The 40-hour work week was a concession made to the labor movement in 1926. In 2024, with AI and automation, we should be working 15 hours for the same pay. Instead, we work 50 hours and still can’t afford a house. The "efficiency gain" was stolen from you.
There’s comes a certain point in one’s life where all propaganda about the DPRK just sounds comically ridiculous and you have to sit there wondering what kind of idiot believes it.
Let me get this straight. The rise in antisemitic attacks in Britain has NOTHING to do with Israel's (self proclaimed only Jewish state) litany of war crimes in recent years but IS connected to the protests and marches opposing those war crimes. Perfect. Got it.
(me seeing the data that more than a third of all environmental microplastics come from car tires) you know what we should invent? a type of car that wears through tires twice as fast
A resurfaced clip of Hillary Clinton from 2008 is circulating online in which she says, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."
Trump 2.0 has been about shocking the American masses, and the world, with ramped-up wars where the aggressors no longer care to hide their atrocities. The task of the “progressives” who come after Trump will be to continue these wars, while trying to put the mask back on.
In other words, the so-called "extreme" left (ie, the actual left) was correct all along:
The US empire's goal is to extract rent from the rest of the world, at gunpoint, to protect corporate monopolies and enrich a few capitalist oligarchs.
You were simply too naive to see it.
when i was young my mom told us to never divulge any personal information online whatsoever and now she uploads our pictures to chatgpt to generate images of us against our will
the death of noblesse oblige is partly a result of capital mobility. the rich used to care more about national interests when their wealth was tied up in the nation
Right wingers: “Nicolas Maduro is a tyrant who murders his own people”
Also right wingers: “federal law enforcement has the right to kill any American who disobey orders”
@ChocolateRain__ not odd at all. if a person can’t afford something, they get zero sales from them. but if that price is duplicitously sliced up into “more manageable” payments, then boom, a sale. they get the full amt from the loan shark so they don’t care
because this is all just loan sharking