Noam Chomsky reveals the secrets of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation. Defund it, blame State ownership, privatise for pennies, extort you forever. - ThreadSky

bladeofthes.bsky.social • 64 days ago

Noam Chomsky reveals the secrets of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation.

Defund it, blame State ownership, privatise for pennies, extort you forever.

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i-hate-acronyms.bsky.social•64 days ago

In the U.S. the GOP would kill to privatize Social Security, Medicare, USPS, and Federal Prisons.

donoverseas.bsky.social•63 days ago

A true reflection of that evil witch.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•63 days ago

🥴

annie5545.bsky.social•63 days ago

Most of our problems today can be traced right back to the policies of that weeeeeech.

mikeinscotland.bsky.social•64 days ago

Then allow those private companies to drive down the service for profits. And then claim it'll be too expensive to return it to public ownership, (although, feel free to pretend to consider doing so if it helps win you an election, but then immediately reject it, after winning).

richardcr3.bsky.social•64 days ago

Or get state subsidy

darrenchambers1981.bsky.social•64 days ago

Such a loss. We need more like Noam.

gmsoros.bsky.social•63 days ago

Yes yes 🙌

grumpy-bloke.bsky.social•63 days ago

That Thatcher woman was such a despicable, smelly, vicious piece of rats turd that I still shudder whenever the cows name is mentioned.

marshmallowsmurf.bsky.social•64 days ago

In the us, we called that reaganomics.

diogenesofsynapse.bsky.social•63 days ago

It's more specifically neo liberal economic policy....even Carter had them in his administration.

stereid.bsky.social•64 days ago

Exactly

grumpycook.bsky.social•63 days ago

Rinse & repeat for every public service since.

zhdar.bsky.social•64 days ago

This:

Energy.
Water.
Public transport.
Telecoms.
The slow death by a million cuts and backdoor "outsourcing" privatisation of the NHS.

Theft.

They can't bear the thought that there's some public money that they can't steal.

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•64 days ago

If it's in public ownership, the City of London can't trade it in shares. It's that simple.

zhdar.bsky.social•64 days ago

Pure plunder.

sarahviktoria.bsky.social•64 days ago

Absolutely, and it's the real road to serfdom. A dead end.

zhdar.bsky.social•64 days ago

They never run out of finding different ways of ripping off the ordinary citizen.

matt66.bsky.social•64 days ago

jmcrookston.bsky.social•64 days ago

They also hate public broadcasters wnd want to defund them with no privatization because they can't control them the way they can control all the billionaire owned media.

dangrously.bsky.social•63 days ago

... then they sell off the assets, stripmine the company for more profits, and then when it fails, force the government to bail them out.

Forever.

Or buy it back (at more than it's worth) reinvest in the industry, then sell it back to them to do it all over again.