the chart is using the term #libertarianism in the 1800s sense
in the current sense, #libertarians are #plutocrat bootlickers who think they are temporarily broke millionaires, if only those pesky #regulations would go away and allow companies to poison groundwater
@mark @ErickaSimone @jonahgibberish
i see #anarchism as "stuck" (and #libertarianism as well, but that's been coopted by #plutocrat agendas now wholesale and is pretty much dead to me)
they are correct to condemn current structures
the idea is to build alternative better structures
but they are still busy tearing down what is wrong with the world in their minds
While we save to buy 3 dolls and 5 pencils, Trump spends your money on a $400 million gilded flying throne.
https://www.advocate.com/voices/trumps-gilded-new-jet #Trump #Inequality #Plutocrat #Oligarch #Politics #GOP
The Meager Agenda of Abundance Liberals
What the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about policy movement gets right—and wrong.
By Paul Glastris and Nate Weisber
Washington Monthly
@WAMonthly
#Culture #brOligrach #Plutocrat #Corporatocracy #Economics #CritialInfrastructure #Repatriation #Decommdification #Housing #Healthcare #Transportation #Banking
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/23/the-meager-agenda-of-abundance-liberals/
Just imagine if the current #bigot-#plutocrat regime of the #USA had the backbone of tiny #Georgia
maybe Georgia has the backbone it does because they understand the government of #Russia
so i guess the USA has to learn what Georgia knows already
the hard way
because the USA is ruled by morons
"Georgia Rejects Russian Proposal to Restore Diplomatic Ties"
I try to accentuate the positive. That's been hard lately
This is a reach, but bear with me:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
(non-paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20250415173350/https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930 )
These folks aren't necessarily #left leaning
But now they are on the outside, with us
Not just ex-#Pentagon, but from all over the #US #government
They have a grudge against the #bigot-#moron-#plutocrat #coup
Smart people who know things
Some of them may even be on #Mastodon
I say to them: "welcome" 
Lets do something about it
the pridefully #ignorant ones will endlessly blame shift away from their own #entitled #privileged indolence
the question is do they outnumber the ones who can have their eyes opened via the suffering they bring onto us by not #voting/ voting for #bigoted #plutocrat #malice
some have the bare minimum of heart to go "i was wrong"
if they are not enough? too late?
then we are truly fucked
#maga #voters, #nonvoters: i absolutely despise you
@inthehands @StillIRise1963 @tarheel
study the history of #chile, #southkorea, #spain
look at #serbia, #georgia, #hungary today
corrupt, murderous regimes, opposed
they fought! they're fighting!
what you about you #usa?
i will not listen to arguments saying #american #democracy is doomed:
hopelessness
cynicism
it only helps #plutocrat-#bigot malice
you fight
you #vote
now and forever
that matters
"but it should be easy"
never is and never will be
show a fucking spine
the problem is not that a demented #plutocrat should be full of #hate and stupidity. that's almost a given
the tragedy, which we really need to get a handle on, is why his moronic #bigotry and #ignorance appeals to so many
"lol! #bigotry is new to you?"
no it's not new. but how it is goosed on #socialMedia for power so brazenly in cahoots with #plutocracy is a new and terrible wrinkle
yes, the #bigot-plutocrat #political axis is also not new
but it is supercharged now
One of the side effects of the #gishGallop of endless hate and outrageous stupidity is that it obscures the abuses of yesterday, yet they continue, while outrage and attention shifts
Example:
the sadistic attack on #womensRights
"Two #Houston-area clinic employees arrested for allegedly providing illegal #abortion s"
We must confront the totality of the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis in the #USA and not be endlessly distracted
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-abortion-midwife-arrested/
"Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website"
If you're #black and/ or a #woman, your sacrifices will never matter to #MAGA and their only reaction is to try to erase your history and ignore your existence.
The #bigot-#plutocrat #political axis
"#Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income #Tax on $2 Billion of #US Income in 2024"
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/
this right here
the root of all of our problems
how a cringe #edgelord icon of #bigotry like #Musk can wield so much power and how our #democracy dies to #plutocracy
well, not the root of all of our problems
the #bigots matter too
by goosing #ignorance and #indecency the #plutocrats can pull con jobs on hateful dimwits to wield power
the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis
our enemy
The #Plutocrat-#Bigot #socialMedia axis takes race swapping characters in #movies seriously
Because it's a pipeline to #farRight #politics, weaponized fake outrage
And they get to engage in #racism and #hate
"#AyoEdebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon #Musk shared fake report about #PiratesoftheCaribbean casting
#TheBear #actor called Musk a #fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a #rightWing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp"
it's always been #bigots everywhere in large numbers
#plutocrat #socialMedia amplifies it, gooses it, celebrates it
one of the avenues we can fight back: get a new social media like #Mastodon to replace corporate centralized cesspits of trolls and #hate (i know, a big ask. one can dream)
to be clear: the root problem is #bigotry, not #technology
but bigotry is a much larger problem
so win the social media battle
and use that to further the much larger war on bigotry
@FranceskaMann @ohmu @Kierkegaanks
certainly
#plutocracy amplifies #hate on the right and #alienation on the left on purpose
the problem is we live in a #democracy (if we can keep it) so the average person matters. their choice to #vote #maga, or not vote matters
and the reasons they don't vote or vote maga is the #plutocrat influence machine, yes
but *why* does that influence work?
#socialMedia and #media #psyop work because hate and alienation is organic
we need to fight that too
@Osteopenia_Powers @Kierkegaanks
#trump, the whole #plutocrat sludge factory, confuses being rich with being right
the problem is, so do tens of millions of middle class and poor #americans
the #conservative mind operates on #fear
overactive amygdala
it crowds out the prefrontal cortex: reason
#plutocrat #rightWing #media and #socialMedia amplifies the imbalance on purpose
pushing lies that goose the fear, #ignorance and #hate, capturing their minds, addicting them, controlling them
as suitably brainwashed zombies, programmed like robots, they dutifully and enthusiastically go to #vote
while the #left is not so engaged
this is our problem
"Deep wisdom of the cosmos:
What is the purpose of the #USA in the world now?"
"Dear demoralized #Left #American:
The job of your country now is to serve as a horrifying and disgusting example to #democracies in the world about what to avoid: the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis"
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-liberal-party
But it only effects "the poors" so the #plutocrat class doesn't care
And plenty of poor people support #Trump and will blame the #Democrats. Because that's what some troll on #socialMedia tells them
The stupid and the evil are killing us all
Welcome.
It's not perfect here.
Nowhere is.
You'll find many others here in #sanctuary like yourself, and myself.
Together we can take #Mastodon beyond mere sanctuary and grow to kill #centralized #plutocrat #socialMedia.
I know, I know.
One can dream.
I need this dream. Many of us do.
We'll dream together.
