Author: Alan Buddug
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Chips
One of the biggest ongoing consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is the shortage of computer chips. However, the shortage is more about the fact that market capitalism is extremely money-efficient, but not at all resilient. Resilience is expensive so you cannot be both money-efficient and resilient. However, because computer chips are so important to the…
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Higgins vs. Salter: An analysis
You may have heard of the “contentious” interaction between Republican Clay Higgins and Raya Salter (an environmental lawyer) during a House Oversight & Reform Committee hearing on September 15, 2022. If you really need to see the interaction, I will link to it at the bottom, but just be aware that I’ll cover the meat…
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Who are the child abusers? A case study
Agape School in Missouri has been closed down after the state of Missouri was able to confirm 10 stories of abuse. According to the Missouri Independent: The Christian reform school in Stockton faces mounting accusations of abuse, lawsuits and calls for its closure by former students, who described being physically restrained, sexually abused, starved as…
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It’s Time to Forget 9/11
Remember the Alamo? That historic battle where brave Americans fought against the evil Mexicans and tragically died? Well, that’s not accurate. Actually, they were a bunch of assholes fighting to maintain slavery. …the legend of the Alamo is a Texas tall tale run amok. The actual story is one of White American immigrants to Texas…
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Electoral Politics: Current Conditions
Just now, I see that popular sentiment has pressured Biden to ask for Democrats to end the filibuster in order to put the right to abortion into law. I don’t think that nullifies the overall spirit of this post and I don’t think it will make one lick of difference in the long term, but…
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Fascist Dog Whistles in Missouri Political Flier
Some of our members have received a flier in the mail from a Lee’s Summit area politician who is running for the fourth district seat in the US House of Representatives. He says that he is running for “Congress,” presumably to keep from confusing his constituents with the details of how the US government works;…
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The Other Fascists
The American left is largely focused on racist fascism, and tends to treat racism as both the primary driver of fascism and it’s natural source. That isn’t wrong, but it also is not the way most American fascists are experiencing their own belief system, so it is deficient in terms of coming up with solutions…
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Plastic
Corporate evil has a fairly predictable playbook that was developed by the tobacco industry starting in the 1940’s. The oil industry picked it up in the 1970’s and birthed the climate change denial that now infects both of the dominant political parties in the US. Oil industry lies have stymied effective action on climate change,…
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The American Death Cult
The Atlantic just published a gem of an essay by Elizabeth Bruenig entitled A Culture That Kills Its Children Has No Future which rails against Americans, generally, for being nihilistic trash. It really resonated with me after spending the last 5 years working against fascism and trying (mostly without success) to get liberals to help…
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US Collapse Looks Increasingly Likely
It’s fairly obvious that American fascists are using an effective diversity of tactics to bring down the dominant (liberal) society in the US, including terrorist acts by shock troops, hamstringing the US legislature, and undoing democracy via the Supreme Court. Yesterday, we discovered that the 5th Circuit Court is also occupied by fascists. I’ll let…