#rulingclass — Public Fediverse posts
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"Many decades ago, humans developed a process by which they could go into a store, pick an item off the shelf, and pay for it at the checkout counter. A few years ago, we lost it. Now you ring a buzzer, wait for an overworked employee to unlock an item that costs $5.99, and navigate the emotional complications of feeling like both a suspected criminal and an entitled ass.
The late Soviet Union was damned by the iconic image of people waiting in endless lines for scarce consumer goods. When we look back at the dying days of America, perhaps we’ll think of waiting in dots, surrounded by plentiful products locked away because our bosses fear and loathe us so much they have forgotten how selling things works.
Why has our society gone backward in this small but really annoying way? Surely there must have been an epidemic of shoplifting? No, there really wasn’t. Instead, the great lotion lockup was a corporate moral panic, which has been a disaster for their profits and for the rest of us a degrading enshittification of running basic errands.
It’s far from the most important way our lives have gotten worse, but it might be the most pointless – which makes it useful for understanding so much else about a moment in history defined by breathtaking self-sabotage.
What’s happened to going to the Walgreens or Target is a store-sized version of what’s happened to living in America. It’s the experience of being subject to the decisions of a ruling class that responds to every challenge with authoritarianism, greed, and the same levels of poise and wisdom as an inbred Pomeranian."
https://dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to-be-able-to-buy-things
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There are no empires where none will serve.
#rulingClass #stolenPower #KnowYouAreStrong #typedPage #typedThoughts #Casiowriter #cw16 #typed #typewriter #takeBackYourPower
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The fact that there are now no controls placed on wealth creation anymore, pretty much means...
We're all just waiting for the game of Monopoly to finish, so we can find out who owns EVERYTHING.
So when does the next game begin? I'm 59, so I assume not in my lifetime.
#GameOfMonopoly #BillionairesShouldnotExist #Oligarchs #RulingClass
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Has there ever been a time in history when the ruling class has been overthrown WITHOUT violence?
If so, when and where?
If not, then isn't everyone who insists on absolute nonviolence actually advocating surrender to the ruling class forever?
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The ruling class are pedophiles and war criminals.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-billionaires-jeff-bezos/ -
The author of this article, Daniel Richman, is part of the evil ruling class. The NYT is state media for the ruling class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/epstein-files-justice-department.html#rulingclass
#evilrulingclass
#epsteinfiles
#freeiran
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#MasteringTheUniverse: The Obscene Wealth If the #RulingClass, What They Do With Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them More.
#HaymarketBooks.org @haymarketbooks
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2281-mastering-the-universe
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #workingclass #contentment #disrespectability #enjoyment #enough #hardwork #idleness #industry #labor #makingmoney #recreation #rulingclass
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A quotation from George Orwell
One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler’s recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler’s real self is in Mein Kampf, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men. Therefore, as against genuine Socialism, the moneyed class have always been on his side. This was crystal clear at the time of the Spanish civil war, and clear again at the time when France surrendered. Hitler’s puppet government are not working men, but a gang of bankers, gaga generals and corrupt right-wing politicians.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-02-19), “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,” Part 2 “Shopkeepers at War,” sec. 3, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/81894/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #autocracy #classwarfare #economicinjustice #economicsystem #nationalsocialism #Nazi #plutocracy #rulingclass #socialism #upperclass
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@lillyfinch @havvyhh2 And these monsters become the #rulingclass
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what to notice about Epstein and Israel — Jewish Currents podcast convo hosted by Arielle Angel with Noah Kulwin & @dropsitenews.com’s Ryan Grim
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/2-dec-2025-jeffrey-epstein-ruling-class-social-reproduction-arielle-angel-noah-kulwin/#JewishCurrents #DropSiteNews #JeffreyEpstein #Davos #DavosClass #rulingClass #Israel
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The #RulingClass are going to try to sabotage Zohran Mamdani and we can’t let them. #zohranmamdani -
#IAmBlakeley :heart_nb:
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@obrhoff/115512898366274063
What exactly did we expect from a #PeterThielPuppet?
It's overdue that we take back our country from Christian Nationalists, radical racists, and sociopathic, right-wing billionaires. As #WarrenBuffet said years ago, this is not a culture war but a #ClassWar.
