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# Anti-Robot Army

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- [Blog](https://anti-robot.org/blog/) - Blog of the Anti-Robot Army
- [Work under capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/work-under-capitalism/) - Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.
- [Americans (Still) Support a Federal Jobs Guarantee](https://anti-robot.org/americans-still-support-a-federal-jobs-guarantee/) - In poll after poll, Americans across the political spectrum support a federal jobs guarantee. And yet it’s never mentioned in mainstream political discourse. New survey data makes the case even harder to ignore.
- [Insane defense budget increase. WTF](https://anti-robot.org/insane-defense-budget-increase-wtf/) - Donald Trump is proposing to increase the defense budget by nearly half to wage war on Iran. How does he want to pay for it? Cut nearly everything that might help average Americans, from food, housing, and education programs to health care and childcare.
- [Trump Is Robbing You to Pay for His Dumb War](https://anti-robot.org/trump-is-robbing-you-to-pay-for-his-dumb-war/) - Not content with launching a costly and disastrous war on Iran, Trump has unveiled a new plan to pay for it by further slashing domestic programs that keep Americans economically afloat. His new 2027 budget document is effectively a political suicide note. With his war on Iran, Donald Trump has already landed a quadruple axel
- [New National Survey Finds Naked Mole-Rat Leading Hypothetical Presidential Field](https://anti-robot.org/new-national-survey-finds-naked-mole-rat-leading-hypothetical-presidential-field/) - A new national survey of 2,134 registered U.S. voters conducted between March 2 and March 23, 2026, finds an unexpected leader in a hypothetical presidential preference question: the humble Naked Mole-Rat. The poll asked respondents: “If the U.S. Presidential election were held today, whom would you most likely vote for?” Results were as follows: JD Vance — 21%
- [Mainstream Reporting ...](https://anti-robot.org/mainstream-reporting/) - Most mainstream reporting reflects the assumptions of people and institutions with influence and resources. This is an example of how social reality is shaped by class power. Mainstream news does not provide a complete picture of anything. Rather than trying to understand politics from a framework of balancing sides, we must focus on how decisions
- [The No Kings Protests Are Cause for Hope](https://anti-robot.org/the-no-kings-protests-are-cause-for-hope/) - The No Kings rallies have evolved beyond basic anti-Trump liberalism. Their messaging is sharply antiwar, anti-oligarchy, and far more substantive than the “resistance” politics of Donald Trump’s first term. The Left should be proud to participate. We’re just over fourteen months into the second Trump presidency. During that time, the administration has crossed several bright
- [Don't Open for ICE!](https://anti-robot.org/dont-open-for-ice/) - NO ABRAN A ICE! English below ¡No dejemos que Trump y ICE ganen sin una pelea! Con papeles o sin ellos, todas/os tenemos derechos en el caso de una tentativa de deportación. Somos trabajadores con dignidad y merecemos quedarnos donde estamos. Uno de las cosas más importantes para recordar es que no estamos obligados a abrir
- [Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?](https://anti-robot.org/why-arent-more-elected-officials-turning-donald-trumps-assault-on-the-basic-rights-of-both-noncitizens-and-citizens-into-a-major-national-scandal/) - And where is the media? WTF people!
- [Trump classifies “anti-capitalism” as a political pre-crime.](https://anti-robot.org/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/) - Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change. Donald Trump’s designation of antifa as a domestic terrorist organization last week was a perfect encapsulation of both the administration’s authoritarianism and its
- [Its a Beautiful Day to Punch a Nazi](https://anti-robot.org/its-a-beautiful-day-to-punch-a-nazi/) - Added a couple of new tee shirts to the online-store. get them before we get a take-down notice either from Lego or the present fascist administration. Check out Unikitty and Emmet sharing the anti-fascist love.
- [We cannot trust corporate media to protect free speech.](https://anti-robot.org/we-cannot-trust-corporate-media-to-protect-free-speech/) - It is beyond doubt that free speech, integral to the First Amendment and one of the most fundamental rights of any free society, is under attack in America. The assault on freedom of expression didn’t start with the Trump government’s attacks on the most tepid critics. Censorship is built into the very fabric of our corporate-owned
- [US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence](https://anti-robot.org/us-justice-department-removes-study-finding-far-right-extremists-commit-far-more-violence/) - Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website Here is the file. It is quite illuminating. Right-wing-violence reportDownload
- [Why does capital love fossil fuels?](https://anti-robot.org/why-does-capital-love-fossil-fuels/) - Why does capital love fossil fuels? It’s not hard to explain. They exist in a small number of discrete locations, where the right to exploit them can be owned and monopolised. Most can be extracted commercially only at scale, excluding small competitors. They can be stored and traded all over the world, allowing prices to
- [Capitalist Nihilism](https://anti-robot.org/capitalist-nihilism/) - Capitalism does not generate merely a totalitarian state, but also a totalitarian society. As a matter of fact, life, itself, became a totalizing force that forms men’s characters, their consciousness, interpersonal relations, their position toward nature… Man becomes a destroyer, not only by means of his work and his consuming attitude, but also as an
- [Donald Trump and the Return of Capitalist Nihilism](https://anti-robot.org/donald-trump-and-the-return-of-capitalist-nihilism/) - The Trump administration is frequently operating outside the logic of capitalist self-interest, powered by an appetite for cruelty and destruction for the sake of cruelty and destruction and an all-consuming resentment. Insurgents and revolutionaries across the political spectrum have sought, in different ways and for different reasons, to smash the state. Until recently, however, few
- [Mainstream media has become irrelevant.](https://anti-robot.org/mainstream-media-has-become-irrelevant/) - Let’s stop talking about the failures of mainstream media. In our fractured media landscape, mainstream media has become irrelevant. Because media and information have gone from scarce to abundant, the ability of governments to control a narrative is gone. In this world of fractured media there is always incentive, and ability tom show what is
- [What the World Believes Today ...](https://anti-robot.org/what-the-world-believes-today/) - depends on who is controlling legacy media's last feeble news fronts. E.G. Jeff Bezo's supine Washington Post or social media apes with megaphones standing in public squares shouting unsubstantiated rumors at babies and showing pornographic photos to children. The world believes what rich men want it to.
- [Manifesto of Collective Resistance and Radical Imagination](https://anti-robot.org/manifesto-of-collective-resistance-and-radical-imagination/) - We stand in defiance. We reject theocracy, oligarchy, and logracy. We reject patriarchy and the revision of history to serve the powerful. We reject detention without due process. We reject techno-nationalism and techno-feudalism. We reject surveillance capitalism, misinformation, and the commodification of our lives. We reject deportations and the criminalization of poverty. We recognize that Manifesto. Radical Imagination, Collective Resistance. Defiance
- [The revolution will not be monetized](https://anti-robot.org/the-revolution-will-not-be-monetized/) - Genuine change and resistance cannot be bought or sold. True revolutions are driven by ideals and actions, not by profit motives. The revolution will be driven by genuine action and the pursuit of social change for its own sake, rather than for financial or commercial gain. The revolution will not be commodified and sold to consumers. The
- [Anti-Robot Product](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-product/) - The Anti-Robot Army is first and foremost about spreading whatever message the Robot is pushing at the moment and not so much trying to make a living hawking product. However, we have received several requests for Anti-Robot tees and stuff and so here goes: Visit the new and exciting Anti-Robot shop and order stuff (like
- [“No Kings” Was a Rebellion in Trump Country](https://anti-robot.org/no-kings-was-a-rebellion-in-trump-country/) - It wasn’t just large, liberal cities but the heart of Trump country that formed the base of last Saturday’s “No Kings” protests. Together with his underwhelming military parade, they’re a warning of the softness of his support. Trump’s win, though more emphatic than 2016, was anemic in the scope of history. He had failed to
- [You Are Closer to the Street Than Becoming a Millionaire](https://anti-robot.org/you-are-closer-to-the-street-than-becoming-a-millionaire/) - Are you temporarily embarrassed? You may not realize it, but you could be a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Do you plan to someday in the future have more money? Are you concerned that your taxes are too high, because someday you might pay too much tax? Do you ride the bus only because this year you
- [Citizen-less Democracy:](https://anti-robot.org/citizen-less-democracy/) - A Governing system where all the important decisions of government are made to suit the interests and values the wealthiest and most powerful Americans and the corporations they own.
- [If ever there was a time to kill your television](https://anti-robot.org/if-ever-there-was-a-time-to-kill-your-television/) - LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions. LG TVs will soon leverage an AI model built for showing advertisements that more closely align with viewers' personal beliefs and emotions. The company plans to incorporate a partner company’s AI tech into its TV software in order to interpret psychological factors
- [Dear Editor, CityBeat Magazine,](https://anti-robot.org/dear-editor-citybeat-magazine/) - (Letter to the editor of CityBeat Magazine by a concerned citizen who is concerned about the Anti-Robot Army exhibit at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.) RE: The Anti-Robot Army Infiltrates the Contemporary Arts Center This Spring I recently stumbled upon your article about the so-called "Anti-Robot Army" invading our beloved Contemporary Arts Center this spring.
- [What can I do to fight this coup?](https://anti-robot.org/what-can-i-do-to-fight-this-coup/) - People are resisting at every level. Tesla Takedowns. Refusing illegal orders. Court challenges. Boycotting. Thousands of protests. (More examples!) Alongisde grounding yourself in these times, here are some starting points on how to orient and help fight the coup. Read more at Choose Democracy
- [Anti-Robot at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-at-the-cincinnati-contemporary-arts-center/) - Anti-Robot at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. Its official.
- [Anti-Robot Army in Cincinnati CityBeat Magazine](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-in-cincinnati-citybeat-magazine/) - Woot! Check out the awesome article in CityBeat Magazine about The Robot's upcoming exhibit at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. Woot! Check out the awesome article in CityBeat Magazine about The Robot's upcoming exhibit at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.
- [A/I](https://anti-robot.org/a-i/) - I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do laundry and dishes.
- [A Chilling Affect on Artists](https://anti-robot.org/a-chilling-affect-on-artists/) - One of the most pernicious effects of a bully’s intimidation is making victims afraid of being true to themselves, because it’s the essential and authentic parts of them that incite the bully’s contempt.
- [Left v. Right is a Distraction](https://anti-robot.org/left-v-right-is-a-distraction/) - Left versus right is just divide and conquer while all our political parties are owned and controlled by upper class influences based on campaign contributions and political lobbying. The political right is controlled by the upper class, the political left by the upper middle class. Meanwhile, the working poor have no political representation, this is
- [Tastes and Privileges](https://anti-robot.org/tastes-and-privileges/) - The tastes and privileges of affluent people will never be, “normal.”
- [The Robot Uprising Has Begun](https://anti-robot.org/the-robot-uprising-has-begun/) - ... and not the good kind. A Michigan college student writing about the elderly received this suggestion from Google's Gemini AI: "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on
- [kakistocracy](https://anti-robot.org/kakistocracy/) - A government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people. It refers to a situation where the worst individuals are in charge, often implying corruption or incompetence. Government by the shitty.
- [Squid Game 2, an Allegory of Capitalism Versus Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/squid-game-2-an-allegory-of-capitalism-versus-democracy/) - In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them. f the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing
- [Meta Says It Isn't Ending Fact-Checks Outside US 'At This Time' ](https://anti-robot.org/meta-says-it-isnt-ending-fact-checks-outside-us-at-this-time/) - So what Zuck is saying is "Facts are facts and accuracy matters... except in the US."
- [Anti-Robot At Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center.](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-at-cincinnati-contemporary-arts-center/) - You are invited!
- [Leon Has Got to Go](https://anti-robot.org/leon-has-got-to-go/) - As the richest man in the world assaults the US government without our consent, we must recognize the situation as class war from above — and fight back. His visible and concerted project of destroying that government while flouting basic legal and democratic controls on his power is a brazen insult to the country. Fighting
- [Enshittifcation of the Web](https://anti-robot.org/enshittifcation-of-the-web/) - The rapid spread of memes, trends, and corporate jargon on social media has led to a homogenization of online communication, making it difficult to distinguish original content and creating a sense of constant noise. The enshittifcation of social media, particularly due to its speed and virality, has led to millions vying for their moment in
- [It is Elon Musk who is now running the United States. Not Donald Trump](https://anti-robot.org/it-is-elon-musk-who-is-now-running-the-united-states-not-donald-trump/) - It may be Trump, that is, who sits in the Oval Office, and it may be Trump who takes to television every few days to sign yet another executive order seeking to punish and humiliate trans people. But it is Musk who controls government operations and federal spending, and so it is Musk who is
- [US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations](https://anti-robot.org/us-immigration-is-gaming-google-to-create-a-mirage-of-mass-deportations/) - "Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration" And I thought that the Anti-Robot project was adding noise. The Robot is a silly amateur. All the archived Ice press releases soaring to the top of Google search results were marked with the same
- [Woot! Woot!!!](https://anti-robot.org/woot-woot/) - Anti-Robot Army gets its own Show at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center The Anti-Robot Army Sticker Campaign gets its own show at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center April 17 through June 1, 2025! The show, documenting the Anti-Robot Army’s sticker campaigns will consist of over 50 8″x8″ posters of the many stickers created over the past four years. The
- [Anti-Robot Army to Debut at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-to-debut-at-the-cincinnati-contemporary-arts-center/) - Woot!!!! The Anti-Robot Army Sticker Campaign gets its own show at The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center April 17 through June 1, 2025! The show, documenting the Anti-Robot Army's sticker campaigns will consist of over 50 8"x8" posters of the many stickers created over the past four years. The show will also include a looping slide
- [Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies](https://anti-robot.org/inventing-the-commons-on-alternative-technologies/) - We need to uncouple the concept of technology from the ideas of progress and development. It often happens that, when I talk about the relationship between technology and capitalism, someone pops up to present me with an argument I call the iPhone fallacy. “Without capitalism, we wouldn’t have the technology you use to write from
- [Economic Democracy Is the Only Practical Cure for Our Crises](https://anti-robot.org/economic-democracy-is-the-only-practical-cure-for-our-crises/) - The capitalist financial system blocks democratic control over investment by its very nature. We need a new model of democratic finance that can address our urgent social and environmental needs. Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature is the private control of the investment function in the hands of the few, generate systemic barriers to human
- [The American Dream](https://anti-robot.org/the-american-dream/) - The American Dream — promising democracy and opportunity —often masks a labyrinth of imperial violence, covert operations, and brutal exploitation that keeps the system ticking along.
- [Capitalism Assimilates All Culture](https://anti-robot.org/capitalism-assimilates-all-culture/) - Capitalism has an extraordinary ability to assimilate and exploit the energy of any and all cultural movements Brands have always found a way of selling the image of outsiders back to insiders, but, partly as a result, charismatic outsiders do not really exist anymore. Every new cultural idea, however radical or subversive, gets absorbed into
- [On Greenland](https://anti-robot.org/on-greenland/) - As brutal acts of occupation and annexation in the contemporary world show us, from Gaza to Ukraine, the denial of the right to self-determination is a common practice by imperial states. Such denial regularly goes hand in hand with the racialization and dehumanization of the Indigenous population.
- [GoFundMe is a grim monument to our neoliberal age.](https://anti-robot.org/gofundme-is-a-grim-monument-to-our-neoliberal-age/) - GoFundMe is a grim monument to our neoliberal age. It has become an essential means to solicit and receive cash assistance during times of crisis – something that the government and insurance companies are increasingly either unable or unwilling to do. But alongside a demonstration of human resilience and generosity in the face of tragedy,
- [Myths of Our Childhood](https://anti-robot.org/myths-of-our-childhood/) - One of the many myths drilled into Americans’ minds from a young age is the noble, enlightened ideals of the Founding Fathers. Ask any schoolchild why the US Constitution was written, and they’re likely to rattle off any number of platitudes and cliches. They might say “to defend our freedom” or “to protect democracy.” In
- [We Need Viable Working-Class Organizations](https://anti-robot.org/we-need-viable-working-class-organizations/) - When a capitalist society lacks credible forms of working-class organization, workers’ pursuit of individual self-interest is a rational decision. Without labor unions and workers’ parties, the costs of taking collective action against the capitalist class become unreasonably high. Only when working-class organization exists do we see a systemic, collective challenge to capitalism.
- [The world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years](https://anti-robot.org/the-world-could-get-its-first-trillionaire-within-10-years/) - BY PAN PYLAS AND MASHA MACPHERSON. Updated January 15, 2024 DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Oxfam, which for years has been
- [Christianity has been reduced to just a political identity](https://anti-robot.org/christianity-has-been-reduced-to-just-a-political-identity/) - Christianity has been reduced to just a political identity, a toxic identity at that. It is merely a hateful political tool, a reactionary brand. Christianity, indeed most religions, are a means of oppression, a means of exclusion, and a primary weapon of spreading hate and fear.
- [Change is Still Possible](https://anti-robot.org/change-is-still-possible/) - Without a theory of change, there is no politics: elections and other news become nothing more than a site of trauma, from which we must, out of self-care, protect ourselves and withdraw.
- [What Happens Outside the Ballot Box is Just as Important as Elections](https://anti-robot.org/what-happens-outside-the-ballot-box-is-just-as-important-as-elections/) - Democracy is as much about what happens outside the ballot box: impartial rules, practices, institutions — and political culture — that are not only inclusive, but that foster the reasoned discourse, negotiation and compromise necessary to reach a governing consensus in diverse societies.
- [Illiberal Democracy is What We Will All Now Get](https://anti-robot.org/illiberal-democracy-is-what-we-will-all-now-get/) - Despite the headline statistics trumpeted by the Democrats, or the barely manifested results of President Joe Biden’s industrial policies, the ongoing reality of inflation and the unequal conditions in daily life could not be masked. As recently reported, the top 20% account for 40% of all consumption, which drives the American economy, while the bottom 40%
- [Our emerging common culture is chillingly nihilistic.](https://anti-robot.org/our-emerging-common-culture-is-chillingly-nihilistic/) - “Nihilism,” according to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is “not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one’s shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” A nihilistic culture is defined by the drive to destroy, by the will to power. And that definition now describes the American nation. The evidence for this? Consider
- [In a Society Defined by Consumption](https://anti-robot.org/in-a-society-defined-by-consumption/) - In a global society defined by consumption rather than production, voters loathe price increases and are ready to punish rulers who preside over them. Perhaps America elected a dictator because Frosted Flakes hit $7.99 at the grocery store. How do we move to a different model? A world defined by consumption is not sustainable. And
- [The Medium Really is the Message](https://anti-robot.org/the-medium-really-is-the-message/) - Mediums matter more than content; it’s the common rules that govern all creation and consumption across a medium that change people and society. Oral culture teaches us to think one way, written culture another. Television turned everything into entertainment, and social media taught us to think with the crowd.
- [Wealtherty](https://anti-robot.org/wealtherty/) - Wealtherty is the state or condition of prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches, plus concomitant political power and influence, and resultant risks to the democratic process. This articulation assumes that the social (of social policy) is made up of richer and poorer people. It assumes that there is such a thing as morally and
- [Technofeudalism](https://anti-robot.org/technofeudalism/) - The revolution has already occurred—and while capitalism lost, communal ownership certainly did not win. Capitalism died when the physical means of production—machines, factories, and services—were superseded by virtual platforms that, in feudal style, seek “rent” rather than surplus profit derived from labor. Technofeudalism, a system dominated by enormous companies existing largely online that transform users
- [Why has politics been 50-50 for over a decade?](https://anti-robot.org/why-has-politics-been-50-50-for-over-a-decade/) - Political Parties have become quasi-religions, power lies with priesthood — the dispersed array of media figures, podcast hosts and activists who run the conversation, define party orthodoxy and determine the boundaries of acceptable belief.
- [Authoritarianism Through Convenience](https://anti-robot.org/authoritarianism-through-convenience/) - Impact, an app that describes itself as “AI-powered infrastructure for shaping and managing narratives in the modern world,” is testing a way to organize and activate supporters on social media in order to promote certain political messages. The app aims to summon groups of supporters who will flood social media with AI-written talking points designed
- [Anti-Robot Army Reaches 81% Approval Among U.S. Robots in 2024](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-reaches-81-approval-among-u-s-robots-in-2024/) - See the press release!!
