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Filadelfia

'Down with opium and narcotics!' — Chinese poster, ca. 1930s.

@_JuanFa @CNN_Oppmann @carola_amoroso the US is imposing a blockade dumbass

@CNN_Oppmann @carola_amoroso I'm shocked. In Argentina every leftie pseudo commie I know has told me Cuba has a fantastic health system, great education, people are happy. This is clearly imperialist yankee propaganda. No way Fidel's politics were shitty ideas. No way.

Desperation of a Cuban mother that I interviewed last night who said she has no food for her children.

pennant-winged nightjar!!

@SlayTheBeast5 @jmoulfrancis what might Jesus have said about the French plantation owners and their enslavement of African people?

@leisuel @jmoulfrancis "From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron." Revelation 19:15 The sword is the word of God. That's why Jesus wields it from his mouth. We his followers use his word to attack evil ideas.

Interesting how the world often treats the French Revolution as the only great symbol of freedom and rights, while the Haitian Revolution is treated like a footnote. Yet, Haiti did what many abolitionists elsewhere only preached, i.e., enslaved people rising up and defeating an empire, abolishing slavery, and claiming freedom by force. Haiti’s history deserves equal, and maybe greater, reverence. Brilliant documentary by @AJEnglish 👌🏽

@SlayTheBeast5 @jmoulfrancis your profile picture is literally a flaming sword, by the way

@leisuel @jmoulfrancis You maniacs think murdering everyone of another race is justice. And now Haiti is lawless and literally eating each other while the Dominican Republic thrives. You are a wicked wicked person

@SlayTheBeast5 @jmoulfrancis who said anything about murder? These French aristocrats fled justice and absconded with unbelievable amounts of hoarded wealth; wealth accrued from the exploitation of SLAVES. who's the wicked person, again?

@the_P_God this is essentially every American city, just a revolving cast of insurance or tech or real estate, with an underclass of service workers

Tampa asks the question what if we filled a city with only tech sales bros and insurance salesmen

@nealjclark1 you're basically describing having a bhuddist view of acceptance. Pretty gay

I would rather live in a world where the problems in my life are my fault, not some supernatural network of Jews and crushing cultural forces. In the end, whichever is true, I find my attitude is the one which brings results.

@NaziPrideNigga what's important right now is for everyone to panic

shoplift as much 5w-30 from Walmart as you can right now. It’s going to get bleak, folks.

@GreenPlusAnE Ascribing the cause to "boomers" is imprecise and incorrect. The cause is the capitalist and hyperwealthy elite, who will remain even once the boomers die off.

There is No Plan, Period.

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@Morgan_Anastasi I'm facing a similar struggle. It isn't much consolation, but the truth is, this is a systemic problem. There is a severe lack of meaningful, purposeful work in America that would propel you forward on a clear career trajectory. I'm sorry

I'm honestly really struggling with my career. Anyone know of any decent career counselor type people who give good guidance? Willing to pay $. I just want to put my life together.

With the efforts of environmentalists and the Iranian Environmental Protection Organization, the endangered species of brown bear was seen in the mountainous area of ​​Sablan with several bear cubs.

@Megatron_ron Iran's war? It's the United States' war with Iran

BREAKING: Iran's war is depleting the world's strategic oil reserves at an unprecedented rate, with only one month left until fuel rationing and security crises worldwide, per Bloomberg

@Saganismm I believe one of Veblen's ideas revolves around the idea of "leisure time" as being essential to the identity of the economic and social elite, as this surplus of time is where they cultivate behaviors and habits that serve to distinguish themselves from the masses

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion." — Bertrand Russell

it came to me in a rumination

Concept art by Tyrus Wong for Disney's Bambi (1942)

@SatireRedacted i would charitably say that this circumstance IS the result of an intentional project to undermine education over the course of decades. The averagr American has essentially lived a life a deprivation, so I don't blame them for their ignorance or magical thinking

The sad existential reality is that the average American doesn’t have the psychological or critical faculties to process cascading breakdowns of supply chains, pandemic cycles, the erosion of public support for the humanities, or technonihilism.