American revolutionaries, escaping a king, did away with kings, royalty & titles, capitalists have since created new kinds of royalty for the masses to idolize - & distract from mutual aid & organizing: film & sports stars, billionaire CEO's, & presidents (JFK, Obama for Dems; Trump for Repub's).😡

Those "national policies" were, above all, neoliberal economic policies designed to shift resources from workers' income to capitalist profits. They began with Carter/Volcker & continued under both Dem's & Repub's. On the beginning: la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav...

Source? For more on some Catholic resistance to the Nazis: Detlev J.K. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, Yale University Press, 1982, and Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: Working Class and the 'National Community’, New York: Berg, 1993.

Just remember (or look it up) Trump's gutting of the EPA repeats that done by Ronald Reagan back in the 1980s. He too appointed a hitman to managing the gutting, deregulation to boost capitalist profits by cutting requirements to protect the rest of us & the planet.

Yeah, but don't get your hopes up. France is no more free of corruption than the US. It has its own brands of politicians, bought-off by capitalists guilty of all sorts of crimes, of which pedophilia is but one momentarily visible example.

"Forgotten by tomorrow" because capitalist mass media will hide it, not report it, bury it, like it does so many, many such statements & associated behaviors. THEN bought-off historians will follow suit & leave such out of our kids' history books, buried in a hidden past, along with so much else.😡

"This country" is neither pro-life nor anything else. There is no such subject with a will & intentions! "This country" is made up of an amalgam of people with many different desires. The "pro-life" folks are misogynic worshipers of Patriarchy who want to roll back all the rights women have won.

"Presidents' Day"? Although early American revolutionaries, escaping a king's grasp, did away with kings, royalty & titles, capitalists have since created new kinds of royalty for the masses to idolize - & distract from mutual aid & organizing: film & sports stars, billionaire CEO's, & presidents.😡

Beyond sarcasm, the Foundation's objective has little to do with fraud & everything to do with replacing our pseudo-democracy with a racist, misogynic White Nationalist Theocracy. THAT is what they are after. If you doubt it, read: Katherine Stewart's MONEY, LIES & GOD (2025) that lays it all out.

I've never understood folks' obsession with stories about obviously neurotic, co-dependent couples who never learn how to escape their neuroses & live independently & happily! Is it "projection"? Identification with others with the same problems? Pleasure in others' suffering? What's the deal?

"Pitiful excuse"? Better: she's a prototypical fawning sycophant who will say anything, lie about anything, to curry favor with her boss, while diverting attention from & refusing to own up to either of their crimes. Can't think of a better example to teach kids what the word "sycophant" means.

"Engineers" exist as a separate category of workers only because it has been convenient for capitalists to use the division to control ALL workers. Same with white/blue collar, skilled/unskilled & such categories as "scientist" & "technician". All means to divide & conquer/control.

Tel Aviv & every other city, town & hamlet in Palestine! Like so many other horrors, bought-off politicians & capitalist media want us to forget the genocide in Palestine, from Gaza to the West Bank. Don't forget, don't forgive, keep protesting.

You can do this only if you're not anxiously getting ready for or going to work! Dolly Parton's "Nine to Five" expressed this very well. Alternative: less work, more time for such pleasant enjoyment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxU...

Trump's "relentless self-promotion" takes advantage of the way capitalists in the US have substituted new kinds of royalty for the old kings & nobility: film & sports stars, billionaire CEO's and idolized politicians, especially presidents. For Dem's, FDR & JFK, for Repub's Reagan, now Trump.

"Our"? NEVER identify with a repressive, increasingly fascist movement & ITS priorities! Differentiate, make clear WHOSE priorities are fucked & assert those you agree with & prefer.

Although the sentiment is understandable, it's not a good idea to valorize capital punishment by the state for ANY reason. Better & more appropriate alternatives can always be available with our myriad resources. In this case, how about a life sentence of community service in a halfway house.

"Presidents' Day"? Although early American revolutionaries, escaping a king's grasp, did away with kings, royalty & titles, capitalists have since created new kinds of royalty for the masses to idolize - & distract from mutual aid & organizing: film & sports stars, billionaire CEO's, & presidents.😡

Generously, "favorite"= preferred to the current alternative. Although early American revolutionaries, escaping a king's grasp, did away with kings, royalty & titles, capitalists have since created new kinds of royalty as idols for the masses: film & sports stars, billionaire CEO's, & presidents.😡

Study the past, to understand the present: Detlev J.K. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, Yale University Press, 1982, and Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: Working Class and the 'National Community’, New York: Berg, 1993.

Something workers learned long, long ago, when they lost their independence & were herded into factories for long hours of exploitation: the sources of both collaborative sabotage & unions.

"so sick it couldn’t possibly have happened"? Naïveté! Ya think only out & out mobsters dispose of victims in such a manner? As Marlon Brando said (roughly) about the "Godfather" - "not a bad representation of your average rapacious CEO!"

