queermunist

The US has had three different distinct Red Scares, and before those it had a wave of white terror that defeated Reconstruction.

So, yes, this keeps happening. We're just living during one acute part of a longer cycle.

Reading theory is for tankies.

Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.

If a firm isn't growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you'll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation - as every firm grows in competition with each other they heat up the economy and create more demand for fiat currency - so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.

Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.

It's a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.

Imagine believing this stupid shit when we give billions to Israel.

This is complicated by the fact that the English speaking world isn't safe, or won't be for long. The UK is having its own wave of transphobic reaction which has spread to Ireland, Canada is being threatened with a trade war and being the 51st state, Australia got couped that one time by the CIA, and New Zealand is a hard place to get into since it's basically the bunker nation for billionaires since COVID.

I might apply for asylum outside the English speaking world but that's extremely challenging in lots of other ways. I'm cramming language lessons atm to give myself a chance if I am forced to flee, but it's dire.

Heaven forbid you talk to anyone outside your echo chamber lol

Fascism is an ideology, not a bundle of tactics. Levereging funding cuts against institutions that don't toe the party line is actually just politics.

In case you haven't noticed, Trump won.

And they use the threat of trans people getting government healthcare as a way to stop socialized medicine. They also use racism this way, and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia, and other reactionary ideologies. These things are directly connected, we can't really ignore one to focus on the other.

Besides, we need to form a mass movement, and you can't form a mass movement by telling minorities to shut up and wait their turn.

Also I might lose my healthcare in the next few months. It's kind of fucking urgent?

The transphobes are getting ready to take away my healthcare, I think I have to be very worried about that.

If I can't get my medicine I will die.

Wow. You actually believe them when they tell you they want to protect children. That's fascinating.

Pedophiles are obviously the excuse to gather public support? It's fascinating that you actually believe them when they say they want to protect children.