A Florida woman has been charged with terrorism for expressing frustration at blue cross and blue shield for denying her health insurance claim.
Understand this fact -- this is not about silencing her. It is about silencing all of us. And we must peacefully but firmly resist.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism
@QasimRashid have you read @pluralistic 's short story, "Radicalized"? It sounds like somebody at these corporations has, and they are already starting to make examples of people who resist, like happened in the story. https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/
@sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic I feel like we've entered a new cycle of crack downs followed by protests which will motivate further crack downs, etc. It's weird that our owners don't have the historical awareness to know how these self-stoking cycles eventually end. I guess it goes to show that the rich aren't particularly bright or well-educated.
@gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic
Extreme wealth inequality severely impedes social mobility so that the members of the current ruling elite are not drawn from the best and brightest of society (who are scattered more or less randomly throughout) but limited to those already born into wealth and privilege. The leadership class, incapacitated by the incompetence and ineptness of its members, is unable to deal effectively with these sorts of challenges, inevitably making things worse
@nceladean - I think if you look back in history it's been like this a lot of the time. So then the interesting part is what happens when things become unbearable.
@nceladean @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic we have been helping the upper class white males out of the egg so long we no longer any with beaks left to peck their own way out
@nceladean @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic
100% agree "The leadership class, incapacitated by the incompetence and ineptness of its members, is unable to deal effectively with these sorts of challenges, inevitably making things worse." Trickle-down structural consequence is 'kiss up, kick down' managers.
@nceladean @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic "Twilight of the Elites" is a worthwhile read. Elites try to pull up the ladder.
And when they rule of failsons kick in ...
@nceladean @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic
Thank you for your post.
To borrow a saying from my son: They aren't the sharpest spoons in the drawer.
Peace
@nceladean @gpilz@mastodon.social @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic
Monty Python grappled with the "inbred upper class twits" phenomenon 50 years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Class_Twit_of_the_Year
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UpperClassTwit
Does Jared Kushner look like a finance wizard to anyone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/jared-kushner-saudi-investment-fund.html
Does Ivanka sound like a whiz at economics or tech?
https://youtu.be/073hfPueac0?si=JddRNx5y2UovpHDF
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jan/07/ivanka-trump-ces-technology-las-vegas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/08/ivanka-trump-g20-world-leaders-meeting
Britain was sleepwalked into two world wars because of incompetent elites.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/english-nazi-club-revealed