Tootfinder

Microsoft has invited vibe working⁠. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models

You can't point at everything you don't like and say "Enshitification". Doctorow describes a specific capitalist dynamic (kinda to save capitalism as a concept). It's not "a bad thing happens", it's basically just the specific way venture capital funded companies operate today.

Whatever success Trump had in his career was built on insight
-- not into the workings of capitalism but into the darker corners of human nature.
He succeeded through scams, lies, and bullying,
using the power he had over others to enrich himself at their expense.
So no one should be surprised that he brings the same spirit to policymaking.
In his second term, Trump is at last unleashed to fully realize his vision,
and on economics, that means a new kind…

Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward
Move over, Mao.

Revolutionary syndicalism is a radical political and economic ideology that developed in the late 19th century and continued to influence the 20th century. Its central aim was to place political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class through the organized strength of trade unions, rather than through traditional parliamentary or state-centered politics.
Emerging from the intersection of Marxist critiques of capitalism and anarchist suspicions of centralized autho…

For every $1 valuation of a billion-dollar company, at least 50¢ is in the pocket of a lucky person who thinks they're smart, most of whom had rich parents to boot. There's like, 10,000 of these people, tops, yet their sociopathic bets on everything from Juicero to "the metaverse" to "AI" pull technology development around by the nose.
Did I mention that this crap is only a side table to them after they ran out of "war" and "burning down the planet" to invest in?
#Capitalism is a casino, and most people can't even aspire beyond being a bigger chip.

I came across this quote of David Graeber recently: „You can make a cup once, but wash it a thousand times.“
That stuck with me. Capitalism focuses on making things but the most meaningful work is maintaining stuff.

The reason we keep building the Torment Nexus is because all we have are Torment Nexus factories in a system designed by and for Torment Nexus factory owners.
#capitalism

The greatest thing capitalism has ever done was convince you that your fatigue, depression, and other responses to the capitalist system are actually your personal failures.

The growth of print culture in the eighteenth century was associated with the growing prestige of reason,
hostility to superstition, the birth of capitalism, and the rapid development of science.
Other historians have linked the eighteenth century explosion of literacy to the Enlightenment, the birth of human rights, the arrival of democracy and even the beginnings of the industrial revolution.
The world as we know it was forged in the reading revolution.
🔥Now, we ar…

The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation

We officially live in a dictatorship. This illegal, unconstitutional bullshit will let them use anything you've *ever* said that could be construed as being a negative statement on Christianity, our government, or capitalism is now their tool to watchlist you and use it to punitively exclude you from air/train/bus travel, banking, credit, government benefits, education, etc...

American 'State Capitalism' Is Destined for Failure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-24/american-state-capitalism-is-destined-for-failure
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p36#a251024p36

Friend, which launched a $129 AI-powered, always-listening necklace, plasters NYC subway with ads in $1M campaign that includes over 1,000 platform posters (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/ai-startup-friend-bet…

AI Startup Friend Bets On Foes With $1M NYC Subway Campaign
Some subway riders have defaced the posters with phrases like ‘surveillance capitalism,’ ‘stop profiting off loneliness,’ and ‘AI trash.’

It turns out that this new era of the Internet (or more precisely, late stage capitalism) causes me so much anxiety that I end up being away from social networks for months in a row...
But I'm kinda sad for being away from the Fediverse as well, as it's usually a source of inspiration for me.

DoorDash is a marquee sponsor of SFBike's Winterfest this year 😢 I bought a ticket anyway. It's bleak out here trying to fund nonprofits under capitalism. Hate the game, not the player. https://sfbike.org/winterfest/

Winterfest - San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Promoting the Bicycle for Everyday Transportation

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19416

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
This study aims to reveal different varieties of capitalism and to uncover new patterns of development that emerged between 2010 and 2020. A hybrid model is applied that quantifies three pillars of development (Future - F, Outside - O, Inside - I) using supply-side and demand-side indicators that measure norms, institutions, and policies. Investigating 34 OECD members, this study describes five varieties of capitalism: traditional, dualistic, government-led, open market-based, and human capital…

Since leaving the US, things have gotten a lot better for me but it's still hard existing under capitalism. Just being a human is hard enough, but parenting is an order or magnitude harder.
Even here, with all the complexity of being an immigrant, it's somehow still less emotionally challenging than being in the US.
I wrote up a reflection on some of my feelings before leaving tangled up with some of the challenges I still have. I hope this helps some folks feel less alone, or makes it easier for other folks to understand why some parents are having a hard time.
CW: just.... Lots... Death, gun violence, trauma, etc
#USPol

