#Capitalism

I feel like for years leftist feminists I know have been all, “You know, leftist sexism has been a persistent problem for forever, in fact it’s part of what inspired
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personally I think the American dream and all manifestations of it and the fact that there's no term for this sort of thing in other languages as ubiquitous as the
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i am going to put this up again. Think a "cultural revolution" couldn't happen here I would argue the warning signs are there: 1. "The students brought elderly people into
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So I've decided to follow up a little on this thread and give an example, of how free-market, Brexit supporting think tanks and funders, amplify the messages of people like
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There are great communicators in the Democratic party. Katie Porter is one of them. She and a rotating coalition of other Dems, along with health experts, should be doing a
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1) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/how_marx_failed.htmlAn ok article, but fails at a key point:"Marx’s economic model might be credible when applied to a peasant or artisan subsistence economy, but it is hideously in
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The 21st century Hero genre is propaganda that promotes individualism, capitalism, & the police state; while vilifying environmentalism & collective action. We need to be critical of this bc there
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This WH COVID19 fiasco is a cluster investigation nightmare and we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg. Major fail: not having a centralized nor consistent contact tracing system/method
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Our current system of governance is completely and utterly broken, capitalism has been taken to the extreme, life now resides on a scale between blade runner & mad max, technology
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"The 1917 Russian Revolution and the 1949 Chinese Revolution were the two most important historical events in the 20th Century. The Cuban Revolution succeeded in 1959 and though it was
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People are ranting that there “requirements” to watch a TV show re: Money Heist, The Platform. Why not watch the show for entertainment daw. What’s the purpose of watching such
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my frustration with the liberal obsession with “good trouble” is that you all actually mean “respectable trouble”and otg organizers in the south and atlanta know that in the last years
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Late to this, but there is some pretty grim stuff in the new PSHE guidance on countering 'extremism. Terms are vague and misleading, potentially directly targeting or indirectly implicating a
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Last summer, I did an interview with the Singularity Blog podcast (my last interview was all the way back in 2012). As is my wont, I got to talking about
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The business side of the story went from feel-good schmaltz to unbridled dank vulture capitalism at warp speed. It says something that every system that’s critical to a strong response
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Here's the short version of what I've been doing so far today: @Methadone_Cat had one of his very insightful tweet threads used by a sketchy-ass business guy who runs a
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