"freedom to work" is actually "freedom to starve yourself"

Somewhat unrelated, but window awnings are an often overlooked solution for your exact problem. They're not quite as quick and dirty as some reflectix or aluminum foil, though.

https://youtu.be/uhbDfi7Ee7k

How convenient that the biggest "human rights abuses" are coming from the geopolitical enemies of the western capitalist class.

Further, kind of hypocritical to make a meme that simultaneously champions leftism and "human rights" - a term that Marx decried as bourgeois, and really isn't used in class analysis. It's an idealistic way of viewing power and rights.

In order to understand Marx’s position within the history of the Rights of Man, one needs to understand On the Jewish Question in its entire logical connectivity: as a grand scheme within which the critique of the Rights of Man fits contextually. In this essay, Marx launched his first attack on “civil society” and its impact in fostering “egoistic life”; he avowed that “man […] leads a two-fold life, a heavenly and earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual.” Since the sphere of egoism, in all its “abstract” arbitrariness, separates man from his community, and since the State was the political child of civil society, Marx wrote, the only way to destroy both was to destroy the parent: civil society. It followed, then, that the Rights of Man, which demonstrated an ontological conflict yet still existed in a “spiritual” relation with the State, were consequently “nothing but the rights of a member of a civil society, i.e., the rights of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the community.”

Given that the Rights of Man were political rights, they were deeply ingrained within the illusory sovereignty of the State. And since the State was the child of civil society—the society which Marx wished the demise of—the Rights of Man would be automatically abolished along with them. It is made obvious here that the establishment of a political state devoid of concepts such as law, privileges, and rights should become the only way to achieve the final stage desirable for society: a stage described by a political program leading to the emancipation of mankind and resulting in a recognition of their species-being, all to the detriment of bourgeois ideology.

Allen Buchanan has taken this argument even further by claiming that the goal of Marx’s critique of ideology was to highlight the fact that “capitalist conceptions of justice, like other juridical conceptions, presuppose certain factual generalizations which are usually taken for granted.” These generalizations present themselves as an illusion of symmetry between the worker and the exploiter—the free competitive market—that the capitalist puts in place. The free competitive market was, according to Marx, supported and maintained by the Rights of Man that had been articulated in the French and American constitutions. These rights were not eternal truths about the nature of man. Making an example of the right to liberty, Marx saw such rights as the root cause of “the separation of man from man.”

https://www.jhiblog.org/2021/09/08/rethinking-civil-rights-with-marx/

This meme is not leftist. This meme is textbook liberalism.

Well, yeah. Real Marxism would be cringe to a liberal.

that's cringe

I didn't even read it

Ight.

and in a situation where things can go wrong

This is a really good point. Never thought of that. There's really no limit to how adaptable a tampon can be in an environment where a leak can be catastrophic.

3 words, 8 letters. Say them, and I'm yours 💓

I can lift 🤠

Couldn't think of a more lemmy thread topic than one involving both Russian geopolitics and linux.

dies

They are really laying it on thick with the passive voice.

Good meme, but we really ought to end small-penis hatred.

Some estimates say there are as many as 12 vacant homes per homeless person this country in the United States.

Edit: millionaire in OP is from Canada

This journalist just gave us a masterclass in everything you shouldn't do when interacting with nazis: appeals to logic, appeals to emotion, bringing up facts and logic, and ultimately platforming them. This is the kind of liberalism that promotes fascism. There is no excuse to give fascists time on TV and to platform them. There is no "debating" fascists. There is only violence.

you can learn how to swing a hammer in about thirty seconds

You cant downplay hammer skills, though. There is almost no skill ceiling with hammers. Put any blacksmith up against an amateur, and you'll quickly see the difference between 30 seconds of training and 30 years.

End small-dick hatred. Body shaming isn't okay no matter what.

For every lifted coal roller, there is a small-dicked, eco conscious bicyclist.

should start preparing now

The time to prepare was when the Democrats were in power. It's now too late. MAGA in 2019 could not have telegraphed their moves harder. The plan was always to massively bolster ICE and commence rapid, racist deportations and death camps. And not only did Biden and democrats fail to prepare for this (dismantling ICE, jailing MAGA, chickenshit prodecutor Garland, etc...), but they carried out the biggest federal law enforcement blunders in US history.

On top of this, Biden expanded ICE during his time in office, and literally built the camps that Tump is now utilizing.

It's just downright pitiful to see a headline saying that "now is the time to act", as if the people we're begging to act didnt just spend the last 4 years collaborating with fascists.

Using a 12 year old cell phone processor to run data harvesting. Any processing power left over for transcoding and display of video is a bonus.

The last time the US formally declared war was WWII. Presidents, both blue and red, have been taking advantage of the incredibly weak War Powers Act for decades now.

I wish someone could quantify how much energy goes into this.

What value do George and u/parking_war add here?

Sorry for being snippy. I do appreciate the post, it's just funny to me how lately, a lot of memes are three levels of quotes deep.

The idea that aliens built the pyramids is racist.