#capitslism

[mysharona1987]

When Elon is shitty and utter inept but his actions unintentionally led to Eli Lilly and co facing a massive dose of karma and PR backlash that might make them back down on insulin price gouging.

“Eli Lilly and Co are reportedly furious with Elon.”

What is this, Freddie vs Jason for the corporate world?

[seniorinternaut]

291 dollars to cancel a “monthly” subscription 🙈

[teachanarchy]

[mysharona1987]

[mysharona1987]

But Mike Lindell is quite a sad tale? The man overcame severe drug addiction, found God, became a successful business man, was doing well, running a successful business (people like comfy pillows) …and the Trump cult happened to him. He ruined his business and his life.

Even when I see him on Kimmel, he never seems too bad a guy.

But he has been brainwashed.

And how must all the people who work for Mike feel? 

Lives have been ruined because the boss was a rich nut job.

[bmo-the-communist-blog]

The modern democratic state exercises considerable power over its subjects. There is hardly any aspect of life for which no law exists. There are laws regarding the length of the working day; the number of breaks during that day; mandatory school education; how much time a pub must grant a patron for finishing her drink after the bar has closed; how a landlord has to keep and secure his tenant’s deposit; what happens if someone accidentally gets injured during a football game; when a newspaper can be banned from printing a story; what may or may not be said in public; whether sex shops may put their goods on display; the illegality of dying in the Houses of Parliament; how much toxic waste is tolerable and how much punishment will be meted out if one should break its law. This state demands to decide on matters of life and death of its citizens - the latter mainly in times of war. In all this, the state allows no other power over its subjects, it insists on having the monopoly on violence. In short, this state leaves almost nothing unregulated and considers almost nothing outside of its responsibility; it demands control. It demands to be the ultimate force in society.

- Cristicuffs

https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/you-mean-they-actually-vote-for-the-lizards

[not-the-bees-knees]

LIFE UNDER CAPITALISM IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE TO KEEP FEELING SOMETHING, TO STAY IN THE EMOTIONAL GAME, TO HANG ONTO YOUR EMOTIONAL HEARTLAND AS A FULLY FUNCTIONAL HUMAN BEING.

[grayerthanmost]

Just so everyone knows.

The anti-assimilationist critique of the LGBT movement begins with the difference in terminology. The term LGBT is fundamentally about establishing a fixed identity for representational purposes. This is evident even in its historical progression from lesbian and gay, then adding bisexuality, and finally adding trans to the acronym. Each of these additions was met with resistance by the gay establishment, demonstrating the exclusionary nature of the term. Queer, on the other hand, is a purposefully ambiguous term that was reclaimed as a positive description instead of the slur that it used to be. As indicated by the terminology, the LGBT movement seeks to construct a coalition of defined identities in order to participate fully in the political process. This requires identities whose definition can be counted on to remain stable, in order to give rights or take them away. Queer theory consciously rejects the idea of fixed identities, with queer itself being a term that deliberately provides no stable identity. Thus, queer liberation has little to do with the LGBT movement’s goal of assimilation and their narrow identity politics.