Water in soil = water in the pores of the soil

Groundwater = water below the water table

*Pay to be enslaved

The rise of the worker co-op is definitely something to watch! I'm currently exploring a worker co-op for a tech start up. Biggest problem? Funding. No investors want to touch a co-op.

The idea that a government can instruct the courts to ignore human rights legislation shows how fundamentally broken the liberal "democracy" system is.

This from the government that just made saying "I am intolerant towards the idea of liberal parliamentary democracy" an example of extremism but saying "foreigners don't deserve human rights" is not extremism.

Oh man wait until you see the UK elections.

Not...really. The racial hierarchy and the self-loathing are really Spain's doing via the Church.

Spain was in control for 400 years and had clear racial caste system. They brought a new religion and used it to justify an incredibly evil rule. Lain America had governors, the Philippines had Friars (read Touch Me Not or Noli Me Tángere).

Compared with America, which in control for around 50 years and about 10% of that was the Japanese invasion. They are seen as liberators and saviours because of how utterly horrific the Japanese were (wasn't just Korea with comfort women). In the early 20th century, a lot of the reforms in the Philippines by America were based around giving land to the farm workers and laying ground work for independence via the Insular government (so the cheap sugar supply could be blocked from entering the US market).

The big thing I will say from my experience there: the people are AMAZING. I didn't get ripped off, everyone was so friendly, got to play basketball with a group of kids and had a blast. And the nature is incredible.

It also had some of the most downtrodden areas I've ever seen, some of the biggest displays of wealth disparity, and after a few weeks on different islands, Manilla felt more like a theme park for the rich than any kind of city.

Overall, really recommend it, but try going off the beaten path!

We have to learn from Germany's mistakes: armed resistance is legitimate in the face of fascism.

I live in north Barcelona (don't want to say exactly where as I'm one of like...a dozen immigrants in the district) but last election got:

1. Spat at repeatedly
2. Had someone scream "Muerte de turistas" in my face (as well as others just shouting it as they went through the streets)
3. Had to console a poor British lass, no more than 18, after someone punched her in the face

Nearly all of the perpetrators were wearing bright green.

I use mine to freewrite. Just mental dump everything and anything that comes into my mind for three pages. It's cathartic and often comes up with nuggets of useful information I didn't know I was burying.

No, we are workers exploited by capitalists.

Unless you are not selling your labour and instead living on the profit derived from the workers, you are not a capitalist.

It's a very simple system laid out in Das Kapital and still taught in economics today (at least in the UK):

Aristocrats - people with wealth by virtue of controlling land

Capitalists - people who have wealth by virtue of having wealth (i.e. they can invest/speculate)

Worker (or Proletariat) - people who have to sell their labour to capitalists or aristocrats to survive

Lumpenproletariat - an underclass that has fallen out of society and resort to the black or grey market to survive

Yeah but Charles is suffering from a short reign penalty. He should really execute some prisoners; high dread means fewer factions.

Source: I play a lot of Crusader Kings