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#SabiLewSounds, elderly mom & ESA bun are in danger

If you can help in no other way, please at least help raise support, even by simply helping their need to be seen

Their lives endangered by the very #capitalist #colonialism that displaced their #Indigenous ancestors, centuries ago

The same that now provides comfort to some, while #marginalizing others

They're endangered by the color of their skin alone, by #poverty, by #disability, by #xenophobia

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@gleick
this is also an example of #capitalist market forces at play in private for profit #prisons (concentration camps or cheap labor pool for bigCorps).

Now #bigCorp will see the profit in having prisons in multiple jurisdictions. Everyone makes a profit, the bigCorp cutting the political players in and we now have #fascism on a global scale with #bigCorp running the world.

no courts, or oversight by anyone.

The death of democracy at a global scale.

#democracy is more than voting.

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Even if a #Progressive is elected, hypothetically speaking, they won't be able to do the shit they say cos they'll be backed into a corner.

#Congress, #Politicians & #Corporations & #WallStreet will not let it happen.

A tiny minority of people still get a say, there's still #exploitation, there would be a #CapitalStrike which would lead to #civil unrest and possibly a coup to take power back for #capitalist class with the forces of the #reactionary.

youtube.com/watch?v=TRq3pl17C8M

Just curious: What do you consider the first #capitalist society?

Generally, folks seem to think of the 19th century. Roughly when #Industrialisation moved the power to exploit people from "power by noble birth" (#Feudalism) to "power by capital ownership" (#Capitalism) on a large scale. With a lot of overlap, of course.

Yet some Marxists as well as "Capitalism= #PrivateProperty" folks argue an earlier beginning of capitalism.