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Elite Capture is officially out today. Thanks to @haymarketbooks and @PlutoPress and a whole mess of people besides.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@OlufemiOTaiwo
Associate Professor of Philosophy and African Studies at Georgetown. Author of Reconsidering Reparations and Elite Capture, @cpluscp member.
Joined November 2019
- nobody ruin this with context
- okay but they stumbled onto something great here: every race should have a regular person running it for scale, so you can understand how fast these athletes areThe Ministry of Youth and Sports should step down. It's disheartening to witness such an incompetent government. How could they select an untrained girl to represent Somalia in running? It's truly shocking and reflects poorly on our country internationally.00:00
- i like teaching lefty theory as much as the next guy but I can rarely do better at explaining the connection between capital and social-political domination than just pointing at what the guys with the capital do and sayGurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude." afr.com/politics/feder…00:00
- refreshing when folks find the capitalism-colonialism connection to be this clearYou’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- the stage of capitalism where we explain the wealth of an affluent nation by comparison to the net worth of less than a dozen dudesReplying to @george__mack4. Norway Is So Damn Rich In 2022, Norway's oil fund was larger than the combined wealth of the 10 richest people in the world. It makes $1 billion per week -- and holds 1.4% of the world's shares. (Nuance: Be skeptical of individual Forbes net-worth figures)
- seeing this tweet about a steroid user doing less than a plate for 8 struggle reps has finally convinced me that there is a crisis of masculinity. we must make America lift againRFK Jr. is probably the most jacked presidential candidate we’ve ever had.
- the video is good for the most part, but it says that "thousands" of Kenyans were "detained in inhumane conditions". despite attempts by the British empire to softpedal this for generations - the more accurate scale is 1.5 million peopleYou’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- a lot can be done about urban flooding and stormwater. none of it will be, as long as our public institutions function primarily as sites of extraction for cops and corporationsA wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.
- what is the "vote harder" response to this?New York's Democratic supermajority just refused to pass climate policy for the 3rd year in a row. National solar industry lobbyists teamed up with fossil fueled merchant power producers to kill a bill because they were scared of losing market share to public renewables
- back when I was in high school I couldn't imagine something like this this happening anywhere.i am in full blown tears dude00:00
- narrator: it was indeed bad news
- from a comrade: "Not to be controversial but I think white women and all middle class and even rich women and anyone with a uterus is going to suffer...Weird that we're means testing sympathy instead of trying to build solidarity between everyone this will affect."
- I think every leftist should pass this around once or twice a year just so we're all on the same page: from recently WW-II era CIA "Simple Sabotage Field Manual", guidelines for how to disrupt organizations.
