mon., 4 sept., 2023, (after a) countdown, comes a very european labour day, v.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

FRENCH: “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité”    ‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travail, Famille, Patrie”    ‡‡

FRENCH: “T. F. P. / Travaux forcés à perpetuité”    ‡‡‡

GERMAN: “Arbeit macht frei.”    ‡‡‡‡

SPANISH:  “La unica iglesia que ilumina es la que arde.”  ‡‡‡‡‡

      

     ‡)   “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”  —  French Nat’l motto, dating fr. the French Revolution ;  

    ‡‡)   “Work, Family, Fatherland”  —  Nat’l motto of the Vichy Regime, the fuck puppet govt. of the Nazi occupation ;

  ‡‡‡)   “Forced labor in perpetuity”  —  i.e. & e.g., “life sentence without parole,” fr. the French penal code ;

‡‡‡‡) “Work shall make you free.”  —  inscribed above the gates of Nazi death camps,  most infamously,  those of Auschwitz ; 

 ‡‡‡‡‡) “The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”  —  attributed to Piotr Kropotkin, but quoted by Durruti during the Spanish Civil War.  

     

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