#fuck neoliberalism

[workersolidarity]

Look, I don't talk about Climate Change very often, A because plenty of other people better cover the issue than I ever could, and B because establishment of the Democratic Party along with the Liberal establishments of most European countries, are using Climate Change to push an agenda of artificial food scarcity to raise prices and I personally believe, to ensure the poorest among us are too busy fighting for scraps of food to fight the Capitalist Class.

They don't ask the US Military, the largest polluter on the planet to make cuts, they don't ask the Fossil Fuel companies to make cuts, they're not asking the elites flying in private jets to make cut backs, no they ask us, the workers to cut back, or they ask the farmers to make do with fewer animals at a time when small and medium farms are in crises, completely unable to compete with large Corporate factory farms who, for all intents and purposes own the regulators and literally write the regulatory laws themselves.

I won't play along with this kind of attack on the working class under the guise of Climate Change.

But all that being said, ITS FUCKING HOT OUT THERE. This shit just isn't normal.

Last week we had a day with a heat index pushing 130°F, yesterday's was about 120°F and today a bit more mild at only 115°F.

At Persian Gulf Airport in Iran reached a heat index of 152°F on July 16th.

And it seems it's not getting any better this week:

Stay safe everyone, hide in the shade and AC where you can, stay cool and drink plenty of water 🥤

#climate change #heat wave #heat warning #democrats dont give a shit about climate change #fuck capitalism #fuck neoliberalism #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist politics #socialist news #socialist worker #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics

[bluemoonperegrine]

You know you're really into Moon Knight when you buy a blu-ray player so you can watch the MK box set when it arrives months in the future.

I've never been one to amass a library of books or other physical media. Streaming has been a godsend, but of course the powers that be are surely but slowly ruining it so it's time to create a physical archive of the must-haves.

[sharma-the-terrible]

Youtube should go fuck themselves with their anticonsumer no-ads policy Maybe i would be more supportive of youtube ads if #1 They regulated them #2 It actually saw benefits for the creators. Latin american youtubers don't get even 10% of the revenue from ads that users in the northern hemisphere are seeing

#fuck google #fuck anti-consumerism #fuck neoliberalism

[personal-blog243]

I’m sick of dating/sex being referred to as a “market”! I’m sick of people comparing dating to interviewing for jobs! I’m sick of the competitive neo liberal capitalist market dynamics that are only exacerbated by social media and online dating! I’m sick of feeling like a worthless commodity trying to sell myself just to fit in and be normal because it’s what everyone else is doing!

Who invented this system? Does anyone else realize how fucked up this is? Has it always been this way? What can we do about it?

Any thoughts or advice?

#neo liberalism #neo liberal #capitalism #dating #online dating #on the market #capitalist #socialist #socialism #fuck neoliberalism #fuck capitalism #off the market #single life #couple goals #sex positive feminism #sex positive #the personal is political #sex positivity #polyamory #lgbt #lgbt pride month #open relationship #sex positive feminist #sexism #sexist #feminism #feminist #peer pressure #what sexism looks like #what feminism looks like

[juanabaloo]

John Oliver got into LUMA. Fuck LUMA. (LUMA is the private power company for the colonized US-owned island of Puerto Rico.)

My brief rough translation of the YouTube poster's caption: "LUMA's only interest is to make millions. The Puerto Rican people were promised that switching to this private entity [LUMA] wouldn't cause problems, but it's not going well."

Nobody in Puerto Rico believed the switch to LUMA would be a good thing. These "neoliberal privatization plans" are having immediate real-world disastrous effects. And things were bad before Fiona (and Maria of course), this isn't a "rough week" or "unlucky month" problem.

#fuck LUMA #last week tonight with john oliver #fuera luma #puerto rico #fuck neoliberalism #i'll post the full video once the last week tonight youtube channel posts it #pa fuera luma #fuck colonialism

[nando161mando]

#religion #dogma #atheist #science #bible nonsense #sun #universe #earth #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #religion is a mental illness #religion is bullshit #religion is toxic #religion is a scam #religion is stupid #class war #bible scripture #bible quote #bible study #bible verse #bible #eat the rich

[stil-lindigo]

Context: Israel “allowed” aid in the forms of flour bags to be airdropped into Gaza, waited for hundreds to congregate, and then opened fire into the crowd of desperate, starving Palestinians. 150 Palestinians were killed. Hundreds more wounded. This is being called “The Flourbag Massacre”.

source

Meanwhile, over on the other side…

#the things I want to say about Israeli Zionists would get me blasted off this website #but I’ll settle for something like - #these people are depraved fascist fucks who should be tried and punished at the fucking hague #and made to suffer through even a fraction of the immense pain and suffering that they’ve forced onto palestinians #also. as someone who’s not a US citizen but js unfortunately part of the world the US influences #god I am fucking begging you neoliberal fucks to recognise what continuing support for Biden MEANS #please. PLEASE organise #free palestine #palestine #free gaza

[whereserpentswalk]

Imagine what neoliberal propaganda articles look like in various evil empires.

"Women in Sauron's army. How female orcs have helped create a more inclusive global conquest." - The Mordor Examiner

"How the death star program is revitalizing the galactic economy." - The Coruscant Times

"Despite progressive cries to "Free Arrakis" situation with House Harkonnen more complicated then most people think." - The Corrino Fund

"How the anti imperial rabbit hole can easily lead to people to pro choas views." - Ultramar Today

#196 #anticapitalistically #anticapitalist #anticapitalism #anti capitalist #anti imperialism #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #neoliberalism #propaganda #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #40k #star wars #my thougts #my writing #lotr #lord of the rings #dune #arrakis

[hussyknee]

If anyone has a problem with saying "rest in power" to the white man that self-immolated himself and yelled "Free Palestine" till he burned to death then I want you to block me right the fuck now. You are so morally bankrupt and brainwashed by western neoliberal identity politics that you aren't worth spitting on. There's nobody resting in more power than that kid.

#first y'all harrass that poor dead trans girl's family and friends into apologizing #for chanting Say Her Name at her being misgendered in her death #when Black activists in the UK themselves tried to tell y'all to shut up #and now this #you cannot appropriate a social justice slogan between liberationists #if you honestly can't see a difference between Aaron Bushnell and that bitch RBG #then you might as well give your brain away to someone who'll use it #identity does not confer authority. nor does it confer conscience and good sense #sancitifying the identity of the victims over building solidarity among those sharing a common oppressor is how we build own cages #fuck westerners man. there's something deeply twisted in y'all #free palestine #aaron bushnell #racism #decolonization #solidarity #neoliberalism #identity politics #knee of huss

[workersolidarity]

Three, four years ago I could have told you, and did tell people, that inflation would start steadily going up, and I said even then that it would likely be stubborn, meaning it wasn't going to be an easy fix.

I knew this back then because it was obvious, even years ago, that the BRICS countries, along with many African and South Asian countries and elsewhere were looking for ways to get around using the US Dollar for trade.

They were making moves to expand trade relations outside US dollar transactions and were for many years planning and building the infrastructure for a future Multipolar world.

And that process began rapidly picking up pace three or four years ago.

I began to say then, what I'm still saying now, as that process goes on and trade outside the US Dollar system grows exponentially year-on-year, that's going to begin to have an effect on inflation.

Why? Well, Imperialism really. Because the US for decades has depended on the steady demand for US Dollars to hold down inflation, allowing the US to use debt spending to finance wars, military bases and imperialistic ventures like Syria.

Remember, it was the US in its massively dominant position after WWII that built the Bretton Woods System that made the US Dollar the world reserve currency pegged to gold, and it was the US that unilaterally abandoned Bretton Woods 1 and took the dollar off Gold, allowing for the US to finance wars through debt spending, and created the Petro-Dollar with Saudi Arabia in the 1970's.

