Fulcon

🇮🇪 ☭ Full stack mouse jiggler, MK Ultra socialist catboy, air fryer enthusiast.

[Gerry Carroll @GerryCarrollPBP]

Its hard to undersell just how large the demonstration in Belfast was today. It was one of the largest demonstrations i've ever seen in the city.

[Lasair Dhearg @LasairDhearg]

Belfast Republicans and antifascists have been surveilling RAA and Clann Éireann members in recent months, according to this statement from Belfast Communities Against Fascism

[graham! @chipppup]

HIGH KING | James_102 👑

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@Solidarity_Star Jake Sullivan's face is priceless hahaha

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 A dickhead

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 All private property only exists by threat of government violence. Or do you think that signing a piece of paper is a magical contract that makes it so nobody else can claim ownership of your home?

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 And another 25% are FIRE: finance, insurance, and real estate. Intangible financial services.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 Sorry to have to be the one to tell you this but a huge part of the Fortune 500 make their fortune through financial speculation, not subsidies or industry. In fact, 20-25% of the U.S. GDP is produced through financial speculation, only 10-12% through manufacturing.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 Yes, galaxy brain, the middle class was born when unions took power in the U.S. after WW1.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 Yeah totally, with all that gold and silver that the U.S. produce 😂 The issue is *definitely* not that the U.S. economy is effectively a goddamn casino.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 How do you expect to 'force' them to do anything in a free market society? Political parties are given so much by wealthy industrialists and corporations due to a lack of government self-regulation, why would they operate within a class that do not pay them?

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 First they actually need a middle class. Hard to do when they have practically decimated union rights + eroded public infrastructure to an unworkable degree.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 You operate under the notion that they would not participate in these practices if taxes weren't so high. Corporations are not *forced* to artificially inflate stock prices through stock buybacks, they choose to, not some reluctant measure they take against taxation. It's greed.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@hartsea82 @SumDood696969 An example was the Federal Reserve printing 400 billion USD to bail out wealthy depositors when SVB crashed, when they have maintained a policy of strict non-interference since the reconstruction period.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@hartsea82 @SumDood696969 I've never bought the "socialism for the rich" line. I've always thought of it as the wealthy coming for returns on their investments. They donate so much to these parties, so it makes sense they get a lot of ROI in the form of class solidarity.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 This myth also assumes billionaires will gracefully grant workers higher pay. They instead use them for stock buybacks and divident payouts. In fact, 90% of corporate profit (which you want to lower the tax on) is spent on stock buybacks.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@SumDood696969 @hartsea82 A monetarist neoliberal myth. It results in the concentration of wealth as billionaires only hoard the money they save by investing in non-productive assets.

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@Topfragger69 @maxiemma919 @JamesLLandis @PamphletsY These polarizing dynamics come about precisely because Liberal governments struggle to deal with socio-economic inequalities and manage crises which create instability, fostering discontent. They degenerate into Fascism to deal with the threat of an uprising by workers/communists

[Fulcon @__Fulcon__]

@Topfragger69 @maxiemma919 @JamesLLandis @PamphletsY The case of Italy, for example, we saw the PCI suddenly explode in membership. This deeply unsettled the Italian middle class, land owners and industrialists. The Fascist Party capitalized on this fear, positioning itself as a bulwark against the organizing workers.