China has been hinting at sending military aid to Russia and President Biden has threatened sanctions if China does send aid. Steve Rattner joins Morning Joe...
I am so tired of this trope of “good times make weak men”. Just the whole idea that if we dare make things “too good” people become weak. When it’s obvious in reality no country is made stronger with masses homeless, starving, suffering in the climate crisis, etc. It may just be cause I live in a right wing as fuck area but I hear this endlessly in various forms and it gets old so fast.
Their only models are of the bourgeoisie and aristocrats, whose only aspirations are to move through life doing as little as possible while pretending to do all the work and coming up with all the ideas. Good times made the ruling class weak. Then they project this logic onto the working class, for whom, for a brief brief moment in history, won the luxury of some of them not working themselves into an early grave.
I am so tired of this trope of “good times make weak men”. Just the whole idea that if we dare make things “too good” people become weak. When it’s obvious in reality no country is made stronger with masses homeless, starving, suffering in the climate crisis, etc. It may just be cause I live in a right wing as fuck area but I hear this endlessly in various forms and it gets old so fast.
Their only models are of the bourgeoisie and aristocrats, whose only aspirations are to move through life doing as little as possible while pretending to do all the work and coming up with all the ideas. Good times made the ruling class weak. Then they project this logic onto the working class, for whom, for a brief brief moment in history, won the luxury of some of them not working themselves into an early grave.