In wake of the #DALAILAMAPEDOFILO incident, let’s take a look at the dark history of the old #Tibet ruled by cruel feudal #serfdom, something “His Holiness” supported by Western anti-China forces attempts to maintain

@clarebee

"The #CPTPP regional countries’ total GDP is about £9tr, about 500 million people. It’s where the new middle class will be coming from in the future and now we’re going to have a closer trading relationship with them." -
- #Badenoch

We could not care less about the ordinary people in their countries and our own.

#serfdom
#contempt
#GTTO

Denunciations can be a way to simply “demonstrate to the state and to yourself whose side you’re on”, historian Sergey Bondarenko has said.

Not a Putin war... it is a Russian war.
#Russia #serfdom #authoritarianism #russiaisaterroriststate #Putin
https://www.ft.com/content/b1657ee3-eb9d-41c7-851e-5900c74bd934 4/4

@mian @leftout @alex It sounds like you're alluding to #serfdom here. The last #serfdom was abolished in 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serfdom

About 50 representatives of Upper Swabian peasants groups, engaged in the German Peasants’ War, met to formulate the Twelve Articles #OTD in 1525. These articles called for freedom from serfdom, the right to elect pastors, land reform, and other rights. The meeting is considered to be the first constituent assembly in Europe since the Roman Empire.

Today's art source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Articles

#history #Germany #serfdom #Revolution #HiaG #Mar6

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23614085/consumer-spending-inflation-corporations-profits-retail-economy #illnews #economy #fuckthepatriarchy #serfdom

(The immediate aftermath of this #digital #serfdom, IMHO, will be a period of #chaos where we won't be able to exchange information freely and -more importantly- instantly.

A lot of shit will go down in that interim period. I just hope we have enough alert conversation leaders to steer us past...)

(PS: I know I would like a #prepper, readying for the #collapse but, honestly, look around you?)

Something that has been bothering me for the past few days.

All the 'town squares' we have been using, that we have grown accustomed to, are slowly becoming inaccessible with no immediate replacement available.

- Twitter has had massive changes to its algo.
- FB & Insta were already compromised.
- YouTube has had a change of leadership that will change discoverability
- Mastodon doesn't have (and probably never will have) enough traction.

Digital #serfdom is already here, isn't it? 🤷‍♂️

@vanitarium aye! But some folk think that #serfdom ended in the 19thC - it didn’t ! …just moved from the fields to the factories and coal mines, and still lurks around today in Amazon warehouses and ‘zero hours contracts’

#EndCapitalismNow …or #EverythingEndsSoon

@greenaspen he even got the century wrong! #serfdom started in the 5th century

@vanitarium kind of agree that 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 priorities can be a bit mystifying sometimes
…except that, at the roots of the Dartmoor protest lie the same problems that threaten the #NHS - #inequality and #feudalism
Easy in #Scotland to see it differently.

#serfdom sucks
“It sticks in my craw,” says Duncan Hutchinson, 71, who lives nearby with his wife. “We are not accepting favours from our masters. We are not their serfs. It isn’t the 19th century. Dartmoor is not a private gentlemen’s shooting estate.”

OPINION: #Dartmoor #Camping - #Serfdom is back, and the future of the Ten Tors challenge at risk
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/opinions/dartmoor_camping_-_serfdom_is_back_and_the_future_of_the_ten_tors_challenge_at_risk-14939
A large proportion of England voted for the return of Serfdom and Feudalism in 2016. This is what "taking back control" really means.

#truss #kwarteng #tories #currency #taxation #objectivism #ayn_rand #milton_friedman #chicago_school #patrick_minford #cardiff #IEA #ERG #unaccountability #irresponsibility #westminster #serfdom #constitutional_reform #uk #future #global

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #robot #revolution #technology #puppet #future #past #work #propaganda #Data #Robbie #HAL # #capitalism #serfdom

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Loss of Sensation (1935)

This movie and Metropolis (1927) were heavily influenced by the 1920 Czech play U.R.U., which introduced the word “robot” to science fiction and the English-speaking world. (“Robota” in Czech means “corvée”, serf labor or unpaid labor.)

Recently, a lot of authors have been writing about the post-scarcity economy, but this film examined the concept back in 1935. These filmmakers were likely influenced by Marx, thinking that productivity was a bad thing because it means less work (and fewer workers) are required to produce what we need. Most writers today envision a more utopian outcome from a post-scarcity world in their stories.

The film is in the public domain. Here’s a link...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1935_%D0%93%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8.webm&oldid=426959862

#tories #conservatives #truss #mandate #monarchy #balmoral #immoral #serfdom #serfs #constitution #westminster #uk #eu #global

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #film #movie #robot #revolution #technology #puppet #future #past #work #propaganda #Data #Robbie #HAL # #capitalism #serfdom

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

When Worlds Collide (1951)

Although the story of approaching doom with people trying to avoid or escape disaster is a very old story (e.g. Noah’s Ark), I think this was the first to cover the specific case of a planet (or star) approaching Earth. The film is an adaptation of the novel, which was written in 1933. The story was very influential in science fiction, with many stories afterwards having the premise of an asteroid, star, planet or whatever heading toward Earth with our survival in the balance. It really has become a subgenre. Flash Gordon directly borrowed many aspects from the novel.

Its fairly well produced for the time it was released, with elaborate sets and decent actors. However, the graphical special effects set a new low. Today it’s done with computer graphics, but back then they were hand drawn. I actually laughed out loud when I saw them. And of course the film predates our having anything at all in space, so things like zero-G, etc., are off, but otherwise the film is very good for a 50’s scifi.

Serfdom, America’s New Reality

https://walkinverse.com/serfdom-americas-new-reality/

🏷 #Government #Green_New_Deal #Serfdom

Before 1959, the year the People's Liberation Army of #China quelled the Upper-Class Tibetan Revolt, the vast majority of Tibetans were subjected to #slavery and #serfdom, a major issue that is chronically ignored in any popular assessment of Chinese-Tibetan history. Once the Dalai Lama fled to India, the Central Government of China eliminated the practice of slavery and serfdom in #Tibet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sko0oEKoHk&t=2446s

Dig a hole, peasant! When you are finished digging, fill that hole again, peasant!

Then repeat.

#mmt #modernmonetarytheory #ubi #humanenergy #work #forcedlabour #neofeudalism #slavery #lords #serfdom #classdivide #inequality #propaganda #publicrelations #archaicmonetarytheory #giabo #freedom

Some of my #immigrant #ancestors came to #America to escape #serfdom in #Europe, sometimes becoming #indentured #servants to do so.