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People who are not anti-capitalist sometimes wonder: "Why is there a monopoly on X life-critical thing?" (E.g., epipens, insulin, web search).
This one is really simple actually: because monopolies are more profitable than competition, and the foundation of capitalism is that capital = power.
Various societies have recognized the necropolitical outcomes of monopolies and have tried to erect barriers to monopoly; we all know that monopolies are bad, death-and-suffering-causing things. But since these societies mostly remain capitalist, they allow these barriers to be eroded by the power of capital (to do otherwise would be to repudiate capitalism because it puts a limit on the power of money). The barriers are ineffective, and the capital = power equation holds, and monopolies result and get to do their killing & maiming thing (remember: even things like social media monopolies that you wouldn't expect to pay for political assassinations like a mining company still profit from inciting genocides). *Sometimes* there are oligopolies instead of monopolies, but instances of really competitive markets are pretty rare for things that are widely sought-after.
The "government will manage the markets to prevent bad outcomes like monopolies" strategy has failed repeatedly, spectacularly, and almost universally. To actually prevent monopolies you need a population that no longer believes that money should equal power, it's that simple. Sadly, it's actually not that simple, since all of the alternatives which equate something else to power, like "the king" or "party loyalty as judged by the supreme leader" have the same problems or worse. The attitude you need to cultivate is "nobody should have power," which is hard because *all* of the power-systems we have constantly propagandize against this attitude in myriad ways. Still, in the future once we've broken free of this age where hierarchy is accepted, people will look back and wonder whether the historical records are even credible given how much needless death and suffering were endured with little resistance.
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Wegweisendes Urteil: Meta hat kein Social-Media-Monopol
Der US-Konzern Meta hat in einem langjährigen Prozess mit der US-Handelsaufsicht FTC obsiegt. Eine Aufspaltung des Konzerns dürfte damit vom Tisch sein.
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Dispatch from the occupation.
What life is like in Minneapolis now.
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Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now

Ski jumping rocked by ‘penis-gate’ claims athletes manipulated genitals for aerodynamic edge
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/world-news/ski…

Ski jumping rocked by 'penis-gate' claims athletes manipulated genitals for aerodynamic edge
The alleged trick involves artificially enlarging the genital area before official measurements by using substances such as hyaluronic acid.

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863710/google-search-antitrust-monopoly-ap…

Google is appealing a judge’s search monopoly ruling
Google filed a notice to appeal Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling calling it an illegal search monopolist and requesting to pause some of his ordered remedies.

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; -- but none exists now, Justice Dept. says
An agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting of Renee Good and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of Jonathan Ross -- the officer who shot Good,
according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

The existence of the civil rights investigation stands in sharp contra…

FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.

ICE is approaching people in Minneapolis demanding proof of citizenship
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-approaching-people-minneapolis-demanding-proof-citizenship-rcna254247

Physicists Propose First-Ever Experiment To Manipulate Gravitational Waves
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-propose-first-ever-experiment-to-manipulate-gravitational-waves/

Mittwoch: Freifahrtschein für Meta Platforms, Microsoft mit neuen KI-Agenten
Meta ohne Monopolstellung Microsofts überwachte KI-Agenten Kommentar zum Cloudflare-Ausfall Souveränitätsgipfel in Berlin Bit-Rauschen zum P4-Jubiläum

Minneapolis: ICE-Beamte tragen GoPros und Smart Glasses von Meta
Im Zuge ihrer massiven Einsätze in Minneapolis sollen Beamte der US-Einwanderungsbehörde ICE GoPro-Kameras und smarte Brillen von Meta getragen haben.