#capitalism

[politijohn]

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A reminder….

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

[dekaydk]

Today's oligarchy are exclusively made up of Mr. Potters.

The oligarchs are preventing you from getting a fair wage, taking money in the form of junk fees, laying you off so they can re-hire you as an independent contractor without benefits, poisoning you by cutting corners on food safety, promising you riches in crypto while failing to protect your money from hacking, and raising prices so they can give their record profits out in stock buybacks.

Americans had a little bit of relief from this under Biden and are about to see that get rolled back, and worse.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) • JIMMY STEWART as George Bailey and LIONEL BARRYMORE as Mr. Potter

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The Teamsters will launch the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Thurs., Dec. 19.

The nationwide action follows Amazon’s repeated refusal to follow the law and bargain with the thousands of Amazon workers who organized with the Teamsters. Let's fucking go!

Via Dripped Out Trade Unionists

[politijohn]

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[boymanmaletheshequel]

I can’t help but feel as though the case of Luigi mangione has triggered a paradigm shift that has only just begun, yet has been so long coming. So used to, have we as Americans become of the working class being victimized and abused, that we have dismissed it because we’ve been led by capitalism to believe that they deserved it for not working hard enough, for not being patriotic enough, or not being high class enough to justify valuing them. But Luigi is different, he IS the rich, white collar, educated buisness man that corporate capitalism has deemed the ultimate goal of Americans, he is the poster boy of American idealism, and yet, even he fell victim to the system, and when he fought back agaisnt it, he was treated just as poorly as the common man. They are going to kill him. And if he’s not safe, nobody is. I’m calling this now, they’ll find a way to work around the death penalty restrictions in New York, and they will execute him to send a message to keep us in check so they can continue their reign of cruel and inhuman punishment and destruction. But they won’t realize the martyr they will have given us. The government keeps ensuring that the working class has nothing left to live for or to protect, not realizing that by doing so, they’re simultaneously giving them nothing left to loose by fighting back. And that my friends, is how revolutions begin.

[famousbasementwizard]

I had written him off, but Kyle’s really coming through on this issue.

[calcinator]

Look at How Fucking Scared They Are

Terrified people will try and liberate Luigi, doing their best to make the populace afraid of him, pulling out the terrorist label.

The reason we're being hectored by alleged sex criminals on the news (lookin' at your bootlickin' face, Cuomo) is because they're lying, and they've always been lying.

3:00 in. This pathetic billionaire source of 30% of your problems has this to say about the shooting:

Peirs: And to those who think this shooter is a hero... ... what do you have to say to them?

Thiel: Um. Ah. It's, uh, well, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-duh-du-I-don't know, what, uh, what to say, I-yi-I think, I-I-still think you have, uh, you should try to make an argument, and I, I, I think this is, you should, you know, there may be things wrong with our heath care system but you, you have to make an... argument and you have to try to find a way to convince people, and uh, andandandand and change it by that. And this is, and this is not going to work. <mindless babbling continues>

First off, that response alone is indication that we should have scourged our modern aristocrats into the sea a century ago. That such an empty head could hold that much power is an outrage to human dignity.

Secondly, and more importantly, this epitome of meritocracy reveals the game. We've been making this argument for decades, but the thing about arguments is you have to be able to convince the people with power. And Thiel...

I just realized his last name is "Thief" with the last letter changed.

If you believe in a higher power you must now admit our reality is a shitty novel in an airport gift shop.

Back on track. Theil and his ilk are those people. They have the money, they buy the politicians, and they love it when you can make arguments because there's always an excuse, or a counter argument, or some propaganda they can pull. Or they can just use one of their bought-and-paid-for judges, or just wear you down by lawsuits because they have effectively infinite resources.

But Brian Thompson will never do any of those things again.

If the Peter Thiels of the world wanted to resolve issues with dialog, then they should have acted decades ago. You can't tell people that the system can't change, and then scream "this won't change the system!" when they decide to get revenge.

They're so scared they're trying to make some guy with chronic pain into a monster. The visual symbolism?

It disagrees.

[catherinebunnington]

They're charging someone accused of killing one (1) single man with terrorism, make it make sense

[thashining]

Its the Billionaires

[jabberpool]

corporate jargon actually pisses me the fuck off. say touch base one more time and i'm gonna touch you

[possiblyunhinged]

The populist, anti-establishment energy that figures like Trump, Musk, and their ilk have harnessed for personal and financial gain is a double-edged sword. And honestly? I don’t even think they realise they’re sowing their own downfall yet.

While they position themselves as disruptors (despite being privately educated, ultra-privileged warthogs), they’re inadvertently emboldening a public distrust in authority and wealth that doesn’t distinguish between 'good billionaires' and 'bad billionaires.' And there’s only so far hiding behind a 'free speech' argument will work—even for the dumbest person in the US or UK alike.

They’ve built this hateful sentiment, but they won’t be able to control it, no matter how many millions they plunge into their attempts. They’ve laid the groundwork—'media can never be trusted'—so… what’s next?

As we’ve seen with the public support for Luigi Mangione, this sentiment is already spilling over in ways that make corporations—and even the so-called disruptors themselves—uneasy.

And honestly? I hope it hurts when it bites them first xoxo

[mysharona1987]

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[scretladyspider]

“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.