On Nov 6 the Isreali military announces that it will not allow Palestinians to return to Northern Gaza.
This is ethnic cleansing & forced displacement. These are war crimes.
Joe Biden could stop funding this at any moment but even now he won't. Reckless.
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Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF
Brig Gen Itzik Cohen said in a briefing that aid would only be allowed to enter south of the strip, not the northBethan McKernan (The Guardian)
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •The new generation of the dispossessed so their land can enrich the corrupt, cruel, & callous. Bribes for genocide.
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A new seaside playground for the ultra wealthy?
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Or oil field drilling & pollution?
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/…
counterpunch.org/2024/01/26/ho…
The perennial dilemma of the fossil fuel industry's real estate interests.
Jared Kushner Says Israel Should “Finish the Job” in Gaza So It Can Focus on Building Valuable “Waterfront Property”
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Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •This is the new reality: no accountability for oligarchs.
A Republican congress guarantees that nothing will come of it.
Get used to it. It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 • • •@Joe_Hill
The last era of the Leisure Class culminated in a series of disastrous financial collapses & two world wars.
The greed of the wealthy knows no self-regulation.
It won't be railway & banking collapses, it might be AI & crypto this time.
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All those Trump voters delude themselves that ...
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The Panic of 1873
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... they've evaded taxation by electing the GOP. Lol.
40% to 60% of a nation's GDP goes to funding a war caused by the recession that was caused by the greed of the wealthy.
That war is funded by heavy taxation.
britannica.com/money/defense-e…
The pattern, deregulation to enrich the rich, bubble, financial crash, recession, war, bubble, recession,...over & over.
Britannica Money
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NO NAME
in reply to Joe Hill 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇦 • • •@Joe_Hill @Npars01
We must adopt the same playbook they used. Slow, small changes, small wins, until we have enough power back to do as they did.
Just remember, we are the more intelligent party, so we should be able to get things back much quicker. They took decades to pull this off because that's what it takes for stupid to develop.
Truthfully, I expect the GOP to be too drunk on power to get anything done. Watch. Nothing meaningful to the country will get done. The economy, the food & gas prices, nothing will change.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to NO NAME • • •@jeff @Joe_Hill
Republicans want to dismantle the ACA, give tax cuts to the rich, deregulate pollution, thwart the phase out of fossil fuels, force women to boost the birth rate for economic reasons, suppress wages & voting, create slave labor camps for detainees, end federal agencies, end all social safety net programs, privatize & loot all federally owned assets, protect the gun lobby, reward megadonors using tax dollars, raise drug prices, adopt crypto,..
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.. inflict ruinous tariffs on automakers, farmers & distilleries, end all unions, eliminate the minimum wage, end student loan relief, convert government jobs into Tamanny Hall style graft, and profit from war & pandemics.
Republicans have a false reputation for being a "Do Nothing" party.
They plan on making 99% of the country poorer, sicker, and less long lived, while the favored few reap the rewards of being loyal apparatchiks.
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NO NAME
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 and I'm saying they are too stupid to make any of it work. When they deport everyone that does the manual labor in this country, then what? You don't think MAGA is going to pick fruit or work at McDonald's do you?
Watch and see. They "want" to do a lot, but per usual do not have the critical thinking skills to see beyond their hate. They think they will just bus everyone they hate to the border and kick them out, turn and drive away, and be done with it.
I am betting on many mistakes happening and when they meet resistance even more mistakes will happen. We can take this country back.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to NO NAME • • •@jeff
Trump's "deportation plan" is actually a plan for slave labor internment camps similar to Putin's gulags & China's Uigher "re-education camps".
He's rewarding his private prison donors.
huffpost.com/entry/trump-depor…
Detainees will spend years incarcerated working for pennies while their deportation is slow-walked.
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nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/poli…
California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons
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NO NAME
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
I'll say it again.
They are too stupid to pull any of it off.
I'm not ready to give up.
Samhain Night 4 Harris
in reply to NO NAME • • •NO NAME
in reply to Samhain Night 4 Harris • • •@samhainnight @Npars01
100% resist. I luckily live in a state with a governor that just told Trump, "If you come for my people, you will have to go through me!"
#illinois #Pritzker
Samhain Night 4 Harris
in reply to NO NAME • • •The US needs CA more than CA needs the US - from a Federal standpoint,
(We all need each other as people, of course), so I'm glad we have a strong Democratic governor who stands up to Trump.
Sisukas Bill
in reply to Samhain Night 4 Harris • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Sisukas Bill • • •Putin would adore it if the USA became like the former Yugoslavian states: weak, small, fractious & exploited as an agricultural backwater.
Easily picked off, one by one.
Strength comes from unity.
