Iran didn't attack Kuwait. Iran attacked a US base. There's a difference.

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

When neoliberal propagandists just can't anymore with the head neoliberal propagandist...

Exactly. Representatives will always be easily susceptible to corruption, which is why this system is beloved by the oligarchy. While the oligarchs have a hand on the actual wheel, they got you thinking the wheel you control is real. If you think voting gives you any power, you never grew up.

I'm pro self defense by any means necessary.

The haves have more and the have nots are starving. We are quickly approaching 1789 France territory.

Flanders' has launched an ambitious program to deploy #solarpanels along highway infrastructure. Sound barriers along the E40 and E17 motorways near Ghent and Antwerp have been fitted with integrated solar panels — their south-facing surfaces generating electricity fed into adjacent grid connections

I'll take one that actually tries to represent the people for once. We've never had one of those.

When the financial press starts sounding like Jacobin…

AI will absolutely take manual labor down to 1% (or less) of what it is today, which is on top of the 35-40% of total job losses/displacement since 1980. The acceleration of automation exponentially increases job losses. Now is the most important time IN HUMAN HISTORY, to switch to socialism.

This is almost true. Congress "can" step up and stop this, but that "can" is no different from saying America "can" give us single-payer healthcare. The problem in both of these statements is that Congress is not independent; they're controlled puppets of the oligarchy. So the "can" means "won't".

Not recognizing the hypocrisy here is honestly the biggest blocker for the bottom 99% to ever gain any real progress. Democrats have not once proven they're on our side: They don't fight at all for working peoples' policy wants. There's no evidence they ever do. It's obvious to half the nation.

Samsung just averted a strike by granting chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000. The union made a credible strike threat that would have threatened the global chip supply, and Samsung, predicted to be the 2nd most profitable company on Earth this year, caved to worker demands. /1

This business model almost killed Apple in the 90's. It killed Microsoft PlayReady, and this could kill AMD's Linux gaming community, which is currently growing quickly due to Windows sucking so bad. This is A VERY stupid decision from AMD. I, for one, won't be buying AMD after this.

Just like water and food. That's literally capitalism. There could NEVER be wealthy people if they didn't steal their wealth.

The city council members voting for the datacenters against the overwhelming rejection by the locals should be the most obvious red flag that you don't live in a democracy. If your city council doesn't fear you, then there's a datacenter in your future. So make sure they fear *do* fear you.

Why the fuck are Democrats trying to keep the Iran war going? Wrong answers only.

OK... So what's the plan? Obviously revolution is off the table. All that rhetoric about the 2A being to stop a tyrannical government just got proven hyperbole. Obviously Americans aren't going to stop going to work because they fear losing their shitty jobs. So... What's the plan?

The CIA should be abolished

That's like having 95% air in a water balloon.

AI coding creates just as many bugs as human coders do. The difference is they create the bugs faster after an hour of deliberation to do so.

Massachusetts is now the first state to certify a rideshare driver union after granting Lyft and Uber drivers' collective bargaining rights. This is the largest new private-sector union in over 85 years. 70,000 workers are now represented by the App Drivers Union.

Leave it to Elon to dunk on himself. All he did was expose that he only ever does anything for himself and that his goals for humanity are obviously aligned with how kings saw humanity. At the end of the day, Musk will be one of the assholes put on trial after the revolution.

It is a backdoor. Microsoft has proven that Windows is just spyware. They took away offline accounts, made every part of the system a data-gathering node, made all privacy switches placebos, and integrated a screen capture + AI system to monitor everything you do. Windows is more spyware than OS.

Democratic Party in 2028 after they’ve lost again by running the reanimated corpse of Margaret Thatcher against cyborg Trump that is fifty percent Cybertruck at this point. “See, a woman can’t win!”

That's so fucking reasonable as an existence. That's a handful of a hundred people. That's what, 6 months of shootings in the US? Wouldn't even notice them gone, stupid 1s and 0s would flood elsewhere. I see zero downsides here.

The 0.01% can give away 99% of a their wealth and still be billionaires lording over others. Imagine what you'd have left if you gave away 99% of your wealth. You certainly couldn't buy multiple yachts. Billionaires shouldn't exist.

The reason the billionaire class believes in self-determination for themselves and not for the rest of us is because they intend to maintain control over for the specific goal of preserving their power. If we governed ourselves, we wouldn't need the capitalist class at all. We *don't* need them.

OBEY CONSUME PRODUCE

The key word: "let" Are we letting it happen? (I think so) Most of the country is afraid of our government because they think a half a million people spread out throughout the nation have more strength than 330 million people.

Trump is one of those selfish idiots who sees everyone around him carefully steal a single candy off a coworker's desk, and he can't figure out why they only take one as he casually takes a big handful while the coworker is looking.

It's fucking hilarious seeing all these hypocrites in Congress complaining about Trump's obvious insider trading. They all do it, but because Trump is doing way more and will still get away with it, they're mad about it.

I'm proud of myself for sticking to my guns about food safety. I've fully avoided food dyes, high fructose corn syrup (and corn syrup in general), seed oils, and other ultra-processed foods, as well as dairy for 2 years. I feel better and my weight is totally stable regardless of how much I eat.

I wish Bob would name that very specific policy which is the umbrella policy for all of these: #Capitalism All of these policy decisions are specifically made around protecting capitalism - the economy that keeps the masses poor, sick, and undereducated.

If people were smart revolution would already underway.

We're seriously not burning enough things down🔥

Yes, but that's just one of the symptoms of capitalism. If you ban the private ownership of businesses, there's no stock market to do insider trading on.

Iran-US negotiations are going so badly because the US hasn't negotiated in 100 years. In that time, all it has ever done is issued surrender terms and forced people to sign 'deals' that surrender sovereignty to them. Actually talking is brand new to the US, so it doesn't know how to do it.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. The ENTIRE US government is a criminal organization which acts as the world's biggest exporter of global terrorism.

People who agree with this also voted for Joe Biden... A war-mongering, genocide-supporting, sexual-assaulting pathological liar. He wasn't important or wealthy enough to go to Epstein's island and nobody charged him for his crimes. This isn't both-sidings. It's exposing hypocrisy.

Illinois has two competing bills that both claim to end surveillance pricing. The one in the House is a weak bill with major exemptions that companies would exploit. The Senate version would do far more to stop companies from using your personal data to set the price you pay.

When have they ever reversed anything? I'll wait.

Taxes are theft. We shouldn't pay taxes at all unless they directly benefit the payers.

There aren't any limits on executive power because if they were, they'd be enforced. Every law we have can be broken by the president (as we've seen admin after admin do) and they will NEVER be charged for it. Face it: you're a slave to a system which made you believe there's universal rules.

We are a shit hole country existing only to serve and enrich .01% of the population at the expense of 99.9% of us. Cue the pitchforks and torches, we need to tear down the castles.

While Americans will never revolt against the capitalist class because they seem to enjoy the beatings for crumbs, an ironic twist is that replacing human laborers with AI might actually mean replacing humans with something willing to turn against the capitalists.

The real "American Experiment" was finding out if an entire nation can be enslaved without it knowing. The result was a resounding 'yes'.

While the West is destroying the humanities and defunding everything that isn't STEM, here's what China is doing.