do you have any self-respect
India did do those assassinations, but yeah the US and Canada wouldn’t have made a stink if they didn’t want something out of it
looks like this one isn’t true, can’t find any other reports of this and newsweek has a “fact check” saying it’s false
how much could a bean cost, Michael… ten dollars?
you might like this essay which has a similar thesis
Capitalism sucks for workers. It’s common to see the obvious failures of our current system as new horrors, and to conclude that we need to return to some time when things were better. Maybe the “better time” is vague — just a general hand-waving and an exhortation to make things great again. Or maybe it’s explicit, with policy nods towards, for example, Roosevelt’s New Deal. Either way, this better time was probably some period after the workday was reduced to only 8 hours but before neoliberalism really kicked off. Not coincidentally, this time period lines up with the existence of the U.S.S.R. (1917-1991). Workers’ lives improved when the West felt threatened by the rise of communism!
To protect their own interests against the growing enthusiasm for communism, the capitalist class of the West permitted the passing of worker-friendly social policies. Here, I’m going to walk through a few examples of these policies that were motivated by fear of the U.S.S.R. and its influence in the world. I want to show how these were strategic concessions by the capitalist class rather than the result of the establishment coming to see reason or bowing to the force of the better argument. I will build this argument by citing contemporary capitalists, mainstream news outlets and government officials, demonstrating how these policies were explicitly linked at the time to fears of communist organizing inspired by the U.S.S.R. I will also highlight how these policies softened the hard edge of capitalism to quell the rising interest in socialism, while still entrenching liberal, pro-capitalist principles.
continues at https://redsails.org/concessions/
the Rosenbergs did nothing wrong
“the office has a break room fully stocked with snacks, but your mostly-empty fridge is the problem”
this stinks of US involvement so bad
luckily it turns out I was just having a Firefox glitch, and relaunching fixed it for me
weird, this link only works for me in a private window. otherwise it’s a blank gray page
was just having a bug in Firefox that restarting cured
we’re just getting news now that due to a brownface incident Justin Trudeau has been deported by mistake
Stavvy’s World #41 - HBO’s The Telemarketers | Full Episode for others
it owns that he talked for years about how he hated podcasting, quit cum town, and then started his own podcast like six weeks later
EDIT: holy shit Eldis is on the show now!
you probably know but chapo did an episode interviewing the creators of the show, this is a clip
why is America’s little brother acting up, do they need KSA to threaten them with a 9/11 again
carrion call for further military action
carrion call
:chefs-kiss:
was recently compelled by the state to appear for jury duty. I looked around the windowless, closed-door courtroom and out of around sixty people it was me and one other person wearing a mask, and the other person took it off after five minutes and never put it back on. I had to be in there for six hours
eat my shit and hair