they want you to blame anyone but the pedophile christofascist ruling class currently stealing your money and poisoning your food

tfw your approval rating is in the low 30s

parasites in your lettuce, e. coli in your jalapeños and blueberries, salmonella in your eggs...this is capitalism at its highest development. welcome to the least diarrhea-ridden summer of your life

if we lived under socialism every adult in this country would get a $600 tariff refund check but instead they are giving your money to the very multibillion dollar corporations who pricegouged you

they gave elon musk control of something important for like a month and now tens of thousands of people have explosive diarrhea

USA: china's one party system doesn't work also USA: we rotate between a center rightwing party and a white supremacist death cult every four years

china now has dozens of universities that rank among the top universities globally. these universities are owned, governed, and funded by the state

"in canada you have to wait months to get a a simple procedure" in the US you have to wait months for a procedure too AND you're paying tens of thousands in premiums only to have it denied by insurance a week before you're supposed to go in

it's always grimly amusing when westerners decry the system of governance in Iran for not resembling "western democracy," something that Iran would very much have if western governments hadn't done everything in their power to stop this model from being implemented in the 1950s

this is why they're doing a red scare btw

suggesting that communism is the natural enemy of the epstein class

over the past 75 years, china eliminated extreme poverty, unionized 3/4's of its workforce, and became the world's top solar panel manufacturer in the past 75 years, the US...did everything it could to stop this all from happening (and failed)

since the 19th century, the US's function in the world has been to stop communism from succeeding—by any means necessary. this is the heart of the American project, and everything else is peripheral

these people actually believe life is not worth living without a yacht, a private jet, a $100,000 rolex, six personal assistants, five homes...it's why they spend billions fighting communism—they believe that their very lives depend on it

don't believe tech nerds when they say your phone isn't listening to you and that creepy ads are a matter of other factors. your phone *is* listening to you. even if you turn off an app's mic access AND don't allow apps to share data with each other. the tech companies are lying to you

there's no chance spotify doesn't actively suppress certain political content. a socialist news show I listen to everyday day never, ever shows up on my home screen, but an obscure hockey podcast I listened to 10 mins of 2 months ago does

NEW PATREON EP robbie reads and provides analysis and commentary on the opening chapter of the classic book "Inventing Reality: The Politics of the Mass Media" by Michael Parenti

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NEXT WEEK'S PATREON inventing reality: the politics of news media (reading)

the report on cuba today is the latest in 60 years of state department propaganda alleging that US activists are front groups for Cuba. the only difference is that this report reads like it could have been pulled from a KKK recruitment pamphlet

one of the saddest things I've realized over the past year of my life is that in our society, if you're experiencing deep hardships and struggles, most people, instead of moving closer to support you, actually distance themselves or even abandon you altogether

communism is not why your rent has skyrocketed. it's not why Blackrock is buying up millions of houses. communists are not the CEOs of health insurance companies nor are they building data centers. they weren't in the epstein files or on his island

they're trying to make communists sound dangerous and scary when it's just that one fun attractive person at work who thinks you shouldn't go bankrupt because of a medical bill

if albert einstein was alive today stephen miller and marco rubio would be calling him a threat to our country

the guys who just bombed a children's cancer hospital in Iran want you to think that communists are the bad guys

anti-china guys love to talk about how china's unions are all controlled by the CPC but they don't love to talk about how employers are government-mandated to contribute up to 12% of a worker's salary to a tax-free account used exclusively for buying a home or paying a mortgage

NEXT WEEK'S PATREON inventing reality: the politics of news media (reading)

union density in the United States is 10 percent. in China, it's 75 percent. chinese workers have much higher purchasing power than american workers, with rent being 75 percent lower in china, as are utilities, public transportation, etc. this is what our ruling class doesn't want you to know

our conversation with mohamed khougali helps make sense of what's happening in Sudan through a deep dive into its history and politics, from the perspective of a Sudanese psychotherapist who participated in the 2018-2019 revolution www.patreon.com/posts/163482...

whole foods parking lots are a social experiment conducted by the ruling class to determine the hardships americans will endure in order to consume

"progressive" democrats think that by uttering the words "abolish ICE" they can fool us into putting our faith in their party. no, the energy and anger on the streets cannot and will not be directed through your zombie party where it will be co-opted and neutralized again

Upstream( @upstreampodcast.bsky.social ) w/ Della Z.( @dellazduncan.bsky.social )Duncan & Robert R.( @robpertray.bsky.social )Raymond "Sudan Pt. 1: The Unconscious Revolution w/ Mohamed Khougali" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...