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FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM →
For those who are still in denial that America is Fascist.
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What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer
Say you’re a world leader and you want your country’s economy to prosper. According to this Clark Medal winner from MIT, there’s a simple solution: start with free elections
I don’t even know where to begin with the immense conservative bias in this. First of all, the chart is flat-out wrong. The US should not be the reddest, while Iceland should be red. The little summary tries to make it seem like Americans are wealthy because of ‘living without fear of crime or craft,” which is really another way of saying police oppression, seeing as we have the highest percent of our population in jail in the entire world. Let’s not fool ourselves, we’re rich because we’re powerful and greedy, not because we’re a democratic and free utopia.
Even if correlation did imply causation, there’s no correlation between what the summary says and the countries with the highest GDP per capita. The UAE and Kuwait are both monarchies and they outrank the US in GDP per capita. There’s not going to be much correlation between different socioeconomic statuses and the GDP per capita anyways, it’s much more complex than, “The US is a [psuedo-]democracy therefore it is rich.”
However, if you did the same chart but used actual statistics on the happiness of a nation’s people instead of pulled out of an ass statistics of GDP, you’d find leftist governments/social democracies on the top of the list and the US somewhere in the middle or low end. You can google happiest countries or countries by happiness, there’s actually several maps and lists of it. Depending on whether the specific study takes psychological factors and surveys into account or just whether or not the people have access to school and healthcare, the US will either be very low on the list or in the middle respectively.](http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkuxpq59N1qz5ttno1_500.jpg)
What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answer
Say you’re a world leader and you want your country’s economy to prosper. According to this Clark Medal winner from MIT, there’s a simple solution: start with free elections
I don’t even know where to begin with the immense conservative bias in this. First of all, the chart is flat-out wrong. The US should not be the reddest, while Iceland should be red. The little summary tries to make it seem like Americans are wealthy because of ‘living without fear of crime or craft,” which is really another way of saying police oppression, seeing as we have the highest percent of our population in jail in the entire world. Let’s not fool ourselves, we’re rich because we’re powerful and greedy, not because we’re a democratic and free utopia.
Even if correlation did imply causation, there’s no correlation between what the summary says and the countries with the highest GDP per capita. The UAE and Kuwait are both monarchies and they outrank the US in GDP per capita. There’s not going to be much correlation between different socioeconomic statuses and the GDP per capita anyways, it’s much more complex than, “The US is a [psuedo-]democracy therefore it is rich.”
However, if you did the same chart but used actual statistics on the happiness of a nation’s people instead of pulled out of an ass statistics of GDP, you’d find leftist governments/social democracies on the top of the list and the US somewhere in the middle or low end. You can google happiest countries or countries by happiness, there’s actually several maps and lists of it. Depending on whether the specific study takes psychological factors and surveys into account or just whether or not the people have access to school and healthcare, the US will either be very low on the list or in the middle respectively.
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Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis.
With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks ago, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate proposal that argues all the costs associated with adapting to a more hostile ecology—everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to cleaner, more expensive technologies—are the responsibility of the countries that created the crisis. Klein also discusses the 10th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests and the 10th anniverary of her first book, “No Logo.”
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redguard:lovelylulu:kimclit:applesandseeds:littlejess:sweaterves:enumerate:
click thru + print it out
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]abandon. || To Defy (sorry the intro is about 1:09 long)
Get the fuck into this
Good people!
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NEW SUBMEDIA EPISODE. Anarchistic media.
1. Food Fight
2. No Deal for the planet
3. Hacking civilization
4. Running on empty
5. Greek Pre-Lube
6. Anarchy in the UK
7. The Stimulator VS Alex Jones
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Unknown contemporary cartoon update of the 1911 ‘Pyramid Of Capitalist System’ (via Royal Constantine)
If anybody knows who the artist is, let me know, Google and TinEye only turn up uncredited copies. Every time you post an uncredited copy of an artist’s work, a kitten dies.
Excellent, I wanted a good graphic for my social hierarchy presentation so I wouldn’t have to spend 20 minutes explaining how power works to a bunch of moderates.
The truth
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There’s always a chance of a critical hit.
For my D&D friends
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