#classwar

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/ YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all supplied a reason related to “political” content” to Bleecker Street reps. The latter two companies’ platforms, by policy, do not allow campaign or other political ads, largely owing to fallout from the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal during the 2016 election. But the Musk trailer, which dropped Thursday, does not appear to fall in the category of the campaign advertising those bylaws were enacted to prevent. It simply contains a shot of a political rally in 2024 and a reference at the end to the 2024 election — the kind of flicks that occur in numerous documentaries and are hardly meant to stump for a particular candidate in an upcoming race. #elonMusk #fascism #USpol #MAGA #classwar
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https://defector.com/robert-kraft-now-decides-who-tours-with-ed-sheeran Kraft made all of his money by marrying into a family that owned a packaging dynasty. The reward he apparently gets for this is the ability to control everything and everyone as he pleases. When you have an estimated net worth of $15.2 billion dollars, you often get your way. Any court case can fully disappear. You can deflate a bunch of footballs (cheat) and get a slap on the wrist. The short list of things your money can't control includes whether your team loses to the Seattle Seahawks or the fact that people will forever mistake your wife for your granddaughter. #usPol #classwar #RobertKraft #MAGA #Nazis #kanyeWest #ye #edSheeran #macklemore #genocide #Israel #Palestine
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If you want to understand more about how white privilege works, especially in Victoria, BC, Canada - try suggesting developing a data centre in middle of Oak Bay - the richest, the whitest, the most privileged population in this city. I'll bet my life, Mom's life, both my brother's lives - it would not go through, after only one council meeting, because super rich elites would not want that in their backyards. They're OK having it in our lesser privileged backyards though. That's the same municipality that refused to build or convert unused old buildings into more affordable housing. They're completely against any type of social housing or supportive housing for our most marginalized citizens too. #WhitePrivilege #OakBay #YYJ #DataCentres #GiveTheRichDataCentres #VictoriaBC #StopEnvironmentalRacism #WarOnThePoor #ClassWar #Inhumanity
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion/ai-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1._FA.v6RW.69tfzFmomAzN&smid=nytcore-ios-share The observation that the most alarmist claims about A.I.’s impact seem to come from the individuals most connected to Rationalism should anger us. This exaggerated grimness makes it easy to overlook the more immediate harms created by these technologies, such as their potential use in cybersecurity attacks, excess resource consumption, impact on our cognitive fitness, role in undermining education and amplification of soul-deadening slop. This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant “stewards” of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own products. #ai #rationalism #rationalists #lessWrong #rationalist #fascism #openAI #anthropic #classwar #USPol #marketing #advertising #hype #aislop
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116978284012014337 Trump can be as bold as he wants bc there are no consequences. The press covers him as if he were a normal president. The Democratic Party has no strategy or even will to stop him. The people are disorganized and exhausted, waiting for someone else to do the work. The checks and balances clearly do not work. Is everyone waiting to vote their way out of this while he wears a 2028 hat on full display? #trump #democracy #fascism #classwar
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/us/politics/iran-troop-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0FA.EFBM.D1Or6UBs3B2n Three military officials said that one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list — three in Jordan and one in northern Iraq — because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April. #uspol #MAGA #iran #trump #fascism #imperialism #classwar #cannonfodder #peteHegseth
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Breakthrough News provides some of the only on the ground reporting from protests across the US, most recently at Delaney Hall and the demonstrations against the murders of Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine and Lorenzo Salgado Araugo in Texas. Now they're the target of the neo-McCarthyist campaign against independent journalism in the US. Support them if you can. https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/07/22/breakthrough-news-is-under-attack/ #USPolitics #ClassWar
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Judge says Trump must hand over financial records to BBC “All of President Trump’s brand, properties and businesses are impugned or said to have been impugned. Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case,” Lett said at the conclusion of a three-hour hearing. Her decision opened the door for the BBC to explore the finances of more than 400 companies owned by a Trump family trust, but Trump can appeal the ruling to U.S. District Court Judge Roy Altman, a Trump appointee. #lol #lawfare #MAGA #Trump #corruption #classwar #USPol #fascism #kleptocracy #oligarchy #bbc
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Here is another indicator of the distance between the global North and South but also another form of #classwar in the "advanced economies". Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/21/healthy-diet-too-expensive-for-one-in-three-people-globally-un-report-finds One in three people cannot afford to eat a healthy diet, a new report has found, prompting calls for urgent action on food affordability. There are 2.69 billion people unable to afford a diverse diet that meets their energy and nutrient needs. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 report calculated the cost of a healthy diet is 4.28 purchasing power parity (PPP) dollars a day. This means that in any given country, a healthy diet costs the amount of local currency with the same buying power that >>>>> $4.28<<< has in the US. “The extreme poverty line is $3PPP per person,” Torero said. “So it’s significantly higher.” In Africa, 66.6% of the population was unable to afford a healthy diet in 2025, more than double the levels observed in #Asia or #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean. #Africa is now home to the highest number of hungry people for the first time, with about 309 million, surpassing Asia’s 292 million. Another of the #UN agencies behind the report, show adult #obesity rose from 12.1% in 2012 to 16.2% in 2024.
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