Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 18

An everyday capitalism-related warning: if you’re planning on buying an Apple Watch online with the solo loop, don’t. You can’t just send the strap back if there’s a problem with it (mine caused contact dermatitis after a few day’s use). They’ll happily take the whole order back though because, well, fuck you, I guess. Anyway, caveat emptor and all that. And your daily reminder that trillion-dollar corporations are all asshats.

Right, as you were.

The United States isn’t a democracy, it’s a capitalism.

Chaotic climate breakdown, you say? The billionaires are betting on it, mate. Wall St. are creaming their pants at the thought. Capitalism fucking gets off on this shit. https://assortedflotsam.com/@smeg/113447815034490275

@micchiato Thugs.

„Die Antisemitismus-Resolution, auf die sich Ampelkoalition und Union verständigt haben, ist für zahlreiche Israelis ein Hohn. Politisch begründete Kritik am Handeln der israelischen Regierung soll als antisemitisch gebrandmarkt werden
(…)
Der Bundestag würde sich mit dieser Resolution nicht mit Israel solidarisieren, sondern nur mit dem Teil des Landes, der durch Netanjahu, Ben Gvir und Smotrich repräsentiert wird.
Noch schlimmer: Die Resolution, die vorgibt, die Vielfalt jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland wertzuschätzen, würde auch Jüdinnen und Juden im Namen einer selbstgerechten deutschen Staatsräson allein mit dem Israel identifizieren, gegen das zugleich Hundertausende in Tel Aviv, Haifa und Jerusalem auf die Straße gehen….“

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antisemitismus-resolution-bundestag-israel-meinung-100.html @palestine @israel

#Ampel #Bundesregierung #Antisemitismusresolution #Antisemitismus #Germany #Israel

@seth @jmeosbn (Although Germany apparently didn’t get the memo: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/113442675529605279)

@seth @jmeosbn Goes without saying :)

THERE IS NO GOING BACK
FROM NEOLIBERAL CAPITALISM

it has entenched every single fascist myth and meme to the point of ecocide.

ecocide is already happening.

the only way to save The Earth and us is to kill capitalism.

billionaires and their fascist, neoliberal bootlickers know it.

that's why they had to manufacture an electoral win that would make it look like they have a mandate to continue their profits before people & The Earth.

don't fall for it… 🧵

BILLIONAIRES
WILL HAVE YOU BELIEVE
#2024Elections MEANS,
YOU GAVE THEM PERMISSION
TO KILL YOU

so, honestly, whatever your take away is from the demographics data of these elections, make sure one of them IS NOT that the majority of people voted for their deaths.

what you should take away is that DEMOCRATS SUPPRESSED THEIR OWN VOTERS by running yuppies and buppies against progressive incumbents who stood up against #genocide in #Gaza

…🧵

YOUR FIRST ANTIFASCIST DUTY IS TO
CUT OFF THE NECROTIC NEOLIBERALISM
THAT SCREAMS “WE ARE CAPITALISTS”
FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS

who’s we, when am not the one with a fucking website dedicated to the still very legal insider trading that made you a hundreds millionaire?

capitalism is fascism as it stands today. it is never going back to the morals & ethics Adam Smith outlined, to prove it is what the people make, not the property of kings, that makes the wealth of a nation… 🧵

and i also have been saying this for years that BILLIONAIRES have decided for you and me to be middle class we need to have millions.

no invisible hand of the market decided that

no economic council decided that

no treasury department or internal revenue service decided that

billionaires decided that by greasing the palms of kleptocrats everywhere and buying single and multi-family homes by the millions.

because billionaires want the working classes to be indentured slaves…🧵

YOU AREN'T MIDDLE CLASS
YOU ARE WORKING CLASS

the billionaire, oligarchic class has so gamed and skewed valuations of wealth in this country, unless you have assets that can be liquidated in the MILLIONS, you are NOT the middle class anymore.

doesn't matter if you are making +100K. between student debt, credit cards, many of y’all are one health care crisis away from an eviction and homelessness.

YOU ARE NOT MIDDLE CLASS

MILLIONAIRES ARE THE MIDDLE CLASS

🧵

NOT FOCUSING ON ZILLENNIALS
TWO GENERATIONS OF MOSTLY
WORKING CLASS, BIPOC PEOPLE
FUCKED AMERICA

Millennials and Zoomers are poorer, more burdened by lack of opportunities for socioeconomic advancement than previous generations.

not focusing in the single biggest block of working class, brown and Black, first time voters this country has ever had will cost Americans and the whole Earth dearly.

and let me tell you something about the canard of the middle class… 🧵

it should be obvious, the Democratic Party of Pelosi, Schumer, Biden and all their yuppies and buppies, is a necrotic parasite that needs to be cut off; if whatever is still left of the Left is to truly turn into an antifascist movement.

@shiro @PrototypeFund Thanks, just read down to there. Oh well, fundless we continue. Hope you’re keeping well, it’s been a while. Do let Laura and me know if you’re ever in Ireland :)

@shiro @PrototypeFund Hey Marie, happy to hear it. Is this just for folks based in Germany or can anyone apply?

@krusynth Tech alone won’t save us. If the only tech we have is Big Tech – if the only mixers we have to plug our microphones into are the ones owned and controlled by oligarchs like Elon Musk and if the the only privacy we have are what they and their governments afford us – then nothing will save us. So having the right tech is as important as everything else. Master’s tools, master’s house and all that (with apologies to Audre Lorde).

@peterbrown @dbattistella It’s not ignorance. It’s malice.

@acitta @Tutanota Congratulations, I guess?

We need a new movement for reader privacy, and for the integrity of books. I mean, they're literally purging Martin Luther King from the National Archives under BIDEN.

Are they invisibly purging racial justice from existing digital books already? We can't know. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/national-archives-history-colleen-shogan-f8512bc3