Capitalists gravitating to more overt forms of fascism should be expected & shouldn't upset/shock anyone. The class struggle is very real. The working class should be focused on building collective counter*power* via community, ideology, education, organizing, and armed defense.
A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand. Such a world is a world of strife and hate and such a society can exist only by means of militarism and physical force.
On Nipsey Hussle's birthday today, it's important to get more people to understand how and why LAPD cops targeted him before his death. It says a lot about the actual purposes and functions of U.S. police, and *whose* interests they serve and protect.
Where are all the people who say we can't build housing for the homeless at on this $128 million fake neighborhood for cops to practice raiding our homes?
For every teenage girl jailed for an abortion, there's a new special police unit in her town devoted to surveilling her body, a social media company working with the cops to betray her, and a Democratic President promising to send 100,000 more armed cops to come for her friends.
marxists spend a lot of time explaining how unemployment is central to the functioning of capitalism and it can never be eliminated as long as capitalism stands. but then sometimes the ruling class just comes out and says it for us
A McDonalds hamburger costs $2.09 at the register. McDonalds internal documents show that the raw materials (patty, bun, etc.) cost $0.34. A McDonalds employee makes $11/hr on average with a shift manager making $15/hr. Shifts are 8 people on average. That means McDonalds pays
(Thread) It is day 500 of the Biden presidency. In 500 days Biden has, unsurprisingly, not been a particularly progressive president. So here’s a list of every progressive action that Biden could have done or every action that Biden took that was against a progressive agenda:
You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.
@SHUNMILLIONS@_fotogenik Congratulations to you two! So happy and excited for baby girl to explore the world with y’all 😍🙏 hope everyone is doing well!!
Let’s unpack this:
They way people speak about refugees matters IMMENSELY. Especially in the beginning. James might have good intentions, but it is still dehumanizing to value their presence only to the extent that they are useful to Wisconsin. “Processing” is a reductive term.
The Assembly & Senate Joint Committee on Education are taking up the Anti - CRT bills this morning. So today I’ll live tweet the extremist & quite frankly racist arguments that Republicans are using to push through cookie cutter legislation handed to them by the likes of ALEC.
@Guy2Plain@DrSasshole@prescottbalch@DHSWI No wonder we can’t get rid of the coronavirus…. People like y’all responding in this thread just want to place blame and make others feel stupid for looking out for their own & their families health. Good riddance.
@Guy2Plain@DrSasshole@prescottbalch@DHSWI I’m making this statement as an individual Wisconsin citizen who is concerned for your health, my health, and our community’s health during a pandemic. And you want to push back against that?! Why?! You want to question why I want to protect us during a pandemic?! To what end?!