The crumbs they leave to the proletariat

No, it’s actually pretty lukewarm to anyone who has been able to engage with critiques of liberalism without jumping into defense mode these past few years.

Whether it’s happening quietly or out in the open the effect is the same. Look at all the anti-trans laws that were passed under Biden. The rhetoric is only thing that has changed.

I have them tagged as “comrade” so it balances out

You also make it costly to the hotels as the non-ICE patrons find somewhere to sleep that isn’t hosting ICE agents and having noise demos as a result.

As much as it is about raising ice agents’ blood pressure, it’s also about disrupting business for the hotels that quarter them. They can do that from any side of the building.

To be a bit more constructive, these might be the words you were looking for?

depression is not a(n) symptom illness but a consequence symptom

Community. Walkable neigborhoods. Culture. Access to high quality (prepared) food. Treatment of chronic illnesses. Free time to do things that make one feel happy and fulfilled.

Drugs only make it easier to cope with a world that makes these inaccessible to the average person. They individualize and pathologize a burden that would otherwise have to be addressed systemically by the ruling class that hopes to have a functional and passive working class.

edit: … I realized something, looked it up, and wouldn’t you know it; here in the US, good old Reagan closed down the psychiatric hospitals less than a decade before Prozac hit the market (antidepressants existed before that; since the 1950s; but were mainly only marketed to doctors who would prescribe them to women with ““housewife syndrome”” for the purposes of domestic labor). That’s not to say that psychiatric hospitals are any less of a band-aid solution, I just think it’s rather telling that they were closed at a time that folks with clinical depression (and probably other illnesses) could simply be given a pill and put back to work.

Why would I “back up” something that is not in dispute? You are more than capable of doing independent verification if you feel doubtful of any of my claims.

In fact I would suggest you verify even information you largely agree with, or at least have a reasonable level of confidence that it won’t be totally invalidated by a simple internet search when you repeat it. That’s the standard I and a good number of us here hold ourselves to, which is why folks that don’t do that tend to have quite an adversarial experience when they find themselves in your place.

You realize you can type “china homeownership rate” into any search engine and find a wealth of information? Even from outlets that are generally deeply biased against China. It’s a pretty strong consensus.

Waiting for information to come to you is only going to expose you to narratives that someone has a vested interest in putting in front of you. Someone that’s trained and paid to pander to you is going to do it a lot better than a regular well-meaning person that belongs to your class and shares your material interests.

Why? Do you have evidence that suggests otherwise? Is there a particular reason you’re so adamant that China’s system must be worse than the commodified system we have in the west?

You have to exist to be murdered in the first place.

What do you mean by that and what does it have to do with the meme?

Knowing nothing about this outlet this seems more like wish casting than satire tbh. It’s just not absurd enough to be joking, other than the idea that top ICE officials would be worried about consequences.

ICE aren’t police

Their comment was removed but if they’re referring to the tiny boxes I think they are (known as coffin homes), that’s actually in Hong Kong which is notably still very capitalist.

Uh if the 90% overall homeownership rate isn’t “backing it up” I want to know how you define “better”

lmfao a western-backed “freedom index” is not a substitution for media literacy, nor does it excuse you from providing literally any material evidence to support your argument.

Also, do you want to explain why Israel is ranked at 112; 50 places above Venezuela and Palestine; and why Saudi fuckin Arabia is right there between VZ and PA? Seems to me like this “freedom index” doesn’t correlate very well with democracy or human rights, much less evidence-based journalism or state transparency.

Also the tank is very clearly leaving the square in that video, if you’ve seen any imagery of the area it’s immediately recognizable. (Besides that; it also doesn’t make sense that the street is so clear, that close to the square, because the military did encounter serious resistance going in. I wonder why we don’t see that imagery floating around 🤔)

He’s not standing in the way of them to protest the intervention before it started, he’s demanding that the tanks turn around and remain present in the square some time after everything that had occurred.

Thanks for letting me know <3

I don’t think it’s for the viewer. More likely it’s for content recognition algos and engagement bait.