#HamiltonNolan: Labor Power Can Beat Fascism (But We Better Get To Work)
This Labor Day, the outlook for organized labor power in America is grim. Already, the Trump administration has decimated the federal work force, torn up union contracts, broken our system of labor law enforcement, and pushed us down the road to fascism and oligarchy. Despite
Via #hamiltonnolan #usa
everyone who cares about things like “rights” and “justice” and “democracy” may find the daily deluge of goading,right wing government aggression to be disorienting & overwhelming. Yet in its chaotic anger,I recognize something that life has well prepared me for: getting yelled at by dumbasses. The dumbasses r emboldened, & their ambitions r greater, but the nature of the fascists is,it turns out,nothing that we haven’t seen before #news #uspol
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-yelled-at-by-dumbasses
“The one thing that you should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling you what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting you.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that-cannot-be-spoken ht @AliceMarshall
“it turns out that a statistical aggregate economic gain does not produce an increase in real world human well being if all of that statistical gain is captured by a single, tiny powerful interest group.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-international-minimum-wage
Luigi Mangione & the Dangers of Terrorism Charges
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/28/luigi-mangione-the-dangers-of-terrorism-charges/
The indictment of the alleged assassin comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure,” Schuyler Mitchell reports. By Schuyler Mitchell Truthout Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled new charges on Dec. 17 against Luigi Mangione,…
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“(You may notice that straightforward ideas like ‘fire everyone in Democratic Party leadership positions automatically after a national election loss’ do not appear to be on the table.)” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice ht @costrike
Tax cuts “are the political equivalent of someone chopping your house to pieces with an axe and then offering the remains back to you under a sign that says, ‘Free Firewood!’” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/why-republicans-love-to-offer-you
"[D]ivide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. [E]nemies are…opposed to your policy goals. [C]owards…agree with your…goals, but will sell you out…to protect their own interests. Embrace the idea that we are…pushing to elect…cowards, rather than…enemies. [T]he…work …is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office [but] to create the conditions…that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way." #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-think-about-politics- ht @ryanlcooper
“Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one of the few predictions that I feel very confident in is that, a century or so down the road, people will look at modern car-centric America with the same disgust that we feel when we hear about old timey cities without modern sewage systems, where everyone just dumped their chamber pots in the street.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country
from “Confiscate Their Money”, by #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate-their-money ht @scott
> ... the men in navy blue suits, the dozens of clean shaven, college-aged conservatives in imitation blue suits and sensible long skirts... packed into Breakout Room C for the “Big Tech and Big Porn” session... “Training all these young people to be cutthroats.” The professional right-wing nationalists, from Liberty University and Hillsdale College, from Heritage..
https://inthesetimes.com/article/national-conservatism-conference-2024-trump-gop
#HamiltonNolan #InTheseTimes
#KevinRoberts #BanalityOfEvil #HeritageFoundation #WhoGoesNazi
> Its president is Kevin Roberts, a tan, bald man with an easy smile, who was paid $622,000 in 2022, not including the value of private jet travel. Roberts, a PhD and former college president, has one big enemy: the elites.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/national-conservatism-conference-2024-trump-gop
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#HamiltonNolan it feels like something that could actually work.
Of course, there will be lots of cries against that.
And actually, who is against would be a good heuristic to spot on the ones who want to be in an inner group that protects them and compels the other, allowing them to profit from the commons without contributing to it.
And we will also need to find ways for all spectrums of minorities to not be crunched by the mass (an other, already existing problem, just perhaps exacerbated with more rich people)
Edit: typos
“The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder ht @andrewducker
The American Civil Liberties Union has tried to undermine workers by fighting the Biden administration in court: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/aclu-unions-nlrb-class-warfare/
“Capitalism is like nuclear power. It is a mighty force capable of producing great energy that can be harnessed for human progress—but if you don’t keep it tightly controlled, it will poison everything.” #HamiltonNolan https://defector.com/unions-can-fix-whats-broken ht @BlogWood
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