#greedism

[thecrownestt]

The crazy thing to me about this tumblr feeder/feedee crackdown is that it even got on folks' radar? We're kinda exceedingly rare. I've been to bbw bashes where I'm singled out in the vein of "oh, him? He likes them ***big***." I'm a minority in my own niche yall.

I've seen those "heat maps" on reddit of what percentage of folks have certain fetishes and I NEVER see our thing on even listed. As flawed as such a survey could be, I saw cannibalism before I saw feedism lol.

Granted, I guess some of the posts around here get 1,000+ likes and all that. Big for our community, but overall?

So what if we misbehave at the buffet. What am I supposed to do? The food is just sittinggggg there.

In conclusion

I'll be arranging a hunger strike in which I decide someone is VERY hungry and tell them to seek therapy for their hunger while I shove food into their mouth. For the cause?

[mckitterick]

Bernie Sanders on the plague of oligarchs

“One of the points that I wanted to make,” he says, “is yeah, of course the oligarchs run Russia. But guess what? Oligarchs run the United States as well. And it’s not just the United States, it’s not just Russia; Europe, the UK, all over the world, we’re seeing a small number of incredibly wealthy people running things in their favour. A global oligarchy. This is an issue that needs to be talked about.”

Guardian story: X

[auressea]

Seven Reasons for Hope in Our Troubled World

Some 75th Anniversary Reflections By Guy Dauncey It’s been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will List

[mckitterick]

Y'know what, I'm going to stop using the word "capitalism" and start calling it what it is, as practiced by billionaires and most of those in charge of megacorporations and nations: GREEDISM

In theory, capitalism could be non-destructive. For example:

if planned obsolescence wasn't a thing

if top officials didn't get paid so ridiculously much

if stock-traders weren't in control of the entire economy and leeching out most value added

if workers earned compensation for their labor commensurate with their contributions

if corporations were responsible... well, that's it really, but specifically if they were responsible for their consumption and waste

if we had a truly free market rather than privileged monopolies that prevent small business from competing and stifle innovation every time it threatens their ever-increasing stock valuation

But that's just not how capitalism works today. And probably never actually has.

So: Greedism.

Let's all start using this more-accurate term, because the only way to (start) countering greedist propaganda is to use accurate language. Words have power and help frame our worldviews.

Greedism serves none but Greed and its privileged disciples. Greed is the root of most evil. Greed Is Not Good.

Want to save the world? End the worship of Greed.

That's already kinda the foundation of so many enduring religions. But, under the constant barrage of Greedism, people seem to have forgotten - even in their churches (and in the case of Greedist mega-churches, especially there).

Greedism is the religion of modern capitalism, and the festering illness it spawns is a big reason we're seeing such a surge of right-wing hate-politics ever since the USA and other nations put Greedists in charge.

Of course fascism is on the rise. It's just a sect of Greedism. Not even that radical to many Greedists.

We must eliminate Greedist privilege before we can fix anything else. Including capitalism, if we decide to keep that product of Greedism.

And that all begins with using accurate language.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[mckitterick]

this remains ever-relevant

[mckitterick]

add this to your Apocalypse Bingo card

Media Matters article source: X

I'm reminded for some reason of this word:

surely Tr*mp is disavowing this, right?

well... here's an update from The Guardian:

apparently top Republicans have reached the stage where they're just not even pretending anymore

so maybe get ready for some civilization-wrecking levels of corruption over the next couple months...

(PS: what kind of f*ed-up person gets a tattoo of RICHARD NIXON across their back 😬 that's just cartoon-villain level of WTF)

[theant755]

EA's Greedism In The Nutshell

And pretty much MOST of these corporate monopolist money-hungry billionaire companies in general, their getting bigger and bigger and that's why people are actually waking up after these companies getting mone even this pandemic that people are struggling, becoming homeless and dying. So I have to do this.