Kill the colonial myths

Fill your children’s heads with tales of loving revolutions, not propaganda tales about the nobility of kings and queens or their adventures. Dressing up as a totalitarian parasite from the medieval era, while a real one claims to sit on a ‘throne’ in Britian as we speak — still lording over the global south as they’ve been for centuries — should instantly be seen as inappropriate and wrong for most people whose feet still touch the soil of our one and only earth.

No, your children aren’t princes and princesses, and these are not wholesome concepts to use as entertainment just like we all agree Hitler is not a good choice.

Pretending to be monarchs is as bad as pretending to be Hitler, only you don’t realize it because many of them lived before photography & you live in a white supremacist ex-British colony state with King fucking Arthur and ideas like ‘Avalon’ and ‘Camelot’ rotting your brain.

Will Cosmos-482 do what Whitlam couldn’t?

As the Cosmos-482 station is about to re-enter earth’s atmosphere and burn up over Australia, I thought it might be a good opportunity to wish that piece of space junk well in a fight that even Australia, the nation, once lost.

Some have said that this junk may come down dangerously close to the Murchison Radio Observatory in Western Australia. Others say it could hit the US-operated global mass-surveillance facility at Pine Gap, located roughly in the center of Australia, striking a heavy blow against global fascism that even the Australian Prime Minister in the 70s could not.

In the mid-1970’s Gough Whitlam was the popular left-leaning elected leader of Australia. As soon as Whitlam took office, one of his first acts was to remove all remaining Australian troops from Vietnam and elsewhere, which of course made the American state quite angry. He also planned to reveal the details of the Pine Gap facility to the Australian people, and was moving towards cancelling their lease to use the land, but just before he could do that a Governor-General and CIA-linked official named John Kerr invoked a monarchy-era rule that allowed him to remove Whitlam, the popular elected Prime Minister of Australia, from the office.

Whitlam also criticized the CIA and closed a secret joint US/AUS facility in Chile, which was created to help oust democratically elected president Salvador Allende, leading to Augusto Pinochet’s bloody totalitarian regime.

Wait — wasn’t there another famous, well-known leader of a major country who ran afoul of the CIA and US DoD after trying to move away from wars and cold war? Who was that again? Was it the guy who “…had come to realise that his military hardliners were a greater threat than his arch-enemy, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.”?, just before his assassination?

So anyway — back to comrade ‘Cosmos-482’ — here’s to reentry physics being more anti-fascist than John Kerr! 😂 😂 Since we have no control over our ridiculous, late-stage, increasingly fascist and insane governments or their endless offensive military operations, perhaps something from outside the planet’s atmosphere will do it.

(yeah, I know Pine Gap is like 1000 miles away from Murchison Radio Observatory.)

Who are America’s NeoNazis, anyway? Where are they from?

At the end of World War 2, 1000s of Adolph Hitler’s savage Nazis were given new, secret identities and allowed to blend into various allied countries because they were considered too valuable to lose and that many would make good anti-communist spies. Many of these secret Nazis were indeed used as informants or spies against communist countries around the world, then allowed to come back to the U.S. or other allied countries to live their lives. Some of them were hunted, discovered, and brought to justice, but many had their files scrubbed by our state and would never be discovered.

Did the people back home know their sworn enemies – those who had murdered their neighbors, family, friends and devastated many countries in the name of an insane white supremacy mythology – were being quietly brought into their country because members of the U.S. state secretly thought they were useful? Operation Paperclip is the official name of one of the then-secret intelligence programs, which brought in over 1,600 Nazi scientists (on the record) including a number of “officers who worked with leaders of the Nazis party”.

Did the folks back home know that it was easier for Nazis, including those who ran concentration camps and tortured prisoners, to obtain U.S. VISAs than it was for Jewish victims to get them? Just how deep did the collaboration between Nazis and the U.S. government go, and when will the remaining classified files on this relationship be unsealed? Do any of us realize that the U.S. government of the day considered Jewish people in the same light the Nazis did, (“Lazy, selfish people”) and that one of the most influential anti-refugee groups in the U.S. at the time was the ‘German American Bund’, led by someone described as the “American Fuhrer”?

This PBS video clip is from a documentary directed by Ken Burns, which is incidentally one of the many reasons the U.S. fascist oligarchy is currently trying to destroy PBS, and it delves into the story of how America refused holocaust refugees and tried to cover it up with spying fears.

