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@simon_brooke

#Science can only bear fruit under free market conditions, i.e. #capitalism. Take #medicine, for example. How can thousands of modern medicines be produced without huge chemical plants equipped with sophisticated equipment, etc.? Capital is needed to produce all this. No other political and economic system, except capitalism, is capable of producing such a result. Capital is needed.

@Peter_Link

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@kims If ur asking why no nation state has declared war its because like with the nazis no nation state cares about genocide until the genocidal state starts invading its neighbours. And since palestine is not very powerful in world economics it doesn't count as being invaded but thats not to say that dockworkers factory workers engineers accountants and politicians can't meaningfully rebel #fascism #genocide #israel #palestine #gaza #gazawar #appeasement #capitalism #anarchism

The response to the truism “any corporation that becomes sufficiently dominant will behave in a societally destructive way” should not be to shrug our shoulders and accept that this is our collective fate; it should be to band together to prevent any corporation from becoming dominant.

"The #Trump administration's intent is clear: They want to undermine or overturn the endangerment finding so as to evade #EPA's legal responsibility to address the harms caused by #ClimateChange ... This is simply a giveaway to the #FossilFuel industry and an attempt to undo pollution standards to limit heat-trapping emissions from motor vehicles, from power plants, [and] from oil and gas operations."

#environment #climate #capitalism #USpoli
npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-53021

🇨🇦 Drug User Advocacy Groups Challenge Recriminalization
thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/24/Dru

* wrongly conflates/criminalizes addiction (public health) w. poverty, homelessness, mental illness
Billionaires
Chip Wilson/Pacific Prosperity Network/Take Back Alberta
Joe Lonsdale/Cicero Institute, anti-homeless bills
mastodon.social/@persagen/1134
mastodon.social/@persagen/1108

🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide #Trumpism
🏳️‍⚧️ #TLM
mastodon.social/@persagen/1141
#capitalism #corporations #PovertyIndustrialComplex
#socialism #justice

RANDOM LENGTHS
Thousands at Chicago Conference Vow to Fight back
Cuba solidarity activists receive significant support from cities to form Hands Off
Cuba committees and travel to #Cuba.

from #RandomLengths
By Mark Friedman, member, International Association of Machinists, Local 1484, Wilmington.
Chicago
July 4th weekend

More than 2,500 political activists from around the #US attended the #Socialism2025 conference, their largest ever reflecting a consciousness change among workers and youth and heightened interest in alternatives to #capitalism.

There were hundreds of workshops dealing with #labor, #environment, #women, #LGBTQ, #immigrants, Palestine, Cuba, #Marxism. A few of the most important for this reporter were workshops organized by anti-war vets from Afghanistan and Iraq[...], workshops by Jewish Voices for Peace and by Palestine Youth Movement on #Palestine solidarity and ending US military aid to #Israel...

groups.io/g/cubanews/message/4

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@inthehands Because "civilisation" is a self--aggrandising term thought up by Westerners to cover up that their capitalism has been making profit through destruction, including the destruction of people. Through war and genocide the people in power make a lot of money.

Just look at Tony Blair's involvement with the development of post-genocide beach-front property in Gaza, after all his other war crimes.