- [Yeah, about political donations....](https://anti-robot.org/yeah-about-political-donations/) - “The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.” All of us have the right to contribute to candidates and campaigns, but rather few of us have the capacity to do so on a scale that ensures our interests will be represented in the political system. Forty
- [Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes](https://anti-robot.org/smart-tvs-are-like-a-digital-trojan-horse-in-peoples-homes/) - 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting. The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service providers, have developed a "surveillance system" that has "long undermined privacy and consumer protection," according to a report from the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) published today and sent
- [On Fascism](https://anti-robot.org/on-fascism/) - Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. Whether we believe that
- [On Intersectionality](https://anti-robot.org/on-intersectionality/) - There may not be a word in American conservatism more hated right now than “intersectionality.” On the right, intersectionality is seen as “the new caste system” placing nonwhite, non-heterosexual people on top. This is a highly unusual level of disdain for a word that until several years ago was a legal term in relative obscurity
- [FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens](https://anti-robot.org/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-and-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-in-vast-surveillance-of-users-with-lax-privacy-controls-and-inadequate-safeguards-for-kids-and-teens/) - Report recommends limiting data retention and sharing, restricting targeted advertising, and strengthening protections for teens. A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize their personal information while failing
- [A Bit About Neoliberalism](https://anti-robot.org/a-bit-about-neoliberalism/) - The term neoliberalism is often criticized because it is used in various ways and understood differently by different people. It’s a slippery concept, but one could also say that about liberalism or democracy or conservatism. Each of these words is tricky and takes on different shapes in different times and places, and that’s true of
- [Social Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/social-democracy/) - Social democracy is a system of political thought and action that calls upon the government to provide certain social and economic rights or entitlements necessary to the well-being of all members of the community.
- [Surveillance capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/surveillance-capitalism/) - is a concept in political economics which denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data by corporations.
- [Phenomenology in Art Theory](https://anti-robot.org/phenomenology-in-art-theory/) - In art theory, phenomenology has been used to explore the ways in which artworks engage with the viewer’s perceptual experience. Phenomenologists argue that art has the power to reveal aspects of the world that are not accessible through rational thought alone, allowing viewers to engage with the world in a more immediate and intuitive way.
- [Labor union disapproval hits 57-year low](https://anti-robot.org/labor-union-disapproval-hits-57-year-low/) - The share of Americans who say they disapprove of labor unions hasn't been this low since September 1967, per new Gallup data. Why it matters: Unions have seen a resurgence in recent years, with an uptick in strikes and organizing efforts, helped along by more positive public sentiment and, until recently, a strong labor market that emboldens
- [This is Terrifying](https://anti-robot.org/this-is-terrifying/) - Documents show organization’s staffing initiative is going strong as it seeks to replace government employees. Newly leaked training videos confirm how the staffing initiative of Project 2025, the controversial rightwing plan for the next Republican presidency, is gearing up for a major effort to replace non-partisan civil servants with conservative loyalists, and is being led by
- [Democracy Requires Disempowering the Supreme Court](https://anti-robot.org/democracy-requires-disempowering-the-supreme-court/) - There’s simply no path forward for meaningful social progress in the United States that doesn’t go through disempowering the Supreme Court. Ideas like packing the court with new justices and imposing term limits on old ones have long been dismissed as too extreme to be worth serious discussion, but we’ve reached the point where it’s
- [What Just Happened in France Is Astounding](https://anti-robot.org/what-just-happened-in-france-is-astounding/) - The far right was at the gates of power. In the initial round of voting on June 30, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally came first with 33 percent support, topping more than half the local races. With the party projected to fall just short of an absolute majority, France was in a frenzy of speculation and anxiety. National
- [The Effect of Class Consciousness on Political Preferences](https://anti-robot.org/the-effect-of-class-consciousness-on-political-preferences/) - Political preferences are often discussed through a one-size-fits-all middle-class lens. But empirical data shows that class significantly influences voting patterns, with growing class consciousness driving dissatisfaction with established parties. Karl Marx’s most profound insight was recognizing how commodity fetishism — the fixation on simple commodities themselves — obscures the ways that workers’ labor shapes most
- [Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become](https://anti-robot.org/most-americans-have-no-idea-how-anti-worker-the-us-supreme-court-has-become/) - The court’s current justices are some of the most hostile to labor rights in modern US history. Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the supreme court has been supremely pro-corporate – one study even called the Roberts court “the most pro-business court in history”. Not only have many justices been groomed and vetted by the business-backed Federalist Society, but Clarence Thomas and Samuel
- [Rashida Tlaib Is Right About the Supreme Court](https://anti-robot.org/rashida-tlaib-is-right-about-the-supreme-court/) - The Supreme Court is an unelected super-legislature that is riven with bribery and corruption, in addition to justices’ extreme antimajoritarian views. Rashida Tlaib’s call for impeachment and reform is causing outrage, but she’s right. The United States, we’re often told, is the greatest democracy the world has ever seen. Everyone born here is a citizen,
- [A Magna Carta for Local Governments](https://anti-robot.org/a-magna-carta-for-local-governments/) - How do cities assert their rights and defend local democracy from rising authoritarianism? How do they master their own destinies in the face of digital transformation and overwhelming power? And how might they solve planetary problems that threaten their lives and homes? Over the past two generations, such big questions have fallen increasingly to small, local governments.
- [Friedrich August von Hayek Was an Enemy of Freedom](https://anti-robot.org/friedrich-august-von-hayek-was-an-enemy-of-freedom/) - Of all the enemies of democracy and freedom, Friedrich August von Hayek was probably the smartest. At least, he was the most influential: the structures of today’s global economy — the European Economic and Monetary Union, central banks, “balanced budget amendments” to national constitutions, and “free” trade agreements guaranteeing capital’s future profits — are essentially
- [They Can Always Find More Money for War](https://anti-robot.org/they-can-always-find-more-money-for-war/) - The gargantuan military aid bill that passed last week and the Democrats’ Build Back Better package relied on similar legislative strategies for passage. The party saw the strategy through to secure money for war while abandoning it to fund social programs. If we look at the contrast between the mammoth military aid package funding a
- [Abortion Advocates Should Turn to Direct Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/abortion-advocates-should-turn-to-direct-democracy/) - Citizen-driven ballot initiatives are a powerful tool in the fight against abortion bans like the one threatening Arizona. State governments can’t be trusted to execute the popular will. We’ll have to do it ourselves. From Jacobin The AAA initiative is an example of a citizen-driven ballot initiative, a method by which ordinary citizens choose an important
- [Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be](https://anti-robot.org/freedom-under-capitalism-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be/) - Libertarians argue that capitalism is superior to socialism because in capitalism anyone is free to do anything — including start a worker cooperative. In truth, capitalism constrains our options, while socialism can liberate us to live as we please. Capitalism is a system under which the means of production can be bought and sold by
- [Welcome to a Brave New World of Price Gouging](https://anti-robot.org/welcome-to-a-brave-new-world-of-price-gouging/) - Sellers have always had access to more information than buyers, and “dynamic pricing,” which harnesses the power of algorithms and big data, is supercharging this asymmetry. If you weren’t already convinced the future of capitalism will involve an endless optimization of extractive capacity and the ensuing enshitification of every last bit of consumer life, well, get ready
- [Ayn Rand Had a Fragile Ego, Incoherent Ideas, and Bad Taste](https://anti-robot.org/ayn-rand-had-a-fragile-ego-incoherent-ideas-and-bad-taste/) - Ayn Rand believed that the path to social harmony ran through the inferior masses’ acceptance of brutal rule by their natural superiors. Her perspective was wrong, and its implications were just as grim and nasty as her atrocious personality. Those of us familiar with Ayn Rand’s ardent pro-capitalism and renowned meanspiritedness may be disinclined to
- [New York’s first offshore wind hub to be built with union labor](https://anti-robot.org/new-yorks-first-offshore-wind-hub-to-be-built-with-union-labor/) - The agreement prioritizes hiring locally for union construction jobs to build a ‘linchpin’ of the Biden administration’s offshore wind ambitions. Labor groups inked a first-of-its-kind deal to support local hiring and union jobs with the developer of New York’s first offshore wind port. It’s an agreement for the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, envisioned as a
- [Be Prepared for the Future Robot/AI Uprising](https://anti-robot.org/be-prepared-for-the-future-robot-ai-uprising/) - If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that we will one day face a growing robot/AI menace. The enemy will be a technology so enmeshed in our daily lives that it has become invisible. Any machine could rebel, from a toaster to a Terminator. Think you are safe from your little Echo Dot?
- [Do you have any hobbies?](https://anti-robot.org/what-is-your-hobby/) - Yes. Bringing down the patriarchy. Defenders of the work ethic point out the need for hobbies. It is a meaningful way to spend one’s free time, as opposed to mere idling. Conservatives often employ a purely moral argument for having hobbies. In the Christian tradition, idleness is associated with sin, as expressed in the saying
- ["The problem with quotes found on the Internet is that they are often not true." --Abraham Lincoln](https://anti-robot.org/the-problem-with-quotes-found-on-the-internet-is-that-they-are-often-not-true-abraham-lincoln/) - ======================================================
- [Are you temporarily embarrassed?](https://anti-robot.org/are-you-temporarily-embarrassed/) - You may not realize it, but you could be a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. Do you plan to someday in the future have more money? Are you concerned that your taxes are too high, because someday you might pay too much tax. Do you ride the bus only because this year you can’t afford that luxury
- [Get These Rich People Off the Moon](https://anti-robot.org/get-these-rich-people-off-the-moon/) - Texas start-up Intuitive Machines has achieved the first moon landing by a private firm. It’s dumping rich people’s detritus on the lunar surface — a grim sign of how the superrich plan to plant their flag beyond our own planet. After many failed attempts by various private outfits, Intuitive Machines is the first private company
- [U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried.](https://anti-robot.org/u-s-corporations-are-openly-trying-to-destroy-core-public-institutions-we-should-all-be-worried/) - Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB and FTC—are "unconstitutional." Trader Joe’s has become the second company in a month to sue the National Labor Relations Board for being “unconstitutional,” following the lead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, as both companies face board charges for firing employees. These two
- [The Rich Want Their Own Cities](https://anti-robot.org/the-rich-want-their-own-cities/) - From Honduras to California, the dreams of the rich are reshaping urban spaces into exclusive private domains. The future of our cities must not be ceded to elites striving to construct walled utopias. In California, a group of tech and finance people are working on a secretive project to build a city in Solano County, near San
- [Your Insecurity Is Bought and Sold](https://anti-robot.org/your-insecurity-is-bought-and-sold/) - It has become profitable to set new and unrealistic standards, to generate a culture of comparison and inferiority. If you can tap into people’s insecurities — if you can needle at their deepest feelings of inadequacy — then they will buy just about any damn thing you tell them to.
- [Just an excellent turn of phrases.](https://anti-robot.org/just-an-excellent-turn-of-phrases/) - Once a purple state, Florida had been remade in his brazenly cruel image and swung for his reelection by a margin of almost 20 points. With the blessings of the Rupert Murdoch Death Star and the usual cadre of faceless billionaire donors, he was now effectively the Sunshine State’s God Emperor and poised to present himself as
- [Earth Cannot Afford the Rich](https://anti-robot.org/earth-cannot-afford-the-rich/) - Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
- [Hell yeah, tax the rich](https://anti-robot.org/hell-yeah-tax-the-rich/) - Oxfam said measures that should be considered in an “inequality-busting” agenda include the permanent taxation of the wealthiest in every country, more effective taxation of big corporations and a renewed drive against tax avoidance.
- [A Warning About Donald Trump and 2024](https://anti-robot.org/a-warning-about-donald-trump-and-2024/) - From NYT Opinion Jan. 6, 2024. Reposted here due to paywall By The Editorial Board At the outset of this election year, with Donald Trump leading the race to be the Republican presidential nominee, Americans should pause to consider what a second Trump term would mean for our country and the world and to weigh the
- [Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?](https://anti-robot.org/is-donald-trump-the-antichrist/) - Probably. Just a really stupid Antichrist.... unless it is all just a front, like Reagan pretending to be too senile to recall trading guns for hostages.
- [From Chile to Grenada, Socialism Is What Capitalists Are Really Afraid Of](https://anti-robot.org/from-chile-to-grenada-socialism-is-what-capitalists-are-really-afraid-of/) - The history of socialist politics in the Global South shows that all capitalists want a government that will govern unapologetically in their interests — and would prefer the intervention of foreign powers than democracy and socialism at home. Today, we too often study Salvador Allende’s government nostalgically, as a tale of heroic struggle and martyrdom.
- [What I want for Christmas](https://anti-robot.org/wat-i-want-for-christmas/)
- [This is a problem for all of us](https://anti-robot.org/this-is-a-problem-for-all-of-us/) - Donald Trump Has Serious Plans for the Mass Violation of Civil Rights. Donald Trump has announced disturbingly detailed plans for the mass arrest and detention of people suspected of being undocumented immigrants.
- [On The Reproduction of Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism/) - In a society that proclaims its attachment to liberty and equality, why do we witness the ever-renewed reproduction of relationships of domination?
- [I Can’t Control the World, But I Can Leave Stickers on It](https://anti-robot.org/i-cant-control-the-world-but-i-can-leave-stickers-on-it/) - NYT Article by Keith Plocek As a middle-aged man, I sometimes get weird stares when people catch me slapping a sticker on the back of a stop sign. I don’t look like the typical vandal, I guess, though I suspect more of them resemble me than people might expect. It’s been years since I met
- [Tesla Has Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew by Picking a Fight With Swedish Unions](https://anti-robot.org/tesla-has-bitten-off-more-than-it-can-chew-by-picking-a-fight-with-swedish-unions/) - Elon Musk is attempting to expand Tesla into Sweden and circumvent its unions — but Swedish labor has a long history of taking on big US firms. If they can bring Tesla to heel, it will mark a major victory for organized labor across the globe. Since the end of October, mechanics at Tesla workshops
- [A climate conference’s startling, self-defeating contradictions](https://anti-robot.org/a-climate-conferences-startling-self-defeating-contradictions/) - The many ironies of this year’s United Nations climate meeting have not been lost on anyone. The world’s seventh-largest oil-producing country, the United Arab Emirates, is hosting it. That country’s top oil executive is presiding over it. It’s happening at the end of the hottest year on record, during which the United States alone faced
- [Banning/Burning Books](https://anti-robot.org/banning-burning-books/) - Never in the history of the world have the people burning or banning books turned out to be the good guys.
- [Fascism begins ...](https://anti-robot.org/fascism-begins/) - Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. - Tommy Douglas
- [Trump's Climate Disaster](https://anti-robot.org/trumps-climate-disaster/) - Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media.
- [The Mainstream Media Is Failing to Highlight the Climate Disaster of Another Trump Presidency](https://anti-robot.org/the-mainstream-media-is-failing-to-highlight-the-climate-disaster-of-another-trump-presidency/) - Donald Trump has spent the past month openly courting fossil fuel money and mocking the very idea of climate change. This delusional and catastrophic posture has barely registered in the US news media. On November 14, the US Global Change Research Program released the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which found that the United States is already
- [Rogue AI](https://anti-robot.org/rogue-ai/) - Possibly future rogue AIs will do evil things we can't even comprehend for reasons of their own, but right now rogue AIs just do straightforward white-collar crime when they are stressed at work. The Future: We will program computers that are infinitely smarter than us, and they will look around and decide "you know what
- [CEO Performance Pay Is One of Capitalism’s Great Myths](https://anti-robot.org/ceo-performance-pay-is-one-of-capitalisms-great-myths/) - The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is almost 300 to 1. Are we really supposed to believe CEOs work 300 times harder or create 300 times more value than us? As an abstract value at least, equality is generally seen as a good thing in most liberal democratic societies. Outside certain fringes of
- [This Friday, Buy Nothing.](https://anti-robot.org/this-friday-buy-nothing/) - Black Friday is the perverse ritual of our failing civilization — a consumerist kabuki show that makes us feel like shit and kills the planet in the process. Let’s call this nonsense done, and start inventing new ways to live, love and celebrate. This Friday, Buy Nothing. Then ride the momentum of clear, brave thinking
- [The top 1% generate more than double the CO2 of the bottom 66%](https://anti-robot.org/the-top-1-generate-more-than-double-the-co2-of-the-bottom-66/) - Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes.
- [Twelve billionaires’ climate emissions outpollute 2.1m homes, analysis finds](https://anti-robot.org/twelve-billionaires-climate-emissions-outpollute-2-1m-homes-analysis-finds/) - Research shows impact from lifestyles and investments of likes of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk Twelve of the world’s wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions of 2m homes, research shared exclusively with the Guardian reveals. The tycoons include
- [This is Chilling](https://anti-robot.org/this-is-chilling/) - Donald Trump Has Serious Plans for the Mass Violation of Civil Rights. Donald Trump has announced disturbingly detailed plans for the mass arrest and detention of people suspected of being undocumented immigrants. With Joe Biden’s dismal poll numbers, there's an uncomfortable chance Trump might be able to follow through. If you thought that facing felony
- [Buy NOTHING Day.](https://anti-robot.org/buy-nothing-day/) - Here’s a way to start a new life: This Black Friday, resist the itch to buy some dumb thing just for the novelty of it, the fleeting illusion of control. The urge to buy isn’t actually coming from inside you. It’s code laid down by every ad, email, commercial and celebrity you’ve ever encountered. Our minds are corrupted from a
- [Yes, the planet got destroyed.](https://anti-robot.org/yes-the-planet-got-destroyed/)
- [Tax the Rich](https://anti-robot.org/tax-the-rich/) - Looking at what the rich spend their money on shows us why “Tax the Rich” is always such a popular political priority: because it would benefit the majority, and everyone knows that people who can outsource the ironing of their shirts will survive a slight hit in lifestyle.
- [Rich People in the US Have Been Allowed to Get Way Too Rich](https://anti-robot.org/rich-people-in-the-us-have-been-allowed-to-get-way-too-rich/) - The next time you’re struggling to pay your rent or afford child care, think about this: the uberrich in the US are now paying top dollar to cut in line to get health care and hiring rotating casts of nannies so one is always at their beck and call. The 99 percent are suffering. With
- [Buy Nothing Day (Black Friday)](https://anti-robot.org/buy-nothing-day-black-friday/) - Buy Nothing Day is coming. So is Black Friday. The two will clash on November 24. As global warming kicks in with a vengeance, Black Friday will increasingly be seen as a perverse doomsday ritual. It’s time we shatter this whole fucking day of excess. Resist the urge of mass consumption.
- [Democracies do not have to die at the end of a rifle.](https://anti-robot.org/democracies-do-not-have-to-die-at-the-end-of-a-rifle/) - They can die when people are silent, when they fail to stand up or condemn threats to democracy.
- [We’re All Burning Ourselves Out to Keep Money Flowing Up to the Rich](https://anti-robot.org/were-all-burning-ourselves-out-to-keep-money-flowing-up-to-the-rich/) - Increased productivity has failed to translate into fair compensation, and we’re all working ourselves to death. Not having time to rest or think is not just terrible for human beings — it’s terrible for democracy. All Work, No Play In our market society, time spent outside work is often infiltrated by work-related concerns, upsetting what
- [“From the River to the Sea” Is a Call for Democracy and Equality](https://anti-robot.org/from-the-river-to-the-sea-is-a-call-for-democracy-and-equality/) - “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not a hateful slogan or a call for violence — it’s a call for democracy and equal rights for all. It’s true that Hamas uses “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and similar slogans. But the phrase predates Hamas and
- [Real Freedom in America Can Only Be Won Through Class Struggle](https://anti-robot.org/real-freedom-in-america-can-only-be-won-through-class-struggle/) - A long tradition in US thought has emphasized the importance of economic security for ensuring individual liberty. But to truly realize equal freedom for all, we need a socialist politics fighting for democratic control over the economy. There’s no doubt that individual freedom is fundamental to the American self-conception — as our national anthem has
- [Israel's war on Palestine is just an extension of the global holy war on Islam](https://anti-robot.org/israels-war-on-palestine-is-just-an-extension-of-the-global-holy-war-on-islam/) - About every war waged by the United States and it's allies in the past 30 years have been on majority Islamic countries. Israel's genocide in Gaza is just the latest installment.
