italy and sweden. two countries, worlds apart. radically different climates, cultures, and histories. having nearly nothing in common. except, of course, for the unassuming meatball.
THREAD 🧵: Dalai Lama is a demon
Tibet was a brutal and corrupt theocracy where 95% of the population were slaves or serfs. The 5% elite were monks, landlords and aristocrats.
Their law said a monk or landlord was worth his weight in gold, whilst a woman, craftsman or peasant was worth their weight in straw.
Chopping off legs and arms was a common punishment for slaves. A common punishment for women was forcing them to carry a heavy wooden board around their neck for weeks on end. Slaves would also be constantly chained up, whether they were working in fields or locked up in rooms
Nearly 30 pages of FBI documents obtained by UR reveal a pattern of monitoring of Pilsen Community Books, a worker-owned & collectively managed Chicago bookstore.
FBI Bookstore Spying in Chicago Eyes Abortion Rights, Cop City, Anti-Development Activists: https://t.co/rVHTi7B9U8
Make your gay characters complex. Problematic. Nasty fuckers who do bad things. Unapologetic. Evil. Manipulative. Unlikeable. Three dimensional. Villainous. Not just the ‘cute’ teens holding hands.
So funny. Going to have to retroactively place becoming the name of a latte on my bucket list. If it’s nasty please just lie to me and tell me it’s delicious.
STALIN (1931): "The kind of socialism under which everybody would get the same pay, an equal quantity of meat and an equal quantity of bread, would wear the same clothes and receive the same goods in the same quantities — such a socialism is unknown to Marxism.
All that Marxism says is that until classes have been finally abolished and until labor has been transformed from a means of subsistence into the prime want of man, into voluntary labor for society, people will be paid for their labor according to the work performed. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.' Such is the Marxist formula of socialism..."
bethany mandel is a great because she doesn’t look like the evil, divine-right-of-lords rat she is; a lot of the time the most egregious plutarchs look weird, but she passes as a random white woman any day of the week
.@Brandon4Chicago knows the struggles of working families and the need to stand up for strong unions, make the rich pay their fair share, to invest in affordable housing, quality health care, better schools, and good jobs. That's why I'm proud to endorse him for mayor of Chicago.