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Interestingly, if you replace #SovietUnion with #USA and #Communism with #Capitalism, you have a very exact display of our current, turbocharged #LateCapitalism that is willing to sacrifice peoples' lives across the globe for

 So no matter if your facism pays in Mark, Ruble or Dollar: At the end of the day, it's #ModiOperandi are similar if not identical.

It's just Germany that industrialized human slaughter for profit during WW2.
Similarly, people lie to themselves that they either enjoy #capitalism or are "better off with this system than X" when it's not true...

https://t.co/WD0tXdBa1R
I mean, almost everyone [with very, very few exceptions based of partially and mostly privilegue] is forced to work some sort of job to be able to pay the bills with no actual alternative existing...

https://t.co/8LjAF4dMGf
...regardless of the fact that people would most likely be far more productive, creative and useful if they're given the economic freedom to spend their time with something that doesn't essentially pay well, but is serving others if not the entire society.
In fact, I had to quit the fire brigade as volunteer simply out of the need to get a job and keep it.

Which bites itself with the - 100% understandable and reasonable - need to join 2hr of training once per week - because it's incompactible with working hours + communte.
So yeah, I would propably still do IT if I wasn't forced into a full-time job in order to be able to pay the bills....

But I'd propably do it half-time and reserve the other half for passion projects, If that wasn't economically "decentivized" aka. punished by loss of income.
What passion-projects would that be?

Well, there are numerous.

Besides the #NUCbook...

And you might know them already if you've looked in my timeline...
So no. It's not as if people would be #lethargic and just stop doing things...

They might do for a week, but in the end, people will do different stuff...

Also people's work get's obsoletized not just by #capitalism directly...
https://t.co/rXZ5ZKOL86
but also by #automation...

And this affects the truck drives as much as surgeons and even lawyers, simply because #AI & #machines already are superior to a #human.

https://t.co/h9nLKntKmc
Even if general-purpose-robots are still clunky and expensive, they neither demand wages, nor weekends, nor labour safety standards nor healthcare besides trivial maintenance...
The core issue is that while human labour get's obsoletized faster than ever, we've not made any preparations re: millions if not billions of people that will inevitably, sooner or later be removed from the weath-creation on their own.

https://t.co/SdSdZutIJk
And then we'll end with unprecedented mass poverty, hunger anc everything associated with it, as the masses will be forced to live from what those that are in power throw away...

Like in all these #Elysium-style #dystopia|s...
So yeah, if you thing being a "#socialist" or "#communist" is bad and you want to throw it at me as an insult like the N-Word or whatever...

Be assured that you're most likely not going to come out on top in the end, even if others claim different.

https://t.co/J8LJ8aNd3j
Even if the leader of the MAGAts tries to convince you outherwise...
https://t.co/XXrb01XDLz
...or any other #authoritarian...
https://t.co/Wt2xoHzub1
...or facist...
https://t.co/Vyp5eocl4F
...no.
They'll throw you under the bus faster than the Orange Tyrant did stab his fanbase into the front in a cowardly attempt to escape #justice in the form of legal #consequences for his wannabe-#insurrection...
In the meantime, #labour conditions will worsen globally - espechally for the lower 99% in the #G8...

https://t.co/hA0koY19jj
...which in turn will led to an abundance of #prisoners which are de-facto legalized #ForcedLabour...

Because if #prisoners would be paid #minimumwage while serving time, corporate #jails would need to file for #bankrupcy within months...

https://t.co/tV5mQHmN2J
So no.

#Capitalism is not as good as it claims to be - far from it.

And #Wankers need to realize it and prepare for the inevitable day when people will be unemployable through no fault of their own...
Or they'll risk to find out that the impoverished mob will be more brutal and relentless in redistribution of wealth than even a 99% wealth tax of all owned property beyond $10M.

Cuz guilloties are very fast to build and operate...
Not that I'd justify murder - inclusing state-sponsored murder - of any kind...

But it's not as if all those billionaires did not see it coming or didn't knew it'll happen...
And the more and earlier they'll be cleverly camining to be "woke" and "want to pay wealth tax" and "support #UniversalBasicIncome/#UBI", the less violent the shift will happen...
Now some people might laugh at this and think I'm wearing a too tight #tinfoilhat and shouldget out into the fresh air and do a bit of sunbath at the weekend or some other "health & fitness bs"...

