Israel itself is drenched in a culture of racist anti-Palestinian tropes, and denial of the ethnic cleansing called the Nakba.

The crimes of the Third Reich are invoked disingenuously to construct a counterfactual demonization of the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, Jews in the West are often antagonized in their communities and families if they challenge the prevailing dogma.

There is a soft but tragic irony, that many liberal Jews feel free to approach their religious heritage critically and skeptically, but any who question political doctrine are greeted as heretics.

I read a study arguing that each time someone utters the letters U, B, and I, currency devalues itself by one thousand fold, chunks of the sky rain down on metropolitan centers, and everyone instantly becomes fat, lazy, and uninterested in any activities except playing video games.

A strike can last much longer if workers are not worried about their bread and roof.

Even without organization, a secure worker can bargain harder for higher wages and better conditions.

I guess lying to employees about the law is just what families do.

I think when one small group holds power, the effects for everyone else are usually shitty.

The issue may be more related to power itself, rather than to those who hold it.

The youngest age cohort is currently the only with any broad class consciousness.

Older generations, the ones that endured the depression and fought the two wars on either side, were fiercely class conscious, entirely aware that the wealth of society that they were generating was being stolen by the greedy parasitic class of owners.

Ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, it was common, after finishing school, for someone enthusiastically to sell the entirety of one's being, body, mind, and all, to the corporate masters, imagining such enthusiasm as making oneself superior to peers, providing a guarantee to outpace all of them in the promotions and purchases that would mark the milestones of life.

The lies and mythology by now have become too obvious not to notice by anyone not already traumatized by the severest indoctrination and self delusion.

The system is unfair and unstable. Some workers trample other workers, only that we all may be trampled by our rulers, gratefully of course.

If he owns vehicles, then he is entitled to exploit people to drive them.

The system has conditioned him to find a way to rationalize that he is victim.

It will be interesting to watch their business model working without any workers working.

Laws protect business, not workers.

I suppose he must be very frugal with household expenses.

Full time work being thirty two hours each week would be a compromise.

The defining principle of the systems under which we live is work or die.

No conditions under such a system would be ideal, and any would be a compromise.

Considering all the years that have passed since the Haymarket massacre, and all that has been sacrificed, fighting for thirty two hours is hardly radical or outrageous.

The population seems complacent to accept that employers seek unlimited power, merely because no other channel is available for earning one's survival.

No way of relating to an abusive system is ever considered, except capitulation.

In fact, I feel alarmed at how readily many will imagine some grave threat from a hypothetical coworker who uses substances, without ever considering the threat of abandoning one's own privacy.