They sold us capitalism by telling us it would lead to lower prices, freedom, and abundance for all, but it was all a lie.
The opposite happened: It has led to higher prices, record profits for corporations, and decay for humanity.
The crazy part is it’s only going to get worse from here on out because in its final stage capitalism starts consuming itself when it runs out of things to exploit for profit.
The capitalist ruling class has no plan B because their minds are unable to grasp a better world where society is not ruled by profit, exploitation, and greed.
The only hope humanity has left is for the people to rise up and fight for a better system where workers own the means of production, and the economy is run not to generate profits, but to meet people’s basic needs.
When a college asked to cancel their Flock contract, Flock said no
Then the college said they would pay the rest of the contract if Flock would just remove the cameras. Flock ghosted them.
Then the college covered the cameras; every time they did, a person in an unmarked car would show up and remove the covers
In the entire life of someone who is 50 years or younger, it is difficult to come up with even one example of literally anything that has significantly improved economic reality for most Americans.
This is probably why most people hate politics, both parties & their oligarchs.
“Palestine is dividing the left!”
No, it’s defining the Left. You’re not owning up to the fact that genocide wasn't a red line for you. Genocide is the red line for anyone with a moral and ethical compass.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
There are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men who
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children!
And Zero arrests.
Opponents of the proposed billionaire tax in California have raised over $300 million to stop it from passing, which is about 10 times more than what supporters of the measure have raised.
The opposition funding came mostly from tech barons and venture capitalists, with a third of it coming from Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
By having a whopping 10 times the resources that supporters have, the opposition can saturate television, radio, digital platforms, mailers, etc.
This is a clear example of the asymmetric influence of billionaires. There are no campaign finance limits on state ballot measures.
90% of the proceeds from this proposal for a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires would be designated for the state's healthcare, while 10% would go to food assistance and school.
Gavin Newsom opposes the proposal.
My interview with @Tim_Walz is getting lots of attention for what he said about the genocide & @Liz_Cheney. But this comment is just as newsy and he’s absolutely right: If Dems repeat their betrayals, they’ll create conditions for a worse version of Trump
They're Setting Up AI Surveillance To "De-Radicalize" Classrooms In Gaza
Take a good look, ladies and gentlemen, because this is what they’ve got planned for the rest of us as well.
Reading by Tim Foley.
Thousands of people are protesting in London today to demand their government sanction the state of Israel and implement a full arms embargo. #EndTheGenocide
All public gatherings were banned in Athens under NATO vassal Mitsotakis to prevent protests during Marco Rubio’s ahistorical neocon clash of civilizations screed
Journalists were detained for hours simply for appearing to cover a banned demonstration against Israel’s genocide
In this dangerous moment for Ukraine, it’s worth remembering what Vladimir Putin said years ago about NATO’s role in the proxy war:
“There are those in the West who don't mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives.”
My bad, it was actually a different president who said that — Volodymyr Zelensky, March 2022:
Congress is threatening to individually subpoena me and my @BTnewsroom colleagues @ZoeAlexandra_ok and @radiofreeamanda if we don’t forfeit our first amendment rights. All because they don’t like our reporting on Gaza and ICE.
Help us fight this attack on freedom of the press:
https://t.co/CUMvRUrU6G
Not only has the US never televised public executions in its history, but not even the Nazi defendants sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials had their executions televised (it was deemed violative of the human rights that post-WW2 institutions were trying to re-establish).
The most amazing part of this is that Nidal Hasan is paraplegic and close to 60. So this disgusting spectacle will involve rolling him out in a wheelchair, then live-streaming his body as it's pumped full of bullets.
When I and others pointed out last night that public executions are carried out only by the countries we're told are the most primitive and savage (Afghanistan, North Korea), MAGA enthusisasts replied that we were too weak. Pummeling an old guy in a wheelchair with bullets -- as a reality TV show -- seems like an odd and dubious defintion of "strength," let alone an expression of the western values they endlessly claim they and they alone are trying to salvage.