One of the stranger parts of being an adult is realizing how many people have never questioned a single belief they inherited. Not even out of curiosity.
voting for democrats while they quietly fund ice, fight against trans rights, kill disabled people, and commit genocide is the reason why trump is allowed to do it loudly. they are interconnected and inseparable.
Looking at what’s happening across Latin America, you can see exactly why states like China and the DPRK reject social democracy and function the way they do. A genuine socialist government can't survive when it's being constantly pressured by imperialist interference. Social democracy doesn't have the structural defences to stop fascism; it compromises too much and ends up paving the way for it. Castro and Chávez understood this too. They knew that open, relaxed systems are way too vulnerable to economic sabotage and coups, which is why they argued that you need a strong, unified revolutionary state to fight back.
why aren’t the robots working in the mines and oil fields and handling toxic chemicals or picking plastic out of the ocean? why are they writing emails and making powerpoint presentations? what the hell are we doing
I was complaining to my uncle that not a single country has a government that represents the will of the majority of its citizens and he replied "except Israel".
Meanwhile on Chinese TV, they're explaining why America's economics Nobel Prizes don't add up to anything.
Zhang Weiwei: every country that modernized needed a first pot of gold -- the starting capital that gets an economy growing.
"The West got theirs through violence, war, the slave trade. Ruthless plunder, ruthless slaughter."
China earned its own -- "through its own effort and sacrifice."
US-trained economist Wen Yi adds the punchline: Western models literally can't explain where that starting capital comes from. "Economics assumes it's given -- by God."
Which is why copying the Western model was never on offer for the Global South:
"Tell developing nations to copy you -- no pot of gold!"
Europeans stopped fighting constant wars with each other like ten seconds ago and yet the average white westerner will tell you "the middle east has always been at war so all the bloodshed there is an unsolvable mystery".
When Dolly Parton lost the Oscar to Three Six Mafia, she sent them a letter congratulating them and saying she was proud they brought it home to Tennessee.
One of one. Never to be equaled.
White ppl don’t include you in their shows because you are not a part of their life experience, no matter how badly you want to be. Thats why you arent in their media as their friends or love interests. They dont think about you outside of racism.
You’re standards aren’t high. You’re just very materialistic and I’d wish yall start admitting that because it’s ok lol.. it’s jibber jabber yall disguise as loving yourself lol
Singapore's former foreign minister: Americans neither like the Chinese nor Muslims, yet for some reason they show exceptional interest in Xinjiang's Muslims. The Xinjiang lies fabricated by the West are clearly an information war against China at a glance!
This is why I hate when people pretend that it was Israel who corrupted America
No Israel is America’s bastard child who copied the deranged actions of American culture
Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine is the same as the Greater Israel project