Oh you thought the ordeal of being perceived was mortifying? Wait 'till you try being perceived by a state.
As its bureaucratic gaze lingers through the entrails of your medical, financial, scholastic, and social records, a deep disquiet oozes through your brain upon consideration of the labyrinthine antagonisms it may—or may not—inflict upon you. In service only to Capital, this entity has bequeathed immeasurable portions of suffering and death to those it threatens to protect, let alone to its ever-multiplying enemies, and now it is your turn to be found wanting, for in its incessant mechanical hunger, wanting is all that the state can conceive of.
#horror #capitalism #nationalism

Some billionaire is probably feeling empty right now, proof that no amount of wealth can fill the void created by a system built on inequality.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

🎲 Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
#inequality

Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control.

It's a distortion of our time when those working towards ecological repair are expected to live without contradiction, while those fueling destruction are expected to do nothing. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/capitalism-wants-you-tired-perfect

The System Wants You Tired, Perfect, and Harmless
On the Lies We Swallow About Doing Good vs. Doing Well

Do you recall how kids play "shop", trading imaginary wares for imaginary money?
Capitalism is just like that, except it's adults doing that, with other adults watching them and trading even more imaginary money to have a share in their imaginary profits.
#AntiCapitalism

Capitalism is just one witty ad campaign after another until we suddenly find ourselves extinct due to self-inflicted habitat loss. https://mastodon.online/@pluszysta/115428982968522861

“If ‘state capitalism’ were proposed by Democrats or progressives, it would be considered socialism or communism. Done by a neofascist president — as chronicled by the The Wall Street Journal — it’s simply considered inefficient (as the Journal concludes).” - @…

Trump’s “State Capitalism”
It would be communism under any other dictator

Gonna try to sell some art today. Commerce not Capitalism.
#art #printmaking

I think we might have locked ourselves into a professionalization trap. Shocking revelation: It's capitalism's fault.
(Original title: The Professionalism Trap)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/24/the-professionalism-trap/

The Professionalism Trap
I’m in the process of rewriting a talk I gave a few weeks ago in order to record it and publish it online. When I mentioned that to a friend who’s a filmmaker and knows how lighting and all that works he offered to help me doing it “right” so it doesn’t look like shit. […]

Most probable prediction about OpenAI future I’ve read.
Spoiler: it will be successful and we will not like it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/defragzone/p/welcome-to-cognitive-capitalism

Welcome to Cognitive Capitalism
Or: How Open AI Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Your Data

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/

Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.

There’s another name for that…
Analysis | The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AX_EJXTACTMSc4TPv3huykQ

An Empirical Inquiry into Surveillance Capitalism: Web Tracking
Nils Bonfils
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07454 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07454

An Empirical Inquiry into Surveillance Capitalism: Web Tracking
The modern web is increasingly characterized by the pervasiveness of Surveillance Capitalism. This investigation employs an empirical approach to examine this phenomenon through the web tracking practices of major tech companies -- specifically Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM) -- and their relation to financial performance indicators. Using longitudinal data from WhoTracks.Me spanning from 2017 to 2025 and publicly accessible SEC filings, this paper analyzes patterns and t…

#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.

Trump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there's no going back (Long Le/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5501098-us-china-state-capitalism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p45#a250914p45

Today the most evil and corrupt nation on Earth is hosting the most vile and murderous nation in a disgusting farce of civility - the United Nations.
No need for lengthy diatribes or accusations - the murderous evidence is plain to see, even from space.
Russia and America have teamed up to be the world's worst nightmare since predatory criminal capitalism.
Georgio reports truth from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine, and he shares the friend link to bypass the payw…

The Russian Federation Showcases Its Worst Butchery at the 80th UN Assembly
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Capitalism can’t have pesky facts spoiling its plans for human extinction now, can it? https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115428564988842528

Ruth Mottram (@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #NCKF25

Happy to have a Mastodon post of mine cited in the academic article "Fediverse’s Evolution from the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory" by José- Manuel Meza-Cano and Edith Gonzšlez-Santiago. In: Fast Capitalism, 2023, 20(1). https://fastcapitalism.journal.library

Addiction is forever both the apex and the ineluctable endpoint of capitalism.
I think @… called it:
https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115374185807826749

