Jazmine
@bloomlikejaz
Jazmine
lots of different threads so just going to say this here: mvmts need weapons, hours, resources to succeed. oppressive systems tend to deny these to the bottom and hoard them at the top. this is the strategic basis for coalition, which you cannot moralize yourself out of.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
@policytensor
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Jun 5, 2022
Replying to @policytensor
Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented. techstartups.com/202... See more
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
@policytensor
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Jun 5, 2022
Replying to @policytensor
Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented. techstartups.com/202... See more
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Luckily class politics is immune to elite capture unlike unserious identity politics, otherwise I'd be a little worried about stuff like this
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