There is no reason to study Marx other than you find it interesting or because it relates to something your interested in. There is very little utility in knowing the theory.

Marx was a genius similar to Freud. They changed the way we think and gave us new tools to examine the world. Beyond that, their particular ideals are often as wrong as two left shoes.

There is plenty of room on the left for people who reject, or are ignorant of Marx.

Pretty much from the dawn of societies. Generational wealth and progeny is extremely important, and women must be controlled so that provenance of her children may be assured.

In the Bible you constantly see themes that don’t make sense until you understand how important that stuff was. Abraham was asked to sacrifice the thing most precious to him: his son. God killed the first-born of Egypt. Lot’s daughters had sex with their dad because that was the only way to ensure that their ‘pure’ line continued. Calling back to Abraham, God himself sacrificed what? His son.

Pre-agriculture societies were probably pretty egalitarian. And the idea that hunting and gathering was segregated by sex doesn’t have much evidence besides “common sense” and vibes.

Southern fried chicken comes from Scotland and WAfrica. And the EAsians have done heroic work in fried poultry tech. But the idea of shredding an animal with industrial machines and recombining it all with meat glue and fillers into appetizing dinosaur shapes, rolling it in breadcrumbs and frying it golden brown and crispy is 10,000% American and you can’t deny it.

To be fair, the only arena where an F-15 has ever faced an opponent on equal terms has been in flight sims.

Just more blatant anti-Americanism from our so called allies.

Thinking that the wrong dude is the Pope is the most Catholic thing ever.

Andrew Tate is wild to me. Did y’all know he’s a black Muslim from Chicago?

Fieri makes perfect sense as a chud. But I don’t get how you become Andrew Tate when your biography looks more like Malcolm X.

The meme drag pedophiles so hard, you barely notice that it dehumanizes refugees to the same degree.

Swim goggles are better at making a seal, and are more covenant to throw in a drawer or something.

Excuse me, but why should anyone care about what Lee wanted? The gentleman was accustomed to not getting his way after all.

The only pedestal he belongs on is the kind with a trap door.

Unlike Lee, some patriots in Virginia understand America First!

Lot’s of people avoid using the word retard. But that’s hard on some people because the loss of that word can decimate their whole vocabulary.

I support your freedom of expression; language is hard, and some people need verbal prognostics to make their point. It’s rude to pick on people just because of a diminished capacity.

I considered that, but the only thing ambiguous is who always lies and who never tells the truth. Everyone knows who the third is.

A coworker saw me using a terminal and educated me that computers used to just be just a terminal with no mouse.

Hey, remember that time ICE was under attack with artillery or other explosives? No doubt led by Field Marshall Walz. Buy War Bonds!

I don’t know why Iran would be more credible. Counting Israel, the three regimes are all infamous and world-class liars. If we can’t trust the word on any of them in isolation, trusting one over another would be madness.

I looked this up, and honestly pretty tame.

one of the stories:

Struwwelpeter describes a lazy, dirty boy who does not groom himself properly and is consequently unpopular.

Devastating. In Irish lore, ghosts appear to be phantasmagorical dancers in the forest and if you join in, YOU JOIN IN. As I mentioned elsewhere, a trespass unto the wrong part of the forest or even stepping in a fairy circle might provoke the faeries to kidnap your infant.

The Irish stuff is less cautionary tale and more explaining why terrible shit happens for no reason.

EDIT: another story from Struwwelpeter

Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben (“The Story of the Inky Boys”): Nikolas (or “Agrippa” in some translations)[7] catches three boys teasing a dark-skinned boy. To teach them a lesson, he dips them in black ink.

Based.