Victim of Communism
It’s a Shepherd’s Tone headline. Taken at face value, I have to assume 110% of the county is illiterate and scores are expected to get twice as bad by the end of the year.
Here’s a jpg of a graph with no citations and a poorly defined X-axis. Please go be Doomers in the comments now. Don’t forget to point at a generational cohort and blame them for everything
Really intrusive to take the AI pee-test every six months. But that’s what it takes to maintain my security clearance, do whatchagonnado
for some unfathomable reason
Seems pretty fathomable to me
Can I legally enter the Capital Building to speak to my Congressman?
If the only access to your congressman is through privatized channels and pay-to-play events, then Lobbying is de facto Bribery.
The Epstein Brigades love this joke
Lord of the Ring: Just The Ringbearer
The Full Squadron of Starfighters
Wait, is this the singular of Shivers or something else?
The President’s Single Guy
Being rich means having a surplus of valuable commodities and capital.
In a modern capitalist system, the commodities are fetishized in order to inflate their received value.
But in a more socialized system, shared capital has the capacity to enrich everyone.
The big catch is that, under a more socialist economy existing in parallel with a capitalist media, poverty becomes associated with the public institutions while capitalism becomes indicative of education, independence, and success.
An individual might be wealthy with respect to historical peers under a socialist model, but still feel improvised relative to the elites and their horded private wealth. That they’ve got access to libraries and parks and subways and public housing doesn’t feel like wealth relative to the country clubbers who have more grandeous private versions of all of the above.
You’ll see this in Western depictions of Soviet states all the time. Small apartments, bread lines, and grumpy bureaucrats are slanted as rampant poverty. Meanwhile, homelessness and malnutrition and the lawless frontier are all just part of the Hero’s Journey on the way to glory.
I haven’t seen anyone doing a better job. Lots of hype around the new things, though.
everyone at the time thought people would be crazy to vote for him in the first place.
Not everyone. We’d seen this cycle of the reactionary break out vote in '08 and '12. Ted Cruz probably could have secured the nomination if Trump hadn’t run and he’s a whole different level of fascist.
Trump was never the better alternative to Hillary.
Trump was the stalking horse of the Hilary campaign, via her Pied Piper Strategy.
He would not have even been on the ballot had she not sponsored his run.
Now we’re seeing the same dynamic in the LA mayor race, with the incumbent Karen Bass sending her donors to Spencer Pratt in order to keep a DSA rival off the final ballot.
CHILDREN, not students.
Children attending a girl’s school at the time of the bombing. The iconic photo of the incident was blood-splattered backpacks. I’d say “student” is spot on.
Also kinda flies in the face of the endless White Nationalist propaganda, insisting women in Iran are all prisoners in their own homes and treated as chattel to be sold off for profit by their parents. These girls were slaughtered, in no small part, because the American military feared that they would grow up to join the Iranian professional class. By becoming doctors and teachers and engineers - perhaps even nuclear scientists - they posed the same existential risk to American Hegemony that Cuban doctors and South African teachers and Chinese engineers present.
It was 168 little kids.
It was 168 future Iranian adults. Future patriots who might continue the project of the 1979 Revolution in defiance of a Global US Hegemony. Future members of the intelligensia who might contribute to the Iranian economy and polity. Future mothers to the next generation of Iranians.
Just like with Palestine, the murder of kids is paramount to the project of ethnically cleansing a nation. Especially if the children are in a position to one day become peers of and competitors to your nation’s own children.
I won’t pretend Iran is the beginning, but I predict that the American embrace of genocidal policy will continue to spread - west and south of Syria and Libya, north and east of Iran - until every member of the Global South is once again put into their place or exterminated.
Right up there with Google’s “Don’t Be Evil”.
Largely in how it is reported. You can make an appointment and your Congressman can fail to show. There is no consequence.
You can go to a Congressman’s office and camp out waiting to speak to them, and that’s a crime.
Passive Voice. Who made this rule? Who enforces it? Who is it enforced against? What is the purpose of the rule?
Lobbying IS illegal, outside the channels of private donation and sponsored solicitation.
You cannot demand to see your Congressman and your Congressman is under no obligation to speak with you. Any attempt to approach your Congressman without permission is a crime.