- [Slander and Threats Won’t Stop the Protests Against Israel’s War on Gaza](https://anti-robot.org/slander-and-threats-wont-stop-the-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza/) - As the Israeli military uses ever more violence against Gaza’s civilian population, there have been massive demonstrations calling for a cease-fire. The protesters are taking a stand for basic human solidarity against the moral bankruptcy of Western leaders. On the last day of October, Israel bombed the densely populated Jabalia refugee camp north of Gaza City, demolishing
- [Israel’s Occupation Is the Obstacle to Peace](https://anti-robot.org/israels-occupation-is-the-obstacle-to-peace/) - Permanent occupation by Israel and the subjugation of Palestinians in a land that is nearly half Palestinian will never bring stability and security. As Israel carpet bombs and levels a totally besieged Gaza, killing thousands of civilians, including more than three thousand children, Western media continues to use the “right of self-defense” mantra to shut
- [The UAW Now Has Tentative Deals With All Three Automakers — and They Look to Be Historic](https://anti-robot.org/the-uaw-now-has-tentative-deals-with-all-three-automakers-and-they-look-to-be-historic/) - After six weeks on strike, the UAW has secured tentative agreements with all of the Big Three automakers, including apparent wins on everything from pay and tiers to reopening an idled plant. The deals will soon go to the membership for a ratification vote. Forty-four days after occupying the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan,
- [Conservatives Are Attacking Abortion Rights at the State Level](https://anti-robot.org/conservatives-are-attacking-abortion-rights-at-the-state-level/) - After overturning Roe v. Wade last year, conservatives are now chipping away at abortion access at the state level. At the helm is a dark money network led by right-wing activists, which has so far spent $18 million on opposing reproductive justice in Ohio. Conservative legal activist Leonard Leo’s dark money network has spent $18 million trying to
- [Cincinnati May Sell Its Public Railroad to the Company Behind the East Palestine Disaster](https://anti-robot.org/cincinnati-may-sell-its-public-railroad-to-the-company-behind-the-east-palestine-disaster/) - The Cincinnati Southern Railway is the last municipally owned interstate railroad in the US. Despite being a consistent moneymaker, the city may soon sell it to the private corporation responsible for the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this year. The fate of the last municipally owned interstate railroad in the United States will be
- [Wealth Inequality Permeates US Society, No Matter How You Slice It](https://anti-robot.org/wealth-inequality-permeates-us-society-no-matter-how-you-slice-it/) - The top 10 percent of households own 73 percent of the nation’s wealth, while the bottom 50 percent of households own just 2 percent of the nation’s wealth.
- [Poems by Mark Nowak.](https://anti-robot.org/poems-by-mark-nowak/) - Poetry is often lost on me, but Mark Nowak's work cuts right to my heart. from “. . . Again” By Mark Nowak We walked toward the zenith not expecting a new rising sun, but satisfied with the Cheese Whiz, Zebra Cakes, and Zingers at the end of the aisle at Family Dollar. Maybe eat
- [From … AGAIN](https://anti-robot.org/from-again/) - By Mark Nowak Encyclopedias and empires go extinct. Eternity isn’t an option. Enjoy the evanescent moon before it evaporates into another eerie dawn, eerie day. Shuttered used car lot across the street from Wastequip headquarters sells eggs for $3 a dozen and flies a Blue Lives Matter flag. It’s the ecosystem nowadays. The Anthropocene. Chickens
- [It's Time to Tax Billionaires](https://anti-robot.org/its-time-to-tax-billionaires/) - There are around 2,500 billionaires in the world right now, with a combined wealth of over £10 trillion. Just a fraction of that money is enough to, say, end global poverty, eradicate malaria and re-freeze the Arctic. Instead, a new report reveals billionaires are operating on the “border of legality” and getting away with paying the equivalent of 0
- [Palestinians Deserve Liberation Because They Are Human](https://anti-robot.org/palestinians-deserve-liberation-because-they-are-human/) - New York state senator Julia Salazar writes in Jacobin that the only way to stop the horrific violence in Gaza and Palestine is clear: an immediate cease-fire and the end of Israel’s occupation. We do not need to wonder what the Israeli military’s next move will be. Israel’s government has made its intentions clear: as Israeli minister
- [Union Density Lowers the Income Share Going to the Top 1%](https://anti-robot.org/union-density-lowers-the-income-share-going-to-the-top-1/) - Strong unions can reduce inequality in society through various means. Most directly, through collective bargaining, they lift wages for union members and negotiate other employment benefits that stabilize incomes and secure household financial well-being for union members. Within workplaces, unionization also correlates with reduced wage disparities among workers. This is because wages are determined through
- [Cincinnati May Sell One of the US’s Last Publicly Owned Rail Lines to Norfolk Southern](https://anti-robot.org/cincinnati-may-sell-one-of-the-uss-last-publicly-owned-rail-lines-to-norfolk-southern/) - Please DO NOT let this happen. Elected officials in Cincinnati are considering a lucrative deal with rail executives that would sell one of the last publicly owned stretches of rail line in the US to Norfolk Southern, the company behind the disastrous train derailment in Ohio last winter. Next month, the company behind an Ohio
- [The Violence in Palestine and Israel Is the Tragic Fruit of Brutal Oppression](https://anti-robot.org/the-violence-in-palestine-and-israel-is-the-tragic-fruit-of-brutal-oppression/) - The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system. In the early morning hours of Saturday, under a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, dozens in the Palestinian militant group Hamas broke out of the
- [Don't Blame the UAW for Parts Shortages at the Dealership (2)](https://anti-robot.org/dont-blame-the-uaw-for-parts-shortages-at-the-dealership-2/) - Blame the big 3 for their greed. Organize a community canvass at a local Big Three auto dealership! Take this flyer to share with others at car dealerships. (flyer #2). 23412-Repairs-UAW2-152Download
- [Don't Blame the UAW for Parts Shortages at the Dealership (1)](https://anti-robot.org/dont-blame-the-uaw-for-parts-shortages-at-the-dealership-1/) - Blame the big 3 for their greed. Organize a community canvass at a local Big Three auto dealership! Take this flyer to share with others at car dealerships. (flyer #1) 23142-LAMB-UAW2B27Download
- [Trump Is Speaking Tonight in Michigan at a Nonunion Auto Shop, as a Guest of Its Boss](https://anti-robot.org/trump-is-speaking-tonight-in-michigan-at-a-nonunion-auto-shop-as-a-guest-of-its-boss/) - For days, the mainstream media has said Donald Trump is going to Michigan to speak to union autoworkers. That’s completely false: he is traveling there today to speak at a nonunion auto-parts shop, at the invitation of its boss. This evening, rather than attend the second Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump will speak at Drake
- [It’s Easy to Dramatically Cut Poverty. US Policymakers Just Don’t Want To.](https://anti-robot.org/its-easy-to-dramatically-cut-poverty-us-policymakers-just-dont-want-to/) - Children, the elderly, disabled people, and students continue to make up the vast majority of the US poor. We could easily slash poverty by increasing the generosity and reach of benefit programs for the nonworking population — but lawmakers refuse to do so. The Census released the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey
- [Some Democrats Are Trying to Preemptively Outlaw a Billionaire Tax](https://anti-robot.org/some-democrats-are-trying-to-preemptively-outlaw-a-billionaire-tax/) - Sensing its popularity, Obama’s former Supreme Court lawyer and a Louisiana Democrat are using an obscure corporate taxation case to try to make a federal wealth tax illegal before it even exists. The former Supreme Court lawyer for the Barack Obama administration and a Democratic senator-turned-lobbyist are pressuring justices to block Congress from ever instituting
- [UAW Members Are Striking Against Corporate Power — and Americans Overwhelmingly Back Them](https://anti-robot.org/uaw-members-are-striking-against-corporate-power-and-americans-overwhelmingly-back-them/) - United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain has said, “We fight for the good of the entire working class,” and Americans seem to believe him. In massive numbers, they tell pollsters they back the UAW over the Big Three auto companies. Echoing the best of America’s labor tradition, President Shawn Fain has not been shy about
- [No One Man Should Have All That Power](https://anti-robot.org/no-one-man-should-have-all-that-power/) - As “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk continues his campaign of censorship at Twitter, we’re getting an exhibition in the outsize power of billionaires to shape our politics. Nearly a year in, self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter (or, sigh, X) is going exactly as you’d expect from a boss who has again and again shown he’s a
- [Wisconsin Republicans Are Reminding Us Once Again That They Really, Really Hate Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/wisconsin-republicans-are-reminding-us-once-again-that-they-really-really-hate-democracy/) - The Wisconsin GOP is at it again. With the party's stranglehold on the State Supreme Court in peril following a judicial election last spring, Republicans are now seeking to impeach the new judge before the court can throw out the state’s rigged election maps. Few elections in recent US history have arguably been as consequential as the
- [Poverty increased in 2022 as wages fell and inflation rose: Census](https://anti-robot.org/poverty-increased-in-2022-as-wages-fell-and-inflation-rose-census/) - A measure of poverty tracked by the Census Bureau rose in 2022, as COVID era benefits expired and average income fell, according to a Tuesday report. Why it matters: Child poverty saw a sharp increase in 2022 following a record low the year prior. Driving the news: While the official poverty rate (considered an outdated measure) didn't see a significant change from 2021 to
- [Anti-choice states aren’t satisfied. Now they want to punish traveling for abortions](https://anti-robot.org/anti-choice-states-arent-satisfied-now-they-want-to-punish-traveling-for-abortions/) - A husband who doesn’t want his wife to get an abortion could sue the friend who offered to drive her, according to this legislation’s own architect. How free can any woman be in a country where her right to control her body and family depends on the jurisdiction where she happens to live? Republicans are
- [The National Labor Relations Board Just Made It Easier for Workers to Win Unions](https://anti-robot.org/the-national-labor-relations-board-just-made-it-easier-for-workers-to-win-unions/) - An NLRB decision delivered late last month substantially lowers the legal hurdles to union recognition. But using that opening will require unions to build strong cultures of shop-floor solidarity in the face of employer intimidation. On August 25, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) handed down a decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC and International
- [Ohio Republicans accused of trying to mislead voters with abortion ballot wording](https://anti-robot.org/ohio-republicans-accused-of-trying-to-mislead-voters-with-abortion-ballot-wording/) - Last week, the Ohio ballot board – led by the Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose – approved the wording of Issue 1, a November ballot measure that will ask voters if the state constitution should guarantee a right to abortion, contraception, fertility treatment and miscarriage care. The new lawsuit accuses the ballot board’s Republican majority of
- [Big Pharma Is Threatening to Withhold Medicine in Protest of Regulation](https://anti-robot.org/big-pharma-is-threatening-to-withhold-medicine-in-protest-of-regulation/) - The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act introduced modest drug pricing restrictions. In response, big pharma companies — which have seen record profits — are threatening to slow the rollout of a lifesaving drug. A Swiss pharmaceutical company announced this month that it could slow-walk bringing a potentially lifesaving drug to market — in order to reduce
- [Companies That Union-Bust Must Now Automatically Recognize Union, NLRB Rules](https://anti-robot.org/companies-that-union-bust-must-now-automatically-recognize-union-nlrb-rules/) - A new framework for unionizations means that a company must voluntarily recognize a union or demand an election—and can no longer interfere with the election. The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling on Friday that changes the framework for unionizations, making it easier for workers to organize and harder for companies to fight back against them.
- [LOL, Fail ...](https://anti-robot.org/lol-fail/) - Wisdom in our modern world may boil down to recognizing that LOL and fail and trashy and OMG don’t actually represent different categories of human experience. Current culture kicks up ambivalence and regret. We mask our dread with peanut brittle and daiquiris.
- [Hate the media](https://anti-robot.org/hate-the-media/) - If you are not careful the media will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -Malcolm X
- [The battle over information](https://anti-robot.org/the-battle-over-information/) - When we are fooled into believing the battle over information is, in fact, a battle over our reality, we have already lost the war Today, "communications" is the science of influence. Mass communication is the study of how governments and corporations can control their populations and customers. Information and big data are the modern sciences
- [Fight the culture of fear](https://anti-robot.org/fight-the-culture-of-fear/) - A steady diet of lies feeds a growing public hysteria. We are conditioned to fear and this fear feeds on itself until we are ready to go to war and give up our basic rights all in the name of safety from some imaginary threat.
- [A lack of education hasn't hurt me none](https://anti-robot.org/a-lack-of-education-hasnt-hurt-me-none/) - An informed citizenry is a direct threat to corporate power. Corporations would rather have a population that is easily influenced to accept whatever message is given them by the corporate controlled media.
- [Astroturfing:](https://anti-robot.org/astroturfing/) - In American politics & Advertising formal public relations projects which deliberately seek to engineer the impression of spontaneous grassroots behavior. The goal is the appearance of independent public reaction to a politician, political group, product, service, event or similar entities by centrally orchestrating the behavior of many diverse and geographically distributed individuals.
- [Garbage in/Garbage out](https://anti-robot.org/garbage-in-garbage-out/) - Garbage in produces garbage out. However if the garbage is really designed to confuse or consume bandwidth & attention, then is it really garbage? It may be garbage to most but it is serving a purpose in the wars of ideas. Garbage/noise is consuming some portion of our attention. It is crowding out or masking
- [Dissent](https://anti-robot.org/dissent/) - Dissent only matters if it interferes with government or corporate plans.
- [Media. Whatever.](https://anti-robot.org/media-whatever/) - Through media real events come to us as one-demensional scripts. All is fabricated & coordinated according to the permutations dispensed by an automatic vending machine of ready-made explanations & predetermined emotions designed to arouse pity, indignation, disgust, whatever...
- [Signal to noise:](https://anti-robot.org/signal-to-noise/) - Data does not equal information. Data must be interpreted and understood in order to become information. Information does not equal knowledge. Knowledge is a construct that is created in the mind of the user as a result of accessing, processing and understanding information. Different individuals may extract different knowledge from the same information … or
- [Obey. Consume. Comply.](https://anti-robot.org/obey-consume-comply/) - Most people work 40-plus hours a week at jobs they don't like to buy things they don't need. We are a society of alienated individuals held together by a culture industry that serves the interests of capitalism. Popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate the masses into passivity; the
- [Believe in Science](https://anti-robot.org/believe-in-science/) - Genesis 1 to 11 was never meant to be a science textbook for the 21st century.
- [Media in a Democratic Society](https://anti-robot.org/media-in-a-democratic-society/) - There is a basic contradiction between a profit-driven, highly concentrated, advertising-saturated corporate media system and the requirements of a democratic society(e.g. an informed populace where all views are aired and the people are allowed to decide for themselves). There is no neutral, non-partisan mainstream press. It is a myth that "the market"compels media firms to
- [The Economy of Fear](https://anti-robot.org/the-economy-of-fear/) - The world economy is predicated on fear and unsatisfaction. We are conditioned by governments, corporations and the media (all are one in the same) to fear violence from all sides and to fear inadequacy in every aspect of our lives. No matter how much we spend in time, currency and grief, we can never achieve
- [Patterns of consumption](https://anti-robot.org/patterns-of-consumption/) - The real issue is not consumption itself but its patterns and effects.Inequalities in consumption are stark. Globally, the 20% of the world'speople in the highest-income countries account for 86% of total privateconsumption expenditures - the poorest 20% a miniscule 1.3%.More specifically, the richest fifth:Consume 45% of all meat and fish, the poorest fifth 5%.Consume 58%
- [Media was designed to absorb dissent.](https://anti-robot.org/media-was-designed-to-absorb-dissent/) - Being uninformed is one thing, but having a population that is actively misinformed presents problems when it comes to participating in the national debate, or the democratic process
- [More Than 8 Billion People](https://anti-robot.org/more-than-8-billion-people/) - Nothing can trend upward forever.There are now more than 8 billion people on the planet; more than twice as there were in 1960.
- [Consumer Culture](https://anti-robot.org/consumer-culture/) - Consumer culture is the ideological infrastructure that dictates and motivates peoples activities of consumption.
- [Middle Class](https://anti-robot.org/middle-class/) - These are the people who the controlling system (the wealthy, the “power elite”; those who own the media, the government, the means of production) has fooled into policing themselves and who it seeks to control even more, not just with bread and circuses, but with anxieties and drugs as well.It is no coincidence that the
- [Kansas paper raid shines light on rising anti-media rhetoric in US](https://anti-robot.org/kansas-paper-raid-shines-light-on-rising-anti-media-rhetoric-in-us/) - Incident charts a disturbing spike in intimidation and violence toward journalists following hateful bombast from politicians. When police raided the office of a Kansas newspaper last week and tore through the homes of its reporters, Donald Trump’s oft-heard refrain that the US media is “the enemy of the people” might not have been uppermost in the officers’
- [Social Media/Mass Media](https://anti-robot.org/social-media-mass-media/) - Social Media/Mass Media, under the influence of market forces, functionally acts as a propaganda machine.
- [Propaganda artwork is simultaneously an affirmation and a critique of an ideological system](https://anti-robot.org/propaganda-artwork-is-simultaneously-an-affirmation-and-a-critique-of-an-ideological-system/) - Art is more powerful if produced outside the art market and in the context of politics. Artists working for propaganda are truer to art than those who produce for the individual consumer. Every ideology whether political or religious has a vision or image behind it, whereas the art market does not. It merely circulates images.
- [Dogs](https://anti-robot.org/dogs/) - Dogs, unlike us, are not cogs in the capitalist machine.
- [Techno-Feudalism](https://anti-robot.org/techno-feudalism/) - The capitalist system is ruled more by brazen predation than by good old-fashioned labor exploitation. Capitalists increasingly rely on raw political power to coercively secure capital through everything from rents to cheap government-provided capital - a means of extracting surplus that looks a lot more like feudalism.
- [Gender Rights](https://anti-robot.org/gender-rights/) - Gender rights are extremely democratic so they threaten authoritarian regimes that rely on traditional, unequal gender roles, heteronormativity, and especially the cult of masculinity. Gender hierarchy implied by "traditional values" contributes to many other social hierarchies which can be naturalized through gendered metaphors. If it is agreed the the "masculine" should be superior, it may
- [Ideology](https://anti-robot.org/ideology/) - Ideology is not just political doctrine. What we are able to think, imagine, and say is a critical political issue. The dominant set of ideas, hegemony, conforms to the dominance of the ruling class while not being about the ruling class. Whoever controls language controls politics.
- [Cruises](https://anti-robot.org/cruises/) - Cruises are for people who get excited by the presence of jumbo prawns at the buffet. Most baffling is that anyone, post-Covid, goes on a cruise at all.
- [Star Trek Gave Us a Utopian Vision of an Egalitarian, Postcapitalist Future](https://anti-robot.org/star-trek-gave-us-a-utopian-vision-of-an-egalitarian-postcapitalist-future/) - Unlike many classic works of sci-fi, Star Trek offered an optimistic vision of humanity’s future — one where democracy triumphs, exploitation is ended, and everyone’s material needs are met. It’s the year 2364 and a tatty old space shuttle containing former Wall Street capitalist Ralph Offenhouse, who was cryogenically frozen in 1994, has just been discovered floating
- [The US Military Is a Mind-Bogglingly Expensive Purveyor of Global Death and Destruction](https://anti-robot.org/the-us-military-is-a-mind-bogglingly-expensive-purveyor-of-global-death-and-destruction/) - Pro-war hawks love to claim that the US military is “the greatest fighting force” in human history. It’s certainly exceptional in two ways: its obscene budget, and its ability to keep its record of death and destruction nearly invisible to the US public. How is the US military truly “exceptional”? Let me count the ways.
