The French Revolution was ultimately a bourgeois revolution that signalled the transfer of power from aristocrats to capitalists. It’s fine to enjoy the aesthetics of it but we will have to go further than the French did.
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grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Denmark raises retirement age to 70 — the highest in EuropeEnglish5·16 days agoNot to mention the consumer base that makes this all function collapses.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz42·17 days agoWhy wouldn’t China just cut a deal with Iran for access the way they did with the Houthis? It turns out you can cut deals with people when you aren’t bombing them or supplying arms to the people who are bombing them.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Pentagon reveals how B-2 bombers struck Iran nuclear sites in mission dubbed "Operation Midnight Hammer"471·18 days agoOperation Nocturnal Emission
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran and calls for Tehran to return to talksEnglish94·18 days agoTony Blair isn’t even dead and he got reborn as this guy.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Spain wants exemption from NATO’s 5 percent defense spending targetEnglish151·20 days agoThey don’t need a reason, really. 5% of GDP is moronic, the number alone is reason enough to pass. Not 5% of the national budget. 5% of GDP. Insane.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Netanyahu stuns Israelis by describing ‘personal cost’ of Iran war – postponing son’s weddingEnglish8·20 days agoNo, really, it is like the blitz. It’s just Israel is playing the German side.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Republicans Prepare Bill Declaring “Free Palestine” Is Antisemitic92·24 days agoRemoved by mod
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Republicans Prepare Bill Declaring “Free Palestine” Is Antisemitic75·24 days agoNext up, Republicans prepare bill declaring “Black Lives Matter” is racist against white people.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AIEnglish16·25 days agoMaybe we can get back to workplaces training their employees for the job they want them to do rather than putting the entire cost of training on 18 year oldish high school graduates for a job market that might not even be great (or exist) once they graduate post-secondary.
grte@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying HeadphonesEnglish153·27 days agoJust slightly less than when they came up with a fan that doesn’t buffet you with air as though that’s not what you want from a fan.
edit: For the low low price of…C$500??!
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Nearly half of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump's handling of protests: Poll1·27 days agoYes over half. If nearly half of respondents disapprove, than the other over half either support it or don’t care enough to oppose it, which is to say they aren’t concerned about it.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Terry Moran Terminated from ABC After X Post Criticizing Trump Administration30·29 days agoWe need to push back on the idea that you represent a brand or that brand has any authority over you when off the clock.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Nearly half of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump's handling of protests: Poll1261·29 days agoSo over half of Americans aren’t concerned with accelerating authoritarianism? Great.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Newsom brands Trump a ‘dictator’ after National Guard deployed292·1 month agoI’m getting the feeling that what the US is thiiiiis close to is civil conflict.
grte@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•World won’t forget Tiananmen Square, US and Taiwan say on 36th anniversary of massacreEnglish317·1 month agoUS history is a little more than unblemished, though. Hell, not even history. They are literally arming a genocidal state as we speak.
grte@lemmy.cato Technology@beehaw.org•A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset - "It's just collecting dust"6·2 months agoThese things had such little impact I had entirely forgotten they were a thing that happened.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer3110·2 months agoHe’s still a total dumbass not to have accepted his fate as a one term president from the get-go, dip and give the Democrats the usual amount of time to choose a successor rather than the truncated run Harris made.
grte@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer5895·2 months agoThis guy wanted another term this time last year.
[Edit] Oh, and some of you all thought it was a good idea. Lol.
This guy would drink the flavour aid without a second thought. Or a first one.