IMHO, leftists & anti-authoritarians can all benefit from understanding that MMT explains the specific internal mechanisms of colonizing regimes. The secret is tax obligation. You don't need gold to make people exchange your dollars- just extortion at gunpoint. Labor+goods for $.
"Anarcho-capitalists rightly respect the complexity of markets and their superiority over state intervention in the allocation of resources. They just don’t realize which side they’re on." - @MorpheusRage
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Genealogist Who Helps Black Families Find Their Roots Connects the Dots About a Former Slave Who Founded a Town in Louisiana - https://t.co/7CLyRb5Uwn via @shareaholic
White environmentalists in the 70s made "Spear an Indian, save a fish" signs.
They spat, hurled slurs & encouraged arrests for our sustainable fishing practices/rights.
Colonialism disguised as environmentalism isn't new & we shouldn't forget this in climate change agendas.
@AaronDesCombes @B1Coyle The question is had she not wanted to would you support others in making her? Or would you want it to be her choice? For some people, choice is priority. Killing someone could be used to justify saving 7 others via organ transplant. Your bodily autonomy always has consequences.
@you_re_a_weirdo@nontitledgoose@membrane55@Dyor_Fudd@katewillett Poor because of criminality HAHA as if anyone BESIDES YOU said all places with poverty are high crime...
Yeah cuz economically disenfranchised people's,Nations, and communities are just criminals for being robbed by colonizers. Irish potato famine was caused by Irish criminality!
@you_re_a_weirdo@nontitledgoose@membrane55@Dyor_Fudd@katewillett So astute. Poverty is highly correlated with increased rates of drug use & sex work- & in rural areas, espc. indigenous communities far from cities, rates of abduction & murder around oil drilling sites are higher. One can be more likely to be raped if they are poor.
@nontitledgoose@you_re_a_weirdo@membrane55@Dyor_Fudd@katewillett People have known poverty is the biggest cause of crime for years but still wanna pretend the local murder squad can keep things under control. Never actually concerned with what causes crime whether it's rural communities or cities, just in uncritical support of murderers.
@KathleenEspita1@TimRunsHisMouth "for like a month" - "The warrant, discovered by Forbes this week, reveals investigators have been looking into a computer intrusion at an unnamed “victim office,” which occurred from October 21 to November 4."
"Stole" publicly available data usually sold for $328/per million
✨ Also, CO2 monitoring as a proxy for airborne infection, & posting the results live & public. Japan has been doing this, & it gives people the confidence to enter businesses knowing they're not putting themselves at huge risk. They're also sold in vending machines there.
Which, by the way, imposes huge economic costs in & of itself. EVEN if we choose to be barbaric & deny disabled ppl healthcare, as we do. A view of these measures as "expensive" is supremely short-sighted, this is the cheapest possible thing we can do, & we can start at any time.
✨ Lockdowns. Pay (& feed, & provide for) everyone GENEROUSLY to stay home. Only the most essential of workers work (grocery, pharmacy, etc) & are provided the utmost infection control measures. No exemptions for lawn care, custom granite countertop installations, or the kinds of
"How do we eliminate covid??? it's impossible, we simply have to learn to live with it!!"
It's not impossible, it's already been done, we don't have to learn to live with it, here's how (with examples from around the world): 🧵
@_Felicitas12@MaxDemi43573607@ndrew_lawrence Sounds like you have no evidence to make your points. You want to argue about kids who *are* being, in YOUR opinion, socially transitioned- and conveniently, any data on this group is somehow, by the power of George Soros, already skewed in favor of the ppl in this thread.
@_Felicitas12@MaxDemi43573607@ndrew_lawrence Why would anyone give puberty blockers to *pre*-pubescent kids? You mean, early puberty? Otherwise the blockers wouldn't, ya know, block.
@Pooooossaa I caught my ex in a room with another girl and he told me my eyes were deceiving me… “who you going to believe me or your imagination”
I’m glad somebody else was with me when it happened lol