Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Dispatches from a Dying Empire

Attention, please

Capitalism is fucking evil, and we need a reboot

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Dec 31, 2024
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The year is about to flip over and the country I’ve spent most of my energy on is about to flip back the clock. No one knows how far. What we know for sure is that those in power are desperate to continue ruling the rest of us. The gods of capitalism are also the gods of failure.

Capitalism is an excuse to avoid critical thinking. It is an excuse to be intellectually lazy. It is an excuse towards mediocrity. It is an excuse to wallow in the dark past or revert to the worst human impulses that have ever risen to ascend as high as the systems of power go.

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The Trumpstain Years are about to repeat in orders of magnitude. What does that mean? More alienation. More bigotry. More rapes. More murders. More pointless human suffering. The orange puppet brings nothing but evil to the table, and he is the ugly face of an invention called Capitalism. An evil machine that grinds most of us into paste so a few can pretend to thrive while they shit on everything. That includes themselves.

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