Daily Harvest, January 05 2020 008 Twitter Bookmarks
Native Hawaiians are currently protesting against a corporate project that seeks to build a telescope on their sacred land. This was their response when police ordered them to clear the roads.pic.twitter.com/mJuqmyOuPk
— Simar Ahluwalia (@sahluwal) November 22, 2019
"Leave politics out of sports" they said, as a military jet flew over the stadium, and the American flag was unfurled on the field in a salute to our military bravely killing people overseas.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) November 24, 2019
Billionaires made enough money in 2017 to end extreme poverty around the world seven times over, report says https://t.co/XGjuJ2Z12r
— Maurice Mcleod (@mowords) November 28, 2019
Anarchism will never work, spontaneous organization at the local level is almost impossible to do in detail
yeah anyway i'm off to watch a neighborhood soccer game
— All-American Oligarch (@john_weeks) November 29, 2019
The front cover of issue one. pic.twitter.com/ppJRxGiy5b
— Callum Stephen Diggle (@CallumDiggle) November 29, 2019
Let me put some numbers around how asinine Mayor Pete’s “No free college for millionaires’ kids” shtick really is…
There are 327 million Americans.
There are 16 million millionaires. That’s less than 5% of the population.
Their average age is 62.
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— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) November 29, 2019
Being a socialist is a lot like being a Christian, you have to go to a bunch of fuckin meetings in the hopes that it'll be better after you die.
— handmaiden of moloch (@_SaturnReturn) November 28, 2019
What do these corporations have in common?
Amazon
Chevron
Eli Lilly
Halliburton
General Motors
Honeywell
Duke Energy
Deere
Aramark
CMS Energy
Occidental Petroleum
Netflix
IBM
Kinder Morgan
Devon Energy… they avoided all federal income taxes last year.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) November 29, 2019
Legacy of slavery. Forced labor, human trafficking. No wonder we’re messed up.
so every single street in brooklyn is named after a slave owner HELP!!!! https://t.co/iKkAS5Eo7u
— FLEEKNIK (@Judnikki) November 29, 2019
The rich never pay. And it’s our daily work to keep them rich.
What's amazing about billionaires complaining about a 2% wealth tax is that middle class families who own a home already pay that, we just call it "property tax".
If your wealth is in a $300k home you pay a wealth tax.
If your wealth is in billions in stock you pay nothing.— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) November 29, 2019
I'm old enough to remember this pattern through the last 7 or 8 presidents. Greedy GOP does tax cuts, crashes economy, threatens Medicare and SS. Recession. Dems take over, pull us out of the hole, economy improves over years, then GOP crashes it again.
Every. Single. Time. https://t.co/DJoR4zp08i
— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@UROCKlive1) November 28, 2019
Libertarianism death cult
It was maybe less surprising to me, because US Libertarianism always seemed to share weaknesses with Leninism: a tendency to radically over-simplify social and economic structures and ignore worrying inconsistencies between theory and reality, for example.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) December 1, 2019
I note that the pre-2001 libertarians who didn't turn full-bore Neo-Nazi mostly drank the Dark Enlightenment/Accelerationist kool-aid instead. Which is the (wafer-thin) distinction between Steve Bannon and Dominic Cummings.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) December 1, 2019
When it comes to billionaires, we need to tax that ass. #NowStreaming pic.twitter.com/4qUwVo6Nyp
— Hasan Minhaj (@hasanminhaj) December 1, 2019
Bespoke?
Set up my own mastodon instance (https://t.co/f5o3XHddzc) at the weekend. Anyone else using it (or any other ActivityPub type network?)
— Ben Longden (@blongden) December 2, 2019
Twitter + control
We don't do this. https://t.co/SlYi6RMiVL
— Mastodon 🐘 (@MastodonProject) December 3, 2019
Yep. Enslaved people were there for KNOWLEDGE WORK, not just manual labor.
They 👏 enslaved 👏 engineers 👏
a little something for everyone in STEM to think about https://t.co/STVbYWD8jS
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) December 3, 2019
Hey someone ought to tell Sonny Perdue that food stamps are one of the most successful farmer welfare programs of all time
not that he gives a shit, but I like when he remembers that people are watching https://t.co/r9HozCk7FE
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) December 5, 2019
Cannot believe this is a real thing Warren is selling. Capitalism is the private accumulation and exploitation of shared resources. The entire system is theft from top to bottom. pic.twitter.com/Hxf4NjHxPQ
— דער יידישער ארבעטער (@JewishWorker) December 5, 2019
This is absolutely going to hamstring efforts to make the US into a responsible, civilized country, for as long as we live. And all I've heard any liberal do is point to it and lament. Is there any remedy on the table, even theoretically? https://t.co/8DtDd9xYzb
— David Roberts (@drvox) December 5, 2019
I genuinely feel bad for all of these social media interns forced to interact with each other as brands on twitter all day. pic.twitter.com/6rxrntiS3t
— Bris Angel (@Cryptoterra) December 6, 2019
The most important thing to keep in mind is that law enforcement and media protected or avoided Epstein for almost three decades, since 1985. And any system at work that will contort itself to do this is really capable of a lot of things.
— Benjamin Franklin🆘 (@benFranklin2018) December 8, 2019
Republicans 1980s
wow what happened in 1980 that made all these charts go off the rails pic.twitter.com/wlDIg1FSYN
— 🌐IPM 💯🏧💍🌈🚀🚩 (@IPM_HQ) December 9, 2019
Volcker shock also destroyed the Savings and Loan industry, leading to a bailout of over $100 billion and precipitating deregulation of mortgage banking, leading to 2008 crash https://t.co/HAKRtatraJ
— Gerald Friedman (@gfriedma) December 10, 2019
There are 2,350 passages in the Bible warning against the accumulation of riches, yet all the white evangelical "worship leaders" like these guys are millionaires. Weird. https://t.co/wiyMD5E7aZ
— Molly Hodgdon (@Manglewood) December 11, 2019
How we were warped as kids.
Just finished @gwaynemiller's Kid Number One, a fascinating, wide-ranging business biography and corporate history that spans the long 20th century, continuing the story he told in Toy Wars. Worth it for the secret history of Mr and Mrs Potato Head alone: https://t.co/Y5BbaEKbCw pic.twitter.com/RBez8B0OaP
— Christopher Brown (@NB_Chris) December 11, 2019
India is in the throes of Gleichschaltung, which was the Nazification of Germany's institutions. Once secular liberal institutions from the courts to the army are becoming transformed into Hindu nationalist ones. The world's largest democracy is no more.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) December 11, 2019
The capitalist market would say this, yes. However US agriculture isn't capitalist. It's more on a subsidy/command & control basis.
So what would really happen is more tax-funded programs to "save" farmers so they can grow stuff nobody wants. We already do that- ethanol. https://t.co/YDxS04wAtl
— Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) December 12, 2019
The 1 year defense budget that 188 Democrats just signed off on would have paid for free college for the next 15 years.
— Joe Biden is a Racist (@BethLynch2020) December 12, 2019