The current unconstitutional NeoNazi + ‘tech bro’ coup that has taken shape has numerous underlying causes, some of which I try to talk about on this blog. What do you think about literal 3rd Reich Nazis blending into American and Western civilian life, often with the cover of intelligence services?

How do you feel about the Nazi(s) in the Whitehouse, who are currently doing the specific things Nazis do as they try to build totalitarian state power?

-Dismantle education and replace with national indoctrination
-Inculcate fascist mythological conspiracy theories into the brains of children through this system
-Dismantle all social safety nets, offer safety to inside groups
-Destroy or severely damage the existing economy to force the wealthy classes to either polarize to him or be destroyed
-Attack free speech, free press
-Hold military parades in his own honor
-Openly support genocide without even the pretenses of his horrible neoliberal predecessor.
-Openly threaten allies, threaten the annexation of allies’ land.
-Remove the US from human rights conventions….

As a ‘Patriotic American’, if you are one, how do you feel about the defeated enemies of our nation rising into positions of power inside the state, siphoning away our futures for themselves? We can all see them openly manipulating the stock market for personal gain, right?

Do you believe World War 2 was real? If so, do you take the side of our enemies in that war, or do you take the side of your fellow struggling Americans, who want to take care of their families the same as you want to care for yours?

The above is all fascistic, totalitarian, frankly Nazi shit that folks sensitive to Nazi shit have been trying to raise the alarm about since before the Bush Sr regime, and it is time to build mutual aid, community defense, and alternative political power across this nation before this nation starts non-defensive World War 3. You can clearly see it heading toward NON DEFENSIVE WORLD WAR THREE! #GeneralAction now! #GeneralStrike now!

Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever you believe, GENOCIDE is never ok and you know this

Every one of us has to come to terms with what is happening BECAUSE of the US government’s arms dealing, long-term geostrategic goals (no peace in the middle east, endless for-profit wars, looting of local resources, labor exploitation), and the ubiquitous presence of Israeli PAC/superPAC money in the bank accounts of just about 100% of elected officials in the US.

Nearly *100% of elected officials* receive huge sums of money from pro-Israel PACs. This did not just start yesterday — they’ve been receiving this money for half a century or more, while the US cries about *Russia* tampering in their elections. If what Israel is doing is *not* “election tampering”, then the phrase has no meaning.

The western world will never come back from this. May the martyrs of Palestine mark the point in human history when the world moved on, beyond western imperialism, beyond domination and Dark Ages philosophy, beyond US global economic hegemony. END THE GENOCIDE NOW! FREE PALESTINE!

What can be said? GENERAL ACTION is where we are

Its been a while.

Since I last updated this blog, WordPress has changed so much I barely recognize it, and my motivation for writing long-form basically evaporated at the start of this ongoing pandemic, the genocide, the wars, the…. destruction of public institutions, looting of the federal government and economy, the actual fascist coup that has taken over the Whitehouse and Fed, and so many more uplifting writing prompts. It has been hard to do anything. Watching so many people remove their masks and choose eugenics instead of protecting one another has been hard to live through as an immune-compromised family, and I’ve lost a lot of empathy I think. It’s just burned right out of me.

Where do I begin after such a long hiatus and after so much predictable chaos? Welp, I thought this would be a good start:

Imagine being an officer of the “law” in a nation that defeated Nazis in a World War just a generation ago, to then find yourself standing in front a car dealership that belongs to a man who’s an open Nazi & part of an ongoing coup, protecting it from angry anti-fascists — defending a Nazi from the descendants of the “Greatest Generation” who died on the beaches and in the snow in Germany protecting our way of life.

Imagine that. “Ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears”, is I think a relevant partial Orwell quote at this time. The Nazis are already here, and we allowed them to blend in since the end of WW2.

A brief review of recent events, while my patience lasts

So what brings me back? A deep, unfathomably immense sense of rage, along with a modest hope that many establishment voters and supporters will *finally* see this regime (both sides, Blue and Red Team) for what they are and support meaningful general action, new parties, and new ideas. It’s time to realize that these 2 parties, their politics, their ideas, are *dead*.

