seconded. big fan of pro publica right now. actually digging into the roots of corruption and abuse of power.

Rich people outbid regular folks for real resources (homes), taking away any chance at intergenerational wealth building. the only (legal) answer at the moment is taxation of the rich.

Gary Stevenson has some worthwhile insights on what we can do and how to convince working class people that the rich must be stopped or else your kids and grandkids will all be homeless renters.

inequality is sharply risinh all around the world. and it’s getting worse. this is arguably the most important issue of our time.

instead of subsidized the rich, we should be taxing the fuck out of them. they either comply with wealth redistribution by taxation or we seize their assets.

this is a well written article, worth the time to read imo.

if anyone reading this has even a passing interest in Graeber, debt theory, and the effects of wealth distribution on societies, I highly recommend Gary Stevenson.

Gary came from a working class family and essentially got rich betting on collapse and inequality getting worse. now he spends his entire waking life fighting inequality and advocating for increase taxes on the ultra rich.

agree completely. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why this simple defiance is so difficult for some people. I figure it’s because they fear social consequences (what will people think of me as a rule breaker?!) or they fear economic consequences (I could lose my job and ability to support my family!).

what’s interesting is that the solution to both reasons/excuses is having a strong social support network and solidarity with others who would help you when you stumble. modern individualism and desperation has made people so isolated and fearful of being mis-perceived and has made us less powerful to stand up for what we (collectively) know is the right thing to do.

first time hearing about this, any more details you can provide or link to a news release? is this Ubiik?

their suggestions on how to actually make cities safer were all wonderful. but nowhere did they say the one thing that matters the most. REDUCE INEQUALITY BY TAXING THE ULTRA RICH.

saving this for later, thanks

the Cold War was a free printing money machine for 50 years. creating a new one against China makes sense if you’re an oligarch whose wealth rides upon govt contracts and endless military industrial expansionism.

and it kinda explains why Trump is courting the US to make him believe they’ll choose him over China in a game of saber rattling. Russia is positioning itself to be the tie-breaker so it can play both sides against one another in lucrative energy/arms deals. maybe they’ll even get some real estate out of it.

on a sorta related note: the Enclosure Movement was one of the most transformational developments in western history responsible for shaping the modern world as we know it today, giving rise to land-based power dynasties central to feudalism, aristocratic control, and eventually definitions for what we understand today to be “private property” as enshrined in common law in civil society.

it was essentially the biggest land grab to ever occur at the time under the pretense of Law, and it under pins the Industrial Revolution and transition to wage based economies (ie, capitalism). it also established much of the legal precedent used by colonizers for hundreds of years to take away land from native peoples and the poor living off unenclosed lands.

anyone interested in some of the earliest examples of anti-landlord resistance in European history, it’s worth diving into.

Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down

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In 1649 To St. George’s Hill A ragged band they called the Diggers Came to show the people’s will

They defied the landlords They defied the laws They were the dispossessed Reclaiming what was theirs

“We come in peace,” they said "To dig and sow We come to work the lands in common And to make the waste grounds grow This earth divided We will make whole So it will be A common treasury for all

The sin of property We do disdain No man has any right to buy and sell The earth for private gain

By theft and murder They took the land Now everywhere the walls Spring up at their command

They make the laws To chain us well The clergy dazzle us with heaven Or they damn us into hell

We will not worship The God they serve The God of greed who feeds the rich While poor men starve

We work we eat together We need no swords We will not bow to the masters Or pay rent to the lords We are free men Though we are poor You Diggers all stand up for glory Stand up now

the 2016 and 2020 coverage of Bernie Sanders and their pushing of centrist anti-progressive agendas in the editorials was enough for me to unsubscribe forever. after what they’ve done in recent years, there’s no way I’ll ever trust them to represent working class interests.

here’s an example just a couple weeks ago of them laundering Republican party talking points into man on the street style “people are saying” interviews about how aktually I’m glad DEI is being ended.

this pissed me off also.

he’s a fucking Nazi. he promotes nazi ideology and comments on his xitter platform. he went on a goddamn apology tour at Auschwitz last year for fucks sake!

why do so many people lack the courage to speak honestly? is worship of money and fear of losing a job so totalizing in our society that those paid to write words won’t call a goddamn duck a duck?! this is the New York Motherfucking Times! I feel like I’m going crazy sometimes.

Eggs.

Eggs.

Eggs.

‘Don’t worry, this will only hurt poor people, and I’m just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire!’

that can’t be right, I swear I saw this exact person at the grocery near me, thousands of miles away from Loveland

fuck you Elon and fuck your over hyped car company.

agreed. all i can say is,

don’t give up. tax the rich. death to billionaires.

this makes me so angry. congress already took away the Affordable Connectivity Plan which helped millions of Americans.

internet service providers should be nationalized and made into a public utility.

given the coerced witness, lack of evidence, and time already served, it should have been a pardon not a commutation to house arrest.

but it’s still wonderful he’s finally out of prison.