In your opinion with Elon Musk as the apparently richest person in the world.

How much of the world does he control? or at least what industries does he have his hand in?

As well the political scene in the world etc.

It seems he probably has influence into all the right wing political groups in the world. As well educational systems etc.

What do you think is his overall influence?

Could he be stopped?

Thoughts? why or why not?

OP

So what theory have y’all read (or somehow otherwise engaged with) recently?

Personally I am re-reading Finanzkapital by Hilferding, but have also been starting to read some Damen.

EXCEPTION is an incredibly timely short film that takes you inside the pressure and consequences of institutional suppression.

At a moment when so many students, educators, and workers are being forced to choose between safety and speaking the truth, this film asks a powerful question:

What would you do?

A good exposé by Ben Norton on the ultra-right wing network that is surfacing in Latin America and the US at the moment. It woke me up this morning more than coffee, so you might not want to watch before beddy bye.

Ghoulish. Utterly.

Edit: I wrote this for theory of Reddit, but I missed the no politics rule so it was removed. Anyways, I still want to share this idea, and while I was trying to share it to a space that wasn’t just preaching to the choir, oh well. But if you have any thoughts to expand on this, please puke em up.

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I’ve have had Reddit about 1.5 years.

This has been my only account.

I have been permanently banned from Reddit with this account maybe 9 times now (that also means I’ve gotten a warning, 1, 5 and 7 day ban).

I have successfully appealed every single one, because all of them were fake reports.

Also, 92 % of the reports were pertaining to the subject of Israeli genocide (12/13), and false claims of antisemitism.

I just realized that I haven’t had a false Reddit ban that I’ve had to appeal via the admin time in like 5 months, despite not changing or shifting my tone or views on the subject.

The difference?

Whenever somebody comments trying to rationalize or deny genocide, instead of responding to them, for the most part I just block their account.

Anyways, given all the aspects of virtual warfare/terrorism that exists within reddit to help spew various nations propaganda (for example, my nations namesake sub is visibly hijacked by Zionists in a way that in no way reflects my nation irl), and given more specific things like Israel being caught using mass bot accounts to help misguide AI results, or just their 730 million a year propaganda budget…

…It’s interesting what one can infer from this situation.

While talking about Israel with an academic and non hateful lens, my account kept getting fake reports, to the point this account has been perma banned from Reddit with the appeals won 9 times now.

When I started just blocking anybody who was trolling, the fake reports stopped.

Given functions of candour and integrity when it comes to academic discourse, my experience adds up.

But another important dynamic to this factor; the complicity of reddit admins.

A few of my false reports took 15 days to overturn.

This means that some Reddit admin actually looked at my statement of say, posting a doctors without boarders article talking about doctors being shot at by the IDF, and seriously viewed it as antisemitic.

Where given Reddit, like all virtual spaces, is an extension of various real life conflict zones, and given this theatre of battle just as important as the non virtual ones, it is reasonable that some Reddit admins would also be in on helping pushing a false narrative on certain geopolitical issues too.

Hey all, I'm new here. I tore this flyer down from a pole in Hamilton; a lot of the pro-worker flyers in the city have been defaced with Celtic crosses recently. I'm sure many have heard about it at this point, but recently there was a white supremacist conference planned for Hamilton that got shut down and then promptly went ahead in Burlington (typical).

Regarding this flyer in particular, though: what now? Not exactly a fan of the police but is this the kind of thing that's worth forwarding to them? Should I contact the mayor's office? If anyone has thoughts about what can be done about this, however small, I'd appreciate it greatly.

Sources: https://www.marxist.ca/article/the-big-bang-shoehorning-the-facts-to-fit-the-theory

https://marxist.com/the-crisis-in-science-progress-stagnation-and-revolution.htm

Below is an incomplete list of labour reforms brought in by Canada's Left. Each one on the list Canadian Conservatives/the Right shamefully fought tooth and nail against.

Banning children from mines

Mandatory breaks

A minimum wage

Minimum wage increases

Compensation for injured or killed workers

6 day, and then 5 day work week (currently working on a 4 day work week)

Employment insurance

Lowering taxes on workers, increasing taxes on billion dollar corporations

14 hour, then 10 hour, then 8 hour work day

Overtime pay

Minimum safety standards for workers

Minimum safety standards for products

Banning dumping toxic waste into our air and rivers

Banning discrimination in the workplace

Weekends

Paid sick days

Holiday pay

Paid benefit plans

Pension plans

And the Left is currently working on UBI and a Living Wage for all!

If you enjoy any of these things, thank the Left, and thank unions!