No worries. Being an admin on a certain Lemmy instance, I’ve seen what you’ve gone through in the last couple of days.
Did the US broadcast a public warning ahead of time as a flex?
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Acknowledging Putin’s achievements over the past 25 years is treated as expressing support for him, which is tantamount to treason.
Nevertheless I persisted.
Good: The 401(k) is one of neoliberalism’s crowning achievements. Its effects are breathtaking in scope.
- It allowed companies to even more easily abandon employee pensions.
- It moved retirement savings to the retail financial market, so the financial industry could skim even more from people’s investments than they could when they were in the institutional market of pensions.
- It rewired the brains of the top ~20% of the working class into thinking of themselves as capitalists, against their own class interests
Now they watch corporate news coverage on “the market” and “the economy,” thinking they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires. - It makes workers blame themselves for their meager retirement savings. If only I had made better investment choices! If only I had contributed more to my 401(k)! (even though they really couldn’t have, because of all the other effects of 40 years of neoliberalism.) Better that they blame themselves than the capitalist class that imposed this bullshit neoliberal system on them.
This is a strange story to me: that it was leaked, that it was written, that it was published, how much of it is even true, and if true how significant it really is. Are there people who want to him to be replaced?
Unlike most corporate media, there are a few public* venues where the imperial core capitalists speak comparatively frankly amongst themselves, which is valuable for understanding their thinking. The CFR and The Altantic Council are examples of such think tanks. Then there are some media outlets: The Economist, The Financial Times, The WSJ.
*Though some have hard paywalls.
La jungla caga en el teu jardí, Josep!
I guess this is modeled after the war on drugs: Civil forfeiture in the United States
The contraband cargo is now the subject of a civil forfeiture action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The United States’ forfeiture complaint alleges that the oil aboard the vessel is subject to forfeiture based on U.S. terrorism and money laundering statutes.
For the past two months, archive.today links have been sending me to an infinite CAPTCHA loops, and since they are shortened/obfuscated URLs, I can’t even extract the original URLs that they are shortening.
davel
joined 1 year ago
Yup. Great summary; no notes.