This is literally American policy idk why anyone's surprised

Top 1% does 16%, bottom 66% does 16%, middle 33% does 68%.

On a per-capita basis, the top 1% is 8x worse than the middle 33% and 66x worse than the bottom 66%.

The problem is that value is derived from property rather than from work. You earn substantially more by owning a machine than by operating that machine, which rewards people who have money more than people who have skills.

Cement and steel emissions are dropping, energy emissions are plateauing, and transportation emissions are falling off a cliff.

This is YEARS ahead of schedule. Holy fuck.

Wait... Did China just hit peak carbon?

Dude fr idk what our government's foreign policy goals even are.

~~UN aid worker~~

No reason for escalation, though. You'd think the IDF would want to keep the issue on the northern border contained as they commit so many forces to Gaza.

Thank god Bolsonaro isn't in power anymore. I can't imagine what his position on this conflict would have been.

What's a more likely target for state actors:

A small federated social media platform with a limited audience and that, by design, decentralizes control

OR

Reddit, which literally has Atlantic Council members deciding content moderation policy

It's not anyone else's fault that the US has been taking L after L recently internationally.

This is actually incredibly advantageous to the region. A consistent supply of electricity drives so much economic development it's crazy.

The silly thing is that, while on the surface it looks like a religiously-motivated conflict, at its core it's a socioeconomic one. The massive gap in economic opportunity caused by the Zionist regime's comprehensive repression of Palestinian rights, the displacement of people from their own homes, and the complete segregation of society was bound to lead to conflict with or without religious motivation.

People blaming religion for this issue are the same people blaming religion for the Troubles.

China's case of Xinjiang shows that massive forced social and economic reform can eradicate extremism without launching bullets and missiles at every person of colour who looks at you wrong.