Chattel slavery is an example of the owning class being stopped by the collective working class?

If that were to happen in our current system, it seems to me that the tools of control just move to a different group of people. What examples are you thinking of?

It's not just tax dollars. It's debt as well; they're spending money they don't have, and we pay for it through inflation. Tax dollars to things that benefit citizens sounds good, but 1) I don't see a way for that to happen with our current system and 2) impossible to reach consensus (when the govt extracts your time and energy under threat of violence, who exactly gets to decide where to allocate it?) There's a reason that so many people want to end the Fed. No money printing, no cantillon effect.

If you're asking for advice, I would continue to reach out. Not to push contact, just to let her know that you're thinking of her and would love to see her again. Nothing heavy that could feel like manipulation to her, but just letters from her father. I'm sorry. This sucks.

oh 😢 Do you have any common ground? Is there any contact at all?

pretty much everything.... funding contracts for re-building areas that the military helped destroy for instance. I've started to think that almost everything is an industrial complex - military industrial complex, poverty industrial complex, health industrial complex. We spend nearly a trillion dollars on medicaid every year. I don't know the breakdown, but insurance companies and hospital complexes tend to come out very nicely, and poor people in the US are sicker than ever. When you add to that the fact that inflation is a deeply regressive tax, you get a terrible situation where poor people can't afford their own healthcare and are nominally getting something "free" but in fact are essentially funding the corporations that profit from medicaid. That's fraudulent, imho.

I'm actually curious about her work rhythm. She already seemed plenty busy, then she wrote Broken Money. Soon after she announced that she might want to write a sci-fi novel and about five minutes later we had a new Lyn Alden book.

If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania usually works Or find them on Fountain

FFS I'm not disagreeing with you That's literally what I said in the post that you first replied to. AND I hope for the best for Iranians/ Who is it that's selling human suffering as progress?

When it comes to informed decision, it's important to know that people who have measles as children have significantly lower cardiovascular disease decades later. See some of Aaron Siri's work for the details.

I don't know how this will play out. If I had to guess, I would agree with you (though I'm almost reluctant to say it because "Wake up" is so obnoxiously condescending). But in fact we don't know. It's possible to despise the neocons and at the same time hope for the best.

Appreciate hearing this. You're probably well aware, but many of us in the US (most of us, it seems) are appalled that our government decided to start bombing Iran. We don't exactly have a great history when it comes to interventionism. However, if this turns out well for Iranians that would be amazing. I hope it does, or at least that it's destabilizing enough for the regime that the people can find a new path forward.

ugh

Thinking of you, Maria 🙏

Nice!

Those of us who are skeptical of the vaccine schedule saw some aspects of this earlier, though. There's been a cult-like repetition of talking points with no genuine scientific curiosity or willingness to engage for a long time now. I'm sorry you feel lost. Can you move your time and talents elsewhere?

He called them charlatans; not sure why you saw the word "murderer." Sorry for your colleagues 😟 Sadly I think there were a lot of suicides during the pandemic. By almost any measure, public policy and media during those years was atrocious. I would imagine that watching panicked people come in to the hospital and being forced to treat them with standard of care must have been awful. The pandemic minted new billionaires, and resulted in a huge transfer of wealth, but I doubt that much of that made its way down to the folks dancing in those videos .

GM, Nostr! Spotted this yesterday about 50 feet from our chicken coop. Hens are clever about finding secret spots, but they don't always follow up to sit on the eggs, so we could take the eggs now or risk losing them (if a predator gets them) or risk losing the eggs AND the hen if a predator gets her when she's sitting. But there's a chance she'll sit, and make it, and will suddenly appear with a dozen beautiful little chicks.

what a lovely story!

After we review the safety of this vaccine? After we do a the cost/benefit analysis? No, don't be silly: after we review "vaccine eligibility".