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A Southwest Airlines Flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale was diverted to Atlanta Friday evening due to a “security threat” Tense videos of law enforcement boarding have circulated on social media👇🏽 More: www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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The argument that capitalists are needed to provide workers with means of production, and profit is their reward for doing so, is nonsense.

All capitalists have are paper or digital claims on the right to allocate means of production or material resources. All of the actual material resources -- means of production and raw materials -- are entirely the product of labor acting on free gifts of nature.

The entire point at issue is the legitimacy of the process by which capitalists happen to be in possession of those paper or digital claims, and how workers come to be dependent on those claims. Why, instead of groups of workers simply acting on the free gifts of nature, advancing streams of material resources to one another, and using a simple unit of account to track the balance of these advances of material resources and who owes what to whom, do they have to go to someone who is in possession of stockpiles of these imaginary paper claims?

Why are capitalists able to interpose themselves between groups of workers, and create the illusion that they are "providing" something when they are in fact simply controlling a toll gate?

The problem is the myth that money is a "thing," some sort of commodity with an independent existence and value of its own, when in fact it is simply a unit of measurement like an inch or a pound. We have a money and credit system based on the myth that a certain class of people must accumulate a pile of paper claims and then "lend" credit "against" them -- a "service" for which they are entitled to payment.

It's as nonsensical as the idea that, in order to cut lumber and build something, a carpenter must first find someone in possession of a pile of inches who can provide them. Imagine all the wasted resources, all the impeded production, if such a bizarre state of affairs actually existed. Imagine how much housing would go unbuilt, how much food would go uneaten, if before the carpenter could saw lumber or the butcher could weigh a cut of meat they had to go to the owner of a supply of inches or pounds and pay tribute for using them. There would be an entire class of people whose incomes came from such tribute for not impeding production. Great amounts of use-value would go unproduced despite the producers having the labor and materials required for production, for want of enough money to pay for the inches and pounds. The owners of inches and pounds would use their revenue to pay for still more inches and pounds, continuing to concentrate the ownership of them, so that they could charge higher and higher prices. There would be great accumulations of inches and pounds, far more than could be used, and equally great amounts of labor and material resources going idle, because producers could not afford the inches and pounds needed to put their labor and materials to use.

This is the world we live in.

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"This is Trump's great understanding of American politics, which is that formal restraints are few. And if you don't have any shame or dignity, you can simply blow past them. And we saw him do that time and again during his first term. And then he had four years to stew while Joe Biden was in the White House. And as soon as Trump came back into office, he turbocharged that attitude."

~ David Nir


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publicnotice.co/p/trumps-illeg

"What Trump has done a hundred times since coming back into the White House is engage in impeachable offenses. And the Iran war absolutely is impeachable. And I want to emphasize, whether or not he gets impeached, and I don't think he will, but whether or not he gets impeached, he should be. This is unquestionably a crime, and he should immediately be removed from office."


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"This is Trump's great understanding of American politics, which is that formal restraints are few. And if you don't have any shame or dignity, you can simply blow past them. And we saw him do that time and again during his first term. And then he had four years to stew while Joe Biden was in the White House. And as soon as Trump came back into office, he turbocharged that attitude."

~ David Nir


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publicnotice.co/p/trumps-illeg

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"Republicans and the Supreme Court have put basically no guardrails on Trump, so he started a global war that is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day. He shrugs about soldiers dying, and he lies about the school full of children that Americans likely killed."

~ Tim Miller


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thebulwark.com/p/neera-tanden-

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260308의 주제는
1.첫 문장
2.이토록 사소한
3.레퀴엠(장송곡)

원하는 주제를 고르시거나, 모든 주제를 엮어 창작하셔도 좋습니다.

편하신 시간대에 1시간 동안 전력을 다해주세요.
글/그림/수공예/그외 모든 창작물 가능.

툿을 올리실 때 @daily_1hour매일_전력_1시간 계정을 태그해주시면 그날 밤~다음 전력 주제 발표 전까지 리노트합니다.
(툿이 리노트할 수 없는 상태라면 마음/북마크만 찍습니다.)

NSFW 컨텐츠의 경우 반드시 CW를 걸어주세요.

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Bonjour and goedemorgen! Yes, a bonkers thread again. 🥳 This time, it's about my personal 🇧🇪 Belgian 🚂 train challenge! The aim is to complete the 17 remaining Belgian railway lines with regular passenger services that I haven't travelled on yet. I have three days, but there are two obstacles: rerouted services around Brussels on Sat/Sun and a strike beginning on Sunday at 22:00.

⚠️ Deze toot heeft environ 42 heures de retard. At least I have some pictures to start with.

An SNCB double-deck train at platform at Mons, display indicating 13:20 to Bruxelles-NordAn NMBS double-deck coach at Brussel-Luxemburg stationAn NMBS class 86 EMU leaving Bordet stationA loco-hauled double-deck SNCB train arriving at a platform with roofing before dusk
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"Almost a third of generation Z men and boys think a wife should obey her husband, according to a global survey of 23,000 people that found young men hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations.

A third (33%) of gen Z males also said a husband should have the final word on important decisions, according to the 29-country survey, which included Great Britain, the US, Brazil, Australia and India."

~ Jessica Murray


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