In loving memory of John McCain, here are some of his proudest achievements:

ima-giant-turtle:

Violating the Geneva Convention to bomb a lightbulb factory in Vietnam

Snubbing the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life after he crashed his plane in Vietnam while violating the mentioned Geneva Convention

Supporting legislation to forcefully relocate native American populations

Calling Vietnamese people “g**ks”

Using his power as a senator to help the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association swindle the life savings of tax payers in one of the biggest political scandals in American history as a member of the Keating Five

Singing that we should “bomb bomb bomb Iran”
because he thought calling for support of the murder of millions of innocents was something funny.

Calling people “low life scum” who were protesting Henry Kissinger, a notorious American war criminal who played a role in the US-backed overthrow of the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, and his replacement with the fascist Augusto Pinochet, who became known for tossing political dissidents out of helicopters.

Calling for war and/or supporting war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, West and Central Africa, Iran, Bosnia and Kosovo, Ukraine, Russia, and the DPRK.

Hanging out with neo-Nazis in Ukraine and supporting them shortly before their coup in Ukraine

Later hanging out with neo-Nazis again and holding a “good meeting” with them

Returning to congress while sick from cancer and receiving treatment for it on his free state-funded healthcare in order to make sure that poor people don’t get to have healthcare

edit: it has been brought to my attention that i misstepped in labeling the revolution in ukraine as reactionary in nature, and that ukraine is only trying to purge itself of the influence the russian oligarchy. i apologize for this error, and i am sorry i can not take it back now that this has been so widely reblogged, i should have only brought up mccains involvement with the neo-nazis and refrained from speaking on the wider situation in ukraine which i knew little about. in the future i will not speak of ukraine this way, and will correct anyone who repeats what i said earlier.

socialistexan:

spiroandthelacktones:

socialistexan:

White collar worker and executives: “Hurray, it’s labor day weekend! 3 full days off! We are so fortunate to live in a Great Country that Cares about it’s Workers!”

Service industry workers who know labor day weekend is one of the busiest 3 days of the year which means double or triple shifts and not seeing family all while being forced to be not only polite but cheerful:

While also knowing that Labor Day was intended as a holiday for them and they still have to put up with this shit

Labor Day in the US exists to supplant the actual international Worker’s Day of May 1st (May Day, which originally started in the US) in which all laborers were entitled to a day off.

Capitalist bosses called “Communism” and tried to ban before giving a “patriotic American” version. Now May 1st in America is called “Loyalty Day” to “for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.” (Dwight Eisenhower oversaw that proclamation, in the midst of a red scare, in 1921.)