Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

The problem with capitalism is how it distorts the natural balance of Fucking Around & Finding Out by creating a class that is allowed nearly infinite fuckery with zero finding out

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter

https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/

#scale #federation

77.7% of Black students borrow.

50% default within 12 years.

No one cares.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/black-white-disparity-in-student-loan-debt-more-than-triples-after-graduation/

Much of the $1.6 trillion debt is held by Black students. Yes, I said trillion. With a "T." And yes, I said "debt held by Black kids," who are hired less and paid less.

The unspoken part of the US student loan forgiveness "debate," is racists thinking "I am fundamentally opposed to anything that would lower the suffering of Black people or prevent the siphoning of their wealth."

The Supreme Court “is not an infallible institution whose decisions should be accepted without question. It is not a debating club that is just trying its best to figure out what the law is. And, most importantly, it is not a body that should be placed beyond public scrutiny.”

Exceptionally good piece from @chrisgeidner on how we should handle #SCOTUS #history #histodons

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-think-s-special-s-not-rcna68567

The bots speak for all of us

Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They do one thing: Make corporate execs richer.

You can still post on Twitter by scheduling posts. So any tweet you see on the platform is created by a bot or scheduled, not in real time. Elon Musk said he was going to go to war with the bots on Twitter, and the bots won.

Q: Why are homeless people so rare in Madrid and so common in San Francisco when here GDP per capita is half?

A: Racism.

Of the homeless folk in the USA, 45% have mental health challenges and 40% are Black, even though only 13% of the pop is Black. In SF, less than 5% of the population is Black, but 37% of the homeless population is Black.

In the 80s, when Reagan killed mental health facility funding and Black homelessness exploded, no one cared. 🤷🏿‍♂️

If I say I was driving back from Tijuana Mexico, and Mexican please pull me over and took $1,000 from me, you will say "Mexican police are corrupt!" and maybe follow up with some racist statements.

But if a Black US driver is driving in Florida, police can just take $10,000 from her in broad daylight, without even bothering to accuse her of a crime.

It is very risky for poor Black folk to do any cash based transaction in the US. Not because they might get robbed by criminals, but by the cops.

@Benfell
Capitalist libertarians are pretty much American libertarians, which is to say neofeudalists who seek to establish a new overclass to rule over all of us (whether they do this intentionally or not is irrelevant, this would be the net result of their policies).

The differences between them and other American conservative groups are extremely minor in my opinion.

Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child

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