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  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    The image is clipped from a deranged papist anticommunist tract from the height of the cold war

    EDIT: Specifically, this deranged papist anticommunist tract from 1961.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Lol, a working class family is forced to work to not lose their home, oh that communism!

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      https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/cdc-eviction-ban-housing-crisis/619960/

      In October 2008, responding to a dramatic increase in such evictions since 2006, Tom Dart, the elected Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, decided to take a stand on the issue. He criticized mortgage companies for failing to fulfill their obligation to identify renters in foreclosed properties, and announced that he was suspending all foreclosure evictions immediately. The Illinois Banker's Association accused Dart of engaging in "vigilantism".[32]

        • JuneFall [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Well spotted. The economic dependence of the patriarchal family is well shown.

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        It got a trove of fun quips that hit capitalism more than communism. It is all projection.

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        Of course most parents in capitalism working have trouble seeing their kids, too. With the added benefit of not having enough money for them to go to school properly. However the comic panel is even more fitting for UK boarding schools:

        Most (UK) schools that offer boarding have three distinct models: Full boarding (kids are at the boarding school i.e. Eton the whole year, except for potentially the holidays), Weekly boarding (kids can be at home over the weekend), Flexi-boarding (kids can be at home up to 7 times a week, but for plays and rehearsals and during exam period they stay in school)

        https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/upshot/single-mothers-surge-employment.html

        https://nwlc.org/4-3-million-women-work-multiple-jobs-to-make-ends-meet/

        • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Among the bourgeois in some places, kids go to boarding schools and only come home to see their family on the weekends. When I worked at a Taiwanese cram school, I knew a lot high school kids like this.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          One of my grandmas was sent into foster care for a considerable length of time because her mother just couldn't cope with the child raising and apparently you could just do that in the 40s?

      • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        He criticized mortgage companies for failing to fulfill their obligation to identify renters

        woke renter idpol is a distraction! /s

      • janny [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        only good cop I've ever heard of (or one close to doing good).

        so like, did he "commit suicide" or get fired?