• CubitOom@infosec.pubOP
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    2 days ago

    I am currently reading Anti-Fascist Economics by Isabella Weber and it talks about how fascist politicians exploit prices of essential goods and badly functioning social systems to push a fascist ideology as a change from the status quo.

    The fascists will also work with neo-liberals to ensure these trends continue which make the public more susceptible to their propaganda and the proposed solutions to the issues that they helped create.

    Like it or not, the price of eggs and gas actually influenced people to vote for Trump, and that was the plan.

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      2 days ago

      This is so true. Like the problem isn’t the cost of eggs; it’s the fact that small farms are being squeezed out by corporations.

      Similarly, the cost of gas isn’t the real issue. It’s that we are still so heavily reliant on fossil fuels. And the war with Iran isn’t bad because of gas prices; it’s bad because we are spending billions fighting a war on behalf of a genocidal apartheid regime.