… it’s part of why every country on earth […] has been very “No nukes! Not for any purpose!” all throughout until today. Like everyone understands it’s doomsday shit.
Everyone except the arch-ghoul Kissinger and his merry band of war criminals. IIRC his initial political rise had to do with the book he wrote about “tactical” nukes. His thesis was something like, “ok, maybe big nukes are bad, but we can use little ones. As a treat”.
A nominally leftist party (probably actually socdems) won the French elections at one point, maybe in the 70s. They got to work raising taxes on capitalists and their means of production. It took about two years before they rolled it back cause the capitalists just said “oh alright, we’ll just leave and take our money with us then.”
There are 15 million vacant homes in the US. Some of that will be simply due to homes briefly being between tenants or owner-occupants but even if that would account for the vast majority of vacant homes it still leaves enough to house everyone and then some.
It was elder abuse before he was even the candidate in 2020. Jill and the rest of the Biden inner circle wanted him to be president more than they wanted him to live out his days in peace. Although now that I think of it you could argue the White House is an assisted living facility.
The economy is doing great everyone. /s
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I’ve usually gone for sci-fi lately, sometimes fantasy. I really really really enjoyed Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series (they’re so cozy!). Recently finished Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time which was really interesting. When I’m in the mood for fantasy I’ve been working my way through Fionavar (super weird narrative style though) and Shannara. I can also highly recommend In the Name of the People, a Chinese political drama.
The gradual increase is good, means that nobody nearing retirement age will suddenly have to work more additional years they weren’t expecting to, unlike in western countries which raise the age. Still not ideal but I’m sure the government looked at all possible alternatives in depth before coming to the decision.
Can’t speak to everything, but I remember reading about special schools and workplaces for (I think) autistic people. Places where the person’s individual strengths and sensitivities are respected and where the people are able to really thrive. It could have been something like a restaurant and a workshop with caretakers and maybe even parents present.
I’ll try to remember to find the article when I have time.
Maté’s hypothesis feels a lot like the quacky libertarianish mass formation psychosis some far-right grifters were talking about during covid.
In general I’ve learned to steer clear of Gabor Maté. He has a lot of really strange ideas about the world.
Don’t forget Freie Demokraten (FDP). They’re turbo-neolibs. All they care about is cutting social services in favour of handouts for the rich.
What gets me about the the mainstream political discourse is how vilified the AfD rhetoric and policy proposals are, only for all of the main parties to jump on the bandwagon and do the things.
All of this fuss over various non-aligned messaging services is solely to further entrench imperial surveillance capabilities.
If it had anything to do with their usual excuses of counter-terrorism or child abuse they could just use the resources at their disposal and deal with most of it. Even when people use encrypted messaging the rest of their opsec is sloppy enough to find a way in if you’re so motivated.
After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.
While I wouldn’t put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there’s nothing to be concerned about here.
The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.
He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn’t at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.
He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it’s generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.
The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can’t find much on this Del Guidice character but there’s a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata’s ideas on cold fusion and the “memory of water” were not well accepted amongst peers.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory director Harold Brown and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev both described neutron bombs as a “capitalist bomb”, because it was designed to destroy people while preserving property.
Some slave owners like Jeff Bezos are so nice that they even thank their slaves for all their hard work that they did to send their master into space for a couple seconds on a phallic rocket.
As far as I’ve seen it’s just libs who are desperate to smear him. It’s embrassing having your only talking points dismantled with primary sources.
The US isn’t even the best at that grift. Germany spent about double that over a decade while emissions increased.
I’m only superficially familiar with Fisher’s concept of capitalist realism, but it speaks to the same idea. As the tagline on his book says, is there no alternative?
I feel this. It’s also something I try to talk about with others, but I always have the feeling that it falls on deaf ears. At best I get general uncomittal agreement and some liberal platitudes about how this is just the way things are in return.
Chinese call the period from approx. 1850 to 1949 the century of humiliation for many good reasons.