The owl appears to have a subtle expression of “Can you believe this shit?”.

https://streamable.com/unjnw9

This video is required viewing for all the downvoters.

There’s an interesting blog that analyzes the transition of political economy from medieval europe to the rise of capital through a perspective of the mechanics of occult practices. It’s pretty well thought out and compares church occult practices and their relations to “capital occultism” via social relations and rituals.

This post is about how money aka capital is transmuted to embody commodified labor value in a similar structure of social relations (“occult magic”) as the holy cracker being consecrated and transmuted to embody the flesh of Jesus Christ.

https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/2021/11/25/dark-eucharist-of-the-real-god/

The previous post is also quite good that covers the concept of Marx’s “real god” that is manifested via the capital imperative to continuously increase profit and accumulation.

Parenti Quote Bomb or PQB

libs:

As long as the Ukrainazis are dying instead of our own military in the fight for “western values”, I will support them. It’s just so cost-effective and logical.

Let’s see, so Germany is doubling down on supporting Zionist genocide since forever, and Italy elected a fascist woman to lead the country.

Maybe not the best countries to cite in your poorly informed statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni

In 1992, Meloni joined the Youth Front, the youth wing of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist political party founded in 1946 by followers of Italian fascism.

The evil communists are repressing the hardworking suicide booth owners from making a killing profit and an honest living.

Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy and ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values.

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law.

These are just different ways of describing support for the status quo with different flavor modifiers. The core of both is the protection of Capital from any threats from the left (aka socialism, the democracy of the workers, removing power from the owners of capital).

This is why from a leftist perspective, they are essentially the same in that they both are against any actual emancipation of the working class if it threatens the existing power structures of capital owners.