America is no longer a democracy with a capitalist engine. It is a populist authoritarian state with a corrupt oligarchic form of state capitalism. Socialism (aka kleptocracy) for the rich and good old Social Darwinism for everyone else.
![18:28 And we talked about investors and we've ...
19:18 Look I think the inequality issue is real ...
20:19 I do think it's raising questions about frankly about capitalism and whether capitalism works.
20:46 This is like a state this is now we're into state sponsored capitalism. I mean, this is not really capitalism.
20:51 Everything runs through 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, this is total this is new.
21:19 That is a fundamental shift and that is something that's more akin to place like China frankly.
23:57 I think there's a there's that. I mean I think there's a there's you know a true -- I hate to say it -- a true capitalistic CEO would say yeah if we could get to a point where we can lower our costs [by replacing all employees with AI] they would try to do that. They would want to do that. I mean I think that there is a level -- I don't want to be cynical about it -- I think that's true.
Let that last one sink in. Corporations are not your friend. They don't care about employees. Or democracy. Or inequality. Or the rule of law as long as they can make predatory profits. The corporations lined up behind Hitler willingly worked Jews to death in their factories. ICE is employing hundreds of thousands of contractors and third-party corporations to do Trump's regime's dirty work violating the Constitution and basic civil rights of even American citizens. Some American chemical corporation, some future DuPont will be more than happy to the make the modern version of Zyklon B for Trumpisms 'Final Solution.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dwpvblep4vlmdjdrysb5kf7k/bafkreicpmaejwg5whpsbijjftyfk4b2ooffrlxuozcsfmph24dqqrszhf4@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
America is no longer a democracy with a capitalist engine. It is a populist authoritarian state with a corrupt oligarchic form of state capitalism. Socialism (aka kleptocracy) for the rich and good old Social Darwinism for everyone else.
Let that last one sink in.
December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Let that last one sink in.
Another one bites the dust, you know the tune ...
December 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Another one bites the dust, you know the tune ...
I like the way you are exposing these sock puppets 👍
December 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I like the way you are exposing these sock puppets 👍
My kids are mixed American (French)/Korean and have been mistaken for other ethnicities. Being an American citizen doesn't matter anymore. Neither does the protections of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. America today is an elective despotism.
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 AM
My kids are mixed American (French)/Korean and have been mistaken for other ethnicities. Being an American citizen doesn't matter anymore. Neither does the protections of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. America today is an elective despotism.
Back to the future ... Empire Strikes Back.
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Back to the future ... Empire Strikes Back.
I am loath to engage in speculation which inevitably distorts any evaluation, but how convenient for POTUS to blame some military commander to shift the blame for illegal orders.
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am loath to engage in speculation which inevitably distorts any evaluation, but how convenient for POTUS to blame some military commander to shift the blame for illegal orders.
Amen. I have never wanted hell to be real more than now.
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Amen. I have never wanted hell to be real more than now.
Poof ... @winnerm54 is gone ...
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Poof ... @winnerm54 is gone ...
Is he dead yet, I need to change my toilet paper ...
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Is he dead yet, I need to change my toilet paper ...
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Only the white one ...
November 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Only the white one ...
The Americans Who Yearn for Anti-American Propaganda
Russian-backed influencers with an authoritarian message find a ready audience.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Russian-backed influencers with an authoritarian message find a ready audience.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
The Americans Who Yearn for Anti-American Propaganda
Russian-backed influencers with an authoritarian message find a ready audience.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Russian-backed influencers with an authoritarian message find a ready audience.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Putin has won the propaganda war; we have become them.
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Putin has won the propaganda war; we have become them.
When you're squeezed ...
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
When you're squeezed ...
But first we must discern the difference between good and bad economics ... for there are both.
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
But first we must discern the difference between good and bad economics ... for there are both.
Neoliberal economics helped create Trumpism. Trump is just a symptom and economics and economists helped create this nightmare. The good news is it's a mixed bag and they can help get us out of it too.
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Neoliberal economics helped create Trumpism. Trump is just a symptom and economics and economists helped create this nightmare. The good news is it's a mixed bag and they can help get us out of it too.
Economists historically have fudged "facts," conflated ideology for "analysis, [and] theory," and justified said ideology with mathematical masturbation masquerading as "modelling" calling it "science."
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Economists historically have fudged "facts," conflated ideology for "analysis, [and] theory," and justified said ideology with mathematical masturbation masquerading as "modelling" calling it "science."
He told me he didn't do it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
He told me he didn't do it.
Ah, but Megyn Kelly says it's fine to have sex with 14 yr olds.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Ah, but Megyn Kelly says it's fine to have sex with 14 yr olds.
Pollsters keep us distracted from the deeper issues. Trump is quintessentially American, for always has there been a populist authoritarian Americans who seek to create chaos through ungoverning so they can impose personalist rule.
November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Pollsters keep us distracted from the deeper issues. Trump is quintessentially American, for always has there been a populist authoritarian Americans who seek to create chaos through ungoverning so they can impose personalist rule.
Doesn't it just make one wonder how much fun future historians are going to have when writing the history of these moronic times.
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Doesn't it just make one wonder how much fun future historians are going to have when writing the history of these moronic times.