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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

NinaIllingworth August 28, 2023August 27, 2023 Alexander Cooley, analysis, banking, billionaires, blog, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, Cory Doctorow, dark money, Finance, John Heathershaw, kleptocracy, lobby groups, money laundering, MP6, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, philanthropy, pig empire, Pluralistic, Politics, Propaganda, public relations, Ricard Soares de Oliveira, Second Gilded Age, SuperPAC, think tanks, transnational, TUSN

Nina-Bytes: Bagmen for the Transnational Oligarchy

Nina highlights the open structures of power the uber rich use to control our society in broad daylight with the help of a Cory Doctorow article about bagmen.

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Capitalism Fascism News Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth August 26, 2023 AIM, Amazon, American Identity Movement, Bailey Ross, Boogaloo movement, CA4, capitalism, corporate power, DeVos Family, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascist militias, Jason Wilson, Judd Legum, Mark Zuckerberg, MP6, News, Orlando Magic, Popular Information, Rebecca Crosby, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Shopify, SuperPAC, Tesnim Zekeria, Tess Owen, The Guardian, Vice News

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

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Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2023 analysis, anti-trans pogrom, Assigned Media, Azeen Ghorayshi, Evan Urquhart, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, Jamie Reed, LGBTQ, Media, MP6, New York Times, Nina-Bytes, NYT, Politics, Propaganda, protect trans kids, Social Justice, TERFs, trans panic, trans rights, transphobia in media

Nina-Bytes: Selling the Pogroms

Nina examines an important article by Evan Urquhart at Assigned to help illustrate how mainstream media provides ideological justification for a trans pogrom.

Picture of three heavily armed and armored Minneapolis police officers menacingly staring down a teenager holding up a peace sign. The police are wearing gas masks, and the neighborhood seems otherwise tranquil.

Blog Police Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth August 23, 2023 abolish the police, abolition, Big Joel, blog, Defund the Police, Department of Justice, Derek Chauvin, FA1, George Floyd, JA5, Minneapolis Police Department, MPD, muderpigs, Picture Show, Police, police abolition, police state, police violence, Racism, Social Justice, Videos, white supremacy, Youtube

Picture Show: A Minneapolis Murderpig Revue

Nina uses a video from Youtuber Big Joel to demonstrate why the police are the biggest gang in America, and abolition is the only answer.

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Capitalism media Social Media Theory

NinaIllingworth August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 AI, antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, Cory Doctorow, Elon Musk, enshitification, Facebook, fascism, free internet, information environment, left wing organizing, left wing theory, LLM, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, social media, ST2, Theory, Twitter, walled garden

Mini-Theory Blog: Escaping the Garden

A brief discussion about how leftists online should respond to fascist billionaires attempting to transform the internet into walled gardens and propaganda ops.

Canada FotB Podcast Police State

Scurvy January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Canada, citizen journalism, civil rights violations, Crackdown Podcast, drug war, first person testimony, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Garth Mullins, Indigenous Rights, Mass incarceration, MP6, neoliberalism, Podcast, Police, police budgets, police state, policing, policing for profit, poverty, racialized incarceration, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Socialism, the prison industrial complex, the war on drugs, victims of the drug war, violent policing

Scurvy’s Selection: Crackdown Podcast

In today’s Selection, our host Scurvy brings us the straight dope about the war on drugs by highlighting first person accounts on the amazing Crackdown Podcast.

Analysis Fascism Politics Social Justice

NinaIllingworth January 16, 2023 analysis, anti-LGBTQ persecution, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-queer pogrom, anti-trans bills, anti-trans legislation, anti-trans pogrom, AP News, Associated Press, Cathy Renna, dehumanization, demonization, Erin Reed, fascism, fascist project, fascist propaganda, GOP, Hannah Schoenbaum, hate groups, Kansas, Kentucky, latent American transphobia, LGBTQ rights, Media, Missouri, Montana, National LGBTQ Task Force, Nazi Germany, New Hampshire, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Oklahoma, pogrom as politics, political apathy, Politics, queer rights, Republican Party, Social Justice, South Carolina, State politics, stochastic terrorism, Tennessee, Texas, the process of genocide, trans rights, US politics, Utah, Virginia

Nina-Bytes: Framea Thrust

New year, same anti-trans pogrom; as GOP-controlled states introduce anti-trans bills after mediocre midterm results, Nina explains why the fascists won’t stop.

Blog Capitalism Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2022 anti lockdown protests, anti-fascism, anti-vax death cult, anticapitalism, blog, capitalism, Charles Koch, China, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, dark money, Eugenics, fascism, fascist ideology, herd immunity is fake, high church of capitalism, IMTB, instagram, killing grandma for profit, Koch network, Kochtopus, labor rights, Mini Theory Blog, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, paying fascists to reopen the economy, pig empire, profits over people, Propaganda, QAnon, Socialism, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Capitalism, Covid, and the Fascist Creep

The biggest Covid story the media isn’t reporting is the fact that right wing billionaires are funding the campaign to pretend it’s over, for their own profit.

Blog Q and A Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth December 11, 2022 blog, Christmas, Discord, end of year, Facebook, holiday season, holiday update, Mastodon, New Year's Day, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, Q and A, schedule, Site Updates, social media, Updates

Site Updates: Shytscram Schedule and Sundry Day

Despite my objections, the holiday season rolls on; here’s my writing schedule and some other sundry updates you may care about. This post is not content.

Blog Capitalism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2022 Alexis de Tocqueville, anticapitalism, blog, CA4, can't separate liberalism from capitalism, capitalism, civics, Civil Rights, class war, contradictions of capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in America, democratic rights, Freedom, human rights, ideology, liberal ideology, liberalism, liberalism is a capitalist ideology, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, political economy, Political Theory, Politics, practice of liberalism, ST2, the Enlightenment, Theory, theory and praxis, wage slavery, why liberalism fails the exploited

Mini-Theory Blog: Practical Realities

What happens when the ideals of liberalism contradict with the reality that it’s subordinate to capital accumulation? There’s no need to ask; you’re living it.