

Capitalism in its current form has existed for the last 2% of human civilization. 5% if you count mercantilism as a form of capitalism. For the vast majority of history, people owned their own means of production.


Capitalism in its current form has existed for the last 2% of human civilization. 5% if you count mercantilism as a form of capitalism. For the vast majority of history, people owned their own means of production.


Even the most oppressive tyrants in history understood the concept of bread and circuses. Most people will stay complacent when their fundamental rights are being taken away as long as they have their distractions. Taking away the distractions is something you only do after you’ve fully consolidated your power. They’re so obsessed with projecting an aura of oppressiveness that they’ve forgotten how to hold power.


Is there anything morally different between pretending to be ICE to break into people’s homes to rob them and actually being ICE and breaking into people’s homes to rob them?


Only suspected to be. Bukele himself concedes a roughly 20% error rate and it’s probably much worse than that.
“Oh but we used to live in fear of gangs!” You still do, you just traded one gang for a different, state-sanctioned one.


He never intended to build the Hyperloop. From the start, it was a lie to shut down a proposed project to build a west coast high speed rail line.


A sack of garbage can be human shaped. Look at Elon Musk for example.


As opposed to naturally occurring titles?
1800 people have already been “lost track of” (read: murdered until proven otherwise) in the Everglades concentration camp.