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Nol Malone ☭If you think the US is a Democracy, and not just a complicated form of slavery that benefits the few, you really aren't paying attention.
Kalshann@anolandria
Open air prison disguised as a nation.
mike805@Kalshann @anolandria This is why the Left/Right divide is so important and has been stoked up so vigorously.
If we're divided between gender theory and prayer in schools, we are not voting 60/40 for our bottom line interests.
Which we should be.
Jay@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria Bottom line interests include civil rights like freedom of and from religion, personal privacy, and bodily autonomy.
The correct reaction to the rich and powerful destroying daily life for the majority is not to cede defense of civil rights to fight for economic justice; rather, to defend said rights is to engage in economic justice.
@WhiteCatTamer @Kalshann @anolandria The division I am talking about is the one where if you are in favor of thing A you are supposed to oppose thing B and vice versa.
The rich have divided "rights" into to mutually hostile packages and want to force people to choose.
@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria No, civil rights are a whole package for the left. No one who is in favor of bodily autonomy and trans rights is in favor of forced prayer in schools.
People can pray in schools. That violates no one’s rights. What DOES is FORCED prayer, and that’s what the “prayer in schools” advocates want. They want FEWER rights.
@WhiteCatTamer @Kalshann @anolandria And while we're disputing that stuff, the billionaires have created enough new printed money to take all of the new wealth for themselves.
Obvious example is abortion. Everyone thought that was settled, until they needed a wedge. Then it got un-settled.
Which was the purpose of the Culture War all along. They DGAF about trans rights or prayer (except for the ones who are into occult stuff, I guess that's a form of prayer.) They do want all the wealth.
@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria Again, you have it backwards. We need economic justice in order to protect civil rights, and strong civil rights enable seeking economic justice.
That billionaires rile up conservatives and “””moderates””” does not mean we can make concessions on civil rights. That kind of calculus is EXACTLY what they want.
Dumu The Void@WhiteCatTamer @mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria @beeftacos @NoahLoren13 @yogthos @VeroniqueB99
The Theory of Open Air Prison can be applied to any Nation State ever, so yeah, this planet is basically an open air prison lol, despite it's different from the Prison Planet hypothesis from New Agers.
Anyway, yeah, despite all criticism against Jiang Xueqin, he's right about social control and about nation states as brainwashing and Social Control System.
@WhiteCatTamer @mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria @beeftacos @NoahLoren13 @yogthos @VeroniqueB99 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3
I imagine the insane arguments Pro-Capitalism Apologists would do for justify it (and they do it already) lol
@WhiteCatTamer @mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria @beeftacos @NoahLoren13 @yogthos @VeroniqueB99 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3
I don't know if I sent this map already.
I think it says everything about how much slave trade and slavery are still present and still affect modern-day world.
You can't separate Capitalism and the West from slave trade, colonialism, imperialism etc.
@WhiteCatTamer @mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria @beeftacos @NoahLoren13 @yogthos @VeroniqueB99 @GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3
I think what disturbs me the most are most technically all of Europe abstained from it (abstain = moderate vote against), including countries which never had formal colonies lol. It's wacky for sure. But it's expectable.
Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan voting for it while the rest of Europe abstained says a lot lol
Pickle Rick 
@mike805 @Kalshann @anolandria
This is exactly the purpose of Fox "news":
Fox: "The War on Christmas!"
MAGA: "Grrr!!!"
Fox: "Drag shows!"
MAGA: "Grrr!!!"
Fox: "Obama wore a tan suit!"
MAGA: "Grrr!!!"
Keep them angry about fake shit that doesn't affect them, and they'll always vote for the billionaires without thinking.
@beeftacos @Kalshann @anolandria It was equally the purpose of CNN for the last few years.
"Trump is doomed because..." over and over again.
"The war on (identity group) intensifies."
"New variant of COVID, run and hide! (while we make money)"
The partisan media on both sides are the left and right hands of a puppeteer. They argue with each other keeping the audience's attention while their pockets are picked.
The Left never gets what they were promised any more than the Trumpies do.
@mike805 @beeftacos @Kalshann Exactly right. The for profit media/political system is designed to keep us fighting each other so we don't realize the real problem is that a very few evil people live in opulence on the backs of the rest. The US revolution's attempt to end royalty failed.
All we got rid of were titles.
Their power, and our servitude, stayed largely the same.
