“More pets being put down due to rising vet bills.” The ugly side of private equity #Capitalism. #Vets
capitalism
Social Web Foundation talking about privacy and interoperability. Who do they partner with? Meta.
Nothing to see here. https://techpolicy.social/@mallory/114737793476373409
#igf2025 #UN #UnitedNations #whitewashing #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialWebFoundation #swf
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Capitalism is when the guy who builds a social media app and shares it freely with the world gets next to nothing for their effort while the fascist convicted criminal who uses their work makes billions.
Please, tell me again how capitalism breeds innovation. All it breeds are greedy psychopathic parasites (aka billionaires).
(Trump’s Truth Social is built on Mastodon which is licensed under AGPL. You should all continue pressuring them to keep releasing the source.)
https://github.com/boehs/truthsocial/tree/main
#truthSocial #mastodon #capitalism https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114733459914988837
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Why bomb Iran?
Fuck the conspiracy theories. It was not about winning back popular support. It was immensely unpopular among the general public and even among MAGA supporters. It even pissed off Fascists like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. It might even end up being Trump's undoing.
Here's one reason: it was a chance to test the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 13.6-ton bunker- busting bomb—the most powerful non-nuclear weapon of its kind ever used. And it was a way to demonstrate US weapons prowess to China and Russia.
And here's another reason: overthrowing or, at least, destabilizing, Iran takes out one more important ally of Russia and China, paving the way for an eventual direct confrontation in the drive for complete
Hegemony.
#trump #Iran #russia #china #imperialism #capitalism #nuclear
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ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂
To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.
Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊
It's not one to miss!
🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/
#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance
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Spartacus
Reasons To Hate Capitalism #286 - Capitalism profits from depression, anxiety and feelings of inadequacy (as well as envy and greed) to our detriment #depression #capitalism #anticapitalism
I wonder how much of everything in the US becoming cheaper and needing to be replaced every few years over the last few decades is the result of inflation & the impoverishing of the working & middle class by capitalists requiring cheaper and cheaper construction to keep prices down & hide our own poverty from us
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I disagree, Tyler Wright is worse than socially useless; he is socially HARMFUL. He uses his wealth to withhold a basic human need (housing) in order to create scarcity and extract money from the people who need them to live.
The script for this #WarCrime against #Iran and the #MiddleEast was written well before #Trump was elected. This is what the #western #empire always does to try to maintain power.
Only #workingclass people can save the working class. The #politicians aren't here for us.
#FreePalestine
#FreeGaza
#Solidarity
#Capitalism
#Socialism
#Communism
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If you're not a fan of capitalism...
If you're outraged by the separation of immigrant families...
Are you also speaking up about the adoption industry that commodifies children and transfers them primarily from women without means to wealthier families?
If you understand the problems associated with international and transracial adoption, do you extend your concern to transferring children between families for reasons of social status and class ("opportunity")?
Did you know that the vast majority of women denied abortions choose to parent their "unwanted" children rather than transferring those children to other families?
If you still think adoption is a good "solution" to the problem of "unwanted pregnancies" (aka lack of financial resources and social safety net, primarily), it's time to update your understanding.
Adoption’s warm, fuzzy reputation doesn’t hold up to reality
#adoption #capitalism #FamilySeparation #ReproductiveJustice #SocialJustice #USA
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“CEOs Using AI to Terrorize Their Employees”
United Food and Commercial Workers Union to take strike vote over unfair labor practices
“It has never gotten to this point; this is the worst it has gotten,” said Gloria Romero, who has been a cashier for more than 30 years and a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
#strike #unions #union #strike #workersrights #socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism #anarchy #marxism #anticapitalism #revolution #classwar #politics
Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
* or anyone else with more than one brain cell who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past couple of decades
#facebook #zuckerberg #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #neoliberalism #fascism #usa #trump
Remember Mike Lee, Senator from Utah, if you need to buy influence in the Senate. This provision in the budget bill would not only put our national park lands on the market in an attempt to reduce the national debt, but, at the same time, destroy the multi billion dollar revenue that the parks bring in each year.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-senate-gop-bill-could-114637023.html
#PublicLand #ParkLand #NationalPark #Capitalism
We don’t need post-growth to save the planet.
We need it to save ourselves from disposable products, extractive jobs, and a failing economy built on infinite growth.
🌍✂️ Read the new post:
🔗 https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/heal-capitalism-not-the-planet-why-the-post-growth-story-needs-a-rewrite/
#PostGrowth #Degrowth #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #SystemChange
"We live in a world where a few people capture unimaginable wealth while billions are denied access to basic needs. Such extreme inequality is not natural or inevitable. It is an effect of the dominant economic system, capitalism, where production is controlled mostly by capital and organized around maximizing and accumulating profit, rather than securing human well-being.
Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour and resources, particularly in the global South. This produces inequalities between classes and leads to uneven development between regions. It also drives ecological breakdown, and while some benefit from the exploitation of our planet’s ecosystems, others suffer the damages."
#Inequality #GlobalInequality #Poverty #Capitalism #GlobalSouth #WageSlavery
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Trump is bad enough, obviously. He’s a horrible person and a dangerous demagogue.
But even worse, I think, are the billionaire tech-bros and crypto-crims whose money made Trump’s (and Vance’s) election possible...
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“These guys think they’re Superman, that they’re genetically endowed with superior characteristics, and that their genes should populate the Earth,” says Dartmouth sociology professor Brooke Harrington, who studies the ultra-rich and has helped popularize the term “broligarchy.”
As their wealth has grown, the tech right’s long-standing opposition to government regulation has shifted toward a more extreme, neo-reactionionary, and antidemocratic frame of mind. Why should the “fittest” men submit themselves to taxes, regulation, DEI accountability? Why shouldn’t they be the ones in charge, if not here in America then in their floating island “network states” or on their interplanetary colonies? And if pesky government interference threatens the development of the miraculous tech that will allow these things to come to pass, why shouldn’t the American government be bought, infiltrated, and managed just like a tech startup, with total corporate control and the “fittest” guys at the top of the roster?
That was the next logical move once the tech elite had enough money to pull it off. “The broligarchs believe they are entitled to own everything and rule everything,” Harrington says. “If your goal is to own everything worldwide, if that is actually your ketamine-addled goal, then you need to destroy any institution that has the power to hold you accountable. Buying the U.S. government is a brilliant strategy: ‘Fuck democracy. We own it, we bought it, and we’re running it the way we want.’ ”
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FULL ARTICLE ➡️ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/
#Politics #Economics #Capitalism #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange
Iranian & Israeli Communists join forces to stop war
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/iranian-and-israeli-communists-join-forces-to-stop-war
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
#capitalism #corporations #inequality
Collaborate, advocate, educate, resist
#DemocraticSocialism #socialism #ecosocialism #solidarity #justice
Reason To Hate Capitalism #280 - We’d be richer by getting rid of billionaires rather than immigrants #immigration #capitalism #anticapitalism
AND YOU MAY ASK YOURSELF
"Well ... how did I get here?"
