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Mar 6, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
That there even is a debate over raising the minimum wage tells you all you need to know about owners, shareholders, and capitalism itself.
⛓️ Workers used to be property
⚙️Taylorisation turned them into tools
🤖Automation turned them into a nuisance
🏛️Antiquity &🏰Medieval times
The production relies on indentured servitude. Workers are property ⛓️.
Lords own their serfs (property rights): they protect them (self-insurance) in exchange for their labour.
Masters have apprentices: they train them in exchange for free labour
Jan 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The GOP Is Taking the US Down an Unspeakable Path
If the #ImpeachmentDay debates didn’t scare you, you haven’t been paying attention.
The Nazis conflated the communists and the jews leading to the shoah.
Hitler said that "the Jews were the archetypal enemies of the German Volk, and no Communism or Bolshevism existed outside Jewry."
Jan 13, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
January 6, 2021, was an attempted coup on American soil. It wasn't the first one, though.
A coup was attempted in 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. It actually succeeded.
Here's a short story of the events, and an overview of its consequences.
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At the end of the XIXth century, Wilmington was the largest, most populous city in North Carolina.
25,000 people lived there. 55% of the population was black, most of them freedmen and women.
Nov 20, 2020 • 53 tweets • 15 min read
Donald Trump is a dangerous cult leader.
According to experts and psychologists, there are 50 traits that can help identify such a leader. Let's see if @realDonaldTrump fits the bill.
