yeah we’d love to pass this single payer thing but the parliamentarian is just going nuts with a pair of metal nun chucks in there

mods! mods! this poster is vaguely suspicious, arrest them at once!

The worst part is that adopting a tiny modicum of “progressive” politics would actually make them (the country as a whole, but also the bourgeoisie) more money in the end, just based on the fact that you can’t run a capitalist society in any meaningful sense if your working class can’t afford to live (and thus make surplus value available to the owner-class). More public transport would make it hella easier for a business to recruit a workforce from places with lower rents and further commutes, more money in the pocket for consumers means more consumption, etc. etc. There was that survey a few years back that showed that if wealth were to be redistributed fairly, the average American would be almost twice as rich.

The problem is really that certain segments of capitalist society would not be so overwhelmingly powerful, and easing up on military adventures would mean a resurgence of workers rights in many parts of the world… It’s not enough to be the richest country if you can’t also make the rest of the world poor.

VOICE FROM THE FLOOR – We need to elect comrade Stalin as the General Secretary of the CC CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

STALIN – No! I am asking that you relieve me of the two posts!

MALENKOV – coming to the tribune: Comrades! We should all unanimously ask comrade Stalin, our leader and our teacher, to be again the General Secretary of the CC CPSU.

I love this part because it gives the same energy as this picture, except it’s Stalin desperately trying to stop more people from grabbing the mic and nominating him for like King of the Universe

When you forget to place a bowl under the strainer

Or just fold in a bunch of oats to make oat-balls

Can re-temper it and set it in molds to make kitchen-sink chocolate bars

why do ex USSR/Warsaw Pact countries actively want to join NATO?

Because they are run by right-wing oligarchies that want to consolidate and protect their accumulated wealth and power? The imperialism is coming from inside the house.

They had to go hat in hand to the Egg Monopoly Lady every year to ask for a single egg for their New Years Celebration.