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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Mar 9

Mar 9

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

#Capitalism USA Franchise
#BlameCapitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #subsidies

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Federal Contracts to Elon Musk's Companies
SPACEX AND TESLA OVER THE LAST DECADE

$ (Billions)
$3.67 in 2024

SOURCE: USASPENDING.GOV

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MOST U.S. Subsidies. Since 2000
Boeing $15.5 Billion
Intel: $8.4 Billion
Ford: $7.7 Billion
GM: $7.5 Billion
Micron $6.8 Billion
Amazon $5.9 Billion
Alcoa $5.7 Billion

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"TRICKLE DOWN” DIDN'T WORK,
SO IT’S TIME FOR PIÑATA ECONOMICS

THAT'S WHERE WE BEAT THE OLIGARCHS
UNTIL ALL THE WEALTH THEY;VE
HOARDED COMES FLOWING OUT BACK TO THE PEOPLE

Image a child with a stick smashes open a Piñata stuffed with sweets.

Source:
@ Guillotines For A Better America

Text: Crime Wave
Image on a poster carried by an elderly protester on the sidewalk at road intersection near street traffic lights
Elon Musk Billionaire is giving a Nazi salute

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Mar 3 *

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Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

@wdlindsy

Fight the Billionaire Mind Virus !
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/28/fight-the-billionaire-mind-virus/

CounterPunch.org · Feb 28Fight the Billionaire Mind Virus!"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." - Rita Rudner I’m a lover, not a

#BlameCapitalism #billionaires #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Mar 1

Mar 1

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-02/ai-and-our-technological-future/104305614

ABC News · Mar 1AI is changing our future, but we have the power to shape howBy ABC News

#ai #techworkers #BlameCapitalism

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 25

Feb 25

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

(Thanks Durango Worker )

#BlameCapitalism #stolenwages #RichPeoplesYachtMoney
#labormovement #organize #solidarity
#unions

Text:
P R O F I T S
ARE THE STOLEN
WAGES OF WORKERS

Image text letters are in green as is an arrow pointing upwards

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 22

Feb 22

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

@cyu

https://abahlali.org/node/18439/

abahlali.orgA Budget Speech in Desperate Times – Abahlali baseMjondolo

#Abahlali #austerity #blameCapitalism

**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 22

Feb 22

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

Burn plastic for fuel: what could possibly go wrong ? https://theconversation.com/households-are-burning-plastic-waste-as-fuel-for-cooking-and-heating-in-slums-the-world-over-250265

Audio
https://theconversation.com/how-the-world-fell-in-love-with-plastic-without-thinking-through-the-consequences-podcast-246897

#BlameCapitalism #Dioxin #FossilFuels
#Plastic #pollution #poverty

The ConversationHouseholds are burning plastic waste as fuel for cooking and heating in slums the world overBurning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is common in many parts of the world.

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 22

Feb 22

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

“They drive Mercedes Benz and Porsches*
Live Rolls Royce gilt-edged lives
You can tell the affluent effluent
By the status symbols that they drive “
(1988 - in 2025 “rich shits” in Teslas)

https://www.kevcarmody.com.au/pillars-of-society

Kev CarmodyPillars of Society — Kev Carmody

#richpeoplesyachtmoney #blameCapitalism

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 11

Feb 11

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

@MnlyBeach

“Conservative Civilisation” aka Carry on #stolenwages ? (Abbott - Costello -Credlin-Deeming Murdoch ad nauseum)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/12/bridget-mckenzie-moira-deeming-and-key-news-corp-figures-to-attend-jordan-petersons-civilisation-conference

The Guardian · Feb 11Bridget McKenzie, Moira Deeming and key News Corp figures to attend Jordan Peterson’s ‘civilisation’ conferenceBy Graham Readfearn

#wagetheft #richpeoplesyachtmoney #profits

**Blame capitalism** @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social · Feb 11

Feb 11

Blame capitalism @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social

Blame Capitalism: for exploiting undocumented workers to avoid local, state and national laws, such as minimum wage and workers rights.

https://www.ft.com/content/e61e1348-9ee7-4dd9-b2a8-8d262e26d3e9?sharetype=blocked

Financial Times · Feb 11‘We’ll all have to go vegan’: Wisconsin dairy farmers fret over immigration crackdownBy Guy Chazan

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 10

Feb 10

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/10/elon_musk_doge_south_africa_apartheid

#apartheid #BlameCapitalism #DOGE #PayPal #Project2025 RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SouthAfrica

Democracy Now! · Feb 10“The PayPal Mafia”: Meet the South African Oligarchs Surrounding Trump, from Elon Musk to Peter ThielBy Democracy Now!

