8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
4.3K votes, 271 comments. 833K subscribers in the LateStageCapitalism community. A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological…
Palestine & ZionismPalestine & Zionism
·reddit.com·
Pro-Israel passenger harasses American Airlines flight attendants for wearing a watermelon pin. The passenger claimed he was being discriminated against, while unironically equating a watermelon with terrorism.
Fox which is watched by millions: '“The fact that Canada doesn’t want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.”
Fox which is watched by millions: '“The fact that Canada doesn’t want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.”
140 votes, 41 comments. 4.3K subscribers in the themayormccheese community. The official community for The Mayor. Discussing global politics…
Trump vs CanadaTrump vs Canada
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Fox which is watched by millions: '“The fact that Canada doesn’t want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst.”
Elon Musk and other billionaires back Pierre Poilievre because if he wins, they'll get richer. Poilievre is clear in this interview that he will cut health care and more. He will cut from you, to give CEOs what they want. The middle class will pay even more and the rich will get even richer.
Elon Musk and other billionaires back Pierre Poilievre because if he wins, they'll get richer. Poilievre is clear in this interview that he will cut health care and more. He will cut from you, to give CEOs what they want. The middle class will pay even more and the rich will get even richer.
5.8K votes, 325 comments. 289K subscribers in the onguardforthee community. A Canada-specific subreddit that allows all types of Canadian content…
Top ABC, Harper & Attacks on the Public (aka *YOU*)Top ABC, Harper & Attacks on the Public (aka *YOU*)#billionaires#musk
·reddit.com·
Elon Musk and other billionaires back Pierre Poilievre because if he wins, they'll get richer. Poilievre is clear in this interview that he will cut health care and more. He will cut from you, to give CEOs what they want. The middle class will pay even more and the rich will get even richer.
'How stupid are you?' Ex-CNN anchor unleashes profanity-laced tirade on Trump fans - Alternet.org
'How stupid are you?' Ex-CNN anchor unleashes profanity-laced tirade on Trump fans - Alternet.org
A former CNN anchor unleashed a profanity-laced tirade on his podcast while talking about a rift that has grown in MAGA world between the right-wing tech crowd of Silicon Valley and President-elect Donald Trump's base.Don Lemon, who worked at CNN for nearly a decade until leaving in 2023, launched h...
Free Speech & HypocrisyFree Speech & Hypocrisy
·alternet.org·
'How stupid are you?' Ex-CNN anchor unleashes profanity-laced tirade on Trump fans - Alternet.org
Bertrand Russell on Zionism [video]
Bertrand Russell on Zionism [video]
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Palestine & ZionismPalestine & Zionism
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Bertrand Russell on Zionism [video]
'Wasn’t ever about the books': Republicans fuel chaos in AR over public library funding
'Wasn’t ever about the books': Republicans fuel chaos in AR over public library funding
As public libraries throughout Arkansas have come under scrutiny in recent years, some have faced uncertainty about the future of their funding sources, which determine what resources they offer their communities. The only library system that has seen a funding cut so far is the one in Craighead...
Free Speech & HypocrisyFree Speech & Hypocrisy
·alternet.org·
'Wasn’t ever about the books': Republicans fuel chaos in AR over public library funding
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
Coinbase's plan to go public last April highlights a troubling trend among tech companies: Its founding team will maintain voting control, making it mostly immune to the wishes of outside investors.The best-known U.S. cryptocurrency exchange is doing this by creating two classes of shares. One class...
Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)#fuck ayn rand
·alternet.org·
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
America's dark past and the key to stopping Trump's authoritarian rule | Opinion
America's dark past and the key to stopping Trump's authoritarian rule | Opinion
It’s probably, politically and spiritually, the darkest holiday season for our nation in my lifetime. So how about a quick story out of America’s earliest history that somewhat echoes this moment and may give us some hope?Donald Trump has told us he’s going to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to declar...
Project 2025: Neo FascismProject 2025: Neo Fascism#trump
·rawstory.com·
America's dark past and the key to stopping Trump's authoritarian rule | Opinion
Ground News - Facebook restricts Palestinian news but boosts Israel's: BBC research
Ground News - Facebook restricts Palestinian news but boosts Israel's: BBC research
Palestinian news outlets have suffered a drop in audience engagement after being hampered by Facebook, research has found. BBC News Arabic compiled engagement data on the Facebook pages of 20 prominent Palestinian-based news organizations in the year leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and in the year since. The data showed a 77% decline after the attacks. Meanwhile, journalists at Palestine TV have shared statistics showing a 60% drop in the number of people seeing their posts.
Palestine & ZionismPalestine & Zionism#censorship
·ground.news·
Ground News - Facebook restricts Palestinian news but boosts Israel's: BBC research
CrimethInc. : Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
CrimethInc. : Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contending in our society today.
On December 13, president-elect Donald Trump and vice-president-elect JD Vance invited Daniel Penny to join them at the Army/Navy football game—solely on account of his having randomly murdered a Black person and been acquitted.1 Here, we see some of the most powerful political figures in the world attempting to drum up enthusiasm for extrajudicial killings—provided that they target the marginalized.
The average person in the United States has considerably more to fear from corporate executives than from undocumented immigrants
It spoke to millions of people because, across the political spectrum, all of them understood that insurance profiteers are responsible for their suffering or for the suffering of people they empathize with. Precisely because it was legible as retribution, the shooting illuminated that injustice has been taking place on a mass scale
But the state does not actually exist to resolve conflicts. The judicial apparatus and the hundreds of thousands of police who serve it exist to ensure that conflicts need not be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties. They exist to force unsatisfactory outcomes on people, almost always to the advance of the wealthy—thereby perpetuating the conditions that stoke the desire for sacrificial violence
If, indeed, Girard is correct that sacrificial violence is always directed against those who can be “exposed to violence without fear of reprisal,” then it stands to reason that retribution is the only way to hold it at bay once it is unleashed
Today, the vast majority of us are closer to being among those who can be killed “without fear of reprisal” than we are to becoming executives whose deaths will be mourned on nationwide media—and the less we act in solidarity with each other, the truer that will be
If we do not wish to risk one day being subject to sacrificial violence ourselves, we must become capable of forging common cause with those who are worse off than us in order to defend ourselves from those who seek to exploit and oppress us.
The popular response to the shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare shows how disillusioned millions of people are with capitalism and its beneficiaries, but this response is also a symptom of widespread despair and demobilization. The shooting aroused such an outpouring of pent-up frustrations precisely because these people have not been able to figure out what they themselves can do to put a stop to injustice and exploitation
If we do not popularize collective models for bringing about social change, if we leave people to choose between passivity and martyrdom, the vast majority will choose passivity
Woke, Antifa & Manufactured "Culture Wars"Woke, Antifa & Manufactured "Culture Wars"#violence
·crimethinc.com·
CrimethInc. : Sacrificial Violence and Retribution