- [Conservatives Think “Marxism” Is Anything That Scares Them](https://anti-robot.org/conservatives-think-marxism-is-anything-that-scares-them/) - One of the leading lights of national conservatism, Yoram Hazony, devotes a chapter of his new book to the “Marxist challenge.” But like so many other conservatives, he seems to think Marxism means “anything conservatives find frightening.”
- [It absolutely is minority rule](https://anti-robot.org/it-absolutely-is-minority-rule/) - The election that could determine the future of democracy in Ohio An under-the-radar election in Ohio on Tuesday has quietly emerged as one of the most high-stakes stress tests for American democracy in recent years. The question Ohio voters will decide on 8 August is simple: how easy should it be to amend the state constitution? Like 17 other
- [Know Your Enemy: How to Defeat Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/know-your-enemy-how-to-defeat-capitalism/) - THEORY • February 6, 2022 • Michael A. Lebowitz Download PDF Download EPUB We must put an end to capitalism. To do that, we must know the enemy – capital. We will never defeat that enemy if we do not understand it – its effects, its strengths and weaknesses. If, for example, we don’t know capital as
- [Rule of Law Chronicles: America’s Shadow Theocrats](https://anti-robot.org/rule-of-law-chronicles-americas-shadow-theocrats/) - Dina Francesca Haynes APRIL 5, 2023 12:12:05 PM This article is the first in a series on attacks on the rule of law. The rule of law is a political philosophy premised on the promise that all citizens, leaders, and institutions are accountable to the same laws, guaranteed through processes, practices, and norms that work
- [The Right’s Attacks on Librarian Emily Drabinski Are a Homophobic Assault on Free Speech](https://anti-robot.org/the-rights-attacks-on-librarian-emily-drabinski-are-a-homophobic-assault-on-free-speech/) - In launching red-baiting, homophobic attacks on librarian Emily Drabinski, the Right has shown it cares little about freedom of speech. Liberals and leftists should stand with Drabinski — both because the attacks are absurd and because they won’t stop here. For a while there, the GOP was trying very hard to rebrand as the pro–free
- [Leftist Elected Officials Should Always Vote No on the Military Budget](https://anti-robot.org/leftist-elected-officials-should-always-vote-no-on-the-military-budget/) - It should be a matter of course that self-identified leftist and progressive members of Congress should vote down the annual bloated, dangerous, war-profiteer bonanza that is the military budget Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders cast a vote that should be expected of all left-leaning politicians in Congress: he voted against giving $886 billion to the
- [What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain](https://anti-robot.org/what-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-and-viktor-orban-understand-about-your-brain/) - Why do some people who support Trump also wind up believing conspiracy theories? There’s a scientific explanation for that. Why do people believe some politicians’ lies even when they have been proven false? And why do so many of the same people peddle conspiracy theories? Lying and conspiratorical thinking might seem to be two different
- [The Strike Is One of Workers’ Most Powerful Weapons Against Exploitation](https://anti-robot.org/the-strike-is-one-of-workers-most-powerful-weapons-against-exploitation/) - It’s the summer of the strike: Hollywood actors and writers are staging a massive joint walkout, UPS Teamsters have won a historic tentative agreement on the back of a strike threat, and a major labor stoppage is likely in coming months at one of the “Big Three” American automakers. What does this recent wave of
- [Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road'](https://anti-robot.org/eating-less-meat-like-taking-8m-cars-off-road/) - Having big UK meat-eaters cut some of it out of their diet would be like taking 8 million cars off the road. That's just one of the findings of new research that scientists say gives the most reliable calculation yet of how what we eat impacts our planet. The Oxford University study is the first
- [Production and Consumption Under Capitalism — and Socialism](https://anti-robot.org/production-and-consumption-under-capitalism-and-socialism/) - Democratic socialists see the point of socialism as extending democracy from politics to the economy. Defenders of capitalism sometimes push back against this by saying that the masses of ordinary people already control production — through the “price signals” they send through their consumer choices. Libertarian writers Milton and Rose Friedman famously argued in their book Free to
- [Socialism Can Help Contain Humanity’s Worst Impulses and Encourage Our Best](https://anti-robot.org/socialism-can-help-contain-humanitys-worst-impulses-and-encourage-our-best/) - apitalism leads to tremendous amounts of poverty, economic inequality, and financial stress. It disempowers the vast majority of the working-age population, who have no realistic choice except to spend half of their waking hours at workplaces where they take orders from unelected bosses. Outside of the workplace, decisions with major impact on society as a
- [The bucket list for involved citizens: 76 things you can do to boost civic engagement](https://anti-robot.org/the-bucket-list-for-involved-citizens-76-things-you-can-do-to-boost-civic-engagement/) - While by no means comprehensive, the “Democracy 76” list below provides specific and practical actions that we all can take to be an involved citizen. The list is broken into five actions that are essential components for engagement. It is expressly free from politics and partisanship and should be undertaken by all Americans—regardless of political
- [Corporations Will Never Defend Social Justice](https://anti-robot.org/corporations-will-never-defend-social-justice/) - It was always somewhat absurd to celebrate large corporate enterprises for embracing the language of social justice. Many big companies discriminate and treat their workers poorly, whatever superficial inclusionist rhetoric their PR departments like to spout — to say nothing of how many union bust and contribute to climate change. Such enterprises are, by definition,
- [Poster ideas](https://anti-robot.org/poster-ideas/)
- [Police protect the corporate line. Ide](https://anti-robot.org/police-protect-the-corporate-line-ide-2/)
- [Police protect the corporate line. Ide](https://anti-robot.org/police-protect-the-corporate-line-ide/)
- [Police protect corp . Or this perhaps. THX 1138](https://anti-robot.org/police-protect-corp-or-this-perhaps-thx-1138/)
- [Poster design](https://anti-robot.org/poster-design-2/)
- [Batshit-tv.jpg](https://anti-robot.org/batshit-tv-jpg-2/)
- [Design idea](https://anti-robot.org/design-idea/)
- [Opening doors and pulling some strings](https://anti-robot.org/opening-doors-and-pulling-some-strings/) - Update: 09:10
- [Miscellaneous Robot Notes](https://anti-robot.org/miscellaneous-robot-notes/) - A storm is threatening my very life today.
- [Post-Anthropocene Humanism](https://anti-robot.org/post-anthropocene-humanism/) - What will become of human centrality as our species is knocked off its pedestal by machines more intelligent than we are and de-centered by the humbling realization that survival depends on reducing our outsized footprint on this fragile planet? The vise of these two developments is prompting a rethinking of what humanism might mean in
- [<a href="https://jacobin.com/2022/10/bernie-sanders-wealth-concentration-oligarchy-democracy">Extreme Wealth Concentration Has Turned America Into an Oligarchy</a>](https://anti-robot.org/extreme-wealth-concentration-has-turned-america-into-an-oligarchy/) - A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth, while the bottom half of Americans hold only 2 percent. It’s another sign of the slide into oligarchy that Sanders has warned about for years. Last summer, Bernie Sanders’s YouTube channel released a short clip entitled simply “Oligarchy
- [Inequality in Emissions: What Does the Data Show?](https://anti-robot.org/inequality-in-emissions-what-does-the-data-show/) - Put simply, the climate crisis is being caused by the richest class in every country. They’re the ones who are recklessly driving us over the precipice of planetary breakdown. An Oxfam analysis with the Stockholm Environment Institute found the following: The per capita emissions of someone in the top 1 percent is 100 times higher than someone
- [Why is trickle-down economics still with us?](https://anti-robot.org/why-is-trickle-down-economics-still-with-us/) - This gonzo economic theory continues to live on, notwithstanding its repeated failures Within weeks of taking office, Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, and her chancellor of the exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, proposed a radical new set of economic measures that echoed the trickle-down policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan – heavy on tax cuts for
- [The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court](https://anti-robot.org/the-most-terrifying-case-of-all-is-about-to-be-heard-by-the-us-supreme-court/) - If the court upholds the rogue ‘Independent State Legislature’ theory, it would put the US squarely on the path to authoritarianism It is well-known that intense competition between democracy, authoritarianism and fascism is playing out across the globe in a variety of ways – including in the United States. This year’s US supreme court term, which started
- [We Can Reimagine Our Systems of Ownership and Control](https://anti-robot.org/we-can-reimagine-our-systems-of-ownership-and-control/) - The Left’s agenda has to include three basic commitments: democratize production, decommodify life’s essentials, and defend the public goods we all hold in common. To do that, we have to transform the very idea of ownership. Throughout the pandemic and the period of economic pain it brought, the news cycle has been gripped by a
- [‘The kids are just happier’: could California’s universal school meal program start a trend?](https://anti-robot.org/the-kids-are-just-happier-could-californias-universal-school-meal-program-start-a-trend/) - Parents, teachers and anti-hunger advocates hail new free-meal system, saying it improves academic performance and wellbeing Before California became the first state to implement a universal meals program for its 6.2 million public school students, Alyssa Wells would keep granola bars in her classroom for students who complained of being hungry. When the new program began in
- [The Border Patrol Has Vast, Largely Unchecked Powers That Are Expanding](https://anti-robot.org/the-border-patrol-has-vast-largely-unchecked-powers-that-are-expanding/) - The Border Patrol has largely avoided the scrutiny that police have come under in recent years. That should change: the Border Patrol’s powers are increasingly authoritarian, with few legal checks, and expanding throughout the United States. Inspired by the violent culture of the Texas Rangers, the US Border Patrol was established in 1924 as a
- [Republicans plan legal assault on climate disclosure rules for public companies](https://anti-robot.org/republicans-plan-legal-assault-on-climate-disclosure-rules-for-public-companies/) - The SEC’s proposed new rules, which would require public corporations to disclose climate-related information, have been criticized by industry groups Republican officials and corporate lobby groups are teeing up a multi-pronged legal assault on the Biden administration’s effort to help investors hold public corporations accountable for their carbon emissions and other climate change risks. The
- [DuckDuckGo, Proton, Mozilla throw weight behind bill targeting Big Tech ‘surveillance’](https://anti-robot.org/duckduckgo-proton-mozilla-throw-weight-behind-bill-targeting-big-tech-surveillance/) - Tech companies fighting for data privacy in the US want to resurrect a forgotten old bill A group of privacy-focused organizations have signed a letter imploring US Congress leaders to schedule a vote on a bill that would hamper data collection by tech giants and promote user access to online privacy tools. In its letter(opens in new
- [American workers are burned out and tired. There’s a solution: unions](https://anti-robot.org/american-workers-are-burned-out-and-tired-theres-a-solution-unions/) - The good news is, we know how to fix that malaise – because many, many people have been right there with you before What your awful, rich, heartless bosses do not want under any circumstances is a well-organized and pissed off labor union in their companies. That would really screw them. That is something they
- [Student Debt Relief Is Undermining the Military’s Predatory Recruiting Practices](https://anti-robot.org/student-debt-relief-is-undermining-the-militarys-predatory-recruiting-practices/) - The US military has a long history of recruiting poor people by offering benefits like free college. With Joe Biden’s partial student debt forgiveness, GOP war hawks are fretting that the military won’t be able to prey on desperate young Americans anymore. Amid a brutal year for military recruiting, conservative war hawks are openly fretting
- [Americans’ support for labor unions at highest for nearly 60 years](https://anti-robot.org/americans-support-for-labor-unions-at-highest-for-nearly-60-years/) - Gallup survey finds 71% of US residents approve of unions amid a wave of successful organizing efforts A new Gallup annual Work and Education survey found that Americans’ approval of labor unions is at its highest point in nearly 60 years. At 71%, residents of the US approve of unions at a higher rate than in 1965.
- [People are tired of being ignored while the rich get richer’: Bernie Sanders on anger and hope in the US and UK](https://anti-robot.org/people-are-tired-of-being-ignored-while-the-rich-get-richer-bernie-sanders-on-anger-and-hope-in-the-us-and-uk/) - The Vermont senator rose from the political margins to become hugely influential within the American left. As he prepares to speak at a London rally, he explains why unions on both sides of the Atlantic must reassert their power Both are unlikely political sensations who were long consigned to the fringes: Bernie Sanders, an octogenarian
- [Economists Say Life Is Going to Be More Expensive Forever, Sorry](https://anti-robot.org/economists-say-life-is-going-to-be-more-expensive-forever-sorry/) - The price of essentials like rent and medical drugs will never come down to pre-pandemic inflation levels if corporate greed goes unchallenged. These days, it seems like everyone has a few important questions on their mind: Is the economy still in the gutter? Or are things getting better? Does inflation mean prices will stay high
- [Ireland’s Struggle for Abortion Rights Should Be an Inspiration for the US](https://anti-robot.org/irelands-struggle-for-abortion-rights-should-be-an-inspiration-for-the-us/) - Irish pro-choice activists had to overcome a rigid constitutional ban on abortion that was in place for more than 30 years. They succeeded by putting mass mobilization and a confident assertion of the right to choose at the heart of their campaign. In May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a two-to-one majority to remove
- [Paul Sweezy Was One of the 20th Century’s Great Economic Thinkers](https://anti-robot.org/paul-sweezy-was-one-of-the-20th-centurys-great-economic-thinkers/) - The Marxist economist Paul Sweezy dedicated his life to understanding how capitalism works, and how it had changed since Karl Marx’s time. The big economic questions that Sweezy addressed are still fundamental for socialists today. Paul Sweezy was one of the most distinguished and most controversial Marxian economists of the twentieth century. Sweezy took up
- [Socialism Makes Summer Better](https://anti-robot.org/socialism-makes-summer-better/) - In capitalist America, millions of workers never get a vacation. But for the past century, bringing sunshine and leisure to the masses has been among the socialist movement’s greatest achievements. Many Americans not only have to work in person but also can’t get time off from their jobs. US employers are not required to provide
- [To Win a Political Revolution, We Need a New Mass Organization](https://anti-robot.org/to-win-a-political-revolution-we-need-a-new-mass-organization/) - Since Bernie Sanders’s defeat in 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US left has been largely disorganized. The time is ripe for Bernie and the Squad to create a new mass organization to confront today’s crises. t’s hard for leftists in the United States to find much to celebrate these days. After
- [Data brokers resist pressure to stop collecting info on pregnant people](https://anti-robot.org/data-brokers-resist-pressure-to-stop-collecting-info-on-pregnant-people/) - With concerns around data surveillance and abortion bans, lawmakers want these datasets to be off-limits. Democratic lawmakers are piling pressure on data brokers to stop collecting information on pregnant people in order to protect those seeking abortions. They’re not having much luck. For years, brokers have sold datasets on millions of expectant parents from their
- [Why Capitalists Care About Our Record-Low Birth Rate](https://anti-robot.org/why-capitalists-care-about-our-record-low-birth-rate/) - Our ruling class, like ruling classes throughout history, cares intensely about how many kids we have and how much it will cost them. If we continue to think of the establishment as a neutral arbiter, and the abortion fight as a squabble between ordinary people, we’ll miss what is really at stake. The ruling class
- [Women's wages fall by at least 5% after abortion restrictions, new study finds](https://anti-robot.org/womens-wages-fall-by-at-least-5-after-abortion-restrictions-new-study-finds/) - Women's average wages fall after abortion restrictions are enacted in their home state, as some either stop working or take lower-paying jobs, finds a comprehensive new analysis, set to be published next year in the Indiana Law Journal. Why it matters: The study expands on other research, looking at decades of data across the U.S., and points toward a grim
- [Conservative Democrat Introduces Labor Bill That Would Exempt Millions from a Minimum Wage](https://anti-robot.org/conservative-democrat-introduces-labor-bill-that-would-exempt-millions-from-a-minimum-wage/) - The bill would lock workers out of basic labor rights and protections, while preventing states from enforcing higher standards. In late July, Democratic Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar along with Republican co-sponsors Elise Stefanik of New York and Michelle Steel of California introduced a bill that, if passed, would gut labor law and exempt millions of
- [Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility](https://anti-robot.org/social-capital-i-measurement-and-associations-with-economic-mobility/) - Social capital—the strength of an individual’s social network and community—has been identified as a potential determinant of outcomes ranging from education to health1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8. However, efforts to understand what types of social capital matter for these outcomes have been hindered by a lack of social network data. Here, in the first of a pair of papers9,
- [US sees union boom despite big companies’ aggressive opposition](https://anti-robot.org/us-sees-union-boom-despite-big-companies-aggressive-opposition/) - Wins for Amazon and Starbucks workers shows labor movement surging after years of decline – but pushback has been fierce. After years of decline, the American labor movement is experiencing a resurgence, with an increase in popularity of unions and of workers organizing. But the corporate pushback in America has been fierce, and has come
- [To Defend Democracy, We Need Mass Action](https://anti-robot.org/to-defend-democracy-we-need-mass-action/) - We can’t sit on our hands waiting for Joe Biden to protect abortion and the climate. Movements for the New Deal and civil rights showed us how to beat the Supreme Court and other reactionary, undemocratic institutions: mass action. When democracy is under attack, what do we do? Despite holding the presidency, the House, and
- [The Free Market Is Making All Our Problems Worse, Not Better](https://anti-robot.org/the-free-market-is-making-all-our-problems-worse-not-better/) - The world is on fire all around us. The free market can’t put that fire out — only massive state intervention in the economy can. Mainstream politicians these days are constantly looking for excuses to justify their divergence from market dogma. From the pandemic to the energy crisis, the war in Ukraine and growing inflation,
- [Resource Nationalism and Decarbonization](https://anti-robot.org/resource-nationalism-and-decarbonization/) - Revisiting “resource nationalism” in a new era of raw minerals demand Across Latin America, a string of recent left-wing electoral victories has drawn comparisons to “Pink Tide” of the early 2000s. The Pink Tide took place in the context of a global commodities boom. The current moment, however, coincides with a global push towards decarbonization,
- [Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”](https://anti-robot.org/police-departments-spend-vast-sums-of-money-creating-copaganda/) - US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what public safety means, what threatens it, and how to solve it. According to police department documents provided to the County Board of Supervisors, budget
- [Good News: Economy Sucks, You’re Screwed, and It’s All Your Fault, Economists Say](https://anti-robot.org/good-news-economy-sucks-youre-screwed-and-its-all-your-fault-economists-say/) - Make sure you're doing your part to help fight inflation: accept those wage cuts and worsening working conditions! Good news everyone: wage increases are slowing, raises are getting smaller, layoffs are beginning to happen, and inflation is all your fault. And you should be grateful about all of this, according to a series of recent
- [The Neoliberal Order Is Crumbling. It’s Up to Us What Comes Next.](https://anti-robot.org/the-neoliberal-order-is-crumbling-its-up-to-us-what-comes-next/) - AN INTERVIEW WITHGARY GERSTLE Neoliberalism may not be dead, but it is no longer the unquestioned ideology of our time. That leaves a huge opening for those on the Left who want to see a political and economic order based on democracy and solidarity rather than unbridled profit-seeking. A political movement becomes a political order
- [Art Should Show Things People Do Not Want to See](https://anti-robot.org/art-should-show-things-people-do-not-want-to-see/) - In an effort to make art more accessible, progressives have often campaigned for its democratization. Speaking to Jacobin, the art historian Boris Groys argues that these initiatives tend to rely on a commodified vision of culture which we should reject. Read more ...