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 8 *

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Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

Bossy Boots Billionaire Bezos

#DelayDenyDepose

https://jacobin.com/2025/02/amazon-bezos-unitedhealth-trump-sec

(About https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend )

#Amazon #UnitedHealth

Also Chemicals Capitalists Deregulated what could possibly go wrong, go wrong go go go ?

https://www.levernews.com/chemical-companies-ask-trumps-epa-to-hide-potential-disasters/

jacobin.comBig Companies Are Already Asking Trump for FavorsAmazon helped fund Donald Trump’s inauguration. The retail giant and the insurer UnitedHealth waited less than a day to start begging the new administration to shut down their shareholders’ calls for transparency.

#BlameCapitalism #OSHA #EPA

**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 8

Feb 8

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

@pluralistic

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/the-crypto-grifters-of-doge

The Cryptocalypse Chronicles · Feb 7The Crypto Grifters Of DOGEBy Michel de Cryptadamus

#BlameCapitalism #DOGE #Enshittification

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**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Feb 3

Feb 3

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

Plutes gunna Plute
(A #plutocrat is a plute)

“Tonight I am going to speak on the #classstruggle and I am going to make it so plain that even a lawyer can understand it."- Bill Haywood #IWW

#SurplusValue is #unpaidlabor

#Profits = #wagetheft.

Capitalists - capos - have dollars they didn't work for, because the exploited work for dollars they do not get.

~~ justinaverysmith 4d

Billionaires: “We need all this money so we
can invest it in creating jobs for you!”

Also Billionaires: “We need to cut your job in
order to maximize profits.”

Text of book cover
Spotting Plutes
If you want to eat the rich, you have to know where to find them.

Images Assorted bossy boots billionaires eg Jeff Amazon Bezos Mark Meta Zuckerberg

#BlameCapitalism #workingpoor #richpeoplesyachtmoney

**Blame capitalism** @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social · Feb 1

Feb 1

Blame capitalism @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social

Blame Capitalism: for using political expediency as an excuse to avoid investing in clean energy thereby making the climate crisis worse.

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/commercial/new-jersey-windfarm-shell-withdraws-20250130.html

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jan 30Shell withdraws from big N.J. wind farm that Trump wanted ‘dead and gone’By Frank Kummer

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar

**Peter Riley** @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · Jan 31

Jan 31

Peter Riley @peterjriley2024@mastodon.social

2025 (increase production, distribution and consumption of commodities to increase profits)
https://illogicalmachine.substack.com/p/more-faster-never-enough?

#automation #Amazon #BlameCapitalism #enshittification #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SpeedUp
#ZuckerMuskian #ai

Illogical Machine · Jan 30More faster, never enoughBy Illogical Machine

**Blame capitalism** @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social · Jan 31

Jan 31

Blame capitalism @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social

Blame Capitalism: for making the homeless crisis worse.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/nsw-boarding-house-residents-evicted-homelessness-sydney/104871858?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

ABC News · Jan 30Clock ticking for vulnerable inner Sydney boarding house residents facing evictionBy Holly Tregenza

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar

**Blame capitalism** @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social · Jan 30

Jan 30

Blame capitalism @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social

Blame Capitalism: for using its vast financial resources to intimidate and disempower people and organisations that would otherwise hold it accountable.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/santos-environmental-defenders-office-legal-fees-tiwi-islands/104874926?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

ABC News · Jan 30Environmental law charity may be forced to shut after court costsBy Michael Slezak

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar

**Blame capitalism** @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social · Jan 30 *

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Blame capitalism @Blame_Capitalism@mastodon.social

Blame Capitalism: for polluting your environment, profiting from you paying them not to pollute your environment and then lying about how much it is polluting your environment.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-uk-industry-deception-tactics-deflect.html

#capitalism #neoliberalism #classwar #vulnerable #economics #bosses #workers #humanrights #environment #war #BlameCapitalism #livingwage #tax #taxburden #neoliberalism #trickledown #fossilfuels #mining #auspol #genocide #climatecrisis