The vote-shaming engines have predictably kicked into high gear in America as the presidential election approaches, with shitlib pundits like Bill Maher doing their part to paint third-party voters as the most toxic people in the world.Which is of course ridiculous. I have no strong
Kill millions in concentration camps and they'll call you a monster. Kill millions with bombs and they'll call you a moderate.~A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change.~Claiming a country attacked America's democracy is like claiming they attacked America's
Trump is a bad president. He's coddled oligarchs both in America and around the world, he made a mess of the pandemic response and lied about it, he's incited violence and inflamed hate, he's done nothing for ordinary Americans, he's facilitated ecocide, any good decisions he's
Part of the problem is that the most influential voices are people for whom the status quo has worked out well. Celebrities. Politicians. Pundits. Plutocrats. Meanwhile those who've been crushed by existing systems are voiceless. This creates the illusion that those systems work.~People often (correctly)
Capitalism will keep getting more and more unjust and exploitative until people force its end. You can try making it about elite globalist conspiracies and corrupt governments all you want, but ultimately it's really just capitalism following its natural and inevitable course.This is why I
People who dislike Trump are often reluctant to talk about this, but it looks likely that a Biden administration would be more warlike than its predecessor.In a recent interview with US Department of Defense newspaper Stars and Stripes, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said it's
The most powerful government in the world is currently conducting a prosecution to protect its right to lie to the public about the evil things that it does, and somehow the public isn't shaking the earth with unmitigated rage about this.~"Assange isn't a journalist! He
Disney is the subject of controversy in mainstream circles again, not because it is a sprawling monopolistic media megaconglomerate whose giant Mickey head is devouring the world like Galactus, but because parts of its live-action version of Mulan were filmed in Xinjiang province.Vox reports: "Some viewers who
A new report from Brown University’s Costs of War project has found that at least 37 million people have been displaced as a result of America's so-called "war on terror" since 9/11, a conservative estimate of a number that may actually be somewhere between 48 million to
Just in the last few days Israel has reportedly dropped cluster munitions and white phosphorus on southern Lebanon, bombed Gaza, and fired missiles on Damascus, because Israel is a nation whose existence depends on unceasing military violence.In order for Israel to continue existing as the