The Collapse

[pan]

OK, I'm an idiot - how do you upload video?

Watch this

[waldopaper]

Here some cutting-edge bullshit from the libertarians:  Agorism.  Aint even in my spell checker yet.  And while yer pickin data shit off yer shoes... here's my first ever phone in face "selfie:"  

Because we gotta go  thru the red before we get to the green.  Wish it were not so, but now we gotta come outta the closet as "far left," which includes old dudes like Utah Phillips and me.  And that includes "nationalizing" some big shit wit a quickness... like roads and electricity and other essential infrastructure 

Bernie Sanders gets the problems and priorities correct, and it's a refreshing change from the bullshit word salad dominating public discourse for the past 30 years.  And the silly-shit Schiff bot lolly of "free to do whatever i want except coerce anybody" should be shot behind the barn and buried.  

And if that makes you "far left," well smack my ass.  Far "left" of what?  Feudalism?  Diggers have been hearing St. George's  argument since 1649.  The real lib-tards are libertarians.  And what they call counter-economics is small change to Slipcraft (tm).  I'm voting for Bernie.  For entertainment purposes only.  

[pan]

Played some Woody Guthrie today in ballet class - the studes got really depressed but I was able to school them on some labor history and, hopefully, a few made the connection between the past to the present.

[Cal]

Woody Guthrie in a ballet class .... now that's something I'd pay to see -:)

Student riots here at the universities big time - so the youth issues are global, not just USA.  And my friend who's kid was in 3rd year engineering on a bursary is busy hearing that he didn't pitch up at any classes the whole year or hand in any projects & she has to repay the bursary money .... they went to see a doctor today to try & figure out what's gone wrong. 

So Bo - I don't think it's your parenting skills .....

[BO]

Pretty sure I'll never vote again. Would rather move to 'liberal' Canada.

Glad Sanders is bitching about economic tyranny, but he may be a rapid zionist. Chris hedges calls him an AIPAC wind-up doll. 

Bernie won't become the dem candidate anyway, so I guess it's all moot.

BTW...Waldo...how do you keep your skin looking so fresh? It's all pink and smooth.

[pan]

Ain't no one running who ain't an AIPAC wind-up doll.  Bernie is a little less so than the others.

[BO]

That's debatable.

[pan]

Well of course.  But we know what a militarist Clinton is and the Republicans are devoted chicken hawks. Sanders votes on military issues have been been fairly consistently towards caution if not outright pacifism.

I would much rather he wasn't a supporter of Israel but, on just about everything else I like his stance. 

[pan]

And...your vote really won't matter that much as you are in WA.  I will be voting in Florida so it might make a difference.  Didn't vote the last eight years. Will vote for Sanders.

[waldopaper]

Then carried away on the wings of morphine

Homeward far over the sea    -- Miner's Lullaby  

Got agoraphobia?  Acrophobia?  And you're a speed freak?  Take up flying!  You will be either killed or cured in no time at all!  What we are seeing now will be called the collapse of "capitalism" by historians (if there are any)... which is just as lame as the collapse of "communism."  Abstractions don't collapse... they grow dormant... or morph into something else.  

We all about to get some serious shock therapy for consumerism.  Many of us will be carrying our own miner's morphine tins... because we can't pass without family around... and linens and blankets so clean.  Even if we are not Roman in faith... we all will have secrets to keep.  Confession will not hear the cut is too deep.  

 

[pan]

And it was only in 1992 that Fukuyama triumphantly declared the victory of Capitalism over Communism as the End of History

[BO]

[Mouse]

didn't tell you did I that this one was one of the many thousands who voted Jeremy Corbyn in as chap in charge of Labour now. Tra la.