This is what 4th of July is really about. When Gaga and Beyonce posioned all those people in that restaurant for our freedom to dance. Let us never forget.
25% of the world’s prisoners, but only 5% of the world’s population, many of whom are in for nonviolent offenses and paid cents on the hour for their labor
Some prisoners getting paid nothing at all for their labor, in instances of literal slavery
Drones bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis
An occupation in Afghanistan that’s been going on since fucking 2001
An airport security routine that routinely violates privacy rights and is basically authoritarian theatre
Poor people paying about 20% in taxes, with real wages unchanged since the 19 fucking 70s, while most of the real income gains have gone to the 1% richest people in our society
Income inequality the worst it’s been since the Great Depression
Minorities, mentally ill, and/or homeless people getting brutalized and shot routinely by the police
No left-wing party worth speaking of, just diet right, classic right, and zero-calorie right (now with 3.27% of the popular vote)
About half our food being wasted while people starve
The NRA advertising authoritarian, us vs. them rhetoric straight out of old-timey propaganda films
A president who is on the record as having endorsed and committed sexual assault, has committed fraud, and isn’t even good at the thing he was supposed to be good at
His opponent during the election, who used literal slave labor and has endorsed bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis, as detailed above
Gerrymandering so thick that we’ve got states that aren’t even classified as democracies anymore
A mainstream media that acts, unconditionally, as a willing accomplice to the state
Our politicians trying to slash programs and agencies whose aims a majority of our population like and want
People having to call and beg our politicians to not cut the things that we like and want
Our politicians doing fuck nothing that’s any good for anyone, even though a single party controls the whole government right now
A holiday full of drinking and fireworks so we can forget about the fact that we live in a dystopia
Its placement right before the advertisements suggests to me that this breaking news was most likely a last minute addition to the July 2, 1776 edition of the Pennsylvania Evening Post.
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