An old adage known as Betteridge's law of headlines asserts that "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." There's a Bloomberg story trending on Twitter right now about China having the ability to control the weather, with the headline reading "
  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This paragraph stood out to me.

    American leftists and progressives will keep crashing into this wall, over and over and over again, every time they try to work within the official US political system to ease the crushing poverty and inequality in the wealthiest nation on earth. If by some miracle they are able to overcome all the many, many, many obstacles built into the plutocrat-controlled system and put themselves in a position to implement policies of economic justice by following all the rules to a 't', there will be an antisemitism scandal. There will be a Russia scandal. Someone will say they were raped. Whatever needs to happen to keep the people from obtaining wealth and power which could disrupt the global world order which depends on endless warmongering that benefits zero ordinary Americans.