For 40 years the US govt has sold out its people & the people of the world, squandering our moral authority, betraying our values, offering its weight to a toxic strain of capitalism and a bankrupt neoliberal experiment. There’s only one righteous response: We’ve got to fix that.

Apr 4, 2022 · 10:11 AM UTC

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“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” -Lucy Parsons
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Every American should have a working knowledge of @shoshanazuboff's eightfold definition of surveillance capitalism.
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Hear ya but 40? That leaves out Viet Nam , Chili , etc etc
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If a business cannot pay their employees a living wage ABD still make a profit, they are probably a small business, just getting started, and need to figure it out to remain viable. If a major corporation who can’t? It’s not a business, it’s a scam, run on the employees.
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US always has been a capitalist country. US also his socialist country welfare, Medicare Medicaid etc so reach take of poor
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Let’s make demanding harmony a thing
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We need to recognize and protect a "Commons" from private predation and destruction - this includes natural resources, infrastructure, Culture, the Workplace, etc. We need to recognize wealth-hoarding as a dangerous, pitiable, and reversible disorder.
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Or, as Elijah Cummings would remark, “We’re better than this.”
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Democrats are just as guilty. I mean of course the recent pseudo-democrats, the likes of Clinton, Obama and Biden. If Carter hadn’t criticized Israeli occupation, declaring their settlements illegal, he would’ve had another term. Regan would’ve been too old. The world would’ve...
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