rafael

MD 🩺 | NMesS® | he/him

[Cris ✨ @lionesspike]

hacks last month

[tris | 🇹🇩🇩🇰🇨🇾🇮🇹 @darklinaq]

que estoiro que o toy deu agora na rtp nos premios play say it louder!!!

[K.Diallo ☭ @nyeusi_waasi]

Once a year, the richest people on Earth come together to reflect not on how to protect the planet, but on how to continue extracting from it without disruption. They arrive in convoys of private jets, transforming airports into symbols of excess, while exhausted workers move invisibly through corridors and service halls, rushing to fulfill every demand. Entire hidden communities of labor are required just to keep these people comfortable, carefully concealed so the spectacle of wealth remains untouched.

Among those present are well known billionaires, monarchs, corporate leaders, technocrats, war managers, and figureheads of global power. Some are famous, many are not. What unites them is not culture or nationality, but the fact that their fortunes were built within a system that normalizes exploitation and rewards it as success. Through inheritance, imperial plunder, wage extraction, or financial manipulation, they have come to control the lives of millions they will never meet.

They do not resemble monsters in any obvious way. There are no visible signs to warn us. Their abnormality exists internally, expressed through a deep and habitual indifference to human suffering, softened only by rehearsed compassion and carefully curated philanthropy.

From the stage, some speak earnestly about climate collapse, others about freedom, innovation, or privacy. Some claim concern, others make no such effort. Yet the core objective never changes. How can the current system be preserved so that extreme inequality remains permanent and unchallenged. How can wealth continue to accumulate upward at a pace so extreme that it becomes untouchable. How can the majority be kept from advancing even slightly toward real equality.

Each year, carefully edited clips from these gatherings spread across the internet, provoking outrage and speculation. People declare that the plan has been revealed. But nothing truly secret is announced under bright lights and professional cameras. These statements are approved, packaged, and released intentionally.

The most destructive decisions are not made in keynote speeches or panel discussions. They are made quietly in private meetings, boardrooms, and secure calls far from public view. And the uncomfortable reality is that these people do not need to gather in a single place to reshape the world.

The policies that steadily undermine freedom, privacy, healthcare, housing, retirement, security, education, savings, and the very possibility of a stable future are usually decided when no grand summit is taking place and no cameras are present.

They require little coordination because they already share the same destination. They are beneficiaries of the same global capitalist and colonial order, one that transforms exploitation into legitimacy. No one with real influence in these spaces arrived without benefiting from mass extraction, whether through corporate dominance, imperial power, or political service to capital.

Even the less wealthy participants, former presidents, prime ministers, and international officials with comparatively modest fortunes, are present because they proved useful to far greater economic powers. Their authority was granted, maintained, and rewarded by the same system that dominates global life.

There is no serious confrontation with inequality in these forums. There is no discussion of a world beyond capitalism. There is no genuine imagination of liberation. What exists instead is a conversation about management, about how domination might be made more presentable without ever being dismantled.

[Grace @gracecamille_]

listening to my dad say “i read in a study recently” before paraphrasing something i told him yesterday

[Akira @Akir_a997]

trying to find the right reaction pic before the group chat moves on

[rafael @rafaeltrying]

*contexto* estava a escrever um autorretrato como TPC de português

[rafael @rafaeltrying]

Um miúdo que dou explicações tirou mesmo o telemóvel a meio da explicação para pedir ao Chatgpt para escrever frases para o descrever. O pensamento crítico morreu mesmo

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Glenn Greenwald shreds Bill Maher. Best 2 minutes of your life.

[𐌊𖤓 @lyntwig_]

i just think this video is funny

[Gina Linetti Rola @linettirola]

she said the thing

[Jai Michelle Thunder 🌩️ @DreadedJai]

“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”

[su🐁 @SoraiaNeves13]

infelizmente o césar mourão tem poder suficiente para pegar nisto e fazer um filme em que ele é o mecânico e a júlia palha desce as monumentais num renault clio

[bri ˚꩜｡⋆₊⊹ @ufobri]

mice if they became humans

[rafael @rafaeltrying]

@lumins_ Life imitates art

[Ladrões Bicicletas @LadrBic]

Mais uma vergonha nacional das direitas nas Lajes, mas isto dá idas para a Goldman Sachs e assim. Durão Barroso mostra o caminho do mais bem pago vira-latismo.

[Guilherme Trindade @SexoGratweeto]

Estão a ser portanto… concentrados. Num campo.

[harriet @bequietharriet]

Pope Crave reporting live from the scene is crazy

[sylvia 🏹 @sylviaxkruz]

hay un putisimo apocalipsis
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