Just an average guy who is an ardent advocate for economic justice. He/Him #MMT
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It was great to talk to you Steve!
The Complicit Lens: How US Media Helped Normalize Genocide in Gaza ft. @MediaPhiled of @ProjectCensored. Join us for the YouTube premiere tonight @ 7 pm ET! #Media #Gaza #Genocide youtube.com/watch?v=sSNaXE1J…
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Why is ecological #sustainability impossible under capitalism? Join us Tues. 6/16 @ 8 pm ET for Macro n Chill to listen to and discuss our latest ep. ft. @ecosocialist1. #Environment #Capitalism
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Capitalism didn’t end history—it intensified its contradictions. If it truly won, it wouldn’t need rising surveillance, deeper inequality, and constant crisis management to hold itself together.
Read the full article on Substack: futuredude.substack.com/p/th…
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Elon Musk became a trillionaire by:
1. Exploiting the labor of the working class.
2. Exploiting child labor in Africa (see video below).
3. Risking people’s retirement savings by changing the rules to force Index funds to buy SpaceX shares.
4. Receiving government subsidies.
5. Benefitting from U.S. imperialism, which maintains capitalism at home through the theft of natural resources abroad (see below).
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New video reacting to Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
A society that is producing trillionaires while people are sleeping out on the streets and struggling to afford basic needs is a society that is in desperate need of a revolution.
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TempleDeficitOwl retweeted
Capitalism and Western democracy are not designed to solve people's problems. They are structured to protect property, capital accumulation, and existing power relations, with social needs addressed only insofar as they never threaten those priorities. #EconomicDemocracy
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truly evil.
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Poverty and inequality are manufactured. They can be dismantled and replaced by policy action. Concrete options in our statement here, with @DeSchutterO @JosephEStiglitz @PikettyWIL @KateRaworth @jasonhickel and many others.
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Israel has killed more Palestinians since agreeing to a “ceasefire” than Israeli civilians who were killed on 10/7
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⭕️ REPORT | Israel has killed 987 Palestinians and launched more than 1,450 airstrikes and shelling attacks since agreeing to a “ceasefire” in Gaza last October
Israeli forces have carried out at least 3,224 ceasefire violations across Gaza since the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, according to a report shared by the Palestinian side with mediators and obtained by Drop Site News.
🔸Field Attacks🔸
Wednesday alone saw 12 armed field incidents, including repeated artillery and naval attacks across the Strip:
🔹 Israeli artillery shelled northern Gaza
🔹 Artillery shelling east of Deir al-Balah
🔹 23-year-old Faten Faisal Odeh Al-Arouqi was wounded by Israeli live fire east of Al-Maghazi Camp
🔹 Israeli warships opened fire toward the beaches and coastline of Gaza City in two separate incidents
🔹 Israeli artillery shelled northeastern Gaza City
🔹 Two civilians were wounded by Israeli warship fire west of Al-Nuseirat
🔹 Artillery shelling east of Khan Younis in two separate attacks
🔹 Ahmad Rafiq Al-Batsh was abducted by armed militias operating under the protection of the Israeli army east of Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood
The UN-backed @BoardOfPeace has not condemned a single attack.
Since the “ceasefire” took effect, 987 Palestinians have been killed, including 236 children, 110 women, and 30 elderly people, while 3,109 have been wounded, nearly half of them children, women, or elderly. A total of 95 civilians have also been newly abducted.
Israel also continues to hold approximately 34 square kilometers beyond agreed withdrawal lines and has blocked repairs to electricity, water, and sewage infrastructure. Aid and movement restrictions remain severe:
🔸Rafah crossing🔸
▪️ Only 6,674 of 19,400 planned crossings have been carried out (~34.4%)
▪️ 88 individuals have been turned back at the crossing
▪️ Gaza’s Health Ministry says roughly 20,000 patients are awaiting Israeli approval to leave the Strip for treatment abroad, and that about 10 die each day while waiting.
🔸Aid entry🔸
▪️ Only ~36.1% of agreed humanitarian aid has entered, averaging about 217 trucks per day compared with the 600 agreed under the ceasefire
▪️ Fuel deliveries remain at just 14.7% of required levels
▪️ The WFP estimates 77% of Gaza’s population faces acute food insecurity, including 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant women suffering from acute malnutrition, amid what MSF in May 2026 described as a “manufactured malnutrition crisis.”
📸 Central Gaza, Maghazi Refugee Camp tonight (Thursday) after new Israeli air strike. Photos by Mohammed Kassab.
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TempleDeficitOwl retweeted
In the wake of the coup, Guatemala was ruled by a series of brutal right-wing dictatorships for the next forty-two years, all with US support. The military regime massacred 200,000 Mayans, in what scholars have described as a genocide.
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#MMT is just the description of HOW the system currently operates. That's the reason why all status quo shitlib and neoconservative economists etc. maliciously smear it, because it uncovers the #truth the oligarchs hide from everyone. @sdgrumbine @CheeseMacro @RealProgressUS
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: "Socialism and War." marxists.org/archive/lenin/w…
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Trump lies about everything because everything is branding to him.