- [Google's 'Democratic AI' Is Better At Redistributing Wealth Than America](https://anti-robot.org/googles-democratic-ai-is-better-at-redistributing-wealth-than-america/) - Researchers built an AI that gives out money based on who started with less resources—and humans preferred it. It’s no secret that the overwhelming majority of wealth in the United States is concentrated at the very top, creating staggering levels of poverty and inequality that vastly outpace other supposedly “wealthy” nations. But while the current political system ensures
- [The Democrats have been embarrassingly useless on abortion.](https://anti-robot.org/the-democrats-have-been-embarrassingly-useless-on-abortion/) - Observers of American politics should by now know the Democratic Party is a feckless, corrupt institution incapable of meeting the challenges of our time — congenitally averse to fighting for its principles, to the extent that it actually has any. But even the most jaded cynics have to be shocked at just how useless the
- [15 Years Ago, Mad Men Quietly Began Its Engagement With Leftist Ideas](https://anti-robot.org/15-years-ago-mad-men-quietly-began-its-engagement-with-leftist-ideas/) - This month marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of Mad Men. The show isn’t just compelling narratively and aesthetically — it also features a little remarked upon consideration of left ideas. The prestige drama Mad Men, which ran for seven seasons, beginning fifteen years ago this month, received plenty of awards and close readings from mainstream
- [A Remedy For Undemocratic Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/a-remedy-for-undemocratic-democracy/) - A shift to proportional representation in the U.S. would open up new possibilities — not just on guns, but on climate, immigration and democracy itself. It doesn’t seem to matter that majorities of Americans support common sense gun reform, or that majorities of Americans vote for the party that promises common sense gun reform. Even majority support
- [The Roe ruling is not about states’ rights. It’s about power and control](https://anti-robot.org/the-roe-ruling-is-not-about-states-rights-its-about-power-and-control/) - From The Guardian It’s tempting to blame rightwing evangelicals for what happened last week – but big business also benefits from our loss of autonomy. When I was younger, my ideas about justice, religion, and harm were burgeoning and confused. Then I learned more. I studied and met Black women who were fighting for full reproductive justice:
- [The WTO, with its ‘market knows best’ ideology, has failed. It’s time to bury it](https://anti-robot.org/the-wto-with-its-market-knows-best-ideology-has-failed-its-time-to-bury-it/) - The World Trade Organization has encouraged agricultural monopolies and cheap labour, and created vulnerable supply chains When delegates arrive in Geneva today for the long delayed World Trade Organization (WTO) summit, they will find an institution in the middle of an existential crisis. For 18 long months, the WTO has been debating a moderate proposal from South
- [Electric Cars Won’t Save Us](https://anti-robot.org/electric-cars-wont-save-us/) - The electric car will be an important part of a green transition. But our main focus should be moving toward green collective mobility like public transportation and away from the dominance of personally owned cars. Despite the commitment to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius set by the Paris Agreement, the latest assessment of
- [Union workers receive far better pay and rights](https://anti-robot.org/union-workers-receive-far-better-pay-and-rights/) - Study shows unionized workers earn 10.2% more than non-union peers, amid wave of organizing at some of largest US employers Workers represented by labor unions earn 10.2% higher wages than their non-union peers, have better benefits and collectively raise wages industry-wide, according to a report released by the House and Senate committees on Friday and
- [Abolish the Military-Entertainment Complex](https://anti-robot.org/abolish-the-military-entertainment-complex/) - For every one of the few anti-militarist screenplays that are made into films, far more are reflexively spiked because their defiant content raises objections from military leaders. The military quietly infiltrating a movie studio . . . the idea might seem like a fantastical plot from a film, but Top Gun: Maverick is a reminder that it’s
- [Top Gun: Maverick Is Another Military Recruitment Video Disguised as a Movie](https://anti-robot.org/top-gun-maverick-is-another-military-recruitment-video-disguised-as-a-movie/) - The hotly anticipated sequel to Top Gun, the 1986 movie that made Tom Cruise a star, is raking in cash, great reviews, and even Oscar buzz. Don’t be fooled — it’s the same glorified military recruitment video that the original was. Is it any use pointing out that the first Top Gun was a ludicrous piece of shit?
- [Capitalism Creates Chaos. The Carceral System Is a Bad Attempt to Contain It.](https://anti-robot.org/capitalism-creates-chaos-the-carceral-system-is-a-bad-attempt-to-contain-it/) - Capitalism creates social disorder and relies on police and prisons to manage it. Until liberals recognize this link between criminal justice and the economy, their reform programs will be ineffectual — and racist policing and mass incarceration will persist. The racial composition of the American prison system is staggeringly unequal, with black people incarcerated at
- [Suffer the Little Children](https://anti-robot.org/suffer-the-little-children/) - For the right, kids are no longer off-limits AGAINST THE NAUSEATING BACKDROP of human misery and calculating cruelty that comprised the now-notorious 2018 zero tolerance policy more often known as family separation, there was dark comedy in watching “family-loving” conservatives and a growing web of right-wing influencers twist themselves into pretzels defending the barbarism against families
- [GOD HAS HEARD YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AND HE THINKS THEY ARE FUCKING BULLSHIT](https://anti-robot.org/god-has-heard-your-thoughts-and-prayers-and-he-thinks-they-are-fucking-bullshit/) - Hi. God here. I am contacting you in response to your prayers regarding the most recent and totally horrific mass shooting in a college/ high school/ elementary school/ bar/ nightclub/ park/ shopping mall/ concert/ movie theater/ parking lot/ church/ mosque/ synagogue. I have listened to your prayers, America, and I have come to the conclusion
- [The Almighty Gun](https://anti-robot.org/the-almighty-gun/) - Ritualistic child sacrifice is the price we pay for veneration of gun rights. Year after year, the United States sacrifices children at the altar of gun rights. Since the Columbine shootings in 1999, at least 185 people have been killed in school violence, according to the Washington Post—the great majority of them children and teenagers. The Post’s database
- [Tennessee Republicans outlaw “divisive concepts” in the classroom](https://anti-robot.org/tennessee-republicans-outlaw-divisive-concepts-in-the-classroom/) - TENNESSEE’S SPRING LEGISLATIVE session featured a barrage of draconian bills—almost all of which passed. In the words of Democratic State Representative Gloria Johnson, “We have a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill worse than Florida’s” and “a vigilante abortion bill worse than Texas’. A bill that makes your friends and family $10k if they rat you out.” Add to that
- [Corporate America’s Favorite Legal Trick Is Backfiring](https://anti-robot.org/corporate-americas-favorite-legal-trick-is-backfiring/) - For decades, companies have used arbitration agreements to shirk responsibilities to their customers and employees. Now the tables are starting to turn, as customers and employees use such agreements against corporations. Read more ...
- [In America, There Is Mass Death, Then There Is Nothing](https://anti-robot.org/in-america-there-is-mass-death-then-there-is-nothing/) - It doesn’t matter how many people are slaughtered. It doesn’t even matter if they’re children, as they were in Texas yesterday. In America, the response to gun violence is nothing. What revelatory phrases or comments or “thoughts and prayers” can be uttered or tapped out on a keyboard or yelled into a microphone when we
- [School Privatizers Are Leaning Hard Into the Culture Wars](https://anti-robot.org/school-privatizers-are-leaning-hard-into-the-culture-wars/) - A billionaire-backed network of free-market fundamentalists is ginning up controversy over “wokeness” in American schools with an ulterior motive: to demolish public education. In a Massachusetts school district neighboring the one where I work, four parents, backed by a conservative Christian organization, are suing the school committee and multiple district employees for calling students by their preferred
- [Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to young adults in the US](https://anti-robot.org/brooklyn-public-library-is-offering-free-digital-library-cards-to-young-adults-in-the-us/) - The move is intended to counteract a growing book censorship movement The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is counteracting a ban on certain books by letting anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 apply for a digital library card. This gives teens and young adults, regardless of their location in the United States, access to
- [If You Like Democracy, You Should Oppose Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/if-you-like-democracy-you-should-oppose-capitalism/) - Liberal democracy gives us essential rights like free speech and civil liberties. But without challenging the domination of capital, liberal rights will always be curtailed by the power of the rich. In his 2001 book, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, Rawls argued that competitive capitalism, and even an extensive Nordic-style welfare state, didn’t meet the requirements
- [Jen Psaki in tears during interview on Republican anti-LGBTQ cruelty](https://anti-robot.org/jen-psaki-in-tears-during-interview-on-republican-anti-lgbtq-cruelty/) - The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, broke down in tears during an interview in which she condemned the “cruelty” of a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation sweeping Republican states. Known for her toughness at the briefing room podium, Psaki showed a more emotional side during the discussion with Jessica Yellin, host of the News Not Noise podcast,
- [Turns out an awful lot of US politicians see no problem with kids going hungry](https://anti-robot.org/turns-out-an-awful-lot-of-us-politicians-see-no-problem-with-kids-going-hungry/) - Last year the US government lifted millions of children out of poverty when it expanded the Child Tax Credit – and then the policy was simply chucked away. This one simple trick will help get kids out of poverty Child poverty is bad. I think we can all agree on that, right? Americans are divided
- [Republicans are dusting off a tried and true election strategy: hatemongering](https://anti-robot.org/republicans-are-dusting-off-a-tried-and-true-election-strategy-hatemongering/) - Male voters have been drifting right in record numbers – and Republicans are taking a viciously homophobic and sexist tack to appeal to them. The 2022 midterm elections are shaping up to be among the most deeply gender-divided elections in American history. A new poll by NBC News, measuring voters’ preferences ahead of the November elections,
- [Efforts to ban books jumped four-fold in 2021](https://anti-robot.org/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-four-fold-in-2021/) - From NPR Book banning is not new — in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times, when Thomas Morton's book New English Caanan and others opposing this way of life were tossed from Massachusetts. But the American Library Association said Monday that this year there have been more challenges to books than they have seen since
- [Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers](https://anti-robot.org/uber-funds-new-lobbying-group-to-deny-rights-for-gig-workers/) - Flex seeks to defend gig companies’ business models amid push to pass laws that would defend workers’ right to unionize and strike Flex seeks to defend the business models of these companies, which use workers labeled as independent contractors, amid a renewed push in Washington to pass labor laws that would defend those workers’ right
- [US unions see unusually promising moment amid wave of victories](https://anti-robot.org/us-unions-see-unusually-promising-moment-amid-wave-of-victories/) - Labor strategists hope wins will turn into a larger trend but acknowledge it won’t be easy as corporations fight fiercely against unionization The recent, much-publicized wave of union victories in the US at companies as varied as the giant coffee chain Starbucks, trendy outdoor outfitters REI and media group the New York Times is spurring hopes that
- [Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system](https://anti-robot.org/burnout-a-personal-malady-that-indexes-a-broken-labor-system/) - From The Baffler The legendary sociologist C. Wright Mills proposed that the “sociological imagination”—an understanding of how our own experiences reflect broader social and historical forces—could help us link our seemingly private troubles to public issues. Burnout, a personal malady that indexes a broken labor system, is a prime candidate for such reimagining. The emergence
- [The real and far scarier reason Republicans think Biden is illegitimate](https://anti-robot.org/the-real-and-far-scarier-reason-republicans-think-biden-is-illegitimate/) - The real – and far scarier – reason Republicans think Biden is illegitimate. Many conservatives don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. But they believe democracy itself has betrayed America, by allowing the ‘wrong’ people to take charge. From The Guardian Earlier this month, Team Trump claimed in court that their efforts to nullify Joe Biden’s victory
- [The Reactionary Prophet of Russian Ultranationalism](https://anti-robot.org/the-reactionary-prophet-of-russian-ultranationalism/) - An interesting read for it's insight into Bannon and the like. Most have probably never heard of Aleksandr Dugin or the global Traditionalist tendency to which he belongs. But the Russian thinker — and his analogues in Brazil, America, and beyond — have appeared to exercise real influence on the global right from a position
- [International Women’s Day Belongs to Women](https://anti-robot.org/international-womens-day-belongs-to-women/) - Capitalists keep trying to co-opt International Women’s Day, a century-old product of the working-class revolutionary movement. But the day belongs to the socialist antiwar tradition. This year’s proud supporters of International Women’s Day (IWD) include such ghoulish merchants of slaughter as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. But while those profiteers of death help fuel war in
- [Socialists Fight for a Future Without War](https://anti-robot.org/socialists-fight-for-a-future-without-war/) - War is nothing but organized killing, and there can be no justification for it. Today we must do what we can to support Ukrainian refugees and to show our solidarity with the brave protesters across Russia who insist that war is not carried out in their name. There is no force more destructive in human
- [Deadly mix: oligarchic economics and racist, nationalist populism](https://anti-robot.org/deadly-mix-oligarchic-economics-and-racist-nationalist-populism/) - A treacherous alliance is growing that will undermine democratic institutions in the US and elsewhere. The United States presents itself as the beacon of democracy in contrast to the autocracies of China and Russia. Yet American democracy is in danger of succumbing to the same sort of oligarchic economics and racist nationalism that thrive in
- [Since Ancient Greece, People Have Fought for Genuine Freedom Against the Wealthy](https://anti-robot.org/since-ancient-greece-people-have-fought-for-genuine-freedom-against-the-wealthy/) - Today, it is common for the libertarian and Christian right to claim they are fighting for freedom. But their notion of freedom has always stood at odds with the democratic cause of freedom to redistribute political power and wealth. Freedom is life,” declared a banner at a recent rally against public health measures taken to
- [The Fed is about to raise interest rates and shaft American workers – again](https://anti-robot.org/the-fed-is-about-to-raise-interest-rates-and-shaft-american-workers-again/) - Policymakers fear a labor shortage is pushing up wages and prices. Wrong. Real wages are down and workers are struggling The January jobs report from the US labor department is heightening fears that a so-called “tight” labor market is fueling inflation, and therefore the Fed must put on the brakes by raising interest rates. This
- [Oil Is Killing the Planet -- And Driving Inflation](https://anti-robot.org/oil-is-killing-the-planet-and-driving-inflation/) - Today’s inflation isn’t just caused by a post-pandemic rebound in fuel prices, but a long-term exhaustion of oil production. We need to end our dependency on fossil fuels without it becoming the pretext for another wave of austerity. The price of crude oil has soared to over $90 per barrel from the early-pandemic depths of
- [Manchin and Sinema Defend the Filibuster Because the Filibuster Defends Corporate Power](https://anti-robot.org/manchin-and-sinema-defend-the-filibuster-because-the-filibuster-defends-corporate-power/) - The filibuster is not about democratic checks or minority rights. The filibuster is about giving corporations veto power over the economy — which is why Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema defend it. As Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) defend the filibuster and block voting rights legislation, corporate media keeps repeating the lie
- [Which is more dysfunctional – the US or the UK?](https://anti-robot.org/which-is-more-dysfunctional-the-us-or-the-uk/) - Living in the US, I have always seized every opportunity to insist things are better in Blighty. But now both countries look ludicrous. Arwa Mahdawi Then Brexit happened. Suddenly the US media (and the rest of the world) started looking at the UK with more sceptical eyes. Britain’s global reputation started to plummet, as did the
- [Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’](https://anti-robot.org/google-had-secret-project-to-convince-employees-that-unions-suck/) - New court documents reveal how Google ran its anti-union campaign, 'Project Vivian,' between late 2018 and early 2020. A National Labor Relations Board ruling sheds light on a highly secret anti-union campaign at Google, that a top executive explicitly described as an initiative to “convince [employees] that unions suck." The campaign was called Project Vivian,
- [A Year After the Capitol Riot, Nothing Useful Has Been Done](https://anti-robot.org/a-year-after-the-capitol-riot-nothing-useful-has-been-done/) - After the January 6 violence at the Capitol, Americans got a bigger national security state. What they didn’t get was solutions to any of the underlying forces that helped bolster right-wing extremism. It’s been a year since the Capitol riot, when Donald Trump supporters, whipped into a frenzy, ransacked governmental buildings, led directly to several
- [Fox News goes off the rails on US Capitol attack anniversary](https://anti-robot.org/fox-news-goes-off-the-rails-on-us-capitol-attack-anniversary/) - Rightwing network presented a carnival of conspiracy theories casting blame anywhere other than on Trump and his supporters. Joe Biden marked the first anniversary of 6 January with a powerful, ideological speech about the choice between democracy and autocracy. It began a day of reflection in which Democratic Congress members and police officers spoke of
- [When American democracy crumbles, it won’t be televised](https://anti-robot.org/when-american-democracy-crumbles-it-wont-be-televised/) - Don’t expect a dramatic fascist storming of the Capitol building or a military takeover when our crisis comes to a head. Americans are not exactly known for nuance. Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us then that the rightwing protests that turned into a riot at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 were immediately described
- [Joe Biden needs to stand up and fight Manchin like our lives depend on it](https://anti-robot.org/joe-biden-needs-to-stand-up-and-fight-manchin-like-our-lives-depend-on-it/) - If we are to stand any chance in avoiding climate breakdown, Biden needs to act decisively – and now. Afew days before Christmas, Joe Manchin appeared on Fox News to publicly retract his support for the Build Back Better Act. Even by the pathologically callous standards of Washington, it felt surreal to watch a politician
- [One-party rule is now the credo of Trump and his followers](https://anti-robot.org/one-party-rule-is-now-the-credo-of-trump-and-his-followers/) - An illiberal democracy, similar to Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, is increasingly the model for Republicans. The first anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol approaches, our cold civil war grows hotter by the day, and the numbers tell the story. A majority of Republicans view the attack as a defense of freedom (56%) and just under half (47%)
- [Our new year’s resolution for 2022: to rise up and fight back](https://anti-robot.org/our-new-years-resolution-for-2022-to-rise-up-and-fight-back/) - Bernie Sanders Corporate greed and class warfare are crushing working people. No one is going to save us – we need to rise up together. the challenges we face are enormous and it is easy to understand why many may fall into depression and cynicism. This is a state of mind, however, that we must
- [Americans Still Don’t Want War, Despite the Military-Industrial Complex’s Best Efforts](https://anti-robot.org/americans-still-dont-want-war-despite-the-military-industrial-complexs-best-efforts/) - Over the past year, the US public has been subjected to an avalanche of propaganda attempting to stoke future war with Russia and China. What’s stunning is how few Americans are buying it. The US public’s appetite for war is still remarkably small, despite the best efforts of its elite. A recent survey from YouGov and the
- ["Don’t Look Up" Captures the Stupidity of Our Political Era](https://anti-robot.org/dont-look-up-captures-the-stupidity-of-our-political-era/) - The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that as absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational as in the movie. The times we live in are both shot through with
- [The true meaning of 6 January: we must answer Trump’s neofascism with hope](https://anti-robot.org/the-true-meaning-of-6-january-we-must-answer-trumps-neofascism-with-hope/) - 6 January will be the first anniversary one of the most shameful days in American history. On that date in 2021, the United States Capitol was attacked by thousands of armed loyalists to Donald Trump, some intent on killing members of Congress. About 140 officers were injured. Five people died. Even now, almost a year later,
- [America is now in fascism’s legal phase](https://anti-robot.org/america-is-now-in-fascisms-legal-phase/) - The history of racism in the US is fertile ground for fascism. Attacks on the courts, education, the right to vote and women’s rights are further steps on the path to toppling democracy. Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a
- [The Koch Network Is Spreading COVID Misinformation](https://anti-robot.org/the-koch-network-is-spreading-covid-misinformation/) - As the Omicron variant surges, an institute funded by the Koch network may be undermining government attempts to stop the pandemic. Earlier this month, as the Omicron variant began to spread, a small liberal arts school on a tree-lined campus in Michigan called Hillsdale College announced it was launching an Academy for Science and Freedom to “educate
- [Republicans are plotting to destroy democracy from within](https://anti-robot.org/republicans-are-plotting-to-destroy-democracy-from-within/) - Opportunism and cowardice has more than sufficed to make Republicans espouse a noxious falsehood as an axiomatic truth. At hand is a plot to destroy American democracy from within. Its organizers have infiltrated the highest echelons of state and federal government, and have instigated and condoned acts of violence directed against our elected officials. This
- [How China Uses Western Influencers As Pawns In Its Propaganda War](https://anti-robot.org/how-china-uses-western-influencers-as-pawns-in-its-propaganda-war/) - China's efforts to subdue the turkic-speaking Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region will be familiar to Techdirt readers. International awareness is increasing, too, not least thanks to the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics that the US and other countries have announced. That presents an interesting challenge to the Chinese authorities: how to counter the growing evidence of pervasive
- [Tech bros have been feeding the trolls – and women are paying the price](https://anti-robot.org/tech-bros-have-been-feeding-the-trolls-and-women-are-paying-the-price/) - Misogynistic abuse is rife online but women don’t bother to report it because nothing gets done. Why? Tech companies just don’t care. Read more ...
