Taking the kiddo to the new library today. Gotta see if our suburban library has Marx/Lenin/Trotsky.

Unionize all the mental health social workers!

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?” C.S. Lewis

@CuriousGed
An omnipotent God can lay aside His immortality.

@CuriousGed
God is also the name given to the innocent Man nailed to a stick, who cries "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"

I say this not to minimize or provide pat answers. I too am a victim of assault and religious trauma. But it helps me to know that God also suffered, was abandoned, and died.

"What does the primitive accumulation of capital, i.e., its historical genesis, resolve itself into? ... the dissolution of private property based on the labour of its owner."

@MCWyss
It collapsed?

"To save the Russian commune, a Russian revolution is needed."

Double-fisting fizzy water, like a badass*. 🥫😎🥫

*like someone who forgot they opened the first one

Andrew Taint

This is so worth subscribing to, great updatea of labor activity each week #union #labor #1u
The week in US unions, January 8th-15th, 2023
https://open.substack.com/pub/whogetsthebird/p/weekly88?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"...America has given the Negro people a bad cheque which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we've come to cash this cheque - a cheque that will give us *upon demand* the riches of freedom and the security of justice."

I Have a Dream – Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr, August 28, 1963

My son tells me it is not possible to build a working class party in Minecraft. Writing an article now decrying his economism.

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

@levelbot
Was literally listening to Osborne Brothers as I read this

banjo levels are 90% and steady

(90%) ■■■■■■■■■□

@citizencyborg
"Incredibly progressive," a phrase which here means "slightly more than nothing, with massive giveaways to the private sector."

If your view of #masculinity is not based in daily self-denial for the good of your neighbor, it's not #Christian and it's likely worthless.

@WhiteSmokeBBQ
Have you considered community-centered, cooperatively owned housing instead of buying a suburban plot? 😉

Dang, wonder where they got that idea.

BBC: Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64204860