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[Siza Zungu @Zah_Zungu]

Muammar Gaddafi‘s murder and the collapse of Libya.

[James Wood 武杰士 @commiepommie]

🇺🇸 A phrase is going viral in China right now: “the US kill line” and it isn’t propaganda, it’s a metaphor that finally names a reality Americans have lived with for years.

In gaming, a kill line is the point where defence no longer matters. Cross it and one hit ends you. Applied to the US economy, it describes a society where millions are just one shock away from irreversible collapse.

Illness, job loss, a missed paycheck or a medical bill are just some examples.

Below that line, the system doesn’t help you recover, it accelerates your fall.

This isn’t a theory, by late 2025:
• Over 770,000 people are homeless
• Only 30% can access temporary shelters
• 40+ million rely on food assistance
• 30 million have no health insurance
• 37% of adults can’t raise $400 in an emergency

That’s not poverty in the traditional sense, that’s fragility engineered into the system.

The “kill line” matters because once you fall below it in the United States, recovery becomes structurally difficult.

Lose your job, then lose your address
Lose your address, then you can’t receive welfare
No address, then you can’t get hired
No car, then you can’t commute
No credit, then you can’t rent

This is a closed loop, not a safety net.

Americans even have a formal term for it: Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed (ALICE).

You’re above the official poverty line, but below the real cost of living.
Believe it or not, in 2023, 42% of US households were already there.

This is where the so called K-shaped economy kicks in.

Not sure what the K-shaped economy is? Read on…

At the top: exploding asset prices, tax optimisation, political access.
At the bottom: inflation, debt, layoffs, shrinking welfare.

The richest 1% now hold more wealth than the bottom 90% combined, yet often pay lower effective tax rates than ordinary workers. Everyone knows this, but are either in denial or ignorant to it.
This isn’t an accident. It’s the result of money and policy being tightly fused.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: The US system doesn’t just tolerate inequality, it relies on it. Very much the same way that it relies on war.

You can see the social consequences everywhere:
• Mass protests
• Criminalisation and alienation of homelessness
• Benches designed to repel homeless people
• Cities debating “drug rooms” instead of housing
• People dying quietly out of sight

That’s what “social Darwinism” looks like when it’s fused into institutions.

The Western media hates to discuss this. as if this topic is taboo. But it needs to be discussed.

Let me make this crystal clear: this will never happen in China. Not because people are magically richer, but because the system is designed differently.
The Chinese Government actually works for the people.

Here in China:
• Extreme poverty was systematically eradicated (800+ million raised out of poverty)
• Universal medical insurance exists in multiple tiers
• Housing support is embedded in local governance
• Income redistribution isn’t left to charity
• Local officials are evaluated on social stability, not donor satisfaction

People can fall, but they don’t disappear and there is no institutionalised kill line. That’s the difference.

You can hate on China all you like, but you cannot change the fact that one system treats human beings as inputs, while the other treats social survival as a governance responsibility.

No system ever fixes itself by pretending the damage is normal. Until the kill line is acknowledged as a design flaw, not a personal failure, the problem will continue.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Yelling isn't just yelling. The brain doesn't know the difference.

MRI scans show children living in high-conflict homes have hyper-reactive threat centers identical to soldiers with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).

Their amygdala stays on constant alert, scanning for danger that isn't there. A hostile home rewires a child's brain for war.

Source: University College London / Child Development

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Treemissions @treemissions]

There is an amazing technology that literally sucks CO2 out of the air, costs very little, and builds itself......

It's called a tree.

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

It’s extraordinary that both this year’s FIFA Peace Prize Winner & this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner want to start a war

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Donald, you just wrote the most honest colonial confession of the 21st century.

When you say Venezuela must "return" its oil, land, and assets to the United States, you are not talking about law.

You are talking about ownership.

You are saying, out loud, what empire has always believed in private:

What lies under Venezuelan soil belongs to Washington.

What grows on Venezuelan land belongs to U.S. corporations.

What Venezuela builds for itself is "stolen" if it is not built for you.

That is not security.

That is naked imperial entitlement.

Let us be precise.

Venezuela did not invade Texas.

It did not occupy Florida.

It did not sabotage American refineries or seize American ports.

Venezuela did one thing.

It took back control of its own oil from foreign companies and tried to build a sovereign project outside the dollar.

From that moment, its fate was sealed.

Coups.

Sanctions.

Freezing of assets.

Recognition of a fake "president" who never won an election.

Now you talk about armadas, blockades, and "terrorist" designations.

Everything you accuse Venezuela of, the United States has done on a planetary scale.

You talk about drug trafficking.

Colombia was your closest partner for decades.

You talk about human trafficking.

Your own border, your own allies, your own corporations profit from it.

You talk about terrorism.

Latin America is full of mass graves and dictatorships installed, trained, and armed by Washington.

And you dare to call a blockaded country a "foreign terrorist organization" for the crime of refusing to hand over its oil.

A blockade is not a policy.

It is an act of war carried out with banks instead of bombs.

It starves civilians.

It denies medicine.

It crushes currency.

It manufactures the humanitarian crisis you then use as justification for more aggression.

Venezuela did not "steal" anything from you.

Those oil fields were not born with an American flag on them.

What you call "our assets" are contracts that a sovereign nation chose to end.

You are not demanding justice.

You are demanding restitution for lost privileges.

Strip away the rhetoric, and the message is simple:

The "largest armada" is not there to defend America.

It is there to discipline a country that chose sovereignty.

It is a message to every nation in the Global South:

If you nationalize, we will strangle you.

If you de-dollarize, we will isolate you.

If you resist, we will call you terrorists.

