Consumptive #Capitalism

On #MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara #Silverstein

Timothy #Snyder Feb 15, 2026

Consumptive Capitalism, by Sara Silverstein

Until very recently, tuberculosis was common, expensive, and lethal in the United States.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/consumptive-capitalism

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#USA #healthcare #tuberculosis #Measles #sanatorium #wellnessindustry
#pharmaceuticals #antibiotics #vaccines
#KellesKrauz #Kafka #LesyaUkrainka
#GavriloPrincip #ThomasMann

Timothy Snyder writes: ‘…Tuberculosis, known in the past as consumption, has infected somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of all humans ever, and it possibly infected more than ninety percent of the population in industrializing countries during its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not everyone who is infected develops an active disease. Whether they become sick depends partly on social and economic conditions that affect the immune system. Only about a fifth of those people who became sick recovered permanently and absolutely before the discovery of modern antibiotics. And of course tuberculosis is only one of the infectious diseases that once caused a vast portion of the population to live with chronic illness and disability…

https://snyder.substack.com/p/consumptive-capitalism

#MAHA #MAGA #TimothySnyder #HTealthcare #rump #USpol #Tuberculosis

tl;dr: This #video adds to what #TimothySnyder wrote in the addendum to #OnTyranny.

https://youtu.be/ZekpT8DaV_0

It's not that I disbelieved Timothy Snyder; it's that I listened to the #audiobook of On Tyranny when the rest of my bookclub read the physical book.

That audiobook had an entire bonus section with an additional twenty points centering #Ukraine. Timothy Snyder shared that he'd written these down the previous evening. I was not prepared to communicate about the additional material because it was seriously as long or longer than the original book. I'm sure there's an expanded version out there by now, but as an audiobook listener, I'll let y'all go find it.

Aside: When a random new-to-me channel shows up in my #YouTube feed, I check when it joined. If it's too recent, I pass, regardless of the content. This channel started in 2017.

Today, I was served the random video linked above that ties into Snyder's Ukraine content.

This video affirms everything Snyder said, and adds context like the difference between the #Russian and #Ukrainian #words associated with #power. Like the words for #money and #treasury. Being reminded that #Russia has #Mongol roots added the piece I was missing.

Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself

The Gospel of JD

Timothy #Snyder Feb 09, 2026

The parable of the Good Samaritan, from to the Gospel of Luke (10:25-37):

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master (Jesus), what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

https://snyder.substack.com/p/hate-thy-neighbor-as-thyself

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#GoodSamaritan
#Vance #JDVance #Thiel
#USA #America #ICE

Prof. #TimothySnyder

The Long Ukrainian Winter

How You Can Help

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-ukrainian-winter

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine

The Long Ukrainian #Winter

How You Can Help

Timothy #Snyder Feb 07, 2026

Russia’s full-scale of invasion began four years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the fifth. And, for civilians, the worst.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-ukrainian-winter

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#StandWithUkraine
#usa #Russia #Ukraine #peace #war

An Ethnic Cleansing Averted (For Now)

An Update on #Springfield, #Ohio

Timothy #Snyder Feb 06, 2026

#Trump tells a lie about #immigrants voting; this becomes an excuse to made it harder for citizens to vote; #DHS is meant to be central to both. This can all be stopped, but we have to be aware of what we face.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/an-ethnic-cleansing-averted-for-now

#TimothySnyder #ThinkingAbout
#deportation #Haiti #ethniccleansing
#USA #America #ICE

RE: https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolution/116007231406170718

Der verlinkte Artikel von #TimothySnyder ist zwar lang und englisch - aber in seiner Klarheit der Analyse und der Beschreibung erschreckend. Unbedingt lesen!

Das Wesen von #Wissenschaft besteht darin, dass sie aufgrund ihrer exakten Beobachtungen #Vorhersagen machen kann. In diesem Fall sind sie gruselig. Bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass diese Katastrophe noch irgendwie abgewendet werden kann.

#Rassismus tötet. Immer.
Wehret den Anfängen.