Don’t forget when Rome was collapsing emperors would use Gladiator fights to distract the people from the Corruption of the State at that time! This is all starting to make sense now. Who agrees?
Michael Jackson had to sell actual physical copies to people who left their houses (no bots, playlists, streaming platforms etc).
Songs like this one will be forgotten in 2/3 weeks. He can have all the #1s but he'll never touch even the 0.01% of MJ's impact, for sure.
Anyways:
“Public opinion is gradually being shaped and conditioned by polarizing media narratives, which are often amplified by algorithms that prioritize conflict and confrontation.” -Pope Leo
The pope just exposed the entire grifting social media influencer class
I’m convinced white racists do not want to live in a world without Black folks. You’d think they’d be satisfied with us going to Black doctors, supporting Black businesses, and building for ourselves… but no.
Something about that racial sickness won’t let them leave us alone.
If you are 18-39, PAY ATTENTION! Y’all are a larger group than baby boomers and Gen Xers. Y’all complain about older people in politics. But look at what Georgia NAACP President Gerald Griggs posted. Of the 696,353 people that have voted early in Georgia, only 9.8% are 18-39. That is abysmal. You can’t change the system if you never show up at the ballot box. Expressing anger on Threads, IG, TikTok, Twitter and Snapchat ain’t it. Let’s go 18-39 folks!
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.
The trump DOJ indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for paying informants to infiltrate extremist groups to gather information while erasing the convictions of members of extremist groups related to Jan. 6.
That should tell you all you need to know about the trump DOJ.
US is destroying itself. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled: an administration sabotaging the functioning of the federal government https://t.co/dU4qRrUz4A
Not only did Disney pay nothing in income taxes this year, it received a $1.428 billion tax refund after making $12 billion in profits.
"Corporations will create jobs if you give them more tax breaks" is a total scam.
it does seem as if a foreign adversary has taken over the US & in plain view is dismantling its programs, institutions, missions & ideals. the most acute observers among younger generations must be looking upon this with dismay, despair, outrage--their US will be tragically diminished compared to the US most of us grew up in. it's hard to believe that much of US science research is being terminated -- the country used to be so proud of its great scientists. not to mention medical research.
The guy overseeing Trumps’s dismantling of the Forest Service btw is a multimillionaire rancher and tech executive who has a history of petty disputes with the agency https://t.co/8vjL9upc3S
Millennials watched their parents lose everything in 2008. Then got handed $100K in student debt. Then got called entitled for wanting a living wage. Then survived a pandemic in our prime years. Then got priced out of every neighborhood we grew up in. And y’all really wonder why we’re not okay? We’ve been in survival mode for 20 years straight and nobody even noticed.
“The American ppl are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living & don’t want to know, but then they wonder why someone just threw a firebomb thru the living room window. This is exactly who we are”
—Bill Blum,
If it’s so easy to take the Strait, why don’t we take it? If we have so much oil, more than we ever need, why are gas prices so high? If all our goals are essentially achieved, why do we need another 2-3 weeks of bombing? Saying nothing of the war crime threats, just nonsensical.