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happy 207th birthday to obscure Marxist theoretician Karl Marx
Never read him
He was this guy who got extremely good grades in school, so one day, somebody called him Carl Marks and it stuck. Then he went on to write Capital, an in-depth guide on uppercase, lowercase, and all things grammatical, and anti-comma-use English professors have hated him ever since.
What a waste of a life, didn’t he realise nothing ever changes?
He should have known that English has been around in the exact same form for 6,000 years, back when Noah wrote the Bible while riding the Ark of the Covenant.
he was a contemporary with August Willich & Karl Schapper, if you have heard of them. Actualy Willich challeneged Marx to a dule for not being pro worker enough, probably why you have not heard of this Marx dude
The Russian Communist dictator?
Being disabled is terrible. Everybody thinks less of you, don’t want to be your friend, date you and don’t think you’re worth listening or talking to. Sometimes I even get bullied.
No matter where I go, I get less respect than others. I feel like I’m not human.
At least I’m able to talk more about how this hurts me, and it helps a bit.
I’m sorry people treat you that way. You don’t deserve it.
That is the same experience that I have as a child in the family of victims of Communism who embrace the very toxic brutal authoritarian practices that supposedly victimize them. The teaching of my extended family of victim of communism in the Hong Kong Canadian community is that repression is self-inflicted, that the repressor only repress bad people, and that repression is always avoidable. This principles should be a red flag that the victims of Communism were never victims of human rights violations. In fact, my father, who is a pastor of a curropted Protestant Christian church, boost that armed gangster boogymen rule Canada and that everyone should obey thugs and delinquents to gain favor from armed gangsters. He preached that even the police will not arrest armed gangsters and that the police will knowingly arrest innocent people under the commands of armed gangsters. The local Canadian community all side with the ableist people because of the political privilege of victim of Communism.
I think one of the things that disgusts me the most is that what you do is never enough. Not for the govt, not for any job you MIGHT get; you’re always expected to go above and beyond despite your own physical limitations in the economy we live in. But not too far.
Posted a comment on Instagram stating racist violence is not cool (bold claim, I know) and some shirtless dude pfp instantly threatened me lmao
Oh they’re all over Insta. I am on there to explicitly piss off the white nationalists and idiots. It’s great fun.
Number 1 reason why I deleted that trash app, that and all it does is rot your brain.
One of the most insane titles just dropped in Dutch news. One of the news outlets says this (translated): ‘Dubious plan of Israel: it seems that Palestinian presence in Gaza nears its end’
Palestinian. Presence. Nears. Its. End.
What the fuck
Death to fucking America.
Sooner rather than later
Gringo pope is an hilarious outcome at this point in time, anyone knows anything about him?
A maga pope could cause some serious fractures within the latin american catholic base.
Wikipedia said he defended pedophiles
thats prob true for every single catholic church fella
To the absolute shock of nobody
Cuban Telegrams are having mixed reactions for this pope. Looks like we will have to wait and see what could be discovered out of this new pope…
The ruling neolib party in Belgium, N-VA, is finally having a moment of infighting regarding Palestine. Some of em can’t look away anymore.
Don’t worry, their consciences will be soothed by the direct deposit notification hitting their account when a political donation goes through.
Belgian football cup final was yesterday with a notorious right wing club being one of the teams. Their hooligans went into one of the more infamous Brussels migrant areas and started beating people up.
A left wing protest of 20 people gets tracked with drones and stuff but this could happen, because why??? Some of those who burn crosses etc
Anyway last week was May Day and Vijay Prashad gave a nice speech at our rally. Afterwards I went to check the socdem speech and it was all ‘they are taking your pensions and your rights blah blah’ and I was like ‘who is they? You’re in the government man’
I don’t ever want to hear straight men talk about how others are insecure or whatever as they themselves constantly find themselves amazed by a dude that yells at them that ‘LIONS HUNT, YOU ARE A LION’ and then find themselves dipping their face and their nuts in an ice bath at 4 am. Real clown shit my dudes.
Ice bath at 4am is great for getting sober before work; that’s about it though.
Gathered all of my coworkers to discuss the making of a plan to undermine our management as our working conditions are horrendous. And we did come up with a proposal. If they won’t listen or the answer isn’t okay for us, we will take further action. And if that doesn’t work, we will deny them their authority and start working on our own agreed upon terms.
Gotta love a good worker uprising don’t we.
The union workers must know how to strike right
Wouldn’t be a leftist org without some infighting
Shoutout depression, that shit is kicking my fucking ass right now
I’m more of an anxiety enjoyer myself but it does suck when it kicks in seemingly out of nowhere
But we can make it through 💪🏼
I am sorry you’re experiencing anxiety, it’s quite draining. This isn’t my first rodeo, so I have reached out to the necessary friends/doctors before it goes south south. We gunna make it <333
Mine too, comrade 😞
same
While Hasan Piker isn’t perfect on Palestine, I feel like he gets too much unfair criticism from the left
His fans have completely lost me. It’s another Vaush cult. Nothing against you, just a lot I’ve met really, really are the epitome of “hear no evil, see no evil”
Exactly, all I"ve really do is make “content”, and not really push anybody more left.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
SCREAMS IN ANGUISH
you too oppo!
Have a good one! ❤️
The OG one of these
Anyone think there is a reason they’re reopening Alcatraz? Sure, drumpf saw it on TV or what not but I am now thinking of the reasons a offshore black-site near San Fran could offer.
Then again, there’s probably a couple of black-sites all over the country, so what’s the point of this big, shiny one outside of a huge city? Intimidation? My mind went to it being a convenient way to do mass deportations by shipping them down if they can’t get air-access or other concerns (cheaper/more could be deported by boat)…except only 300 something could be held there at a time.
What is the actual point of this? Is this genuinely an “idiot” moment?
Maybe it’s demoralization? Look at me, I’m reopening a huge prison near your liberal city and there’s nothing you can do about it.
