Biden and the democrats tried to move heaven and earth to get tens of billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel. For equipment that would just have gotten blown up and not affected the outcome in former, and to help continue an ongoing genocide in the later. Meanwhile Flint doesn’t have clean drinking water.
Real “Whitey on the Moon” type shit.
Fun fact: there was a famine in the USSR immediately following WWII. But after that, “bread lines” weren’t really a thing in the USSR until the late 80s, when Gorbachev threw a bunch of market reform monkey wrenches into the works which directly caused the “bread lines”.
BP suspends all oil shipments through the Red Sea as attacks escalate
The capital strike just ratcheted up some more…
Good point.
I’m attempting to parse what the news about “Pope allows priests to bless same sex unions” actually means, since the media always seems to read more into his proclamations than what is there.
I don’t see that the Catholic Church is changing their stance that engaging in homosexual acts is a sin. I think that’s the point that’s the most salient, because I think that’s how a lot of people are interpreting a “blessing” to mean. A blessing is more like “just give me some good vibes, bro”. Gays and lesbians still cannot have their marriages recognized as valid by the church and the Pope stated in this most recent proclamation that these blessings can’t even have a semblance of a wedding.
This just feels like the Catholic equivalent of what a lot of “seeker sensitive” conservative Protestant churches will say: “we welcome everyone”, and they will talk about welcoming LGBTQ people into the doors. But it literally just means “we want you to come to our church so you can hear the gospel but we’re still going to eventually tell you what you’re doing is a sin”.
It’s the Post, I think they did actually get the result they wanted: scare the olds.
Reactionaries are also, generally, bereft of artistic talent. When’s the last time you’ve heard of great art made by an Evangelical Christian?
fr though, if you look at average life expectancy of people various lines of work, long-haul trucking has to be way down on the list (at least in the US).
A friend owed me money for a t-shirt. He sent me money through his bank’s proprietary app. If I wanted my money, I not only had to download the app but give them my bank account info. I told him to either just pay me cash or forget about it.
I don’t even have to guess where she stands on Palestine…
This is the reality that American media obfuscates. Movies, TV, the news… they all depict the “default” American as basically doing fine financially. Everyone is “middle class” at worst. Everyone has a decently large house, a newer car (usually a SUV) for every adult, goes on vacations, eats out, and is generally free from material precariousness. And for the middle class in America, this is more or less reality.
This appearance of the “default” middle class American is so pervasive that everyone, including the working class, believes it.
The issue is, this middle class American is NOT the “default”. Most Americans have less than $1,000 saved and are ruined by just one severe economic shock like losing employment. The family depicted here is far closer to being the median American than what you see in media. It may not seem like a big deal but I honestly believe this is one of the most effective weapons in preventing class consciousness that is out there.
MEIN FÜHRER! I CAN WALK!