Tag: Feudalism

• Are Anti-Vaxx Cops From The Same Hiring Pool As The Cops Who Murdered George Floyd?

  Across America, police departments are facing the same problem: a quarter to a third of their employees refuse to get vaccinated (against this particular coronavirus exclusively; none of those employees seems to have balked at any vaccination before this one) and are willing to walk off their jobs if that means staying unvaccinated. Let’s please,…

  A L Katz

  October 25, 2021

  Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Racism, Republicanism, Slavery

  Anti-Vaccination, Anti-Vax, bigotry, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Feudalism, Gerrymandering, Racism, Slavery, Voter Suppression, Voting Rights

• History Teaches: Deadly Pandemics Can Topple Whole Economic Systems — Like This Pandemic Is Toppling Ours

  The right wing and our punditry are beside themselves that Americans are refusing to go back to work. Um, no — they’re not refusing “to go back to work”, they’re refusing to return to work 1) that doesn’t suit them or their skill sets, 2) doesn’t pay what the work should be paid and 3)…

  A L Katz

  October 15, 2021

  Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Healthcare, Slavery

  A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman, Black Death, Bubonic Plague, Capitalism, Feudalism, Guilds, Hundred Years War, Labor Unions, Pandemic, Papal Schism

• Yeah, It’s A “Small, Small World” All Right…

  This week put the icing on the cake we’ve been forced to eat the whole last year. However the coronavirus that causes covid19 got from wherever it originated out into the human population, the transmission that resulted in the pandemic likely started with one person and then spread from there. While we’re now shoulders-deep in…

  A L Katz

  March 27, 2021

  Coronavirus, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism

  Black Death, Coronavirus, Ever Given, Feudalism, It's A Small Small World, Medieval Europe, Republican Party of Georgia, Suez Canal Boat Stuck, Variants

• Dear Rich Guys: Learn From History! If You Kill Off Too Many Workers, The Workers Will Control The Labor Market!

  The current crop of Republicans would have felt right at home in Feudal Europe — all of them vassals to corrupt king Donald who, himself, sold out the Kingdom to the Kingdom’s chief rival, King Vlad The Impaler. Feudalism relied on having lots of peasants to work the lord’s fields. The Black Plague gutted Europe,…

  A L Katz

  May 5, 2020

  Coronavirus, Election 2016, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump, Uncategorized

  Conservatism, Coronavirus Apocalypse, Coronavirus Pandemic, Covid19, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Failed Coronavirus Response, Feudalism, Opening The Economy Too Soon, Permanent Minority Rule