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@gwynnion@mastodon.social The fascists want the Dems to keep shifting the Overton Window to the right, and they keep following through to appease their corporate donors. Honestly, nothing will improve until progressives develop their own propaganda network to go toe-to-toe with the Murdoch Media Empire that had joined forces with Russia long ago. On top of this the failure to regulate social media has only piled onto this issue to the point that the West is now losing the Cold War. We are now completely past debating facts, logic and reality in our political discourse. If the Dems don't counteract this swiftly we will lose our country (highly likely to have already happened).

@heydon@front-end.social @yabellini@fosstodon.org @aud@fire.asta.lgbt Ha that is very valid!

@serge@babka.social @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social @yabellini@fosstodon.org @alter_kaker@hachyderm.io @aud@fire.asta.lgbt I would never say everyone is acting rationally when I look at the current economy considering it is mostly BS and full of fraudsters. Stock buybacks used to be illegal as they are market manipulation, but when the West completely embraced neoliberalism in the 70s and the culmination in the 80s with Thatcher and Reagan. We are quite literally still running these ridiculous charades even though we know this will not end well. It mirrors the economy of the 1800s, which was an awful time to live through since it was a class of aristocrats that abused the poor masses. What good reason is there to not cap executive compensation? In the equation of capitalism it means that tons of people will be poorer because we want to allow a small number of people to accumulate absurd sums of money they will never need and they do not deserve. Don't forget the fascists in America log ago set out to destroy any competition with ruthless capitalism and it is very obvious they have succeeded when adequate regulations and taxation are a nonstarter for most people. As the old commercials warned about drugs, "this is your brain on capitalism."

@serge@babka.social @ArneBab@rollenspiel.social @alter_kaker@hachyderm.io @yabellini@fosstodon.org @aud@fire.asta.lgbt I honestly believe abandoning neoliberalism is imperative considering through this awful philosophy we have made a previously illegal economy legal, led by charlatans known as executives who now get rewarded via stock options that only reward short-term performance to the detriment of literally everyone else. Factor in stock buybacks getting legalized by Reagan and this was always going to be the end result, negligence and fraud riddled throughout the entire economy that is quite literally a house of cards that was entirely illegal before the 70s/80s where we abandoned New Deal ideals/principles. On top of that criminal liability for corporations and their officers needs to be implemented and these low level fines need to end. A cheap fine simply means something is legal for a price.

@yabellini@fosstodon.org As someone who had never heard of SciHub I really appreciate this post 😂

@aud@fire.asta.lgbt @yabellini@fosstodon.org (Mostly) Unregulated capitalism is a cancer. Edit: missed a word lol

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Wow, that is completely absurd