It’s hard to wrap your head around a world where California High-Speed Rail had to conduct environmental impact studies on monarch butterflies along existing tracks in the exact same county where this is allowed to happen.
[joe rogan] so you're saying you've never been fed?
[domestic cat that was fed thirty minutes ago] that's right joe. i've never been fed in my entire whole life
[joe rogan] wow
Today is Fred Hampton’s birthday. He would have been 78. Instead, the American state killed him at 21 because he brought Black, Latino, and poor white people together to fight capitalism, not each other.
America loves stories of resistance. Until the resistance threatens the system.
It came from the pressures the working class exerted through armed resistance, strikes, and the imminent threat of socialist revolution.
NOT from wearing frog costumes and dancing with fancy cardboard signs in the street.
“Their success hasn’t materialized in any visible positivity for those of us who are not their employees or investors. If anything, their triumph so far has stunted prosperity. Worsening the ‘K-shaped’ global economy.”
And they pay almost nothing in taxes.
In a hundred years, after it is far too late, it will seem incomprehensible that we did not simply kill the 35-40 people directly responsible for destroying the planet.
A society where you have to actively hope you can maintain a 52-48 edge over fascistic death squads forever doesn't sound like a very sustainable one tbqh
"Marxists believe society can progress from a feudal backwater to inventing space travel in less than 40 years through education simply because that literally happened"
The brighter STEM people understand that studying science does not automatically turn out intellectuals. Intellectualism requires a broader understanding of the world. However, there's a large midwit layer of STEM narcissists who lack the humility that could drive them to investigate what they don't understand. Placed in positions of influence, these people are quite dangerous.
One for the greatest documents of high culture in the twentieth century and not just because of its visual and atmospheric splendour but because it adapts one of the greatest pieces of classical dramatic literature better than anyone else.
Americans after their 181-year-old country was beaten in sending a rocket ship to space by a 35-year-old country run by Marxists that had just defeated the largest invasion in recorded history just 12 years ago:
Republicans: “We’re bringing back slavery and we’re installing cameras to watch your children at all times, who we made sure we can legally marry.”
Democrats: “We must stop a streamer from doing videos.”
Today 3 statues came down in the Virginia Capitol Square including one of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Other statues include Hunter Holmes McGuire and former Governor William Smith.