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Saw a tweet a couple months ago (can't recall source) that said essentially:
You're always 3 bad months away from homelessness. You're never 3 good months away from being a billionaire. Remember that in the class war you are IN.
Saw a tweet a couple months ago (can't recall source) that said essentially:
You're always 3 bad months away from homelessness. You're never 3 good months away from being a billionaire. Remember that in the class war you are IN.
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Which was true then to a distressing degree. And grows truer by the day as the death toll mounts.
The goal of the oligarchs, in whose service the current administration undeniably operates, is not our dying.
Our dying is a cost they are willing to pay.
Which was true then to a distressing degree. And grows truer by the day as the death toll mounts.
The goal of the oligarchs, in whose service the current administration undeniably operates, is not our dying.
Our dying is a cost they are willing to pay.
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The GOAL is their uninterrupted exercise of power, undiminished influence, and - most crucially - no checks on their continued hoarding of capital.
Which might be less alarming - the predictable excesses of capitalism, etc - IF the current president and…
The GOAL is their uninterrupted exercise of power, undiminished influence, and - most crucially - no checks on their continued hoarding of capital.
Which might be less alarming - the predictable excesses of capitalism, etc - IF the current president and…
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those encircling him did not consistently demonstrate such authoritarian tendencies. For 45, the goal is power - maintaining/consolidating what he has, increasing what is permissible, seizing new forms of it.
So chaos of response to this crisis is due only in PART to
those encircling him did not consistently demonstrate such authoritarian tendencies. For 45, the goal is power - maintaining/consolidating what he has, increasing what is permissible, seizing new forms of it.
So chaos of response to this crisis is due only in PART to
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ineptitude and callousness, but must also be understood as a calculated effort to create a climate where expansions of his power become possible.
So SCOTUS, packed with his appointees, voting remotely, decides to send WI voters to their deaths in primaries;
ineptitude and callousness, but must also be understood as a calculated effort to create a climate where expansions of his power become possible.
So SCOTUS, packed with his appointees, voting remotely, decides to send WI voters to their deaths in primaries;
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So $2T is devoted to corporate aid, but not a nickel to USPS. In a general election that might easily depend upon mail-in voting, he seeks to hobble the institution that would disadvantage him at the polls;
So rather than lessening/modulating the contradictory…
So $2T is devoted to corporate aid, but not a nickel to USPS. In a general election that might easily depend upon mail-in voting, he seeks to hobble the institution that would disadvantage him at the polls;
So rather than lessening/modulating the contradictory…
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narratives about Deep State actors and Lamestream Media in a cabal against him, the (now LETHAL) doubt/suspicion cast upon all forms of expertise, etc. - we see instead an INTENSIFYING of such paranoiac stuff at an ACCELERATING rate.
He is not scrambling.
narratives about Deep State actors and Lamestream Media in a cabal against him, the (now LETHAL) doubt/suspicion cast upon all forms of expertise, etc. - we see instead an INTENSIFYING of such paranoiac stuff at an ACCELERATING rate.
He is not scrambling.
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He is not at a loss.
This is standard fascist tactic - ginned up fear = false trade of liberties for security.
He is making the most of this opportunity. There is no body count high enough to dissuade him. There is no threshold of decency he will not cross.
He is not at a loss.
This is standard fascist tactic - ginned up fear = false trade of liberties for security.
He is making the most of this opportunity. There is no body count high enough to dissuade him. There is no threshold of decency he will not cross.