Here we are, on the precipice of totalitarian fascism — as folks from the leftist, Marxist tradition warned might happen(and already happened in Germany) in America & the West for over 140 years — built on the last 50 years of Reaganomics, the endlessly useful Monroe Doctrine, the Fox News/Brietbart/conservative media favorite idea that crime is always up when crime is consistently, overall, down, the ever-escalating pysch manipulation from (now) openly fascist social media corporations, the endless erosion against corporate accountability and social norms that comes from entities like John Birch Society, Heritage Foundation, ALEC, “Save the Children”, KOCH, and a literal horde of other similar entities, local and national, and of course endless non-defensive war, coups, cold war, backing for extremist groups, and all the propaganda money can buy.

FREE PALESTINE! The fully US-backed, US-enabled extermination of Palestinians continues, with the conquering savages bragging about condos and bourgeois accommodations they plan to build on the remains of Palestine! FREE PALESTINE!!

The COVID19 Pandemic rages, upends lives

On top of the political meltdown and economic chaos, a pandemic which began in late 2019 continues to this day with basically zero mitigation strategies in place, on top of a late-stage capitalist oligarchy whose corporate leaders, connected to the fascist state, are trying to FORCE all workers who have the ability to work at home to go back to the office. What the country is doing is the OPPOSITE of mitigation strategies; it is acting to ensure as many people as possible become infected, and this is crystal clear and out in the open. They chose eugenics. Nobody ever tried to shield the most vulnerable, they were simply told to stay home, and every other possible harm reduction strategy was also attacked, such as public masking. You might be a “pro Hamas thug” if you wear a mask outside.

“On October 13[2020] the White House confirmed that it is embracing what the Los Angeles Times editorial board calls the “let people die” strategy in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The strategy involves deliberately letting the novel coronavirus rip through the population while attempting to shield the most vulnerable, such as the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions.”

Let’s be clear: RTO(Return To Office) is:

-so that you can use part of your paycheck to stimulate their local economy,
-so you can risk your health and safety every day to justify their immense real-estate spends,
-so your faces and identities can be captured on the ever-growing public surveillance network the state spent billions on,
-so “app” creators can continue sucking down movement, retail, and other data to train their fucking “AI” with,
-so that CEOs and executives with authoritarianism and cruelty in their hearts can force people to “show their faces”, despite this having no benefit to productivity at all.

These are elements of what we call “Inverted Totalitarianism“, and where that exists, regular old totalitarianism follows. For example, even the government’s own Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS), which has not been purged by the fascist Trumpists at the moment of this posting, shows “benefits for some, but neutral overall” (benefits vs drawbacks of remote work).

A Wall St. darling publication, Forbes, published this study early 2022 that shows benefits in real data across the board, including productivity, retention, happiness, health, etc, but this study includes more survey data directly from employees on top of the statistics pulled from their analytics, which one could suggest is more relevant to the topic than the analytics-only studies. Unless how the employer feels about the employee is all that matters, and employee satisfaction is irrelevant(per other studies that show 50/50)?

The non-defensive wars, the genocide, the global chaos of Tech Bro fascism

Tech Bro fascism.

OF COURSE American fascism would arrive wrapped in an American flag, carrying a bible they just picked up for the first time 3 days before the election, covered in 4chan memes, rolling in fiat-currency money-laundering and fear-mongering about xenophobic nonsense. Tech Bro fascists literally bought the election using an immature, impotent patchwork of laws governing “cryptocurrency” transactions leading up to this election, spending record amounts of money promoting Trumpism, as well as taking over all major social media platforms and removing moderation for hate speech and discrimination.

Promoting Trumpism means, specifically, running propaganda about secret incoming invasions, UFO and alien conspiracies, vaccine conspiracies, trans phobias and conspiracies, Democrat conspiracies, election conspiracies, but not ONE fucking conspiracy involving themselves being run over by the Monopoly Man pretending to be a Patriot. Not one conspiracy says “hey we may have been fucked over by the rich guy”. Not one.

And so, like under Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and before I was alive, the Palestinian Genocide continues. The endless Nakba that has burned horror, mass death, and constant resistance into the minds and hearts of the Palestinians, whose land has slowly been stolen from them, in violation of Israel’s own law and international law, in full view of the world, for SEVENTY YEARS. This is waves of ethnic cleansing and land theft, supported 100% by the US, Britian, and its closest 3 ally states, with the whole operation protected politically from scrutiny and sanctions by those few nations with veto power at the UN.