But have I ever been substantially wrong in my preditions?
If so, please comment!
So regardless if the orange tyrant or Biden or whoever corporate puppet farts into the well-padded chair at 1600 Penn. Ave.:

They'd rather have 300 million deaths from the C-Virus than to change course.
and since #capitalism - espechally the #US-way of doing it - is based on #lies, #deceit and #secrecy. It is doomed to failure...

https://t.co/RfleviZCrV
Which is good, because then a lot of people in the #MENA region would not be terrorized by #Drones and other illegal forms of #aggression and #warfare...

https://t.co/8bxzefIpDC
But don't think for a second that #China or #Russia are in any way, shape or form better than the #USA in their #ModiOperandi or willingness to shed blood internally or externally...
The same way #Iljushin will get a call to not talk too much to the press...
https://t.co/FCDWVpK8z6
...the same way some U.S. - allied nation can murder and slice-up a journalist into pieces...

https://t.co/J2qO1mxGES
...and the same way the #PRC can set up literal #CocentrationCamps to "re-educate #Uygurs...
https://t.co/RxL8x6QAUF
The core difference between U.S. #CncentrationCamps and the historical ones is the fact that the U.S. is not setting them up as a may to comitt genocide and democide in an industrial scale.

https://t.co/mcy1XuPE1D
Still, #MassIncarceration of people who's only 'crime' it is to flee the #USA's #DrugWar because some reactionary #assholeds in D.C. would rather criminalize drug possession, trade and consumption and literally bomb South America instead is not acceptable.
And if you don't want #refugees showing up then maybe instead of illegal #pushbacks and #ConcentrationCamps - regardless if operated #CPB, #DHS, #LYCG or #Frontex [because the #EU has no #MoralHighGround here!]...

https://t.co/5iZreDtgiM
...then maybe we should combat the reason why people flee.

[video in german]
https://t.co/pRLHaBZKzB
So you see:

The global problems we face are intertwined and amplifying each other as a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle...
...and the moment this cycle is breaking apart due to becoming too big, it'll get so ugly, that the french revolution will look like a verbal argument of a couble about the colour of the shoes one of them should wear to a specha occasion...
...also I'm still flabberghasted by the obvious lack of organization and planning the insurrectionist rioters in D.C. had.

It's obvious by now that they would not have been allowed even into viewing distance of the capitol if cops weren't accomplices.

https://t.co/5qtSWhpEIy
If the #USA wasn't a nation with #VetoPowers, the @UN security council would've made it an imminent resolution to nuclearly disarm it since the Govt. is obviously incapable or rathe runwilling to stop a violent mob...
Not because such an insurrection was possible.

But because it was possible by basically unarmed mob that was let in the front door by the police...
Because it's not as if they were "overwhelmed" or "unprepared" or whatever excuse someone might claim.

THE #capitolPolice is part of the #Insurrectionist #Mob!
https://t.co/VUBArTUmhi
Meanwhile multi-millionaires & billionaires happily take part in the methaphorical hobbing of molotovs...
https://t.co/6GE3Cv7U74
Not to mention #racists and #facists - both uniformed, off-duty and ununiformed...

https://t.co/a7NMy1ezNi
So what now?

We need to overcome #facism & #capitalism once and for all...

And the earlier we start, the easier this will be for everyone...

It's a matter of survival as a species, not a matter of political "opinion" that we need to do so!
Also I'm not thinking that violence is the tool of need.

I only accept violence as a means of self- and mutual defense & -aid, not as a go-to #ModiOperandi...
And also only in a way that is relative to the threat itself...

As much as shooting or jailing a non-violent person is wrong, same goes for facists.

Because #VanillaISIS is exactly like #Daesh when it comes to being a #cult around #martyrdom!
And yes, people complaining that the cops would forcibly remove #Insurrectionists rather than murder #BlackLivesMatter protestors were the "least radical" in terms of the failed #coup attempt...
https://t.co/bm7hjJ4szs
Personally, it wouldn't suprise me if the #OrangeTyrant would take the entriety of the #USA if not the world as hostage with his "#NuclearFootball" just to prevent the successful inauguration of @JoeBiden or even interim-presidency by @SpeakerPelosi in the meantime...
I mean, it should be obvious that supporting #Trump always was a bad idea and never was good...

And I never changed my mind on that, only got it confirmed.
https://t.co/nscIwrTlqa
I just think those that stormed into the capitol are convinced cowards who'd happily jump into a car-sized meatgrinder without hesitation when ordered to do so by the orange tyrant.

https://t.co/3Yd9BHBe38
And #Germany has seen where that leads to...
Not to mention that #Trump is an obvious #coward...

https://t.co/Yezdr5K2mP
And in the same way, the #consequences will hit the wrong people, just as #AlQuaeda wasn't hurt by the illegal #invasions of #Iraq and #Afghanistan...
...so will #facists and #racists not be hurt by more #FearCulture, #DerivationOfrights #PoliceState & #SurveillanceState!

Instead, it'll hit more "law-abiding average people" than any #DomesticTerrorism group ever could.

https://t.co/41mJOh9epP
Similarly, it is not in the interest of the #facist #military-industrial system to not have an enemy.

