it can sometimes be hard to watch The Americans with the knowledge that in real life the bad guys won and humanity was doomed, but where else are you going to see TV protagonists reacting to Christians like this—like weird people are rudely insisting you play pretend with them
“While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor.”
-Kwame Ture
The postwar boom was a historical anomaly only made possible by the destruction of World War II, but its duration convinced generations that this was "normal" capitalism. In fact capitalism is now merely returning to its normal state of chronic crisis and insecurity for workers.
Liberal economics tells us this isn't possible because the landlords will compete with each other to lower prices, in reality landlords aren't stupid enough to start self-ruinous price wars and instinctively understand that the tenants are the enemy!
This story will stick with me because when China announced it's historic victory in being the FIRST country EVER to ELIMINATE extreme poverty, part of that included free clean drinking water. After the announcement, it came out a particular village still had dirty water and...
@ProudSocialist If this is the actual report I don't know why they stopped it from coming out.
The only thing people were expecting that went against their narrative was that their policy on Palestine was harmful without that even most centrist dems would agree with the other findings.