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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My idea of corruption goes beyond politicians personally enriching themselves. Maybe the term should be "parasitism": when the elite parasitize more than an economy can sustain.

But then, of course, I'd have to define "economy". MOST people, even supposed knowledgeable alt media commentators, routinely conflate financialism with the economy. Au contraire. Financialism is mostly just another form of parasitism.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't know where he got the term, but I always liked when Jimmy Dore called it "Predatory Capitalism". His all time biggest gripe is that for nearly all of us, it doesn't even matter what we make in life because the Healtcare Industry is going to take it all away from you when you die and leave you nothing to give your children.

We are way beyond post-capitalism.

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Originally posted by second:

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I don't know where he got the term, but I always liked when Jimmy Dore called it "Predatory Capitalism". His all time biggest gripe is that for nearly all of us, it doesn't even matter what we make in life because the Healtcare Industry is going to take it all away from you when you die and leave you nothing to give your children.

We are way beyond post-capitalism.

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Are you aware that this is a problem only in the US?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

All the shit you buy that you don't need and most of the stuff that you do need is made by slaves in countries such as China, many of them very under working age. All of the electricity that powers your shitty, unsalable Ford F-150 Lightning comes from coal being burned somewhere you don't have to smell it. Despite any lies you believe to the contrary with no purpose other than to feel better about yourself, everyone in the world is using more fossil fuels every year and those numbers never go down. And they will never, ever go down unless we start going Nuclear, or all the oil starts to run out. At the very best your little obscenely expensive hobby is keeping just a small fraction of that growing number every year at bay. You don't get to claim that your electricity, personally, is being powered by solar or wind unless you've got your own damn solar panels or a windmill on in your backyard. And even then, only if your entire usage every month is nil or less and you're getting credited for feeding into the system.

You are a very stupid person, Second. Very stupid.

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Originally posted by second:

The thinking style that makes people (like 6ixStringJoker) vulnerable to extremism

The people most drawn to ideological thinking and authoritarianism aren’t aware of what makes them so susceptible

By Leor Zmigrod, political neuroscientist

26 June 2026

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-thinking-style-that-makes-people-vulnerabl
e-to-extremism

One of the characteristics I have studied is called cognitive rigidity, and it captures whether a person struggles to adapt to change or uncertainty. We all exist on a spectrum from cognitively rigid to cognitively flexible thinkers. You might think you have a sense of where you lie on this spectrum, but in fact most of us have very little insight into our own cognitive rigidity. I’ve found that some of the most rigid thinkers describe themselves as spectacularly flexible while the most flexible people are often unaware of their own adaptability. This is why, instead of relying on asking people how rigid they think they are, I began studying people’s unconscious thinking styles.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, those are all excellent consequences of elite parasitism, especially the hive mind thinking of EUrocrats.

But being the mental munchkins that they are, they could never have attained such power without the USA uniparty as sponsor. And those uniparty members themselves could never have attained power without their own sponsors.

So, who is manipulating the mental midgets in office, and what are their interests? 'Cause it sure isn't the welfare of our society or robustness of our economy.

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