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War On Christmas Going Very Badly

When on Thursday Marine General Robert Neller told his serial killers assembled to prepare for a “big-ass fight,” as “there’s a war coming,” most of the Americans assumed he was referring to North Korea, or some Mideast country where the mud people have oil, or “AIDS huts” in Haiti or Nigeria, or maybe even California, a Hairball-Free Zone where the legislature is infested with Mexicans and homos, who recurrently demand The Hairball “publicly apologize to all Americans for his racist and bigoted behavior,” even as the governor gets a hand-cramp signing pardons for Cambodian criminals so The Hairball can’t deport them.

But no. In truth, Neller was referring to the coming War On Christmas.

Because The Hairball, he is determined to take out Santa Claus.

The elites were sitting around a table, and...

one of them came up with this ingenious plan.

"We'll appropriate this holiday, you see, and while no capitalism (well, almost no capitalism) can take place on the day of the holiday itself, we'll have lots of capitalism for the rest of the month by coercing people to buy presents for each other! It'll boost sales like crazy, and make up for the one day we're not selling anything!"

Random Holiday Video Clip Thread

Happy holidays, and all that. OPEN VIDEO CLIP THREAD. Under 10 minutes, please.

Didn't know where to put this, so I decided to make a thread where we can put short clips Penny, the neighbor, & Leonard are dating. Leonard's mom flew to visit & Sheldon is Leonard's roommate. 3 of the 4 hold Phds.)

[video:https://youtu.be/oFiQEWGAp5k]

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: what, class warfare?

Class is ever the issue, and under neoliberalism, class struggle is a necessary construct to understand how neoliberalism is a ruling class political project that curbs the power of labor.

One instrument with which we are now quite familiar in the US #GOPTaxScam, is the use of legislative lawfare by a ruling class to instrumentalize the redistribution of wealth. But Class Lawfare cuts many ways on “many sides”, unlike class warfare.

Mnuchin[1] Polite society seemed not to give a damn that it had become easier to get into Harvard or Cambridge if you were black than if you were poor. They deliberately ignored that identity politics can be as divisive as apartheid if allowed to act as a lever for overlooking class conflict. (Dec 8, 2017 YANIS VAROUFAKIS) ...
(OTOH, would it be satisfying or counter-revolutionary to photoshop them "hung upside down from a metal girder above a service station on the square.")

Letter to Kamala for protection of immigrants and my expression of gratitude

The above-named Senator and Hampton beauty queen pageant contestant, Kamala Harris sent me an email urging support for immigrants. Noble that she supports the oppressed.

I couldn't resist the desire to reciprocate for her desire to relieve burdens of immigrants (which actually is a good cause) which is so at odds with her neoliberal right of center politics. I sent her the following comment:

Marley was dead.

Marley was dead: to begin with.  There is no doubt whatever about that.  The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.  Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.  Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Mind!  I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.  I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.  But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.  You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

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