The dollars we save for retirement are flushed into the stock market casino, a game that is rigged against us, where we are always the suckers at the table:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses

Everywhere and always, we are financing our own destruction. It's quite a #MrGotcha moment:

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

Now, anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. We are living through a broad, multi-front counter-revolution to Reaganomics *and* neoliberal Democratic Party sellouts.

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This is the mindset #MattBors skewers so expertly with his iconic #MrGotcha character: "Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very smart":

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

(Which reminds me, I am halfway through Bors's unbelievably, fantastically, screamingly awesome graphic novel "Justice Warriors," which turns the neoliberal caveat-emptor/personal-responsibility brain-worm into the basis for possibly the greatest superhero comic of all time:)

https://www.mattbors.com/books

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The #inevitabilist narrative that says that corporations *must* violate our rights in order to make the products we love is unadulterated #MrGotcha nonsense: "Yet you participate in society. Curious. I am very intelligent":

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

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