It's time we tried again.
mahadevank@anolandria goodness, that's 60% poverty then?! Wild!
Nazo@mahadevank @anolandria Yeah, but most don't realize it. They're drowning in massive debt, maxing out credit cards, but still vote Republican because it's all the neighbor's fault for existing while brown, not, you know, the ones actually doing this to us.
Even the people voting Democrat still are fooling themselves and voting in candidates that are no different from a Republican used to be.
Wokebloke for Democracy@anolandria
I found a different headline on the site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
I found a different headline on the site:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.
GhostOnTheHalfShellI wonder how much longer that article will remain online.. thank God for the Internet Archive. There’s a columnist on the financial times who remarked that the UK was a few islands of wealth amidst an ocean of poverty.
Both the United States and the UK were the first targets/victims of neoliberalism, a conman’s ask that people surrender their sovereignty to the totalitarian rule of wealth.
That’s what privatization is. The rank and file have no say.
Kinene⭐🐻
Kevin Neely 
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dougiec3 @anolandria do they post the same article under different headlines to target different groups?
Clarissa@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3 @anolandria One was a tweet (BlueSky post?). They may well have edited the headline later.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ktneely @dougiec3 @anolandria
Hello Ghost On The Half Shell!
Sorry if I'm asking it again.
But what do you think about @nyx and her works as in cyber-nihilism, trans-nihilism, xeno-feminism, and gender accelerationism?
I'm curious to know what you think about her calling the US, this planet Earth, and the whole physical universe as "Nammu."
@VoidDumu @ktneely @dougiec3 @anolandria @[email protected]
I have no idea.
さよなら皆さん@anolandria yep! Wage slavery is still slavery.
No Exceptions@anolandria The ~$36,000 the article cites, for a family of three, is roughly only 138% of the federal poverty guidelines for 2025.
If that correlates, then yes, the majority of the population is poor (which I tell my incredulous European friends all the time -- Americans are, by and large, poor).
Ronan@anolandria I agree with you, and the following is probably obvious; that inequality is the source of so much domestic trouble in USA and issues they export to the rest of the world. So many trapped in poverty and their only way out is greed, take everything for yourself and screw everyone else.
A more equal society would be happier and safer. But that means paying taxes and obeying rules, something the rich refuse to do and the poor struggle to
Pseudonymous 
That's called neural linguistic programming. They're wording it that way in the hopes that you'll be afraid of being "at the bottom" and will deny your poverty as a result. 
Hey, Russian bots! Pay attention! The American media does this trick a lot. You wanna rattle your saber, learn this trick. Hen you can rattle it to my benefit for a change. 
RegI'll grudgingly admit that from a slavers' perspective, a self-organising population of wage and debt slaves is an impressive evolution on the old model.
Dźwiedziu@anolandria “democratic slavery” \s
Andy Torbet@anolandria That’s a strong claim, but it oversimplifies a complex system. The U.S. is a democracy with real flaws—economic inequality, influence of capital—but calling it ‘slavery’ ignores both historical context and the mechanisms people still use to push for change
Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson
ts 🚇@darkmemer @anolandria if you take context into consideration then slavery remains widespread. In the Congo, from California to New Hampshire. The Epstein class is doing everything they can to coerce people into doing more for free
@darkmemer @anolandria *California is partly rhetorical, as I’ve heard that they rely on prison labor. New Hampshire has been true well into the 21st century here
RRB@anolandria Wouldn't that be a "super majority"?
masukomi@anolandria I mean it's worse than that. Slavery is still legal in the US and a great form of profit for the prison systems.
@masukomi 💯 Different tactics to ensure human slavery, same benefactors.
Despite all criticism against Jiang Xueqin, he is 100% right about social control systems and the like.
Carina C. Zona@anolandria 51% would be majority. 60% is arguably supermajority.
softproof@anolandria This has a non-zero chance of violating their appropriate risk posture.
Nini@anolandria Fun with linguistics, if you frame it as "Bottom 60%" then it's placing a ceiling on the amount of people and you might be just above it. Now here's the fun bit, the bottom 60% become a mass of underpaid people in your perspective because they're below you and it's now a personal failing of those people rather than a structural problem!
Thing is that "bottom 60%" is 60% of all of the people in the US, not the lowest 60% of a proportion of the populace which the use of "bottom" implies which means you or someone you know will be in that 60%, it's the casual use of terms meant to mislead.