I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centres in space. I don’t want humanoids or flying cars. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want bees to survive. And a habitable planet.
An Iranian athlete is about to be killed.
Yes, killed.
Mohammad-Javad Vafaee-Sani has been moved to solitary.
He was arrested during the 2019 uprising and accused of burning government buildings, charges he has repeatedly denied.
His only “crime” was standing with his people, demanding dignity and freedom.
We have seen this story before.
We saw it with #NavidAfkari.
So here’s the question for the global sports community:
Are you going to watch another athlete die in silence?
Athletes, Olympians, fighters, runners, this is your moment.
Post his name.
Share his story.
Pressure your federations.
Stand up.
If socialism "siphons value" from capitalism, then explain why capitalism keeps collapsing without socialist intervention.
The Great Depression was not solved by markets.
It was solved by public works, regulation, and state planning.
2008 was not saved by capitalism.
It was saved by massive government bailouts and nationalized risk.
COVID did not expose the strength of markets.
It exposed that without state intervention millions more would have died and the economy would have imploded.
If socialism is a parasite, capitalism seems oddly dependent on its host.
Your claim assumes socialism only survives when it extracts from capitalism.
So answer this:
Why did China lift 800 million people out of poverty faster than any capitalist nation in history?
Why does Cuba outperform the U.S. in healthcare despite 65 years of blockade?
Why did Vietnam go from bomb craters to one of the fastest-growing economies in the world?
These are not parasites.
These are systems building value in spite of capitalist sabotage.
Meanwhile, what does capitalism "build"?
Debt bubbles.
Monopolies.
Financial crises.
Private profit with public cost.
A global system where eight men own more than half of humanity.
And the richest capitalist countries on earth depend on:
Slave-labor supply chains.
Colonial-era extraction networks.
Resource theft.
Military protection of trade routes.
Sanctions to prevent competition.
A reserve currency backed by force, not merit.
If socialism depends on capitalism, why does capitalism need an empire to survive?
Why does it need coups, sanctions, invasions, blockades, and privatization regimes to function?
Why does every socialist project face external sabotage while every capitalist failure demands socialist rescue?
Maybe the truth is simpler.
Socialism works where it is allowed to.
Capitalism works only when socialism keeps it from collapsing.
Your narrative is not economic literacy.
It is insecurity dressed as certainty.
Because deep down you know:
If capitalism ever had to compete on equal terms, it would lose to the very systems it tries to strangle.
I grew up in an era when mainstream women’s magazines told girls they needed to be thinner and prettier.
Now mainstream women’s magazines tell girls that men are better women than they are.
So sad to hear Val Kilmer has passed away.
Val is one of my favourite actors, from Top Secret!, Real Genius, through to Top Gun, Willow, The Doors, Tombstones, True Romance, Batman Forever, Heat, Spartan and Top Gun: Maverick, I was there for the entire journey.
Rest well, Val