There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons
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@benroyce it's not even toilet paper any more
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Who is us? Are all fears fungible? Is all wealth fungible? Given that everyone has gotten richer over time anyway, how do you disambiguate? If I accrue resources I don't want and can't use, is that becoming wealthy? If that wealth is consistent in the aggregate but precarious for any one person over the continuous period of time they are building it, such that a different 0.5% of the population periodically lose literally everything, and 5% of them languish until they die out of each batch, is the aggregate wealth concealing anything? I would feel better if that kind of poverty didn't correspond to disappearing. Disappearances are obfuscations. Obfuscations are always capitalized on. Epstein Island was a lot of complexity and coordination to make the world into hell for a few hundred people. What other things like that exist? "Almost everyone has consistent, instantly revocable access to a minimum basket of good under capitalism" gives me anxiety even if line go up -
@benroyce The "us" in the headline is billionaires.
What a load of horseshit!
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@benroyce Published twelve years ago so hopefully they don't publish the same shit with a slightly different tone. This paper is still bullshit owned by Bezos too.
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@benroyce that's fucking real??? Appalling!
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@benroyce The designer who made that graphic should be slapped.
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@benroyce it's not even toilet paper any more
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Counterpoint : No, they don’t (bet me). -
@benroyce Propaganda so blatant you can taste it. Mmm. Shit.
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@benroyce if only there was a country that avoided wars for many years, we could then check if it’s much poorer as the surrounding ones.
I suppose a small neutral one in Europe that was poor in the 19th century could do the trick. Sadly that does not exist. -
@benroyce name and shame-- who wrote this?
@jamesmarshall @benroyce I don't blame you for not wanting to go to their site. Here's an archive.ph link: https://archive.ph/Uiu60
The author apparently is one Ian Morris claiming to be a professor at Stanford (I don't even have to look up this person's history to learn they were born into privilege do I?)
Interestingly this was written back in 2014 apparently. They were also running hit pieces against Obama.
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@benroyce No one wants to click. I don't blame any of you. Here is an archive.ph link: https://archive.ph/Uiu60
Apparently it was written by Ian Morris who claimed to be a professor at Stanford back in 2014. Also, apparently Obama is an illegal president. Or so it says.
Democracy dies in darkness alright — and they were at the forefront of trying to spread that darkness even back then.
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@benroyce Need I say more about why I pay virtually no attention to the mainstream US media?
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@benroyce Why cut out the yellow warning saying it is over 14 years old? It would still be relevant — but more honest.
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@benroyce my ancestors left Prussia and Alsace because people kept saying shit like this
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"I'm still amazed at how quickly Trump and Putin transformed the once proud and noble Party of Lincoln into just another simple rabble of seditious and treasonous playground bullies.
I'm not kidding, it really is startling and amazing. I mean my goodness, it only took two or three years."
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@benroyce Hey, he's got a point. Wars are the one reliable reason to extract and recirculate wealth hoarded by sillionaires that they're relatively powerless to lobby agains, and this recirculation of stagnant wealth can, indeed, make everybody richer.
Of course, we could be even safer and richer if we recirculated the stagnant money without having any wars.
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@benroyce No one wants to click. I don't blame any of you. Here is an archive.ph link: https://archive.ph/Uiu60
Apparently it was written by Ian Morris who claimed to be a professor at Stanford back in 2014. Also, apparently Obama is an illegal president. Or so it says.
Democracy dies in darkness alright — and they were at the forefront of trying to spread that darkness even back then.
Unrelated to the main topic but it's worth mentioning that archive.today have been doing some shady shit. I'd steer clear of them if for no other reason than to not risk being part of the botnet. Wikipedia recently banned them as a source because of that and them manipulating their archive.
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Unrelated to the main topic but it's worth mentioning that archive.today have been doing some shady shit. I'd steer clear of them if for no other reason than to not risk being part of the botnet. Wikipedia recently banned them as a source because of that and them manipulating their archive.
@boo_ @benroyce I don't particularly trust or like them, but what the heck else can I use?
No archive.org doesn't work the same. It seems to be pickier about saving pages (well, an older one like that might be in there, but often new stuff isn't. And there seem to be a lot of limits on getting them to actually archive something at will.) Sometimes one just wants a quick little snapshot of some dumb news article that isn't worth truly saving.
This one doesn't *deserve* archive.org really...
