Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart
@dangillmor This was a fantastic read.
I think it worth acknowledging that just 18 months ago, this pullquote would've been deemed radical and alarmist by liberals. And that the "Epstein Class" does not go into remission when Democrats take office.
It's also worth acknowledging that change can lead to an absence of power, which causes a vacuum. And we are ill equipped to capture that power for the people.
Right now, as it stands, we're looking neoliberalism dying, and technocracy rising.
@dangillmor Beyond that racists and fascists has taken over the tech industri. https://mastodon.world/@rebeccasear.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115985641904520812
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214229728
@dangillmor Beyond that racists and fascists has taken over the tech industri. https://mastodon.world/@rebeccasear.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115985641904520812
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214229728
And that needs to change…
@dangillmor It's becoming less great by the minute, too. Really stinking up the joint.
@dangillmor Respectfully, the Epstein class haven't gutted a once-great America. In my eyes America has only ever been great if you were/are a white, wealthy, male land owner. If you were/are anything else, America has only ever been a failure to live up to the ideals espoused in the Declaration of Independence.
And do we still use their products?
Great quote 🙏🏻
Cory has had it up to here.
You should, too.
This nonsense with the billionaire class, and how fucking "genius" they are, has got to fucking stop.
No trillionaire is worth this, and no trillion-dollar capitalism is worth this sacrifice.
We are a nation of human and civil rights, written into the civil and governmental promise that these rights are inviolable.
Privacy, due process, safety, versus uncertainty and terror, every second of every day, we are watching these rights be enshittified. Before our own eyes.
What the fuck has happened, here?
Take our humanity back. Wrestle it away from the abusers of the power they have wrestled, from us, instead of being freely given, with the consent of the governed.
This is a deep, profound moment, in which we, collectively, find ourselves.
Be smarter than the rich assholes, and drive this country, and all of the other free nations of the world, forward, for all of our species.
@dangillmor America was never great…it’s an ugly shithole nation founded on white supremacy. Trump isn’t the problem, he’s merely a symptom. The actual problem is that 77 million Americans knowingly voted for a treasonous criminal piece of shit, and are proud of it. #USpol
@dangillmor
America was always and always will be the land of killing and taking...
Once again, @ @pluralistic hits with nothing but net
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@dangillmor “Epstein class”
concise, illuminating, devastating, damning.
@dangillmor nothing has changed. Same shit happened during 60s and 70s. Look at the history.
