US police are kitted out like warfighters as they brutalize their fellow citizens protesting against...police brutality. Here is 70-year-old Congresswoman Joyce Beatty getting pepper sprayed alongside her fellow Ohio lawmakers Shannon Hardin and Kevin Boyce.
Why is it that if you know someone's position on climate change, you also know their views about Brexit, teaching with phonics, ending the lockdown, and (in all probability) capital punishment?
One of the most vital skills we can develop is the ability to pause the momentum of discursive mind and experience our world—both inner and outer—directly through our senses." David Rome
Rare Topical Tweet: We all know that the current government are just money people. Fiscal vampires who know little beyond 'business'. They believed the world to be just about profits and hedge funds. All of them. A human catastrophe is alien to them. They are helpless. Useless.
And there it is. The European Union's first dictatorship. None of these powers is needed to fight the virus. But they will help distract and deter opposition, especially when it becomes clear that the government has no better plan.
Not wanting to shit on anyone's picnic, but I think clapping for the NHS is a bit fucking redundant if you're also going to continue voting for a party that's consistently underfunded it for the last decade. Show your appreciation with your ballot box, next time.
Thomas Cook execs have taken home over £20 million in the last 5 years, setting them up for life. Today 21K people, lots of them likely on near min wage, have woken up with no job a few months before xmas. Capitalism working as designed - to exclusively benefit the fat cats
The world's largest military budgets:
🇯🇵 $50 billion
🇬🇧 $53 billion
🇫🇷 $56 billion
🇮🇳 $58 billion
🇷🇺 $63 billion
🇸🇦 $83 billion
🇨🇳 $168 billion
🇺🇸 $700 billion
What if—just maybe—we led the world not in weapons and war, but in fighting humanity's common enemy: climate change?