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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 17h

all empires fall but I wonder if any have been this in denial about it

Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 17h

I'd say it took a lot of effort to convince so many americans that their rotting infrastructure, stagnant wages, and soaring inflation are the fault of immigrants—but it doesn't actually take much effort to manipulate a population as poorly educated as this

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 1d

the psychological toll of living in a society where everyone is out to compete with, profit off of, and scam everybody else is indescribable

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 1d

it took a long time for them to convince the majority of the population that capitalism means simply buying and selling things instead of an authoritarian economic system where a tiny minority own everything and make all of the decisions

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 2d

NEW PATREON EP cira pascual marquina of el panal commune joins us for a wideranging conversation on sanctions as a tool of US hegemony and what the sanctions regime imposed on venezuela is all about

up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 6d

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 3: sanctions as economic warfare w/ cira pascual marquina

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 5d

they gave the nobel peace prize to the most loyal and militaristic face of imperialism—a far-right coup-plotter funded by the US. this is nothing more than a push to manufacture consent for a war of regime change against the democratically elected socialist government of Venezuela

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 6d

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 3: sanctions as economic warfare w/ cira pascual marquina

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 8d

NEW EP Immanuel Ness joins us to discuss migration's imperialist roots.

Far from being a net positive for the Global South, our system of migration under global capitalism contributes to underdevelopment, uneven and unequal exchange, and dependency of Global South countries.

up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 13d

NEXT WEEK: migration as economic imperialism w/ immanuel ness

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 13d

oh of course, I'm not a MONSTER

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 13d

NEXT WEEK: migration as economic imperialism w/ immanuel ness

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 13d

admittedly earlier than the traditionally accepted date of oct 1

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 15d

NEW PATREON EP we're joined by the terrific chris gilbert for a conversation on venezuela's socialist communes and how they embody both the fight against US imperialism and the better world we know is possible

up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 21d

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 2: socialist communes and anti-imperialism w/ chris gilbert

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 16d

hahaha, sure thing

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 16d

the sanctions began under obama

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 20d

america runs on americans believing that no matter how challenging things get here, that we still have it remarkably better than the rest of the world. if we knew what life was like in other countries the whole thing would be so much harder for them to manage

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 21d

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
venezuela pt. 2: socialist communes and anti-imperialism w/ chris gilbert

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 22d

NEW EP jo delamor joins us to discuss how to raise the next generation in a way that repels the toxic values underlying Western civilization and instead fosters those of a post capitalist path

up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 26d

NEXT WEEK
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 5: Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis w/ Jo delAmor

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 22d

I feel like bags of cash with $ signs on them wasn't a thing in recent US history but maybe I'm wrong

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up-SCREAM 🎃👻🦇 @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 26d

NEXT WEEK
Post Capitalist Parenting Pt. 5: Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis w/ Jo delAmor

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 27d

presenting a society that has a severe economic class division baked into it and then claiming that managing this severe divide through meager political rights is the only solution because some form of hierarchy is inevitable seems...not historically or logically sensible

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 27d

having hierarchical structures in society is not the same as structured class divisions around ownership. structuring strict hierarchy into the foundation of your society is a lot different than useful hierarchical divisions in specific limited situations

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 28d

we in the imperial core are deep within the belly of the leviathan watching (mostly) helplessly as all of our rights and meager protections are stripped away. and when it comes to our future, barbarism seems like a much more likely outcome than socialism

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 28d

much of the world sees the US and the imperial bloc it leads as the great satan, and so it's clear that the ideological battle has already been lost. but the economic battle has been lost as well, and all the US has left are bribed masked agents at home and drug-addled special forces abroad

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 28d

but despite despite accounting for a whopping 80 percent of global military spending, the global south now outpaces the US and the G7 bloc in terms of economic output. and significantly, this is true even without China being included

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 28d

and as he drowns there will be those servants still loyal to him, servants like UC Berkeley who just handed over the names of 160 professors and students to the Trump regime. servants like legacy media who will continue to self-censor in a vain hope of winning favor with a fascist

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