Ya know, this defames shit, which happens to be quite useful in many places as "night soil" fertilizing crops, or "Dillo Dirt" in Austin, Texas, where you can buy it by the bagful for your yard and garden. Trump on the other hand is not only useless but an obstacle to everything that is.

"weirdo"? Perhaps, but certainly a rabid Christian Nationalist wanting to impose his or her version of religion on everyone else. You'd have thought that went out with the Great Schism & the Reformation, but, sadly, fanatics are still plaguing us - & currently allied with fascists!

Such crap! Every new, ginned up capitalist gadget is hyped by those who want you to spend money, make more profits for them, while forgetting how the system screws you, e.g., by subordinating life to work & the need to prepare for it, "commute" to it, & recuperate from it.

Well, Susan, I don't know about "obedience to God", but resistance to tyranny is certainly mandated by any moral or ethical concern with the well-being of humans, other animals & the planet. "The System", by the way, is capitalism & tyranny is built in, with or without a dictator.

"This" Christmas? It's true EVERY Christmas, that was the point of Dickens's story. Scrooge may have only been a small-time owner, with few employees, but his exploitation of them & unconcern with their well-being has carried over into EVERY modern form of capitalism - & no ghosts will change 'em!

Imprisoning, torturing, slaughtering animals and then selling their flesh serves two purposes: 1) profit for the capitalists responsible for most of it, & 2) by isolating the animals, most people never meet one, discover its sentience and sapience, & think of them only as food.

Be annoyed! Odds have it the glitches are built in - to encourage you to buy a new version - which will also be built with some fault, necessitating it near-term replacement. It's called "planned obsolescence" and capitalists use it to increase sales & profit while fucking over consumers.

THEY don't just want a national abortion ban, they want a return to unbridled patriarchy with women reduced to broodmares & handmaidens - and, if & when needed in waged jobs, like farm labor, at the lowest level of pay, i.e., a return to 19th Century conditions for women.

Once again, Apple will demonstrate that there IS a sucker born every minute! - whether P. T. Barnum actually said that or not. 😊 The computer industry has carried "planned obsolescence" to a new level of absurdity & has the political power to prevent any regulation to stop it.

Ya gotta assume that by "created", the author means the actual implementation of neoliberal policies. Neoliberalism = a set of market-worshipping theories + derivative policies + their implementation in the world + the obfuscating ideology that makes them all out to be in everyone's interest.

Unfortunately, most voters ARE "educated", but the problem is that the content of their "education" prepared them to be easily manipulated. Schools are edu-factories turning out workers who will accept being exploited, NOT prepared for critical participation in civic life. Result? Look around...

Take it as emblematic, prototypical, shades-of-things-to-come. Fascists "mute" all voices that differ from their own. Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993), D. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, 1982.

A painting of Wounded Knee massacres would have been more appropriate for the little fascist.

As they say, "Better late, than never!" Despite Simon de Beauvoir & others, French women were late in getting real legal rights, including contraception & abortion. Now, they're gonna have to defend 'em against French fascists, a la Trumpists.

It took years of militant pressure for union managers to recognize & support immigrant rights. Good to see some are standing up to the current repression of immigrant workers. They better, because they're next, alongside Trump's political enemies! Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993)

Sure you could! You think Dickens's audience was any different? Britain was as full of Mammon-loving faux Christians as the USA is today. They just stopped reading when things turned against Scrooge, as they do today when the news undercuts Trump.

All true! Worth watching if you can stomach it. It's also worth remembering that factory farms have not been the only death camps in capitalism. From the Nazis to Palestine, capitalists have long been willing to corral humans, torture them & kill them - as long as it is judged profitable to do so.

Say it loudly & clearly: ICE = Trump's Gestapo. This is fascism in action, just like in Nazis Germany shortly after the Nazis takeover of the country. After immigrants, they're coming for political opponents, then trade unionists! Read up: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993).

"We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few."? Only by taking our society back from the capitalists who run it and organize wealth & poverty to maintain control. Income & wealth hierarchies have been SOP for capitalism since its beginning.

"surrendered"? Yes. But to whom? Be specific: mostly to the paid shills of the gun & hunting industries, but also to the proto-fascists arming militia Brown Shirts to terrorize communities alongside ICE & other Trump Gestapo. 😡

More of this nationwide please!

Yeah, it was a pretty good movie, even if it did star Charleston Heston. With RFK Jr. heading health services, Soylent Green may soon be on the menu.

"the interlocking mode of class, race, and gender relations"? Not complicated in capitalism: racism & patriarchy were common when capitalists took power. They proceeded to instrumentalize both to help control their new commodity-producing working class by pitting some against others.

Always true! la.utexas.edu/users/hcleav...

Say it clearly: Trump is a fascist and ICE is his Gestapo! Don't look for legal remedies, organize collective resistance.

Yep, Social Darwinism & eugenics usually go hand in hand - on the bloody road to genocide. Read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_... - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eu...

