The capitalist class can't make the machine run without unnecessary suffering and death. They used to be able to keep it out of sight in the global South and Asia. Through greed, they kept bringing more and more to the global West. Too many westerners still handwave it away and bury their heads, but as population, and thus unnecessary suffering and death increases, so too the population that doesn't look away and entertain themselves to stop thinking and talking about it. We are a threat, so expect worsening conditions to be rapidly escalated. That said, hold hope and keep working for a more equitable day.
Also on this date:
In 1918, labor activist and socialist Eugene V. Debs was arrested in Cleveland, charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 for a speech he’d made two weeks earlier denouncing U.S. involvement in World War I. (Debs was sentenced to prison and disenfranchised for life.)
In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that the government could not prevent The New York Times or The Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers.
I just mean naturally, with whatever other substances contained in the plant itself, not in the pharmacological sense. Probably not the best phrasing, my apologies. I've had a couple of shots.
On this particular instance, in the upper left corner are three stacked lines. I click that, sidebar, scroll down, subscribe. I don't use mastodon, so idk if it's similar, but imagine it may be.
Get some rest, my friend. I'm about to repost another of your posts in the OpenChristian.ca community. While I'm not Muslim, please know I'm sincere when I say Salaam Alaikum.
Oh yes, I've been well aware of Western tactics in Palestine since the late nineties. Kind of embarrassing I wasn't paying attention before then.