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Disaster Capitalists Are Circling Maui Like Buzzards (jacobin.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disaster capitalists? You know what, nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why nevermind? It's a very real thing, Naomi Klein wrote a fantastic book on the subject. I'd recommend it

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just "capitalists"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Capitalist on its own isn’t enough of a dirty word to most Americans.

Yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

carpet baggers is what I call these scum.