I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
thank you for this.
This is such an excellent framework for what is happening.
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Spot on. A colonial plantation model of governance weaponized against the people it purports to represent.
The purposes of this administration is generally to assure we receive no Services and they prefer we all die in a plague
i saw a graffiti 'they want us sick so they can sell us the cure' and it felt true
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Anyway does anyone want to offer me a job in a different country lol
I love Canada like so much by the way.
Do you have any healthcare training?
See, the mistake I made is, I'm very capable, but not in any of the fields modern society gives visas for.
I’m afraid most of our media is rw US ownership though I hope we’ll pass laws about that. But don’t give up, we’d love to have you in Canada
I will even accept Australia, even though I'm afraid of most of the flora and fauna there
We’ll learn to surf!
GOLDIE GIRL!
You've got a guest bedroom with your name on it in Italy.
Are you looking for academic positions? There’s the EU program to attract disaffected scholars: commission.europa.eu/topics/resea...
Remote work might be another possible.
He’s giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the bad guy from Lethal Weapon 2
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Thanks for the link to a truly excellent if appropriately depressing read.
without looking - is that Ed fucking Meese?
Yes-it's The Shock Doctrine,2007, Naomi Klein. Disaster capitalism. Our neo-cons exported it globally: impose savage capitalism; privatize; no social programs; autocracy; sell gvnt land, minerals; gvnt services/military/nat security privatized. Who has more wealth than USA? Now they're devouring us.
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I knew the day would come when the nanny’s would start defining political action and actors using Lucy’s of Peanuts vocabulary! 😂
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I’m tormented by so much of the liberal state we’ve built up to be a bulwark against anti-social norms and systems being destroyed by the same instantiation of those norms. It’s like watching the levees break, but the floodwaters are our fellow citizens.
And to see it all happen knowing there will be truly nothing left even if somehow the Dems takes power in 28. And I'm not confident the Dems have the audacity necessary to rebuild any amount of lost capacity quickly
Yeah - I’m thinking we’ll both need overwhelming majorities *and* the nerve to push through the sweeping changes necessary to remake/set things right.
wonderful piece
She’s a genius
The cruelty is the point, as they say.
that guy looks really uncomfortable, it's not just me right? you see him he's like the guy standing on plastic when the mafia takes the hood off him
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New Right 1: there is no such thing as society, just people and their families New Right 2: there is no such thing as society, just people and their employers
I am convinced that this regime is hell bent on killing all the people who are old, or infirm, or can’t afford to take care of themselves and their families. After we all die, those left will be slaves to the obscenely rich oligarchs 👹
Yes somehow they think they'll have created robots and AI by then that will take care of all their needs. But they'll have lost creativity and compassion, something only real humans have except them. And the beauty of our planet.
