The hubris of this guy:
"The United States is the world’s oldest and largest democracy, the beacon of freedom, and the military that holds the free world safe. "

American exceptionalism so deeply disgusts me. It's offensive, insane and an attempt to ignore a violent history and social order built on genocide, slavery and greed. It's the worst that humanity has to offer, not the best.

Fuck all the way off with this shit.

#America#Fascism#Neoliberalism#Capitalism

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/114909776698174781

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Power Politics and the Race/Gender Card – A Contemporary Reflection

If we want to build meaningful alternatives, we must deal with difficult issues head-on. Sweeping things under the carpet – especially in radical spaces – always comes at a cost.

One of the more complex, and often misused, areas is around identity politics, particularly the playing of the race/gender card in ways that obscure rather than clarify the real issues at stake.

Let’s be clear: systemic racism and sexism are real. We all live with the deep, painful legacies of colonialism, […]

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What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?

At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.

In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]

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What is neoliberalism, and why should you care?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

The irony of a philosophy that was originally created to prevent fascism, instead directly causing fascism, is extreme. This article is almost a decade old, and yet already draws the connection that led us down this hateful path.

#fascism
#neoliberalism
#capitalism
#FreeMarket

Why don't politicians in general admit that we must #TaxTheRich?

> In some ways its astonishingly simple. We allowed the collective management of the national interest to be corrupted by the idea that naked #individualism would provide more wealth for ‘everyone’, infamously, it would ‘trickle down’. It did no such thing. It never will. It only ever gushed rapidly upwards. We need a reset.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/11/why-is-labour-so-afraid-to-admit-that-we-must-tax-the-rich-to-help-the-poor#comments

#HyperCapitalism#NeoLiberalism#NeoFascism#Politics

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There's a very big difference between what "government efficiency" means to you, and what it means to a neoliberal.

To you, "efficiency" means something like when you show up in a hospital emergency room, you are seen by a doctor promptly, and they are properly equipped to treat you.

To a neoliberal, "efficiency" means the hospital has as few staff and resources as possible.

As a result, you are likely to be seen by a doctor less promptly, and they will be less well equipped to treat you.

But rich people will pay less tax.

#auspol #politics #economics #economy #government #neoliberalism

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The #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting?

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”

– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust

The more things change…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ibm-holocaust_b_1301691

#IBM#Holocaust#BigTech#SiliconValley#Google#Microsoft #israel #genocide #apartheid#settlerColonialism #capitalism #neoliberalism #complicityhttps://infosec.exchange/@onrust/114779288628253881