letranger

“It reminds us of John Dewey's claim that, "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."

In the US, the two-party political system has proven extremely effective in this regard. Aside from differences on social issues like abortion and gay marriage, as well as socioeconomic issues like unemployment insurance and public assistance, both parties ultimately embrace capitalist/corporatist interests in that they both serve as facilitators for the dominant classes: The Republican Party in its role as forerunner, pushing the limits of the capitalist model to the brink of fascism; and the Democratic Party in its role as governor, providing intermittent degrees of slack and pull against this inevitable move towards a "corporate-fascistic state of being." — “Calibrating the Capitalist State in the Neoliberal Era: Equilibrium, Superstructure, and the Pull Towards a Corporate-Fascistic Model” Colin Jenkins

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/calibrating-the-capitalist-state-in-the-neoliberal-era-equilibrium-superstructure-and-the-pull-towards-a-corporate-fascistic-model

from fuckcapitalism2020

from: https://somerandomchick.jouwweb.nl/the-covid-cartoons

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1: JUST WORRY THAT BEING SO SCARED IS BAD FOR you.

2: I'M NOT SCARED. i'm NOT scared I'm just not taking UNNECESSARY RISKS.

1: But COME ON. WhAT ARE ThE CHANCES. ANYWAY?

2:JusT FOR LORG coVID, IT'S ABOUT ONE IN FIVE.

1: I DON'T KNOW... THAT SOUNDS HiGH TO ME.

2: IT'S WELL DOCUMENTED NOW. you CAN LOOK IT up. GETS MORE LIKELY EVERY TIME you GET IT. TOO. AND IT DAMAGES EVERY ORGAN. HARMS BLOOD VESSELS AND you CAN'T EVEN FEEL THAT HAPPENING. SO NO THANKS. IT'S WAY MORE SCARY NOT WEARING A MASK.

1: WELL IT JUST SEEMS SILLY TO ME TO THINK ABOUT ALL THAT. I MEAN, WHAT ARE CHANCES?

editors note: didn't want to type text, machine copied letters inaccurately lower case or upper. got lazy

alt text: beginning of the chess game, however the pawns have now been swapped all to one side of the board - unified against those who have previously out classed them

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE REVOLUTION FROM FUCKCAPITALISM2020

image desc: woman holds whip as chaotic battle of a slave revolt occurs behind her

In an attempt to get Americans to see why Japan finds Barbenheimer offensive, Japanese twitter has taken to making 9/11 jokes - completely misunderstanding that Americans love 9/11 jokes.

from: https://nitter.net/NickFromTokyo/status/1686397390931230720

letters can be found here: https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/9371/soviet-time-capsules-comrades-1967-2017-russian-revolution-centenery

alt text: woman says "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!" a person off screen says "letters from soviet time capsules." the woman in the panel retches over, darkness and despair engulfs the backdrop as she comes to be reminded of the letters from past times imagining utopian socialist republics from the now dissolved Union of Socialist Council Republics [USSR].

credit to sarah andersen

"debt is a form of social control."

alt text: bunny says "question: what motivates people? is it a sense of purpose? a desire to improve yourself? a desire to improve the word? a woman smiles plainly, the next panel shows her to continue to smile under duress as she answers "fear. it's definitely fear." A knife is held at her throat by an individual who captioned as hunger, debt, evicition.

credit to sarah andersen for comic.

warning: dark humour