Before I try to solve the GoodReserve vs. GoodStaking problem, which involves math and time and interest, let me solve something easier, which is all of modern politics.
When this sort of thing happens -- lots of noise, followed by normalization -- we are trained to think that that's *OUR* fault as cultural noisemakers.
IF ONLY WE MADE MORE NOISE, we think.
We think that because of all the times making noise worked.
Or did it? Did it actually work? Was it actually the noise that "changed" things?
99 times out of 100, that is NOT what happens.
They are not afraid of us. They have the fucking army and police. They have the legal system. They have the financial system, businesses, politicians, media. We have jack shit.
Why? Because it DRAINS our energy. It drains us DEEPLY. You can notice that, certainly.
Can you see it? Great. So stop it.
Organizing is creating your own business, law, money, politics, culture, education, police, army, UBI fund, agricultural forest, intentional community, etc.
The point is whether you want to dislodge this ruling structure or not.
Stop it. No power = no responsibility.
Or whether you're going to fall for a centuries-old ruling class trick.
300,000,000 x 0 = 0
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But you see you don't actually understand how lawmaking works there's this set of procedures and dates that BLEAAAARGHHHHHvomitvomit
Neoliberalism is an economic genocidal ideology predicated on maintaining capitalism, and capitalism is the impoverishment, oppression and death of poor people because that's the OBJECTIVE of capitalist ideology. It's a malthusian ideology.
Neoliberals are the original Alt-Right
Capitalism has ZERO todo with "markets vs. no markets," or "central planning vs. decentralization." That's *propaganda*. That's a diversion.
Capitalism is the NAME OF THE ABSENCE of any support for poor people. In capitalism, giving ANY power to poor people is a CRIME.
Capitalism has an *exception* to the strict forbiddance of giving any economic power to the 99%, and that is the concept of "Merit."
If you act as a SLAVE (wage slave), then you can get some crumbs to *temporarily* avoid your death. While you are mechanically useful.
These fucking Neoliberals which are 99% of the Democratic Party in the US are all POSING as nice people. They are not. They are all sociopaths.
This economic fascism is so thoroughly normalized in the US that nobody has a concept of what capitalism is.
The next day, she voted to move the bill without the 2k. Such a fucking phoney. https://t.co/3aiwDROypo
— ProgressiveSoapbox (@theProgSoapbox) December 31, 2020
Neoliberalism is an economic genocidal ideology predicated on maintaining capitalism, and capitalism is the impoverishment, oppression and death of poor people because that's the OBJECTIVE of capitalist ideology. It's a malthusian ideology.
Neoliberals are the original Alt-Right
Capitalism has ZERO todo with "markets vs. no markets," or "central planning vs. decentralization." That's *propaganda*. That's a diversion.
Capitalism is the NAME OF THE ABSENCE of any support for poor people. In capitalism, giving ANY power to poor people is a CRIME.
Capitalism has an *exception* to the strict forbiddance of giving any economic power to the 99%, and that is the concept of "Merit."
If you act as a SLAVE (wage slave), then you can get some crumbs to *temporarily* avoid your death. While you are mechanically useful.
These fucking Neoliberals which are 99% of the Democratic Party in the US are all POSING as nice people. They are not. They are all sociopaths.
This economic fascism is so thoroughly normalized in the US that nobody has a concept of what capitalism is.
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I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s just insane that Democrats are like, \u201cwe won everything and our opening position on relief is $1.9T\u201d and Republicans are like, \u201cwe lost and our opening position is $600B,\u201d and the media will be like, \u201cDemocrats say they want unity but reject this bipartisan deal.\u201d
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