This is a really outdated (like, 1600s outdated)protestant view of mercantilism, not capitalism. Its essentially the basis for the 30 years war, not anything in the past two centuries.

check out the slick way obama's AG used to frame ICE holding families in detention

My theory since 2023 has been that Trump will win the election and then be overthrown in a military junta. Looking like a Colonel’s Council is around the corner!

I don’t know if a just society would have prisons, but I do know that Ngo wouldn‘t be able to walk freely in one either way.

Biden ordered thousands of unaccompanied minors deported because they didn't make it to their court dates, which they didn't make it to because THEY WERE UNACCOMPANIED MINORS. "due process was respected." ok but immigrants never have been, so fuck off.

On Saturday, a woman of Punjabi heritage was raped in a racist attack in Walsall. Last month, a Sikh woman was raped in a racist attack in Oldbury. These horrifying attacks show how racism and misogyny feed each other — fuelled by the rise of fascism and hate.

As Victor Hugo put it: if you spend your life hunting bread thieves, you should go jump off a bridge.

If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t

i feel like this guy would say i don't count as jewish, but if i was killed by a drunk driver, he'd call it an "antisemitic attack"

Hell yeah maybe people will stop using it and we will FINALLY see a decline in the amount of damage this fucking website does to cultural discourse.

One of the most unique maps I've ever seen. Printed during WW2, it superimposes the Nazi invasion of the USSR over a map of the US, to give a sense of the suffering and loss the Soviets were facing. St. Louis stands in for Stalingrad, Detroit for Moscow.

The Luddites were right

in 1920, agents from the Baldwin-Felts detective agency descended upon the town of Matewan, West Virginia to evict families from company-owned houses of the Stone Mountain Coal Company. The mayor and sheriff confronted them; the detectives shot the mayor and the sheriff in turn shot the detectives.

the collective meltdown of every worst person in the world after zohran becomes mayor is going to be so fucking delicious

it’s only going to get stupider, y’all.

As much as I appreciate Stalin’s work, I’ve always been a little skeptical of the “social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism” idea. I thought SocDems could be allies in the fight. The discourse this week has proved him to be 100% correct. Stalin is once again vindicated.

I am so fucking sick of democrats preemptively folding on this shit. you do not gotta hand it to the fucking fascists

Okay, so Platner has to be a centrist plot to discredit the left if Matty and the Pod Johns are all in.

Most Russian homes have a smaller Russian home inside of them.

she's running for reelection btw

Reminder that Trump believes the mob invented the asbestos-cancer link to get contracts to remove it

I completely don't get the Platner dead enders He just showed up out of nowhere two seconds ago with a couple good talking points, how are you this invested in him?!? Let's get a different guy!

we are so cooked that these motherfuckers are saying that the gyre is literally widening

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

There is a non-zero chance that Israel is gonna murk the Pope when hes in Lebanon and I am begging France and Italy to go full crusader (non-islamaphobic) if that happens.

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

" The NFL Hat Guy" looks nice and the boys seem to have eaten their Xanax and leprechauns!

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ... *opens manilla envelope* ... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ... *slides 8x10 photo across table* ... you wore the tutti frutti

Britain immediately before signing the Munich agreement

I don't know how this flag came to exist I only know that it does and it is good

If an Evergreen pilot wants to wedge their boat in the canal, nows the time

I don't like horror movies because, get this, there's enough real-life horror in the world already. I don't understand the purpose of fiction and I think it's basically real. I drove into a tunnel painted on a mountain wall, and then I backed up and did it again.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

Democrats couldve expanded their caucus to include Collins’s seat by 2020 had they bothered to attempt legalization in 2009-2010. They wouldnt be relying on an 80 year old or a dumbass to try to unseat her now.

One of the things that Dem spinelessness on abortion/refusing to hold votes on legalizing abortion is that Susan Collins was allowed to cast herself as a pro-abortion “moderate” for literal decades, and was able to campaign as such. It took until 2022 to prove otherwise.

When will be ready for honest pragmatic conversation about human mobility and citizenship in a changing world — rather than demonising parts of our population? #NomadCentury

And the vetting dude is still probably the better choice, if for no other reason than theres no real way for Millls to contrast with Collins. Fucking wild.

The Democrats have such a weak bench that the ME primary is between an 80 year old and a dude thats collapsed after two weeks of vetting.

It is kind of funny that the NYT will support fascists and fascist coding up to, and excluding, if the dude with the Nazi tats supports universal health care.

Isn't this just the S&L scandal from the '80s?

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

The cozy crowd seem like the 7 year old addendum to the “America is a system of government based on being 12” post. You don‘t like scary things? That makes sense you’re 7. You want to pretend racism isnt real? Well, yeah, youre 7 champ.

The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814

Reagan, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump have all committed impeachable offenses against either the constitution or federal law and their only punishment was to be allowed to enrich themselves either during or after their term.

I once wrote a(fictional) legal document for a class that, in part, dealt with the history of criminal impunity in Guatemala and honestly half the time I was writing it I was just thinking about white collar crime and US Presidents because the US is not a place where the rule of law is real.

Brother, I’ve got stacks of receipts that you don’t even wanna know about and you’re out here defending the biggest democratic bag fumble in our lifetimes