No shit

Stuff of nightmares

You know shit’s fucked when this guy is seen as some sort of contemporary Che Guevara. I agree with him on this stance though.

What a waste of oxygen

I’m concerned for the state of Rutte’s throat, too.

That thing you call attention span is actually absolutely intentional propaganda dosing.

We’ll find a way around it, as we always have.

Has for decades now

Good man

I was just trying to offer a quick explanation/summary of the concepts or the main distinguishing external features of each class, because I see a lot of confusion and wrong self-perception. I see a lot of people saying they’re “mid to upper class” because they can afford a nice home and two cars. Just looking at how much money they have, not how do they have it or whether they can maintain that without working. Obviously to understand class and social stratification you have to read more. I am aware that the upper class are there because of the work of the lower classes and the surplus etc. I’m not obscuring anything, just offering some definitions. Sorry if it didn’t come out that way.

So I learned it this way:

Upper Class - can live a luxurious life without working at all, and even have domestic employees etc.

Middle Class - can live comfortably but only if they work

Lower class - cannot live comfortably even if they work, and can very easily end up homeless (no social safety net)

The dude who taught me this was my Sociology of Work teacher over twenty years ago.

Love them. Wildhoney introduced me to the whole genre as a teen.

Eternity

No you’re not the only one, I high-key hate it

Which is heavily influenced by words (propaganda of any kind, media, etc). Moreso these days, where most people know nothing about how things work…

Well, the public knows about those issues because Maduro talks about them all the time. Why wouldn’t they vote for him if they know it?

I don’t think even 5% of Venezuela’s economic issues derive from Maduro’s government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain’t helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.

María Cochina Machado

THICC

She’s very right.