NEOliberals absolutely would. I’m not accusing the minority within the majority members like Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez of such things.

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775

Both parties literally put blinders on for places like Saudi Arabia because they’re good customers for our military industrial complex.

Externality: Noun - Capitalist term for “I already got your fucking money, so my mess is your problem you fucking sucker peasants 🖕🤑💰”

"What an absolute disgrace! We must not allow this travesty to continue!

The Union of Concerned Scientists must be punished, in order to protect our beloved economy and the quarterly earnings of private shareholder portfolio staples like Tyson foods/TSN!"

-Neoliberals to fascists, probably

But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders!

Capitalists don’t care about making quality products/services.

They care about squeezing more profit out of you as time goes on.

I for one back the blue.

To be clear though, I mean the ocean, fuck the police capital defense force.

Or shove a bag of cocaine in its blowhole and claim it was resisting…

Also there’s no confirmation as to whether this dolphin was at school.

This is American af 🇺🇸

To be fair, we exterminate entire ecosystemss to build strip malls, then pat ourselves on the back for putting the ones we find cute or interesting to us in cages to be gawked at, and call it “saving” them, when the ones we have to breed in captivity for their continued existence are effectively extinct living ghosts for our amusement.

I wish humanity was humanity’s only victim, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. From the perspective of virtually all other terran life, we are a plague.

Then we lie to them and tell them “it will get better” to get them off the ledge solely to try to squeeze a little more productivity out of them for the owners before they realize “but society cares about you” was just yet another layer of bullshit by a civilization that’s been warped and perverted to serve the singular goal of “make the wealth class wealthier” at literally all expense, even the very air we all breathe.

A poor person begging for help will just get a 72 hour hold, some generic pills tossed at them to dull their mind, and even more debt for begging for help, where a wealthy sociopath that exploits thousands including that poor person will get all the mental health assistance they desire up to and including self-actualization and strategies to mitigate any wealth guilt when they should very much feel guilty for exploiting others and hoarding more than they would need for several gluttonous lifetimes when struggling people exist.

Celebrated Greed and permitted rule by private shareholder PARASITES that do nothing yet demand and get almost everything humanity produces are destroying civilization, humanity, and oh yeah the habitability of our only communal environment that will take millions of years to correct once the problem, us, are no longer around to keep making it worse eyes wide open.

Economies are supposed to exist as lowly tools to efficiently and equitably distribute goods and services for the benefit of the society said economy serves. publicly traded companies don’t even care about their customers/products/services anymore, just whatever accounting fuckery and self-cannibalism(layoffs, monopolistic price gouging for inferior products having murdered the competition, tax cheats, etc) will goose the next quarter for the activist shareholders telling them to burn everything for a short term stock bump fire sale, with no sustainable business model that actually benefits society. HBODiscoveryTimeWarnerblahblah comes to mind, but it’s happening in every economic sector, including the ones with life and death consequences.

Instead most developed nation states will sacrifice anything to protect their beloved society economy.

We’re doomed because even most of the people that suffer from this aren’t even willing to admit it out of the sunk cost fallacy. The owners know what they’re doing, they just don’t care about the societies they came from or any future after them, and they’re the ones in charge.

If we cared about the well being of our species at fucking all, we would have to acknowledge as a species that capitalism and the concept of infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world is over and we need to pursue a multigenerational goal of shrinking humanity’s footprint to a level our only fish bowl can support, and to instead seek HOMEOSTASIS with the world we conquered, saturated, poisoned, and are still actively beating the shit out of to grow the ego scores of a few thousand sociopath families.

Honestly I’m surprised suicides are still as low as they are, they’re going to get worse, because most people, and especially the people in the owner class either refuse to or delude themselves into not even acknowledging the obvious root cause, which would be step 0 to there being any hope at all.

Society shouldn’t even tolerate insatiable avarice. We not only celebrate it, we deify it. We make our most successfully, destructively greedy people celebrities, and write articles about how we should emulate the sick, sociopathic fucks. Gordon Gecko should be no one’s role model, but here we are.

Oh no, now who will take up the mantle to find the real killer?!

Here in the US, our society is in practice neutral towards human life. We (usually) don’t actively kill each other, but we’re completely comfortable letting our fellow citizens die under a freeway of exposure for the crime of not producing capital value for our owner class.

Instituting something like UBI would be a significant step towards finding congruence with our currently false, empty rhetoric of valuing human life.

Untl then, we as a people can and will continue to pretend that we do, but again in practice, it means the same as saying we value the candy bar wrapper we just threw in the trash.

Candace Owens is an opportunistic sociopath. She found her niche as a paid, enthusiastic token for people that openly hate her demographic but want someone to point to to go “nuh-uh” when confronted. I doubt she believes a word she says or writes in this role, as it would mean she openly hates herself, but the fact that she is willing to for prominence and the pay prominence comes with makes her an opportunistic sociopath.

Want fewer opportunistic sociopaths in society? Rebuild our economic framework to stop rewarding and empowering opportunistic sociopaths, and start rewarding pro-social vocations.

Exactly, the people that conflate legality with morality have the poorest of moral compasses. It’s sad how many people just stop at this stage of moral development.

In these times, with what is being made legal(child labor) and illegal(abortion) that should be more obvious than ever.

Coffee and Chocolate will again be luxuries of the rich in the coming decades. The rest will learn to use cancer causing, cheap to produce imitations. The owners don’t care, so long as the right people can get as much as they want and more.

As ever, thanks greedy capitalists, wish we weren’t too chickenshit and/or deluded into worshipping you to stop you.

I wish I could snap my fingers and put these people in uniltateral charge of every central bank board on Earth. Seems only fair as they’ve literally been stealing the very ground beneath these people’s feet without a thought. Externalities, amirite 🤷

Maybe then consequences of sociopathic, profiteering policies on real human beings might actually be a consideration instead of “How do we grow/metastasize/get moooaaaaaar for ourselves” exclusively.

How can anyone not remember the name after hearing that earworm capybara song on social media?

Fyi, I didn’t mean to diminish your joke, I just had a pedant moment, apologies.

To hell with that.

It’s only growing a spine if it risks costing you power, pence has none and is losing none. Glad he came out against the fascist, but all that might indicate is some small, at least partial return to and recognition of the rational world. He’s patting himself on the back about how virtuous this may make him seem in history, nothing more.

A sitting Republican Congressperson or party official with no intention of retiring would be demonstrating bravery coming out against the fascist.

Lucky sonovabitch