Nah the west is authoritarian in a different way. Dictatorship of capital.
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The main English info seems to be in that very twitter thread, from a few hours ago https://xcancel.com/OmarHamadD/status/1938250441864651246
It includes some screenshots of posts in Arabic, including one by a Dr. Khalil Abu Nada, so maybe the info is circulating on Palestinian social media?
if she supports Mamdani I guess her heart's in the right place, but if you're gonna include the nypd you might as well include the CIA at that point
I wonder how that building numbered the rooms
don't let perfect be the enemy of good
It's not good! What about this is good? Manufacture something else! Fund schools! Feed people. Develop the potential of your society.
It's not even the "best bad option under empire." This is the worst possible option. You are only destroying other societies, not improving your own.
I think what this comes down to is nationalism and the appeal of strength. This guy just likes the idea of building up his nation's MIC.
genuinely a monstrous crime against humanity
Ready for a quirky, down-home police brutality campaign
Is this somehow related to Iran
Thanks! This is a great start for me. I wish the video went deeper though, especially in the connection to China. I’ll try reading their sources. The Brookings institute writeup is interesting (and utterly disgusting, both in tone and content), but it focuses more on how than why. The section on why is brief and reads more like propaganda than geopolitics. It’s also kinda old now, from the Obama years.
What should I name this weird little alien creature?
I think it's a Mammillaria spinosissima ssp. pilcayensis
Mammillaria are generally native to Mexico, so maybe a name in Spanish, Nahuatl, or another language spoken in Mexico would be neat. Or maybe a leftist historical figure from Mexico, or a cactus-related Aztec deity. But don't limit yourself to that, if you have any other ideas you should definitely share them!
Maybe a feminine name this time, since I named my last succulent Herbert
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_by_type_of_financing
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A graph plots life expectancy vs healthcare spending for various countries from 1970 to 2018. The horizontal axis of the plot is "health expenditure per capita," and the vertical axis is "life expectancy." Most of the countries follow similar paths over time, and have similar life expectancies by 2018, but America begins to veer sharply to the right at around 1980, with rapidly increasing healthcare costs and slower life expectancy growth than the other countries. By 2018, life expectancy in America is years lower than any other country on the list, at around 78.5 years, and health expenditure per capita is much higher than any oher country on the list, at around $10,000. All other plotted countries have life expectancies in the 80s and per capita healthcare expenditures thousands of dollars lower than America's. Spain, one of the best examples, has a life expectancy of almost 84 years, and a health expenditure per capita of around $3,000.
illegitimate country and government