We need both, Rent Control and more housing. Land-lording has also been invaded by capitalists looking to squeeze humans for every cent and govt needs to stem that tide too. Rent has been soaring in the biggest capitalist zones, US and EU/CA.
Cap rent rises in England and Wales, Labour-commissioned report says
It is absurd that Saudia Arabia will be hosting the UN Comission for Womens rights. ‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters? Saudia Arabia is as shit as Iran's regime.
Religion and patriarchal control and oppression of women pretty much anywhere in the world is like white on rice.
Obscene oil wealth that swallows up any attempts to focus on the regimes across the board human rights abuses. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which oversees about $650 billion in assets invests in US and global markets, in twitter, banks, in global sports, in US weapons, in surveillance, in wars... Saudi golf takeover is blueprint for what they want to do everywhere else
I see what you mean. Yeah, the focus tends to be on wealthier nations, the west and immigration.
this has a lot to do with resources and time. class size and student to teacher ratio will always have a huge impact on student learning. i really want to write that twice. plus in america, capitalism and zero-sum life is introduced in education by way of separating higher and lower scoring students, assigning students to 'gifted' classes. not being able to give enough support for students with disabilities, and separating them as well. and of course stability and support outside of the classroom/school is a big factor.
Thanks for the link! Sealioning more succinctly describes what i was getting at with that poster.
How a Connecticut middle school won the battle against cellphones https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/01/school-cellphones-confiscate/
'But over the course of the conference, the seemingly novel arguments for having children fade and give way to a different set of concerns. Throughout the day, speakers and participants hint at the other aspects of modern life that worried them about future generations in the U.S. and other parts of the West: divorce, gender integration, “wokeness,” declining genetic “quality.”'
'More recently, natalist thinking has emerged among tech types interested in funding and using experimental reproductive technologies, and conservatives concerned about falling fertility rates and what they might mean for the future labor force of the United States and elsewhere in the developed world. The conservative think tanks the Center for Renewing America and the Heritage Foundation — the latter of which was represented at NatalCon — have proposed policies for a potential second Trump administration that would promote having children and raising them in nuclear families, including limiting access to contraceptives, banning no-fault divorce and ending policies that subsidize “single-motherhood.”'
I don't doubt there has been hateful rhetoric from both, this is an emotional issue. But to pretend it's one sided is bs.
Worse, anyone protesting the horrors unfolding in Gaza. Anyone calling for a ceasefire is branded anti-semitic. Anyone calling out the horrific civilian death tolls of Palestinians is anti-semitic. Jewish people who are part of these protests are called anti-semitic. Similar is happening in Germany and other parts of the West.
Basically, anything that disagrees with anything Israel does is branded as anti-semitic. If you are not blank check pro-Israel, you must be anti-semitic. Which is just outrageous and beggars belief.
The usual PR cover that Israel gets has broken down, politicians themselves who are used to the same ol', same ol', still don't see why the younger generation is upset with the world they're inheriting. Polits don't compute how their years of failures on economic policies, on climate action, could also include the many failures of foreign policy and the business as usual approach. The elders are angry for implicitly being called out as hypocrites. For being called out for funding crimes against humanity. The calls for divestment ruffles the business interests of weapons manufacturing as well. Then you have those that are just ignorant, racist, prejudicial hateful types.
You speak in hypotheticals fueled by hate. Ignoring all the violence perpetrated by many peoples.
You're filled with hate amigo, all towards a single belief system. Meanwhile Russia has invaded Ukraine, and civilians, women and children a plenty are being slaughtered in Gaza in the here and now, not some imaginary hypothetical.
Gaza use their national resources, lol. You mean the apartheid that Israel has imposed on the Palestinian people all the while stealing land using illegal settlement building? That Gaza? Killing women and children, literally headshots to Palestinian children. Mass graves, famine...
Clinton is one of the worst. The party went, can't beat 'em, might as well join em.
Clinton essentially fulfilled some of the great Republican dreams of deregulation. See Glass-Stegall how he joined hands with Republicans. Which you can then fast forward to the banking and financial crisis that hit the world and screwed economies and brought austerity programs worldwide.
Dare ya to read up on all the congressional stock trading from not just Repubs but very much Dems as well.
The party went fully corporate with Clinton.
But over time looks like the snake eating it's own tail as AI iterates over everything. Someone will have to create fuzzy AI to dilute the writing down.