I totally forgot they were doing the feed all your tweets into AI thing. I'm out. Going to the blue place in the sky.
The Rock may have CTE.
The Rock went and saw #Oppenheimer in IMAX — choosing to sit in the same seat Christopher Nolan uses to screen his films
"I was thinking... Holy shit ... 'Red One' on this screen ... with this technology ... It's gonna be game over"
The film currently has a 36% on Rotten Tomatoes
He's like Hector from the Odyssey. The only one making sense, but his fatal flaw is putting his party (family) over what's right. And it gets him killed.
Lol, America already does this. Will it be even worse? Maybe, but be serious.
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“The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.”
— Malcolm X.
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony apnews.com/article/harriet-t…
People: hey Dems you should stop calling voters dumb and listen to them. They think you're elitists who do nothing for them which is true.
Dems: *pretends to listen* oh God they're so stupid why should we do anything for them I wish they would die.
The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment.
Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are firmly committed to capitalism; on the other, they express support for principles like human rights, democracy, equality, freedom of speech, environment and the rule of law. This duality is the core of liberalism.
But there's a problem. Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour and nature. This eventually comes into direct conflict with principles like rights and equality. And whenever this conflict appears, the liberal ruling class sides with capital, abandons their lofty principles, and throws workers and nature under the bus. Every. Single. Time.
This results in flagrant displays of hypocrisy. They run on nice-sounding platforms but end up either betraying their promises or actively working against their stated values. They'll slash public services, bail out banks, imprison journalists, beat up students, expand fracking, coup democratically elected leaders in the global South, bomb liberation movements, fund a genocide - they'll even trash international law itself - anything that's needed to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation.
At most, they may try to negotiate mediocre compromises, a few social policies here and there - some abortion rights, a tiny increase in the minimum wage - but nothing that might pose any serious threat to capital accumulation. Thus the soul-crushing slowness of liberal incrementalism. Ultimately they are unwilling to take any of the obvious steps that would actually resolve our urgent social and ecological crises.
This is why nobody trusts liberal politicians. This is why they come across as so fantastically insincere, and even sneering. This is why they feel so spineless and *empty*.
The center cannot hold. Liberalism will always collapse, inevitably handing power to fascists, and this is not acceptable. There is only one way to overcome this deadly impasse, and that is to mobilize a socialist alternative. A political movement that can unite the working-classes, overcome capitalism, deliver real economic democracy, and enable us to achieve rapid progress toward social and ecological goals.