War is branding. Faith is branding. The flag is branding. The dead are branding. The poor are branding. Even truth is branding, not something to be found, but something to be manufactured, deployed, and abandoned when it stops performing.
He does not see the world as something to understand. He sees it as something to manipulate until it reflects admiration back at him.
That is why he can stand beside suffering and talk only about himself.
Why he can watch catastrophe unfold in real time and think first, and last, in terms of optics.
Why he can threaten whole nations, millions of lives, generations of consequences, as if he were announcing a new hotel opening.
Why the bereaved mother at the podium is a prop. Why the soldier’s coffin is a backdrop. Why the disaster zone is a photo opportunity he resents having to attend.
He is not merely immoral.
Immoral implies a relationship with morality, a knowledge of the line and a choice to cross it.
He is something emptier than that.
He is a man for whom the suffering of others has never once interrupted a single thought about himself.
And that is not incidental to why empire chose him.
Empire does not need its figureheads to be evil in the complicated, motivated sense.
Evil has convictions. Evil can be argued with.
What empire needs, in its late and rotting stage, is a man with no interior life, someone who will sign anything, threaten anyone, perform any cruelty, because performance is all there ever was.
The emptiness is not a bug.
It is the qualification.
ALT 45th and 47th U.S. President, Donald Trump.
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TempleDeficitOwl retweeted
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People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”
Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.
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Ecosocialist author, Ian Angus, talks with Steve about his book Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System. They explore the deep, sometimes invisible ways that capitalism disrupts the planet’s fundamental life cycles –– from soil depletion and artificial fertilizers to the carbon cycle driving global warming.
Ian traces the concept of “metabolic rift” from Marx and Engels through a long socialist lineage, making the case that ecological critique has always been central to the Marxist tradition. (Indeed, some Marxists might argue that “eco-” is an unnecessary qualifier; “socialism” is enough!)
Steve brings up the MMT basics challenging the austerity narrative that blocks ecological reconstruction. He reminds us that the state, as the currency issuer, can de-commodify the essentials of life, namely food, water, housing, and healthcare. However, as Ian bluntly states: “The problem is that it’s not our government, it’s their government.” Reformism and electoralism are dead ends.
While listeners may disagree with some of Ian’s interpretations of Soviet history, those comments do not negate the episode’s compelling analysis that capitalism’s DNA demands endless accumulation and profit. Combating the ecological crisis is inseparable from the struggle to overcome capitalism.
Episode 384 - Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth System with Ian Angus
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On this day in 1954, the US backed a coup against Jacobo Árbenz, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Guatemala, because he sought to restore land to small farmers and Indigenous communities that had been dispossessed by US fruit companies.
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Karl Marx, even 150 yrs ago, understood capitalism's linear “take-make-waste” framework is destroying the planet's cyclical systems. Socialist #revolution isn't optional at this point - it's #survival
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Capitalism and a living planet are diametrically opposed
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In 1975, Muammar Gaddafi published The Green Book, a slim volume that became the ideological foundation of Libya's political system.
It was presented as an alternative to both Western capitalism and Soviet communism.
It was a "Third Universal Theory"
Gaddafi argued that representative democracy was a fraud. According to The Green Book, parliaments, political parties, and elections merely transferred power from the people to elites. He famously claimed: "Representation is fraud." In his view, citizens should govern directly.
His proposed solution was a system of Basic People's Congresses and People's Committees, where ordinary citizens would supposedly make decisions without intermediaries.
Libya officially called itself the Jamahiriya, which translates to "the state of the masses."
The book fiercely attacks political parties, describing them as instruments of dictatorship because they allow a minority to rule in the name of the majority. Gaddafi believed parties inevitably divide society and create permanent political classes.
On economics, Gaddafi rejected both wage labor and private monopolies. He argued that workers should collectively own and manage the enterprises in which they work.
The Green Book also rejected landlordism. Gaddafi insisted that "the house belongs to the one who lives in it," arguing that owning property merely to rent it out allowed one person to exploit another's need for shelter.
On agriculture, he declared: "Land belongs to no one." Individuals had the right to use land and benefit from it, but not to monopolize or speculate on it. The book envisioned a society where productive resources were held and used collectively.
Beyond politics and economics, The Green Book ventured into social theory. It discussed family, education, women, sports, and culture.
Gaddafi defended traditional family structures while also arguing that women should participate fully in public life, though often within roles he saw as "natural."
Education, according to Gaddafi, should not be imposed from above. He criticized standardized schooling and argued that forcing a curriculum on students was a form of dictatorship. He also opposed the commercialization of knowledge and culture.
The text was translated into dozens of languages and distributed widely across Libya, Africa, and the Global South.
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TempleDeficitOwl retweeted
Enraging: Amazon poisoned 2.5 billion gallons of fresh water and released it back into our communities
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