I guess a worker under capitalism, all work is “survival work”.

https://youtu.be/Z-husjZkxHw

It’s really interesting to read another society’s propaganda, and clarifies how much we are affected by western propaganda we’ve been subjected to our whole lives.

And if you don’t create a pretext, they’ll shoot you anyway

Maybe it’s you and me - we are supposed to check then balance

Somebody doesn’t know how to work the auto pen

I want that in the US!

How about taxing owners of unoccupied homes?

Could someone explain how the color is done in a woodblock print like this?

Couldn’t be!

Black people finally got control of South Africa.

They didn’t slaughter all the apartheid whites, which seemed very gracious at the time, but that’s why we still have to deal with Elon Musk now.

In the Vietnam war, fragging the officers had a big impact.

I think he misunderstands where he fit into this scenario.

Putin will probably take the US crime in Venezuela as permission to escalate and kill Zelensky, regardless of how many Ukrainian people are also murdered in the process.

I suspect China also feels a sense of freedom to go get Taiwan.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He’s going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don’t know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

But he wanted that prize for himself and he’ll never let that resentment go.

I love running Libby on my Boox

Just reading a history of Capitalism by Sven Beckert, and it turns out the first stage of capitalism… also war.

Is Anna’s Archive something people pay for?

I saw he had a later book, “Critique of Patriarchal Reason” that sounds kind of interesting. Have you read that one?

This was empowering. Thank you.