Corporate #landlords are buying up #MobileHome parks so they can hold lower-income families hostage and raise #rent. #capitalism http://moneywise.com/a/ch-msna/corporate-landlords-are-gobbling-up-mobile-home-parks
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radical (adj.) late 14c., "originating in the root or ground”
HeavenlyPossumKarl Widerquist, in his Oxford dissertation (which he’s getting ready to publish as a book), explained it like this:
“A person born without individual access to property is as unfree as if she were born in debt without means of default…Today, people are not subject to any one master. The aristocracy is somewhat fluid. Many working people accumulate property throughout their lives. But one critically important element of feudalism remains: some people are born in servitude to another group of people, because the laws of the state have put someone else’s property rights between them and the resources they need to survive.”
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Zavier@liztai But the administration of #Twitter is pro-fascism, part of the American right-wing, imperial, colonial, capitalist, war machine. It is a corporate monopoly that has worked for years to eliminate competition. It used to be a tool for democracy but with #ElonMusk taking over, #Mastodon seems so much better for activists speaking out against injustices.
Decolonial AtlasYou know we live in a dictatorship of capital when every corporate media outlet is framing the rail strike as one of "workers vs. the economy" instead of "workers vs. rail corporations that reaped $27 billion in revenue last year" - @catcontentonly
Misinformation-SuperhighwaymanThis Colbert interview with Maria Ressa is short but packed with insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpWevZ5yQz8
Maria Ressa is a journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and writer of "How to Stand Up to a Dictator".
In this interview, she talks about how Facebook, Twitter, and some other forms of Social Media function as a component of Surveillance Capitalism and use their fact-distorting power to undermine democracy.
"If you don't have facts, you can't have truth.
Without truth, you can't have trust.
Without these three, you have no shared reality.
We can't solve any problems.
We have no democracy.
That's what social media has done: is has come in and used 'free speech' to stifle free speech."
#MariaRessa #Colbert #HowToStandUpToADictator #January6 #ElonMusk #Twitter #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #SurveillanceCapitalism
Maria Ressa: How Social Media Uses Free Speech To Stifle Free Speech
If you are using #Twitter still, how do you justify giving over your content, personal data, and social relationships to a profit-driven corporation that uses secret #algorithms, undermines #democracy, spreads #hate, and is led by an unhinged #billionaire? #question #riptwitter #elonmusk
In feudal times peasants had to “their grain ground at their lord’s mill, a service for which they had to pay.” The lord extracted value “through #monopoly, coercion, and rent.” “Digital platforms are the new watermills, their #billionaire owners the new lords, and their thousands of #workers and billions of users the new peasants.” #JodiDean
Lord #ElonMusk does whatever he wants at #Twitter and the peasants line up to pay him with attention, data, and money. #Resist #Neofeudalism #Neoliberalism #IAmNotASurf
Lord #ElonMusk does whatever he wants at #Twitter and the peasants line up to pay him with attention, data, and money. #Resist #Neofeudalism #Neoliberalism #IAmNotASurf
Quinta JurecicWrote some irate thoughts on Musk and Trump, for The Atlantic.
"This entire incident is terrifically stupid. The story revolves around the whims of two wealthy and self-involved men who enjoy nothing more than public attention. It is an enormous waste of everyone’s time, and I resent having to think about it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-twitter/672195/
