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A lot of Americans are Googling 'what is oligarchy?' after Biden's farewell speech by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago

Becoming..? The country founded on the principle that only landowners and capitalists should be represented democratically is becoming an oligarchy?

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Does anyone on Hexbear know/like James Corbett? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know he is a weird libertarian anarchist (agorist or some other nonsense). But his documentary series “How Big Oil Conquered the World” is really good, and showed me how entrenched oil really is in absolutely everything and how that was engineered by really a handful of people. Sure, if it wasn’t them, it’d be other people. But still, they did do it.

I was thinking recently about the “Rockefeller Medicine” episode, and how John D Rockefeller and Carnegie basically invented the modern pharmaceutical industry, and the vaaaaast majority of medicine nowadays is actually based on oil, petrochemicals.

For some reason, I decided to just ask chatGPT about it and the shitbot actually just repeated all the crazy conspiracy-sounding facts (Corbett always backs his claims with a lot of records and sources, one of the main reasons I like him actually) that I had watched in the “Rockefeller Medicine” episode years ago.

Like “John D. Rockefeller's influence was pivotal in shaping the modern medical and pharmaceutical landscape. By funding education reforms, research institutions, and early petrochemical studies, he helped create a system that prioritized synthetic, petroleum-based drugs. This legacy continues to impact the industry today, as petrochemicals remain a cornerstone of pharmaceutical production.”

That’s the conclusion from chatGPT.

So I guess this is all very public knowledge. But still no one knows, no one talks about it. People never discuss how 90%+ of the medicine they take and are dependent on is literally based on and requires oil. Like it is MADE of oil. And natural medicine was discredited by Rockefeller. Holistic medicine etc. Now it’s all made of oil.

Anyways, James Corbett has many great series with lots of sources for everything. He’s a crazy libertarian, but a good journalist 👍

T(h)ank you Hexbear for being one of the only places online that's normal about trans people by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

I personally main cis, but trans is a pretty good build so I’m happy we have a space to discuss optimisations for that here 🤗

Numbers Guy by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this supposed to be an own? This guy sounds cool…

The U.S. Industrial Base Is Not Prepared for a Possible Conflict with China by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Duterte literally sponsored militias and death squads that murdered people for using recreational drugs. I don’t think we should say everything was “fine” under him…

Tommy Wiseau has a take about the Korean war by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Honestly, at this point, we should also stop giving the US any credit for WW2. Fuckers almost entered on the side of the Nazis, funded them while they gained power etc. They only entered the European stage because they know the USSR would steamroll from Berlin to London and create a continent-wide communist revolution and wanted to stop them.

Fuck the USA, 100%, no exceptions.

Haven't heard anything about him in a while (thankfully). Is he overdue? by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Yes… but also at the same time, the vast majority of people with bipolar or other mental health issues are not raging anti-semites.

Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory. by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

It’s not the “fault” of amoral individuals, no. This is simply the system working as intended. A system where capital translates to political power will inevitably lead to capital accumulation. Corporations are only for generating more capital and more profits to their owners. Profits they can turn into more capital elsewhere.

It’s silly to expect a “good” version of this where the people at the top… don’t put their interests first? Like why would they ever do that? If someone at the top doesn’t fight for profit like a shark, they will lose their spot and risk becoming a worker, or dooming their family and future generations to become workers.

These people are just doing what’s best for them. And everybody around says “hey! that’s bad, you should put aside your self interest for our self interest!”.

Bro the problem is THE SYSTEM. As long as we have this system, we will always have the same people in power, the same problems, and the planet will die in 50 years. You can fight reality all you want, but that’s where we’re at.

Thousands of Portuguese protest for the right to affordable housing by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Portugal has one the highest numbers of houses per inhabitant in the world. Over 40 per inhabitant. There are 700,000 empty homes in Portugal, not counting airbnbs and second homes. A country of 10,000,000 people.

From 2020 to 2023 there was an increase of 400,000,000 euros in international investment in the Portuguese real estate market. It literally doubles in 3 years.

There is a high number of houses that are kept as investments (empty, second houses, airbnbs etc.). This keeps the market hostage to an international investor class, who in every way but literally have infinite money.

This problem will keep getting worse and worse as long as the government doesn’t do something to fix the root of the issue.

Housing should not be a capital market to be speculated on. There should be no investors in housing.

Things people need to survive can’t be subject to market forces.

Homelessness and lack of housing affordability is exclusively an issue of neoliberal capitalism and the infection of every facet of our existence with “the market”.

Average day in Ukraine by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago

I don’t want to put a bunch of preludes and explain myself etc.

But man, you really think Russia invaded because of a “land grab”? Does that make any sense to you?

Accurate by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago

Yes.

why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office? by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The people in the boards of directors, the major investors, people who run large investment funds etc. are the same or very close to the owners of commercial real estate.

They don’t want to fuck themselves.

Also many times corporate rent is used as money laundering, to hide profits etc. Like the building is owned by company A, which is incorporated in the Virgin Islands, but is actually owned by the same group that owns company B that rents the building. So they pay money to themselves. So company B is not profitable and doesn’t have to pay taxes. Presto pronto.

Just a very obvious manoeuvre, there are certainly many more.

actual causes of global warming rule by novibe in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Bro the big oil corporations spent decades at the beginning of the 20th century creating and forcing the demand and dependency on oil. Watch “How Big Oil Conquered the World” from James Corbett.

It’s not like WE chose this to be the way things are. The people who control industry, and marketing, and media and THE GOVERNMENT, all MADE us and it all this way.