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Coronavirus Hoarding?

Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 03/15/2020 - 12:33pm


Some local evidence:

Mr. wd called me from Cortez, CO at the beginning of his grocery-shopping misadventure early on Saturday morning.  To put it mildly, he was agog, agape, and aghast during his first stop at Walmart.  What he found were empty shelves where OTC pain relievers, etc., toilet paper, kleenex, paper towels, and likely paper napkins (he hadn’t checked), should have been.  Most canned foods were also absent, and the wage slaves he’s friendly with reported that the meat aisle was likewise…empty.  They were all horrified at the mammoth cartloads of shelf-stable foods being tugged about.  Meat?  Unless the shoppers had large freezers…well, not so stable.

From fascism to exterminism

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 03/15/2020 - 7:50am

Around the time of the 2016 election it became popular to revive the word "fascism." Trump was a fascist, we were told. No, I argued, Trump isn't a fascist. A fascist would disdain democracy; Trump is bad, but he's not quite there yet, and besides, "fascism" is a word belonging to an earlier period of history, a period of expanding capitalism. Our period is one of declining capitalism.

Karl Marx revisited: or, the cynical class structure

Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 9:14pm

Many of you are familiar with the idea of social class. There is, of course, the idea of social class as portrayed in popular culture. Social class has been around since time immemorial -- the Romans, for instance, had a class system, and the current incarnation of the Wikipedia page on this topic renders it well.

Pelosi is proud of the bill providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the pandemic

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 6:14pm

There is one giant catch to it however. The legislation passed by the House doesn’t actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers.

There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill

NSA Robert O'Brien spreads propaganda about COVID-19

Submitted by CB on Sat, 03/14/2020 - 2:36pm

to cover up Trump's slow and ineffective response to the viral outbreak. This is one of the most egregious examples of using blatant lies and propaganda to denigrate another nation.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENxG80iLdpE&t=19m30s]
Some of O'Brien's outright lies and deceptions:

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