i.am.groot

I’m tired of paying bills n the commodification of my survival. I want to do photosynthesis.

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

Yes

[Thee__Advocator @JRT__25]

Black radicals & liberals talk past each other b/c they seek "advancement" / "progress" under fundamentally different frameworks. Radical progress and liberal progress are not the same, and the arguments that support progress under one often stifles progress under the other.

[☽ Mina_duⵣ🌸🇩🇿(⚢) @kaoru_san22]

My least favorite horror movie is the fact that young boys are so easily influenced by the outside environment. A mother could spend years teaching her little kid to be a sweet boy,and just him going to school,meeting a boy who harbors toxic ideas can change him completely

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@hell_line0 Not always

[Matt @stealth_riot]

I was like mom it’s a hormone there can’t be a shortage of it. She was like “I feel like it’s not fair that trans women are on it and women who need it can’t get it” I corrected her and fixed that mindset

But there’s abt to be a whole new wave of terfs bc of this fuck

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@cski_michelle @omgsidewalks They get bailed out, actually

[E @thejordanelyse]

muting these tweets but continue to pour into black children by creating safe spaces for them to thrive. be a mentor, volunteer at community centers, sponsor initiatives. black children deserve socialization amongst people who they don’t have to explain their existence to

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@cski_michelle @omgsidewalks As if the private sector doesn’t mismanage lol

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I still DO NOT understand how so many of you were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@B00G19 @xezirsalad Pills vs D&C

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@johnsemley3000 This was my mindset before meta glasses and surveillance. Now I do take out

[Zarish @Zarish5062]

“A postpartum mom doesn’t need you to hold her baby so she can catch up on chores. She needs you to do the chores so she can hold her baby”

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

[i.am.groot @krispykatkween]

@Lyn_thinks @ChampSantiago @theroyalbadness It’s classist to remind classist people that they are 1 gen removed from the hood ?

[Danny 🇺🇸🏒⚾️🐈✝️ 🐢 @HawkeyeRoad]

I was at the hospital two weeks ago. They billed my insurance for $3800 for an X-Ray. My copay was $150 because I hadn't met my deductible. I went back and said "I want to change that to no insurance." and they literally said "without insurance it's $250."

So tell me again why they billed it $3800?

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Basically i love how every study shows that students do better with less homework and workers perform better with more vacation days and shorter shifts, yet we do the exact opposite because of outdated, guilt-driven “work is suffering” values and toxic hustle culture.

[Mike 🇺🇲 @VegasMike27]

Boomers bought $70k houses while making $40k a year. They are trying to convince Gen Z that 700k starter homes at 60k income is the same thing.

[Michael Anthony @HamsterBite911]

@omgsidewalks Those same companies also lobby local politicians to pass ordinances and laws to make it more difficult and expensive to build new housing. They also try to make it illegal for people to live in vans/boats. They don't want anyone living rent free.

[Yanna Thee Astrologer 🩷 @AVenusianVirgo]

Did yall see the TikTok of the man who ordered double chicken at chipotle and went to pick up his bowl & barely had one serving???? He asked if he could get more and they said no that’s the proper serving size and this nigga went to his car and got his scale and weighed it in front of the worker 😭😭😭😭

He paid for 8 oz of chicken and when he weighed it it was 3.2 😐

[Josie Long @JosieLong]

Everybody was told in 2010-15 that austerity was painful but necessary to improve living standards. And then no improvements came, ever.