The most scathing critics of Silicon Valley circa 2014 barely scratched the surface of the treachery these companies have shown.
Providing your products to criminal regimes planning to use them to violate human rights on a massive scale is a choice!
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
figure 5.1 U.S. Economic Growth, 1790–2012
it's funny you can see how much the New Deal fixed macroeconomic stability within the United States, and the elite hated FDR for it
Day laborer and floor tiling, and later a mailman on one side; pediatrician on the other
"why won't this movement engage with my criticisms of an imaginary version of it I made up"
never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.
Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat
"Young men are huge suckers" is apparently the pro-young man position.
The characteristics of this age is its sheer stupidity and carelessness
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
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Somebody was saying that watching establishment Democrats learn that saying obviously true things about foreign policy is popular is like watching a toddler take its first steps
tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying
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Wow, I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time
When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
The influencer model is just ppl doing CNN’s model in their living rooms — summarize the story someone else actually reported out, add some cheap commentary and quips so you’ve technically transformed it into your own thing, and publish to a larger market
The entire overpaid national news media relied for decades on rewriting the stories of local newspaper reporters who can barely keep the lights on, but are often the only ones doing boots-on-the-ground shoeleather reporting in places besides NY, DC, and SF.
Cover of The Lancet:
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This is a major theme of the current trump presidency. We are still digging out of the damage done by his first era. We are still digging ourselves out of the damage done by previous eras. This administration has made the hole several magnitudes deeper
It is vitally important for the federal government to fund the creation and/or revitalization of lots and lots of local press outlets. The US is a severe outlier in the degree to which we underfund public media -- an example of how we constantly equate "free" and "democratic" with "privately-funded"
- Epstein was a Jew (and emphatically a shonda)
- Like many people, he associated more with people of his own ethnic background
- the vast majority of Jews, powerful and unpowerful, were never Epstein associates
- Epstein’s power derived from befriending rich men and making them grateful to him.
The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.
“Well, Americans move abroad and find they like life better abroad. They like the social democratic policies.” - Caitlin Joyce, Temple University researcher
THEY LIKE THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POLICIES.
EVERYBODY HEAR THAT
THEY. LIKE. THE. SOCIAL. DEMOCRATIC. POLICIES.
Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority
it's like he sees himself as...serving...the public
some kinda public servant
has anyone thought of this before, i think there's something there