If you put money above the people and the planet, then you are no friend of mine because from where I stand it means you would rather protect greed than stand beside me in the struggle for justice and freedom.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

I only noticed after getting home from Stereolab that the song Laetitia introduced as "Capitalism is a Wound" is called, on the album, "Melodie is a Wound." Did the label censor it?! She introduced it that way in Vancouver too apparently https://exclaim.ca/music/a…

Stereolab Mixed "Joie de Vivre" with "Vive la Révolution" in Vancouver │ Exclaim!
Vogue Theatre, October 17

So the tech bros love capitalism and also apparently think some combination of AI and robotics can (and should!) replace all jobs (bar their own OFC) to maximise profits. But if nobody earns any wages, how in this "wonderful" future capitalist world will anyone afford to buy all their products and services?
I mean, they see the flaw, right… right!?
P.S. Yes, I realise most of the people who read this will have already thought of this and I am largely "preaching to …

What will historians of the 2700s say about all these academics and commentators writing about “late stage capitalism?” Will they be seen as akin to the 10th century millenarians?

This is actually a superb, forensic report by Special Rappoteur Frencesca Albanese on the contribution of global #capitalism to the #GazaGenocide, which I'd encourage everyone to read.
Every paragraph is worth quoting.

"Pendant des décennies, beaucoup Š gauche ont renoncé Š parler de planification économique en raison de son association avec la bureaucratie soviétique. Mais la crise climatique et la réalité de l'intervention massive de l'État dans les économies capitalistes ont rendu la planification démocratique incontournable."

Capitalism / market economy in the US.... "In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government."
https://www.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China
In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.

8yo: "What is it called when something eats itself? Capitalism?"
A: 😂
me: "Um, autophagy?" 😂
A: "Cannibalism?"
8yo: "Yeah, cannibal!"

The Anarchist's Cookbook for Fonts
A Must read
The Arialpocalypse
https://brilliantcrank.com/the-arialpocalypse-default-thinking-ate-the-world/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
via @…

I dislike communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
---- - Bertrand Russell - ----

"Syndicalism is a method of industrial organization which goes away from all the traditional conceptions of authority and government, of capitalism and the State. While communism, in abolishing individual capitalism, creates a worse monster in its place in the form of the economic state, syndicalism leaves all the patterns of administration which in the past have resulted only in the oppression and exploitation of man by man, and sets out to build an organizational form based on the nat…

I took my daughter to buy a car today. The dealership could not run credit report due to AWS outage. She called the bank, they could not approve a large transaction because of the AWS outage. We went to the DMV, they were able to get her a replacement car title, but also mentioned some systems were down. Back to the dealership where they could not do the credit application to buy the car.
In a completely unrelated note, I think I have some ideas for disrupting Capitalism...

Started reading "More and more and more" by Fressoz, and in the intro he writes "Getting out of carbon will be far more difficult than getting out of capitalism, a condition that is probably necessary but certainly not sufficient." - welp, that will be easy then 😢
Looks like a great book so far, but not for the faint-hearted..

I may have had an interesting idea! Quick, hand me that screw driver, I'll ram it through my temple!

gotta love capitalism:

In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
"""
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"""

"Dynamic” - "Demand based" pricing needs to be outlawed.
Ticketmaster
VIA Rail
Hotels/Accomodations
Airlines
Restaurants
They have all started using this model and it's contributing hugely to unaffordability of life.
This is my TED Talk
#Rant #Affordability #cost #regulation #capitalism

A lot of the social fallout and collateral damage caused by #AI is actually rooted in unregulated platform capitalism and neoliberal ad-consumer-waste-cycles: social media as mass manipulation, intellectual property laws that haven't been updated to the internet at all, gig economy exploitation... but most importantly:
Tech monopolies that are allowed to program dark pattern mechanisms int…

Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Louisa Conwill, Megan Levis Scheirer, Walter Scheirer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1346…

Do We Need Subsidiarity in Software?
Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that promotes human dignity and resists over-centralization by balancing personal autonomy with intervention from higher authorities only when necessary. Thus it is a relevant, but not previously explored, critical lens for discerning the tradeoffs between complete user control of software and surrendering control to "big tech" for convenience, as is common in surveillance capitalism. Our study explores data privacy through the lens of subsidia…

🎵She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...🎵
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/sep/10/drug-overdose-crisis-dulf-vancouver

