Rick The Political Gardener
Professional Gardener Ex Rugger Bugger Politics of the left for everyone
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Hidden Power (opens the original)
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Happy #SocialistSunday The Roman Empire basically became the religion that became the rules of empire that became the DNA of Capitalism.Property Rights and the Rights of Individual Ownership of People, free or slave, can be traced directly into the Roman Empire. Protestants became a breakaway religion under democratic revolution but not the ownership structures of the capita—lism that underpinned it.And every time this system of power and control evolves, it finds new ways to write laws and rule
AI and Capitalism (opens the original)
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AI is the most expensive military tech produced yet. The prediction/guessing machine talks like a human, and the computer engineers don't exactly know how.As author and doctor Cory Doctorow says, it is very Artificial and not actually that intelligent because it's not intelligence. It scrapes words and guesses.If the computer engineers say they don't know how it works, should it be public? I would say no. Is it worth destroying people's pensions? Hell feckin NO!Capital—ism is out of growth to se
Fabian Society (opens the original)
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If the Fabians are being used to attack the left as this secret cabal of dangerous men on the left while pointing at Neoliberals like Tony Blair, Starmer and the rest of the faux left as the reasons, it gives the hard right a position to beat the true left from, so why are they in the left? Serious question.It's time to reclaim language and expose the ideologies that silence the left from within and don't actually help people. Attaching socialist thinking to liberal ideology and calling it a Thi
Blood, Soil, and the God of Money (opens the original)
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I was at a family BBQ, and immigration, refugees, and religions came into the topic with the inference that most people just chose to come to the wettest, most humid islands in Europe as a real choice people make, while dismissing that capitalism—the system—provided most of the answers they were complaining about. Now, it wasn’t racist, and it wasn’t heated; it was very much a BBC-neutral language of debate, with so many numbers and no sources being referenced. It’s a debate that always gets my
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