Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3130 posts · Server sfba.socialThe #problem is that we all to often have #socialism for the #rich and rugged free enterprise #capitalism for the #poor.
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #UniversalBasicIncome
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The Minister to the Valley,” February 23, 1968, From the archives of the SCLC
#problem #socialism #rich #capitalism #poor #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #universalbasicincome
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3123 posts · Server sfba.social#EliminateFistBumps: “Taxing the very richest... they are more interested in the politics of an endless #racetothebottom... rather than making plans to actually invest in our #publicgood.”
#eliminatefistbumps #racetothebottom #publicgood #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3123 posts · Server sfba.social#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence: Leading #welfare recipient “#SpaceX had recently given the #Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in #Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access.”
#Kleptocracy
#ShadowRule #PentagonIsTheLargestEmitter
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
#pentagon #ukraine #pentagonisthelargestemitter #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #welfare #spacex #Kleptocracy #shadowrule
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
173 followers · 3117 posts · Server sfba.social#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence. The government's leading #welfare recipient for space gives "the #Pentagon an ultimatum: if it didn’t assume the cost of providing service in #Ukraine, which the company calculated at some four hundred million dollars annually, it would cut off access."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
#taxbillionairesoutofexistence #welfare #pentagon #ukraine #pentagonisacarbonbomb
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
167 followers · 2915 posts · Server sfba.social#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence: the person trying to shut down San Francisco’s busiest #public courts had her own #private court on which to #play at her #leisure.
#NoConsequences #LaborIsAnExploitableCommodity #privilege #WarOnSubsistence
Paywalled
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pickleball-court-presidio-heights-18336716.php
#taxbillionairesoutofexistence #public #private #play #leisure #noconsequences #laborisanexploitablecommodity #privilege #waronsubsistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
163 followers · 2715 posts · Server sfba.social
#EmissionInEquality: #Adapt to what? Suppose we manage to “adapt” to the current #game of whatever hellscape roulette we’re experiencing. What will we do when the world changes again? If we do nothing to stop #climatechange, then more and more places will become #uninhabitable
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #ClimateResponsibility #TragedyOfEnclosure
#emissioninequality #adapt #game #climatechange #uninhabitable #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #climateresponsibility #tragedyofenclosure
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
163 followers · 2715 posts · Server sfba.social
#TragedyOfEnclosure: #America's dominance as the world's foremost #economicpower — a dominance reflected in its large #investor class, which because of its #wealth is figuratively steering #Earth off of the #climate cliff.
#EmissionsInEquality #WhiteFaceBlackFuel #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #ClimateResponsibility #BipartisanKleptocracies #NationalizeFossilFuel
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/22/how-wealthy-super-emitters-are-disproportionately-driving-the-climate--while-blaming-you/
#tragedyofenclosure #america #economicpower #Investor #wealth #earth #climate #emissionsinequality #whitefaceblackfuel #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #climateresponsibility #bipartisankleptocracies #nationalizefossilfuel
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
163 followers · 2709 posts · Server sfba.social
#whiteprivilege: The move to disproportionately lower what the #wealthy pay in #taxes will further undermine #communities that #suffer from #disinvestment... more budget cuts will come for essential services, like #publiceducation and #infrastructure #maintenance. Lower-income residents, they warn, will be hurt most.
“The wealthy tend to always look out for themselves,” Edwards said.
#alecexposed #FossilFuelConservatism #AntiWoke
#RacistRobertsCourt #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#KochBirchSociety
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
#pandemic
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/the-wealthy-tend-to-always-look-out-for-themselves-state-taxes-exacerbate-income-inequality/? utm_source=press.coop
#whiteprivilege #wealthy #taxes #communities #suffer #disinvestment #publiceducation #infrastructure #maintenance #ALECExposed #fossilfuelconservatism #antiwoke #racistrobertscourt #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #kochbirchsociety #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct #pandemic
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
148 followers · 2243 posts · Server sfba.social
#QuanceIndicted #45 #jan6insurrection: “#prebendalism” – the idea that #corrupt #officeholders treat their offices as #extractive #opportunities for themselves and their network of #supporters.
#corruptscotus #SingerCrowLeoJustice #CitizensUnited #JaredSaudiHedge #khashoggiMoment #RosneftTillerson
#CorporateTheocracy #McDonnell #greedisreal #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#quanceindicted #jan6insurrection #prebendalism #corrupt #officeholders #extractive #opportunities #supporters #corruptscotus #singercrowleojustice #citizensunited #jaredsaudihedge #khashoggimoment #rosnefttillerson #corporatetheocracy #mcdonnell #greedisreal #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
146 followers · 2197 posts · Server sfba.social
https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/nasa-nazi-history-von-braun.html
it’s hard to see von Braun’s transition from #Nazi rocketeer to American #hero as anything less than astonishing. After helping the U.S. #Army develop its #ballisticmissileprogram, he took a position in the newly established civilian space agency, #NASA, in 1960
#bullshitjobs #WarsForOil #globalboiling #SlaveLabor #militaryindustrialcomplex #X #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#nazi #hero #army #ballisticmissileprogram #nasa #bullshitjobs #warsforoil #globalboiling #slavelabor #militaryindustrialcomplex #x #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
146 followers · 2188 posts · Server sfba.social
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
144 followers · 2168 posts · Server sfba.socialBefore calling for the #taxhikes and cutting #fuelsubsidies might it not have been more prudent to have a #safetynet for #Kenyans? But of course not, Ruto is acting at the behest of the #IMF and #bigmoney.
