FundamentalLack

Capitalism requires keeping people in a constant state of anxiety and insecurity and making consumption the only means of handling those feelings

From the @TorontoStar’s editorial board today: When a 91-year-old renter in Toronto is evicted with nowhere else to go, our governments have failed completely thestar.com/opinion/editor…

Every single workplace benefit you enjoy - from holiday pay, to the weekend, to sick pay, to maternity leave, to equal pay, to redundancy pay, to protection from unfair dismissal - was torn from the grasp of the ruling class by the "militant trade unions" Matthew talks about.

America's collapse is unsurprisingly garish and hideous while Britain is really nailing the more classic, refined dystopia aesthetic

She passed away three days later. Her own mother didn’t believe her. We don’t have to “prove” we’re sick, we don’t want your suggestions, pity, or judgement. Just LISTEN TO US. BELIEVE US.

The golden age of American capitalism was when genuinely powerful global communist and socialist movements frightened capitalists into building social welfare programs.

Empathy and learning to read.

“Gaza is an experiment by the mega-rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity; they plan to bomb us all.” -Colombian President @petrogustavo at The Hague Group Summit

The idea that “business leaders” need to approve of a mayor is a Fake Thing They Just Make Up. They are not a democratic body, no one elected them, they are Just Some Guys. To the extent they are influential it’s, by definition, the result of a corruption in democracy.

Again, the fact that centrist Democrats are outright refusing to quit and endorse the nominee should really be a national story with seismic implications. It’s a stunning repudiation of everything they’ve said to discipline the left for years, a literal splitting of the party.

One for my fellow CCs watching everyone go on holiday: an influencer updates that they were “on vacation for a while and then had a pulmonary embolism.” This is what you’re missing, yolo!

Then they came for the sarcastic people and I was like oh great that's exactly what we need right now well done to all concerned.

The illegal immigrant is essentially the jemmy to undo any due process limitation on police authority. Under the guise of valorizing US citizenship status they are actually vaporizing it.

I keep seeing ragebait posts about people on food stamps bro every missile in the iron dome costs 200 grand and we pay for them all I don't care if some chick with 6 kids bought name brand cheerios

Looks like Mamdani is finished.

So the billionaires need billions as motivation to work but the poor need poverty wages because otherwise they’ll be too lazy to work? Do I have that right?

Capitalism mythologizes ‘human nature’ as selfish and competitive to justify exploitation. It calls mutual aid ‘primitive,’ forgetting it was mutual aid that birthed civilization. Cooperation, not profit, built the world they now sell back to us.

Everyone bloviating about war being part of the rational, clinical tool kit of sensible policy-makers should watch this and face how it is an incomprehensible evil, the destruction of normal, happy, everyday human life with grotesque violence.

Panic about Mamdani as a supposed communist is particularly absurd now that Trump is just making real all the parts of communism we were told to fear. You can tolerate secret police disappearing civilians to gulags and jailing dissidents, but a public grocery store goes too far?