Most understand neither.

Ask if a mother is unable to feed her children if she should be provided with food assistance.

“Yes, by charities and the Church”

There won’t even be hesitation.

Doesn’t matter. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is the fault of some mysterious cabal.

They’ll be praising the circumstances to high heaven, don’t you worry.

Could I have made a scene? Oh, yes, especially when the talk turned to coal and how closing down coal mines would make West Virginia ‘the poorest state in the country’ and how ‘Trump is already having an effect on the economy, you can see it in the gas prices’.

Would it have helped? Would I have gotten any satisfaction from it? No, and no.

I fucking hate family holidays.

It’s worse than it sounds.

Of the people who can name the three branches of government, even fewer actually understand how they work.

A worthy cause

“Imperialism is good if we say ‘human rights’ first” - The apologists for the British and French in Africa CCP

They kidnap an exec though. At least a few bonus points for that.

Yes… ha ha ha… YES!

Enjoy your Saturnalia gifts! Don’t forget to gamble, drink, and eat to excess!

Explanation: The image is from The Onion, a satirical news site, and is making fun of this kind of political cartoon.

The Romans celebrated SATVRNALIA around this time, a jolly winter holiday in which people exchanged minor gifts and snacks, celebrated together, played silly holiday games, wore outlandish clothing, and in general turned the social order ‘upside-down’ in the name of the liberation represented by the god Saturn, and all people were (theoretically, and by custom, not law) equal for the week, from the highest masters to the lowest slaves.

IO! SATVRNALIA!

It’s funny. This was my relationship with my mother for most of my life, with as little ‘telling her anything’ as I could. Now we’re both in therapy and have a much better relationship.

He was arrested for US healthcare’s sins.

It never ends

Pug Jesus and His 12 Disciple Dogs

I wonder how many arms companies aren’t involved with Israel.

Once sat at the same table as another guy in high school every weekday for six months. We traded less than ten words in that time. Later we became great friends.

A comparison of the writings of Chancellor Fortescue and Thomas More reveals the gulf between the 15th and 16th century. As Thornton rightly has it, the English working class was precipitated without any transition from its golden into its iron age.

In that same chapter he literally notes that the wage-laborer was an incredibly small part of society at the time.

The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class.

I see you, unlike Marx, don’t understand what a medieval commune is in contrast to serfdom, or what the transition to bourgeois in the late medieval period was like. He’s talking about class relations and development, as usual, not praising feudalism, Christ. Read another two chapters of the Manifesto, for Christ’s sake, it’s not that fucking long

What makes Marxism communist is structurally you are more brutally exploited than a serf.

Jesus fucking Christ.

A lord who kills his serfs stops being a lord,

what.

It flattens everything into one homogenized capitalist class and one homogenized working class, so the only possible revolution is those two switching places.

That is pretty fucking contrary to a Marxist view of a workers’ revolution.

If Marx believed you were freer or more powerful than a serf he wouldn’t be communist, he would be looking for which faction of workers was going to break out into a middle revolutionary class and replace capitalism with their own system of exploitation.

fucking what.

Jesus fucking Christ.