Notices by Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop), page 2

Capitalists: "civilization isn't even possible without capital and hierarchy"
Native American Nations: "Ooops, we didn't now about that, so we went on and developed a continent-wide stateless civilization, I hope you don't mind..."

"The #CIA and #NSA funded an unclassified, compartmentalized program designed from its inception to spur the development of something that looks almost exactly like Google. Brin’s breakthrough research on page ranking by #tracking user queries and linking them to the many searches conducted (...) was largely the aim of the #intelligence community’s #MDDS program. And #Google succeeded beyond their wildest dreams."

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/

- "Governments are bad for capitalism"
- "Dude governments are VITAL for capitalism. Who's gonna enforce the artificial scarcity you need to thrive?"
- "Hey that's not capitalism, that's cronyism, we never had TRUE capitalism"
- "So you're telling me capitalism only works on paper?"
- "..." *clueless silence follows*

(Inspired by a true story)

@pnathan @dartigen I beg to differ. It was not the focus on decentralization (which even today is hardly a "mainstream left" topic) that disempowered the left, but rather the lack of credible proposals to counteract the neoliberal paradigm, which spread like wildfire across the west. Millions of jobs were moved to China or elsewhere, de facto destroying the very concept of "working class" the left relied on. Nostalgia-ridden discourse and an ageing leadership did the rest...

The ultra-conservative Polish think tank Ordo Iuris (!) wants to inflict 3yrs of #prison to whoever travels abroad to do an #abortion. Poland's slow drift towards fascism seems unstoppable, but make no mistake: it wont' stop in Warsaw. The fascist plague is already spreading across all of Europe, and the time is ticking out...

I almost forgot today's 9/11... Let's all take a minute to remember #Salvador #Allende, whom the #US killed in order to impose neo-liberalism in #Chile.

Did someone say #capitalism?

https://social.coop/media/rD2gZ4HpDDGH2Y4IJVQ