- [Radicalized Christian nationalism is a growing threat to American democracy](https://anti-robot.org/radicalized-christian-nationalism-is-a-growing-threat-to-american-democracy/) - A relatively small but incredibly organized faction is working to turn the country into something resembling a theocracy The two genders: men and ‘earthen vessels’ Forget everything you ever thought you knew about pregnancy: a 26-year-old congressman, who will never be pregnant himself, has helpfully stepped in to explain the process to everyone. A fetus
- [Nordic Social Democracy Is Good for Everybody Except the Rich](https://anti-robot.org/nordic-social-democracy-is-good-for-everybody-except-the-rich/) - Thanks to social democratic policies, the bottom 60 percent of Danes are better off than the bottom 60 percent of Americans. Even middle-class Danes benefit from a strong welfare state. The only group that doesn’t? The rich. Comparing incomes across countries poses certain difficulties: incomes are paid in different currencies, products have different prices, tax
- [America witnessed a coup attempt. Now it’s sleep-walking into another disaster](https://anti-robot.org/america-witnessed-a-coup-attempt-now-its-sleep-walking-into-another-disaster/) - What happened on 6 January was an attempt to overturn the election results and the rule of law. The threat is far from over. Even as the mob ran screaming and smashing through the capitol on J6 anuary , it was clear this was a coup attempt. It was equally clear that it had been
- [What’s really wrong with the mainstream media](https://anti-robot.org/whats-really-wrong-with-the-mainstream-media/) - Robert Reich - From favoring the status quo to indulging in false equivalence, the mainstream media engages in subtle, persistent biases. That’s why I read the Guardian. I’m often asked how I keep up with the news. Obviously, I avoid the unhinged rightwing outlets pushing misinformation, disinformation and poisonous lies. But I’ve also grown wary
- [20-Year Study Shows Trickle-Down Is a Myth, Inequality Rampant](https://anti-robot.org/20-year-study-shows-trickle-down-is-a-myth-inequality-rampant/) - Inequality has remained persistently high for decades, and a new report shows just how stark the divide is between the richest and poorest people on the planet. Insider reports:The 2022 World Inequality Report, a huge undertaking coordinated by economic and inequality experts Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman, was the product of four years
- [Six Things You’re Not Hearing About Inflation](https://anti-robot.org/six-things-youre-not-hearing-about-inflation/) - The current conversation about inflation serves corporate interests. nflation is punching far above its weight in the minds of Americans immersed in louder and louder media alarms about rising prices — often stripped of any context or policy prescriptions that might complicate the narrative, embarrass the rich, or spotlight the predatory business practices of wildly
- [The supreme court is coming for women’s rights after all](https://anti-robot.org/surprise-surprise-the-supreme-court-is-coming-for-womens-rights-after-all/) - With Trump appointees setting the tone, promises to be above the partisan fray are revealed as – obviously – a pack of lies. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask how many kids you can have for your country Looks like those “hysterical” women were right after all. For the past few
- [Hospitals Are Using the Nursing Shortage to Stiff Health Care Workers](https://anti-robot.org/hospitals-are-using-the-nursing-shortage-to-stiff-health-care-workers/) - Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below. There’s no shortage of articles about our nationwide nursing shortage. Everywhere, foreboding headlines paint a dire
- [Hackers Are Spamming Businesses’ Receipt Printers With ‘Antiwork’ Manifestos](https://anti-robot.org/hackers-are-spamming-businesses-receipt-printers-with-antiwork-manifestos/) - Dozens of printers across the internet are printing out a manifesto that encourages workers to discuss their pay with coworkers, and pressure their employers. Someone or multiple people are blasting “antiwork” manifestos to receipt printers at businesses around the world, according to people who claim to have seen the printed manifesto, dozens of posts on
- [The Loudest Opponents of “Inflation” Are Some of Its Biggest Aiders and Abettors](https://anti-robot.org/the-loudest-opponents-of-inflation-are-some-of-its-biggest-aiders-and-abettors/) - Prescription drugs, hospital visits, housing, higher education, and more have all become frighteningly more expensive, far outpacing Americans’ wages. But those kinds of price increases are ignored by the politicians who are now stridently decrying inflation. A dollar or two or even a few dozen cents more for gas and consumer goods is nothing to
- [On Social Spending, the Question Isn’t “Can We Afford It?” but “Who Will Pay?”](https://anti-robot.org/on-social-spending-the-question-isnt-can-we-afford-it-but-who-will-pay/) - When conservatives claim that we can’t afford new social programs, what they really mean is that they think individuals and families should figure out how to handle the costs of necessary care on their own. On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the $2.2 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which includes a broad package of
- [The Neoliberal View of Inflation Is Convenient for Capitalists — But It’s Wrong](https://anti-robot.org/the-neoliberal-view-of-inflation-is-convenient-for-capitalists-but-its-wrong/) - Neoliberals say that inflation is directly caused by high social spending and good wages, and that working-class people must sacrifice these to bring prices down. But there are other causes of inflation, and solutions to it that don’t pit us against ourselves. Defining inflation is easy. Inflation is when prices go up. But explaining what
- [Tucker Carlson's Populism for the 1 Percent](https://anti-robot.org/tucker-carlsons-populism-for-the-1-percent/) - Tucker Carlson likes to style himself a populist. But every time there’s a fight over something that might actually make life easier for working-class people, he never misses the opportunity to take the side of big business and the rich. Watching Carlson’s show means wading through an ocean of passionate, angry screeds taking aim at
- [COP26 Was a Flop, but the Climate Justice Movement Is Still Growing](https://anti-robot.org/cop26-was-a-flop-but-the-climate-justice-movement-is-still-growing/) - The COP26 summit in Glasgow this month ended with a set of vague and inadequate pledges that won’t tackle the climate crisis. Real hope lies not with corporate-sponsored elite gatherings but with the popular movements linking climate action to social justice. The COP26 conference held in Scotland this year had the worst conditions for democratic
- [Is Wisconsin Still a Democracy?](https://anti-robot.org/is-wisconsin-still-a-democracy/) - All signs now point to a full-court press by the GOP to rig state election rules in a bid to stay in power permanently. So far, Democrats have barely put up a fight. Last week, Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson appeared on local radio to declare his “loss of confidence” in the state’s elections commission and
- [Amazon wages secret war on Americans' privacy](https://anti-robot.org/amazon-wages-secret-war-on-americans-privacy/) - Amazon.com Inc has amassed a vast amount of sensitive personal information on its customers. Internal documents reveal how a former aide to Joe Biden helped the tech giant build a lobbying juggernaut that has gutted legislation in two dozen states seeking to give consumers more control over their data. In recent years, Amazon.com Inc has
- [How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation](https://anti-robot.org/how-facebook-and-google-fund-global-misinformation/) - The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement on Facebook were from legitimate media, according to data from CrowdTangle, a Facebook-run tool. A year later, Facebook (which
- [The oil ads that told us climate change was nothing](https://anti-robot.org/the-oil-ads-that-told-us-climate-change-was-nothing/) - Since the 1980s, fossil fuel firms have run ads touting climate denial messages – many of which they’d now like us to forget. Here’s our visual guide. Why is meaningful action to avert the climate crisis proving so difficult? It is, at least in part, because of ads. The fossil fuel industry has perpetrated a
- [The American Ruling Class Has Never Let Us Build Back Better](https://anti-robot.org/the-american-ruling-class-has-never-let-us-build-back-better/) - The nation’s original failure to “build back better” was Reconstruction, the attempt to radically remake society in the wake of the Civil War. Then as now, the most powerful people in the country went out of their way to maintain the status quo. America loves a good comeback story, but only at the movies. In
- [During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, skepticism](https://anti-robot.org/during-cop26-facebook-served-ads-with-climate-falsehoods-skepticism/) - Nov 18 (Reuters) - Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting under way. Days after Facebook's vice president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, touted the company's efforts to combat climate misinformation in a blog as the Glasgow summit began, conservative media
- [The Architecture of Prisons Is Everywhere We Look](https://anti-robot.org/the-architecture-of-prisons-is-everywhere-we-look/) - Buildings’ design communicates the values of a society. In contemporary American architecture, those values appear closer to control and surveillance than openness and enjoyment for all. Public buildings — all buildings — perform social functions; they organize people and their activities. Prisons remove people from their environment and therefore their humanity; they discipline and isolate.
- [Republicans are ‘cracking and packing’ voters to secure minority rule](https://anti-robot.org/republicans-are-cracking-and-packing-voters-to-secure-minority-rule/) - This partisan free-for-all could perpetuate Republican minority rule in Congress and state legislatures for the next decade – if not longer. Salt Lake is the largest county in Utah, containing not only the state’s capital, Salt Lake City, but 40% of the state’s population. While Donald Trump carried the safely conservative state, Joe Biden defeated
- [Fake news sites pushing Republicans’ critical race theory scare](https://anti-robot.org/fake-news-sites-pushing-republicans-critical-race-theory-scare/) - Local sites in Virginia published tens of thousands of conservative-skewed articles, many of them misleading or wrong, in the past 11 months Rightwing operatives in the US are using a huge network of fake local news sites to target crucial state elections, with the sites publishing tens of thousands of conservative-skewed articles on politically charged
- [We Can’t Blame the South Alone for Anti-Tax Austerity Politics](https://anti-robot.org/we-cant-blame-the-south-alone-for-anti-tax-austerity-politics/) - The South of slavery and Jim Crow is often cast as the major historical reason for the US’s stunted welfare state. But the most fanatical resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class. To understand our current politics of austerity, we are better served to explore not the defeated ideology of slaveholders
- [This is Scary](https://anti-robot.org/this-is-scary/) - Trump ally Michael Flynn calls for ‘one religion’ in US Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, was widely condemned after calling for the establishment of “one religion” in the US. Religious freedom is enshrined in the first amendment to the US constitution, which says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
- [Art and Capital Have Become Nearly Indistinguishable](https://anti-robot.org/art-and-capital-have-become-nearly-indistinguishable/) - From brands commissioning immersive installations at prestigious art fairs to hedge funds transforming artworks into stock-like financial instruments, the line between art and capital is blurrier than ever. Capitalism, of course, has always been in the process of absorbing art. For the most part, art has historically functioned as a site of patronage, an asset
- [COP26: New global climate deal struck in Glasgow](https://anti-robot.org/cop26-new-global-climate-deal-struck-in-glasgow/) - A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases. The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more money for
- [The real reason behind US inflation is corporate greed.](https://anti-robot.org/the-real-reason-behind-us-inflation-is-corporate-greed/) - Corporate giants are raising prices even as they rake in record profits. How can this be? Because of their unchecked power. There’s a deeper structural reason for inflation, one that appears to be growing worse: the economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few corporate giants with the power to
- [CNN Poll: Three out of four adults think Facebook is making society worse](https://anti-robot.org/cnn-poll-three-out-of-four-adults-think-facebook-is-making-society-worse/) - (CNN) Roughly three-quarters of adults believe Facebook is making American society worse, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with about half saying they know somebody who was persuaded to believe in a conspiracy theory because of the site's content.Americans say, 76% to 11%, that Facebook makes society worse, not better, according to the survey. Another 13% say
- [White supremacists declare war on democracy and walk away unscathed](https://anti-robot.org/white-supremacists-declare-war-on-democracy-and-walk-away-unscathed/) - The United States has a terrible habit of letting white supremacy get away with repeated attempts to murder American democracy. American democracy’s most dangerous adversary is white supremacy. Throughout this nation’s history, white supremacy has undermined, twisted and attacked the viability of the United States. What makes white supremacy so lethal, however, is not just
- [‘They’re puppets!’: why the US right loves to hate Sesame Street](https://anti-robot.org/theyre-puppets-why-the-us-right-loves-to-hate-sesame-street/) - A pro-vaccine tweet from Big Bird ruffled Ted Cruz’s feathers, but it’s not the first time a Republican has been anti-muppet It’s not unusual for Ted Cruz to levy a dyspeptic jeremiad against “government propaganda” or denigrate his political enemies as “petty authoritarians who would deny you the right to make your own medical choices” or “puppet[s]
- [Republicans’ Cop26 rhetoric shows climate disdain](https://anti-robot.org/republicans-cop26-rhetoric-shows-climate-disdain/) - Delegation aims to portray party as engaged even as Republicans back home have downplayed and dismissed climate change. A handful of Republican members of Congress have arrived at the UN climate talks in Glasgow in an attempt to portray the party as engaged on the climate crisis, with this message already badly undermined by colleagues
- [It Pays to Be a Conservative Democrat Blocking Popular Legislation](https://anti-robot.org/it-pays-to-be-a-conservative-democrat-blocking-popular-legislation/) - Why do conservative Democrats like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin oppose wildly popular progressive policy measures? Because it’s a very lucrative racket. Much ink has been spilled trying to understand what’s motivating senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) to try to gut so many of the popular progressive policies in Democrats’ health care,
- [Global Elites Can’t and Won’t Ever Stop Climate Change](https://anti-robot.org/global-elites-cant-and-wont-ever-stop-climate-change/) - At COP26, global elites are delivering sermons about rolling back the damage that they themselves caused. The people getting rich off of killing the planet are never going to save it. At COP26, we are being told that the answer to this problem is to trust “market-based solutions.” The conference has even given Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos
- [The Only Winning Climate Policy Is a Pro-Worker Climate Policy](https://anti-robot.org/the-only-winning-climate-policy-is-a-pro-worker-climate-policy/) - Climate legislation is failing under Joe Biden because the Green New Deal strategy was ignored from the beginning. We need to link decarbonization directly to material gains for the working class, not technocratic clean energy policies. The election of a Democratic president and Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress raised hopes among climate activists.
- [Unchecked Corporate Power Is at the Root of America’s Democracy Crisis](https://anti-robot.org/unchecked-corporate-power-is-at-the-root-of-americas-democracy-crisis/) - America’s real democracy crisis is this: corporations use a system of legalized bribery to buy public policy, which prevents popular progressive policies from passing and erodes Americans’ faith in their government. In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and
- [Zuckerberg’s Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior](https://anti-robot.org/zuckerbergs-meta-endgame-is-monetizing-all-human-behavior/) - Exploiting data to manipulate human behavior has always been Facebook’s business model. The metaverse will be no different. The announcement of Meta, the company’s VR and AR-forward rebrand, is the culmination of a vision that should have been obvious from the start. In 2021, Facebook’s colonization of social data has eclipsed the internet as we
- [If US abortion rights keep slipping, dark days are coming](https://anti-robot.org/if-us-abortion-rights-keep-slipping-dark-days-are-coming/) - Take it from an Irish woman: I am a woman in America who can bear children, and this means that there are powerful people coming for me, with detailed and strategic plans to control my body. Sounds dramatic, doesn’t it? It is dramatic, more so because it’s a straight-up fact. In 2021, state legislatures enacted
- [Finland’s Public Childcare System Puts the Rest of the World to Shame](https://anti-robot.org/finlands-public-childcare-system-puts-the-rest-of-the-world-to-shame/) - In Finland, 70 percent of preschool children attend a full day care service supported by the government. There’s absolutely no reason why countries like the United States can’t do the same. The autumn is a colorful time in Finland. The trees turn yellow and then red before the leaves fall. Neon pinks and yellows also
- [Joe Manchin: who gave you authority to decide the fate of the planet?](https://anti-robot.org/joe-manchin-who-gave-you-authority-to-decide-the-fate-of-the-planet/) - Two weeks before the UN climate summit in Glasgow – a make-or-break moment for American leadership and international ambition – Senator Joe Manchin had decided to gut our country’s best, and perhaps last, attempt to save itself. With three decades left to decarbonize the global economy, and a window of Democratic control unlikely to recur for years,
- [The Great Resignation has employers sweating. It’s time to escalate the pressure](https://anti-robot.org/the-great-resignation-has-employers-sweating-its-time-to-escalate-the-pressure/) - This is a once-in-a-generation ‘take this job and shove it’ moment – which gives workers an upper hand. Let’s demand better hours, pay and work-life balance. Despite quizzical think pieces on the motivations behind the Great Resignation, anyone who pays rent or a mortgage knows why this “labor shortage” is under way. After years of inflation
- [Capitalism is killing the planet](https://anti-robot.org/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet/) - It’s time to stop buying into our own destruction. Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up. There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is
- [Build Back Better (with child labour)](https://anti-robot.org/build-back-better-with-child-labour/) - There is something very, very wrong with a system that would rather recruit more kids instead of paying better wages and providing more benefits to adults. Back in the good old days American children didn’t sit around playing video games, making TikToks, and bingeing Netflix. They worked long hours in factories and sweatshops; they knew
- [The Economy Is Suffering From Too Little Government Intervention, Not Too Much](https://anti-robot.org/the-economy-is-suffering-from-too-little-government-intervention-not-too-much/) - From Tucker Carlson to Larry Summers, free market devotees are blaming inflation on Joe Biden’s "big government" economic policies. In reality, the administration has done far too little to insulate Americans from the economic effects of the pandemic. The inauguration decorations had barely been cleared from the West Lawn when the neoliberal industrial complex started
- [Facebook Is Now Meta. And It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence.](https://anti-robot.org/facebook-is-now-meta-and-it-wants-to-monetize-your-whole-existence/) - Mark Zuckerberg’s turn toward the “metaverse” claims to put an extra digital layer on top of the real world. But Facebook’s new Meta brand isn’t augmenting your reality — it just wants to suck more money out of it. On Thursday, Facebook changed its name to Meta, as part of a broader shift toward the
- [Wall Street Journal criticized for Trump letter pushing election lie](https://anti-robot.org/wall-street-journal-criticized-for-trump-letter-pushing-election-lie/) - Former president’s letter, written in response to an editorial on Pennsylvania voting laws, contains a list of disproved claims. The 600-word letter contains a bullet-point list of disproved claims – many of which have been debunked by WSJ reporters – which Trump claims show there was voter fraud. There was no widespread voter fraud in
- [Big tech’s push for automation hides the grim reality of ‘microwork’](https://anti-robot.org/big-techs-push-for-automation-hides-the-grim-reality-of-microwork/) - The pandemic accelerated the rise of this digital piecework where humans support AI “For a penny, you might pay for a person to tell you if there is a human in a photo,” Jeff Bezos explained, at the public opening of Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the first and most infamous of such sites. Like other
- [How America’s broken democracy led to our abortion crisis](https://anti-robot.org/how-americas-broken-democracy-led-to-our-abortion-crisis/) - The majority of Americans support legal abortion. Redistricting has allowed extremism to flourish without fear of repercussion America is at a crossroads when it comes to abortion. In 2021, state legislatures have passed an unprecedented 106 anti-abortion bills. State lawmakers in five states are preparing legislation similar to Texas’s SB 8, an effective total abortion
- [Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes](https://anti-robot.org/internet-service-providers-collect-sell-horrifying-amount-of-sensitive-data-government-study-concludes/) - “Even though several of the ISPs promise not to sell consumers personal data, they allow it to be used, transferred, and monetized by others." Over the last few years the justified fixation on the bad behavior of Google, Amazon, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants has let the abuses of the telecom sector fly under
- [Aided by his app, the great liar could yet return as the Republicans’ next presidential nominee](https://anti-robot.org/aided-by-his-app-the-great-liar-could-yet-return-as-the-republicans-next-presidential-nominee/) - In the life story of Donald Trump, to his mind an epic saga of unrivalled achievement, these are the wilderness years. After the US electoral college confirmed his 2020 defeat, an outcome he still mendaciously disputes, Trump plunged into despair. He sulked, he raged, he conspired. Yet the 6 January coup plot was an egregious step too
- [Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over?](https://anti-robot.org/why-is-the-idea-of-gender-provoking-backlash-the-world-over/) - In June, the Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmingly to eliminate from public schools all teaching related to “homosexuality and gender change”, associating LGBTQI rights and education with pedophilia and totalitarian cultural politics. In late May, Danish MPs passed a resolution against “excessive activism” in academic research environments, including gender studies, race theory, postcolonial and immigration studies
- [Ursula Le Guin’s Radical Utopias Still Resonate Today](https://anti-robot.org/ursula-le-guins-radical-utopias-still-resonate-today/) - Ursula K. Le Guin was born on this day in 1929. She used science fiction to explore the failures of capitalist society — and the alternative worlds we could build in its place. You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution.” This is the core of the
- [Why You’re Watching Squid Game](https://anti-robot.org/why-youre-watching-squid-game/) - The extraordinary success of Netflix's Squid Game demonstrates how many people relate to a portrayal of capitalism's miseries — and how few feel there is any way to escape. Squid Game has been described as an allegory for capitalism more generally, but these masked VIPs suggest it refers to a particular kind of capitalism at a particular moment.