It is so weird to read this and realize that the #SutherlandInstitute is so wealthy and "conservative" that they'll never acknowledge the problem is late-stage capitalism and, of course, patriarchy.
We need to eliminate the tax incentives of investment properties to make housing more affordable. We need to increase wages and decrease wealth inequality. We need t…

Utah task force explores boosting well-being of men and boys
Why are American men struggling? What issues do American men and boys face? Utah studying mental health, work, education among men and boys

When you start to see that capitalism is nothing but systemic exploitation and domination, and that Marxism-Leninism only reproduces the same state capitalism under another name through authoritarian state socialism, you then realize that leftist parties don’t actually bring about any fundamental change, because they to keep power rigidly centralized, to preserve existing hierarchies, and to maintain the dominance of the ruling classes.
If you want a genuine alternative, one built on w…

For the first time in a long time, I’m not watching the Apple iPhone event live. I’m kinda over capitalism.

Can capitalism just die now, please? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/115046724177703023

Trump is tightening the screws on corporate America -- and CEOs are staying mum (Maria Aspan/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501591/trump-corporate-america-capitalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p30#a250814p30

"Class warfare through enshittification" is a good way of putting it. People hate it when you put capitalism criticism into your AI criticism but how dare you not to when they basically build infrastructures to discipline and deskill us all? Hagen Blix interviewed by Blood In The Machine
https:…

"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix
The author of 'Why We Fear AI' on why he sees generative AI as "class warfare through enshittification."

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

"Their inaction, their neutrality, their “pragmatic” accommodation—every golden plaque presented to Trump, every settlement paid to avoid retaliation, every silent acquiescence to constitutional destruction—all of this is discrediting capitalism in the eyes of ordinary Americans in ways that no socialist organizer could achieve. They are acting like the cartoon villains Marxists make them out to be"

How America’s Business Elite Became Their Own Marxist Caricature
There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when the business elite must choose between principle and profit, between defending the system that made their wealth possible and accommodating th…

Do we need any more proof to label all this buzz as forced religious conversion?
#AI #capitalism #religion

@… I'm here for the really important questions!
Does your T-Shirt only say "capitalism" or is there more text at the bottom?

LLMs are endgame capitalism. once you run out of ordinary things to do with $, the only thing left is to outspend rivals in some market, in order to become *the* monopoly, for that ultimate power.
existing markets are regulated to be "useful", so it's hard to win there. it's easier (seems easier) to win in new markets.
cryptocurrency was one, "new money". VR tried to be one, "new reality", but participation is too hard.
LLMs are "n…

Why you should leave Spotify, from @… - with humour appreciated by this music nerd
https://www.…

"at the centre of imperialism, and at the purulent heart of the web of fascism, is the US. This is displayed particularly clearly in the regime of Donald Trump. In the heartland of capitalism in its imperialist stage, we see before us the slow but steady march towards fascism. It has not yet consolidated itself into a fully fledged system, but it is moving by incremental steps into a new and perhaps unique form of

The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence" is a declaration of war on the so-called “radical left, and accuses any critic of law enforcement, or gov't activities of basically fomenting “violent revolution.”
The Trump administration’s designation today of antifa as a terrorist group allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of #antifa

Trump’s War on America
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.

Labor Notes recently released a guide to help organize for the much-anticipated May Day general strike in…2028.
It’s useful information, but as the countdown clock on the site shows, still 937 days away.
At the rate the Trump administration is moving, there might not be much left of unions by the scheduled date.
The criminally underreported National Security Presidential Memorandum recently issued by Trump looks to crackdown on a whole range of activities. -- including act…

Capitalism is the larval stage of fascism.

The short 4th season of Upload does a pretty good job of tying everything up.
(Well, maybe except for the hyper-capitalism, that served as its background noise. That one didn't get a conclusion. But since we are making great strides towards the IRL experience, we can see how _that_ turns out later.)

Capitalism is the iron cage in which human potential withers, an economic despotism that breeds inequality, alienation, and the hollowing of community life.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Anarchism

Kids and gun violence
The episode talked about how this mass murderer "true crime" brain-rot subculture flattens everything into just "content." They didn't talk about how algorithms play a role in this type of violence.
"The algorithm" incentivzes maximumally impactful content. When stripped of a moral framework, by capitalism and white supremacy, humans will search for a value system to inform them of what to do. A mass shooting is simply the lowest effort for the highest impact in terms of pure content generation.
This is simply the behavior incentivzed by the algorithm. The behavior incentivzed by capitalism is, of course, no less horrific but is presented as far more acceptable. It includes, of course, creating a machine that makes money off of content (without any differentiation in type) by maximizing engagement and incentivzing content generation.

