"Whatever is scarce in a market ends up in the hands of the richest people. [That] doesn't square with any morality I'm familiar with, but we celebrate the market in this country. It is in fact the closest we have to a genuine - as opposed to pretend - religion."

-Richard Wolff

Probably the dumbest thing about Republicans is that they refuse to understand that immigrants don't steal their jobs, corporate decisionmakers do. By blaming job losses on immigrants (and by extension "liberal policies"), dark money-backed disinformation platforms like Fox News and Breitbart reveal that they have no concern at all for cultural harmony, that their main concern is diverting attention away from the morbidly wealthy ghouls who cause all the problems.

Citizens' health and well-being is secondary to the preservation of property and corporate profits in America, and that's why all this nonsense won't be lasting very much longer one way or another.

#EatTheRich
#WealthInequality
#GeneralStrike

So Musk replaced the blue Twitter-bird logo with the Dogecoin meme dog on home timelines to get crypto dweebs to jack the value.
Such cringe. It's like having your Amway-selling uncle trying desperately to remind you that he's alive and wants to have a catch.

Ack, correction, it's AI-generated. Pretty cool though.

Actual house in Romania.

Billionaires are the malignant tumors of end-stage, unregulated free-market capitalism.

#eattherich
#incomeinequality
#feedtheworld

Income in the US during the mid-1970s was as equally distributed as at any time in history. But between 1981 and 1986, the top tax rate was cut from 70% to 28%, while taxes on the bottom 4/5 of earners rose, and economic inequality began to rise.
It might be time to rethink the whole "trickle down" thing. Our economic system hasn't had any sort of reboot since Reagan, only mindless Wall Street bailouts that didn't solve any of the core problems. And it looks like there's another disaster coming.

In general, libertarians are haughty, solipsistic ideological chameleons who'll say anything to smuggle themselves into leftist groups and try to turn them evil. Jaws dropped worldwide a while back when it was revealed that a “libertarian wing” had somehow materialized within the Democratic Socialists of America, a Scandinavian-economy-minded, Bernie Sanders-worshipping organization that apparently forgot to add a “no libertarians” clause to their list of Frequently Asked Questions.

Christian fundamentalists who want to take over the country got rid of Roe v Wade and subsequently made it so you can nark out your neighbor and have them prosecuted if they have an abortion in some states.
Now they're going after mifepristone (the “abortion pill”) in Texas.
Facebook is censoring posts with reproductive rights information.
Most voters believe this is wrong. Amnesty International has suggestions for fighting back:
https://www.amnestyusa.org/abortiontoolkit/
#WomensRights
#AbortionRights

The elites who demanded that everyone go back to work in order to create profits for them were never very worried about covid. Why? Because everything they do in their daily lives has a seclusive aspect: private planes, food preparers, country clubs, small private schools for their kids, doctors making in-calls, all-inclusive hotel-sized homes, etc.
They don't take the daily risks regular people do. Covid has become a daily risk for workers, like driving in traffic.

#EatTheRich
#ClassWar

Politicians aren't going to pass a gun law anytime soon. The Republicans will get their talking points from the NRA, stuff like "If there'd been a good guy with a gun at the school, nothing would have happened." If there aren't enough Republicans to kill a gun bill, the NRA pays off enough Democrats to vote no.
Only way to solve it is to get money out of politics, which isn't going to happen while our system is ruin by a cult of "free market" ghouls.
#GunControl
#EndTheNRA
#GunViolence

Oh hi!
You want to know why Amazon sellers hate Jeff Bezos's guts? Sure, let's talk about that.

I keep forgetting to raise my prices on the free promo CDs I get, and once in a while I lose money (pic of last night's "sale").

The Italians made him stop it. They should do it here in the us. He's a usurious, union-busting, psychotic pig.

#JeffBezos
#AmazonSeller
#Usury
#Amazon

I dunno, we're in a tough place these days, like we should nationalize healthcare and the rail system and whatnot, but if we did, how could we make it up to the 1% who profit from making everyone else completely miserable, like, have you ever stopped to think about that?

#IncomeInequality
#WealthInequality
#EatTheRich

I think the rest of the world sees America as a Mad Max hellscape, and we haven't even had our total collapse yet.
#GunReform
#GunControl

Not content with polluting Twitter and turning it into a waste dump, Musk wants to continue dumping wastewater into the Colorado River and residents aren't happy about it. Same old class politics, some billionaire with a stupid idea making life awful for everyone else.
Isn't he just the bestest?

We still have the Trump-era policy in place that allows officials to automatically expel undocumented migrants seeking entry, bypassing normal immigration laws and protections.
This dooms thousands of perfectly decent people to return to poverty-filled lives in which they're terrorized by drug gangs and other threats.
Doesn't seem very "woke," does it?