this is what colonialism breeds: just an entire society rotten to the core and rendered soulless from their own hatred. the ease with which they say children deserve to die, children are terrorists, is so sickening that words fail
i can’t help it but laugh when women say a man is a feminist yall realize men larp as feminists cause they think feminism means sexual liberation purely & they want to use that to get with you
Yes, in fact, I do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonald’s should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That’s kind of the whole point of having a job and I can’t believe this is considered a radical position for me to take.
Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology
Do y’all find it strange that Congo has spent centuries being the place where the West’s next technological leap “just happens” to find its raw materials, while the Congolese people get the misery?
- At the start of the transatlantic slave trade, the Portuguese encounter one of the densest populations in Africa in the Congo region. The greater Congo region ends up supplying nearly half of all the enslaved people shipped across the Atlantic.
- When the inflatable tire and the rubber boom arrive, Europeans find some of the world’s richest wild rubber vines growing in the Congo rainforest. The result is Leopold’s Congo Free State and its industrial-scale horror.
- At the dawn of the nuclear age, the purest, highest-grade uranium ore on the planet turns out to be sitting in the Belgian Congo’s Shinkolobwe mine. Uranium ore that powered the Manhattan Project.
- Now, in the age of smartphones and electric vehicles, the Democratic Republic of Congo holds the largest cobalt reserves on Earth (roughly half the world’s total) and major deposits of tantalum/coltan.
Each time a new technology needs a critical resource, Congo has it in abundance. Each time, the wealth flows outward and the violence, extraction, and poverty stay behind. The pattern is too consistent to call coincidence.
Lebanon’s parliament has just voted to abolish the death penalty, becoming the first Arab country to end capital punishment - a monumental step for human rights in the country.
Justin Pearson has won the Democratic primary for Tennessee's 9th district.
He supports a data center moratorium, and we recently went with him to look at Elon Musk's monster data centers in Memphis.
Putting your hand up to participate in democracy is no easy thing. Thank you for running, Congresswoman. Looking forward to uniting this fall to beat Mike Rogers. Because what unites us is so much bigger than what divides us.