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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · Sep 3

Issue 55 is here! It's a very special edition of Current Affairs, with every article devoted to animal welfare.

We’ve recruited leading scholars and activists to lend their voices in this issue, but we’ve done it with the signature Current Affairs satirical and artistic flair.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Libertarianism doesn’t work. Its core assumptions aren’t true. It’s the intellectual equivalent of huffing paint. www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is...

This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country

In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

How has Milei managed to screw things up so badly? And second, why did so many prominent columnists, authors, and think-tank denizens fail to see it coming? In both cases, the answer is the same: free-market ideology. www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is...

This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country

In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

For working-class people in Argentina, Milei’s presidency has been less a miracle and more a curse. The U.S. bailout is just the latest indignity, and the news that the country’s economic future now depends on Trump can’t be improving anyone’s confidence.
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This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country

In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.

www.currentaffairs.org

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is...

This is Why You Don’t Let Libertarians Run Your Country

In Argentina, President Javier Milei has screwed the economy up so badly he needs a $20 billion bailout. That’s because his “free market” economics don’t actually work.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

That's why all the people saying "why aren't the anti-genocide crowd praising Trump" are clueless. This was a US genocide that he decided to finally end because it had become an unpopular embarrassment.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The US president has always had the power to end the genocide whenever he wants. Trump didn't "negotiate a deal," he finally called off the war, which was within US's power.

The reason he shouldn't be praised is that there is nothing praiseworthy about ending your own genocide.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The hidden truth in the term “factory farm” is that it was, in reality, the farm—i.e., the slaughterhouse—which gave rise to the factory, and not the other way around. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Under slaughterhouse capitalism, animals are always exploited more so human workers can be exploited more. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The modern obsession with eating massive amounts of meat isn’t “natural” or “traditional.” It comes from colonial propaganda designed to justify white supremacy. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest lie animal agriculture tells isn’t about “happy cows” or “free-range chickens.” It’s that animals are fundamentally voiceless—unable to communicate their own desires and choices. Even some animal advocates perpetuate this nonsense.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The term “slaughterhouse capitalism” reminds us that the violence we see under “post-Fordist capitalism” is not some type of quirk or mistake, but instead the original and foundational purpose of the entire system—from the moment it was first designed.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

We live under slaughterhouse capitalism: a system designed from the ground up to treat all animals, human and nonhuman, as simply raw material for profit. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Ideas of how to prevent human resistance came from first figuring out how to prevent animal resistance. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

The entire modern industrial system—from Amazon to Tesla—originated in one place: Chicago slaughterhouses, where capitalists first figured out how to turn living beings into perfectly controlled objects.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-ind...

How Industrial Slaughter Became the Blueprint for Modern Capitalism

Henry Ford learned mass production from slaughterhouses. A century later, our modern economy still resembles a meatpacking plant.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s new national security memo (NSPM-7) designates the following as terrorism "indicators":

🟥Anti-capitalism
🟥Anti-Christianity
🟥Anti-Americanism
🟥Extremism on gender
🟥Extremism on race

This encompasses pretty much everybody to the left of MAGA.

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