Departments of Energy and Defense take almost a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) yearly in the federal budget. This money is funneled into large corporations whose wealthy executives and shareholders lobby Congress for continued spending. This coterie includes members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee who are not held…
Departments of Energy and Defense take almost a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) yearly in the federal budget. This money is funneled into large corporations whose wealthy executives and shareholders lobby Congress for continued spending. This coterie includes members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee who are not held to the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The above reality is a form of fascism. Corporations and wealthy elite run our institutions and therefore are our rulers. This is why there are no consequences for badly designed, poorly performing hardware produced with perpetual cost overruns.
For myself, I cannot even express my displeasure by voting for a non fascist sane third party alternative. My state has withheld ballot line access for third parties other than two small far far right parties.
The contempt of the billionaires for our welfare was clearly demonstrated by engineering the ascension of Ms. Harris to the Democratic Presidential nomination. She was the darling of the Hamptons in 2020 where votes are cast by donations not ballots.
Nate Bear's column title must be in jest, but its proscription is true: do not panic, organize and overthrow these bums!
Nah. Capitalism is a tool of the fascists. Think about who both capitalism and fascism hurts and benefits the most. They both predominantly harm: POC. Women. LGBTQ people. Disabled people. Children. Poor white people. And they both predominantly benefit wealthy, white men. They're one and the same.
Let me push back a little. I did not detail the assault on free speech and right of assembly that both major parties support. Corporate capitalism facilitates fascism.
I'll agree there that corporate capitalism and also disaster capitalism facilitates fascism, probably in a new way we haven't seen before. I think that's why we're in the danger zone right now. And I agree the Democratic Party is just facilitating the advancement the fascism by still embracing a lot of these policies. The Republicans on the other hand are embracing full on authoritarian fascism and not even bothering to cloak it in more digestible capitalism
Organize? Never happening. The machine does what the machine does…
I, and others I worked with, threw ourselves
on the wheels of the Covid machine, only to be punished for trying to save lives.
The George Floyd protests that started near my home and went around the world- changed nothing. Massey was shot in the head, like it was target practice. She called the police for help and wound up murdered by the people tax payers paid to help her.
People forget Ahmaud Arbery died in Feb of 2020 and the police were actively helping cover up that murder until people protested. Or maybe they didn’t even have to protest it was just social media outrage that did it? They got the pigs to act.
And didn’t Brianna Taylor get murdered that year too? Maybe she was the year before but either way that was part of why the George Floyd protests were so big, it wasn’t specifically just him, it was all the murdering that came before him that year and people have had enough.
And I wouldn’t say the protests did nothing, they arrested the man who shot Sandra, that pig is charged with murder as he should be. They wouldn’t have charged him in 2019, but they did in 2024 because they don’t want another uprising like they had in 2020.
It wasn’t for nothing. It’s just that justice is slow AF
I’m voting for Claudia and Karina and well I don’t think they have a chance of winning New Hampshire where I live, I have to vote for the world I want. I’m not making a Super Bowl bet, I’m not supposed to vote for the team I think will win I’m supposed to vote for the team who I want to win that would be the socialists
Departments of Energy and Defense take almost a trillion dollars ($1,000,000,000,000) yearly in the federal budget. This money is funneled into large corporations whose wealthy executives and shareholders lobby Congress for continued spending. This coterie includes members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee who are not held to the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The above reality is a form of fascism. Corporations and wealthy elite run our institutions and therefore are our rulers. This is why there are no consequences for badly designed, poorly performing hardware produced with perpetual cost overruns.
For myself, I cannot even express my displeasure by voting for a non fascist sane third party alternative. My state has withheld ballot line access for third parties other than two small far far right parties.
The contempt of the billionaires for our welfare was clearly demonstrated by engineering the ascension of Ms. Harris to the Democratic Presidential nomination. She was the darling of the Hamptons in 2020 where votes are cast by donations not ballots.
Nate Bear's column title must be in jest, but its proscription is true: do not panic, organize and overthrow these bums!
What you're describing is capitalism and oligarchy. I think people are using the word fascism incorrectly lately
you're right, it's been bothering me and I've been doing it as a kind of catch-all....will work on it
Definitely parts of it is fascism but I would love to see a more nuanced parsing between the ills of disaster/late stage Capitalism and Fascism.
yeah
Plutocracy
America has always been the great plutocracy
Built on the graves of the Native Americans
Built on the backs of Black people, kidnapped and enslaved
Nah. Capitalism is a tool of the fascists. Think about who both capitalism and fascism hurts and benefits the most. They both predominantly harm: POC. Women. LGBTQ people. Disabled people. Children. Poor white people. And they both predominantly benefit wealthy, white men. They're one and the same.
Let me push back a little. I did not detail the assault on free speech and right of assembly that both major parties support. Corporate capitalism facilitates fascism.
I'll agree there that corporate capitalism and also disaster capitalism facilitates fascism, probably in a new way we haven't seen before. I think that's why we're in the danger zone right now. And I agree the Democratic Party is just facilitating the advancement the fascism by still embracing a lot of these policies. The Republicans on the other hand are embracing full on authoritarian fascism and not even bothering to cloak it in more digestible capitalism
Organize? Never happening. The machine does what the machine does…
I, and others I worked with, threw ourselves
on the wheels of the Covid machine, only to be punished for trying to save lives.
The George Floyd protests that started near my home and went around the world- changed nothing. Massey was shot in the head, like it was target practice. She called the police for help and wound up murdered by the people tax payers paid to help her.
America will do what America does.
People forget Ahmaud Arbery died in Feb of 2020 and the police were actively helping cover up that murder until people protested. Or maybe they didn’t even have to protest it was just social media outrage that did it? They got the pigs to act.
And didn’t Brianna Taylor get murdered that year too? Maybe she was the year before but either way that was part of why the George Floyd protests were so big, it wasn’t specifically just him, it was all the murdering that came before him that year and people have had enough.
And I wouldn’t say the protests did nothing, they arrested the man who shot Sandra, that pig is charged with murder as he should be. They wouldn’t have charged him in 2019, but they did in 2024 because they don’t want another uprising like they had in 2020.
It wasn’t for nothing. It’s just that justice is slow AF
I’m voting for Claudia and Karina and well I don’t think they have a chance of winning New Hampshire where I live, I have to vote for the world I want. I’m not making a Super Bowl bet, I’m not supposed to vote for the team I think will win I’m supposed to vote for the team who I want to win that would be the socialists