It's beyond time for this:

"Judge them on their intent
...
Begin to think about how we fight what is coming

Stop laughing. Start fighting."
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@Nonya_Bidniss @GracelessHippo

Case in point the BBC statement this morning:

"The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves."

As you say, this kind of conflation of critique of israel with antisemitism is pervasive and deeply damaging. It needs calling out, every time.

Bob Vylan coverage should have been pulled, says BBC bbc.com/news/articles/c75rr6g9…

Bob Vylan: BBC says live coverage of Glastonbury set should have been pulled

It comes after Ofcom said it had asked the BBC why controversial remarks made by the band were broadcast live.

^{Sean Seddon (BBC News)}

That's where Trump derives his power. He makes the little people feel powerful, even though they aren't. He gives them someone to hate, which keeps them occupied: the people he blames and targets (for his followers) and himself (for everyone else). And because of the division he sows, he is a useful patsy for the billionaires as they attempt to divide and conquer and distract, so they feed him money and support and humor his grandiosity. Fascism is just a tool to them. So is Trump, and so are all his followers.

#NoKings
#NoFascists
#NoBillionaires

When we finish dispatching this wannabe king, we should turn our attention to the guillotine.

#NoKings
#NoFascists
#NoBillionaires

After that, we need to redesign our market economy to excise the capitalism from it. We don't need an oligarchy or an aristocracy, and we should do away with their means of sustaining themselves. We can support a free market, decentralized economy that *doesn't* concentrate wealth to obscene levels, that *doesn't* create the likes of Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg, that *doesn't* harvest rent/profit from every economic exchange, and that *doesn't* result in market instability and drastic corrections or collapses. We can do this by doing away with all corporate models that aren't either single proprietorships or cooperatives. No more stocks, no more stock markets, no more billionaires.

#NoKings
#NoFascists
#NoBillionaires

Egalitarian societies, Hunt gatherers being the most well studied versions, ensure that young men because it’s usually young men don’t get egotistical and don’t get megalomaniacal about themselves.

These cultures despise selfishness. Then, if you look at the history of most major religions, they also did so. They have undergone a subtle transformation and specific areas like debt and interest.

This isn’t surprising given social realities

That's why republicans always deliberately wreck the economy. To create that anger and helplessness. It's what real leadership is, same as creating a bunch of failed states South of our border so they provide our haters with an unending supply of political props. Which is what Karl Rove meant when he cracked wise about the "reality based community". He was creating today's reality of an empowered European right wing by creating a bunch of failed states in the Middle East. Those wars went off exactly as planned.

Prior to trumpie, there were no unanticipated consequences in politics. I'm not sure government by impulsive toddler is an improvement.

@meltedcheese @GhostOnTheHalfShell

First, we have to tear down the fascists and regain control of our government. That's the hard part, and it's going to take time, energy, and an enormous level of public outrage.

Then we have to get people to see the root cause of the problem, which is what I'm already working on here.

After that, we can ease into a cooperative-based economy by first incentivizing cooperatives as a business model, disincentivizing for-profit corporations (through high corporate taxes, as one option), and encouraging the "exit to community" model.

Later, as the economy transitions and people learn to trust it, we can begin to phase out for-profit corporations altogether.

With corporations and the stock market fully phased out, and a wealth tax in place, we can ensure no one ever becomes a billionaire again, no oligarchy forms, and our government remains free of economic capture.

@meltedcheese

I think my own point is that the process of regaining control is the process of local organization. It is the systems we build through organization that are the replacement.

The primary way we do this is to first eject the operation of large corporations from our communities. This is going to mean, pushing out the Walmart /Home Depot's as well as fulfillment and data centers and instead direct community/ the city to invest in local business.

@murdoc What makes you think it will collapse? Not capitalism; I agree that capitalism is unsustainable. I'm asking specifically about the free market.

During the great depression, credit unions (banks that are cooperatives) flourished because they offered financial stability and were robust to market swings. Cooperatives take the best of both worlds: They follow market signals and are decentralized, like capitalism, but are cooperative, social endeavors with local governance and shared burden, like socialism. They are mini democracies within the larger democracy, and as such adhere to the people's will, including proper treatment of the environment and the community. Why would that fail, when it has already been shown to be more stable than the current system?

@murdoc

> it maintains a scarcity-based economic system

It does not. It's a system that can smoothly transition between the two. The workers and consumers are the *owners* of the means of production. As work progressively becomes less relevant, money flows less to workers and more to owners. In a capitalist system, that means investors end up owning everything, and former workers and consumers are elided from the cycle. But if workers and consumers are the owners, no one gets left out. Work phases out, but the products continue to be provided to all.