"Revolution" is a funny way of describing bourgeois infighting between white landowners that ultimately culminated with the wholesale genocide of Native Americans.
And they were right to try. Trujillo was a monster.
Edit: and also the invasion catalyzed the assassination of Trujillo
I mean, the $200 does encourage me to create a monopoly and simultaneously extract maximum wealth from my opponents while also taking their homes. Not sure if the monopoly analogy is useful here.
UBI is capitalists' best attempt at breathing life into capitalism. The benefits of UBI in the global north would still be at the expense of exploitation in the global south.
This journalist just gave us a masterclass in everything you shouldn't do when interacting with nazis: appeals to logic, appeals to emotion, bringing up facts and logic, and ultimately platforming them. This is the kind of liberalism that promotes fascism. There is no excuse to give fascists time on TV and to platform them. There is no "debating" fascists. There is only violence.
Sounds like your uncle did end up working for the company again, if only for an hour or day.
They've already being doing that shit for years now. The trash balloons are a response to that.
I dig the variety of topics on this comm, and I super appreciate how it doesn't get STEMlordy at all.
I wonder if there'd be a different prefix for a Martian geologists. I suppose they could be called areologists?
The idea that aliens built the pyramids is racist.
You find something cheap from China, then you flip it to suckers on Etsy for 10x the cost.
Holy fucking shit why are so many online self-proclaimed history buffs completely unaware of the myriad of critical characterizations of the American Revolution that don't involve takes that sound like second-grade, red state, public school dialogs from a teacher who's spent the entire last week watching repeats of Hamilton?
"Fighting the monarchy! Fighting unjust taxes!". Get real. It was all about real estate, slavery, and genocide. Washington wanted everyone to have the freedom to sell the teeth of their enslaved.