Mr. Ragtime Man

Unequivocal genius who is always right and seldom wrong

[Mr. Ragtime Man @kaindenizen]

My raison d'être is Marxism; I could have everything in the world, yet I’ll never love anything like I love Marxism; this is my life.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Britain loves to imagines it’s the prize in some great geopolitical contest. Who exactly is dreaming of occupying a country with a totally hollowed-out industrial base, crumbling Victorian infrastructure, collapsing institutions, and an economy managed into stagnation?

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

>spends entire adult life focused on going to war with Iran
>gives up all dignity to pursue it
>finally gets war with Iran
>watches Iran win
>dies

[Tosin the proletariat @commieoflagos]

It's the theology of capitalism that pretends to be physics.

[L🖥️ @nothofagusfan53]

One of the funniest earnest beliefs of the biomass right is that the Fabians are a secret cabal of some kind and not just a fake jobs program for washed up union/ngo apparatchiks

[Mr. Ragtime Man @kaindenizen]

@Emre_Kabartas ЛЕНИН 1/1 ❤️🙏

[The Rt Hon Lady Matildamog @Jc62Matildamog]

Head of failing Royal Mail sees his pay rise from 2.1 million to 6.9 million. That’ll go unnoticed by most, but when train drivers get a pay rise people are up in arms. What a pathetic country this is.

[HkBk @SHkBk_GRX]

El ecologismo bajo el capitalismo se resume en que tú tienes que pagar por ducharte en la playa mientras las grandes tecnológicas dejan sin agua a comunidades enteras para sus centros de datos.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

[Eris🖋 @poleris_writes]

The first time 40C was EVER recorded in the UK was four years ago, by 0.3 degrees in one specific area

There’s no air con. Our houses trap heat. The UK is temperate rainforest, and the humidity is set to reach 85%. The sun will be up from 4am-10pm so it won’t cool down overnight

[Jess @Sundancing_]

anyone who doesn't miss woke 1 has no heart. anyone who wants it back has no brain.

[JihadiMouse @quiveringpudle]

Never let the Epstein Left separate the US military from the IDF

[St. Wilding Gyres @wilding_gyres]

This is what Gorbachev took from us all

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A secret society of the world’s elites co-founded by spyware billionaire Peter Thiel has been exposed by hacktivists.

Dialog is a private, invitation-only network, co-founded in 2006 by Palantir chairman Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman.

The organisation holds off-the-record summits for powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, military, celebrity and tech.

Frequently compared to the Bilderberg Group and World Economic Forum, Dialog has spent two decades refusing to disclose the identity of its members and has a private website.

However, a directory in the website’s code was revealed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, who previously leaked the US government’s no-fly list and hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada, WIRED reported.

The directory included “participant profiles” for those planning to attend the group’s summits, featuring contact information, facts about themselves - and even if they were “looking for love” at Dialog events.

Profiles included Texas senator Ted Cruz, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, chief economist at Israel’s finance ministry of Shmuel Abramzon, and a number of Google and Google DeepMind execs.

Other names from the world of entertainment include Hollywood actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin, podcast host and author Sam Harris, and tech entrepreneur and longevity obsessive Bryan Johnson, Straight Arrow News reported.

In many cases it isn’t known if those named are full members, conference participants or merely guests of the organisation.

WIRED reported that a separate source revealed details of an upcoming Dialog retreat at a venue outside Dublin, Ireland.

The retreat, due to be held 12-16 August this year, is set to host NATO’s top US commander Alexus Grynkewich, as well as multiple officials from the Trump administration, two US senators, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States.

Also present will be six members of the so-called “Paypal Mafia”, and a number of those running the US’s most prominent surveillance and data firms.

The conference is set to feature sessions titled “Navigating WWIII”, “Battlefield Technologies”, “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness”, “Bring Back Nuclear” and “Build-a-Cult”, the latter of which will be moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site https://t.co/nbjzqZ95gS.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Fascinating argument by Bloomberg's top energy analyst Javier Blas 👇: he argues that China effectively saved the world economy during the Iran war by absorbing the brunt of the global oil supply shock on its own, without visible economic damage.

According to his calculations, China "cut its average daily waterborne oil imports by the same amount as the combined oil consumption of Germany, France and the UK."

And, still according to Blas, they "did so without suffering economic harm" because they could rely on many levers: their huge strategic petroleum reserve, a massive surge in EV usage, their remaining coal-fired electricity capacity, and coal-to-chemicals replacing lost feedstocks.

Had China not been ready to absorb that blow, a good argument can be made that the economic damage to the West, and the world at large, would have spiraled far beyond what we saw.

Effectively, China's energy strategy at all levels (petroleum reserves, EVs, etc.) and its ability to withstand huge supply shocks paid off for everyone, not just for them.

It sounds awfully familiar: in 2008 too it was China's stimulus package and continuous buying of US Treasuries that averted a complete breakdown of the global financial system.

So twice in 20 years the country the West loves to present as a "threat" to the global economy effectively saved it from a US-made global economic disaster 🤷

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is absolutely insane.

The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.

They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.

They killed five people!

Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.

[Critical Criminology @critcrim]

@LexxMoves It's absolutely what they are planning, and now pursuing.

Culling The Working Class
https://t.co/NLREySbtEc

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The world’s first trillionaire made a pedophile rapist the president of the United States and then personally made sure starving children couldn’t get food and medicine, with 14 million deaths projected from his actions alone. He’s possibly the most evil person in history.

[Keanu Nazari 📕 @KeanuNazari]

I got thousands of rare Cultural Revolution-era photos from a historical archive here in China.

I believe some of these have never been posted online, or only exist behind extremely expensive licenses.

So here they are, for free. Open the thread for more.

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

It's quite funny that this dude's historic wealth might be the most persuasive blackpilling possible on capitalism, and yet the socialist warriors do not take advantage of the opportunity.

Let me explain. His wealth is fundamentally disconnected from personal merit or direct labor. He is the CEO of three companies and in the C-suite at many others. There is simply no possibility whatsoever that he works the hours expected of such positions and that the little personal labor he dedicates to them represents the the incredible wealth he has extracted from them.

Moreover, there are several, well-documented claims from insiders that they have to handle or buffer his erratic behavior, and that the executives that actually do the work are relieved when he gets hyperfocused on another company and leaves them alone. What work he does when he is hyperfocused consists mostly, according to insiders, as extreme micromanagement. He self-describes himself as a "nano-manager," and his official biographer talks about his hyper-critical "demon mode." There is a pretty reasonable argument to be made that his presence harms these companies, rather than helps them.

This is only boosted by how many expensive, high-profile lawsuits his companies have been embroiled in by his public remarks, nonstop posting, and refusal to abide by financial disclosure deadlines. How he treats his employees and unilaterally fires people without cause also causes employment lawsuits.

Substantively, his companies also benefit from him lying to the market to cause speculation and government subsidies won by quid pro quo behavior that would have, in better times, been considered criminal. Musk causes Tesla and SpaceX to consistently lie about its products, and he is never punished enough to offset the personal benefit he gets from the market or subsidies by such lying.

His wealth is an illusion driven by retail investor enthusiasm based on these lies, market expectations based on his lies and the fact that he has yet to seriously pay for lying, and pay packages approved by boards stacked with flunkies that cannot articulate how he can possibly do enough work as the CEO of three companies and executive of half a dozen others to justify his intensely bloated pay packages. He receives that pay even when his companies are not profitable, which has led to constant shareholder lawsuits.

If there was a poster boy of American Capitalism, it is him. He represents everything wrong with the reality of how the system works, and how lying and anticompetitive behavior is not adequately curbed.