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Glenn Bob the Aging Cracker

@gbsills.bsky.social

Just a guy. No DMs please.

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Glenn Bob the Aging Cracker@gbsills.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our investor capitalist economic system, brought to us by neoliberals, guarantees increasing wealth inequality. It is guaranteed by the arithmetic of compounding interest. That arithmetic also guarantees the bloody class warfare will become common at some point. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...

Opinion | We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out. (Gift Article)

The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.

nytimes.com

Glenn Bob the Aging Cracker@gbsills.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a great article that that recognizes an oft ignored econimic fact. "The amargi was a response to a persistent problem that was recognized in the ancient world: Debt compounded until it destabilized society." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...

Opinion | An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit (Gift Article)

In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it?

nytimes.com

Glenn Bob the Aging Cracker@gbsills.bsky.social · 3w ago

It would be great if these "Third Way" folks would leave the Democratic party and form a "Third Party" to go with their "Third Way". You know, Ross Perot style. They are a lot like Ross you know. newrepublic.com/post/214343/...

Third Way Doesn’t Care About the Democratic Party

The centrist organization is spending millions of dollars of corporate money on a campaign to manufacture right-wing talking points to flood the media.

newrepublic.com

Glenn Bob the Aging Cracker@gbsills.bsky.social · last mo.

1) Trump says many things, mostly untrue. (Except maybe "I feel like having a Big Mac for lunch.) 2) The Israeli position of "only solution’ is ‘encouraging emigration and destroying Hamas’" is otherwise knows as ethnic cleansing and genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump says ‘complete disarmament’ of Hamas agreed in Gaza but Israel yet to accept

US president hails breakthrough but Israeli far-right minister says ‘only solution’ is ‘encouraging emigration and destroying Hamas’

theguardian.com