This debt spending is essentially the surplus value from the Global South and other poorer countries that must buy US Dollars to fund infrastructure projects, energy consumption, food and medicine imports, etc since it's the world reserve currency and if you wish to use the US Financial System at all, such as the World Bank, or SWIFT messaging system, well you have to use US Dollars.

Basically, it's the sucking of the wealth out of poorer countries to finance their own economic oppression.

But as these countries catch on and with new rising global powers like Russia, China and Iran building the infrastructure for an alternative system, the US Dollar is being abandoned faster than ever.

In 2000, more than 70% of Foreign Exchange Reserves were held in US Dollars. By 2020, that figure had dropped considerably to 59%. And the rate at which it's dropping is only increasing.

Knowing this, I said back in 2019 and 2020 that inflation was likely to become a problem. And if it did become a problem, then we knew exactly what the Fed would do as a result: dramatically increase benchmark Interest rates.

This didn't take any particularly specialized or secretive sources to figure out. It's been obvious for years to anyone seriously interested in economics and geopolitics.

And what happens when interest rates go up? The value of the bonds bought under lower interest rates suddenly go way down, while debts become more expensive. It's like gravity in economics.

So with all that being said, why then did all these banks (Signature Bank, First Republic Bank, and Silicon Valley Bank) continue buying troubled assets and Treasury bonds if they're so smart and educated and knew all this?

I mean, these guys are supposed to be the best of the best corporate bankers, right? On the cutting edge of investment banking, right? That's what everyone said even just months before Silicon Valley Bank failed. (CNBC host and moron of the year Jim Cramer literally praised Silicon Valley Bank less than a month before its failure)

So one of two things must be true here and neither one is good for YOU the average worker.

Either these bankers are idiots; complete morons who have little to no understanding of basic economics, geopolitics, and monetary policy, something that should be of concern to all of us.

I mean, I'm just a dude working for a small retailer in New Orleans and even I knew this inflation and higher interest rates were coming.

So why exactly are these people paid such exorbitant salaries? If I can understand the basics of their job better than they can, why am I a retailer, and he, a millionaire banker???

So that's one possibility, one I'm virtually certain is actually true, that our ruling Elite isn't particularly smart or well educated in reality, anymore than ordinary people I meet everyday, and any one of us could easily do their jobs just as well or better than they do given the opportunities afforded to them.

But even if in this case, that's not what happened. That these weren't idiots. Well then the alternative is something that should also be deeply disturbing to you: that these bankers knew they would be facing this situation, that they were well aware of the coming inflationary pressures and equally aware what the Feds response would be, interest rate hikes.

And instead of using the last couple of years to shed possibly dangerous assets and shore up the money the banks kept on hand, they continued to do what was personally making them so much profit, at the expense of tax payers, because they were absolutely certain that the government these bankers spend so much money on campaigns for, would swoop in regardless of the recklessness of their behavior, and bail them out no matter what.

These are not the signs of a healthy political, economic or banking system.

#bailout #bank bailout #bank bailouts #us corruption #economic corruption #political corruption #us imperialism #us hegemony #wall street #bankers and bailouts #fuck capitalism #neoliberal capitalism #neoliberalism #fuck neoliberalism #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist politics #socialist worker #socialist news #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics #us banking crisis #us banking system #recession #economics

[communistkenobi]

everyone and their dog writes articles now about a totally new intersectional inclusive way to approach knowledge that decolonises the academy, and then the entire article just declares that subaltern voices will be included and indigenous ways of knowing will be respected but they never describe how or what confrontations with western academic thought will be produced or what will get revealed when this new epistemic approach becomes universally applied or what will structurally happen to the academy during this process. it’s like anti-theory, pure description and declaration, no attention paid to how the base units of western thought (such as subject/object), the capitalist logic of the university as a class/race mediator that necessarily reproduces white supremacy, will be problematised or made impossible, just an assertion that spaces will be made for previously marginalised groups. It’s so infantilising, as if the only thing stopping Black or Indigenous scholars from being considered scholars in academia was the lack of an EDI program or land acknowledgements and not like, foundational structural racism that regards all non-western knowledge and intellectual thought as non-knowledge. the academy as we know it would not exist without half a thousand years of pillage and plunder but I’m sure your new HR program will fix that

