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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Independence for 40 million. Drudgery for 300 million. Enjoy the "holiday."

Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The last thing the US needs is more idle rich sitting around on yachts & golf courses all day while the rest of us labor away for them. But here we are. As Ajamu predicted, it only makes sense that these parasites would converge in a dying capitalist empire during its last stand.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Capitalism commodified the base (red), leaving us frantically scrambling from cradle to grave to secure these most basic needs by marketing/selling ourselves, often unsuccessfully. We are systematically stunted from reaching the other levels as a result.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Contrary to media reports, a significant portion of working-class Boomer wealth will not be handed down within families. The capitalist class has been preparing to intercept this for decades and has already begun doing so through both forced debt schemes and medical/elderly care.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Trump is looking to fill 375,000 deadend, minimum wage jobs just so more American workers can continue working our lives away with nothing to show for it while being incessantly mocked by Trump's privileged base, which notoriously claims that these "aren't meant to be real jobs."

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

One produces slave labor. The other produces debt slaves. Both are diabolical profit schemes under capitalism, but it looks like the former is winning out. Perfectly on brand with the capitalist hell hole known as America.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Capitalists have siphoned all of the wealth from society (our collective labor), leaving most of the population broke, and are now looking to replace a significant percentage of us with AI. What comes next? Based on their police budgets, they seem to think it's widespread unrest.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In a country like the United States - where corruption is rampant, racism is endemic, and money/power call all the shots - justice is far more likely to occur in the streets than it is in the courts.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

"Lazy" is a term capitalists use to describe anyone who (1) refuses to be exploited by them, or (2) refuses to join them in exploiting others.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

A president with a net worth of $4.1 billion employing an education secretary with a net worth of $3.2 billion to confiscate wages and social security from poor and working-class people for education debt is the epitome of America.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

At worst, Trump's orchestrating a controlled demolition so his class (capitalists) can consolidate even more wealth/power. At best, Trump's restructuring the empire to reindustrialize alongside military/finance capital under the corporate state. The people lose either way & everywhere in between.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In China, the government controls capital and makes it accountable to the people. In the US, capital controls the government and runs roughshod over the people. This is the reason why China has far surpassed the US in nearly every aspect of societal well-being.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

We've reached the stage of capitalism where you can take out a loan for a single meal if capitalists deem you credit worthy.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It has become increasingly clear that student debt was never meant to be paid off. It was intended to create a generation(s) of indentured servants whose entire lives and anything they ever attempt to own automatically become property of the capitalist state.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The number is much higher when you consider indirect/residual deaths from things like agent orange, depleted uranium, infrastructure/agricultural destruction, tainted water/food sources, etc. And it also doesn't touch on birth defects and the psychological damage experienced by survivors.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The welfare state is a capitalist invention that was created to offset the inherent chaos brought on by (1) allowing private interests to control society's means of production, which required (2) the privatization of land/nature and (3) turning the working masses into commodities to be sold and

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Only 29.3% of Americans voted for Trump. Only 28.6% voted for Harris. 42% voted for neither. Congress's approval rating has fluctuated between 11%-29% since 2005. Americans know we are being liquidated by the 2-party carousel. The ruling class is running out of credibility.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

"Trumpism, whether consciously or not, is facilitating this partnership by speaking directly to these grievances, using racial dynamics to cloud class dynamics, and ensuring that those with such grievances will be “rescued” from "illegals," "wokeness," and.." www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-fas...

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The Trump/Musk "detox" so far: - starve Palestinians and give Gaza to private equity - criticizing Israel gets you deported - targeting the tesla brand makes you a domestic terrorist - fire thousands of workers - defund education/food for children - crash the economy - end social security

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New Deal (1930s) and Great Society (1960s) legislation were merely speed bumps that delayed the transition from industrial capital/liberal democracy to finance capital/corporate governance. As long as capitalism was allowed to live, fascism was always the inevitable conclusion.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Cyclical crashes have always been a natural occurrence under capitalism, mainly due to its many internal contradictions. Now, in this era of finance/monopoly capital and corporate governance, there is an *incentive* for capitalists to periodically crash the economy.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Periodic crashes are good for the rich. Bottoming out stocks, gutting the working class, destroying small biz/landlords & creating widespread foreclosures allows big capitalists to scoop everything up cheap. And the corporate state is there to protect/insure them in the process.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Throughout US history, the capitalist ruling class has murdered striking workers, put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps, blacklisted/deported citizens for political beliefs (Mccarthyism), assassinated civil rights leaders, sabotaged black liberation movements, imprisoned/

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A 27-year-old youtuber wearing million-dollar trunks just proclaimed it's "the era of good & truth" after beating a senior citizen in a quasi-scripted boxing spectacle while millions of us who are living paycheck-to-paycheck watched in amazement. Nothing feels real in 2024 America.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Trump's cabinet is looking very establishment and deep-statist.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Trump has chosen Lee Zeldin to run the EPA. During his time in the NY Senate, Zeldin pushed for legislation to punish those who participated in the @BDSmovement against Israeli apartheid. Zeldin also nominated Jared Kushner for a Nobel Peace Prize for his advocacy work on the part of Israel.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Trump is choosing Obama’s former Executive Associate Director of ICE, Tom Homan, as his "border czar." Homan received a Presidential Rank Award from Obama in 2015 for his work on deportations, which drastically increased during Obama’s eight years in office.

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Hampton Institute @hamptonthink.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Trump's pick for UN Ambassador, Elise Stefanik, fits the typical profile of a US politician: - born to a wealthy family -private school - Harvard -parents bought her a $1.2 million D.C. townhouse The swamp is never drained. It just gets recycled and refilled.

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