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Its Saturday in Japan, so I got time to make breakfest. in c/foodporn@lemmy.world

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks like a lot! Hope it’s being split 2x ways.

Tedd.it is Shutting Down in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy Goes back to the 1960s (see also the Lewis Powell memo)

(also see “The Democracy Project” by David Graeber get it cash from a used bookstore leave no trace LNT )

Missouri has decided to turn down millions in federal food aid for low-income children in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

This. Is. One of the Best. Hidden Political History. Ever.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/oligarchs-against-democracy

blew my mind. see also anything else by thom hartmann and the Lewis Powell memo. and The Democracy Project by David Graeber (buy it at a used bookstore with cash)

how it feels to be on Lemmy rn in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Digital detritus = SO not important. … i mean RELATIVELY. Trust me.

Go live your life, insofar as you are able to, friend :-)

Find an actual sharing group like #BuyNothingProject or #ToolLendingLibrary or something crew to kick it with.

or https://shareable.net for reading (been ages since I checked it).

CEO-to-worker pay ratio went from 20-to-1 in the 1960s to about 400-to-1 now. in c/antiwork@lemmy.fmhy.ml

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

@lemmy@fmhy.ml any idea why I can’t see that post in-app by going to RenWillis’ timeline, but why I can see it via a public web browser?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio went from 20-to-1 in the 1960s to about 400-to-1 now. in c/antiwork@lemmy.fmhy.ml

[–] silentashes@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Does anyone know why this is happening?”

Yes. Thom Hartmann and others have written about this. It started after the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, peacenik, environmental, etc movements of the 1960s and early 70s.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated specifically because he was uniting poor Whites with Blacks, calling for Socialism, and launching the Poor People’s Campaign.

It was a conscious, deliberate response by the elite — against the economic and political warfare conducted by the middle class in order to eliminate the classist systemz of oppression.

The Lewis Powell Memo: A Corporate Blueprint to Dominate Democracy

Written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

see also Thom Hartmann’s book: “Screwed: The Undeclared War on America’s Middle Class”

also: “

**Why Oligarchs Don't Just Want to Be Rich, But Kill Democracy Too ** The deeper reason why the powerful and wealthiest think your ability to vote is dangerous.