puff [comrade/them]

I got used to living minimally when I was a student and while I’m more financially secure now, I actually enjoy not owning a lot of junk/treats/knickknacks. Obviously that doesn’t mean it’s fine for people to be poor; the difference is I’m not on the verge of homelessness and under-purchasing out of fear, I’m more economically stable and living more minimally by choice without that fear. Connecting more with nature is a big part of it.

The US military budget is $842 billion. The 2008 bailouts cost $700 billion. Corporate profits in the US are $2.7 TRILLION per year. You’re talking chump change. Do better.

OP be like: “Yes, I’m a socialist. No, I’ve never read Marx nor Engels, I get my ideas from CNN. Why do you ask?”

Pretty telling that the new line being fed to NATO worshippers is ‘don’t say anything critical about our objective failures’. This is, ironically, the same message Goebbels pushed when failures began to mount on the eastern front after Stalingrad and then Kursk. As the Soviet steamroller continued to Berlin, the line in the media was ‘it is unpatriotic to say we are losing’. And then they lost.