#having a run of just the absolute worst shit assigned readings. just fucking nothing dude #quite literally reproducing the neoliberal understanding of racism as simply a lack of racial inclusion in the market #you’re talking about an empire built atop a mountain of bones dude a land acknowledgement is not going to solve that. You’re just adding to #the fucking pile by reducing this issue to ‘inclusion’ #book club

[kazimirkharza]

Remember, liberals will always care more about civility and politeness than about you and your kids being alive. This isn't just about the ongoing genocide in Palestine by Israel. Exact same goes for climate change, colonial oppression, pollution, etc. They'll always put order first, no matter how much they claim to value freedom. Docility and a weird, contrived sense of moral superiority are their highest values. Never try to appease them, stay radical.

#palestine #israel #idf #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #freedom #genocide #liberal hypocrisy #liberalism #fuck neoliberals #fuck liberals #anarchy #decolonisation #decolonize #colonialism #colonization #decolonise palestine #decolonialism #israel palestine conflict #isreal is a terrorist state #israel hamas war #stop the genocide #i stand with palestine #i stand with gaza #gaza war

[decolonize-the-left]

Rewatching Bo Burnham's Inside.

I'm never ever gonna get over how everyone watched this and wrote essays and how even liberals were watching it and how white people STILL posted tiktoks about how THEY were socko (a clear representation of PoC experiences in liberal spaces) and now people are like vote for Joe Biden!!

Like I???????

these people could literally have the problem blasted directly into their fucking brains and treat it like a personality for a month and they would STILL yell at me when I say our government is the problem and that we need to address it from outside their white comfort zone. That their comfort zone is in fact holding progress back.

I frfr can not believe the reality I've found myself in as a disabled native

'What can I do to help?'

'Read a book or something, I don't know Just don't burden me with the responsibility of educating you. It's incredibly exhausting'

'I'm sorry, Socko. I was just trying to become a better person'

'Why do you rich fucking white people insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization? This isn't about you. So either get with it, or get out of the fucking way'

'Watch your mouth, buddy. Remember who's on whose hand here.'

'But that's what I- Have you not been fucking listening? We are entrenched in a way- (starts to put Socko away) Wait, wait, no please! I don't wanna go back, please! I can't go, I can't go back. Please, please, I'm sorry!'

'Are you gonna behave yourself?'

'Yes'

'Yes, what?'

'Yes, sir'

'Look at me'

'Yes, sir'

'That's better'

Like what level of dystopian is that this was Everywhere just a few years ago and STILL people are saying shit like 'i think the brown ppl's expectations should be more realistic cuz we definitely need to vote to keep killing them overseas to save the white gays on us soil'

#And neoliberal fascists are destroying the left 🎶🎶🎶 #give me the smoke #fuck you liberals and democrats #UGH #democrats #liberals #genocide #neo-liberal fascists #fascism #equality #social commentary #capitalism #settler colonialism #lgbt #free palestine #state of the union #intersectional #solidarity #social justice #COVID

[enbycrip]

Happy Piss On Thatcher’s Grave Day everyone!

Remember to stay hydrated 😜

#fuck thatcher #fuck neoliberals #fuck the tories #fuck conservatives #thatchers grave IS a gender neutral toilet #including dogs

[nando161mando]

#anti cop #anti police #all cops are bastards #cops #fuck the police #police state #police #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #nazisploitation #sacha baron cohen accuses tiktok of ‘biggest antisemitism movement since the nazis’ #nazis #nazigate #nazi #antinazi #antinationalist #antiauthoritarian #antifascist #anti capitalism #antifaschistische aktion #class war #eat the rich

[intersectionalpraxis]

#feminist #feminism #social justice #free congo #congoisbleeding #imperialism #colonial violence #current events #cobalt #congo genocide #dr congo #democratic republic of the congo #congo #drc #neoliberal capitalism #fuck capitalism