If your response to the "church of conformity" is to treat an anti-labor, government-fattened centibillionaire as a victim of "the priesthood," you've crawled so far up your own ass you can french kiss your liver.
Americans used to value solidarity and labor strength against the tycoons who exploited them but rich disruptors like Matt don't have any need for that hokey crap. They have Substack.
Nov 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
The American left's response to the Ukraine-Russia war is enough to convince anyone that if there's a left at all, it's useless.
Most leftists support NATO & its dangerous expansionism; the prime counter has been propagandists selling war for the Russian government. Awful.
You are being sold a war in which every participant is a lying capitalist willing to spill blood for power. The U.S., NATO, Ukraine & Russia. There are no honest brokers. No one operates on behalf of poor & working citizens. Of peace. Doesn't exist.
Oct 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"I'm probably more of a libertarian than anything else. I believe in capitalism, small government..."
-Matt Taibbi, during the Bush years. His critique of the Military Industrial Complex in 2007 was that it was "authoritarian socialism."
Nothing "happened" to Taibbi. He just offered a half-assed decadence critique against Wall St. for a few years & the rest of mainstream journalism was so crappy he looked more impressive in comparison, like Danny Almonte in the Little League World Series. It's all just branding.
