The recent sweeping up of the streets in Winnipeg resulted in no change in public safety despite being extremely costly.
These police sweeps have targeted areas where people receive medical and mental health care, pushing people away from vital services. This was a wasteful exercise that targeted areas where people receive mental health and addiction supports. It only led to more deaths as a result of the toxic drug crisis.
We’re now facing a mental health and addictions crisis, a housing crisis, and an HIV crisis in Winnipeg. It’s time to listen to the voices of public health and safety experts and act on their calls to address the underlying causes of these crises, including supports for affordable, rent-geared-to-income housing, public healthcare and mental health services, and youth programming.
Imagine being the State Department bureaucrat tasked with writing the internal report on the 'pressure campaign' vs Cuba:
✅21 hours long blackouts.
✅Trash pilling up.
✅Child mortality rate going up.
❌ The Revolution hasn't collapsed.
❌There is no "popular uprising".
Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.
Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.
We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.
We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.
If you are a friend of @CosmicCowboy, if you are a socialist, a communist, an anarchist, or a leftist, know that we lost a great man last night. All he wanted was for us to come together to create a community and bring about change in this broken world. Let’s continue his message and carry his torch.
Trump se gastó 14 millones de dólares en pintar de azul oscuro la piscina del Memorial Lincoln... pero no pensó que la pintura oscura elevaría la temperatura y provocaría algas.
Ahora para quitar las algas, Trump ideó verter peróxido de hidrógeno... pero no pensó que este químico removería la pintura por la que pagó 14 millones de dólares.
Donald "Mr Bean" Trump, presidente de Memestados Unidos de América.