Because once #Terrorism would cease to exist as all-justifying looming threat, people would sooner or later demand their #freedoms to be reinstated...
And I'm not talking about reasonable things like #WearAMask & #StayHome to be demanded...

I'm talking about real #earCulture, #DeprivationOfRights, #SurveillanceState, #PoliceState and misgouded #StatePositivism:
OFC, #Germany does lead the way in regards to #FearCulture & #DeprivationOfRights as well as #PoliceState:
https://t.co/dMZRosp0G3
Tho the #USA isn't lacking behind in any way or form, as we can see by the masses of #NSL's issued by the @FBI and others...
https://t.co/ZN2ILjqjJI
As well as their global #cyberfacist efforts ranging from #Govware like #_NSAKEY to installing #Malware on @Cisco products in Transit to literally standardizing #backdoored #encrytion like #DUAL_EC_DRBG & #Speck...
...up to outright #bullying foreign companies in foreign nations to illegally follow U.S. law and even illegally fire employees who did nothing wrong - regardless if unethical or illegal by local and global standards.

https://t.co/skzRBV62dc
And yes, I've to disagree with @_SecondThought in the regard of some of it:

If #Parler weren't some lazy assholes and tech-illiterates, they would not have been in the position to be dependent on #SingleVendor/#SingleProvider solutions like @awscloud!
https://t.co/41mJOh9epP
And even if someone is not a #racist #grooming site, one should never ever rely on a #SingleVendor/#SingleProvider to function.

That's why I refuse to use #PublicCloud services and why I push for #redundancy and #onsite/#selfhosted #IT at my employer!
But then again:

I doubt the #USA will be able to fix itself with the current system and people of power in place...

Instead of replacing just the people, we need to have a different kind of people in power and a different system.
https://t.co/Ifr00I45ht
Which is unlikely since being able to become a #politician is inherently #classists across the globe and espechally in the #USA, where one needs to raise BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to just be taken serious.

And even then it's the sponsors that decide who get's setup as candidate.
That's why @SenSanders/@BernieSanders - even if he'd candidate in for presidency in 2028 - would not get elected:

He's inherently pissing off too many corporate donors who get to decide who's being put on the ballout sheet...
the core difference is that #Sanders is able to accept defeat - even if it's literal #backstabbing by his own party and being stabbed in the front by the then prime candidate...

The #OrangeTyrant however belongs into shackles...
And no, the @FBI is more part of the problem, than the solution, since they - along with other government institutions of unchecked power - are inherently #facist... [remember those #NSL's before?]

https://t.co/Z6tT5hfvZ8
People like @_SecondThought getting visits from @DHSgov for "anti-[U.S.]american sentiment" [which isn't even a crime BTW!] is a clear sign of a #facist #PoliceState and must be named as an #evidence that the #USA is intimidating critical #journalists.

https://t.co/bpS1a9oMYH
Also #Police needs to be #abolished per concept:

https://t.co/NZ0FZ6stMV
Because the #LackOfAccountability and #LacoOfConsequences by illegal behaviour of uniformed goons emplyed by the state is inacceptable.

https://t.co/8Tvq9Ydv8v
For those who did not have #politics and/or #history and/or #ethics in #school, here's a quick clarification:

If the exact same action done by an average #civilian would be #punished, but not by a cop actually doing it, the place it happened in is per definition a #PoliceState!
Regardless what kind of legalese #bullshit pseudo-legitimation they invent...

Like "#QualifiedImmunitry", which per concept voids #EqualityBeforeLaw!
Also #Trump is just a #symptom, not the #source [@GOP] or actual problem [widespread & state-sanctioned #facism] the #USA has.

https://t.co/lbBuBQqh3q via @_SecondThought
#Ultranationalism is not limited to the #USA tho...

They are just the only ones claiming to have a "moral high ground" whist being at it:

https://t.co/70mqKXIuuk
And yes, i've to strongly disagree with @JoeBiden:

I'm not going to give the @GOP a warm hug or ever forgive them for inciting #violence and #hate - and that was way before they mobilized enough morons to storm a public building for no actual reason.

https://t.co/Fq14ltUtEs
Instead, I wish for at least two strong #left parties in the #USA...

@DemSocialists for example - even tho they'd be a lot more "right" on the spectrum than their german equivalent, the @spdde/@spdbt....

https://t.co/qUlBHoW3M0
And yeah, it's really a shame the #USA is read by a right-wing corporatists party compareable to late-capitalist #Wankers like @FDP with the now-oposition being the equivalent of a #Neonazi party like the #AfD...

https://t.co/XkonApHqcc
TL;DR for this thread:

The only good thing in the world is what you do yourself and with others.
In case someone can't find the beginning:
https://t.co/fH8xZZJ20a
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