Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)

Isn't it just crazy that the NATO alliance which had been a shield in common defense now feels much more like being vessels to a tyrannical power?

I am well aware that the United States has always been a bully ensuring it gets what it wants, but I think everybody would agree this is next level.

The alliance was built around somewhat equitable, treatment, and respect, and that's all out the door.

Fellow Californians, I suggest we start up a petition to accept Denmark‘s offer. We give ourselves over to unification with Denmark for free. The healthcare (savings!) alone are worth it!

Although I have friends in Illinois who demand their state be included.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq27lbLNwY8

#Denmark #uspol #California

@hannu_ikonen

It’s full on Nazi, isn’t it? I don’t know how they’re going to “cure”.

RFK Jr is Mengele2.0

That is where this is going.

@br00t4c

Same bullshit different day, right?

@selzero

Even the White House approves

https://pixelfed.de/p/GhostOnTheHalfShell/795376556623868731

I want to make this suggestion to people in Europe, people in South America, anywhere else in the world:

American technology giants' power is due to their filthy little tentacles strung throughout your own economies and media.

Whittling them down to size is in everyone’s interest. All our lives depend on it.

End Nazi 2.0

#politics #eu

@Nonilex

So I have a question for you you probably could root around him.. Elon Musk made a statement saying that the government had all this information on taxpayers data.. Which is a bit hilarious because stating the obvious

But he goes on to say that PayPal has user data and it’s never suffered breach of that Information.. And I have to wonder if it’s true or if it’s ever been used fraudulently by PayPal

“We support the deportation of criminals, but we need a secure labour force for Wisconsin..”

Says the farmer whose labor force is undocumented making him criminal for doing so. These people need a dose of reality. They keep electing the party responsible for the mess and for the awful brutal response to a fantasy they fashion around it.

The only thing the GOP works to create are the conditions of abomination.

(Paywalled)

https://www.ft.com/content/e61e1348-9ee7-4dd9-b2a8-8d262e26d3e9

#uspol

@br00t4c

Yeah, fuck her.

@inthehands @GottaLaff

I have a very thin or scant understanding of the history leading up to the massive Vietnam protest in the 60s.

And it's important to remember that protest against the war started small and years before they made news.

Protest are only going to end once the grievance subsides. It's only taken Donald Trump's trade war, plus implementation project 2025 to set in motion and economic collapse.

And this administration is going to let everyone hang

Jan 21

2 min

Back from a bit of a hiatus. There are so many things I would like to make short videos about that certainly exceed my ability to say it all.

But first, let's put Elon Musk's unique gesture welcoming in the new administration to music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhSMzqivAsg

#uspol #snark #TheScentedOne

@GottaLaff

#PoxAmericana

And we are not even an into a month of the next administration, which is dismantling the US public health infrastructure and research.

Red states are in the finding out phase of what vaccines do for population. This is why I tell people who are considering higher education in the United States or immigrating in the United States to take a pass so take a pass because right now living here can kill you in any number of ways

@bmacDonald94

Sincerity is the key to success. If you can take that you’ve got it made

- WC Fields (I think)

@StillIRise1963 @GreenFire

One thing is certain the totalitarian takeover of the United States is going to hit farmers particularly hard. Not only have the fruit vegetable farming sector lost their workforce, and in California the summer water supply, but US AID, NOAA, you can expect the USDA to stop assisting them and useful things like soil erosion prevention and of course, Wall Street is gonna make a ton of money off of farm bankruptcy.

Agricultural research. It’s all gone.

@StillIRise1963

It cost lots of money to pick out of the ocean the few remaining tuna, which are probably mostly plastic now

@munin

I wanna roll this idea past you that billionaires are a transnational plutocracy. They have more loyalty if it can be called that to the own economic strata, and none to any particular nation.

This is especially true of the ultra libertarian faction of wealth, which I think largely almost all of them are.

They despise nations. They have nothing but contempt for a prosperous population, they believe in Mudsill theory.

…

@economics-that-works

At least the women-folk economists see things clearly.

The raiders have smashed into the house and are pillaging and murdering. The only thing the men say "gee, that machete hurts people, that machete isn't a good economic policy tool, you need this plow to grow more food"

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/will-the-ratings-agencies-react-to

#mmt #economics

The USA right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvM_JpqViBA

Jan 31

4 min

Flying the flag for Switch Day.

Since YouTube in all its wisdom inflicted a content warning against a link to a *reuters* news article regarding the tiktok ban, I have reposted.

* the re-upload worked and I’d really appreciate the boosts.

People must always be the algorithm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSHgpVkrwUI

#SwitchDay

@ai6yr

“ … As Matt Stoller explains, the Los Angeles Fire Department has more than half its fire trucks out of service. That is in large part because of Private Equity’s role in buying up (‘rolling up’) or ‘consolidating’ the fire truck industry into one company, American Industrial Partners, which is now in a monopoly position to “force up prices across the board”.

This should enrage everyone in LA. Newsom should act on this.

https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/our-uninsurable-future

#ca #uspol #climatechange