Sarcasm
Remember: reusing, giving away or selling used stuff is a crime against the economy. You should dispose of them, so that others will have the opportunity to buy new stuff. This way, you create workplaces in so many areas: collecting, processing and storing garbage, mining for resources, processing them, production; and of course transport, marketing, sales. Isn't capitalism magnificent?
#AntiCapitalism

Openness in AI and downstream governance: A global value chain approach
Christopher Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1022…

Openness in AI and downstream governance: A global value chain approach
The rise of AI has been rapid, becoming a leading sector for investment and promising disruptive impacts across the economy. Within the critical analysis of the economic impacts, AI has been aligned to the critical literature on data power and platform capitalism - further concentrating power and value capture amongst a small number of "big tech" leaders. The equally rapid rise of openness in AI (here taken to be claims made by AI firms about openness, "open source" and free provision) signal…

The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…

Me: "hey, any interest in switching this [SMS thread] over to Signal?"
Other class parent: "I would prefer not to add another service I'm not currently using. But we could do WhatsApp."
🙄
we fucking deserve the surveillance capitalism that we have

The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism (Derek Thompson/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-economic-pain-strategy/684166/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pAES1_Y-UE1lw7FKTSDxBrg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p131#a250911p131

"Pendant des décennies, beaucoup Š gauche ont renoncé Š parler de planification économique en raison de son association avec la bureaucratie soviétique. Mais la crise climatique et la réalité de l'intervention massive de l'État dans les économies capitalistes ont rendu la planification démocratique incontournable."

Politics
So I'm thinking of finally adding something meaningful to my mail signature — but I want to keep it short. How does this sound?
"""
Capitalism: nazis buy power, Israel & Russia commit genocide, techbros burn the world, anti-vaxxers kill, and free lunches are the concern.
"""
#AntiCapitalism

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Communism

Just finished "Decelerate Blue" written by Adam Rapp and illustrated by Mike Cavallaro. It's a dystopian graphic novel that I found... not that great. Maybe the best thing about it was the world-building around the propaganda language everyone is forced to speak, but overall I found the plot construction and characters to be underwhelming.
Despite being a book about resistance to fascist oppression, it doesn't meaningfully engage with any major axes of oppression like patriarchy, racism, capitalism, or colonialism, and it doesn't offer an interesting lessons on how to conduct resistance or what long-term outcomes one might hope for.
First graphic novel I've checked out in a while that I didn't really like that much.
#AmReading

#LucyParsons #Anarchy #Anarchism #Capitalism

You cannot capture the essence of capitalism in a single pho- https://me.dm/@davidtoddmccarty/114944150346707896

David Todd McCarty (@davidtoddmccarty@me.dm)
Attached: 1 image So clearly the most hateful and soulless solution to a problem that might exist.

It is interesting how Billionaire incompetence and Trump's flailing have done more to erode trust in capitalism than most of what the left has done for the last several decades.
#USPol

Sometimes I wonder why people worship authority-hungry clout chasers instead of tearing down the whole system that lets them stand above others. But then you realize this clown is the one steering the circus in the US right now, oh well, anyway, moving on.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

Wait, no, Jeff Atwood? The Jeff Atwood? Oh my goodness, I’m so sorry. I hadn’t realised! My goodness, what was I thinking? Please, tell me, does your God accept penance? How does one make up for such an egregious transgression upon His Holiness? https://ravenation.club/@grievousangel/115…

