Emmy Carrell
@emmyentirely
Emmy Carrell
@emmyentirely
When I was younger I wondered why gambling was so frowned upon in the past. Like if a boy was discovered to be gambling in the Little House on the Prairie tv show he was perceived by the other characters to be going down a slippery slope of degeneracy. As if the gambling meant the next thing you knew he’d be a drunk and visiting ladies of the
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“Deleuze also accurately predicted that Isreal would become a laboratory for state repression internationally—as the Spanish Civil War served in the lead up to WWII—to develop tactics that would be outsourced around the world.[28] It’s quite well known, for example, that U.S. cops are trained by Israeli cops, using tactics developed in the
... See moreGregg Shotwell describes such phenomena in his 2011 Autoworkers Under the Gun: A Shop-Floor View of the End of the American Dream, “We bought American and the Corps bought whatever they wanted in Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Latin America with profits earned by American workers. Foreign workers didn't steal our jobs.”
#Capitalism #Xenophobia
Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze
“Not only was the state of Israel, like the U.S., born in violent, imperialist-backed expulsion of indigenous peoples from the land[2] but such clearing of land is a precondition and ongoing process of capitalist development. And like the indigenous peoples of America, the Palestinians have been there resisting encroachment from the start. Capital
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