They invented a modern #ElitePhilanthropy playbook that #AnandGiridharadas documents in his must-read *Winners Take All,* about the charity-industrial complex that washes away an ocean of blood with a trickle of money:

https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/10/winners-take-all-modern-philanthropy-means-that-giving-some-away-is-more-important-than-how-you-got-it/

As part of this PR exercise, the individual Sacklers kept their names and images out of the public eye. For years, there were virtually no news-service photos of individual Sacklers.

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#anandgiridharadas His recent The Ink post highlights Kentucky’s public auctioning of confiscated guns. Viscous cycle! For you so-called Christians out there, please consult your Bible for a recommendation regarding “swords to plowshares.”
Quite insane putting these weapons back on the street.

Not sure I agree with all of this, but some is worth reflecting on.

‘A Ban Isn’t a Plan’
~~Ignore the sideshows. Focus on building a movement that can beat American fascism

#AnandGiridharadas #TheInk
“We need to build a #movement like we never have before: …
“A movement that understands the emotion and psychology and anxiety that are at the heart of #politics. …
“A movement that gives people, as #AliciaGarza has put it, a ‘home.’”

https://the.ink/p/a-ban-isnt-a-plan

I think Giridharadas is making the case for a human-centric, holistic and universal strategy.

In my opinion, the objectives of fascists and their Fellow Travelers™ are to:
- persuade us to compartmentalize traumas
- inflict cruelty by normalizing physical and psychological violence
- sustain incoherence (i.e. flood the zone with shit)

https://the.ink/p/a-ban-isnt-a-plan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#humanfirst #RadicalHumanism #fascism #strategy #AnandGiridharadas #trauma #cruelty #psychology #hypocrisy #attention #cybergrunge

Prolific writer #AnandGiridharadas on how slavery reinvented itself as environmental ruin https://open.substack.com/pub/anandwrites/p/how-slavery-reinvented-itself-as?r=d3xpt&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

@dawnatella holy cow these ideas exactly, bloomed in my brain -as it happened- when I got to #anandgiridharadas uninspired disappointing conclusion to #winnerstakeall - eg, defeat #carnegie -ism by turning back to centralized wealth redistribution. Blecch, & dumb, because the oligarch’s lobbyists will always beat us at that game. Nope, thought I, the answer is #employeeownership , a moment which has since landed me in the #cooperative #multistakeholder #capitalism #defi camps!

Billionaires seem to be making the case against them all by themselves.

Anand Giridharadas:

"One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class"

#Billionaires #MSNBC #AnandGiridharadas #EatTheRich #ClassWarfare #DystopiaBeat

https://youtu.be/lC1YAwwLyUA

Thanks Toddo
“A great op-ed by one of my favorite public intellectuals (i.e., non-academics) #AnandGiridharadas #billionaires #inequality #oligarchy #RIPTwitter Billionares made a strong case this week for abolishing themselves.”
Bezos invested funds on personal business pursuits, outside his company. All while firing huge #s of hourly workers in his company, before the holidays to save money.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html

Thanks Toddo
A great op-ed by one of my favorite public intellectuals (i.e., non-academics) #AnandGiridharadas #billionaires #inequality #oligarchy #RIPTwitter Billionares made a strong case this week for abolishing themselves. Bezos invested funds on personal business pursuits, outside his company. All while firing huge #s before the holiday to save money.
nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion...

A great op-ed by one of my favorite public intellectuals (i.e., non-academics) #AnandGiridharadas #billionaires #inequality #oligarchy #RIPTwitter

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/musk-trump-bezos-bankman-fried-billionaires.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Persuaders: Winning hearts and minds in a divided age
By Anand Giridharadas
Anyone else reading or read this book?

#ThePersuaders: Winning hearts and minds in a divided age
#AnandGiridharadas