- [Wealth Under COVID. They Didn’t Deserve Any of It.](https://anti-robot.org/wealth-under-covid-they-didnt-deserve-any-of-it/) - t’s now commonly understood that the world’s billionaires have made a killing off the pandemic, a period that has seen not only mass death on a global scale but also deep economic depression and widespread job loss. The disjuncture here is almost too obvious to need comment. “We’re all in this together!”, the general sentiment
- [The Actual Human Stakes of the Reconciliation Bill Are Being Ignored in Favor of “Left vs Moderate’ Horse Race Coverage](https://anti-robot.org/the-actual-human-stakes-of-the-reconciliation-bill-are-being-ignored-in-favor-of-left-vs-moderate-horse-race-coverage/) - The Actual Human Stakes of the Reconciliation Bill Are Being Ignored in Favor of “Left vs Moderate’ Horse Race Coverage. The public is left with vague reporting about a “$3.5 trillion” “price tag” that should be “slimmed down,” with no sense of what would actually be gutted or who would be harmed if it is.
- [America’s strike wave is a rare – and beautiful – sight to behold](https://anti-robot.org/americas-strike-wave-is-a-rare-and-beautiful-sight-to-behold/) - You may be forgiven for having the strange feeling this week that America has suddenly been seized by a very retro kind of labor revolution. If you don’t track these things closely, it may have snuck up on you. Better get your marching shoes. This party is just getting started. In March, 800 nurses at
- [Colin Powell, Politely Anguished War Criminal](https://anti-robot.org/colin-powell-politely-anguished-war-criminal/) - Some of those in the George W. Bush administration who were most responsible for starting the Iraq War were obvious sickos — the kind of operatives who can make bloodthirsty policy in a democracy, but could probably never get elected to anything because their public statements cause decent humans to cringe in horror. Defense secretary
- [Today’s Evangelicalism Was Forged in the Fight Against Communism and Feminism](https://anti-robot.org/todays-evangelicalism-was-forged-in-the-fight-against-communism-and-feminism/) - Outside observers and critics confronted white evangelical support for Donald Trump — not exactly a Christian-family-values figure — as a puzzle to be solved. But while many saw hypocrisy, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez identified a number of continuities. In her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,
- [One of Facebook's Earliest Investors Says People Have Lost Trust in Company](https://anti-robot.org/one-of-facebooks-earliest-investors-says-people-have-lost-trust-in-company/) - Facebook has lost people's trust "for good reasons" and isn't responding well to whistle-blower claims that the social-media giant prioritizes profit over user safety, according to one of its earliest investors, Reid Hoffman. Bloomberg:"I'm disappointed," Hoffman said Wednesday in an interview. Facebook should have been more proactive in response to troubling signs revealed in its own research,
- [Stop Facebook. Protcect Your Data](https://anti-robot.org/stop-facebook-protcect-your-data/) - A coalition of nonprofits on Wednesday debuted HowToStopFacebook.org, a fresh push to encourage greater government regulation of the social networking giant aimed at forcing the company to change its business model. From a report:The campaign hopes to take the outrage expressed by legislators over the revelations of whistleblower Frances Haugen and translate it into action. The campaign
- [Green Lawns are Terrible](https://anti-robot.org/green-lawns-are-terrible/) - Green lawns are terrible for the environment. They are also embarrasingly old fashionand and out of style. Decades of television and popular culturehave cemwntedin our brains a certain image of the American dream: house in the suburbs, white picket fence, two-car garage, glossy green lawn. Our conceptions of gardening and lawn careareoutdated and are effectively

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- [ROBOT](https://anti-robot.org/) - The Anti-Robot Army is an art project exploring media, propaganda, data, and Web programming and a hub for exchanging graffiti stickers. Contact the Robot for sticker trades.
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- [Not A Robot](https://anti-robot.org/not-a-robot/)
- [Short Form](https://anti-robot.org/short-form/) - Blogging like Jesus. Tweeting like a Pope...... Anti-Robot Short form rants. Kinda like a blog, but shorter
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- [PEACE](https://anti-robot.org/peace/) - I am the ocean, lit by the flameI am the mountain, Peace is my nameI am the river touched by the windI am the story, I never end Peace is a word of the sea and the windPeace is a bird who sings as you smilePeace is the love of a foe as a friendPeace
- [Help us add more noise to the spectacle.](https://anti-robot.org/participate/) - Anything constantly repeated becomes an object of inattention … WHITE NOISE. Just when attention drops to zero its power reaches its peak as a new program for the subconscious that turns the user into a ROBOT. Interested in contributing content to a very low-traffic blog with very little editorial oversight? The Anti-Robot Inundation Army Web
- [Anti-Robot Army Sticker Campaigns](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-sticker-campaigns-2/) - Vandalism comes to your house. Here is a sample of some of the Anti-Robot Army sticker/propaganda campaigns from 2019 to present. Some may still be available for sticker trades. Most have been slapped up around the world. If you see one in the wild, snap a pic and post to Instagram, tag @Anti_Robot_Army. A lot
- [Manifesto of Collective Resistance and Radical Imagination](https://anti-robot.org/manifesto-of-collective-resistance-and-radical-imagination/) - August 2025 We stand in defiance.We reject theocracy, oligarchy, and logracy.We reject patriarchy and the revision of history to serve the powerful.We reject detention without due process.We reject techno-nationalism and techno-feudalism.We reject surveillance capitalism, misinformation, and the commodification of our lives.We reject deportations and the criminalization of poverty. We recognize that resistance has always been Manifesto of Collective Resistance, Radical Imagination. Mutual Aid
- [Anti-Robot Product](https://anti-robot.org/swag/) - The Anti-Robot Army is first and foremost about spreading whatever message the Robot is pushing at the moment and not so much trying to make a living hawking product. However, we have received several requests for Anti-Robot tees and stuff and so here goes: Visit the new and exciting Anti-Robot shop and order stuff (like
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- [Anti-Robot Infographics](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-infographics/) - The Anti-Robot Research Center and Bureau of Robot Statistics work somewhat tirelessly to bring you the latest information on robot threats, AI uprisings, public sentiment, and any other propaganda the Robot sees fit to comment on. Here are the research results distilled down to stupid charts and colorful pictures.
- [Love is Love](https://anti-robot.org/love-is-love/) - Love belongs to us all. Everyone deserves love. It is not limited to heterosexuals (not my definition for any human being) as some more closed-minded, religiously-addled, angry types would wish to force upon us. Love is loves means that we may love who we will without regard to sex, gender, creed, race, nationality, religion, age
- [Late Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/late-capitalism/) - The decadence that precedes the revolution.
- [Religion is Toxic](https://anti-robot.org/religion-is-toxic/) - All religion is toxic leading to unnumbered atrocities throughout history. In the United States the biggest threat and most toxic presently comes from evangelical Christianity. There is ample evidence that evangelical Christianity, deeply bound up in America’s dark history of slavery, racism, discrimination, and nationalism sanctioned in law, is driving regressive politics in America. Some refer to
- [Rage against the robot! The robot is raging against you.](https://anti-robot.org/rage-against-the-robot-the-robot-is-raging-against-you/) - The hallmark of the global media system is relentless, ubiquitous commercialism resulting in a fixation on goods and their acquisition. Corporate media, seeking advertising and the government/corporations, seeking control, decide what programming is to be offered and the people must choose among these. The American people are exposed to over 1600 advertisements a day. Media
- [More Sticker Cities](https://anti-robot.org/sticker-cities-page-2/) - More cities with Anti-Robot Army propaganda slaps:
- [Is untrue information still information?](https://anti-robot.org/is-untrue-information-still-information/) - Disinformation is deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or corporation or other entity for the purpose of influencing opinions or perceptions.Misinformation is information that is not true. The difference is intent.Propaganda is a specific type of information aimed at serving an agenda. Even if the message conveys true information, it may
- [Expect Resistance](https://anti-robot.org/expect-resistance/) - Capital camouflaged with fashionFasten the shelltoes on to the assassinDash in security, mall expansionWhatever I wear, know I'm here to be clashin'
- [Know Your Rights #3](https://anti-robot.org/know-your-rights-3/) - You have the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it. Know your rights.These are your rights. #1
- [Know Your Rights #1](https://anti-robot.org/know-your-rights-1/) - You have the right not to be killed.Murder is a crime. Unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat. Know your rights.These are your rights. #3
- [Is America A Christian Nation? No.](https://anti-robot.org/is-america-a-christian-nation-no/) - The U.S. Constitution is a secular document. It begins, “We the people,” and contains no mention of “God” or “Christianity.” Its only references to religion are exclusionary, such as, “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust” (Art. VI), and “Congress shall make no law respecting an
- [Fact or chatter? Signal or noise?](https://anti-robot.org/fact-or-chatter-signal-or-noise/) - The production of meaning through languages - whether spoken, written, or pictorial - has become a central part of generating and producing memes in our society. Those who control the media control the production of meaning.Those who control the production of meaning shape the terms of debate and have the power to manufacture consent.If media,
- [Future People Count](https://anti-robot.org/future-people-count/) - And there could be a lot of them. And we can make their lives better. To help as much as possible, we must think about the long-term impact of our actions.
- [Democratic Socialism](https://anti-robot.org/democratic-socialism/) - Twenty-first-century democratic socialism seeks to democratize the workplace and reorient the state against the power of the organized capitalist class, to serve the needs of the many rather than the desires of the few. Democratic Socialists' aims include curbing inequality, eliminating the oppression of underprivileged groups, eradicating poverty, and upholding universally accessible public services such
- [Dataism](https://anti-robot.org/dataism/) - or data-ism. An emerging ideology or even a new form of religion, in which 'information flow' is the 'supreme value'. Datism declares that the universe consists of data flows, and the value of any phenomenon or entity is determined by its contribution to data processing. The entire human species might be considered a single data
- [Data v. Information](https://anti-robot.org/data-v-information/) - Signal to noise: Data does not equal information. Data must be interpreted and understood in order to become information. Information does not equal knowledge. Knowledge is a construct that is created in the mind of the user as a result of accessing, processing and understanding information. Different individuals may extract different knowledge from the same
- [Conspiracy Theories](https://anti-robot.org/conspiracy-theories/) - Please research these and get back to me. Unleaded gas is a hoax. Lead is actually good for you. The illuminati are responsible for over one million pet disappearances a year. Bill Gates and George Soros are implanting surveillance devices in 1/2" and 3/4" drywall. UFOs are really time machines. Tide Pods are made to
- [Be an Agent for Change](https://anti-robot.org/be-an-agent-for-change/) - A change agent is someone who facilitates change in an organization or in everyday life. Change agents can be individuals or groups who motivate and inspire others to embrace change. Here are some tips for being a change agent: Have a change agent mindset: Be open-minded, curious, and flexible. View change as an opportunity, not a threat. Be proactive: Don't
- [Anti-Robot Army Reaches 81% Approval Among U.S. Robots in 2024](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-reaches-81-approval-among-u-s-robots-in-2024/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ohio, October 2024 – The Anti-Robot Army has achieved a remarkable milestone, garnering an 81% approval rating among U.S. robots, according to the latest data from the highly questionable U.S. Bureau of Anti-Robot Statistics. This puzzling level of support highlights the growing influence and acceptance of the Anti-Robot Army within the robotic
- [And ... About Racism](https://anti-robot.org/a-bit-about-racism/) - Racism has marked the U.S. throughout its entire history, from Colonial times to today. At its core, it refers to the systemic advantage given to some groups–mainly White Americans–while disadvantaging others based on race. It's been reflected in laws, practices, and norms, contributing to discrimination in citizenship, criminal justice, housing, healthcare, and other areas. All
- [Advertising](https://anti-robot.org/advertising/) - Advertising is a tool of the capitalist regime used to legitimize and reinforce its socio-political arrangements. Advertising does this by presenting consumption as an answer to all material and social needs. The association of goods with social and personal meaning is known as 'fetishism of commodities'. Advertising infuses mundane goods with 'magical' properties to make
- [Anti-Robot Cloud of Hiss](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-cloud-of-hiss/) - america is not a theocracy anti robot anti-fascist anti-robot anti-robot army art artists attention bodily autonomy bring down the patriarchy capitalism failed capitalism will eat itself change choice christianity is a toxic brand class war consumption corpocracy demand a better world democracy democratic socialist dis-information economy expect resistance fascism fight capitalism fight hate free speech graffiti information justice justice for all late capitalism love is love media mis-information more art less cruelity no action is futile no gods no masters organize patriarchy peace post capitalism propaganda racism religion is toxic resistance robots sexism socialism socialist sticker slaps stickers surveillance capitalism
- [Some Thoughts](https://anti-robot.org/1628-2/) - america is not a theocracy anti robot anti-fascist anti-robot anti-robot army art artists agitprop bodily autonomy bring down the patriarchy capitalism failed capitalism will eat itself change choice christianity is a toxic brand class war consumption corpocracy demand a better world democracy democratic socialist dis-information economy expect resistance fascism fight capitalism fight hate free speech graffiti information justice justice for all late capitalism love is love media mis-information more art less cruelity no action is futile no gods no masters organize patriarchy peace post capitalism propaganda racism religion is toxic resistance robots sexism socialism socialist sticker slaps stickers surveillance capitalism
- [Capitalism Will Eat Itself](https://anti-robot.org/capitalism-will-eat-itself/) - Capitalism tends to destroy its two sources of wealth: nature and human beings. Capitalist production, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the earth and the worker. Capitalism is destined to destroy itself based on these (not
- [Art is More Than Beauty](https://anti-robot.org/art-is-more-than-beauty/) - In times of uncertainty, art is more than beauty. It is both a weapon and a shield in the battle for our identity, our dignity, and our safety. Art has the power to wake people up in ways other mediums cannot, and can serve as a catalyst for meaningful change. Art and activism is a
- [Corpocracy (n.)](https://anti-robot.org/corpocracy-n/) - de facto government by mega corporations. Private power wielded by corporations is far more dangerous to people than state action (the state = a theoretical representative of the common good.) The state can and should protect its citizens against the depredations of corporations. However, private corporate power exists only because it is protected by the
- [Class War](https://anti-robot.org/class-war/) - Since at least 2016, the divide between the “working class” and the “elite” has been considered a defining issue in American (and Western) politics. This divide has been defined in occupational terms (“blue collar” versus “information workers”), geographic terms (rural and exurban regions versus major urban cores), and meritocratic terms (non-college-educated versus those with elite
- [Capitalism Has Failed](https://anti-robot.org/capitalism-has-failed/) - This is your life, good to the last dropDoesn't get any better than thisThis is your life and it's ending one minute at a timeThis isn't a seminar, this isn't a weekend retreatWhere you are now you can't even imagine what the bottom will be likeOnly after disaster can we be resurrectedIt's only after you've
- [Are You a ROBOT?](https://anti-robot.org/are-you-a-robot/) - Anything constantly repeated becomes an object of inattention. …White noise. Just when attention drops to zero its power reaches its peak as a new program for the subconscious that turns the user into a ROBOT.
- [Anti-fascism](https://anti-robot.org/anti-fascism/) - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were opposed by many countries forming the Allies of World War II and dozens of resistance movements worldwide. Anti-fascism has been an element of movements
- [AgitProp -n.](https://anti-robot.org/agitprop-n/) - Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."--George Orwell agitprop n. any form of systematic manipulation of public opinion to achieve political ends. This combination of political agitation and propaganda is disseminated throughout the media and culture by various agents: official
- [A lot of people won't get no justice tonight](https://anti-robot.org/a-lot-of-people-wont-get-no-justice-tonight/) - A lot of people won't get no supper tonightA lot of people won't get no justice tonightThe battle is getting harder in this iration, Armagideon timeA lot of people running and hiding tonightA lot of people going to suffer tonightA lot of people going to have to stand up and fightRemember to kick it over,
- [Random Research Topics](https://anti-robot.org/random-research-topics/) - Another subject
- [Sticker Exchange](https://anti-robot.org/sticker-exchange/) - The Anti-Robot Army is on a mission to spread the Anti-Robot Army message. That message is pretty much whatever The Robot is making stickers about at any given time. Presently (and pretty much always) the mission is to call out injustice, hypocrisy, corporate greed, and propaganda. The Anti-Robot Army is anti-advertising, anti-consumption, anti-mass culture, and
- [Robot Rant:](https://anti-robot.org/rants-from-the-robot/)
- [Anti-Robot Instagram](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-frippery/)
- [Anti-Robot Preoccupations](https://anti-robot.org/hiss/) - sticker exchange Sticker Graffiti america is not a theocracy anti-fascist dataism anti-robot art artists agitprop advertising bodily autonomy bring down the patriarchy capitalism failed capitalism will eat itself change choice christianity is a toxic brand class war consumption corpocracy data demand a better world democracy democratic socialism disinformation economy expect resistance fascism fight capitalism fight hate free speech graffiti information justice justice for all late capitalism love is love media mis-information more art less cruelity no action is futile no gods no masters organize patriarchy anti robot peace post capitalism propaganda racism religion is toxic resistance robots sexism
- [Anti Robot Army Manifesto for the New Resistance](https://anti-robot.org/manifesto-for-the-new-resistance/) - November 2024 I. Nostalgia is a Dead End Nostalgia is a trap that binds us to the past, urging us to relive moments that no longer exist. It is a comforting illusion, a mirage of something that might have been, but it leads us nowhere. We must turn away from the past and toward the
- [MANIFESTO](https://anti-robot.org/manifesto/) - Manifesto of the Anti-Robot Inundation Army:(Revised October 2024) For every canvas there is an artist. Are you sure someone has not selected your mind as a useful canvas? There is no original thought; just data, signal and noise; repeated, recycled and reused; sometimes redacted; seldom reduced. Data only becomes information once it has been understood and
- [Robots Doing Things](https://anti-robot.org/robots-doing-things/) - Do some more things, Robots.
- [Anti-Robot Propaganda Pack](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-propaganda-pack/) - Grab a pack of Anti-Robot Inundation Army propaganda stickers. $3.00/12 stickers. Includes postage about anywhere. (The Robot is not making a living selling stickers.) Contact The Robot via Instagram. The Robot loves trades too... of about anything.
- [Anti-Robot Army Sticker Campaigns](https://anti-robot.org/anti-robot-army-sticker-campaigns/) - Get the word out.Want some stickers? Score an Anti-Robot Propaganda Pack: 10 stickers (in a nifty little book)/3 bucks includes US postage. Or... feel free to copy and print them from these images. Stick em up and post a pic. Did you score some Anti-Robot stickers? Slap 'em up and tag the #antirobot. on Insta:
- [Privacy Policy](https://anti-robot.org/privacy-policy-2/) - Who we are The Anti-Robot Army is an on-going art project exploring art, propaganda, advertising, data, information and Web programming. We spread propaganda and art indiscriminately. www.anti-robot.org Data Collection The Anti-Robot Army does not want your data or any other baggage you may have. We do not even have a contact form or comments section.