And, it's only an intensification of long-standing RIGHT-WING efforts to indoctrinate within the military. Not only by politically partisan officers, but by fanatic white Christian chaplains dedicated to spreading their racist, misogynic beliefs - uncurbed by any official policies or enforcement.

"Makes sense"? At a gut level, perhaps. But there is no excuse for capital punishment by the state that can mobilize plenty of other resources to deal with even the vilest crimes.

"the failure of democracies over decades to deliver"? Yes, but that "failure" was the embrace of neoliberal economic policies by both political parties, policies that screwed workers & generated the desperate discontent that supports authoritarian alternatives.😡

Nope! For immigrants today, for YOU tomorrow. They are following the Nazis playbook. Read up on the history they hid from you in school & recognize the parallels: D. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism, 1982. Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

This is vital! Amidst depressing awareness of the horrors being inflicted on us by capitalists in their day-to-day exploitation and the onslaught of the fascist policies they are supporting, seek out counter-sources of energy in victories won & in the continuation of struggle itself. Revitalize!

I don't know about "common sense", but anyone who has taken Econ 101 knows the burden of tariffs is born by consumers. And then, as trade wars result, by BOTH consumers & workers - who suffer from job loss & downward pressure on wages (& thus on their ability to consume!).

"Film production" to most probably means by Hollywood & other capitalist producers. But by far the most important "film production" today is the multiplication of cellphone videos of ICE & FBI & DOJ crimes! Keep THAT production up & multiplying.

Valentine's Day? Well, these days celebrating love amidst the pervasive hate being spread by Trump & his White Christian Nationalist backers would seem to be a good idea, not just love for another individual, but for life, for its thriving beyond efforts to corral & harness it for vile purposes.

Racism? Yes, certainly. But, racism was functional to pitting newly conquered folks against workers at home. Cecil Rhodes saw this clearly, colonialism made possible management of class struggles at home.

Does this kind of shit make it crystal clear why our healthcare should NEVER be confided to capitalists? Not in research, not in development, not in delivery, not in regular care. Capitalists care not one whit about our health, but only about profits used to control people through endless work.

"killed"? Let's use proper language! They MURDERED a 7-year-old little girl.

Click & read thread. Not just Ben's commentary but the texts he provides. THIS is the background to contemporary racist, misogynic WHITE Christian Nationalists, well analyzed in Katherine Stewart's MONEY, LIES & GOD (2025). Imagine the version of the Bible, they'll peddle!

Support for Trump et al.'s drive to fascism goes far beyond that of obvious sycophants but includes far too many capitalists who daily prove their complicity by such behavior: giving the pigs airtime (censored or not), NOT reporting their crimes, etc.

The refusal of capitalist mass media to use explicit language, e.g., concentration camps, fascism, terrorism (about ICE), is due either to cowardice or, more likely, complicity. In some cases, e.g., Bezos & WAPO, it's obvious, in others it's hidden but the choice of language is always revealing.

"people don’t control the federal government"? Never have; never will, as long as we have THIS kind of pseudo-democracy, crafted by & for capitalists. Read & learn: Robert Ovetz, We the Elites: Why the Us Constitution Serves the Few (2022).

This clearly involves imagining a post-capitalist future. For the moment, all capitalism offers kids is 12+ years of job training & the rest of their lives subordinated to work.

Report what the fascist says if you must, but don’t give such a lying pig free airtime by reproducing a propaganda video in Bluesky? You "watch" then report, but spare us the videos, eh?

True, but NEVER confuse anti-Zionism with antisemitism, which is what Zionists want you to do & they try to get others to use the false claim of antisemitism to attack protests against Zionist genocide.

True, but NEVER confuse anti-Zionism with antisemitism, which is what Zionists want you to do & they try to get others to use the false claim of antisemitism to attack protests against Zionist genocide.

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

It ain't just FEAR, it's also ANGER: Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists!

You can thank the American school system that systematically turns out ignorant, easy to manipulate pawns of capitalist misinformation & fearmongering. Worked in Weimar, Germany, working fine here in Trump-MAGA-USA.

Mistress of understatement.😡 Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists!

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

While SOME financial instruments, e.g., stocks & bonds, are used to raise money for real investment, ever since financial deregulation (since Volcker) - abandoning safeguards put in place after the Great Depression - most money has gone into speculation, assholes playing with other peoples' money!

I suppose the one virtue of the Epstein files has been to wake some people up to the way "justice" in capitalism is handed out has ALWAYS been shaped to protect bosses & screw anyone who challenges them. Robert Ovetz, We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few (2022).

Nice reveal: capitalism has always been about the subordination of life to the work of commodity production, either profitable goods & services or of our ability to work. When they had the power in the 18th & 19th Centuries, they imposed 12-18 hr work days & 6-7 day work weeks. They want that now!