You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. You reduce crime with universal healthcare, public housing, livable wages, and free college. You reduce violence by creating happy, healthy communities that aren’t constantly fighting over basic needs and material resources.
You cannot understand the climate crisis if you don’t understand colonialism. You cannot understand colonialism if you don’t understand capitalism. Everything is connected. There is a subtle fabric of oppression that links every form of suffering around the world.
We 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.
Wake up, kids
We got the dreamers disease.
‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root."
Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential.
‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.
an artist knows their own work best. can’t argue with that. but I have to tell you…
this album right here is criminally underrated, CLEARLY.
“Piece Of Mind” “Hazeus View” “Like Me” “Belly Of The Beast” “Christ Conscious” “On & On” “Black Beetles” 🔥
from the first to the last song, in fact. top tier lyricism & production. this album for me isn’t just music it’s a state of mind bro it’s that good. this man was in a different dimension. in an alternate universe this is low key “2000” lol.
tying yo self-worth to money is another bad symptom of capitalism. you relish there being an underclass because you need somebody to be over than. in reality, you barely less poor than them compared to the real wealth hoarders in this country.
Capitalism’s structural flaw is that once capital reaches a certain scale, it can purchase politics, government, regulations, competitors, and media, creating a self-reinforcing cycle that compounds wealth for the ones on the top.
The system that claims to reward merit increasingly rewards incumbency. That’s not a bug that can be patched with regulations, because we see that our entire political system is a cesspool of lobbyists advancing corporate interests by paying the politicians to take positions favorable for them.
Furthermore, capitalism’s end result is- the deployment of the nation’s military on its behest. Which is where we are at now. So it’s not about selling $10 tshirts, it’s if you acquire so much wealth, that you ban others from making that shirt, and you can pay the child laborer in Indonesia even less, and if they revolt, you send your military.
That has been the logical endpoint of allowing unlimited capital accumulation to operate inside democratic institutions that are, by design, purchasable.
Whether it is Chiquita bananas (also known as united fruit company), Dole pineapples, production of rubber by exploitation of Congolese- for ABIR (Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company, JP MORGAN CHASE- owning 15k slaves as collateral, Tiffany & co- by exploiting slaves picking cotton- it’s all of it.
Narrowing systemic issues down to individuals has done wonders for obscuring root causes. Its all Trump, Netanyahu & Epstein. no its US imperialism, settler colonialism & the ruling class. Cause if somethin happens to those individuals the system that empowers them remains intact
This home in Dakar 🇸🇳 was built with raw earth bricks and no AC.
Its circular form is inspired by traditional Senegalese homes, with a courtyard and trees at the centre.
The house is oriented north-south to capture natural light and prevailing winds.
Small openings in the roof allow hot air to escape.
The building is raised by 450mm to reduce the risk of flooding.
The walls are made from locally produced earth bricks, pressed by hand and sealed for durability.
The floors use a traditional broken tile technique, finished with linseed oil for protection and brightness.
Glass walls are triple-glazed to insulate the interiors from heat.
They open fully for airflow and close when protection is needed.
From the windows to the gutters and furniture, everything was made locally.
Nothing was imported.
This is what happens when design respects where it is built.
Local materials are not backward.
They work.
📍 Dakar, Senegal
Architect: Cyrus Ardalan
Photography: Alice Mesguich
Mind you Cuba is literally just some island nation that has never launched a military attack at us. The US has them under a blockade because wealthy americans don't like their economy. That's literally it.