I can't read as fast as @pluralistic writes, but I do love the way he crystallized ideas.
The Republican project is a matter of getting turkeys to vote for Christmas by doing a lot of culture war bullshit, cruelly abusing disfavored sexual and racial minorities. This wins support from low-information voters who'll vote against their class interests and support more monopolies, more tax cuts for the rich, and more cuts to the services they rely on.
"The coverage of #LinaKhan's appearance has focused on #JonStewart's revelation that when he was doing a show on Apple TV, the company prohibited him from interviewing her (why?!).
But for me, the big moment came when Khan described #BigTech monopolists as "too big to care."
What a phrase!
[We've been] familiar with businesses being "too big to fail" & "too big to jail."Too big to care?" Oof, that got me right in the feels." @pluralistic https://youtu.be/oaDTiWaYfcM?si=-Sw__uysRxjTCt5V
Just in time for #Davos, here's 'Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide," a report from a coalition of international tax justice and anti-corporate activist groups:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The past three years saw more regulatory action on corporate mergers, price-gouging, predatory pricing, labor abuses and other evils of monopoly than we got in the past 40 years.
The business press - cheerleaders for monopoly - keep running editorials claiming that enforcers like #LinaKhan are getting nothing done. Sure, #WSJ, Khan's getting nothing done - that's why you ran 80 editorial about her: