Watching hulu and I stg every ad is for online therapy or depression medication. It's a perfect illustration of living in late stage capitalism--both that depression can be so widespread, and that corporations then make massive profits by capitalizing off of it
This is a big deal. China welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to announce a strategic partnership. Xi Jinping wants to repair the damage that the US and Israel have done. China is bringing peace to the Middle East. Fascinating times. #BRICS
We join the world in celebrating the 205th birthday of Karl Marx!
“All that we want to do away with is the miserable system under which the worker lives merely to increase capital, and allowed to live only so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.”
The mismatch between news on china and western verbiage around it is almost funny. That they even try to spin rail networks and peace deals as CHINA PROVOCATIVELY ASSERTS WORLD DOMINANCE is evidence of how fragile and desperate US hegemony is
Still stuns me that the global north is full of fully grown adults who sincerely believe Putin invaded Ukraine completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and that the US is defending Ukraine because it wants to protect freedom and democracy from tyrants.
If Lula keeps talking like this, we’ll soon be hearing how much of an “authoritarian strongman” he is and that we should be supporting “pro-democracy” protests in Brazil
It’s unbelievable how many people think capitalism is just buying and selling things.
Capitalism is a tiny few people owning whole industries and doing zero labour—it is a system of pure inequality.
Ending capitalism does not mean ending trade—it means making trade fairer.
When third wave feminism is responsible for increasing access to women’s bodies with less consequences, convincing us our own objectification is empowerment, and creating fancy words to blur boundaries, it’s hard to not see it as a male fantasy they successfully sold to us