Muchos percibimos que no vivimos en una verdadera democracia, sino que los ricos controlan la política a través de diversos mecanismos. Pero ahora no es sólo una sensación, es algo demostrado con datos y estudios 🧵
Las privatizaciones en el sistema público de salud son lesivas. Cada aumento de 1 punto porcentual en las externalizaciones a empresas privadas se asocia con un incremento del 0,4% en la mortalidad tratable al año siguiente.
Estudio en UK.
It's utterly ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.
the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country
🇮🇷 Antes del amistoso contra Nigeria, la selección de Irán entró al estadio y posó para una foto con mochilas escolares en honor a los niños de la escuela primaria Shajare Tayebé de Minab, asesinados por el ataque estadounidense del 28 de febrero.
“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
-Omar El Akkad
They raped a man.
They gang-raped him.
They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized.
Doctors documented the injuries.
The video of the assault was leaked.
Now the rapists are free.
This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick!
#ThisIsIsrael
I have seen this picture cross my feed many times, and every single time it pulls me up short. His little blue lunchbox, the sneakers that are probably a tad too big because he would grow into them, the straps for his glasses so that he didn’t lose them, his checkered shirt that his little hands might have stumbled over in trying to make sure he got every button right, or perhaps his mother bent down to help him with; his mother who he waves goodbye to, who he loved and who loved him so deeply.
Robert Michels wrote a book, Political Parties, in 1916, in order to examine why the Social Democrats of the day, in France, Germany, and Italy, once they got elected, all seemed to betray the people who voted for them.
In office they worked against the very promises they had made, and frequently joined the other party (John Fettermans avant le mot).
He formulated the Iron Law of Oligarchy: the elite will always perpetuate itself.
Here’s a video of Israelis protesting for the “right to rape” demanding soldiers be allowed to sexually assault Palestinian detainees. This is the level of evil we are dealing with