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OtownKim
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to OtownKim • • •@otownKim @jeff
Here's another scary thought
Megadonors like #KochNetwork want to shut down the Dept. Of Education & privatize all schools
Guess who invests in both charter schools AND private prisons? Jeff Yass & Peter Thiel
Want CoreCivic & GeoGroup running your child's high school on a lucrative no-bid contract?
finance.yahoo.com/news/12-best…
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fool.com/investing/2024/11/07/…
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California May Have Voted to Keep Slavery in Prisons
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mmalc
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff
"He's rewarding his private prison donors."
Hah, one of my thoughts for “What Biden should do now" is to blanket pardon just about every federal inmate with a sentence of fewer than say 5 years. See what that does to private prison income…
MartinL_NZ ☑️
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff
Seriously spooky.
Cabbidges
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •You can always see who paid in.
That's why tariffs (or suddenly not tariffs) are to watch.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Cabbidges • • •@TheDailyBurble @jeff
Republicans do nothing but reward their donors.
In effect, a Republican administration is a machine to convert taxpayer dollars into profits for their favored billionaires.
Bribery & kickbacks.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
gothamist.com/news/bronx-gop-o…
propublica.org/article/clarenc…
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cnbc.com/2024/05/16/trump-rnc-…
Trump Is Promising Donors Big Policy Favors. Cash Is Pouring In
Andrew Perez (Rolling Stone)TCat will ignore the lies
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @TheDailyBurble @jeff
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But the machine is even more efficient then that. When the government debt gets too big, and/or a financial bubble bursts, the Democrats are allowed to take over and clean up the books - all while being constantly blamed by the GOP
Then, as we just saw, a Democrats can be leading an economy that is "the envy of the world" (Economist mag) yet somehow personally responsible for the price gouging that drove inflation.
I blame media for amplifying GOP lies
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Stargeezer Smith
in reply to TCat will ignore the lies • • •@TCatInReality @Npars01 @TheDailyBurble @jeff
Also it seemed to me the Democrats didn't run on those record breaking accomplishments, yielding (as they often do) to GOP lies.
NO NAME
in reply to Stargeezer Smith • • •@stargazersmith @TCatInReality @Npars01 @TheDailyBurble
With 38% of registered voters either not voting or were blocked/prevented from voting is the ultimate reason Trump won. Not the only reason, but a primary reason.
They did everything they could to change the rules in their favor and forced a lot of people to just give up and not vote.
As for the 32% that actually voted for Trump consists mostly of low information voters that just don't watch the news. Mixed in with try MAGA cult members gave them that 2% lead.
Stargeezer Smith
in reply to NO NAME • • •Thanks for that information. I wasn't aware of all of it.
TCat will ignore the lies
in reply to Stargeezer Smith • • •@stargazersmith @jeff @Npars01 @TheDailyBurble
100% agree with No Name
And I'll push back hard on the rightwing narrative that Dems didn't message well, or rolled over to GOP messaging.
America essentially has two media:
- right wing propagandists and
- mainstream bothsides media that normalizes and sanewashes GOP insanity and downplays Dems
And that's because billionaires control the media and want this outcome. 9 years of relentless brainwashing made a criminal acceptable.
Stanley Nerdlinger
in reply to TCat will ignore the lies • • •Someone posted “the role of the Republican Party is to represent the ruling class. The role of the Democratic Party is to oppose them, but not get in their way.” They opposed Trump but did not get in his way, allowing him to return to the WH. Just my thoughts. 🤷
TCat will ignore the lies
in reply to Stanley Nerdlinger • • •@SNerd @Npars01 @TheDailyBurble @jeff
Interesting.
Certainly, Dems like Manchin and Sinema (but not only) would give weight to that theory.
Grovewest
in reply to TCat will ignore the lies • • •Kernou
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •V. Hogan
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Kevin Leecaster
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Exactly right, everyone should be reading about how Stalin consolidated authoritarian rule over the Russian empire in order to see what we have in store unless our resistance is effective.
samiamsam
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff
good time to watch this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspira…
2001 film directed by Frank Pierson
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to samiamsam • • •@samiamsam @jeff
I watched it and read the book on the Wannsee Conference.
Perplexed why Miriam Adelson, Stephen Schwarzman, Jeffrey Yass, Bernie Marcus, Ike Perlmutter, & Kushner funded a set of neo-Nazis for public office, while listening to Trump rant antisemitic slurs.
nytimes.com/2024/10/24/us/poli…
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Trump bemoans lack of support from Jewish voters and blames ‘Democrat curse’
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samiamsam
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff
so many people have no morals or values
they cherish and seek money and power to the exclusion of anything else
it really is disgusting
Nazani
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •I've read estimates of what the arrests alone would cost taxpayers. Forgot the figures because I couldn't wrap my brain around them.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nazani • • •@Nazani @jeff
Republicans consider the American taxpayers as an exploitable resource to enrich their billionaire donors.
The 2008 Financial Crash taught Wall Street how to buy politicians to escape consequences & profit from the disasters they orchestrate.
Covid Pandemic relief made the rich a lot richer.
Both Trump presidencies will do the same. Enrichment & impunity for the moneyed.
