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

Media Madness Neoliberalism socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2020November 5, 2022 anarchism, anarchist origin story, anarchist reading list, atomic bomb, billionaire, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is murder, CC3, class war, Climate Crisis, corporate power, corporate rule, crisis of capitalism, death capitalism, Donald Trump, elite rule, exploitation, extraction, extractivism, fascism, film sessions, left wing Youtube, Lex Luthors, Manhattan Project, Media Madness, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchs, Oligarchs Will Kill Us All, oligarchy, Rants, rich people are mass murderers, rich people are trying to kill you for money, Robert Oppenheimer, slavery, ST2, the end of the world as we know it, Thought Slime, Trumpism, Video, Youtube, YouTube anarchists

Film Sessions: Oligarchs Will Let the World Burn with Thought Slime

A late December 2020 Film Sessions post about why leftism is the only option in a world full of Lex Luthor-esque, capitalist supervillains.

Essays Fascism Rants Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2020November 17, 2022 a fascism primer, a Marxist analysis of fascism, Alt Right, anticommunism, Benito Mussolini, Blackshirts and Reds, Bolsonaro, Books, class, class war, colonialism, contrarian left, David Olusoga, definition of fascism, Donald Trump, Essays, Eternal Fascism, FA1, fascism, fascist politics, Frantz Fanon, Glenn Greenwald has no idea what fascism is, Glenn Greenwald is a not left wing, How Fascism Works, JA5, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow, keyboard warrior, left wing theory, Leon Trotsky, Marxism, Masha Gessen, Media, Michael Parenti, Modi, mythic past, nativism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online right, Politics, Racism, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Paxton, Social Darwinism, ST2, The Anatomy of Fascism, Theory, Timothy Snyder, trolls, Trumpism is fascism, Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism, volk, What is Fascism, white nationalism

How to (Make a Troll) Disappear Completely: A Primer on Americanized Fascism

“Well how do *you* define fascism then?” Put your mouth guard in princess because I’m done playing around…

Blog Media Madness Neoliberalism Take Downs

NinaIllingworth November 15, 2019November 17, 2022 bad ideas, Bernie Sanders, blog, Clintonism, conservative cultural views, constitutional crisis, corruption, culture war, economic justice, Essays, excuses to do racism, Fantastic Lies, GOP, how to flip red states, Jeb Lund, Matthew Yglesias, Media, Media Madness, Medicare for all, MP6, Mr Destructo, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, pundits, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, rightward drift of the Democratic Party, rule of law, standards and norms, Take Downs, Triangulation, Trump, Trump impeachment, US Constitution, US Senate, Vox, Yiggy

Matthew Yglesias is a Disingenuous Bootlicker on Media Madness

Let’s just stop for a moment and marvel at what a bloodless, mendacious piece of human pig manure Mathew Yglesias is; on Media Madness.

Books Can't You Read Police State Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 22, 2018November 5, 2022 13th Amendment, blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism is white supremacy, critical race theory, exploitation, extraction, FA1, informal writing, JA5, Jim Crow, knowing without knowing, Mass incarceration, Michelle Alexander, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, prison, prison labor, prison labor is slave labor, prisoner, prisoner rights, private prisons, Psychology, racialized incarceration, Racism, Rants, slaver labor, slavery, Social Justice, systemic racism, TADMS, Tales from the American DMZ, The New Jim Crow, white supremacy, whiteness

Blog: New Jim Crow Mini-Review & Commentary (Link)

Link to a short blog post combining a mini-review of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander with additional commentary about cognitive deceptions.

Essays Patreon Politics Take Downs

NinaIllingworth December 3, 2018November 5, 2022 activism, Bush crime family, CIA, Essays, forever war, George HW Bush, GOP, Mistah Kurtz He Dead, MP6, neoconservative, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obituary, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Politics, President Bush, Racism, Rants, Republican, Take Downs, Vice President Bush, war, war hawks, WD7

Essay: Death of the 41st President of the United States of America (Link)

A short obituary published on Patreon in December 2018 on the passing of George HW Bush; who sucked almost as much as his son.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 8, 2018November 5, 2022 austerity, bribery, bribes, CA4, Chicago School, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, Corporatism, elites, endless war, Essays, FA1, globalization, government, horror, Imperialism, informal writing, Journals, machine, Middle East, Milton Friedman, money in politics, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, personal, psychological torture, Rants, rich people mean you harm, skeptics, ST2, the Watchmen, Theory, Thompson, update, war, wildlife, writer, writer's block, writing

The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

Blog Memes Neoliberalism News Politics

NinaIllingworth July 17, 2017November 17, 2022 2016 Election, 2020 Election, A Brief Thought, austerity, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Woulda Won, billionaire, blog, campaign finance, Chuck Schumer, Clinton Donors, conspiracy theory, Cory Booker, David Brock, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat donors, Democrat elites, Democratic Party, Democratic Party exists only on paper, Democratic Party is dead, DNC, Donald Trump, Donna Brazile, elites, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, fixed, fundraising, Giant Russia Theory, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, liberal elites, lost 1K seats in 8 years, Martha's Vineyard, megadonors, Meme, Michael Moore, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Nina Turner, Obama legacy, Opinion, Politics, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, revanchism, rich people screwing us, Robert Mueller, Russiagate, Shareblue, Six Things I Think, smearing Bernie Sanders, social issues, superdelegates, swine emperor Trump, the Democratic Party has learned nothing, the Hamptons, Tom Cotton, Tom Perez, wealthy liberal elites, Yes the Dem Nomination was Rigged

A Brief Thought: Running to Stand Still & the Democratic Party

As the wolves close in on Trump, Nina stops to ask what Democratic frontrunners Elizabeth Warren & Kamala Harris were doing this past weekend; the answer won’t surprise you – and that’s the problem.