Electing the #OrangeFelon might turn out the best thing that ever happened as the ugly #RulingClass now is emboldened to show their ugly, antidemocratic face. While it might be quite difficult to remove them from power, with enough determination and support by everyday Americans, it can be done! So far all their lies, chaos, corruption, and cruelty seem to have backfired biggly. -
#mamdani standing up for #TransRights. he's a #democrat, part of the #RulingClass & he needs your vote.
#GifsArtidote: actions speak louder than words.. remember, who benefits most? #QuestionEverything
https://bsky.app/profile/shelleybwoke.bsky.social/post/3m2wszxn3n22g
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#mamdani standing up for #TransRights. he's a #democrat, part of the #RulingClass & he needs your vote.
#GifsArtidote: actions speak louder than words.. remember, who benefits most? #QuestionEverything
https://bsky.app/profile/shelleybwoke.bsky.social/post/3m2wszxn3n22g
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"the #rulingclass should all stand in a line in front of the #whitehouse and say a sentence or two about how it all went #wrong and then #kill #themselves one after the other from left to right like that neil breen movie"
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since #NASA landed on the moon, #UAP sightings & intelligence have been hidden from you.
#SergeMonast predicted in the 90s the so-called US would have concentration camps.
he also predicts it's part of a conspiracy of the #RulingClass to invoke #armageddon & summon the anti-christ by manipulating ppl to believe their lies.
this week the UAP congressional hearings have resumed. -
Back to Cline's 1177BC this afternoon. I came up with a theory about the possible identity of the so-called #SeaPeoples from Chapter 5, "A 'Perfect Storm' of Calamities?". What if the one of the destabilizing forces was the populace rebelling against the #RulingClass -- which spread far and wide!
Cline: "There is one other point to be considered, which has been suggested relatively recently and may well be a reflection of current thinking about the role of decentralization in today's world.
"In an article published in 1998, Susan Sherratt, now at the University of Sheffield, concluded that the Sea Peoples represent the final step in the replacement of the old centralized politico-economic systems present in the Bronze Age with the new decentralized economic systems of the Iron Age -- that is, the change from kingdoms and empires that controlled the international trade to smaller city-sates and individual entrepreneurs who were in business for themselves. She suggested that the Sea Peoples can 'usefully be seen as a structural phenomenon, a product of the natural evolution and expansion of international trade in the 3rd and early 2nd millennium, which carried within it the seeds of the subversion of the palace-based command economies which had initiated such trade in the first place.
"Thus, while she concedes that the international trade routes might have collapsed, and that at least some of the Sea Peoples may have been migratory invaders, she ultimately concludes that it does not really matter where the Sea Peoples came from, or even who they were or what they did. Far more important is the sociopolitical and economic change that the represent, from a predominantly palatial-controlled economy to on in which private merchants and smaller entities had considerably more economic freedom" (pages 141-142).
Earlier in the chapter, "Internal rebellions and social inequality" (page 137) are cited as factors as well (sound familiar?). Cline goes on to discuss other contributing factors -- a megadrought and climate shifts from hot to cold (page 159) -- and the resulting migrations from famine -- as another possible origin of the "Sea Peoples," since some of them came from over land (page 144), and not the sea.
#ClimateChange #WorkingClass #NoRulers #NoKings #1177BC #BronzeAgeCollapse
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"it is the job of the #workers to #liberate #themselves because the #rulingclass will never give up #power"
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In each great revolutionary struggle the masses are led on by vague dreams of human brotherhood, and then, when the new ruling class is well established in power, they are thrust back into servitude. This is practically the whole of political history, as Burnham sees it. […] History consists of a series of swindles, in which the masses are first lured into revolt by the promise of Utopia, and then, when they have done their job, enslaved over again by the new masters.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-05), “Second Thoughts on James Burnham,” Polemic MagazineSourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/14826/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #classwarfare #commonpeople #history #masses #oligarchy #revolution #rulers #rulingclass
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#YesTheory proving in #Oman & #UAI that war raging around these countries are nothing to do with the people, but everything with #greed & #capitalism of the #RulingClass.
#hospitality is this regions' biggest asset, everybody regards visitors as family and a blessing.
#loveOverHate #SeekDiscomfort
#NoBorders
#press #news #GlobalNews #media -
#YesTheory proving in #Oman & #UAI that war raging around these countries are nothing to do with the people, but everything with #greed & #capitalism of the #RulingClass.
#hospitality is this regions' biggest asset, everybody regards visitors as family and a blessing.
#loveOverHate #SeekDiscomfort