A friendly approach to co-existence with bears would make sure such crawl spaces are suitable and comfy for bears' hibernation. Or for giving birth & taking care of cubs for that matter. Nice soothing music for a nice restorative hibernation, eh? Make houses part of bear habitat.

As individuals, capitalists who are managers may well contribute to production. As the USSR made clear, the problem is not ownership, but what's done with the CONTROL of the means of production. Capitalists use it to subordinate most of everyone's life to alienating work not to produce what we need.

It ain't "we", it ain't "our" culture; it's the fascists among us and racist, misogynic, Christian Nationalist culture. Don't ignore all those who support trans!

#Indonesia: More heavy rain on the way — which is great news, unless you live in one of the charmingly deforested parts of Indonesia where the few remaining trees are basically just decorative sticks. #deforestation #palmoil

The irony is that big corporations depend on small businesses to innovate and take risks - and then buy them out or take them over when they succeed. So, even from a capitalist point of view, pursuing policies that harm small business is just stupid.

Better: abandon the ACA and take our health care out of the hands of profit-maximizing private pharma-hospital-medical-industrial complex and create universal free health care as a right.

Yeah, while the anti-science administration guts research funds and puts incompetent idiots in charge of the institutions charged with facilitating research on what needs to be done. Talk about THAT Forbes, who calls itself "the capitalist tool".

He "got permission" by lying his ass off about 9/11, non-existent weapons of mass destruction and other convenient illusions. At least this administration is making its fascism clear instead of hiding it behind "compassionate conservatism" & other hogwash.

And history shows that when "young people think they can’t succeed", they are more likely to turn to conmen pretending to be strong men who will save them! With our piss poor educational system, they are ill-equipped to perceive & resist the con & wind up incels or fascists.

Hey! A lot of us grandpa's have a shitload more energy than that overstuffed racist who expends his limite energy hating anyone who gets in the way of his profiting from the Presidency. Careful who you insult!

Every bit as valid as the demand by descendants of slaves in the United States for teaching the real history of slavery and for reparations to its victims.

He's following the Nazis playbook! If you have any doubt, catch up by reading: Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich (1993) and D. Peukert, Inside Nazis Germany: Conformity, Opposition, and Racism in Everyday Life, 1982.

Let's be clear: they were fighting against being cast aside & into poverty by another capitalist reorganization of its labor force. It's not "work" they wanted, but steady income & better income than the dole, which is always designed merely to keep them alive until they are needed again.

Sadly, this cartoon could be about any day of any week in which the woman of the house feels (or is) compelled to do all this housework, for no pay, and little or no gratitude by those who benefit from it. It ain't just Thanksgiving, or Xmas or any other holiday; it's normal, everyday quasi-slavery.

LOL. Better: don't shop at all! Want to give a gift? Make it. Anything you make embodies YOU better than anything you can buy - that only embodies the sweat & blood of the poor suckers condemned to produce it for some capitalist.

Far worse than the simple-minded "conspiracy nuts" is the medical-pharma-industrial complex that by monopolizing health care for profit puts it far out of reach of all too many. Universal health care, freed from the parasites, is what we need.

True! But NEVER expect anything else from this Nazis. We've rarely seen anyone with as clearly a Gestapo mindset as this creepy Trump handler. Racist to the core as well as xenophobic and authoritarian, he's been pushing narcissistic Trump headlong into fascism. Easy with Trump's mafia habits.

The main reason anyone, anywhere "needs" more energy production is because CAPITALISTS hog it, to keep people working producing useless crap, to power their advertising & selling the same crap. End capitalism, the work it imposes, & the crap we've forced to produce = less energy needed.

Now if this was the Canadian National Weather Service, they'd have added how you need to keep your block-heater plugged in at night, at home, at work & at stores so your engine oil doesn't freeze solid in -30 degree weather. 3yrs in Quebec made THAT essential precaution quite clear to me. 🥶

It is, unfortunately, a universal problem. Those who take to the streets & engage in other forms of struggle rarely have the time & energy to record their actions for the historical record. Few too are those who try to write it up. Make's it tough for those who later want to learn from it.

These "mega-corporations" are just like all capitalist corporations. They are all devoted to imposing as much work as possible and extracting as much profit as possible to be invested in expanding work & exploitation. Capitalists are NEVER "on workers' side".

Maybe not in the UK, but in lots of other paces, including the US agriculture & trade policies have been intentionally manipulated to raise food prices & undermine real wages, in the early 1970s that led to boycotts & today by Trump. Often in the global south to transfer income to capitalists.

Moreover, in our essentially unregulated capitalist system, in which industries are allowed to poison air, water and land, NO person can avoid illness thru healthy practices of living, not in this toxic wasteland they create.

It is not "big money" that must be gotten out of our politics, it is CAPITALIST MONEY, that's the "big money" that buys politicians & laws that favor exploitation, profit & the ravaging of the earth. Better: outlaw all modes of corruption. Best: end capitalism & create a democratic system of govt.