Memes

Context:

This Seattle Times writer, a new guy, wrote an article about the Lenin statue and how Lenin was actually worse than Hitler. This didn’t sit well with seemingly most people so I guess he was fired.

Here’s an article about the situation.

Growing wealth inequality is not an accident, it is a logical consequence of capitalism. If profits (surplus value created by labor) is given to shareholders (capitalists), and the rich run the government and the media — what else can you expect?

alt text: 1940's vintage american ad style with a woman with a smile, piercing blue eyes, and red polished nails w/ matching lipstick holds a soup can. on the soup can, the text reads "capitalism condenses wealth distribution."

from: https://www.instagram.com/fuckcapitalism2020/

alt text: woman asks man "a penny for your thoughts?" man says "sure." a penny is put in his palm. the man's eyes goes white, the backdrop darkens, his facial features display traits ominous features. the man says "Poverty is not caused by men and women getting married; it's not caused by machinery; it's not caused by "over-production"; it's not caused by drink or laziness; and it's not caused by "over-population".

It's caused by Private Monopoly. That is the present system. They have monopolized everything that it is possible to monopolize; they have got the whole earth, the minerals in the earth and the streams that water the earth. The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is not possible to do it. If it were possible to construct huge gasometers and to draw together and compress within them the whole of the atmosphere, it would have been done long ago, and we should have been compelled to work for them in order to get money to buy air to breathe.

And if that seemingly impossible thing were accomplished tomorrow, you would see thousands of people dying for want of air - or of the money to buy it - even as now thousands are dying for want of the other necessities of life. You would see people going about gasping for breath, and telling each other that the likes of them could not expect to have air to breathe unless the had the money to pay for it. Most of you here, for instance, would think and say so. Even as you think at present that it's right for so few people to own the Earth, the Minerals and the Water, which are all just as necessary as is the air. In exactly the same spirit as you now say: "It's Their Land," "It's Their Water," "It's Their Coal," "It's Their Iron," so you would say "It's Their Air," "These are their gasometers, and what right have the likes of us to expect them to allow us to breathe for nothing?"

And even while he is doing this the air monopolist will be preaching sermons on the Brotherhood of Man; he will be dispensing advice on "Christian Duty" in the Sunday magazines; he will give utterance to numerous more or less moral maxims for the guidance of the young. And meantime, all around, people will be dying for want of some of the air that he will have bottled up in his gasometers. And when you are all dragging out a miserable existence, gasping for breath or dying for want of air, if one of your number suggests smashing a hole in the side of one of th gasometers, you will all fall upon him in the name of law and order, and after doing your best to tear him limb from limb, you'll drag him, covered with blood, in triumph to the nearest Police Station and deliver him up to "justice" in the hope of being given a few half-pounds of air for your trouble."

The woman takes the penny out of the the man's palm, the back drop lightens, the man's facial features return to normal.

memer's note: this text is an excerpt from Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,

alt text: girlfriend sitting on couch asks boyfriend: honey, can you go see if the baby is sleeping?

*boyfriend opens door to the baby's bedroom.

baby is standing in cradle, donning a diaper and bowtie, holding the railing of the cradle in one hand and a clench fist in the air with the other. the baby says "there will be a revolution in america within my lifetime.

the boyfriend looks back from the baby's bedroom to the girlfriend and says "naw babe she's woke af."

Alt text: Black Panter Fed: yo dinner's ready Fred Hampton: cool, hey bro you dropped these pills - what are they anyway? Black Panter Fed:

image description: animation from child show with bright colour scheme. mickey mouse says with a smile, "it's a surprise tool that will help us later", he obscures his mouth with his hand (open palm to the left side of this cheek) to reduce his words from being heard from the unintended audience or to prevent lip reading .

alt text: 1960's nasa scientest after he shouted heil hitler as a joke but half the room stood to attention.

image description: spongebob squarepants sitting calmly at a desk with a computer smiling, overlaid with a translucent image of spongebob visibly distressed wide eyes and screaming.

inspired from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iLnZ4HCrfo

https://youtu.be/unKNNiYQFp4

everybody has bias, even historians. its in the words they use, how often they mention something (or how little), the pictures/video (lighting, filters, etc).

marxism is a form of critical thinking.

Human beings are the only animal stupid enough to invent concepts like "rent".

from: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/446