Racial discrimination is fundamentally created by the innate fear of the Other. But it is supercharged by capitalism. Slave trade was created to create cheap expendable labor force to drive profits. When it was ended segregation and other discriminatory practices were instituted to protect the owners of businesses. These practices were systemic and we are still seeing their results.
Checks Thailand’s fertility rate… Oh yes, 1.452
Checks out.
Work inside all of the political institutions to bring about constitutional change. Abolish electoral college etc.
Here’s a novel idea. Don’t use these exploitative services.
Wait what? In America middle managers can’t unionize? What a load of horse shit. You should get on that.
When choosing a crypto algorithm the answer is almost never “roll your own”.
I still have a Twitter account. I mostly watch the cess pit argue with each other and to keep up with the latest misinformation.
But even that is growing tiresome.
And the fact that they haven’t tells you all you need to know about their motives.
Pro tip: ip a
While what you are saying is true, the far right has been gaining recently all over Europe. And they have been more vocal about what they want.
Payday loans are a cancer upon a society and should be banned everywhere.
But Russia is going to be Russia I guess. “And then things got worse.”
Shhhhh, don’t give them ideas!
Again, that doesn’t really narrow it down.
Which one do you mean?
All of these fines should be exponential.
First time 8 million, second time 80, third 800 etc. Otherwise it’s just CODB.
Quite a lot. In no particular order and not a complete list:
Climate change, pollution, late stage capitalism, resource depletion, overpopulation, obesity, post truth, propaganda, susceptibility to propaganda, education, lack thereof, lack of critical thinking, short-sightedness, lack of beneficial public discourse, taking action on problems, vested interests funding our demise, lack of hope, no continuity, lack of trust, crab mentality, etc.
It’s like they never learn. I remember WAY back when Windows NT was new. The NT in Windows NT stands for New Technology.
The US really believed the Russian nuclear threats. That alone explains their reticence to fully support Ukraine.
They didn’t want to see a mushroom cloud over Kyiv.
Was this assessment right? I guess we will never know. But the way things are going, the price we will have to pay will be greater.
And lying about it.