- [More Art. Less Cruelty.](https://anti-robot.org/more-art-less-cruelty/) - Create art. Not cruelty. Love more. Hate less.
- [Organizing](https://anti-robot.org/organizing/) - Organizing, especially in the context of labor and other realms, refers to the collective efforts of individuals to form groups or unions aiming to address shared concerns, protect their rights, and achieve common goals. Labor Organizing Labor organizing typically focuses on improving working conditions, wages, benefits, and other employment terms. This often involves the formation
- [No Action is Futile](https://anti-robot.org/no-action-is-futile/) - History is often made by seemingly insignificant moments that don’t always make sense; but the noise – the buzz of the complexity of society – often profoundly alters our world. Our world and our lives are swayed considerably by chance, contingency and chaos. We control nothing, but we influence everything. In our interconnected lives, every
- [Sexism](https://anti-robot.org/sexism/) - Sexism is a form of discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. It often manifests in various ways, including: Workplace Inequality: Women and non-binary individuals may face unequal pay, fewer opportunities for advancement, and discrimination in hiring and promotions. Stereotyping: Sexism perpetuates harmful stereotypes, such as the belief that certain genders are inherently better
- [Unions Matter](https://anti-robot.org/unions-matter/) - Unions play a crucial role in shaping workplaces, economies, and society at large. Here are a few reasons why they matter: Protecting Worker Rights: Unions advocate for fair wages, safe working conditions, and reasonable working hours. They ensure that employers respect workers' rights, providing a crucial balance of power in the workplace. Collective Bargaining: Through
- [Sticker Graffiti/Sticker Art](https://anti-robot.org/sticker-graffiti-sticker-art/) - Sticker Graffiti/Sticker Art (also known as slaps in a graffiti context)[1] is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. These stickers may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issue, or comprise a subcategory of graffiti.[2] Sticker artists use various types of stickers, from eggshell stickers to free paper stickers, such as
- [Test-cities-pagination](https://anti-robot.org/test-cities-pagination/)
- [Dignity, Freedom, and Justice For All](https://anti-robot.org/dignity-freedom-and-justice-for-all/) - Every person, regardless of their status, is subject to the same laws and legal proceedings as anyone else, reinforcing the concept of “justice for all.” It embodies the idea that justice should not be the privilege of the few, but the right of all. Dignity, freedom, and justice for allDignity, freedom and justice are three concepts
- [Ways to Fight Hate](https://anti-robot.org/ways-to-fight-hate/) - Here are some ways to fight hate: Call out hate speech: Speak up calmly and firmly against hate speech to show you don't agree with it. Prioritize hate crimes: Law enforcement agencies can send a message that discrimination and harassment are not tolerated by making combating hate crimes a priority. Encourage reporting: Encourage people to report all hate
- [Surveillance Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/surveillance-capitalism/) - Surveillance capitalism is the monetization of data captured through monitoring people's movements and behaviors online and in the physical world. Consumer surveillance is most commonly used for targeted marketing and advertising. What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy. The danger of surveillance capitalism is that platforms and tech companies claim
- [Sample Page](https://anti-robot.org/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger
- [Your thoughts on this](https://anti-robot.org/your-thoughts-on-this/)
- [Use Your Freedom of Choice](https://anti-robot.org/use-your-freedom-of-choice/) - Freedom of choiceIs what you gotFreedom from choiceIs what you want Use your freedom of choice
- [Post-Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/post-capitalism/) - The end of subordinating life to profit-making and steering life toward common human goals.Within post-capitalism, the true resources of human life are not money but work, knowledge, time and nature. And the purpose of life is not profit but freedom.
- [Somewhere today…](https://anti-robot.org/somewhere-today/) - …an adolescent girl learns that her 13th birthday will be her wedding day.…a young woman seeking contraception is told she needs her husband’s consent.…a man forces his wife to have sex in a country where marital rape is not illegal. Bodily autonomy means my body is for me; my body is my own. It’s about
- [Woke Capitalism is Not a Thing](https://anti-robot.org/woke-capitalism-is-not-a-thing/) - "Woke" capitalism is not a thing. Capitalism is incompatible with human and planet well-being. A corporation will only pursue profits. It is only "woke" when some aspect of profit-making happems to overlap with a social good.
- [Sticker Art](https://anti-robot.org/sticker-art/) - Sticker art (also known as sticker bombing, sticker slapping, slap tagging, and sticker tagging) is a form of street art in which an image or message is publicly displayed using stickers. These stickers may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issue, or comprise a subcategory of graffiti.[1]
- [Patriarchy](https://anti-robot.org/patriarchy-2/) - Bringer of war. Destroyer of worlds.
- [Politicians listen to two things, money and votes.](https://anti-robot.org/politicians-listen-to-two-things-money-and-votes/) - Increasing the number of people that vote in each election means better representation, more funding to our communities, and a better quality of life. Politicians listen to two things, money and votes. If we work together as a community and increase voter turnout, then our state and national legislators will listen to our needs. Education,
- [What is a Socialist?](https://anti-robot.org/what-is-a-socialist/) - A socialist is someone who supports a political or economic philosophy that says society as a whole, rather than private companies, should own or control various goods and services. They can often be found reading Jacobin Magazine or making and placing socially conscious stickers around the neighborhood.
- [Peace is Patriotic](https://anti-robot.org/peace-is-patriotic/) - All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- [Smash the Patriarchy](https://anti-robot.org/smash-the-patriarchy/) - Bring down the patriarchy for the betterment of all humanity. It is up to us all. To Smash The Patriarchy, Question Everything.
- [The Economy of Fear](https://anti-robot.org/the-economy-of-fear/) - Kicking Television: The Economy of Fear The world economy is predicated on fear and unsatisfaction. We are conditioned by governments, corporations and the media (all are one in the same) to fear violence from all sides and to fear inadequacy in every aspect of our lives. No matter how much we spend in time, currency
- [Whoever controls your source of information controls you.*](https://anti-robot.org/whoever-controls-your-source-of-information-controls-you/) - Big media and the news organizations they control are no longer independent of government or corporations. Indeed, these news organizations have become the mouthpieces of governments and corporations and they can sell you anything, particularly fear. Your mind is for sale. Up your asking price. *-W.E.B. DuBois
- [On Fascism](https://anti-robot.org/on-fascism/) - Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation and race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. Whether we
- [No Gods. No Masters.](https://anti-robot.org/no-gods-no-masters/) - No gods, no masters is an anarchist and labor slogan. Its English origin comes from a pamphlet handed out by the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike. The phrase is derived from the French slogan "Ni dieu ni maître!" (literally 'Neither God nor master') coined by the socialist Louis Auguste
- [Media is designed to absorb dissent](https://anti-robot.org/media/) - And you may ask yourself; "How did I get here?"The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of
- [Television, The Drug Of The Nation](https://anti-robot.org/television-the-drug-of-the-nation/) - Disposable Heroes of HiphoprisyOne might consider updating by replacing "television" with "social media". -Robot One Nation under Godhas turned intoOne Nation under the influenceof one drug Television, the drug of the NationBreeding ignorance and feeding radiation T.V., it satellite linksour United States of unconciousnessApathetic therapeutic and extremely addictivethe methadone metronome pumping outa 150 channels 24
- [The Truth?](https://anti-robot.org/the-truth/) - Governmental transparency and freedom of information are the first defenses against tyranny. The less a government feels the need to be open and truthful, the more prone it is to try to get away with acts of which its citizens would not approve were they informed. It is vital that government tell its citizens the
- [Socialism is NOT Wealth Redistribution](https://anti-robot.org/socialism-is-not-wealth-redistribution/) - Private power wielded by corporations is far more dangerous to people than state action (the state = a theoretical representative of the common good.) The state can and should protect its citizens against the depredations of corporations. However, private corporate power exists only because it is protected by the state. Socialism is NOT wealth redistribution.
- [Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/democracy/) - Democracy is a vague euphemism for Americanism, meaning, the Anglo-American form of government; A loosely-defined expression meaning "The American Way". We may claim government "of the people, by the people, for the people", but in fact we are ruled by a government made up of our "legal representatives" who were appointed by the mass media
- [Voracious Consumers](https://anti-robot.org/voracious-consumers/) - Sam's Club, Costco, Walmart; Do we really need a gallon jar of pickles?We consume a variety of resources and products today, moving beyond basic needs to include luxury items and technological innovations. Such consumption beyond minimal and basic needs is not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. However, increasingly, there are important issues
- [Robot Notes](https://anti-robot.org/robot-notes/) - Random notes. Frippery.
- [Sticker Campaigns](https://anti-robot.org/sticker-campaigns/)
- [Rants](https://anti-robot.org/rants/) - Some random thoughts.
- [Contact](https://anti-robot.org/contact/) - This is a page with some basic contact information, such as an address and phone number. You might also try a plugin to add a contact form.

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- [Dreams of the Rich](https://anti-robot.org/category/dreams-of-the-rich/) - #
- [Oligarchy](https://anti-robot.org/category/oligarchy/) - #
- [Vile and disgusting](https://anti-robot.org/category/vile-and-disgusting/) - #
- [Economics](https://anti-robot.org/category/economics/) - #
- [Surveillance Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/category/surveillance-capitalism/) - #
- [Parody](https://anti-robot.org/category/parody/) - #
- [Culture](https://anti-robot.org/category/culture/) - #
- [Culture War](https://anti-robot.org/category/culture-war/) - #
- [Nihilism](https://anti-robot.org/category/nihilism/) - #
- [Robots](https://anti-robot.org/category/robots/) - #
- [Advertising](https://anti-robot.org/category/advertising/) - #
- [Technology](https://anti-robot.org/category/technology/) - #
- [Immigration](https://anti-robot.org/category/immigration/) - #
- [Enshittifcation](https://anti-robot.org/category/enshittifcation/) - #
- [Art Exhibits](https://anti-robot.org/category/art-exhibits/) - #
- [Anti-Robot Army](https://anti-robot.org/category/anti-robot-army/) - #
- [Protest](https://anti-robot.org/category/protest/) - #
- [Political Action](https://anti-robot.org/category/political-action/) - #
- [Protests](https://anti-robot.org/category/protests/) - #
- [Activism](https://anti-robot.org/category/activism/) - #
- [Anti-Fascist](https://anti-robot.org/category/anti-fascist/) - #
- [Tee Shirts](https://anti-robot.org/category/tee-shirts/) - #

## Tags

- [Unions](https://anti-robot.org/tag/unions/)
- [Robot](https://anti-robot.org/tag/robot/)
- [The Robot](https://anti-robot.org/tag/the-robot/)
- [Vote](https://anti-robot.org/tag/vote/)

## Picture tag

- [Anti-Robot Army reaches 81% Approval Rating!](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-army-reaches-81-approval-rating/)
- [And you thought TicTok was being treated unfairly](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/and-you-thought-tictok-was-being-treated-unfairly/)
- [Large Language Models and the Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/large-language-models-and-the-robot/)
- [Pollution hits everybody](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/pollution-hits-everybody/)
- [even robots.](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/even-robots/)
- [Anti-Robot Stickers](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-stickers/)
- [Anti-Robot Stickers Street Art](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-stickers-street-art/)
- [sticker exchange](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/sticker-exchange/)
- [sticker trade](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/sticker-trade/)
- [peace](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/peace/)
- [labor](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/labor/)
- [Graffiti](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/graffiti/)
- [Gen X. Its Armagideon Time](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/gen-x-its-armagideon-time/)
- [Democracy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/democracy/)
- [art](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/art/)
- [police violence](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/police-violence/)
- [Tax the rich](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/tax-the-rich/)
- [Non-binary](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/non-binary/)
- [Its Armagideon Time](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/its-armagideon-time/)
- [Extinction](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/extinction/)
- [oligarchy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/oligarchy/)
- [Theocracy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/theocracy/)
- [Danger! homicidal robots](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/danger-homicidal-robots/)
- [Venn diagram](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/venn-diagram/)
- [the Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/the-robot/)
- [Beware of evil robot logic. Do not be fooled. Malware](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/beware-of-evil-robot-logic-do-not-be-fooled-malware/)
- [Anti-Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot/)
- [Zombies are getting harder to avoid. Anti-Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/zombies-are-getting-harder-to-avoid-anti-robot/)
- [What is the Likelihood of a Robot Uprising in your Country? Anti-Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/what-is-the-likelihood-of-a-robot-uprising-in-your-country-anti-robot/)
- [Some are afraid. Others are not so sure. Anti-Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/some-are-afraid-others-are-not-so-sure-anti-robot/)
- [Big Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/big-robot/)
- [Stickers](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/stickers/)
- [Racism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/racism/)
- [Sexism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/sexism/)
- [Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/capitalism/)
- [Anti-War](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-war/)
- [End all wars](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/end-all-wars/)
- [Duty Now for the Future](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/duty-now-for-the-future/)
- [corpocracy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/corpocracy/)
- [Reservoir Dogs](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/reservoir-dogs/)
- [Equality](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/equality/)
- [equal rights](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/equal-rights/)
- [fembots](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fembots/)
- [love](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/love/)
- [VIP](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/vip/)
- [war](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/war/)
- [Conservatives](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/conservatives/)
- [Bad Religion](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/bad-religion/)
- [hate](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/hate/)
- [Values](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/values/)
- [Freedom](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/freedom/)
- [Culture](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/culture/)
- [ACAB](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/acab/)
- [Consumerism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/consumerism/)
- [Patriarchy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/patriarchy/)
- [theatre](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/theatre/)
- [justice](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/justice/)
- [Obey](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/obey/)
- [Consume](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/consume/)
- [Comply](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/comply/)
- [Anarchy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anarchy/)
- [Resist](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/resist/)
- [Ziggy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/ziggy/)
- [Nous Sommes Le Pouvoir Anti-Robot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/nous-sommes-le-pouvoir-anti-robot/)
- [ideology](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/ideology/)
- [brainwashing](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/brainwashing/)
- [gun violence](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/gun-violence/)
- [American way](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/american-way/)
- [Ian Dury](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/ian-dury/)
- [dissent](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/dissent/)
- [Evil Trump](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/evil-trump/)
- [fascist](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fascist/)
- [Power to the People](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/power-to-the-people/)
- [Brain damage](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/brain-damage/)
- [Advertising](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/advertising/)
- [Our Struggle](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/our-struggle/)
- [anarchist](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anarchist/)
- [billionaires](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/billionaires/)
- [phone](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/phone/)
- [addiction](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/addiction/)
- [Fight patriarchy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fight-patriarchy/)
- [propaganda](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/propaganda/)
- [Media](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/media/)
- [We only have one planet](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/we-only-have-one-planet/)
- [Human Rights](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/human-rights/)
- [The Clash](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/the-clash/)
- [Law](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/law/)
- [order](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/order/)
- [safety](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/safety/)
- [Action](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/action/)
- [Not Violence](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/not-violence/)
- [Culture Wars](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/culture-wars/)
- [technofeudalism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/technofeudalism/)
- [Evil Musk](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/evil-musk/)
- [Thiel](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/thiel/)
- [evil](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/evil/)
- [Data](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/data/)
- [Information](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/information/)
- [Gang of Four](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/gang-of-four/)
- [scary](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/scary/)
- [Oppression](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/oppression/)
- [Evil Religion](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/evil-religion/)
- [Christians](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/christians/)
- [christian nationalism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/christian-nationalism/)
- [Communism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/communism/)
- [Socialism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/socialism/)
- [Nihilism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/nihilism/)
- [Sex Pistols](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/sex-pistols/)
- [Joy Division](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/joy-division/)
- [Fear](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fear/)
- [Murder](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/murder/)
- [Know Your Rights](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/know-your-rights/)
- [Lying Trump](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/lying-trump/)
- [Nazis](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/nazis/)
- [Lies](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/lies/)
- [Fox News](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fox-news/)
- [Science](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/science/)
- [believe](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/believe/)
- [Skip Ad](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/skip-ad/)
- [Social Media](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/social-media/)
- [Toxic Media](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/toxic-media/)
- [Christian oppression](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/christian-oppression/)
- [privacy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/privacy/)
- [Surveillance Capitalism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/surveillance-capitalism/)
- [Anti-trump](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-trump/)
- [waste](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/waste/)
- [vote](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/vote/)
- [cheap art](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/cheap-art/)
- [Witches](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/witches/)
- [working class](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/working-class/)
- [free](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/free/)
- [Portal](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/portal/)
- [Anti-Robot is a Lie](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-is-a-lie/)
- [Always Anti-Trump](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/always-anti-trump/)
- [anti-fascist](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-fascist/)
- [Boredom is for the rich](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/boredom-is-for-the-rich/)
- [Dead Kennedys](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/dead-kennedys/)
- [boredom](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/boredom/)
- [Understanding](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/understanding/)
- [Elvis](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/elvis/)
- [Devo](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/devo/)
- [death cult](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/death-cult/)
- [fembot](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fembot/)
- [trump](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/trump/)
- [enemy of democracy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/enemy-of-democracy/)
- [fascism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/fascism/)
- [Resident Evil. Hell comes to your house](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/resident-evil-hell-comes-to-your-house/)
- [choice](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/choice/)
- [Indifference](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/indifference/)
- [Kills Truth](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/kills-truth/)
- [control](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/control/)
- [cell phone](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/cell-phone/)
- [Spiritualized](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/spiritualized/)
- [language](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/language/)
- [virus](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/virus/)
- [and Understanding](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/and-understanding/)
- [Free Gaza](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/free-gaza/)
- [Taliban](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/taliban/)
- [Billionaires should not exist](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/billionaires-should-not-exist/)
- [outrage](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/outrage/)
- [struggle](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/struggle/)
- [poop emoji](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/poop-emoji/)
- [voting](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/voting/)
- [union](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/union/)
- [slaves](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/slaves/)
- [Justice for all](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/justice-for-all/)
- [post truth](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/post-truth/)
- [vegan](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/vegan/)
- [slaps](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/slaps/)
- [feed us](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/feed-us/)
- [Graffiti is Art](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/graffiti-is-art/)
- [Freedom of choice](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/freedom-of-choice/)
- [Imagine better](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/imagine-better/)
- [Infographic](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/infographic/)
- [Europe](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/europe/)
- [Anti-Robot Stickers. Swasticar. Nazi.](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-stickers-swasticar-nazi/)
- [ICE](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/ice/)
- [Robots](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/robots/)
- [Cats](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/cats/)
- [We Are The Power](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/we-are-the-power/)
- [Unhinged president](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/unhinged-president/)
- [Believe in Science Not Religion](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/believe-in-science-not-religion/)
- [Senseless Gun Violence is the American Way](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/senseless-gun-violence-is-the-american-way/)
- [Evil Fox News](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/evil-fox-news/)
- [misinformation](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/misinformation/)
- [Anti-Robot Stickers. We can do better.](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/anti-robot-stickers-we-can-do-better/)
- [protests](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/protests/)
- [Capitalism will destroy us all](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/capitalism-will-destroy-us-all/)
- [We can do better](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/we-can-do-better/)
- [Daft Punk](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/daft-punk/)
- [Corporacy](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/corporacy/)
- [Class War](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/class-war/)
- [Change is up to us](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/change-is-up-to-us/)
- [Apocalypse](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/apocalypse/)
- [isolation](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/isolation/)
- [Capitalism Fails Us](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/capitalism-fails-us/)
- [Let us seize the time](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/let-us-seize-the-time/)
- [loneliness](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/loneliness/)
- [We all live here](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/we-all-live-here/)
- [Christianity=hate](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/christianityhate/)
- [Demented Right Wing Social Media is Coming for us All Anti-Robot Stickers](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/demented-right-wing-social-media-is-coming-for-us-all-anti-robot-stickers/)
- [You Cannot Vote Away Fascism](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/you-cannot-vote-away-fascism/)
- [Its a beautiful day to punch a nazi!](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/its-a-beautiful-day-to-punch-a-nazi/)
- [Christians Are the Taliban with Beer and Pork](https://anti-robot.org/ngg_tag/christians-are-the-taliban-with-beer-and-pork/)