Dude was chill, growing and using cannabis in his 80s. A master gardener, he kept cacti alive for 40 years in Canada through nasty winters. He was kind, generous intelligent and thoughtful.
His son caught covid at his workplace, and passed it on to my FIL. FIL was hospitalized around December solstice due to complications of that covid, and other non lethal problems He passed on a couple of days ago.
He did not die, he was killed by capitalism.
Capitalism requires people to work or starve, so they have to be on the job spreading diseases when they should be at home fighting them.
Capitalism rewards the pharmaceutical companies that decided it was more profitable to treat Covid than to eliminate it, attenuate it rather than eradicate it.
The oligarchs that use capitalism to enrich themselves turned precautionary measures that would slow the spread of Covid into ammo for the culture wars that keep the working class fighting each other instead of slitting the throats of the oligarchs.
Yes, I am very angry.
If you press libs on the mass slaughter of the elderly and disabled required by our 'public health' response, some of the more depraved ones will think to remark on how this is actually improving the long-term viability of social security.
And yet it's unthinkable to simply budget some more funds into the Social Security stockpile.
What, and not give the military 780 billion dollars annually? Unfeasible.
What if we need to fight a war we aren't presently (actively) fighting?
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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amazing how so many people think they are on the side of capital just because they have a mortgage and a decent job, not realizing that they'll be chewed up and spat out just like everyone else. know your enemy
Waiting for the phrase "useless eaters" to make a comeback. Bet it re-emerges in Klanada