Most Americans at this point are a product of capitalist indoctrination via privately owned for profit media propaganda, and public schools defunded and in utter ruin by capitalist captured government to cut their taxes, despite still profiting directly from a pre-literate workforce to draw from that they just don’t want to pay for.

And now, through the long laid, long paid for installation of capitalist interest to the SCOTUS through their Federalist Society judicial extremist group, they now effectively own our… I’m sorry, their judicial branch of the government we have to suffer without recourse or appeal.

…They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it…

-George Carlin, decades ago.

This is also why study of the humanities is under attack in academia, btw. Believe it or not, maximizing growth/metastasis/GDP isn’t healthy as society’s sole practiced value and pursuit. Gotta hurry, a few thousand greedy sociopaths aren’t getting richer fast enough, herp derp.

The entire capitalist controlled media, and even K-12 curriculum informed by capitalist captured state governments is a hell of a propaganda pulpit, not to mention the vast majority of state and federal politicians who are bribed sock puppets preaching the false, self enriching word of Wall Street as the only truth, regardless of party on economic policy.

https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI?si=XM5uzKSNe_FK2DWq

You have to be able to… and still be willing to despite that constant force fed propaganda, critically think to rise above it. Yes, it’s obvious to some of us, but most just want to follow the path of least resistance, which has been telling them their whole lives through our institutions that privatized, for profit healthcare is the pinnacle of freedumb juice, and a system where all citizens have access to quality Healthcare they can rely on regardless of their socioeconomic situation is evil commie marxist leninist socialism.

They don’t understand the meaning any of those words, of course, but they’ve been taught through that same capitalist propaganda machine to fear them and rail against them, or again, they will lose their intentionally warped, incorrectly defined concept of freedom. Freedom of course having been warped in American vernacular to mean everything that makes our owner class wealthier faster.

“They must hate freedom”

-Literally any American movement advocating a policy that would increase socioeconomic equity or corporate accountability at this point, according to for profit domestic “news.”

The US is trying to keep these tiny ones out because they want you you buy their big gas vehicles or larger, more expensive electrics. Larger vehicles consume more resources, take more to produce, and even large electric vehicles draw more from the dirty grid than a small personal conveyance like these designed to move you and your groceries.

And that’s a strawman to infer that our self-destruction hinges on this single point. This is yet another example on the heap of the larger problem. “it might hurt short term PROFITS for our greed mongers, so we won’t allow something that might begin to mitigate the scale of the problem.”

That said, it sounds like you agree with them, and if that’s the case, I have good news, they’ll continue to get their way in every economic sector, and yes, cumulatively, our species is paying and will pay an even greater price for allowing blind, insatiable greed to make every decision.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/mexico-central-america-us-heatwave

If we cared about having a future for the species at all, Humanity’s only mission right now would be to END the global economy’s jihad of growth/metastasis, every major nation would institute child limits, and we would work to end consumerism and find homeostasis/equilibrium instead for the sake of our very survival, because this reverse terraforming we’ve done in decades will take millions of years for the earth to heal from. That’s nothing to Earth’s 3.8 billion year old story of life, but it might as well be eternity to our short term monkey brains. Our reality, our world will continue to heat, and if we stopped tomorrow entirely, would take many times longer to go back to normal than our species has existed for.

But as common economic decisions like this demonstrate, we have decided to burn the future so as not to disrupt the reckless party of avarice and gluttony for our owners today. Is what it is.

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Thats a new spin to me. The only thing monopolies secure is their own existence.

Because “free markets, competition, being voluntary” are propaganda by capitalists using their owned media and purchased government to make its victims double as its defenders.

The goal of market capitalism is to end competition often by buying out up and coming rivals to kill the threat, manipulate the markets to your advantage using anything from bribery to cost benefit analysis of potential consequences/fines for sociopathic actions to potential profits, and conspire with your economic sector to coerce the workers you need into accepting less.

This is just expanded indentured servitude with a marketing team.

Capitalism is clearly going to death us first.

The Earth is 🔥burning🔥, by our own hands, and we’d still rather play team sports for greedy sociopaths than prioritize even doing it a little slower with cheap EVs.

The Earth will heal in a few million years once we’ve destroyed ourselves. ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

And there’s no making it right. This is the world. At least for this year.

And it will be hotter next year, and the next.

Why? Toleration that led to celebration that led to worship of unchecked, insatiable greed.

I’d say maybe lets force the owner class to stop though revolution and dismantling of our needless consumer culture so our children and theirs have at least a minimally habitable planet for humans and the other surface dwellers we don’t give shit one about to live on, but we’re not going to anyway. So burn baby burn I guess.

Israeli warmongers like Netanyahu perverting what it means to “learn from history,” and dishonoring the struggles of those that came before them by taking on the methods of those that tried to snuff them out to snuff out a different people. (and it wasn’t just camps, they starved them in the ghettos they locked them in as well.)

The I’m sure intentional lack of self-awareness is darkly cartoonish.

What a lovely metaphor for the self-created doom our species is sleep walking towards.

We’re patient zero for the world’s current greed disease.

Not only won’t we go along, our purchased government will internationally war against this. Never forget we destabilized the South American continent, a government at a time, to keep their markets open for capitalist exploitation and snuff out any potential examples of an economy that serves its people, as opposed to a society that subsists in service to an economy as it is here and increasingly everywhere.

We’re a big reason the global owner class has so much unelected, unaccountable power that needs to be fought to begin with, our government has spent decades convincing other governments to “turn the bull loose” to open their markets to unchecked capitalist exploitation and betray their people under the promise that their elite can live like gluttonous modern Pharoahs for their betrayal. The UK has fully fallen to this as just one example.

This initiative for all intents and purposes is an attack on the United States and everything its people THAT MATTER, not us, stand for.

Here in Murica, with insurance, if you need a surgery for a knee or hip replacement, news flash, the doctor usually schedules your surgery for several weeks to months out. Almost no American will be diagnosed as needing a knee replacement, and have said knee replacement that day or that week.

Herp derp wAiT LiSTs!!!111 right here in the US.

Defending our gold plated shithole country, especially with false talking points, doesn’t help you or this gold plated shithole country.

The Jesus Christ of the New Testament was a dark skinned communist who belabored loving and helping immigrants to his followers, whipped the greedy, and informed them they would go to hell if they didn’t stop being selfish fucks.

If the Jesus of the new Testament both existed and returned, the “Christian” right would be first in line to kill him again so they could get back to worshipping this guy:

Tots and Pears.

Covid kind of disillusioned me to the whole “all humanity needs is a common enemy/suffering to get right” concept.

Same, if we can’t even, in actions not rhetoric, start from a baseline of “we’re all in the same boat, we all have needs and seek happiness, how do we maximize everyone’s well-being to facilitate that?” then we’re still just savage animals wrestling in the dirt, but with the dangerous capacity to devise technologies for selfish ends we aren’t wise/evolved enough to truly appreciate the consequences of using.

“According to The Atlantic, an asteroid that weighs more than 1.7 quadrillion metric tons could sterilize Earth by raising the temperature of its water above 100°C. This asteroid would be 10–1,000 times heavier than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs and would be between 60–96 kilometers (37–60 miles) wide.”

The Atlantic article itself is paywalled, but yes, and it’s entirely dependent on the mass of said Asteroid.

🎶…Don’t come around here no more…🎶

Maybe the 10 commandments posted in every Louisiana classroom will stop the asteroids.