commencement date for the #landmark #trial #challenging the #constitutionality of the country’s #inhumane #AntiHomosexualityAct.
https://www.mambaonline.com/2023/12/11/uganda-court-sets-date-for-anti-homosexuality-act-challenge/
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The #RightWing #Website Behind the ‘#Inhumane’ #Outing of an #Alabama #Mayor.
#1819News, an 'investigative #journalism” outlet, is taking heat after a local #pastor #killed #himself. But its #CEO is firing back on #critics: “We did our #job.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Alabama #Outing #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Media #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-right-wing-website-behind-the-inhumane-outing-of-an-alabama-mayor
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Suella Braverman speech was an insult to the refugees the UK has failed
#SuellaBraverman #Braverman #refugees #asylum #UK #betrayal #HomeOffice #failure #NotFitForPurpose #cruel #inhumane #CruellaBraverman must go.
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A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you. -
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you. -
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you. -
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you. -
A World of Slaves:
Most Americans haven’t seen what’s coming.Nancy MacLean notes that when the #Kochs’ control of the GOP kicked into high gear after the financial crisis of 2007-08, many were so stunned by the “shock-and-awe” tactics of #shutting #down government, #destroying #labor unions, and #rolling #back #services that meet citizens’ basic necessities that few realized that many leading the charge had been trained in economics at Virginia institutions, especially George Mason University.
Wasn’t it just a new, particularly vicious wave of partisan politics?
It wasn’t.MacLean convincingly illustrates that it was something far more disturbing.
MacLean is not the only scholar to sound the alarm that the country is experiencing a #hostile #takeover that is well on its way to radically, and perhaps permanently, altering the society.Peter #Temin, former head of the MIT economics department, INET grantee, and author of "The Vanishing Middle Class", as well as economist Gordon #Lafer of the University of Oregon and author of "The One Percent Solution", have provided eye-opening analyses of where America is headed and why.
MacLean adds another dimension to this dystopian big picture, acquainting us with what has been overlooked in the capitalist right wing’s playbook.
She observes, for example, that many liberals have missed the point of strategies like #privatization.
Efforts to “reform” #public #education and #Social #Security are not just about a preference for the private sector over the public sector, she argues. You can wrap your head around those, even if you don’t agree.
Instead, MacLean contends, the goal of these strategies is to radically alter power relations, #weakening pro-public forces and #enhancing the #lobbying #power and commitment of the corporations that take over public services and resources, thus advancing the plans to #dismantle #democracy and make way for a return to #oligarchy.
The majority will be held captive so that the wealthy can finally be free to do as they please, no matter how destructive.
MacLean argues that despite the rhetoric of Virginia school acolytes, shrinking big government is not really the point.
The #oligarchs require a government with tremendous new powers so that they can bypass the will of the people.
This, as MacLean points out, requires greatly #expanding #police #powers “to control the resultant popular anger.”
The spreading use of pre-emption by GOP-controlled state legislatures to suppress local progressive victories such as living wage ordinances is another example of the right’s #aggressive use of #state #power.👉Could these right-wing capitalists allow private companies to fill #prisons with helpless citizens—or, more profitable still, right-less undocumented #immigrants? ☑️They could, and have.
👉Might they engineer a #retirement #crisis by moving Americans to inadequate 401(k)s? ☑️Done.
👉Take away the rights of consumers and workers to bring grievances to court by making them sign #forced #arbitration agreements? ☑️Check.
👉Gut #public #education to the point where ordinary people have such bleak prospects that they have no energy to fight back? ☑️Getting it done.
👉Would they even refuse children #clean #water? ☑️Actually, yes.
MacLean notes that in #Flint, Michigan, Americans got a taste of what the emerging oligarchy will look like — it tastes like #poisoned #water. There, the Koch-funded Mackinac Center pushed for legislation that would allow the governor to take control of communities facing emergency and put unelected managers in charge.
In Flint, one such manager switched the city’s water supply to a polluted river, but the Mackinac Center’s lobbyists ensured that the law was fortified by protections against lawsuits that poisoned inhabitants might bring. Tens of thousands of children were exposed to #lead, a substance known to cause serious health problems including brain damage.Libertarian economist Tyler #Cowen has provided an economic #justification for this kind of #brutality, stating that where it is difficult to get clean water, private companies should take over and make people pay for it. “This includes giving them the right to cut off people who don’t—or can’t—pay their bills,” he explains.
To many this sounds grotesquely #inhumane, but it is a way of thinking that has deep roots in America.
In "Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative" (2005), Buchanan considers the charge of #heartlessness made against the kind of classic liberal that he took himself to be.
MacLean interprets his discussion to mean that people who “failed to foresee and save money for their future needs” are to be treated, as Buchanan put it, “as #subordinate members of the species, akin to…#animals who are dependent.’”
Do you have your education, health care, and retirement personally funded against all possible exigencies?
Then that means #you. -
‘#Inhumane’ #migration #bill putting #LGBTQ+ #people #atrisk as #PoliticalAsylum claims soar.
The #UK #government should create a #compassionate #asylum #system for #LGBTQ+ #people instead of clinging to the #inhumane #IllegalMigrationAct, an #activist has said.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Tories #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/12/lgbtq-asylum-seekers-rainbow-migration-illegal-act/
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UK's Floating Migrant Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbBlS9fao4&ab_channel=red.
The UK is using increasingly inhumane policies against migrants. The most recent example is a floating barge called Bibby Stockholm which has been compared to a floating prison and is being used as a detention facility for migrants. We spoke to the volunteer-run migrant charity Care4Calais, putting the migrant barge in the context of the UK's anti-migration offensive. Joe Cullinane of Care4Calais argues that the UK government's demonization of migrants is being used to distract attention from larger domestic crises.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #Judge Orders #Texas to Move Barrier From Middle of the #RioGrande
A federal judge ordered the state to move the barrier, placed to discourage illegal #crossings from #Mexico, to the banks of the river.
#inhumane #Abbott
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/texas-border-rio-grande-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
#Asylumseeker in the #UK explains why the #Tories ‘#inhumane’ #rhetoric is so #hurtful: ‘See the #person behind the story’
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Tories #Hate #Bigotry #Racism #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/11/asylum-seeker-refugee-rishi-sunak-lee-anderson-bisexual/
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“We believe that #containing #people (seeking #politicalAsylum who have been through #traumatising #experiences, especially on a #floating #vessel, is #cruel and #inhumane,” the #letter says, adding that a #vessel is “entirely #inappropriate for #use in this way”.
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#UK 🇬🇧 #HomeOffice contracted housing company accused of 're-traumatising' #asylum_seekers
#Scotland 🏴
#ScotlandWelcomesRefugeeshttps://theferret.scot/housing-company-re-traumatising-asylum-seekers/
#Inhumane #degrading treatment
#Braverman’s #hostileEnvironment
#EnoughIsEnough
