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UN Member Countries Condemn China’s Crimes Against Humanity
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↳ Do Israel next? … More empty words, too. — - From October 14, 2024: Want more analysis like this? Join mind reader (free) to never miss a dispatch. Start right now.
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‘Totally illegal’: Trump escalates rhetoric on outlawing political dissent and criticism
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↳ Fascist. Fascists. — -
UN says Israeli tanks burst into base, Israel gives different account
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↳ The western media hegemony is still pretending this psychopathic state is sane, and the governments are still sending weapons. — -
Sectoral Wage-Setting in California
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↳ Wow it’s almost like raising wages is completely independent of the fake bullshit of “the market”. Seriously, wages desperately need to rise — globally. — - From October 13, 2024: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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Young Chinese people are retiring in the countryside as China’s unemployment woes grate
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↳ It would almost sound idyllic – except “youth unemployment rate in August hit a new record of 18.8%” – so this is a major problem for subsistence under capitalism. — -
Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970
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↳ I’d like to get off this inhumane and deeply fucked ride the 1% have strapped us on. — -
Renters in some cities forced to spend on average nearly $15,000 more a year on rent since the Covid pandemic
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↳ Fuck landlords, corporate developers, and the government for this. Leeches. We’ll never see a change to this either, while capitalist mega landlord Albo is at the helm. — -
Livestock is the single biggest emitter of methane
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↳ Factory farming, animal agriculture, and massified systems of food production are some of the most toxic, climate and ecology destroying, absolute nightmares of cruelty on this planet. If you consume animal products from these industries, don’t. — -
King Charles won’t stand in the way if ‘Australia wants to become a republic’
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↳ It’s never going to happen, and it’s also one of the furthest possible things from land back. — - From October 12, 2024: Join mind reader’s free community of radical thinkers analysing capitalism’s contradictions and imagining better futures. Start right now.
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Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century
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↳ The right is now saying “weather machines” to shit like this — if only they meant coal and oil mining machinery, maybe we could take some action. — -
Gina Rinehart is building a solar farm (to help power an iron ore mine)
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↳ Capitalist oligarchs doing capitalist things. — -
Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense
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↳ Between endlessly shittier hallucinations and the already extreme centrist political denial that happens there, the world’s largest knowledge source is already alight like the libraries of history. — -
Making meaning at the end of time
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I have been necessarily pondering “end times” – conceptually a troubling thought. We’re seeing the slow motion collapse of ecology, social fabric, and empire. However, we are not seeing, as Marx and Engels infamously foretold, the end of capital concomitant with these collapses. Instead, capitalism’s hegemonic stranglehold on thought, production, ideology, community and more is ceaselessly suffocating any revolutionary potential. So powerful have the oligarchs become that alternatives are endlessly forestalled in capitalist realism. Who voices “different” in these times? And what possible alternatives exist to create a new world, a new way, and some hope? This is what occupies my thoughts - cheery, ey? Borrowing from some of the best of philosophy and ontology, let’s consider that time is cyclical. Imagining that the “end” of an era is, in fact, the beginning of something new. At the moment, I feel a grim and troubled m...
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‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge
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↳ Horrifying. — - From October 11, 2024: Support independent radical thought. Join mind reader’s growing community of readers thinking deeply about social transformation. Start right now.
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Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server
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↳ This is unsurprising. The media gains from trumps absurdism. The media is also deeply entrenched in accelerated capitalist reproduction. —