America is about to turn 250. What will not be discussed is America as a system, what it is doing, what it has always done. After all, if America is really only turning 250, then how the hell has it been at war for almost that long? You read that right.
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The layoffs aren’t going anywhere. At least you should know why.
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A full 50% of all consumer spending is now done by the richest 10% of the population and the swelling AI bubble, if it pops, will be 4x larger than the 2008 crash. This is not sustainable, but hey, as long as the rich get richer.
Love Joe Hill’s quip that most fiction now costs more and offers less than ever before, what he calls “thinkflation”
In George Romero’s LAND OF THE DEAD, the zombies become class conscious, which I guess makes the living dead smarter than most Americans.
Over a third of U.S. GDP growth is spent on data centers. This has now outpaced consumer spending. The AI hype machine is holding up our failing economy, and the bubble could easily burst.
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Neoliberalism is collapsing, and the West no longer has a living, breathing leftist/labor movement to counter the rising tide of reactionary fascism that is filling the void.
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Great. Now read Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle







