A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a
request with
the right
Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
{
"@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
"type": "OrderedCollectionPage",
"orderedItems": [
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333970378297344",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333970378297344\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333970378297344</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333970378297344",
"published": "2020-07-05T02:09:04+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:1125112872464547840",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333970378297344",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333970378297344/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333878413520896",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333878413520896\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333878413520896</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333878413520896",
"published": "2020-07-05T02:08:42+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:1125845685495136256",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333878413520896",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333878413520896/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333871656497152",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333871656497152\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333871656497152</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333871656497152",
"published": "2020-07-05T02:08:41+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:1125845685495136256",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333871656497152",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333871656497152/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333815835590656",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333815835590656\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333815835590656</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333815835590656",
"published": "2020-07-05T02:08:27+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:1126067127418904576",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1126333815835590656",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1126333815835590656/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1063680378282229760",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1063680378282229760\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1063680378282229760</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1063680378282229760",
"published": "2020-01-14T04:46:04+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:1063571297763913728",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1063680378282229760",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:1063680378282229760/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:838494603196850176",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "A NOT SHORT ENOUGH HISTORY OF ECONOMICS<br /> YOU DON'T NEED A MATHEMATICIAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE PISS IS FLOWING <br /> And you don’t have to live on the streets to know that Economics is the Dismal Science. I studied the subject academically awhile, until resisting the draft interfered. It was more of a curiosity to me as I went thru the “Great” Economists. As a major in Straight Philosophy, perched high on cloud coocoo land, I was more amused at how simple (minded) these “Economist Greats” were. The current use of math never impressed me. It was just another version of Latin for a new priesthood, cackling among themselves. “Hoc est corpus meum: - this is my body, said the priest. “Hocus pocus” translated the cynics.<br /> It worked for Latin, math works even better - for those who consider science a religion and economics a science. Until an Amherst graduate student actually did the math for a couple of “trickle down” Harvard economists and found that they were cooking the books to make their theory prove the impossible, that trickle down works for the benefit of all,.<br /> How about an example of trickle-down from history. Inheriting a shamanistic tradition, the aristo-cratic Russian 1% set the standard when – after imbibing a native psychedelic - generously gave the peasants their piss to drink. The original trickle-down. In America, the 99% - even those of us in the Marijuana bubble - are finding the trickle-down hard to swallow.<br /> RECOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT DEVELOPMENT <br /> So much for academic Economics – which began more truthfully as Political Economy. Adam Smith’s science was effectively a wish list for a new crew of elites who needed political clout to de-stroy the rural craft and agricultural economy that Smith so despised. Welcome to an early example of what we will meet later as the strategy of \"Development”. For centuries in merry old England De-velopment was known as Enclosure. <br />. Using state power Enclosure drove peasants off the village commons, replacing them with sheep for the lucrative export of wool. This global economy morphed into the steam driven machine econ-omy. A new breed of One Percenters needed the force of the state to evict what was left of the peas-antry and destroy the rural craft economy that Adam Smith had declared worthless. The peasants found out quick that the New Money Aristocrats didn’t need everybody. The unnecessary portion of the 99% could languish in London’s urban sewers. The result is graphically illustrated in Ho-garth's prints of life of the discarded in the eighteenth century..<br /> . Once all the land had been taken from the Native American inhabitants, enclosure in America was a more accelerated process. It didn't take long for machine economy elites to turn a land of small proprietors and farmers with very self-sufficient families into isolated employees, first utilizing young women and children, then soliciting immigrants to replace white workers when they fought back against factory labor and ultimately putting the family itself at risk when women entered the workforce as “native immigrants” with both parents forced to work at multiple subsistence jobs.<br /> My personal economic experience started in the American forties. That was the time when “America” realized, all of a sudden, that it was rich and the rest of the world was “poor.” Development was the name of this new enclosure movement. Strange that the lot of the third world “poor” never got better, despite the pleasant theories of post war liberal trickle-downers. It didn’t take long for this newly discovered global “poor” to realize that Russian aristocratic urine was a taste treat compared to the crocodile tears of the global developers. <br /> . Worse yet, it was discovered by the liberal trickle-downers that it wasn’t just the rest of the world that was filled with delectably exploitable poor people. Poor Americans were everywhere, particularly in central city urban slums who could be driven – this time literally – out into urban renewal projects or – with good luck – sub-urban resettlements. The great economic discovery that the poor were the greatest financial bonanza since the Indians rested on the same principle – when you drive them off the land, the land value rises exponentially. It was this discovery that ended the usefulness of the slum lord and started people on the street to homelessness.<br /> So there it is: in England, sheep replaced the peasants; in America’s inner cities the car was used instead of sheep. And in America the eviction process was accelerated. The sub-urban housing boom – good-by Redwood forests – provided the ticky-tack housing for the car commuters. Enormous beehive urban projects were touted as “ending poverty” for less fortunate displaced urbanites, ending instead the culture of neighborhoods.<br /> HOMELESS IS AN ECONOMIC INDICATOR - OR, THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL <br /> So it has been trickling down all over the globe for 50 years. And inequality has been what has developed inexorably. A few Billionaires have the control of wealth that equals billions of people. As money is sucked increasingly into the hands of the few, there is nothing left for much of the popu-lation. Absolutely nothing in our society for these possessors of zeros who stigmatized as homeless. <br /> In the logic of money, if you have no money you shouldn't exist. These homeless are internal immigrants, competing with global homeless who are called refugees. The Italians and Europe in general are trying to solve the problem by sinking boats. In the US we have internment camps run for profit to handle such immigrants from countries our policies disrupt. For our own economic refugees it has been less than nothing.<br /> Yet people continue stubbornly to exist. In the US, the people reduced to ashes continue to walk about and haunt the societies they are in. Currently in the US the bulk of desperate working poor gulp down the trickling urine of the rich offered the false hope that if they drink enough they too will become rich. Meanwhile, the homeless stubbornly prove that they can continue to exist though they have been thrown into the alleys where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. <br /> What does this prove? That there is no such thing as homeless humans.. Humans are a nesting animal which locally have had to be flushed out by police power and have their habitats destroyed over and over again by vigilantes. But the “homeless” don’t go extinct. For one, their populations are fed by rivers of the freshly rejected and by those who cannot or will not conform to the naked dollar. Guitars slung over their packs, their pockets stuffed with substances that take you out of the ugly world, dependent on each other for intimacy, solidarity and pleasure, a gypsy culture thrives. Their way offers an alternative consciousness not dependent on the availability of the success money can buy. It was just this sort of inspiration that powered the revolution of the sixties until the money cul-ture turned hippies into yuppies.<br /> The inability to dissolve those outside the money culture presents us with a vertical invasion of native and natural people once more. The failure to extirpate our own homeless resonates in the rebellion of the rest of the globe by people who will not submit their value systems to corrections by those who serve only the bottom line. This failure calls in question all that the World Bank started in motion in the early forties. The bankers’ failure foretells the impotence of the trade agreements from NAFTA to the TeePees like TPP and TPA that would make the world safe for Billionaires. <br /> The strategy of the Developers has been to monetize, monetize, monetize. But the discovery has been spreading, like a hundredth monkey, that money doesn’t solve problems, it creates them. The trick of creating scarcity through predation and then claiming that scarcity is a law of nature has outlived its power to cloud our minds.<br /> It isn’t that we will be saved by an insurrection of the homeless. We will be liberated by the realization that “poverty” is a concept invented by the elites to create more “poor.” Just as “enabling” was a pop psychology trick to further economic Reaganization on behalf of the 1% and its wanna-bees. The reality is living life in solidarity and community with the natural and human world of which we all are part. This is and was the way of life before the West forced upon the globe its perverted money culture, scheming to re-invent colonialism through a con job called development. Challenged by the intrinsic toxicity of our military-industrial-political party system, there is an accelerating re-sistance to this money culture reduced to the absurd by Trump and the Trumpsters. In the process we can re-define development and globalism as sustainability and planetary consciousness. <br />",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/838494603196850176",
"published": "2018-05-02T19:18:11+00:00",
"source": {
"content": "A NOT SHORT ENOUGH HISTORY OF ECONOMICS\n YOU DON'T NEED A MATHEMATICIAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE PISS IS FLOWING \n And you don’t have to live on the streets to know that Economics is the Dismal Science. I studied the subject academically awhile, until resisting the draft interfered. It was more of a curiosity to me as I went thru the “Great” Economists. As a major in Straight Philosophy, perched high on cloud coocoo land, I was more amused at how simple (minded) these “Economist Greats” were. The current use of math never impressed me. It was just another version of Latin for a new priesthood, cackling among themselves. “Hoc est corpus meum: - this is my body, said the priest. “Hocus pocus” translated the cynics.\n It worked for Latin, math works even better - for those who consider science a religion and economics a science. Until an Amherst graduate student actually did the math for a couple of “trickle down” Harvard economists and found that they were cooking the books to make their theory prove the impossible, that trickle down works for the benefit of all,.\n How about an example of trickle-down from history. Inheriting a shamanistic tradition, the aristo-cratic Russian 1% set the standard when – after imbibing a native psychedelic - generously gave the peasants their piss to drink. The original trickle-down. In America, the 99% - even those of us in the Marijuana bubble - are finding the trickle-down hard to swallow.\n RECOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT DEVELOPMENT \n So much for academic Economics – which began more truthfully as Political Economy. Adam Smith’s science was effectively a wish list for a new crew of elites who needed political clout to de-stroy the rural craft and agricultural economy that Smith so despised. Welcome to an early example of what we will meet later as the strategy of \"Development”. For centuries in merry old England De-velopment was known as Enclosure. \n. Using state power Enclosure drove peasants off the village commons, replacing them with sheep for the lucrative export of wool. This global economy morphed into the steam driven machine econ-omy. A new breed of One Percenters needed the force of the state to evict what was left of the peas-antry and destroy the rural craft economy that Adam Smith had declared worthless. The peasants found out quick that the New Money Aristocrats didn’t need everybody. The unnecessary portion of the 99% could languish in London’s urban sewers. The result is graphically illustrated in Ho-garth's prints of life of the discarded in the eighteenth century..\n . Once all the land had been taken from the Native American inhabitants, enclosure in America was a more accelerated process. It didn't take long for machine economy elites to turn a land of small proprietors and farmers with very self-sufficient families into isolated employees, first utilizing young women and children, then soliciting immigrants to replace white workers when they fought back against factory labor and ultimately putting the family itself at risk when women entered the workforce as “native immigrants” with both parents forced to work at multiple subsistence jobs.\n My personal economic experience started in the American forties. That was the time when “America” realized, all of a sudden, that it was rich and the rest of the world was “poor.” Development was the name of this new enclosure movement. Strange that the lot of the third world “poor” never got better, despite the pleasant theories of post war liberal trickle-downers. It didn’t take long for this newly discovered global “poor” to realize that Russian aristocratic urine was a taste treat compared to the crocodile tears of the global developers. \n . Worse yet, it was discovered by the liberal trickle-downers that it wasn’t just the rest of the world that was filled with delectably exploitable poor people. Poor Americans were everywhere, particularly in central city urban slums who could be driven – this time literally – out into urban renewal projects or – with good luck – sub-urban resettlements. The great economic discovery that the poor were the greatest financial bonanza since the Indians rested on the same principle – when you drive them off the land, the land value rises exponentially. It was this discovery that ended the usefulness of the slum lord and started people on the street to homelessness.\n So there it is: in England, sheep replaced the peasants; in America’s inner cities the car was used instead of sheep. And in America the eviction process was accelerated. The sub-urban housing boom – good-by Redwood forests – provided the ticky-tack housing for the car commuters. Enormous beehive urban projects were touted as “ending poverty” for less fortunate displaced urbanites, ending instead the culture of neighborhoods.\n HOMELESS IS AN ECONOMIC INDICATOR - OR, THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL \n So it has been trickling down all over the globe for 50 years. And inequality has been what has developed inexorably. A few Billionaires have the control of wealth that equals billions of people. As money is sucked increasingly into the hands of the few, there is nothing left for much of the popu-lation. Absolutely nothing in our society for these possessors of zeros who stigmatized as homeless. \n In the logic of money, if you have no money you shouldn't exist. These homeless are internal immigrants, competing with global homeless who are called refugees. The Italians and Europe in general are trying to solve the problem by sinking boats. In the US we have internment camps run for profit to handle such immigrants from countries our policies disrupt. For our own economic refugees it has been less than nothing.\n Yet people continue stubbornly to exist. In the US, the people reduced to ashes continue to walk about and haunt the societies they are in. Currently in the US the bulk of desperate working poor gulp down the trickling urine of the rich offered the false hope that if they drink enough they too will become rich. Meanwhile, the homeless stubbornly prove that they can continue to exist though they have been thrown into the alleys where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. \n What does this prove? That there is no such thing as homeless humans.. Humans are a nesting animal which locally have had to be flushed out by police power and have their habitats destroyed over and over again by vigilantes. But the “homeless” don’t go extinct. For one, their populations are fed by rivers of the freshly rejected and by those who cannot or will not conform to the naked dollar. Guitars slung over their packs, their pockets stuffed with substances that take you out of the ugly world, dependent on each other for intimacy, solidarity and pleasure, a gypsy culture thrives. Their way offers an alternative consciousness not dependent on the availability of the success money can buy. It was just this sort of inspiration that powered the revolution of the sixties until the money cul-ture turned hippies into yuppies.\n The inability to dissolve those outside the money culture presents us with a vertical invasion of native and natural people once more. The failure to extirpate our own homeless resonates in the rebellion of the rest of the globe by people who will not submit their value systems to corrections by those who serve only the bottom line. This failure calls in question all that the World Bank started in motion in the early forties. The bankers’ failure foretells the impotence of the trade agreements from NAFTA to the TeePees like TPP and TPA that would make the world safe for Billionaires. \n The strategy of the Developers has been to monetize, monetize, monetize. But the discovery has been spreading, like a hundredth monkey, that money doesn’t solve problems, it creates them. The trick of creating scarcity through predation and then claiming that scarcity is a law of nature has outlived its power to cloud our minds.\n It isn’t that we will be saved by an insurrection of the homeless. We will be liberated by the realization that “poverty” is a concept invented by the elites to create more “poor.” Just as “enabling” was a pop psychology trick to further economic Reaganization on behalf of the 1% and its wanna-bees. The reality is living life in solidarity and community with the natural and human world of which we all are part. This is and was the way of life before the West forced upon the globe its perverted money culture, scheming to re-invent colonialism through a con job called development. Challenged by the intrinsic toxicity of our military-industrial-political party system, there is an accelerating re-sistance to this money culture reduced to the absurd by Trump and the Trumpsters. In the process we can re-define development and globalism as sustainability and planetary consciousness. \n",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:838494603196850176/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:601319716258066435",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "FASCISM NOW – NO WAITING<br /><br />Okay, I admit that I am a movement spy. As thepeopleswhistle I fancy myself the Scarlet Pimpernel of class war. In the name of solidarity and equality, I work to solve problems caused by our governments and our businesses. This proud American Fascism, corporate and militarist to the core, plows through masses of at risk people who are sold and in the way – as consciously terrorist as that big French Truck plowing through the crowd of Bastille Day celebrants.<br />It is fascism now with Hilary-types running the show – not a future fascism with Trump. The armed security forces are everywhere and they are heavily armed - double zeros licensed to kill. They don’t fear prosecution, just bad publicity. Why, you might ask, should we accept a situation where the person who stops me for a traffic violation has the option at their fingertips of killing me? Why should we agree that the person who patrols my camping activities in a state park is given the discretion of riddling me with bullets right there by my campfire?