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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#Racism, like #imperialism itself, is not a side-show to #capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few #liberal #reforms here & there. It has always been central to capitalism & it remains that way today.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#Racism, like #imperialism itself, is not a side-show to #capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few #liberal #reforms here & there. It has always been central to capitalism & it remains that way today.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist

Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
Christine Lemmer-Webber 🌀
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Karis
@qaris@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 2/n

in Kenya, the lowest cost for a visa is 160 US Dollars, that converts to roughly 20,000 Kenyan Shillings - and this is before all the other accompanying costs..

the average earn in Kenya is around 2 US Dollars a day, that is 320 Kenyan Shillings, if you do the math, you can see how this is pretty much impossible for many..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo

Agaric Tech Collective
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Karis
@qaris@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 1/n

today.. this one kinda came by like a passing train even though i could always hear it blowing it's whistle loudly every single day for everyone to hear - you know, very 'USofA'..

so.. about them visas..

if you're from Africa, especially if you're black, trying to get a visa to the stolen land that calls itself the United States is.. it's a lot, a lot of everything..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Karis
@qaris@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 6/n

then again, the US is built on the genocide of indigenous people, stolen land and the backs of enslaved black people, so i guess the US is doing as the US has always done and in the end will always be..

The Land of the Stolen..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Karis
@qaris@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 4/n

Kenyans have gone bankrupt trying to get a visa, others are forever in debt as a result and let's not forget the personal and emotional cost that comes with it all - leading some down a different path altogether..

and.. life is fucking hard in Kenya for so many..

trying and hoping for a better chance at life elsewhere comes up regularly simply because, by design, very little(if any) works in the interest and benefit of the people..

the future can look bleak at this point
Karis
@qaris@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 5/n

so why am i bringing this up?

if i were to sum it up:
in addition to all of the other fuckery the US gets upto in Kenya, applying for a US visa is another classic case of neocolonialism in play, and this also applies to many other countries who's play-book is very similar to that of the US - and there are many..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Karis
@qaris@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 3/n

in addition to the cost, there are these 'requirements and supporting documents' that are simply out of reach for many for various reasons..

add the fact that 99.99% of applications are outright denied - you know, for funsies.. and oh oh, and there are no refunds.. yaaay..

and did i mention the racism? i think that speaks for itself..

hmm, smells a little scammy

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Karis
@qaris@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 2/n

in Kenya, the lowest cost for a visa is 160 US Dollars, that converts to roughly 20,000 Kenyan Shillings - and this is before all the other accompanying costs..

the average earn in Kenya is around 2 US Dollars a day, that is 320 Kenyan Shillings, if you do the math, you can see how this is pretty much impossible for many..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Karis
@qaris@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

🧵 1/n

today.. this one kinda came by like a passing train even though i could always hear it blowing it's whistle loudly every single day for everyone to hear - you know, very 'USofA'..

so.. about them visas..

if you're from Africa, especially if you're black, trying to get a visa to the stolen land that calls itself the United States is.. it's a lot, a lot of everything..

#Neocolonialism#Imperialism#Visa#Kenya#Africa#US#Politics#RutoMustGo
Yogthos
@yogthos@social.marxist.network  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The US, creator and chief proliferator of nuclear weapons, uses them to dominate globally while opposing disarmament, spending trillions on modernization instead. Despite the UN Treaty banning nukes, the US fuels imperialist wars and nuclear escalation to sustain capitalist profits through militarism. Lasting security demands global solidarity and the defeat of US imperialism, not selective disarmament.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-u-s-imperialism-blackmails-the-world-with-nuclear-weapons-from-hiroshima-to-today/

#geopolitics #usa #imperialism
Beardy Star Stuff
@dennyhenke@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Laleh Khalili:

"Is a moment of horror, really, to live through as the extent to which the expenditures are being routed towards killing technologies, essentially, and surveillance ones, rather than those that could actually benefit us all is really to all of our shame.

And it is also a complete and utter crystallization of the extent to which democratic control over the development of these kinds of technologies has been lost."


techwontsave.us/episode/284_ho
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.

…

If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.

The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.

Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.

A digital imperialism, if you will.”

– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016

ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-

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