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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 1h

Capitalism specifically devolves into fascism

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MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 23h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Shinobicocktail @shinobicocktail.bsky.social · 20h

Does anyone actually believe this jackass is ever going do anything? If so, please contact me for a great bridge at a low low price.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1d

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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Africana Studies at Penn @africanaupenn.bsky.social · 1d

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas after Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. #workersrights

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas. Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

When their meeting was attacked by a group of white men, the confrontation left one white man dead. In response, white mobs, joined by federal troops, launched a days-long assault on the Black community, killing well over 100 Black men and women.

The headlines below show the cost to Black families and how a disinformation campaign was used to justify the violence against Black Americans. The claim, all too familiar, was that the Black organizers were trying to start a socialist revolution.

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Ryan Wilson @hailseitan.bsky.social · 1d

Your tax dollars don’t get used on you, they get used to protect wealthy investments globally.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1d

The only thing more impressive than capitalism's sheer destructive power is its adaptability. The system has repeatedly proven that it will always devolve into fascism, no matter how many safeguards and limits you implement. It will change and adapt to bypass any restrictions you place on it.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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castawayfarm.bsky.social @castawayfarm.bsky.social · 5d

I keep coming back to this passage by Kelly Hayes about violence, in particular state sanctioned violence. This is why the corporate media consistently parrots the Trump regimes 'the radical violent Left' propaganda.

They Will Call You Violent
If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because “violence” is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as “peaceful” are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order. And when they refer to “peaceful protest,” they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

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Shinobicocktail @shinobicocktail.bsky.social · 5d

@wgntv.com

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Morphizm @morphizm.bsky.social · 5d

She *literally* dedicated her Nobel to Trump.

Astounding ignorance.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 5d

Huge congratulations to Maria Corina Machado who has won the Nobel Imperialism Prize for steadfastly supporting Israel's genocide and calling on the US to invade her own country so she can be installed as puppet leader while Trump takes Venezuela's oil ♥️

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Shinobicocktail @shinobicocktail.bsky.social · 5d

Democrats won’t stop Fascism. The battle they’ve chosen is over the ACA - which has always just been a give away to insurance companies.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

Despite Trump and Hegseth constantly talking about politicizing the US army and staging occupations of US cities, and despite unsustainable bloat of the Pentagon budget, only 19 Democrats voted against the FY 2027 military spending bill.

Baldwin (D-WI)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Kim (D-NJ)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schiff (D-CA)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 6d

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Shinobicocktail @shinobicocktail.bsky.social · 6d

The scientific method is turning in its grave.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6d

What a weird thing to post after ICE raids entire neighborhoods with the help of state police

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 6d

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror.

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 6d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 6d

Capitalism creates poverty as a necessary consequence of its operation. Poverty MUST be created for capitalism to function. Socialism creates PROSPERITY. We must overturn the system that enables capitalism to function. The SYSTEM itself is the ultimate enemy of the people.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

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