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Cake day: December 10th, 2024

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  • People are conditioned to think “Capitalism must be good because I have infinite selection of infinite consumption!” While justifying the exploitation of the third world workers.

    What’s funny is even that is a ruse and not true. Go to any chain supermarket and your options will be derived from a tiny handful of massive conglomerates. Even the produce and deli section! It’s not infinite selection, it’s infinite marketing.

    Colonialism was about exploiting the external realms for resources and concentrating the wealth into one spot. For a while, the American peasantry benefitted and got comfy. Now that fascism is here, all that wealth will be further concentrated and they/we become the exploited ones.

    Capitalism ran out of foreign resources to exploit and is now going after the imperial core. The 2008 crash and especially the aftermath is the start of that IMO. And that aftermath was entirely bipartisan with Obama stuffing his cabinet with Goldman Sachs people.

    Democrats can’t seem to draw the line between that action and trumps election and reelection.


  • I agree with your overall comment but this reeks of “you participate in capitalism therefore you have no right to criticize” nonsense

    Every bleeding heart compassionate liberal has at least one phone/iPad/laptop/etc. All of them -all of us- benefitting from the exploitation of people we’ll never have to look in the eye as they die from heavy metal poisoning.

    Capitalism is coercive by design. It’s almost impossible to function without a smart phone let alone a cellphone these days.

    You legally have to wear clothes when you’re outside (except VT). Nearly all clothes are produced in sweatshops with slave labor like conditions.

    You have to eat. Nearly all food is harvested by exploited or worse workers.

    That farm equipment and fertilizer? Crude oil says hello. Oh what’s that? We need cheap oil? Time for another forever war in the Middle East to “spread democracy” aka steal national wealth and assets.