And now, the Israel Zionist, fascist problem is becoming much larger, with Israel openly declaring their plans to conquer the land around them to build a Zionist state “prophesied” in their book of mythology, the Talmud, as well as seen in other Abrahamic mythological texts that mention it. If Israel is allowed to finish the genocide, and then continue on to menace the larger zone around them, this is YET ANOTHER potential larger war and massive loss of life, which is of course extremely advantageous to the “5 eyes” western nations that have colonized, conquered, and savagely restrained much of Asia, Africa, and south America for 100s and 1000s of years.

Israel is a Western project. It began with the Balfour Declaration, and it may likely end in nuclear/other holocaust. The land does not belong to Israel, it belongs to indigenous Palestinian Muslims who have lived there in one form or another for 1000s of years. Zionism is religiously-based conquest of the kind we thought we were rid of since the Dark Ages ended.

Russia, Ukraine, NATO, others

We all grew up with things like James Bond, Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Manchurian Candidate, Strangelove, “The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming”(not satire), Rocky, The Day After, Red Dawn, and recently things like Stranger Things, dozens of computer war games that show Russia/USSR experimenting with occult magic and satanism, multidimensional technology, and it’s always some sort of “super evil” world domination or world destruction scheme — that they can’t control because they are permanently incompetent. Many movie villains, outside primary Russophobic content, frequently have Russian/Slavic accents, and this has gone on for basically 70 years.

The US has been involved with dozens of proxy conflicts around the world, including a few against Russia, that have long been in the history texts. We use clandestine operatives & 3rd party extremist groups or individuals to carry out regime-change, assassinations, local propaganda, false-flag attacks, etc, including Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Iran-Contra(Nicaragua) rebels, specific anti-Castro Cuban exiles, Luis Posada Carriles (a CIA agent who organized the Bay of Pigs), Columbian anticommunists, Italian far right fascists, Kosovo(CIA supported the KLA), Syrian militants (against Assad, Russia, etc), and much, much more. Currently the situation in Sudan, Haiti, and in other parts of Africa are heating up with similar chaos, violence, and regime changes. We built the “School of the Americas” now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation , which trained numerous people who would go on to commit atrocities and massacres in South American countries, and we did this for US-centric geostrategic goals in place since Monroe. I’m not even talking about the Banana Republics that kicked this off….

The US starts a lot of proxy wars and conflicts, and has lost TRILLIONS of dollars (we can’t find it. It’s possibly $12 TRILLION dollars) into a black hole of military and defense budgets. Where did all the money go? This is a pertinent question, and it is related to *every single active conflict* the US is involved with today, including Russia and Ukraine — which is an openly declared proxy war by the US, spoken of directly by US officials on more than one occasion, and openly designed to frustrate Russia + suck resources out of Ukraine.

If this is NOT a proxy war against Russia, then(this link is a search link – I am too lazy to list the dozens of times the US has funded Ukraine the in last 2 years) what is all *this* money and hardware, earmarked by US officials as “for war efforts”, going to? If this isn’t a proxy war, I’m Bullwinkle. Why did the US congress debate on the issue of “congressional funds and weapons falling into the hands of extremist groups, specifically the Azov Nazis of Ukraine“? We’ve been training, funding, and supplying Ukrainian separatists against pro-Russian elements, and for a while now.

Neoliberal Democrats melted into a puddle of nothing after losing twice, offer ZERO resistance & strategy

And there is just NO stopping them. The Marches for Causes are spinning up, and I believe I even saw some people I would describe as neoliberal (I could be wrong here) smash the window of a Tesla at a dealership! If this is true, this could mean some neoliberals are starting to see that their party of choice has sold them up the river, just like the fascist republican party sold all those dirt-poor, dangerously delusional white supremacists throughout the south, who imagined a Trump regime would help them, up their respective river. There is nothing from Democrats. Nothing from neoliberalism other than the vague, deeply troubling picture which is developing slowly today — they will run more garbage, do-nothing establishment candidates until the nation falls to its knees. This is a TWO PARTY OLIGARCHY and we have to start working together to defeat it.

What to do? Where to go?

GENERAL ACTION NOW!!! Before machine learning and “AI” are mature enough to make your labor strikes meaningless, or make it so that we have to extend them for so long that it hurts us more than them. Stop using “AI”! Most of it isnt even what you think “AI” is, it’s just machine learning (LLM) and auto-plagiarism shit. STOP allowing them to train and refine their machine learning databases by your participation! Stop believing that the totally unsustainable amount of energy they are using to generate the illusion of “AI” (sorry for a semi-paywall)can ever work on this planet! Understand that this technology will be used against us, it is already being used against us, and with fascists gaining governmental control in a technology phase like this one…. time is running out. STRIKE NOW, while the iron is hot, and while we still know what color the sky is.

