Yes.
Malcom X: “You can’t have capitalism without racism.”
And we’re all irritated at claims that everything is racist. It’s super annoying. But these claims largely dilute the real issue of racism, that we prop up certain classes at the expense of others. It doesn’t matter what we say or tweet. It matters that policies are designed to shift value away from the poor and to the rich.
The government uses constant “wars” to justify its existence and its taxes on the masses.
The War on Drugs is one of the most effective. Keep people in fear, and the government can spend billions on militarizing the police and on limiting access to cash. They can justify tracking and CBDC’s. They can increase their incarcerated population on demand of the prison system by slight alterations of what constitutes a crime.
fear is the social fabric without which governments would have no reason to exist
To push back on the unfair treatment of Ross, and Assange, and thousands of dissidents out there that are being punished for the wealthy’s want of a power monopoly, we have to push back on the etiology of power.
The legal humanization of non-human corporations, which will never work for social good but pursue profit at the expense of social good, opens all areas of independent life to the exploitation of the rich.
Imperialist behavior by the military, which serves resource extraction and the exportation of inflation, funds exploitation at home.
If I could zap every prisoner, I would.
They make 10-25 cents/hour, and pay extravagant prices for basic needs like toothpaste. If they get out, they’re still tied to a system designed to get them right back in.
Slave labor is illegal…unless we write laws to justify it. Then it’s ok.
we could fund rebellions, I like that. as wilson das neves would sing: “on the day people from favelas go down and it's not carnival”.
and @snowden, btw.
we definately can’t rely on those with power. people have to crawl by themselves outta their non-life, their self-imprisonment, out of this hermeticism created in an inorganic manner by the elites — whether the intellectual left or/and financial right. and the fugue state, though we still close our eyes to the possible routes being traced by the people in the middle of our rhetorical, is in full swing.
Of course. Sorry to leave you out of the conversation, #[3]
