U.S. Senate Candidate Sean Hubbard (D-TX)
Why do we still care about the “Founding Fathers”? Yeah, our financial system is really screwed up but doesn’t anyone remember all of the horrible things the colonists did for the purposes of financial gain? I find it particularly laughable to praise the “Founding Fathers” (we don’t even know who they were specifically, by the way) for their sense of community while the colonists were also enslaving Africans and slaughtering American Indians at the time the Constitution was signed - all for economic purposes. Yuck.
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The rest of the victims appear to have been executed, shot at close range. Among the body count were 49 children.
Rupert Colville, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told reporters:
“What is very clear is this was an absolutely abominable event that took place in Houla, and at least a substantial part of it was summary executions of civilians, women and children. At this point, it looks like entire families were shot in their houses.”
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[Borrowed commentary]: Good account of how collective struggle has been built in Quebec over the past three months. Note in particular the importance of a history of militant unionism in the province. The demonstrations are getting bigger and spreading to more cities. —PG
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MONTREAL - The urge to protest against university tuition hikes might seem foolhardy when students face the possible loss of a school semester, the sacrifice of time spent marching whatever the weather, not to mention the danger of confronting helmeted police, and the increasingly likely possibility of injury and arrest.
Yet they continue to do so, as worried parents fret, pundits fume and the government of Quebec Premier Jean Charest remains set squarely against them.
So why are the students so determined to keep this protest alive?
One of my favorite charts ever.
So we’re supposed to judge an economic system on how it creates fictional manufactured “wealth” to those that are most likely already prosperous, and not on how it concerns those that are sick, poor, marginalized, or less fortunate?
I don’t give two shits about how you try to justify your shitty fucking system, it fails because it allows people to starve, creates hierarchy, division, and war, exploitation of workers, and profits off of misery all in the name of making a few extra fucking dollars.
Transitioning to socialism is not reversion, it is social evolution to a more just and equal society.
The above is an example of one massive emotional irrational argument. Hierarchy and starvation are inherent qualities of human existence. Capitalism uses hierarchy and selfishness in particular and makes those qualities advantageous to society. And this chart is accurate.
The above is an example a massive bowl movement.
Hierarchy and starvation are inherent qualities of human existence
You’ve got to be kidding me. Inherent qualities of human existence?! You mean completly avoidable and shitty things about our society created by selfish fucks to make themselves seem important.
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