Justas🇱🇹

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That day has come.

The 'compulsion for stealing' has survived the era of hired agricultural hands. Socialism has not only sustained it, but extended it to the entire society. It became a built-in part of the whole system. Stealing (and I use this term in its broadest sense) in all its ritual, symbolic and other implications, has become an engrained element of peasant culture today, as much a part of it as, say, Maypoles or Easter eggs. Stealing these days is not done by just some people but by almost everyone. The chief accountant steals just the same as the animal-feeder who hides groats in his trousers or in her bra, or the watchman who knows full well what goods workers smuggle home, or the swine-tender who deliberately breaks the animal's leg on the trough so that members of the cooperative may buy it cheaply. ('You want a suckling? You shall have it tonight ... ') Everyone is familiar with the system. What a cooperative member finds demoralizing is not the fact that the whole system is based on stealing, but that he cannot steal enough (Sozan, 1985: 95-6, this author's translation).

on sovnyet · c/historymemes · 13 pts · 270d

Also, most of the communists believed in international socialism from the start, that they will all unite against capitalist countries. Only to start fighting between each other later.

on 🤘🤘🤘 · c/politicalmemes · 7 pts · 271d

Not fully, but it has some people who's political opinions are out there. And the admin tends to simp for China themselves.

In that case it might be something like Achyrates Bidentata or one of its relatives. A lot of those are used in traditional medicine.

During the Chinese Liang Dynasty, Achyranthes bidentata was used for its abortion effectiveness. Chinese folk doctors would take the juices of crushed up Achyranthes bidentata and insert them into the vagina to induce abortion.[4] This abortive technique was common among folk medicine practitioners in southern China during the Republican period.[5]

Yikes.

one objective standard spans all centuries.

The best example of this not being the case is found in renaissance art. Beautiful women were depicted as chubby by our standards because extra weight meant being wealthy. This standard changed during the Reformation when gluttony started being seen as a sin and a sign of depravity of the Catholic church. From then on, the standard of female beauty shifted towards thinness.

on Sleeping beauty · c/microblogmemes · 13 pts · 279d

I eat plenty of things from the wild. The key part is knowing what they are before you eat them though.