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Prisoner from the Bay seeks support...

What our elites are trying to make us believe is pure mockery — but anyone who dares to point this out clearly must face accusations of mocking the state. Our author would rather read a Donald Duck comic. What he sees there is at least an honest fake and does not pretend to be real. An entertaining foray through our wonderland, which also touches on a few serious topics!...

In a reality of life changed by mobility, flexibility, and globalization, traditional forms of community such as family or neighborhood are disintegrating; at the same time, the subject seeks and creates new substitute communities....

Given the escalating reality of the deadly crisis, nothing is more unrealistic than the supposed “pragmatism without illusions” (Robert Kurz) to which so-called realpolitik has committed itself. The less people are disturbed by the suffering of others caused by the totality of capitalist socialization in its crisis processes, the more rapidly the catastrophe gains momentum....

The guiding principle of democracy in civilization is essentially—on the basis of an egalitarian political principle of recognizing all as free and equal—about civilizing the power of the stronger and about procedures of self-legislation, i.e., a radical socialization of rule. Capitalism, on the other hand, is essentially based on the principle of the power of the strongest....

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month....

Today you write, “Fascism is not a historical artifact, but a reoccurring political logic, one that depends on mythologizing a lost past, stoking a sense of victimhood, and building a hierarchy of purity.”...

Trump's tariff policy is an expression of the helplessness with which the US is responding to the global crisis of capitalism. History is never the result of the will of great personalities – not even when it comes to a “very stable genius” (Donald Trump on Donald Trump)....

“Nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected, Biden assured wealthy donors in June 2019. There has been no reduction in the social divide in the U.S. that continues to grow because of the crisis: the private healthcare system remains dysfunctional, homelessness is at an all-time high, the cost of living continues to rise, and the infrastructure remains largely dilapidated....

Censorship Is a Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just a President, Is Muzzling Comedians...