@TONYxTWO A Republican in Congress he stays home on recess rather than passing the agenda they were elected to pass is teaching the party voters to stay home.
🇺🇦 A German reporter asked Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko why his own children aren’t fighting in Ukraine.
Klitschko responded:
“My children have never lived in Ukraine. They were born in America and studied in Europe or America.”
When the reporter pressed him further, saying he was avoiding the question, Klitschko insisted he had already answered regarding his own children.
As ordinary Ukrainian families continue to send their sons to the front, children of the elites avoid service.
Vivek Ramaswamy announces that if he wins the Ohio governor’s race, he will incorporate “Hindu values” into Ohio public schools, with each classroom having a picture of Vishnu.
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Republicans when it’s convenient: If you don't vote Republican, you’ll get Democrats elected (libertarians are practically Republicans anyway, right?)
Also Republicans when it’s convenient: We spent $30 million to unseat the only Republican who reliably opposes spending, inflation, surveillance, and war, because libertarianism and non-interventionism don’t belong in the Republican Party.
Well, guess what? You got what you asked for and I’m not voting Republican this year, which might get Democrats elected in 2026. Learn your lesson now before 2028, because I’m not voting for your guy then either if he supported this war. Check… mate.
@abelljr1@thesportsontap I'm shocked to learn there is Slavery in Africa. How could it be. America's greatest crime was slavery into the 19th C. But now you are telling me that Slavery exists today, in the 21st C. In Africa.
What can we do to end Slavery in Africa today ?
@SenMikeLee With so much at stake, I'd think the GOP Congress would be doing everything they could to ensure the election promises of 2024 were realized.
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Jews are raised from birth to view farming as slave work and look down on farmers as inferior people. it is quite explicitly the foundation of their belief system that God favors nomadic pastoralists over sedentary farmers
Rather than being a cautionary tragic tale about remaining faithful to God despite life's challenges, the story of cain and able is instead clearly the first polemic against industrial monoculture: a post bronze age commentary on what kind of food system the semetic race should standardize on
One can almost hear the hill-dwelling Israelite authors slam dunking on the shattered(by Europeans) Mesopotamian grain empire: " we TOLD you to stick with sheep, we TOLD you G*d favors our way of life and not your wicked, child-sacrificing tower of babel (ziggurat) worshipping urban lifestyle. Your bones are weak, your teeth are rotted, and your walls you built to protect yourself have become your tomb"
And in fact they had a point about that, nomadic pastoralism creates a kind of culture and lifestyle where solid assets are a liability and profits from the sheparding are invested elsewhere
Instead of buying new plows or building barns the money is invested into connections and political influence: where can I graze my sheep in this new town? What politician or king will take a bribe to let me do this? I have goods to sell, who can I pay to make that happen?
A sheparding based economy incentivises keeping money liquid so you can carry it with you from town to town, only natural to buy and sell goods with it
It lends well to merchantilism, to buying and selling and arbitrage profits that come from it: buy goods in town A, travel a few days or weeks to town B and sell the goods for a higher price(travel expenses paid for by the sheep)
The shepard system also works well for money lending, another way to make unearned profit, to extract from host peoples and live comfortably. Even when they wise up and kick you out you're fine, being nomadic means you don't need to be a good neighbor
Your society being standardized on sheparding makes you value cash, spend it on political influence over foreign elites, use that influence to install your people into their beaurocracy to twist market conditions into your favor, which eventually logically concludes in debt slavery for the lower class, the displacement and liquidation of the native middle class merchants, and total destruction of the host society.
Which at that point you steal as many of their assets as you can and walk off with your sheep 🐑 to the next town to sell, grazing along the way. 🌱