When the people cannot put their rich people in check, the rich try to check each other. Sometimes to tragic effect, sometimes comic.
One part of the answer to the question of “What’s wrong with all these shithole countries” is “Donald Trump and worse of his ilk fund and arm the killers who keep this kind of downward spiral going for hundreds of years”.
For totalitarian empires, the last refuge from embarrassing reality is a scapegoat in custody.
The other NRA fighting for the right to hurt and even kill people.¹
¹ Poverty kills, especially in a country where medical care is available only if you have the money to pay for it. Poverty is just less obvious than a bullet.
I wonder how this dumbasses’ empire is faring now that we’re always at war with Eastasia now.
Thread:
https://twitter.com/helaineolen/status/1073257402131193856
Financial success largely depends on two factors: how wealthy your immediate family is, and whether or not someone bigger than you has decided to screw you over (it doesn’t even need to be personal).
I can pick careers, can’t I! In fact here’s me, picking a career path…
Look at me go!
I have to avoid self-checkout due to the flashing lights and animation. But ideally, if it were accessible, and if there were ubi, it would avoid the whole bags issue.
The rich rule markets through magic bullshit marketing and rewriting history generations later.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/not-how-the-internet-happened-babendir
Mostly trying to figure out what they’re doing. Experimenting, seeing what they can do with the tools they have. Finding gaps in their knowledge and the tools and trying to fill them. Trying to figure out if they’re solving the right problems and if not, what those are and whether what they’ve built might be useful for something else. Realizing that some of the decisions/assumptions they made when they started were wrong, and now they need to re-architect/rework/refactor or start over. Discovering that the thing they built works great under certain circumstances, but terribly or not at all under others and having to find ways to address those at the last minute.
Programming is a lot of trial and error. It’s having a clear vision of what you need to do and how to do it, and then finding out afterward both were wrong. It’s setting schedules and deadlines based on those initial plans and visions, and then cramming all night to try to still meet the deadline in the face of the unexpected problems that actual implementation and testing reveal.
Sounds like you should write a book.
This would go a very long way toward improving governance in the US. When Congresscritters are allowed to profit from anti-people laws they enact, you get the dumpster fire we’re currently enjoying.
betteridges law of headlines might not apply.
At literally every socialist meeting I’ve been to (admittedly, only a handful, but that was both Socialist Alternative and St Louis DSA), the issue of race was very much centered. But then, this is St. Louis and racist cops have been kind of a recent issue, and one of the meetings was planning an anti-wall/anti-ICE march.
Attendance at those DSA meetings was predominantly white, but part of the conversation was “how do we fix that?” and part was setting up a racial justice working group.
PoC seemed pretty prominent in SA meetings and the two marches I attended, in terms of speaking and leading.
well that’s good. (perhaps the problem is limited to East Bay and Philly, the two chapters mentioned)
One thing the DSA really does not need is divisiveness or internal schisms. That’s pretty obvious even from the outside. If the insiders can’t recognize that, they’re doomed to fail. Hopefully just them by being replaced with people who do understand the need to grow inclusively.