OccuWorld<p>Class War and the Moral Bankruptcy of the West: A Call to Arms</p><p><a href="https://jfpointon0.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/class-war-and-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-west-a-call-to-arms/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jfpointon0.wordpress.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">07/29/class-war-and-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-the-west-a-call-to-arms/</span></a></p><p>The ruling class knows what it is doing. They understand the iron law of class struggle, even as they labor tirelessly to obscure it from the masses…</p><p><a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporatocracy</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassWar</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Empire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Empire</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Bourgeois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bourgeois</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Domination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Domination</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Proletariat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Proletariat</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Lifeblood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lifeblood</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/MoralDecay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MoralDecay</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Society</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/PunchDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PunchDown</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lies</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/CommonStruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommonStruggle</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/DualPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DualPower</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Workplaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Workplaces</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Communities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Communities</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Neighborhoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neighborhoods</span></a> <a href="https://syzito.xyz/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a></p>
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“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.
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If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.
The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.
Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.
A digital imperialism, if you will.”
– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016
https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/
#BigTech #SiliconValley #colonialism #technology #feudalism #imperialism #corporatocracy #capitalism https://j12t.social/@j12t/114798595701343934
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Government once again working in service of mega corporations and against regular, suffering, people.
“Boeing BA-N and the Justice Department on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge to approve an agreement that allows the company to avoid prosecution despite objections from relatives of some of the 346 people killed in two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019.”
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The Globe and Mail - David Shepardson · Boeing, U.S. Justice Department ask judge to approve deal allowing company to avoid prosecution
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#Senate #Republicans advance #Trump’s tax and #SpendingCuts bill after dramatic late-night vote
By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Updated 12:56 AM EDT, June 29, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-breaks-spending-cuts-senate-deadline-8c72d6db7c9725d9d56db8294012809e
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AP News · Senate Republicans advance Trump’s big bill after dramatic late-night voteSenate Republicans voted in a dramatic Saturday session, clearing a key procedural step as they race to pass President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline. The vote tally was 51-49 but only after a tense night. Proceedings came to a standstill as senators huddled in negotiations on and off the floor for hours. It’s still a long weekend of work to come. Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition. If the Senate can pass the bill in the days ahead, it would need to return to the House for more votes before it could reach the White House.
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"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "
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#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDT
Excerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.
"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.
"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.
"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.
"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.
"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.
"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."
ProPublicaClarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events
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AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.
Your enemy is capitalism.
Your enemy is the corporation.
This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
"Leadership in these places isn’t about leading. It’s about avoiding responsibility while collecting credit. Work gets delegated to contractors. The people at the top put their name on the results. It’s not leadership. It’s theater. Also, it’s a caste system. If you’re in the right circle, you move up. I watched a coworker completely screw up communications with our community multiple times. Then they got promoted and got a raise. Got a senior title."
Congressional Analysis: #GOP Tax Gifts to #Rich Would Explode Deficit They Always Complain About
"This bill gives enormous additional tax cuts to wealthy people and corporations, spikes the deficit, and strips healthcare from millions of Americans," said one critic.
Jessica Corbett
May 13, 2025
Excerpt: " 'Reckless tax cuts for the top and new corporate loopholes appear to be the big features of this bill, and they're paid for by cutting our healthcare and making American communities more vulnerable to floods, fires, and storms,' she stressed. 'The revenue raisers—which don't stop this from being extremely expensive—seem to be about picking winners and losers, rather than passing rational, consistent policies.' "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-reconciliation-package
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Common Dreams · Congressional Analysis: GOP Tax Gifts to Rich Would Explode Deficit They Always Complain About | Common DreamsRepublicans are pushing a tax bill that benefits the rich while adding $3.8 trillion to the deficit and stripping healthcare from millions.