Not a sinophile by any means, but I think it's becoming more apparent every day that the Chinese method for dealing with their Big Tech/merchant caste (black bagging ones who get out of line) is infinitely better than the US version (indulging their every whim)
A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war
bread is stale and the circus sucks. Clown is jacking off. Lion tamer ODing on opiates. Lion is bloated dead. Magician is actually cutting the lady in half in real life. But I’ll keep watching. It’s actually not bad I take it back. They got a big thing of narcan for the elephant.
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
"It's the heart of US policy, ladies & gentleman, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism."
Michael Parenti
I find that much anti-communist sentiment boils down to the belief that people are lazy and won’t do good or work hard unless they are suffering. I believe the opposite: I think most people would do amazing things if they weren’t in dire straits constantly.
No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.
It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.
It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.
Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.
We learned from COVID 19 that oil is worthless in a society without consumption, healthcare has to be public because health is public, 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid, and that we live in a society, not an economy.