It's quite hard to look at the current situations with Musk and Twitter, Bezos and the WaPo, and the LA Times as anything other than evidence that the extreme consolidation of wealth is itself a grave and direct threat to society

@rjmccall

The #US is an #Oligarchy, a state owned entirely by its ultra-rich.

It slowly ceased to be a #Democracy, whilst retaining the outer appearance of a democracy.

Nobody noticed.

https://medium.com/@colingajewski/how-democracies-quietly-transform-into-oligarchies-without-anyone-noticing-d47b2133b752

How Democracies Quietly Transform into Oligarchies Without Anyone Noticing

The transformation of democracies into oligarchies is not marked by sudden coups or dramatic revolutions. Instead, it’s a gradual, almost invisible process. Democracies, at their core, are designed…

Medium
Ohh that’s RICH on Substack

Masculinity in the United States is in a state of crisis. A new poll from NBC confirms the impact of this crisis is deeper than I ever could’ve imagined. The overwhelming support for Trump, MAGA, and DOGE among white men without a college education is at a level that would terrify the American men I considered to be heroes as a child. Men who fought and defeated the worst of us. Men who believed in working hard and protecting their community. Men like my grandfathers. We must reclaim our identity. For everyone’s sake.

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@Godfrey642 @rjmccall

Listened to it. He's absolutely right.

This a comment on the US economy, written in Orwell-inspired Newspeak.

They've turned the economy into an open prison.

https://medium.com/@colingajewski/americawork-debt-chain-proleconomy-d85a016c8465

Americawork: Debt-Chain Proleconomy - Colin Gajewski - Medium

In Americawork, all prole must debt. School-debt, house-debt, cred-debt, car-debt. No debt, no live. Bigcost up, pay low. Must debt to work, must work to debt. Debt no accident. Debt is plan. Prole…

Medium

@photoncollector @rjmccall

Im currently reading Matt Kennard "The Racket" written in 2016 but updated and highly relevant to today.

Im in the chapter on Bretton Woods after WW2 and it seems that that is when this whole nightmare began. US basically holding the world to ransom with loans, unrepayable debts, seizure of other nations' assets and locking world governments into the US dollar as global currency.

We all sleepwalked into this believing America was the good guy who had our backs, when in reality America had us by the balls.
Now Americas 1% aka the oligarchs have got their compatriots by the balls as well. And they just don't care.