TempleDeficitOwl

Just an average guy who is an ardent advocate for economic justice. He/Him #MMT

[Marianne Elizabeth 🕊️ @FindingHolm]

@sdgrumbine Thank you Steve for all the podcasts you do exposing the system for what it is! For having the courage to do so & the knowledge to back it up 🙏🙏🙏

I’ve learned so much from each guest & every episode. Keep up the great work!! 👍

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

@Optimistbot @Plutocratdead1 @EdbieLigerSmith Educate. Organize. Build dual power and parallel systems.

No matter what my "plan" is, the recognition that we cannot vote it away, based on observed reality and historical dialectics coupled with a study of the last 30 years showing it empirically

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

@JimPOReilly1 @ToddCollin611 The idea that any of you not understanding that the "independence" and whatnot is "the conspiracy" misses the point of capitalism. The fake idea that we live in a democracy. As if we have any control through the ballot box... just insane honestly. But it is intentional

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

@shift_in2_turbo @RespiratorsWork @ACleverNickname @abetterworld98 @deusexmoniker @weareronin47 @TimOnTheTractor @BlueCheckBeth @commie_trucker @cosmepolitics @DavidGoesPlaces @dhartk @ThiaBallerina @navajofelon @davenewworld_2 @willrallison @420GHz @leftygrove Thanks Karim!

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

@danellisona https://t.co/iSHANrmwr1

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

Congratulations @SabbySabs2

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

As long as sustenance can come from killing and stealing resources from a far away land, or some manufactured caricature of some enemy, people are fine pretending they live in a democracy and everything will be ok. They fear what dealing with the system that creates these scenarios means as it brings the fight home instead of "over there, over there"... they turn a blind eye to how impoverished countries can somehow send raw materials to HMS xyz or to the US or to some other Global North entity. When you stop normalizing the evils the system is designed to manufacture, regardless of puppets at the top, you begin to realize that the pathways to change are not going to be found within the systems that create them. It takes courage moreso than knowledge. Though knowledge is the key to opening courage to the possibilities, courage is needed to face the actual demons that will defend the current order.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

Ironically, we’re not even good at the one thing the empire does best: war.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Trump is openly bragging that Big Oil companies are making hundreds of billions of dollars because of his war all while the people are struggling with higher gas prices and inflation. His closing message to voters is that he hates you and serves the rich.

[William Murphy @420GHz]

Every full-time job should pay a real living wage. Workers shouldn’t need 2–3 jobs to survive. If full-time labor can’t afford food, housing, and healthcare, the problem isn’t the worker—it’s an economic system that puts profit before people. #LivingWage

[William Murphy @420GHz]

Marxist analysis begins with material conditions, class relations and institutional power—not Western liberalism as the default. Scrutinize corporate diversity, culture wars, medical markets, state ideology and media through the lens of capital and class struggle. #Marxism

[Macro n Cheese Podcast #MMT @CheeseMacro]

"What's happening right now seems to be this tearing away of the veneer that there is any distinction between the state and the capitalist class." — Brett Scott

Episode 402 – A Feeding Frenzy at the End of the World w/ Brett Scott

#Substack: https://t.co/k4Ym5JP7nJ

https://t.co/SAr2uVRRM9

#capitalism #ai #tech

[Macro n Cheese Podcast #MMT @CheeseMacro]

#BigOil and big #finance used to be the most powerful factions of capital. Now it's the tech #oligarchs. The results will be catastrophic. Brett Scott explains.

Link to new Macro N Cheese ep ft @Suitpossum: https://t.co/HhL1iy2YVO

[MMTmarxist 🇵🇸 @MMTmarxist]

@CheeseMacro @Suitpossum @sdgrumbine #AI under capital will never free us or even improve our lives - it will be weaponized to further exploit the #WorkingClass. #Tech under #capitalism will always serve capital. The question is ownership, not the gadgets themselves. Another fantastic MNC episode w/ Brett Scott :)

[TempleDeficitOwl @RobBaxter19]

@CheeseMacro @Suitpossum @sdgrumbine "Technology hasn't made our lives easier. It's made our lives faster." That quote from Brett perfectly sums up technology under capitalism. Imagine what it could do if we lived under a system that valued health and wellbeing over profit. #Technology #Capitalism #ClassWar

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

This is so stupid because it's all dependent on the degree of true democracy - i.e. a government of and by the people rather than corporations and oligarchs who buy politicians - and the ethico-political gulf between private and public interests. Sub-high-school thinking.

[The View From Mars (unplugged) @pablomelito1]

But but…socialism…

[Empire Of Lies @berningman16]

"We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." - Louis D. Brandeis

[ΛЦƧƬΣЯIƬY IƧ MЦЯDΣЯ @sdgrumbine]

Bernie keeps the lie alive that tax fund spending, fucking an entire movement and lying to people who needed him to tell the fucking truth.