I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism

[BadIdeaGuy]

it can be hard for some people to rap their heads around the demand that we need to take power from the few (capitalists and government) and give it to the many ie workers and people:
Ryan Saavedra on Twitter

Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedra
Ocasio-Cortez: "We need an, uh, uh, a United States that really, truly, and authentically, is operated, owned, and decided by ... all people in the United States of America" AOC is essentially suggesting that property should be public property That is a core belief of communism

It's "wrap", not rap. Hope this helps.

 

[rickyb]

Public Citizen
@Public_Citizen
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10h
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@AOC
: Currently Libra's governed by Facebook, Uber eBay, Spotify, Visa…Were they democratically elected?

Facebook’s Crypto Chief: No, Congresswoman.

AOC: So we're discussing a currency controlled by an undemocratically selected coalition of largely massive corporations.

 

[rickyb]

Public Citizen
robert weissman for prez:
@Public_Citizen
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10h
Facebook's new cryptocurrency – Libra – will make it a corporate surveillance leviathan with no precedent in world history outside the realm of science fiction. It’s not just creepy, it’s a monetization and commercialization of our lives

Public Citizen on Twitter

 

[rickyb]

germany. one of the greatest countries on earth:


Richard D. Wolff
@profwolff
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22h
Berlin, Germany, has a left-wing coalition government that just passed a law freezing all rents for 5 years. Despite opposition from housing corporations. The global backlash against capitalism's deepening inequalities mounts.

 

[rickyb]

this is borderline revolution stuff and needs to happen globally on a sustained scale.

Jimmy Dore
@jimmy_dore
What does 30 years of Neo-Liberalism get you? 820,000 people in the streets protesting against it. #ChileProtests

Jimmy Dore on Twitter

 

[rickyb]

in areas with expensive housing, or maybe i should say housing that costs way more than incomes, whether you are middle class or poor depends more on if youre parents bought property or not. many cities have suffered an inflation and the middle class is dead, but people arent using these descriptions yet.

its a feudal system and capitalism is turning into a neo feudalism:

Robert Reich
@RBReich
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19h
Just a casual reminder that 60% of all wealth in America is inherited. “Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is a sham.

 

[rickyb]

“The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic moment can be put in one word: revolution—a revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life, and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. . . . Could it be that we know so little of the radical King because such courage defies our market-driven world?” —Cornel West, The Radical King

 

[rickyb]

spoiler alert: in joker movie, he is a nice guy who is abused by a society of sadists. and he eventually becomes a sadist himself.

 

[BrownArmy]

spoiler alert: in joker movie, he is a nice guy who is abused by a society of sadists. and he eventually becomes a sadist himself.

Earth to rickyb:

Movies aren’t real.

Copy?

 

[BrownArmy]

Ottawa: He’s not answering.

Houston: We have him on radar, copy.

Ottawa: Check, Houston, we have him on your radar as well, he’s just not answering.

Houston: We could neutralize him Ottawa, copy?

 

[rickyb]

Earth to rickyb:

Movies aren’t real.

Copy?

Violence begets violence compadre

 

[vantexan]

spoiler alert: in joker movie, he is a nice guy who is abused by a society of sadists. and he eventually becomes a sadist himself.

Damn, that's eerily what we've become after taking your abuse for years.

 

[rickyb]

Damn, that's eerily what we've become after taking your abuse for years.

this is one of the first threads ive ever created, so you can look back and see if BC members followed the golden rule of christianity or not.

 

[rickyb]

Earth to rickyb:

Movies aren’t real.

Copy?

im a little suprised you and many other BC members say things like this.

did you guys not analyze fiction books and movies in school? do you not look for the meaning in these things?

 

[rickyb]

in joker movie joker says everyone is awful, and then other guy later says not everyone is awful.

so question is what makes somebody awful, and what % of the population in real life is awful?

i use the word mediocre but awful could apply too. civilization costs something, and it seems like it costs more than 99% or so of us are willing to give. which means an eventual return to barbarism if we dont change our ways soon.

 

[vantexan]

this is one of the first threads ive ever created, so you can look back and see if BC members followed the golden rule of christianity or not.

You drove us to it Satan!

 

[rickyb]

so i work a bit less than 40 hours a week, and i feel like i dont have alot of time. another coworker said this to me as well last night. in a poll would most people want to work 40 hours a week? if not, think of all the suffering this system causes.

we used to have a bad superivsor and we currently have a mediocre lead at my job. yet many guys dont follow their self interests to get rid of them? why not? why doesnt the free market work? whats with our system that causes this kind of cynicism

 

[vantexan]

so i work a bit less than 40 hours a week, and i feel like i dont have alot of time. another coworker said this to me as well last night. in a poll would most people want to work 40 hours a week? if not, think of all the suffering this system causes.

we used to have a bad superivsor and we currently have a mediocre lead at my job. yet many guys dont follow their self interests to get rid of them? why not? why doesnt the free market work? whats with our system that causes this kind of cynicism

I just drove from Chicago to Phoenix, leaving at 1730 Central Time Wednesday and arriving at 0825 Friday, almost 1800 miles. You don't have enough personal time?

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

so i work a bit less than 40 hours a week, and i feel like i dont have alot of time. another coworker said this to me as well last night. in a poll would most people want to work 40 hours a week? if not, think of all the suffering this system causes.

we used to have a bad superivsor and we currently have a mediocre lead at my job. yet many guys dont follow their self interests to get rid of them? why not? why doesnt the free market work? whats with our system that causes this kind of cynicism

If the department of transportation let me work over 60 hours a week I probably would.

 

[rickyb]

If the department of transportation let me work over 60 hours a week I probably would.

you are a savage beast and maybe the exception to the rule

i only exercised yesterday because i got off 1.5 hours early.