They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and often building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.
We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.
L'influ mascu/extrême droite qui passe son pire séjour a Paris c'est facilement une des meilleurs choses que j'ai pu voir dernièrement, c'est tellement marrant
the part they never teach you:
inflation is permanent.
$6 coffee doesn’t go back to $3.
your only defense is earning more.
but the moment workers ask for that they call it a threat to the economy.
whose economy.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984
First it was $40 billion to Venezuela and now it’s $300 billion to Iran
This is the price of the Epstein files. This is the cost of electing a pedophile. I never want to hear conservatives say we don’t have money for shit ever again
The number 1 thing pisses me off today is how every company realized they can still technically operate at the bare minimum if they run a skeleton crew for everything. So now every service sucks, both for the workers and the customers, and we can't do anything.