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Mangione Moment
How long before we have another Mangione moment, when someone opens fire on a CEO, banker or politician? How soon before some poor, desperate American, with nothing to lose, attacks one of the sociopaths who rule our country? The Sackler … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Luigi Mangione, second Gilded Age
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Concrete material benefits
The Trump-Vance administration can engineer a political transformation if they can provide concrete material benefits to working-class Americans, who have seen their standard and quality of living collapse. If so, Trump has an opportunity to consolidate a durable realignment of … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism
Tagged Donald Trump, Elon Musk, H-1B, neoliberalism, propaganda, Silicon Valley, Wall Street
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Landslide
There was a clear winner in Tuesday’s presidential election. Billionaires won in a landslide. No matter what the public wants and no matter the outcome of elections, the oligarchs almost always win. They get a neoliberal government that does little … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda
Tagged Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, oligarchy, Republican Party
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Skunked
You may have noticed that I despise both of our political parties. There’s a reason for that: Both Republican and Democrats portray themselves as alternatives to the other but when it comes down to important economic and foreign policies there’s … Continue reading
Crazy
I’m surprised more Americans are not wandering around babbling and shaking their fists at the clouds because it sure is fucking hard to maintain ones sanity in our crazy world. Stress, anxiety and depression are on the rise, and they have been for years. Studies have found that increases in … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, neoliberalism, primitive accumulation, propaganda, Terence MacKenna
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Sacrifice Zone
Is it just me or are America’s priorities seriously fucked-up? While our feral elite blather on about freedom, democracy, rule based international order, etc., the American people are discovering that they live in a sacrifice zone. On Monday, President Biden, … Continue reading
Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism
Tagged disaster capitalism, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, neoliberalism
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The Jackpot
Author William Gibson came up with the formulation of a massive societal die-off that he called the “Jackpot” in his novel the Peripheral. Gibson is also famous for his quote–“The Future is Already Here, it’s Just Not Very Evenly Distributed.” … Continue reading
Culture War
So much of our political discourse focuses on cultural issues like race, sex and identity, rather than on class. Why is that? Maybe the ongoing culture war is designed to obscure an enormous asset price bubble fueled by two years … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda
Tagged cultural issues, Donald Trump, Ian Welsh, neoliberalism
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Corporations are people too, my friend
Of course, they’re psychotic people with a death count in the millions and if there was any justice or accountability Senators like our little Mittens would have to wear jackets that showed the logos of the various corporations that sponsor … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, propaganda
Tagged Chevron, fascism, neoliberalism, propaganda, Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific, Steve Donziger, Wall Street
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Advanced Accumulation
I’ve come to believe that the offshoring of American manufacturing jobs to China has a lot of similarities to the enclosure movement in Great Britain. The enclosure movement occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries when the aristocracy threw the … Continue reading
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