Check out these pictures of Raqqa after US and NATO bomblngs freed them for democracy. 70-80% of buildings were destroyed. The “official” UN civilian death toll is listed as 4,118 but some estimates say the number could be 10x higher as the city lacks the resources to sift through the rubble. https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-war-photos-aleppo-syria/?utm_source=duckduckgo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

You don’t have to go that far back, or even leave the shores of the USA. The 50s and early 60s, the Red Scare years, were chock full of lynchings, leftists jailings, black leaders being assassinated (the CIA assassinating a president?), militarism, and imperialism. They had wee kiddies practicing cowering under our desks as school safety events in case of nuclear war. Actually, except for the addition of the climate starting to kill us, little has changed in 60 years. It may seem worse now since the real left has been neutered and replaced with whatever the DSA and their ilk pretend to be.

The Cuban Soberana Plus vaccine seems to be working well.

They’ll blame it on Julian Assange.

Running over the occasional pedestrian is just a cost of doing business but slamming into cop cars is unacceptable.

How does the SEC continually ignore him manipulating stock prices through twitter? Another government agency made toothless to protect the rich.

'murikkkans love free market capitalism until another country does it better.

Is cynicism something that should be avoided? I view cynicism as a healthy need to always question authority, the status quo, and majority opinion.

Chelsea (Bradley) Manning went to prison for exposing the US targeting and murder of journalists. Any reason to think they would care one iota about a journalist being killed anywhere? Jamal Khashoggi worked for the Washington Post and the US government did squat when the Saudis dismembered him.

That’s a Chinese hi-speed train headed right for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes-milk-scandal-pair

My daughter was just diagnosed with Long Covid and now has to get cardio-pulmonary testing every two months for a time period her doctors can only currently guess at. The long term effects of this pandemic are still a huge unknown.

The good news is that way before the anarkids get it, the rich will get their commupence and without looking at the flowers.

Imperator Furiosa would have killed Immortan Joe earlier but her arm reached its end of service life and quit working.

No problem, that 40% was for the poor plus retailers and manufacturers can now jack up prices on their supply. A capitalist win all around. If only there was a form of governance based on need not profit.

The AIs probably have higher moral standards than most human hedgefund managers.

I hope China adds help with the transition to Linux to their Belt and Road initiative as a lot of lesser developed countries could really benefit from dumping proprietary software and building a homegrown IT sector.

I watched Bangladeshi women and preteens offloading barges full of bricks by hand from sun-up to sunset. It was cheaper for the company owner to hire all those people than build a conveyor.

3,000 “blood” diamonds…stolen from other countries.

No worries, Biden will give them a $10b government contract to make up the profit loss like he did for Amazon. Nobody loves union busting like Joebama.