OMG you're so right, they need to learn how to do it less obvious from all the fossil companies! /s

Neo-liberalism would like a word.

Other than being part of the ruling class that benefit from the continuation of the status quo?

Piggy backing to say, people need to watch Michael Parenti's lecture in 1986 (commonly known as yellow parenti).

What do ya know, propaganda is just as prevalent in the US as it is anywhere else in the world.

Democracy Now!

They’re all:

Anti-union

Anti-Medicare-for-All

Anti-College-for-All

Pro cutting taxes on the wealthiest.

What are you talking about?

"In this country, the most powerful country on Earth, it is so actually difficult to get information, especially outside our borders, not to mention what's going on inside of this country".

Wow, so much eloquence. 8-3

Baudelaire originally, but these days Keyser Söze:

That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.

Should look into their bloodline and religion

1 Conservative viewpoint and the rest are Leftist outlets.

People are too ignorant to accept that the Left has always been in power. The Right are just controlled opposition.

Big Tech, Big Pharma, Corporate Media are all in bed together with the Government.

Yet people accept their shit and eat with pleasure. Forced mandates and destruction of l;ivelihood and small businesses, etc.

Great documentary, but I don’t think any documentary can accurately portray the timeline for those who experienced it. How many of us take a fire alarm seriously? In this case, it wasn’t smoke, it was water. There was no getting away.

its gotten way worse since 2012 too

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The YouTube version is 50 minutes. Anyone know what is missing from it?

You mean they CONSERVE it:)?

>So why take the money specifically away from Ukrainian aid instead of a million things you COULD take it away from locally?

The real question is why is a firehose of aid to them possible with so little debate but for your own people it's not?

Is there any place I can get real local and world news?

This is an amazing resource. I just watched the whole thing and the progression of calamities is just staggering.

It didn't come out of the military budget

I hope this prigram reveales how 5 separate conglomerate corporations can be a monopoly.

Obviously, hence my choice of words...

I meant Santos or whatever name he's going by this week. Not Soros. Anyone on Reddit know why I lost my edit feature? Did I hit something that took it away?

>Healthcare, infrastructure, debt relief, housing, white-collar crime enforcement

Ekhm...

>Especially if it's from the DOD/military budget.

Also, the US military doctrine assumes always being ready to fight two superpowers at once. Right now, one of these superpowers is bleeding out after methodically bashing its head against a certain Ukrainian wall.

Don't be fooled into thinking this is a "local conflict" or anything like that - this is 100% a world war (even if it's "weird" and seems local), because the times have changed and these days everything is global. If Ukraine falls and Russia is allowed to rebuild, it WILL go after the Baltic states and Poland, who knows if they'll stop there.

Now, we already know what happens if you let a dictator take land without repercussions, so this cannot stand.

It would be immoral (considering the crimes the russians are committing) AND self destructive (considering how intertwined the global markets are).

>All better ways to spend money than sticking it to Russia.

For RIGHT NOW, maybe. Although it's not like the US is a poor, third world country and can't do both - support Ukraine AND do all the things you listed. I mean, come on, mate - they've sent 0,4% of their GDP so far, it's not like you can reform a whole country for that. Or even just healthcare.

Also, this 0,4% doesn't mean the US has sent that much money, which could be used for, say, housing. That includes the declared value of the equipment they're sending. So tell me, how many hospitals can you nationalise for 150 M777 howitzers?

So, yeah, there are better ways of governing money, if you're USA. But as far as spending your military budget goes - you can't do better than having someone fight for you while at the same time cleaning up your warehouses of old stuff.

There used to be laws against exactly this.