Ralph Nader's claim "#Capitalism will always survive, because #socialism will be there to save it" is the perfect punchline to the greatest economic joke: capitalism in its purest, most Darwinian form should've self-destructed a thousand times over. Yet every time it teeters on the brink, who comes to the rescue? The very socialist principles its champions claim to despise.
Banks collapse under the weight of their own greed? Socialize the losses with a taxpayer bailout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKSu_Ir6uU&pp=ygUNZGVtb2NyYWN5IG5vdw%3D%3D
'A Declaratio of War Against the American People' #RalphNader on Trump's Address to Congress
Ralph Nader: Trump-Musk Dictatorship Is Awakening the American People's Resistance
Forget the use of the terms "autocracy" and "constitutional crisis." This is a savage #dictatorship, getting worse by the day.
Feb 15, 2025
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-musk-dictatorship
#RalphNader #TrumpMusk #MAGA #DOGE #USAID #softPower #CFPB #kleptocracy #CrueltyIsThePoint
American businesses starting to feel Musk poison
https://nader.org/2025/02/15/trump-musk-dictatorship-is-galvanizing-the-american-peoples-resistance/
> ... the world’s richest man, with billions of dollars of federal contracts, is unleashing his henchmen to wreck the daily work of public servants committed to providing critical services that have long and bi-partisan support. Assistance to children, emergency workers, the sick and elderly, public school students, and people ripped off by business crooks. He is firing the federal cops on the corporate crime beat...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/11/a-trumpian-fascistic-coup-is-underway-stop-it-before-the-terror-starts/
#RalphNader on #ElonMusk #KingTrump #FelonMusk
Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025
"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'
"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York.
"But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine.
"They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine
The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis
https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-ford-pinto-comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14X4yaO9rJY
'Sabotaged by His Own Party': #RalphNader on Carter's Legacy
>> The best thing is #Liberals will suffer while the #USA finally declines.
You are a #troll who has exposed himself as one who despises #America just like #Trump, #JillStein, and #Russia do.
NOTHING that #Democrats could do would persuade #GreenParty spoiler cretins from trying to destroy #US.
Whether it's #RossPerot, #RalphNader, or Jill Stein, there is NO FUTURE for a 3rd party in US except as #spoiler.
Chris Hedges Report: How Fascism Came
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/24/chris-hedges-report-how-fascism-came/
The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. He is the symptom, not the disease. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost For over two decades, I and a handful of others —…
#Politics #Books #Commentary #IncomeInequality #U.s. #BarbaraEhrenreich #ChalmersJohnson #ChrisHedges #ChristianFascism #DonaldTrump #EricGarner #GlobalCapitalism #IrvingHowe #JoeSacco #Liberalism #Neoliberalism #NoamChomsky #RalphNader #SheldonWolin #SnopesClan #SørenKierkegaard #WilliamFaulkner
With Trump returning, it's time to prepare:
- Civil servants should get ahead of Trump’s unqualified appointees.
- Protesters need to watch for infiltrators who could incite violence.
- Trump will create fake threats to keep his base loyal and push extreme policies.
- Expect him to focus on tax cuts for the rich, military spending, and backing Israeli policies.
- Progressive groups must organize across all government branches to fight back.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/need-for-anticipatory-strategies-for-oncoming-trumpism/
gm,
Trump is a scumbag. Democrats aren't much better.
For example Obama put Wall Street guys in charge after the crash. They all made bank. He should have never let the insurance companies help him write Obamacare.
And now the slaughter of Palestinians.
Look at what the Tea Party accomplished. We the people need to create a movement. The platform shouldn't be TDS. Democrats did that the past 9 years.
It should be what Bernie and Ralph Nader talk about.
@JdeB Interesting, at 4:45, the subtitles say "An idea that has now been championed by liberals interested in working within the system for change, like #RalphNader...." yet his name is not mentioned in the audio, which is odd, and the audio has definitely been clipped. Not sure why you would leave that out, unless it is wrong?
Also - wtf, #Nespresso is a #BCorp??? #GreenWashing
Depressing, but interesting.
My rebuttal to Mike Figueredo's video: #BernieSanders Might be Cooking Up a Plan that Would SHOCK #Washington D.C.
@socialismforall made a video on this better.
Bernie Sanders, who could've done it in the 2016 & 2020 #Election in the #US by joining the #GreenParty who would've welcome him, which he even said he didn't want to get the remarks of being called the next #RalphNader.
But no he told us to vote for #JoeBiden & #KamalaHarris in a #COVID #Pandemic!
@arrrg Tune into #RalphNader or #WilliamBarber They bring this up every day for years #WhatLiberalMedia ignore them just as they ignore all poor and low wealth people. Millions of us.
[#Podcast] #LawAndDisorder, September 9, 2024
#September11, 2001: Lessons Learned And Overlooked
"It has been 23 years ago this week since the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, PA, killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring more than 6,000. On that day, the United States had a choice: The #GeorgeWBush administration could have treated the attacks as a violation of US and international law, launched a criminal investigation, and brought the perpetrators to justice in accordance with the rule of law. Instead, President Bush waged #EndlessWars against #Afghanistan and #Iraq, pushed through Congress the USA #PatriotAct, opened the notorious detention center at #GuantanamoBay which remain to this day, rounded up Muslims and South Asians for #IndefiniteDetention, initiated a wave of #CivilLiberties and #HumanRights violations, and committed wholesale torture against detainees and others.
"To assess the legacy of 9/11 and the lessons learned and the lessons overlooked, we’ve invited someone who was at the center of Bush’s #WarOnTerror. John Kiriakou is a journalist, former CIA counterterrorism officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News.
"In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the #CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by President George W. Bush. He knew what he was talking about. In 2002, he was responsible for the capture in Pakistan of #AbuZubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda.
"He became the sixth #whistleblower indicted by the #Obama administration under the #EspionageAct of 1917 — a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his revelations.
"In 2012, the #RalphNader family honored #Kiriakou with the Joe A. Callaway Award for #CivicCourage, an award given to individuals who 'advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates.' He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015, the first Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize for Bravery and Integrity in the Public Interest in 2016, and also in 2016 the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, given by retired CIA, FBI, and NSA officers."
Listen:
https://lawanddisorder.org/category/criminalizing-dissent/
#CIASponsoredTerror #CivilRights, #CriminalizingDissent #ExtraordinaryRendition #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #IraqWar #BushAdministraiton #HumanRights #HumanRightsViolation #TargetingMuslims #Torture #WarResister #Whistleblowers #CivilLiberties #CivilLibertiesRadio #EndlessWar
As usual #RalphNader makes great points about the #Democratic Party's idiocy. Harris refused to campaign with Sanders and stood instead with Cheney, to appeal, as Clinton had, to a nonexistent constituency. Corporate oligarchy controls both major parties.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/6/ralph_nader_on_trumps_win
Götterdämmerung 
