This is genuinely such a disaster. I just don't get how this is what we're doing: manipulating oil futures to create an illusion of calm until oil stocks literally run out and we get the global economic version of losing consciousness from blood loss.
Kenya, Bolivia, Uruguay, Alabania, Philippines, Ecuador, the world is rejecting US Western imperalism. It may not look like it from here within the colonial frame, but the empire is crumbling, and it's why they're clawing and grasping to exhert more control of us through AI tech.
The promise of colonialism has always been the same: surrender your dignity, abandon your dead, betray your people, and in return we’ll let you participate in your own subjugation. What an offer.
This isn’t hard so I’ll just keep saying it.
A group of roughly 3K people is hoarding all the world’s wealth while sponsoring genocide and attempting to foment civil unrest among the working classes.
Kill them all.
The myth of democracy can’t survive into the age of trillionaires—the ruling class isn’t even pretending it will. They’re busy preparing for an entirely different future than the one they’re selling us on. In fact most of us don’t appear in their future at all. This may be our last moment of choice.
Thousands of people have been arrested in the UK for holding up signs opposing genocide while white supremacists try to burn families alive in their own homes
anti-migrant politics is the glue that holds the fascist international together & the reason Israel is a model for & leader of global fascism is b/c they have honed a strategy of legal & extralegal violence for dealing w/ what they consider to be an internal-external population
He is bailing out Sam Altman. OpenAI cant IPO because they are massively in debt and dont make any money so Altman runs to the White House begging for a bailout and magically 3 days later we get this.
This is the TARP bailouts all over again lol
How "rich" did we get after '08
There is no capitalist solution to climate change
Capitalism requires endless exploitation of natural resources to fuel accumulation of capital
Any capitalist not denying climate change is trying to commodify it
Either we destroy capitalism, or capitalism destroys our planet
The American individualist will die out during the Mass Extinction he caused. These eco-fascist fortresses will become prisons. Their family members will eat each other. The bunker Mark Zuckerberg dug into the volcanic earth of Hawai’i will be his tomb.
Survival is collective.
"The gen0cide of Amerindian peoples,” it has been said, “was the beginning of the modern world for Europe: without the despoiling of the Americas, Europe would never have become more than the backyard of Eurasia, the home continent of civilizations that were much richer [not merely in the material sense]…No pillage of the Americas, no capitalism, no Industrial Revolution, thus perhaps no “Anthropocene” either.”
As this passage makes clear, colonialism, gen0cide, and structures of organized violence were the foundations on which industrial modernity was built.
“War is the father of all things,” said Heraclitus, and there is plenty of evidence to show that this was true also of the Industrial Revolution, a major driver of which was the British weapons industry."
—Amitav Ghosh (2021)
The Nutmeg’s Curse