TheCapm

Do good. Die great.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

Many such cases

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The absurd thing about this whole Ordinary Abundance hype is that the life it portrays is actually out of reach for too many.

Instead of a peaceful apartment you are dealing with loud neighbors in a crowded space, pollution and perhaps traffic noise, and are worried that your lease is up soon.

Instead of that deep connection with your old friend you are struggling with a loneliness crisis you have been trapped in since the pandemic.

Instead of reading a book you are doomscrolling and wondering why pundits are saying that you are supposed to enjoy abundance where you are worried about paying your bills.

Instead of fresh fruit on the counter in a designer bowl your fridge is mostly empty and you revert to toast and beans because it’s the end of the month.

Instead of switching on the light and marveling at the availability of electricity you are worried about your utility bill.

Instead of ordinary abundance your life is shaped by abundant insecurity as you are priced out of essentials and the next shock is just around the corner.

That’s why we need an economics of essentials that offers real solutions to the crisis of livelihoods in front of us instead of lectures about the wrong vibes.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@EdbieLigerSmith Ive been saying this since he was inexplicably present at the Lake/Bloomington Minneapolis federal show of force a few years back

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@ConorAWalsh Not an argument

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@tomer_stern @IsabellaMWeber Shes not referring to the median, shes referring to the lived reality of people who actually have to suffer because of our landlord first housing schema. Thats necessarily going to be the more poverty stricken folks in our society.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@DrAdams0 Homicide

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@cborchiemn @keithellison Wrong!

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus Thats correct, yes. See: China executing corrupt oligarchs while America kisses the boot of corrupt oligarchs and beg for their patronage.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus Im sorry you're in your feelings about the solution to the corruption inherent to the capitalist model. I did promise you that you wouldnt like the answer. 😉

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus Weak rebuttal, Gene! A man who's scared of words betrays his fear of the truth.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@DPRK_News DPRK doesnt have to deal with 30-50 feral hogs. Such is the power of dialectical materialism

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@SaltyRiverWater Among the right wing agitators was one case of a police officer from a suburb shattering windows. Are you so ignorant that you actually expect police officers to admit crime among their ranks? The fact that they dont was the entire reason the people were righteously angry.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus Its all really straightforward actually

1. The problem exists and is lucrative for the very few
2. Those very few use their lucrative profits to fund opposition to the solution
3. The solution struggles because fools like you allow their opinions to be formed for them by the few

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@yumtapwater Shrine

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@KG6783 Congresspeople in general are owned like property by those same investors, why would they ever actually threaten their material interests?

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus The answer is socialism, which this country has not tried and has in fact sought to strangle in the cradle with illegal and arbitrary violence whenever it is tried.

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus The structural problem is all the feedback loops that encourage/reward market concentration. Some are inevitable (concentration of capital allows more efficient production) some arent (controllers of capital are allowed/encouraged to bribe politicians)

You wont like the answer

[TheCapm @ThaCapm]

@geneburrus Thats not a structural change. You're proposing doing the exact same thing we've been doing, just better this time.

Advocating for what we've already tried and what has failed spectacularly makes you look very uninterested in actually fixing the problems this structure causes.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The replies to Brian Thompson’s last post on LinkedIn — all from before the shooting — are a horror show