Nuclear war is bad. Very bad. Don't get me wrong. But based on my research so far, the market is more survivable than you think. The key to survival is realistic investment and a positive risk portfolio. Here are some tips for financially surviving a nuclear war (1/? 🧵)
Minister Mortimer Adramelech of the Satanic Temple says he opposes the public school chaplain bill, but Satanic Temple chaplains will participate in the program if it becomes law.
Let’s get these likes & RTs going & amplify more POC (People of Czechoslovakia) voices !!
If we raise enough awareness, we’ll show Hitler we mean business ! ✊👊
I’m a big fan of forcing people out of their disciplines comfort zones—make STEM students read the history, phil & Soc of their discipline, make sociologists work in a lab, make humanists learn a trade, make engineers shower, make anthropologists respect sexual consent etc
Yeah for example Marx liked America a lot, and wanted to move to Texas. He applied for a visa, and he regularly described the US as a country of the future, unencumbered by Europe’s feudal past
The idea that Germans feel uniquely guilty about the Holocaust is nonsense. More than half in polls say they’re sick of hearing about the Holocaust, vast majority say Germany need feel no guilt, and a third in polls endorse antiSemitic conspiracy theories.
Most of the founders had zero issues with mowing down children, actually, and this isn’t a hypothetical. Washington was known as ‘town destroyer’. Murder and enslavement of entire villages children was not uncommon in America. Spare me the founder pieties please
I’m a gun owner. Do not tell me our Founders conceived of this carnage when they wrote the Constitution. Do not tell me they would have tolerated this madness. Do not tell me that teachers must be armed. And do not tell me your AR15 is worth more than another 14 children’s lives.
There are NO, I repeat NO, examples of state formation that did not involve subsequent mass movement & displacement of peoples. This insight, basically universally accepted in refugee & migration studies, is still widely disavowed by everyone else.
The humor of this post is that it’s almost the exact opposite of the truth. Many many classic works contains deeply flawed even horrible people as heroes bestride a dark world, & today novels, film, theater, etc are all focussed group to be as inoffensive as possible
My cousin was a member of the partisan resistance to the Nazis in Poland. Ratted out as Jewish by her landlord, She was kidnapped by the Gestapo, who were going to torture her. Rather than even risk giving up her comrades, she took a cyanide pill she had stashed.
Anarchists will never ‘win’ because ‘winning’ isn’t the point. There is no end point to history, and there will always be oppression to fight. The state & capitalism can be dismantled but the threat of their return will always linger.
Does anyone with ADHD have the issue where it takes you forever to get into precisely the right mood & mindset to act like & do what you wanna do, & then precisely at those well aligned moments, distractions occur which subvert it, & ruin your focus & mood for the next N hours?
The construction of using “bodies” instead of “people” in academic and pundit discourse has thoroughly run its course. Sick of reading about violence against “black & brown bodies” rather than “black & brown people”. Its detached from its Foucauldian origin & has become a trope
“Flooding” lmao. Maybe they should check the actual rates people use these things, it turns out very few people do ! But that’s beside the point—drug prohibition is a genocidal war & if you support it you’re either malicious or an idiot.
The flooding of the US streets with heroin, crack, and LSD is seriously some twisted biological warfare. There is a good reason many communist orgs are anti-drug. It's because drugs are used as weapons against the working class.
BadEmpanada, a white Australian nationalist who moved to Argentina, the whitest country in South America, says Hebrew is intrinsically a colonial language & that it is fake Bc it is constructed. Boy is he gonna have a bad time learning about English & Spanish then!
I’ll say this again: if you believe that environmentalists, a movement governments around the world ignore unless they blow things up,are more responsible for nuclears failure then profitability or declining military comparative advantage, you’re not a serious analyst of politics
In 1984, The PKK attempted assassinations of some landlords and hung banners in coffee shops, so Turkey deforested Kurdistan, leveled 3000 villages, displaced 2 million refugees, and put armed militias in major Kurdish villages
@dukakis_poster
If you think hippies are the explanation for the decline in nuclear power and not profitability and declining comparative strategic advantage, then you basically have an anti empirical & fantastical understanding of politics and economy
Pointing out the flatly true empirical fact, that indigenous societies in the Americas have had an astoundingly better ecological record, for literal centuries, isn’t ‘noble savage’ ideology you mouth breathing geeks, it’s literally an empirical fact.
