CrimsonArk

1y

Kamala did run an awful campaign, nearly on par with Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

Trump though ran probably the most catastrophic campaign I’ve ever seen though, and enough people went “Yeah, I want some of THAT.”.

Rockstard

1y

And the country descends into an oligarchy while you wait to be inspired

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1y

America has been an oligarchy since 1776, there’s nothing to “descend” into, you let the Biden speech fool you

snowboyrari

1y

inshallah the american empire ending soon come 🙏

hoopsplayer21

1y

reductive might be the wrong word. but it certainly is pointless atp. time to look forward.

Rockstard

1y

Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and trump supporters and Bernie bros would come together to blame democrats for it

Pusha P

1y

Another day of a Trump media frenzy

Rockstard

1y

The rich people here used to build colleges and hospitals. Hardly the same

Rockstard

1y

The rich people here used to build colleges and hospitals. Hardly the same

Worldpremiere_

1y

I get bernie sanders sentiment of making tim walz her VP but bro is too OP to be a vice president.

Shouldve been the primary candidate. That trump is weird s*** was genuinely catching on but kamala was too busy being a cop at the rallies. Then him shutting up let all those bullshit china rumors running wild and effectively neutered him.

So frustrating.

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1y

it’s the exact same, the fact they choose to spend their money on imaginary s*** like stocks and crypto instead of productive or socially beneficial projects is because America’s exonomy is a glorified casino and doesn’t actually have the capacity to produce anything, just hold monopoly rights and extract rents off the fact it stops other people form producing s*** or speculate and gamble off the stength of the dollar (backed by the US military) to compel other countries to invest in their stocks and buy all the pointless crap America produces that no one REALLY wants, but guess what? You either get sanctioned or cutoff from the rest of the world, get your country toppled, or you’re a de-facto satrap (Europe, South Korea, Japan)

And you cast aside “why” the capitalists class was compelled to engage in social projects at the time, it wasn’t because they just had some magic idea to build a hospital and be productive

The Gilded Age was happening and the American capital was beginning to enter its monopoly capital stage, meaning the concentration of wealth between industries, corporations, (and of course the billionaires like Rockfeller, Carriage, etc at the face of this) were beginning to grow more stark and rising class tensions compelled them to build these institutions to

1) act as a sort of “class concession” to the masses if you gift the a library with your name

2) and the main reason, it’s no surprise these billionaires have entire institutions, think tanks, stadiums, grants, etc after them. These families have endowments and grants from the government that they are pretty much always at the center of if, it’s their way of remaining rich and solidifying their class hierarchy both directly through the wealth they make, but indirectly through being able to essentially build these institutions, think-tanks, libraries, to promote a specific pro-capital, anti-labor, pro-individualistic, libertarian mindset that always ends up fitting nicely within the framework of American imperialism

afterimage

1y

it’s the exact same, the fact they choose to spend their money on imaginary s*** like stocks and crypto instead of productive or socially beneficial projects is because America’s exonomy is a glorified casino and doesn’t actually have the capacity to produce anything, just hold monopoly rights and extract rents off the fact it stops other people form producing s*** or speculate and gamble off the stength of the dollar (backed by the US military) to compel other countries to invest in their stocks and buy all the pointless crap America produces that no one REALLY wants, but guess what? You either get sanctioned or cutoff from the rest of the world, get your country toppled, or you’re a de-facto satrap (Europe, South Korea, Japan)

And you cast aside “why” the capitalists class was compelled to engage in social projects at the time, it wasn’t because they just had some magic idea to build a hospital and be productive

The Gilded Age was happening and the American capital was beginning to enter its monopoly capital stage, meaning the concentration of wealth between industries, corporations, (and of course the billionaires like Rockfeller, Carriage, etc at the face of this) were beginning to grow more stark and rising class tensions compelled them to build these institutions to

1) act as a sort of “class concession” to the masses if you gift the a library with your name

2) and the main reason, it’s no surprise these billionaires have entire institutions, think tanks, stadiums, grants, etc after them. These families have endowments and grants from the government that they are pretty much always at the center of if, it’s their way of remaining rich and solidifying their class hierarchy both directly through the wealth they make, but indirectly through being able to essentially build these institutions, think-tanks, libraries, to promote a specific pro-capital, anti-labor, pro-individualistic, libertarian mindset that always ends up fitting nicely within the framework of American imperialism

Rockstard

1y

Black and brown people have only been able to vote in this country for ~60 years. And there's been substantive change during that time. And we're literally going backwards, but go ahead tell me how nothing is different

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1y

“Billionaires don’t build hospitals now”

explains why billionaires dont

“Black and brown people can vote now”

CrimsonArk

1y

https://bsky.app/profile/bbkogan.bsky.social/post/3lgtzpevuys2b

They’re now being told to ignore the Fed judge’s pause of the freeze and implement it in all it’s forms (including SNAP/Medicaid/Medicare freezes).

BrainWorms4U

1y

unreal evil. and nobodys gonna stop them

CrimsonArk

1y

I don’t know how you can look at this and go “Yeah, business as usual.”

Like, what’s the plan with this? And why now? Why 2 weeks in? Why not day one if you’re gonna be this balls to the wall?

Rockstard

1y

Mighty optimistic of you to assume whatever emerges on the other side won't be worse