CarlMarks

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[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc it would be more accurate to say the crowd apprehended Jackson. He nearly beat the guy to death with his cane and the crowd had to stop him.

Nope. Jackson was old and feeble and required someone to walk him to and from the funeral. The crowd, including Davey Crockett, restrained the assassin, who was found not guilty because he had incredible delusions. Jackson himself, old and confused, immediately claimed it was the political opposition come to get him and waved his walking stick around trying to hit the already-subdued man.

Jackson was a cruel racist settler colonist who only punched down. He was not personally particularly physically threatening and most of his "deeds" were done after age 45. The idea that Jackson was at all physically imposing is just Americans making things up because they have no respectable history. And those myths became rumors and common knowledge and then get repeated with veneration - e.g. I would suspect your knowledge of the cheese wheel comes, in some way or another, from a West Wing episode.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The official vocation of farmer, in the US, is not a particularly hard laborer struggling for housing or food or healthcare. They are a property owner and employer dramatically underpaying the people who are actually dirt poor, particularly the labor underclass of immigrants. Accordingly they are frequently white supremacists.

But what is happening to them is that large companies are buying them out when "times get tough", where the big company can weather financial storms more easily than individual "farmers" and can dictate things like prices via monopsony power, including dominating consortia that literally set prices if you want to sell certain crops through normal channels.

This is basically the story of scammy petty bourgeois car dealerships getting bought out by big companies. I am not particularly sympathetic to the small business tyrants that internalize their business failure so extremely. They knowingly hurt hundreds of people if not more during their "careers" and live off others' labor.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah. Marg bar Amrika.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

All of them

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The guy whose two guns misfired and who was actually apprehended by a huge crowd?

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago (8 children)

lmao Jackson wasn't some kind of Uebermensch. He was abusive because his position protected him. A bullet isn't going to glance off his iron jaw or something.

And he won't get dumped on by the GOP because I will be gleefully shooting him in the head a few minutes into his reexistence.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Andrew Jackson would probably be happy that the US genocide of indigenous people was so extensive and the country was so large. And upset at how many people living there semi-equally weren't white.

He'd think those things for the few minutes before I shot him.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 months ago

They lose the most status under current social changes and are therefore a vulnerable demographic for reactionary propaganda. And there's plenty of reactionary propaganda for them to plug into and very little focused on them that runs counter to it, let alone gets promoted by social media companies. Reactionary forces are just doing good marketing, basically. It's also not like everyone else is getting a great political education or has coherent beliefs in liberation or humanism, they just aren't the status gaining group on which this propaganda works, they're the groups scapegoated by reaction and when alienated will naturally oppose their bullies.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Consent of the governed exists basically nowhere, including so-called liberal democracies. There is no "do you consent to this government?" question that results in a major change if you or even a majority say no. All are subject to an oppressive state, the only question re: consent is whether you want that state organized for or against the ruling class.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry that was a typo, it was supposed to say Nazi. Here's a UA propaganda outlet describing the reorg: https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51054

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

UA has integrated neo-Nazis into the upper levels of their military and seem to make decisions based on their ideas. They have increased funding for groups like Azov, who have been running little Hitler Youth camps for years, and have recently integrated them into a larger and more powerful Nazi force.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

AirBnB has entered the "jack up prices" period of financialized tech companies. Their first period is to establish a monopoly using ridiculous amounts of capital. Then use that monopoly to make huge profits.

Unfortunately for AirBnB they couldn't kill off hotels so they are trying to raise prices despite having a ton if competition. Hotels are now cheaper and provide a better experience 9 times out of 10.

Hope they go bankrupt soon and leave the big investors holding the bag.

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