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There's a lot of comfort that can come from believing that the disastrous COVID-19 pandemic - with all the death and disablement it caused - started from a single point and was only made possible by someone's mistake on the other side of the world, whether it was a lab leak caused by a random technician or someone unknowingly eating infected meat. That belief tells us that the pandemic was preventable, and that as long as people are being careful at work and eating foods deemed normal by the West (b/c racism, obviously), it shouldn't happen again. Keep calm and carry on type shit.

The fact that strains of SARS-Cov-2 responsible for the global pandemic were circulating in Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia for months before major outbreaks without our awareness means that we could already be well on our way to another global pandemic. The next virus could already be circulating, and we probably won't know until it's too late. That is some cosmic horror.

a financial therapist

Discourse on Colonialism is like infinitely quotable. I've read and reread it many times in the last year, and I always find something new each time

[W]e must resign ourselves to the inevitable… that the bourgeoisie is condemned to become every day more snarling, more openly ferocious, more shameless, more summarily barbarous; that it is an implacable law that every decadent class finds itself turned into a receptacle into which flow all the dirty waters of history; that it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs.

— Aimé Césaire

Yeah, I was seeing tweets saying it was an iron dome missile that hit the school. Idk what’s confirmed or not, but lord knows the israeli regime and its accomplices will take full advantage of the time and confusion that their lies buy