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

Speculative politics
As an anarchist (okay, maybe not in practice), I'm tired of hearing why we have to suffer X and Y indignity to "preserve the rule of law" or "maintain Democratic norms." So here's an example of what representative democracy (a form of government that I believe is inherently flawed) could look like if its proponents had even an ounce of imagination, and/or weren't actively trying to rig it to favor a rich donor class:
1. Unicameral legislature, where representatives pass laws directly. Each state elects 3 statewide representatives: the three most-popular candidates in a statewide race where each person votes for one candidate (ranked preference voting would be even better but might not be necessary, and is not a solution by itself). Instead of each representative getting one vote in the chamber, they get N votes, where N is the number of people who voted for them. This means that in a close race, instead of the winner getting all the power, the power is split. Having 3 representatives trades off between leisure size and ensuring that two parties can't dominate together.
2. Any individual citizen can contact their local election office to switch or withdraw their vote at any time (maybe with a 3-day delay or something). Voting power of representatives can thus shift even without an election. They are limited to choosing one of the three elected representatives, or "none of the above." If the "none of the above" fraction exceeds 20% of eligible voters, a new election is triggered for that state. If turnout is less than 80%, a second election happens immediately, with results being final even at lower turnout until 6 months later (some better mechanism for turnout management might be needed).
3. All elections allow mail-in ballots, and in-person voting happens Sunday-Tuesday with the Monday being a mandatory holiday. (Yes, election integrity is not better in this system and that's a big weakness.)
4. Separate nationwide elections elect three positions for head-of-state: one with diplomatic/administrative powers, another with military powers, and a third with veto power. For each position, the top three candidates serve together, with only the first-place winner having actual power until vote switches or withdrawals change who that is. Once one of these heads loses their first-place status, they cannot get it again until another election, even if voters switch preferences back (to avoid dithering). An election for one of these positions is triggered when 20% have withdrawn their votes, or if all three people initially elected have been disqualified by losing their lead in the vote count.
5. Laws that involve spending money are packaged with specific taxes to pay for them, and may only be paid for by those specific revenues. Each tax may be opted into or out of by each taxpayer; where possible opting out of the tax also opts you out of the service. (I'm well aware of a lot of the drawbacks of this, but also feel like they'd not necessarily be worse than the drawbacks of our current system.) A small mandatory tax would cover election expenses.
6. I'm running out of attention, but similar multi-winner elections could elect panels of judges from which a subset is chosen randomly to preside in each case.
Now I'll point out once again that this system, in not directly confronting capitalism, racism, patriarchy, etc., is probably doomed to the same failures as our current system. But if you profess to want a "representative democracy" as opposed to something more libratory, I hope you'll at least advocate for something like this that actually includes meaningful representation as opposed to the current US system that's engineered to quash it.
Key questions: "Why should we have winner-take-all elections when winners-take-proportionately-to-votes is right there?" and "Why should elected officials get to ignore their constituents' approval except during elections, when vote-withdrawal or -switching is possible?"
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#Democracy

I'm not usually one for spiritual ideas, but Hofmann makes a compelling point. Capitalism has deeply disconnected us, from nature and from one another.
I still believe that protests, organizing, and direct action are what truly drive change. Yet, shifting our perspective is just as crucial.
#SpiritualCrisis

I sometimes find myself involuntarily laughing when I see a police vehicle pass by, a reflex born from recognizing the role of the state’s coercive apparatus in maintaining capitalist and authoritarian social order.
#ACAB #Capitalism

The more I immerse myself in anarchist philosophy through works on The Anarchist Library and discussions on YouTube, the more clearly I come to despise capitalism as an exploitative system and all hierarchical power structures that perpetuate domination and inequality.
#Anarchism #Capitalism

We love our hardworking men and women in America, incredible people, the best in the world. But let’s be honest, folks, we’re really standing up for capitalism. That’s the engine, the driver. Without it, America wouldn’t be winning, it’d be a disaster. Total disaster.
--💩 Tonald J. Drump 💩
#Satire #USA

#Therapy #Capitalism

I believe the dismantling of capitalism and the state must come through direct action and self-organization by the working class, united in democratic, federated, and recallable unions. Power must grow from the bottom, from the workplaces and communities of ordinary people, instead of being handed to parties or leaders who claim to act on our behalf. Emancipation will only be achieved when workers collectively take control of production, end exploitation, and organize society through free co…

Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…

Fascism is once again rising across the world, creeping in through surveillance capitalism, mass data harvesting, chat control laws, UK-style age verification, and endless new tools of digital censorship presented as safety.
Freedoms vanish piece by piece through biometric borders, predictive policing, restrictions on protest, voter suppression, book bans, and the relentless spread of authoritarian policies disguised as order. What seemed impossible a decade ago is now routine.
T…

The Conjuring: Last Rites review: This was a mind-numbing corporate séance packaged as “horror.” Boring as hell.
Why tf do people bow down to this mass-produced ghost story machine? It's like, they summoned capitalism itself onto the screen, empty, repetitive, and designed to keep the herd lulled.
Sitting in that cinema felt like half my soul was on life-support. Horror’s supposed to rattle authority, not tuck you back into your consumer coma.
I found it awfully boring.…