What’s happened to socks? Textiles, in general? A personal anecdote on designed obsolescence, disposability

If you’ve been alive a few decades, and you’ve done any amount of walking, running, or working in an office, you will have undoubtedly purchased many pair of socks and shoes by now, on top of T-shirts or undershirts, pants, dress shirts, skirts, etc. Many are basically disposable objects, are they not?

Socks generally wear out in patterns that reflect how you walk, such as pronation or supination, favoring, heel-walking, etc, and can of course become damaged from improperly fitting shoes or just heavy walking. But lately, something has changed. What is it?

This Etsy blog delves into the exploitative changes made in the textile and garment industries from the 1950s to today, and highlights some of the great social and cultural shifts that led people to falling into this trap, instead of halting it. The following block of text neatly sums up this transition.

“As clothes have become cheaper, our clothing consumption has gone through the roof. In 1930, the average American woman owned an average of nine outfits. Today, we each buy more than 60 pieces of new clothing on average per year.

Our closets are larger and more stuffed than ever, as we’ve traded quality and style for low prices and trend-chasing. In the face of these irresistible deals, our total spending on clothing has actually increased, from $7.82 billion spent on apparel in 1950 to $375 billion today.

And the discounters are reaping the rewards. According to the latest Standard & Poor’s Industry Survey, the average American consumer is primarily looking for value with an impulse-buy standard of quality when they purchase clothing. As a result, H&M, Zara, and Wal-Mart — all discounters who sell low-quality clothing — are now the most powerful clothing brands in America.”

https://blog.etsy.com/en/the-history-of-a-cheap-dress/

Something has changed in textiles in the last 80, not to mention the last 25 years that I am complaining about. This began a generation ago. I wonder what it is?

In the early 1990s, I bought many socks. Brands include Hanes, Fruit of Loom, Adidas, North Face, etc. The socks I bought in the 1990s lasted until 2008-2010, despite the fact that I:

  1. Rode a skateboard wearing those socks, did street skating.
  2. Walked/skated EVERYWHERE unless I was lucky enough to score a ride. I would walk 10, 20 miles sometimes, all day, depending, including trails and camps.
  3. Because I was a filthy teenager, I would sometimes wear them 2 days in a row. 🤢

Somehow, many of the heavily-used socks I bought throughout the 90s, lasted me all the way into the mid/late 2000s. They became discolored, some of them became more brittle over time, and eventually, 15ish years after I bought them, they popped some holes or tears and had to go in the trash.

As a young adult on a small budget in a full-time single parenting situation, I needed to get more socks, and socks that were suitable for the new career I was launching! So off I went to Macys, Costco, PayLess, and Express Men’s(Seasonal box sales), Old Navy, etc, to find good bags of working-person socks. By then, I had given up skateboarding, and was walking, jogging, and riding a bike.

A couple years later, roughly 2006, I noticed a couple – but not all – of the cheaper socks I had picked up had holes. I expected that was just a fluke, and replaced them. In 2008-2009, I noticed a few more socks were busting through within only a few years of use, and I started trying different shoe types, sock types (thicker, thinner, fitted, brands, etc) to try to troubleshoot the problem. I had become a runner by then, and my runs were 2-16 miles a few times a week, always changing shoes & socks after work, before the run. By 2010-2012, only a few pair of the original (1995-98) Hanes and other brands were still ok, but MOST other socks bought more recently were already in the trash, filled with giant holes.

Same was true with various T-shirts I had, including skateboard and satirical shirts I picked up as a teenager. Two Tees in particular that I still wear to this day were bought in the 90s, a ‘Doctor Evil'(Austin Powers!) shirt from 1997, and a custom Hanes Tee that says “I eat glue” from 1995ish. These are 24 year, and 26 year old Tshirts! Their armpits are lightly discolored, and they may finally rip through a few holes today, in 2021.

Throughout the whole time (2003-2021), I was more and more rapidly replacing socks. For a few of those years, I chalked it up to the facts that I worked or ran on my feet all day, however… throughout all those sock-destroying activities, the old socks from the 90s continued to last. At the same time the new custom Tees(Cafe Press, etc) appear to be 20 years old after less than 2, regardless of delicate handling in washer(cold, low) and drier, sometimes even line-drying them to save dryer wear/tear.

