At least 10 million every year from starvation and preventable diseases.
My dread got way worse after going to college for biology because every class tells you how fucked things are and can point to the science that proves it.
The worst is when family or friends try to tell you “Things won’t be that bad.” No, if anything it’s going to be worse, because we’re doing fuck all to turn things around.
Yes, aside from a few scholarship kids, the Ivy League schools, and especially Harvard and Yale, were specifically built and continue to this day to be schools for the children of the elite.
Ah, and here we have it, the Lemmy “Anarchist” showing their true allegiance to the capitalist world order.
They include unborn children who would have been born if those natural disasters hadn’t struck. Like, not even fetuses that died, they literally took the birth rate and said that if 1 million people died of famine then 2 million babies that statistically those people would have had at some point weren’t born, so the death toll of the famine was 3 million. Utterly bonkers.
Why does that person not have insurance? Statistically, because they can’t afford it. Your example is a failure of society and how for-profit insurance is structured, not because an individual chooses not to be insured.
The idea of “weeds” is a colonialist construct.
Sabotaging the tools of genocide should be supported by everyone who isn’t a monster.
Their latest action was against the planes, but they have actually been extraordinarily successful at damaging the economic machine behind the genocide through targeted and sustained sabotage campaigns against Elbit Systems weapons manufacturer and their supporters, like Barclays Bank. They have already forced the closure of two weapons factories and forced Barclays to divest. It is most likely this sustained campaign that is the real reason for the terrorist designation, though the action at Brize Norton was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back.
They are doing this because Palestine Action has been incredibly effective. They have already forced the closure of two factories in England that produce arms for Israeli defense company Elbit and forced Barclays Bank to divest through sustained sabotage campaigns. No person has been hurt by their actions, yet these actions have cost the genocide supporters millions of pounds and caused months-long disruptions to the production of weapons used in ethnic clean songs around the globe (Elbit weapons are fueling not just the Palestine ethnic cleaning, but Kashmir and DRC, too).
Then there’s me, who joined .world because it was the largest, is a Marxist, but has no idea how to even switch instances or access .ml where I would like to be 😂
The US’s capitalist class is the same people as Israel’s capitalist class. The two countries are essentially interchangeable with how they act on the world stage.