#Basic

1/ So, I took a little respite tonight. Had some cookies, a couple glasses of prosecco. Gave some thought to this chapter of the Trump saga coming to close.For me,
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App-based food delivery workers are feeding us. But we're starving them.It doesn't have to be this way. We are letting the gig companies do it. So let's change the rules.
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Follow the grisly history of the 20th Century all the way into the early 21st, and you can see the degeneration of an industrial society goes like this: "Woke Uprising"
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Just got hit with a surprise medical bill and I'm feeling extra mad at the deathcare system we have in America, so I'm just going to share what I've been
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CDC Director: "the data clearly shows us that you can operate these schools in face-to-face learning in a safe and responsible way." https://www.foxnews.com/health/schools-coronavirus-transmission-redfield Dr. Fauci: "The def
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One of the things that the western left has failed to understand is how, thanks to combined and uneven development, capitalism emerges in different nations. This failure lies rooted in
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@lagerfelch Very potted history. I used to drive a coach for a living, I went anywhere and every bloody where. France, being massive and needing crossed to get anywhere south...I
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One thing that strikes me forcefully right now is that neoliberalism has not just robbed our governments of the *capacity* for effective action in the public good: it's robbed us
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In an op-ed Dr. Hoodhboy has outlined the issues of exam-taking during Covid.He focuses mostly on the inability to ensure 'cheating', & the ways to get around rudimentary barriers to
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I wanna be real about what's happening in Iowa right now - straight apocalyptic conditions for much of the state - the entire state just went dark - because this
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1. The MyPillow guy made a two-hour movie of lies about the 2020 presidential election. @Verizon and @ATT beamed it into millions of homes.https://popular.info/p/the-mypillow-guy-made-a-movie-of 2. @OANN aired Mike Lindell's fever
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Fascism is qualitatively different from the corporate, neoliberal semi-democracy we currently have in the U.S..It is a whole lot worse.Yes, liberalism and fascism are both political systems available to administer
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Warning- Uncomfortable but very important tweet thread:It is not yet the end of 2020. We have said that this is the year for racial justice. How quickly it has left
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1. Ok so my real answer to this is that Marxism as a theory was designed as a critique of political economy. It's thus designed to work on a systemic
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OK folks, time for an E Jean Carroll v. Trump thread. The DoJ has intervened in her defamation case under something called the "Westfall Act", asking to take the case
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thread on what’s actually going on in yemen: please rt & share because not everyone actually knows how dire the situation is. this isn’t going to be that detailed, however
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