Seventeen out of every 10,000

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 07:22:04 +0000

Seventeen out of every 10,000 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2019

The official poverty rate in 2019 was 10.5 percent, down 1.3 percentage points from 11.8 percent in 2018. This is the fifth consecutive annual decline in poverty.

While Iraq and Afghanistan distracted us, I don't think we've seen a brutal widespread war with millions of deaths since say Congo and South Sudan, ending around 2000-2005 (along with the famous Congolese rape gangs).

The deal with Lenin and Che is a Revolutionary's job is to promote revolution, not to recognize a goal has been met and come home, put on a tie and join the maturing status quo. When they talk about "so many people", you feel they've no idea the actual number in proportion to the whole, that they're actually raving and wailing against the factual of the human condition, that people everywhere will always be hurting and suffering and dying, and that there are sane boundaries between what we can do to soften this predicament and what lies outside our power. The Great Depression happened. World War 2 & the Holocaust happened, as did the gray bought of Communism. They are indelible (I hope) markings of perhaps the worst that humanity will do to itself, yet at the same time some of the best. The trials at the moment are severe but trivial to the 30s-60s. Even population growth is mostly contained - we have answers, we have solutions, even if they need completion, hard work & money & shifts in attitude. We're not fighting our parents' battles. We're in a much more hopeful and knowable space. Even if the US fully collapses, there are enough advanced and stable and enlightened cultures that will keep progress going despite backwards anti-democratic motions of the Chinese government, the Russian government. There is no effective $600 billion a year Soviet army sitting on our border. Even the disturbing Chinese stealth Belt & Road initiative is largely in disarray.

And oddly, Chomsky's warnings about American imperialism seem more accurate now than in the 70's, with a shameless self-deluded corps running the government and controlling much if the power of communication and law-making. But it doesn't seem to lead to a controlled Fascism - just an ugly self-hating and painfully uncomfortable society.

I'd just like to point out

ocean-kat — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:46:06 +0000

In reply to Chomsky vs. BLM "activist"

I'd just like to point out that every argument I've had here with everyone, I won. Sorry, no video of me winning. You'll just have to take my word for it.

Watching a wizened and

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:19:16 +0000

In reply to Chomsky vs. BLM "activist"

Watching a wizened and weathered Noam Chomsky realize, at the age of 91, that woke liberals are absolutely batshit crazy has been one of my great intellectual pleasures of 2020. pic.twitter.com/6qSAHgSXmN
— Ben Winegard (@BenWinegard) October 12, 2020

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Seventeen out of every 10,000

I'd just like to point out

Watching a wizened and