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On This Day nine years ago, 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained following a brutal encounter with Baltimore police.

A grand jury indicted all six officers involved in the brutal arrest — but none of the charges stuck.

Freddie Gray should still be alive.

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tell me something i don't know, captain obvious!

a new study from the London School of #Economics says 50 YEARS of #tax cuts have only helped one group — THE RICH💰💰

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Seen a lot of Taylor Swift lately, and I've once again been hit with the 'why the fuck do ppl like her so much' feeling... and they even paint her as some kinda feminist? this bitch aint a feminist, shes a rich asshole creating medicore music.

i get that you like a song or two, im sure i listened to some of her songs in my lifetime, but that doesnt make her some goddess?

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On This Day nine years ago, 25-year-old Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained following a brutal encounter with Baltimore police.

A grand jury indicted all six officers involved in the brutal arrest — but none of the charges stuck.

Freddie Gray should still be alive.

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Black Maternal Health Week: Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Health

Maternal health is an essential issue in the United States, and Black Maternal Health Week is a week-long initiative aimed at addressing the racial disparities in maternal health outcomes. The week takes place every year from April 11th to April 17th, and it is an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges faced by Black women during pregnancy and childbirth. The Centers for Disease…

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Also, it’s not funny or fun or acceptable, even with friends? Like if my friend said the n word in front of me I wouldn’t find that funny I would have a serious conversation with them.

"I only make offensive jokes/say slurs with my friends so its ok."

not really. look at it this way,

when I was a teen, my dad would beat me if he caught me saying swears. however I was able to say swears around my friends cause they didn't care. but lo and behold, I slipped up in front of my dad once, even though I was damned scared of him. it just happened involuntarily.

point is, you will eventually slip up in public. and when that happens, people will assume you're a racist/ queerphobe/ transphobe/ misogynist. why? cause its safer for them to assume that and stay the fuck away, than hang around since people are psychos that want to kill over what others cannot change.

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"The rugged individual who relies in no one is a figure who can only exist in a culture of domination where a privileged few use more of the world's resources than the many who must daily do without."

-bell hooks, "all about love"

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Getting whiplash from going from a pro tenant conversation with friends to pro landlord conversation with Mom's church group.

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i cant afford to have “social anxiety” 🥲 im poor

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i love how i sit here wondering why im so sad and its like bitch i am in a constant state of mental anguish and physical distress because of my multiple chronic illnesses and we're living through late stage capitalism. of course i'm fucking sad. it's a miracle literally anyone is functional under these conditions. i hate it here.

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I'm half convinced that the reason Apple's password recovery is so fucking difficult and long-winded is to make people snap and create new accounts and re-buy shit they already bought on their old accounts. Tell me I'm wrong. There's no reason you should need two weeks to do security for a password reset when you got confirmation codes from both my phone number and my email address. Jfc.

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The problem is not simply that capitalism produces too much, but that it produces the wrong stuff: SUVs, fast fashion and planned obsolescence instead of public transit, affordable housing and universal healthcare. It overuses resources and still fails to meet even basic needs.

In this respect it is a wildly inefficient system. This is the sort of irrationality you get when production is organized around the interests of corporate profit and elite accumulation, rather than around human well-being and ecology.

Jason Hickel

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This is what corporate bootlickers don't understand or don't want others to understand.

Socialism has been desperately fought and died for. Capitalism has been upheld by police and the prison system.

Capitalism is the real threat to your freedom. Capitalists are the real supporters of big government.

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Rich People: "I want to price gouge and plan obsolescence without having to worry about competition. Government, enforce my patents."

Rich People: "I want firepower to uphold my enormous wealth. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to protect my property from thieves and trespassers."

Rich People: "I want a source of cheap labor. Government, enforce laws against victimless actions in order to put people in prison so I can exploit them as slaves, then brand them with criminal records so they'll take any low wage job that's offered to them in the future."

Rich People: "There are homeless people existing who are not generating profit for me. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to arrest them for loitering, and use taxpayer money to build hostile architecture."

Rich People: "Homeless people are eating food that my business discarded, which doesn't generate profit for me. Government, hire police officers with taxpayer money to guard the dumpster."

Rich People: "Marijuana is competition for me as a pharmaceutical CEO. Government, ban marijuana."

Rich People: "I build weapons. Government, create wars and buy my weapons with taxpayer money."

Poor People: "I can't afford what I need to live. Government, financially assist me, require my employer to pay me more, or limit rich people's ability to increase prices."

Rich People: "Stop relying on government for everything and taking people's freedom!"

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Delivery Apps: The Death of Empathy

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