<br />Recall the textbook definition of state power – it needs a monopoly on violence. Which monopoly has made “police forces” virtual armies of occupation in towns like Baton Rouge, Los Angeles and Eureka. Disarming these forces is crucial. Replacing them with civil, not military, interveners is necessary. And I am confident that the first wave of such civil interveners would be yesterday’s armed cops. <br />It is the gun that draws the nuts. Any job whose description includes “can kill people when you want to” attracts a number of questionable candidates. The failure of police review, not to mention war crimes tribunals, shows the futility of policing the armed forces. Armed people functioning as units serve each other’s survival First and last. Us “citizens” are all Iraqi faces in a hostile crowd to those armed paranoids, increasing numbers of whom are Endless War graduates. <br />These domestic occupation armies shoot black people at will. But if you lack black people the money elite are satisfied if enough time is spent terrorizing the homeless. American towns are Spanish Pamplonas where the blue-suited, silver-badged bulls are always running and the street people better be running too.<br />The great urban parasite is always experimenting with tightening the noose of terror among the disposed. “Aggressive Panhandling” is the latest game in town One of the towns in my HumBayBeltWay tried it and failed in court. The local politicians know that this effort is doomed as well since it fundamentally defines “aggressive” as panhandling anywhere there are likely to be people. But the point behind such pointlessness isn’t success – the politicians merely want their wealthy patrons that they are giving it the old class war try.<br />But wait, one of culture heroes was homeless. No, not Jesus, I mean George Orwell. Too many years in the Imperial Police in Burma and elsewhere eventually produced the radically socialist Orwell. (He wrote a novel “Burmese Days” and an essay “Shooting an Elephant” which give us a taste of his deep disillusionment with his role) Orwell purged himself of that experience by going homeless. Read his “Down and Out in Paris and London.”<br />In fact, don’t wait. Here is an appropriate taste from George himself:<br />“There is no ESSENTIAL difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless. <br />“And as a social type a beggar compares well with scores of others. He is honest compared with the sellers of most patent medicines, high-minded compared with a Sunday newspaper proprietor, amiable compared with a hire-purchase tout--in short, a parasite, but a fairly harmless parasite. He seldom extracts more than a bare living from the community, and, what should justify him according to our ethical ideas, he pays for it over and over in suffering. I do not think there is anything about a beggar that sets him in a different class from other people, or gives most modern men the right to despise him. <br />“Then the question arises, Why are beggars despised?--for they are despised, universally. I believe it is for the simple reason that they fail to earn a decent living. In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modem talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except 'Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it'? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.<br />Another tweet from:<br /><br /> www.minds.com/thepeopleswhistle",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/601319716258066435",
"published": "2016-07-17T07:49:49+00:00",
"source": {
"content": "FASCISM NOW – NO WAITING\n\nOkay, I admit that I am a movement spy. As thepeopleswhistle I fancy myself the Scarlet Pimpernel of class war. In the name of solidarity and equality, I work to solve problems caused by our governments and our businesses. This proud American Fascism, corporate and militarist to the core, plows through masses of at risk people who are sold and in the way – as consciously terrorist as that big French Truck plowing through the crowd of Bastille Day celebrants.\nIt is fascism now with Hilary-types running the show – not a future fascism with Trump. The armed security forces are everywhere and they are heavily armed - double zeros licensed to kill. They don’t fear prosecution, just bad publicity. Why, you might ask, should we accept a situation where the person who stops me for a traffic violation has the option at their fingertips of killing me? Why should we agree that the person who patrols my camping activities in a state park is given the discretion of riddling me with bullets right there by my campfire?\nRecall the textbook definition of state power – it needs a monopoly on violence. Which monopoly has made “police forces” virtual armies of occupation in towns like Baton Rouge, Los Angeles and Eureka. Disarming these forces is crucial. Replacing them with civil, not military, interveners is necessary. And I am confident that the first wave of such civil interveners would be yesterday’s armed cops. \nIt is the gun that draws the nuts. Any job whose description includes “can kill people when you want to” attracts a number of questionable candidates. The failure of police review, not to mention war crimes tribunals, shows the futility of policing the armed forces. Armed people functioning as units serve each other’s survival First and last. Us “citizens” are all Iraqi faces in a hostile crowd to those armed paranoids, increasing numbers of whom are Endless War graduates. \nThese domestic occupation armies shoot black people at will. But if you lack black people the money elite are satisfied if enough time is spent terrorizing the homeless. American towns are Spanish Pamplonas where the blue-suited, silver-badged bulls are always running and the street people better be running too.\nThe great urban parasite is always experimenting with tightening the noose of terror among the disposed. “Aggressive Panhandling” is the latest game in town One of the towns in my HumBayBeltWay tried it and failed in court. The local politicians know that this effort is doomed as well since it fundamentally defines “aggressive” as panhandling anywhere there are likely to be people. But the point behind such pointlessness isn’t success – the politicians merely want their wealthy patrons that they are giving it the old class war try.