Mexican authorities had closed foreign factories after hundreds of COVID cases had been discovered within their walls. But only three weeks since their closure, the gates were busted wide-open as the Baja California state government succumbed to pressure from the US federal government and US companies. On May 1st, thousands of workers returned to work with a suite of new restrictions meant to protect the workers. Workers now need to wear face masks, need to apply hand sanitizer every-time they enter, stand 6-feet apart, and so on.
The moment I heard about this, I decided to check it out and see if these companies were actually following these labor protections.
Post anything related to socialism on Facebook and you'll get the inevitable, "Well, it wouldn't work because the majority would just trample the rights of the minority!" from your high school dropout uncle. For such a talked about phenomena, how big is the threat of socialism, communism or anarchism? Was John Stuart Mill just a prick?
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➤ John C. Calhoun quotes from Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy Maclean (2017)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/9781101980972/
➤ On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)
https://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/one.html
➤ Quality of Life in Socialist Countries
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2430906
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➤ Evil Morty 8-Bit by 8 Bit Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgVyrWItI70
➤ Professor Layton: London Streets 2&3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G133JtCNYbA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuSmUI25Ulw
➤ Outro: Nostalgia 64 Vol. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAIaNlLZCr8&t=81s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxVoLbNU0a8
Ben and Jerry’s has made a name for itself as a left-wing firebrand, routinely pumping out subversive cups of ice cream and radical manifestos. In a lot of ways, they are corporate responsibility in the flesh. But behind the progressive exterior is something they've tried to hide from their customers for decades.
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0:00 - History
1:46 - Union Busting
4:10 - Milk With Dignity
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65iG-CkDjZU
Empathy, it turns out, comes built in. It’s one of those virtues, like justice and freedom, that gets brought up a lot in politics. But it seems people are becoming more selective of who they give their empathy to. We saw this as headlines of a missing submersible washed over the news.
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0:00 - Origins of Empathy
1:03 - The Missing Submersible
3:23 - Are We Facing an Empathy Deficit?
4:43 - Empathy Inequality
7:11 - Origins of Schadenfreude
8:47 - Empathy and Schadenfreude
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N8xn-GrV7Y
Rick and Morty Season 6 is an interesting episode. While at a glance, it might seems like a conservative skewering of socialist ideals, digging a little deeper helps us find a surprising message.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sXkexZ0Le0
Being communist with no reservations, Boots Riley created the one of the most satisfying anti-capitalist feature films we’ve seen in a long-time. In it, megalomaniac CEO Steve Lift delivers the most important line in the film when caught in his evil scheme:
"I just didn’t want you to think I was crazy. That I was doing this for no reason because this isn’t irrational.”
But to make sense of it, we need to take a look back towards the greatest blunder of the 20th century: The Holocaust.
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➤ Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/290h_09/readings/bauman_intro.pdf
➤ Monthly Review – Imperialism in the 21st Century
https://monthlyreview.org/2015/07/01/imperialism-in-the-twenty-first-century/
➤ Global Slavery Index
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/findings/highlights/
➤ Modern Slavery by the Numbers
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/12/the-horrors-of-modern-slavery-in-numbers/
➤ Stats on Incarceration
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/10/incarceration.aspx
? MUSIC:
➤ Propeller – Silent Partners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PbeYAvGZA4
➤ [No Copyright Music] Colossus - Wydron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa5mC46xqEU
➤ The Depths - Royalty Free Beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ae82KSEj7w
➤ Vanity by Gjorgjievski Marjan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t7yQDApNso
➤ Burning Idol – Mining Melancholy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_HXrs3dNp4
➤ Hot Head Bop - PPF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWa6gVunVLE
? FOOTAGE CREDITS:
➤ Time Travel Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx4lYE23Wc8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPBCd1GkYh0
"Physically weak men more likely to be socialist;" "New Study Finds Conservatives Stronger than Liberals." Back in 2017, outlets ran wild with a study from Brunel’s University where researchers gathered 171 men aged 18 to 40 and measured their strength against their political views. Surprisingly, the headlines weren’t too off from what they found.
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0:00 - The Studies
2:37 - Definitions
3:15 - Evolutionary Psychology
4:38 - The Ideological Ramifications
6:44 - Conservative Ties in Strength Sports
9:00 - Tough Questions
10:15 - Ok, Time for Reasonable Explanations
13:13 - Socialist Strength?
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO34pSRya7U
Internet privacy, the issue everyone knows they should care about, but probably don’t. And why would we care, Google’s collecting our data to server us better ads, ooh no the horror! This, obviously isn’t the whole picture, but it’s what most people think about internet privacy. But just because it might be easier not to care, it doesn’t mean we should just abandon trying to keep our data private. Because the issue of privacy strikes at the very heart of who we are. And to figure out why, we need to go back in time.
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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - History of Advertising
2:42 - Identity and Advertising
4:15 - The Digital Revolution
6:35 - Surveillance Capitalism
8:22 - The Negative Effects
10:00 - Internet Soap-Box
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3e1I-BzPU
Here’s an uncontroversial statement, Avatar is a progressive show. From the very first episode we’re introduced to a world that doesn’t shield the viewer from the realities of war, genocide, sexism and racism. Entire episodes are dedicated to portraying refugees and the poor in a kind a light, and it doesn’t pull any punches when delivering its message about anti-war and anti-aggression. In fact, the entire final arc of the show is centered around Aang trying to find a peaceful end to the Fire Nation’s war of aggression, a war that’s a heavily implied metaphor for both the German’s in World War II as well as the United States’ wars to spread democracy.
But for all of its progressivism, the show has a few shortcomings when dealing with the topics of religion, the state and revolutionary rage.
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0:00 - Spoiler Warning
0:08 - A Progressive Show
1:03 - Kings and Queens
4:05 - Religion and Revolution
8:23 - Spirituality, Rage & Idealism
11:56 - Conclusions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n84-U_D_jt8
"We’ve lost the war on obesity. Fighting fat hasn’t made the fat go away. And being thinner, even if we knew how to successfully accomplish it, will not necessarily make us healthier or happier. The war on obesity has taken its toll. Health at Every Size is the new peace movement." This is a blurb from a Health at Every Size website, and, it sounds pretty good, right? Don't let the talking points fool you, the history of obesity and body positivity is hiding a lot more secrets than you'd think.
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. -Che
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