You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife WORKS too…

Is it surprising that a liberal has no understanding of class? This is the dumbest American shit, getting mad at someone paid a decent wage or salary for their work and then lumping them in with billionaire capitalists getting paid in surplus labor value. It’s like them getting all worked up because Bernie Sanders has a weekend cabin, him and a bunch of 1950s auto workers all over Michigan.

How did he make that much of a mess from a bloody nose and who raises people to be like this?

Russian Mandarin Yiddish Gaelic Pashtun

Efit: Swap pashtun for farsi

“full-scale invasion”

I find it helpful to point out that the intentions of the west regarding Russia aren’t a matter of conjecture. In living memory of many of this site’s users, virtually the entirety of the US and western European political class absolutely pillaged the former USSR as soon as they had the opportunity. They were so rapacious that life expectancy collapsed in what were otherwise modern, industrial societies. The only thing Putin did that isn’t completely normal throughout the west is cut them off.

The west had access to highly educated Russian workers and Russian material wealth for a brief moment, and they desperately want Putin out of the way so they can have it back. If they didn’t want Russia to be ruled by ruthless capitalists (but one of their own) they wouldn’t have compromised the lives of their own citizens to wage the Cold War against the USSR. Again, this isn’t conjecture, this is what they did, and it’s an ongoing project that explains everything you see happening around you.

Edit: Of course, it generally goes in one ear and out the other, even with boomers that watched the entirety of the Cold War on the daily evening news.

It was a joke. Can’t anybody do a roman salute as a joke?

Yes

You dislike Columbus because he’s Italian, right?

I also dislike folk punk.

My own mom opposed the Obama nuclear deal with Iran because of Iranian support for ISIS. You might say wtf are you talking about? Well, for boomers Iran isn’t much different than Russia. It’s very scary, definitely has a hand in every bad thing that has ever happened, and has motivations that defy understanding (so don’t even bother, in fact, that would be really offensive to even attempt).

Damn. I didn’t think of that.

A normal part of American politics is always forgetting that someone has to actually do the work…and you have to pay them. They think people having jobs is rich people just doing us a favor.

I’m reading ch 10 of Capital and it has extensive references to reports written by English factory inspectors. It’s not encouraging to see what kind of deprivation the capitalists know you can survive for long enough to provide them a profit.

Also, she’s talking about 34 million people. That’s 10 percent of the population she wants to displace out of spite and to distract the working class from the rich people pillaging their communities. Are these 34 million all adults even? Is this a number with any basis in reality? How many people are on medicaid anyways? It’s a bad look for capitalism that this many people rely on this last resort option to access healthcare.

Some people will say this isn’t real, but the video proves it.

Rich people imagine AI will allow them to finally fulfill their dream of accumulating value without having to pay a worker. It doesn’t actually work that way, but like all capitalists they’re dumb idealists.

I’ve seen some shit you couldn’t imagine

First of all, this shit isn’t unconstitutional. That’s up to the Supreme court and they seem fine with it. Second, we have the premiere bourgeois constitution. That thing isn’t doing shit for me. The bill of rights we’re all supposed to love is just a list of things the state can’t do on your behalf.

I thought it was a tool to remind you that you live in constant danger, so you consent to neverending war in the middle east.

I just raw dogged an entire shift at work!

Commodities generally sell at their value, which is the sum of the value of all the input commodities (which I’m pretty sure Marx calls raw materials) and the final input of labor power needed to make those raw materials into a new product. Demand adjusts according to the price (people may want something, but not at the price offered). What’s important is that the seller makes a profit selling the commodity at its value, not by doing a markup of any sort. This is because the wage paid to the worker is less than the value they create. The worker is not compensated for all of the value they create. This is where profit comes from.

Read Value, Price, and Profit for a synopsis of some ideas provided in Capital.