\nBut wait, one of culture heroes was homeless. No, not Jesus, I mean George Orwell. Too many years in the Imperial Police in Burma and elsewhere eventually produced the radically socialist Orwell. (He wrote a novel “Burmese Days” and an essay “Shooting an Elephant” which give us a taste of his deep disillusionment with his role) Orwell purged himself of that experience by going homeless. Read his “Down and Out in Paris and London.”\nIn fact, don’t wait. Here is an appropriate taste from George himself:\n“There is no ESSENTIAL difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not work, it is said; but, then, what is WORK? A navvy works by swinging a pick. An accountant works by adding up figures. A beggar works by standing out of doors in all weathers and getting varicose veins, chronic bronchitis, etc. It is a trade like any other; quite useless, of course--but, then, many reputable trades are quite useless. \n“And as a social type a beggar compares well with scores of others. He is honest compared with the sellers of most patent medicines, high-minded compared with a Sunday newspaper proprietor, amiable compared with a hire-purchase tout--in short, a parasite, but a fairly harmless parasite. He seldom extracts more than a bare living from the community, and, what should justify him according to our ethical ideas, he pays for it over and over in suffering. I do not think there is anything about a beggar that sets him in a different class from other people, or gives most modern men the right to despise him. \n“Then the question arises, Why are beggars despised?--for they are despised, universally. I believe it is for the simple reason that they fail to earn a decent living. In practice nobody cares whether work is useful or useless, productive or parasitic; the sole thing demanded is that it shall be profitable. In all the modem talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except 'Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it'? Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.\nAnother tweet from:\n\n www.minds.com/thepeopleswhistle",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:601319716258066435/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:600870389190504459",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/600870389190504459\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/600870389190504459</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/600870389190504459",
"published": "2016-07-16T02:04:23+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:600194066231074829",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/600870389190504459",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:600870389190504459/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589620229550649354",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620229550649354\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620229550649354</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620229550649354",
"published": "2016-06-15T01:00:16+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:579433484322349056",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620229550649354",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589620229550649354/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589620021148266500",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620021148266500\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620021148266500</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620021148266500",
"published": "2016-06-15T00:59:27+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/555480422817996801/entities/urn:activity:578291426010341376",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589620021148266500",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589620021148266500/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589619819649708051",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619819649708051\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619819649708051</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/564987651506053131"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619819649708051",
"published": "2016-06-15T00:58:39+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/564987651506053131/entities/urn:activity:567146497209016320",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619819649708051",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589619819649708051/activity"
},
{
"type": "Create",
"actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"object": {
"type": "Note",
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589619629878423554",
"attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506",
"content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619629878423554\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619629878423554</a>",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/followers",
"https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136"
],
"tag": [],
"url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619629878423554",
"published": "2016-06-15T00:57:53+00:00",
"inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:581638194840219648",
"source": {
"content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/589619629878423554",
"mediaType": "text/plain"
}
},
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/entities/urn:activity:589619629878423554/activity"
}
],
"id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/outbox",
"partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/579800647021375506/outboxoutbox"
}