What a crock of shit!
Why would capital willingly poison its workforce as a deliberate policy? That makes zero sense.
I can see capital writing it off as a necessary side-cost of doing business, but I can't see it as a deliberate policy.
Again, it makes no sense. Capital wants a relatively healthy workforce, not one that's falling apart due to lead-caused neurological decrepitude.
I have a cousin who still insists that her mom died of pneumonia and that it wasn't COVID. Her husband is currently in prison for storming the capitol on January 6th, which tells you all you need to know. It's weird because she's the only one in my extended family who's even remotely into far right craziness.
Allegedly there are two known instances of people in the US dying due to complications from the vaccine, though one of them wasn't the mRNA vaccine that the anti-vaxxers were most scared of. Compare that to the over 1 million people who died from COVID.
That and the fact that everything about our society shits on working people and tells them that it's their own fault that they aren't rich like the college-educated elites who look down on them.
It doesn't actually make any sense, but I am telling you that this is a huge part of the resentment that Trump was able to tap.
Not at all. We lost it due to various invasions of the British Isles by non-native English-speakers who dropped gendered English because it was difficult to learn and didn't immediately transfer from the Scandinavian languages to the western Germanic languages.
Meanwhile, the Celtic-speaking peoples of England, who in the first place spoke Celtic languages that are closer to the Romance languages than they are to the Germanic languages, never really adopted pure Old English and all of its genders in the first place.
The upshot is that through all this mess we ended up with something like Middle English, which doesn't use gender at all, but that still uses case, as in hither vs thither.
Finally, by about the time of Shakespeare, we start transitioning into modern spoken English wherein we don't use case or gender at all, and instead use grammar and context to communicate the same things that in the past would have been communicated through gendered and case-based language.
I can and do agree with everything you argue while also maintaining the objectively obvious fact that context matters in politics.
You either get it or you don't. I can't help you with your lack of reading comprehension.
They specifically said that "you can be mad" about it.
You want to have it the way that they're pushing some kind of agenda, when in fact they're simply stating what's true.
Fair play.
Fair play
but that would require major reworking of large areas.
Yes, that's precisely what will be required. There's no getting through this without implementing massive changes to our way of life. Everyone wants there to be some kind of easy get-out-of-jail-free card, but that's not how it's going to be.
There's ample evidence that living in small-scale tribal societies really is the best for our emotional and psychological health. There are entire books on the subject. The problem is that we can't go back to that, nor would we want to. I would argue that we are still figuring out how to adapt to agriculture, it having been such a recent development in human history.
I don't necessarily know what the best path forward looks like, but I do know that what we've built here in the US isn't sustainable because it's not working for too many people.
And it was obvious that they'd already decided to invade Iraq long before Powell's infamous UN presentation.