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We've reached the stage of capitalism where you can take out a loan for a single meal if capitalists deem you credit worthy.

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It has become increasingly clear that student debt was never meant to be paid off. It was intended to create a generation(s) of indentured servants whose entire lives and anything they ever attempt to own automatically become property of the capitalist state.

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The number is much higher when you consider indirect/residual deaths from things like agent orange, depleted uranium, infrastructure/agricultural destruction, tainted water/food sources, etc. And it also doesn't touch on birth defects and the psychological damage experienced by survivors.

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The welfare state is a capitalist invention that was created to offset the inherent chaos brought on by (1) allowing private interests to control society's means of production, which required (2) the privatization of land/nature and (3) turning the working masses into commodities to be sold and

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Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump. Only 28.6% voted for Harris. 42% voted for neither. Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005. Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.

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The Trump/Musk "detox" so far: - starve Palestinians and give Gaza to private equity - criticizing Israel gets you deported - targeting the tesla brand makes you a domestic terrorist - fire thousands of workers - defund education/food for children - crash the economy - end social security

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New Deal (1930s) and Great Society (1960s) legislation were merely speed bumps that delayed the transition from industrial capital/liberal democracy to finance capital/corporate governance. As long as capitalism was allowed to live, fascism was always the inevitable conclusion.

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Cyclical crashes have always been a natural occurrence under capitalism, mainly due to its many internal contradictions. Now, in this era of finance/monopoly capital and corporate governance, there is an *incentive* for capitalists to periodically crash the economy.

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Periodic crashes are good for the rich. Bottoming out stocks, gutting the working class, destroying small biz/landlords & creating widespread foreclosures allows big capitalists to scoop everything up cheap. And the corporate state is there to protect/insure them in the process.

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Throughout US history, the capitalist ruling class has murdered striking workers, put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, blacklisted/deported citizens for political beliefs (Mccarthyism), assassinated civil rights leaders, sabotaged black liberation movements, imprisoned/

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A 27-year-old youtuber wearing million-dollar trunks just proclaimed it's "the era of good & truth" after beating a senior citizen in a quasi-scripted boxing spectacle while millions of us who are living paycheck-to-paycheck watched in amazement. Nothing feels real in 2024 America.

submitted 126 days ago • 5 comments

Trump's cabinet is looking very establishment and deep-statist.

submitted 129 days ago • 2 comments

Trump has chosen Lee Zeldin to run the EPA. During his time in the NY Senate, Zeldin pushed for legislation to punish those who participated in the @BDSmovement against Israeli apartheid. Zeldin also nominated Jared Kushner for a Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy work on the part of Israel.

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Trump is choosing Obama’s former Executive Associate Director of ICE, Tom Homan, as his "border czar." Homan received a Presidential Rank Award from Obama in 2015 for his work on deportations, which drastically increased during Obama’s eight years in office.

submitted 131 days ago • 3 comments

Trump's pick for UN Ambassador, Elise Stefanik, fits the typical profile of a US politician: - born to a wealthy family -private school - Harvard -parents bought her a $1.2 million D.C. townhouse The swamp is never drained. It just gets recycled and refilled.

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Trillionaires and tent cities. This is the only future under capitalism, regardless of which ruling party is in charge.

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