You’re describing a few decades out of almost a thousand years of feudalism, in Europe specifically, and it wasn’t ever universally true.

A lot of things contributed to that. Not the least of which is the difference between what we’d consider a day off and what they’d consider a day off. Not to mention how they paid taxes and what was actually required of the medieval peasant.

Taxes could be paid in labor or produce. The guys doing the manual labor building a castle were likely to be paying taxes. They did that for up to a third of the year. The rest of the year was theirs to do with as they pleased, and the majority of that time would have been spent growing, gathering, hunting, or maintaining. Guild artisans had the closest thing to jobs that we’d think of them. Coopers made barrels, ropers roped. You had masons and blacksmiths and carpenters sure. Most people were growing and raising food, and maintaining their home. A day off was likely spent doing those things. They had so many partially because that time was needed intermittently.

They worked harder than we do. Every part of their life was harder, required more energy, and took more time.

Taking a day off to relax would have been exceedingly rare and probably maddeningly boring. Though they did party hard.

Just banks and federal employees.

You will of course be required to be in the office that day.

I’m not sure but I’m sure someone can help.

So anyway when you stop by, let him know that Jonathan Gregg wants to box. 10,000 dollar charity match.

That’s not what neglect is

It takes an excruciatingly small amount of chocolate, if you add too much it just tastes like chocolate. But it is good. Same with a touch of cinnamon. Very small amounts just to add some depth.

American, not Hungarian.

Goulash is a common food in school lunch rooms and is like a tomato and meat sauce on elbow noodles. It’s not what you’re thinking goulash is, but it’s quite good.

The US in 6 months: “fuckin watch me.”

Oreos are 3 cookies to a serving.

Frequently servings are fairly close to 1 ounce. Oreos are a little over an ounce for 3 cookies at 34 grams.

This isn’t necessarily a serving suggestion. They’d actually very much like it if you ate an entire sleeve in a sitting, 3 times a day.

It’s only there so you can calculate with excruciating detail exactly how many grams of sugar you just swallowed when you stuffed the middle of 4 cookies together.

I for one would like to offer a heartfelt apology to our inevitable ant overlords.

They think this is a culture war. They believe they are at war with ideas they do not like.

They will not give ground until forced to do so. They will only do so begrudgingly, and insincerely, waiting for the day they can claw it back.

They see you as an enemy, and they give themselves rage chubbies at the thought of refusing to negotiate.

Absolutely, if you hear this nonsense, call it out, but be prepared for it to escalate.

Let’s return to a time when saying that crap out loud was enough to end a career. Make them afraid to be bigoted in public again.

It’s a bug with the android app.

I’ve seen it maybe 3 times in 8ish years on my phone. Never once in the TV app.

She’s smoking corporate cock, just like the rest of Congress.

Lmao buddy. Ignoring the people to the left is how you literally just lost an election

Uhh… 335 million Americans, 260 million voting age Americans. With 63% turnout.

The most popular car near military bases

The market is not the economy.

The market is a measure of how much wealth is being extracted from the working class.

If that’s what the economy is then it will never matter how good it is, because the working class people still can’t afford shit.

Yeah people just care about bread on the table and the roof over their head. Telling 150 million voting Americans to care about the world is falling on early 100 million deaf ears.

75 million don’t care, or actively dislike anybody outside the US.

Another 38 million only care as long as it’s convenient. And right now it’s not convenient.

Maybe 10-15 million are anti Republican because they’re lgbtq+.

Of the 150 million voters, 80 million are voting on a single issue. And for many of them, it’s either for or against abortion.

We’ve been supplying the West with a military for decades. We put more in to our ministry, and by extension every NATO member country’s military than the rest of NATO combined. We don’t have social programs, no healthcare, no child care, under funded education, no paid sick leave, no parental leave. We have a big shiney military.

People can’t afford to take a day off for the flu and they’re supposed to care about Europe?

Big ask mate. People here care about how they’re doing today and tomorrow. Not Ukraine 6 months from now.

You can disagree with that guy. That’s fine. But you need to understand that your attitude mirrors the attitude of the democratic party, and it literally just cost them the election.

Ignore the people who want change, assuming they’ll vote for you anyway is a great way to get them to vote for someone else.

Reform or fail.

Obama got people excited about healthcare reform. Biden got people excited about student debt relief. Clinton tried to get people excited about a female president and Harris centered her campaign around running against Trump.

Social programs get people excited.

Shit I was saying when Biden was still running and I got crucified for it.

As you shift to the right you leave your base behind, ignoring a growing, left swinging faction within the party is going to lead to outcomes like this. Working class people all have the same problems, and one party says they’ll do something about it. They’re lying, people who are generally smarter and paying attention know they’re lying, but that’s not most people.

The other party has had a chance, and failed to do anything to alleviate the concerns of the working class. Regardless of the circumstances, or their actual ability to affect change. And they spent the entire election cycle trying to curry votes from a dedicated base instead of getting voters excited about something.

Swing left, swing hard. Become the unhinged leftist the other side is already accusing you of being.