Mastodawn

While #transidentity and other varieites of #genrderorientation or #sexualorientation, seem to concern only a tiny minority, the issue at stake literally concerns everyone who isn't a rich white cis-hetero male over 50. And that issue is #patriarchy and #capitalism, which, together, ensure that anyone. who isn't wealthy male cis-hetero WASP is to be tightly controlled and exploited or even exterminated, if they are too "subversive". This concerns #LGBTQIA+, but right after, #jews and #muslims.

AKingsbury 6d ago

@ariane

All sorts of people are controlled all sorts of ways, and it's not capitalism that does it. Indeed, capitalism clearly prescribes FREE markets, open exchange, etc. It's a powerful tool to uplift the poor.

No, the primary instrument of oppression is the government. Ask yourself this; who has more power over you, right now; Jeff Bezos, of the local chief of police? Which one can send an armed man to your home with impunity?

@AlexanderKingsbury Actually, #capitalism has been literally built on the exploitation not only of former "serfs" in Europe,, but also of slaves and resources taken over by European capitalists through colonization. Free market has always only been for those who possess something to sell or to produce goods to sell. That is a minority of people. Everyone else is just there to serve these dominants, sometimes against an under-valued salary, sometimes just to be able to keep their life.

@AlexanderKingsbury #Capitalism bourgeoisie has always been able to engage the #government in their own interest, be it through placing people of their own cast in government, or by blackmailing government with suppression of labor and moving it abroad, in countries with more friendly government. Basically, #capitalists have been able to wriggle their way out of responsibilities with the help of more or less corrupt governments.

🌊 #woke

@AlexanderKingsbury The present US government is probably a sort of epitome of this phenomenon, since you have corrupt capitalists heading the government. Capitalists who are hands in hands with other extremist neoliberals like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Andressen, etc. And someone like Peter Thiel, who is a mentor to JD Vance, or Elon Musk, who's become BFF with Trump, do have the means to the army to your home with impunity. Not directly, but indirectly. And they do.