GhostOnTheHalfShell28 min
If anyone in the Democratic leadership needed a reality check that attacking Hassan Piker was a great idea the opening one minute of this video is everything they need. Leadership are going out to attack young voters.
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Superstars of the ApocalypseWe've known this for a long time, tho.
This is one of my earlier toots from a now-defunct Mastodon account:
We live in a time that has 1789 vibes to it or revolutionary colonial America.
The American Revolution was a mistake. We replaced one set of rulers with even worse ones and then called it "freedom."
Our Constitution is the worst blueprint for a government ever put to paper: written SPECIFICALLY to keep rich white racist and sexist males in power to the exclusion of everyone else.
250 years later, it is still doing that
I don’t think the sentiment to escape the predatory extraction of King Charles and his East India company was a mistake at all.
But mixed up in it like all revolutions, I need to stress this, are the wealthy who resent hierarchy because they aren’t the ones in control. This is always a dynamic in any revolution.
The constitution is a shit show. Washington noted that the checks and balances were useless against political parties. They knew it wasn’t good enough.
According to historian Thaddeus Russell, everything we know about American history is wrong.
It's much like the Zinn book, only Thaddeus proposes a different kind of working class hero who shaped America: renegades. Hookers, gangsters, musicians, drag queens, drunkards.
He argues that workers created for themselves a three-day weekend simply by being lazy and reveres them for it.
And that people were having more FUN before John Adams and his ilk took over
In introductory courses to anthropology, the instructors will educate the student population to some of the truth of Hunter gatherer lifestyle.
They worked on average 15 hours a week. Some of that effort could be incredibly demanding. But that’s the amount of time they had to dedicate to filling their bellies and putting a shelter over their heads.
Every study done on a 4 day week has demonstrated higher productivity. Pay for 40 hours, with 32 worked is more profitable
Oh I know.
The other day at the dog park I just had to stop talking and walk away because trying to convince some people that life *actually doesn't* have to suck is a fool's errand.
That people believe if you do not work then you do not deserve to eat or have a roof over your head - to live, basically, is *evil.* There's no other word for it.
Because freed from the bondage of rent and wage slavery, I believe people would be MORE productive, only in ways that MATTER