#StructuralAdjustment #neocolonial #ResourcePredation #IMF #AWesternKleptocracy #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#taxhikes #fuelsubsidies #safetynet #Kenyans #imf #BigMoney #structuraladjustment #neocolonial #resourcepredation #awesternkleptocracy #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
141 followers · 2089 posts · Server sfba.social#corruptscotus: Since 2017, the justices have been utilizing these orders far more often, and with far broader effects, than ever before, sometimes instead of resolving similar #legalquestions on the #merits docket (where, of course, they’d have to explain their reasoning). Worse, they are also insisting, for the first time, that at least some of these unexplained rulings are #precedents that lower courts and government officials are bound to follow.
Vladeck, Stephen. The Shadow Docket (p. 11). Basic Books. Kindle Edition.
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
From: @toussaint
https://newsie.social/@toussaint/110786626692339396
#corruptscotus #legalquestions #merits #precedents #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
140 followers · 2047 posts · Server sfba.social
https://themessenger.com/business/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein-jes-staley-new-charges
Spotlight on the #kleptocracy: Last month, #JPMorgan paid $290 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by an anonymous #Epstein victim who accused the #bank of helping to facilitate Epstein's crimes, but an avalanche of documents that dropped last night indicates that the feds are not done…
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#Kleptocracy #jpmorgan #epstein #bank #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
140 followers · 2032 posts · Server sfba.social
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-303-creative-decision-mystal/
I’d argue that #lying and accepting lies is more dangerous when it comes from the #SupremeCourt. Voters can reject #politicians like Ron DeSantis who are obsessed with the #genitalia of high school #students. But there is very little the people can do about #justices who are appointed for life and give themselves veto power over the rest of government.
#corruptscotus #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#lying #supremecourt #politicians #genitalia #students #justices #corruptscotus #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
137 followers · 1974 posts · Server sfba.social
https://www.levernews.com/the-church-of-leonard-leo/
#criminalizingdissent: Last week, the #public learned how #Leo actively persuaded the local #police to #arrest one of these #protesters last summer. That man is now suing two officers for wrongfully #arresting him and #violating his right to #freespeech.
#criminalizingdissent #public #leo #police #Arrest #protesters #arresting #violating #freespeech #corruptscotus #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
135 followers · 1967 posts · Server sfba.social
https://www.levernews.com/finally-a-third-party-for-billionaires/
No Labels’ donors include wealthy Republican billionaires and private equity executives, as well as Texas real estate mogul Harlan Crow, a major benefactor to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
133 followers · 1901 posts · Server sfba.social“As a human being, if you’re #wealthy enough, you can get inside and put the #airconditioning on. But #natural %ecosystems and farmed ecosystems can’t do that.”
The 2018 European heatwave led to multiple crop failures and loss of yield of up to 50% in central and northern Europe. In 2022, record temperatures in the UK killed fruit and vegetables on the vine.
Heatwaves are expected to become 12 times more frequent by 2040 compared with pre-warming levels.
#keepitintheground #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#bendthekeelingcurve
#wealthy #airconditioning #natural #keepitintheground #taxbillionairesoutofexistence #bendthekeelingcurve
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
132 followers · 1887 posts · Server sfba.social
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/climate/natural-gas-leaks-coal-climate-change.html
#StrandedAssets: Governor Newsom‘s transition fuel to the transition according to the NYTimes, “It takes as little as 0.2 percent of #gas to #leak to make natural gas as big a #driver of #climatechange as #coal, the study found. That’s a tiny margin of error for a gas that is notorious for #leaking from drill sites, processing plants and the pipes that transport it into #powerstations or #homes and kitchens.”
#strandedassets #gas #leak #driver #climatechange #coal #leaking #powerstations #homes #keepitintheground #taxbillionairesoutofexistence
Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
132 followers · 1881 posts · Server sfba.socialIf CEO’ve #fired so many #workers, how can the broader #economy be #prospering? And worse yet, prospering under Democratic administrations that promote such nonsense as #unionization, higher #wages, and even higher #taxes on the #rich
#conspiracy: In a properly ordered universe, that’s an impossibility that requires fudging the numbers to paint a picture of low unemployment.
#fired #workers #economy #prospering #unionization #wages #taxes #rich #conspiracy #taxbillionairesoutofexistence