The “Unmasking Antifa Act” stipulates:
Up to 15 years for “oppressing, [or] intimidating” anyone while “wearing a mask.”
15 years for scaring fascists.
lmfao at y’all homophobes & cops telling me my parking isn’t ‘’’straight’’’ or that I’m “blocking your driveway” lmaooo gtfoh w that heteronormative BS sis 💅🍵
People like Pinker, Dawkins, Harris, Rubin, Rogan, Weiss, Hoff Summers, Peterson, Lehmann, Paglia, Haidt, Murray, Shapiro, Kirk, the entire right wing YouTube are a LITERAL psy op, ALL of them are traceable to right wing & libertarian dark money.
Here’s an uncomfortable fact: public schooling, state social work, public hygiene, the welfare state, bureaucratic regulation arriving at the same time as the progressive era, prohibition, drug lAws, neoclassical econ & eugenics isn’t accidental.
@ComradeBrigid
I love how obvious it is that at least one of these things is true:
1. You made this interaction up
2. You’re providing a glib decontextualized over extrapolation from a totally different conversation
3. You shot your shot, got rejected & are now butthurt
This kind of thing functions as an alibi. The US is the largest exporter of police training and tactics worldwide. Imports are marginal. The ENTIRE MODERN POLICE MILITARIZATION MODEL began in LA in the 1960s, from where it was exported to the rest of the world.
During a 2014 trip to Israel, LAPD’s top brass saw firsthand how Israel used drones, social media surveillance software, and automatic license plate readers. Within five years of the trip, the department would be using all three.
The deadly exchange.
Everyone’s an anti colonialist until we get to the critique of literacy’s role in state control, & then they’re like “we need to force the nomadic Foragers into settled camps and force them to learn to read Harry Potter and Catcher in the Rye on pain of death for their own good”
Friendly reminder that literacy isn’t an uncomplicated apolitical good, and the framing of it as an “important life skill” ignores the context that makes it necessary for survival.
Y’all really out here calling yourselves Marxists as tho being in an intellectual relationship with a 202 year old man isn’t an *incredibly* problematic age difference
The “white people are the ones doing the rioting & looting” is such a calculated bad faith liberal slander because if you negate it, they’ll say you’re being racist, and if you affirm it, you’re erasing what thousands of people are doing to resist the state.
I had this teacher in HS who claimed to know everyone—vaclav Havel, JK rowling, Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky—no one believed him, so i emailed Chomsky & said do you know this guy & he responded “of course. Everyone knows [redacted] I met him at socialist meetings in the 70s”
It was a mistake allowing people to read and interpret studies without any basic understanding of how to do so. how to contextualize or assimilate contrary information
"why are you criticizing my sexual preferences i like choking my girlfriend and she likes it too! :("
anyway, did you know that the likelihood of a woman being murdered by her partner increases by 750% if she is strangled/choked by him?
It’s really weird people can’t imagine a world where resources for education would be available to all those who wish but no amount of education, inclusive of literacy, would be *compulsory* or *necessary* for a good life
Genuinely don’t think many leftists realize that basically 1/3rd of this country actively & bloodthirstily despises you, and at least half of those (1/6th) would gladly & happily sadistically torture you with delight & self assuredness of moral correctness
You know what’s funny about this narrative? It’s made up. It was manufactured in real time in the 50s and 60s and both black & Jewish leaders called bullshit on it in public forums, but eventually the elite sponsored splinter campaign won out & this revisionist history took hold
I’m sorry but if you can’t comprehend why Black people, who have historically been enslaved, exploited, redlined, and de-housed by Jewish bourgeois have developed tendencies towards circumspection about Jewish people, I can’t help you even if I wanted to.
As Khalidi argues, this seemingly ever present overly confident attitude, as an ideology & frame for action, plays a substantial role in the failures of the Palestinian National Movement. People have been saying this kind of thing for 100 years.
I wonder if having taught people in High School that Fascism is a definite social system & not just like people being mean would have made a difference for modern discourse.