Blog Memes Neoliberalism News

NinaIllingworth July 8, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, activism, AHCA, analysis, austerity, bailout, banker, big banks, blog, CA4, Citizen's United, class war, consequences, corporate media, corporate rule, corruption, Cypher, Democrats, Dennis Miller, Dollarocracy, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Flint Michigan, Flint Water Crisis, forecasting, Global Trumpism, globalism, globalization, government for the rich, Governor Rick Snyder, Grenfell Tower, Inequality, insurance scam, Koch Brothers, lobbying, Mark Blyth, McJobs, Meme, money in politics, neofeudalism, News, nightmare industrialists, Nina Illingworth, no benefits, oligarchs, oligarchy, Op-Ed, Opinion, police state, Politics, private health insurance, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, regulation busting, regulations, Republican, rich people don't care about you, rigged economy, Six Things I Think, Snyder should hang, Socialism, Steven Mnuchin, student debt, swine emperor Trump, the one percent, The West, Tory austerity, tragedy, Trumpcare, UK, UK austerity, union busting, USA, Wall Street, western democracies, western Europe

A Brief Thought: Live & Let Die

After far too long an absence, Nina is back with some brief thoughts about a subject we don’t talk about much in North America, but we should – the devastating toll in human lives caused by austerity.

Essays Memes News Russiagate

NinaIllingworth March 18, 2017November 17, 2022 2016 US Presidential Election, A Brief Thought, Bill Clinton, CIA, Clinton campaign, collusion, collusion with a foreign government, corporate Democrats, covering your own ass, Democratic Party elites, Democrats, Department of Justice, DoJ, Donald Trump, Essays, establishment democrats, failed campaign strategy, fairy tale, Fantastic Lies, FBI, foreign policy, Guccifer 2, hacking, Hillary Clinton, hysteria, ICE, interfering, James Clapper, John McCain, Joy Reid, liberal media, liberals, Maddow, mainstream liberal media, mainstream media, mass hysteria, meddling, Media, Meme, Michigan, Mike Morell, neoliberal, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, NSA, Op-Ed, Opinion, Politics, President Obama, Propaganda, propagandist, proto-fascist president, Rand Paul, Rants, rats flee the ship, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rhetoric, Russia, Russia conspiracy, Russia Probe, Russiagate, Russian Hackers, Senate Intelligence Committee, Six Things I Think, Stephen Colbert, townhall protests, treason hysteria, treason smears, Trump Administration, Trump campaign, Trump-Putin smear, US Congress, US Senate, Vladimir Putin, warmongering, wasted energy, Wikileaks, Wisconsin, World War Three

Fantastic Lies: the Russia Ruse Runs out of Rope

Nina celebrates the impeding death of the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory with the absolutely last article she’s every going to write about it.

Memes Neoliberalism News Politics

NinaIllingworth March 5, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders Wing, Berniecrats, conspiracy theory, corporate donations, Democratic Party, Democrats, Democrats have no plan, DNC, DNC Chair, Donald Trump, elites, Fantastic Lies, fixed, fixed nomination process, fixed primaries, Giant Crusher Theory, Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison, left, left wing, lefty, liberals, lobbyist, Mainstream Democrat Lies, mainstream Democrats, mainstream liberals, Meme, MP6, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, Politics, punching left, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rich people, Russia, Six Things I Think, Socialism, stupidity, The Democratic Party is finished, Tom Perez, Wicked Game

A Brief Thought: Unity With Jackals? No Thanks

After too much time away, Nina takes a quick look at the DNC Chair race & why the Democrats are losing the left.

Fascism Memes News Politics

NinaIllingworth March 1, 2017November 17, 2022 A Brief Thought, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, anti-transgender, anti-women's health, attacking the media, authoritarianism, censorship, demonizing Muslims, discrimination, Dodd-Frank, EPA, ethnonationalist, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, ICE, Iran, Jeff Sessions, Justice, lie, Media, Meme, monster, MP6, Muslims, neonazi, News, Nikki Haskell, Nina Illingworth, persecuting minorities, Politics, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rising hate crimes, Six Things I Think, slashing science funding, ST2, Steven Mnuchin, Trump, Trump Administration, Trump Muslim Ban, war, warmongering, WD7

A Brief Thought: Quite Frankly My Dear; I Don’t Give a Damn

Nina takes a brief moment to discuss why people who support fascism don’t get to whine about being unfriended on Facebook.

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