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Nazani
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •I think they'll enrich themselves off the broadening avian flu, too.
I read that peasants & craftsmen had a lot more value after the Black Death killed 30% of Europeans- but they were still stuck with kings.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nazani • • •@Nazani @jeff
Kings or any other dictator cannot cope with modern complexity.
Simplistic governance produces simplistic "solutions".
Converting modern government into a monarchy-style system of patronage hastens the collapse from crises like pandemics & prolong a painful recovery.
Population size wasn't restored for centuries after the Black Death because of the constant warfaring of despots between themselves.
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Nazani
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •It must be tough, understanding cause & effect, & living in a world that largely doesn't.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nazani • • •@Nazani @jeff
Systems thinking seems to be a relatively new way of observing political decline.
The tech industry shares a lot of concepts that I wouldn't have encountered otherwise. Grateful for the broadening of horizons.
Not everyone sees that perspective. For them, knowledge is to be hoarded to benefit themselves personally.
Some use tech to narrow horizons, limit benefits to a tiny few, and manipulate others using information asymmetry.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Nazani @jeff
Good books on Systems Thinking.
Derek & Laura Cabrera "Systems Thinking"
David Peter Stroh "Systems Thinking for Social Change"
Albert Rutherford "The Systems Thinker"
It can be applied to so many global problems, like backsliding democracies & fossil fuel funded fascism.
#KochNetwork & #AtlasNetwork spent 50 years building a right wing ecosystem to keep its captive consumers captivated.
A bandaid was attempted by focusing only on electing Democrats.
Voting is ...
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... only one element of a larger & broader effort necessary to save democracy & the planet. Build communities & ecosystems.
Fund law students careers right in college like Koch does. Fund progressive influencers. Fund a ground game.
Start with not participating in or contributing to any venture funded by GOP billionaires.
AI. Cryptocurrency. SpaceX. Twitter. Walmart. Loans. RTO. Fox News. CNN. NYT.
If a Republican wants it, you don't.
Sabotage their efforts to divide & conquer.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •One aspect of fascism is the development of dark economies & tax evasion.
Populist tax revolts are responses to being harvested like wheat by billionaires.
Republicans have used tax evasion & tax revolts to undermine the common good for half a century. Turn the tables.
Think about the significance of the cash-only economy of India in response to Modi.
If billionaires can evade taxation, so can the poor, and then how will Musk get his government subsidies for SpaceX?
caravanmagazine.in/vantage/ind…
An Account of India’s Attempts to Curb the Black Economy, and Why They Don’t Work
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •I agree with going back to cash, there’s also the concept of regional (complementary) currencies.
Cash has other benefits because spending habits change when money is physically handled.
The use of bank cards or phones is pervasive surveillance.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff
Why am I not at all surprised? Especially when the stocks for private prisons spiked on the announcement of his winning the election..
People imagine that it has to be this great big military operation, but I don’t think it has to get anywhere like it. They need an operation showing a bunch of people being rounded up into one of these prisons and they can try out samples as much as they like.
Bye-bye, labor negotiation
Das_blaue_Pony
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •irizoris@hcommons.social
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff Prison labor is happening now. Look, too, at the Prop. that was just voted on, in California, allowing the continuation of enslavement for purposes of punishment.
Shocking but nonetheless accepted is that CoreCivic in Tennessee is a donor to arts, the Middle Tennessee YMCA and other seemingly benign institutions. Here's a random article about prison labor:
confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/co…
The Genesis of Corecivic’s Privatized Prison Labor – Confluence
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in reply to irizoris@hcommons.social • • •@irizoris @jeff
Private prisons & detention centers are rewards for Republican donors like Schwarzman of BlackRock and New Times institutional investors like Vanguard .
cnn.com/2019/06/28/investing/p…
theintercept.com/2022/06/27/es…
motherjones.com/criminal-justi…
Slave labor is returning, thanks to Trump's donors.
Private Prisons Are a Socially Responsible Investment, According to Bizarre Wall Street Measures
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irizoris@hcommons.social
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @jeff Private prisons are an essential part of Tennessee. I live in Nashville, a Dem enclave, but it's difficult to avoid CoreCivic's ubiquity.
Over in California, someone reminded me that prison labor was used to combat forest fires. And this is going to continue.
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irizoris@hcommons.social
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •foo ✅
in reply to NO NAME • • •RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
Mother Jones🤖 Lazaro el dog
in reply to foo ✅ • • •@slashdottir @jeff @Npars01
Sounds like a reeducation camp.
The Clockwork Orange
The Big Brother loves you.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to 🤖 Lazaro el dog • • •@LazaroDTormes @slashdottir @jeff
Trump's supporters were always big admirers of Putin's gulag prisons and China's Uigher genocidal slave labor camps.
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Gatekeeper..Harris Walz
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •And that's the first year...lol
Miriam Jacobs
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •thepoliticalcat
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