Looking back, I have purchased probably 10 bags of new socks from various brands over the last 5 years alone, and today… because of COVID and a few other developments in our lives that I’ll leave for another post, we are extremely sedentary and have been for much of the last 5 years. Despite the sedentary lifestyle and the purchase of a car, leading to a situation where most of our walking is to/from carpeted rooms in our house, in between sitting for hours, the socks… have begun to wear through into holes (or entire ‘rubbed off’ sections of sock) far faster than ever before. I’ve purchased bags of socks, worn them 1-2 times, sitting or barely walking the whole time, and there are holes in a few weeks in some cases.

My experience with buying, wearing, and thinking about the durability of clothing and textiles began a long time ago, as my family and I have always had a tight budget where we needed to make sure clothing items lasted, and my analysis over time shows me the THREADCOUNT and overall durability of socks, tees, and underwear/boxers, and many clothing textiles has been radically reduced, leading to even MORE rapid cycles of clothing “Fast Fashion” and wardrobe replacement, and even more environmental and ecological problems around the earth.

Are there durable textiles out there, or durable goods? Sure, but the capitalists have elevated the cost of those more durable items to a place where only affluent people can really buy them regularly, leading to a problem where most budget-focused workers – the majority of us – buy the cheap, disposable, toxic, unhealthy crap. And we don’t even become aware of this until we have years of retail experience and see for ourselves the truth of what capitalism brings, cycle after cycle, generation after generation.

Seasonal Fashion, and generally ‘Fast Fashion’, is a trap that you should avoid if you take the global problems we all face seriously, including ecosystem collapse and warming, classism and inequality, and the major problem of outsourced jobs in the US.

The United Nations voted overwhelmingly – for the 29th consecutive year – to remove sanctions against Cuba. Who stopped them?

That would be the United States and Israel, 2 small, rich states who have or are currently slaughtering indigenous populations, who somehow have power over the 184 countries and their billions-strong populations who voted to END the sanctions and embargo against Cuba.

One hundred eighty four countries… voted to end sanctions.

What is the purpose of the United Nations, then, but to allow the US and its powerful allies to create the illusion that the U.N. wants want they want? The illusion of consensus, which in reality is anything but?

The US is KEEPING Cuba impoverished and struggling INTENTIONALLY, against the will of much of the world, SO THAT it can then point at the struggling Cubans and say, as it has repeatedly, “Ah HAH! Socialism bad. See how they struggle?” Americans who refuse to see this basic truth about Cuba uphold and perpetuate imperialism, human rights violations, and war crimes, which is necessarily what these actions against Cuba represent.

Communists, trying to end classism, designed inequality and false scarcity, environmental catastrophe, and wars for profit, need everyone to participate. Capitalists?

Capitalists: “No socialism, ever! Over my dead body!”

>Millions die over 100 years because of unnecessary wars & intentional destabilization of entire nations, sanctions, embargoes, ecosystem destruction & poisoning by industry, classism and inequality leading to both malnutrition and obesity depending on where you look.
>Loss of local jobs and major unemployment, giant unhoused populations due to profit-seeking races to the bottom and a cold, inhumane, classist culture that blames unhoused for their plight.
>lack of public infrastructure because of deregulation and privatization, mass excess death during viral outbreaks due to INTENTIONAL lack of preparation, food deserts, reduced happiness & longevity for most people. Millions of homes and properties kept EMPTY, right next to unhoused camps, so that their landlords can maintain high values.
>utilities, including electrical, sewer, water, trash, begin to fail and experience outages and delays in the “richest country in the world”, meanwhile many Americans think that’s all exclusive to socialism because that’s what they’ve been taught, and the country they live in makes SURE socialist states have a hard time, validating the propaganda.

Communists, having a revolution, taking the above problems seriously before the earth loses its ability to support life and we all die, imprisons or kills a capitalist, who just said “over my dead body! NO SOCIALISM, EVER!” and fought the communists, refusing to accept the democratic conclusion of their countrymen.

Capitalists, speaking from inside a country that murders minorities and activists intentionally, counters all attempts at systemic change using state resources, claims minimum wage increase is communism: “You see!!!!!! HITLER AND STALIN WERE THE SAME! Communists and Nazis are the same! YOU KILLED SOMEONE!”