Realizing that capitalism is destroying the planet, and that drastic action is needed. Socialism or barbarism
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Jacob Nelson
Brandon Perez
You gonna organise all that before 2030?
Chase Davis
No which is why is gonna end up happening
Jason Thomas
Founder of Proud Boys sues over being labeled hate group
Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes sued the U.S. Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday for defamation after it labeled his organization a hate group, alleging the designation was aimed at getting him kicked off social media platforms.
reuters.com
Howard Schultz (net worth $3.4bn) wants people to stop using the word ‘billionaire’
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz doesn’t like people using the term 'billionaires' to describe billionaires, instead, the multi-billionaire prefers the term ‘people of means.’Speaking at a Barnes & Noble book event last week, Schultz responded to a question about whether billionaires have too much power in the US by focusing on the term ‘billionaire.’
rt.com
A Drug to Treat a Rare Disease Used to Cost Patients $0. Now, It's $375,000—And Sanders Is Demanding Answers
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has strongly advocated for a massive overhaul of the nation's healthcare system, is calling out a pharmaceutical company for hiking the annual list price of a medication used to treat a rare neuromuscular disease by hundreds of thousands of dollars, putting American lives in jeopardy.
commondreams.org
Alabama officer won't be charged for killing black man during mall shooting
A police officer will not face charges for killing a man he mistook for the gunman in an Alabama mall shooting.Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall announced Tuesday that he concluded the officer did not break the law and won’t be charged in the death.
theguardian.com
Hawaii may increase legal smoking age to 100
Hawaii could raise the legal smoking age to 100, effectively banning cigarettes for the vast majority of people in the state.In a new bill, proposed by Democrat Richard Creagan, the smoking age would increase rapidly between 2020 and 2024.It will need to pass through the state legislature and weather a potentially strong backlash from tobacco companies in order to become state law.
bbc.com
FBI conducted surveillance of BAMN in the name of combating “domestic terrorism”
On January 16, the nonprofit government transparency organization Property of the People published 52 pages of heavily redacted documents relating to an investigation opened by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against the By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) group in 2016. The FBI investigation of BAMN was filed under the caption “DT – Anarchist Extremism.” The acronym “DT” stands for “domestic terrorism.”
wsws.org
Apple agrees to pay back-taxes to French authorities
Apple’s French division said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax, which French media estimated at around 500 million euros ($571 million).Apple’s French division confirmed the tax payment agreement, but did not disclose how much it had agreed to pay.
reuters.com
Luke Lee
Fucking snowflakes getting triggered over words
it's gonna be nuts when the US government collapses and everything is made public. Wouldn't be surprised if they get caught spying on random bridge clubs or even themselves
Zachary Butler
Well if it's socialism or extinction I think the choice is pretty fucking obvious. We have to at least try.
Jonathan Jenkins
So what's the deal with the Proud Boys, for real? do they cause damage and incite violence or are they literally right wing antifa?
Leo Watson
Right wing antifa is an oxymoron. They are a white supremacist gang (albeit a small one) that tours the country, inciting violence and picking fights, usually with the help of police. I think they're based around Portland. I've ran into them a couple times, they're pretty much cucks who start shit then run away once it's clear they can't win. I''ve seen them literally scream at cops to fight in their place, lol
Joshua King
They are a bunch of thugs that like to fight. Primarily they like to fight leftists, but they will pick fights with random minorities and shit just for fun. They are pretty much a bunch of racist hooligans that assert they aren't racist yet do racist things regularly.
Bentley Martin
There’s a great scene in the show Silicon Valley which features an interview of Gavin Belson, a tech billionaire. It ends with Gavin saying that billionaires are more oppressed than Jews were during the Holocaust.
This, of course, is funny because it’s so absurd. How could a billionaire, literally the most privileged person on Earth, claim to be a victim? And yet here we are.
Fuck billionaires.