Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

What's wrong with statues of an economist?

[Zanza]

Berlin has a statue of Marx and Engels on one of its central plazas.

[The Larch]

I have bad news for whoever in your family posted that, Syt.

[Tonitrus]

Aren't these the same folks who decried the removal of statues put up in honor of traitors across the U.S.? 

[Syt]

Yes, why?

[Josquius]

I guess they think it's some kind of gotcha?

[Syt]

"stop the steal!"

[celedhring]

We have a Karl Marx square in Barcelona. Alas, no statue.

[Duque de Bragança]

We have a Karl Marx square in Barcelona. Alas, no statue.

Boulevard Lénine in close suburbs of Paris, i.e Ivry-sur-Seine.

Red suburb turned green however, in the meantime (not écolo though).

[celedhring]

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

Unemployment insurance has become the new entrant in the culture wars.

[The Minsky Moment]

If we close the border, how exactly does one build a cross-border pipeline?  And to what purpose?

[Berkut]

All of those memes would have been perfectly understandable and relevant if they were posters or billboards put up by the Reagan era GOP.

None of this whackadoodle bullshit is new - the only difference is that what used to be the fringe is now the center.