Venezuela is not the thief in this story.

Venezuela is the house that finally changed the locks.

And the fact that you call its oil "ours" is all the proof anyone needs that the biggest foreign terrorist organization in this equation is not in Caracas.

It is in Washington.

@realDonaldTrump

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When your country has affordable healthcare

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree…..

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

“Let’s just say the quiet part out loud:
America didn’t get hijacked by ‘patriots.’ It got hijacked by failures — and by the very smart, very cynical people who realized how easy those failures are to manipulate.
For decades, the United States has produced a whole population of folks who never did the reading, never did the learning, never gained any skills, never grew emotionally, never took accountability for a single thing in their lives — and then reached adulthood furious that the world wasn’t built around their bad decisions. They flunked out of life, coasted on the easiest path possible, and then expected the entire country to bend so they never have to feel uncomfortable or inadequate.
Enter the political strategists who said, ‘Oh wow…this country has a gigantic pool of angry, insecure underachievers who will believe absolutely anything that absolves them of responsibility. If we just tell them they’re right and everyone else is wrong, they’ll worship us.’
And that’s exactly what happened.
A movement didn’t rise because these people were strong. It rose because someone finally figured out how to weaponize their weakness.
Tell the failures they’re actually the real Americans.
Tell the losers that the smart people secretly envy them.
Tell the ones who never succeeded that their lack of success is someone else’s fault.
Tell the folks who never grew up that maturity is ‘woke.’
And suddenly you’ve built an army — not of thinkers, not of leaders, not of contributors — but of emotionally fragile adults addicted to being lied to because the truth hurts too much.
Meanwhile, the people at the top of this movement?
They don’t respect them.
They don’t admire them.
They don’t even like them.
They use them.
Because they know these people don’t want solutions — they want soothing.
They don’t want progress — they want validation.
They don’t want responsibility — they want stories that make them feel better about failing at life.
So the grifters show up and say, ‘Hey buddy, none of this is your fault. You’re perfect. It’s the immigrants, the books, the teachers, the scientists, the cities, the gays, the trans people — anyone but you.’
And the failures eat it up like dessert.
Because it feels good.
Because it’s easier.
Because they finally found a political movement where doing the least, learning nothing, and hating everyone is not only accepted — it’s celebrated.
This movement isn’t powered by greatness. It’s powered by fragility, by resentment, by the bottom of the class finally hearing a bedtime story where they’re the heroes instead of the ones who fell behind.
And the people in charge? They laugh behind closed doors. They know exactly who they’re dealing with.
They know if you give failures an enemy to hate and a fantasy to believe in, they’ll hand you the keys to the country — and thank you for the privilege.
America doesn’t have a ‘patriot problem.’
America has a failure problem — and a ruling class that learned how to turn those failures into a political ATM.
It’d be tragic if it weren’t so predictable.”
- Joann Blake

[Claudia De la Cruz @Claud9_]

When you normalize invasions, bombings, and the theft of resources, land, and people’s livelihoods, you lose what makes you human. This loss makes it easier for the profiteers of war to control you.

Therefore, do the work to become more human when the enemies of the people ring the bell of war.

History teaches us that war is the business model of the rich. It has never served the masses of people.

[IT WAS NEVER GOING TO BE ME @solomonmissouri]

you living in a movie where the villain actually won

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Facts!!!

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Nicolas Maduro: ‘Israel’s massacres in Gaza are the most horrific genocide since Hitler’

Maria Corina Machado: ‘Venezuela’s🇻🇪 struggle is Israel’s struggle’

The Venezuelan politician that supported Israel in carrying out a Holocaust is receiving a Nobel Peace Prize

[Africa Research Desk @MightiJamie]

This guy has not even built one primary school to teach coding in Africa (his area of expertise) but he is always trying to get involved in African healthcare and African agriculture (not his areas of expertise). Keep him out of Africa he is up to no good.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

If you invade, you get Vietnam. If you "only" bomb, you get anarchy.

Maybe you kill Maduro. Maybe you hit some ministers.

You blow up central command and infrastructure.

Then what?

Do you really think María Corina and a few rich kids from eastern Caracas is going to stroll into Miraflores while colectivos, militias and the army stand aside?

No.

You get civil war - Benghazi with barrios, ten times the firepower and a hundred times the refugee crisis.

It's a hell of a racket.

- Impose sanctions to collapse the economy.
- Force people to flee by the millions
- Exploit the exodus for further aggression

The same policy that creates the refugees is then used to:
- Justify more imperial aggression abroad ("failed states", "humanitarian crisis")
- Justify more repression at home ("secure borders", "internal threats", "terror watchlists")

Rubio and his clique demand maximum pressure on Venezuela, then use the migrants that pressure produces to build a bigger domestic security apparatus.

The cost is not just Venezuelan suffering - it's American national decline.

Your medical bills. Your kid’s underfunded school.

The USS Ford parked off Venezuela’s coast? $13 billion.

That's 260,000 teachers' salaries. Or 1.3 million kids' school lunches for a decade. Gone.

Redirected into a carrier group enforcing corporate vengeance at the hands of a criminal gang of Zionist fanatics.

Chávez called it “the beast.” He was naming a system; one that consumes nations abroad while cannibalizing its own citizens at home.

He was right.

He also said the American people could defeat it from within; free themselves and, in doing so, free others from its reach.

Question for Americans:

How many more “blow them up” moments before you ask:

“Who exactly is this beast serving?”

[Frederick🇺🇲🇷🇺 @Frederick7551]

@MariaCorinaYA You have to speak it in english because your constituents are not Venezuelans but Epstein Pedophiles in washington