If Dems win next election, things will get even worse than they are now. Much, much worse in fact. That’s just the inevitable trajectory capitalism is on. Things would just get worse a bit slower than they would under Trump, at least for the privileged labor aristocracy in the imperial core. The evil empire would simply be run into the ground by slightly more competent genociders. Revolutionary change is the only way out.
If Dems were in power now, they’d do fascism too. The economic contradictions have simply increased to a point where fascism is necessary for capitalism to remain profitable for the ultra rich.
Those are good toads. Somehow one can tell
It means this metastudy is less of a study and more of an advertisement. The outcome of a metastudy depends even more on who does it, especially if they make up the criteria for which research is “good” enough to include.
The navigation, technically. Building a compass and using it.
I mean, exactly half of those are actually true.
This study was funded in part via an unrestricted research grant from the Beef Checkoff, through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
US soldiers in Iraq didn’t just steal with impunity and without any shame, they didn’t just fight an unjust and murderous war against an innocent population based on nothing but lies, they also ran well organized rings for child kidnapping, rape and sexual slavery for twenty years on multiple US bases.
Yes, Dracula lived in a castle because he was a landlord. But all classic vampires in literature are in a sense. Originally, in oral history and folk takes, vampires were more about fear of sickness and about not understanding how diseases spread. But later, literary Vampires were a standin for the universal experience of how landlords are bloodsucking pests. Take Dracula: the protagonist is a solicitor who comes to Transylvania to help the vampire buy land and various properties in England. Then the plot revolves around preventing his moving to England, but the heroes fail at that, because he has prepared to well, is just too rich and has filled out all the legal paperwork.
This is perfect, thanks. I’ll steal it
Found more than I’d hoped on Wikipedia:
So in the thirteenth century, Antonio of Padua was fed up with how unimpressed his (supposedly heretic) audience was with his preaching. So he literally went to preach to the fishes instead who, surprisingly, stuck their heads out and listened. This then impressed the heretics so much, they too started to listen.
Anyway, 1654 or about 450 years later, on the feast day of Antonio, his namesake António Vieira, a Jesuit Monk in Brazil, gave the “Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish”. In it, he argued against the cruelty of the colonizers against the natives and condemned slavery. (Also he includes a list of good fishes and bad fishes)
Accordingly, three days later, Vieira secretly set sail for Lisbon to plead the cause of the Indians, and in April 1655 he obtained from King John IV a series of decrees which placed the missions under the Society of Jesus, with Vieira himself as their superior, and prohibited the enslavement of the natives, except in certain specific cases.
Conflicts between the settlers and the Jesuits in Brazil went back as far as 1549, and were to last until the latter were banished in 1760.
This is not the full story and the Jesuits probably wanted the natives alive and un-enslaved mostly for the sake of more easily converting them to Christianity, but it still sounds cool, that they opposed the settlers for so long.
This is the best image I’ve seen all week!
Lots of people will love you for being yourself. Those are the ones that matter.
At that time the Anglo Saxons where foreigners among the Celtic Britons and their Romano British Culture. So he would probably be surprised, that no one is speaking Brittonic or Latin anymore. He might have gone to great length learning those native languages when he arrived in Britain and now people only speak a weird, very simplified baby version of his own West Germanic language with half the grammar and consonants taken out and the vowels all shifted around like a parody of his language.
No, the rooks where the ones who were elephants. Towers atop battle elephants.
Don’t share copaganda. It’s meant to hide abuse.
Who cares about a stupid house. He’s done so much worse. He’s a war criminal, just like Biden and Obama. All three of them would have been convicted at Nurnberg. The white house symbolizes genocide. Let it burn.
Smith goes into great detail in “The wealth of Nations” about how landlords are parasites. He explains why theoretically and empirically and gives specific examples. He lacked an understanding of historical materialism, so he wrongly thought capitalism would naturally get rid of them.
Soon: school shooters use drones for shootings