I mean, hydrocarbons? Religious hatreds? But hey, its YOUR show; reality need not apply.

A good comic doesn't blame the audience for limp schtick.

I'm sorry, I thought that when you typed 'oven', you meant 'oven', implying some amount of heat above room temperature.
God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly, and the default meaning of words is the obvious one. Occam razed!

I rejoice that you didn't, I don't know, oversimplify matters, or something.

DNA de-natures rapidly under heat. Good thing life isn't depending on *you* to get anywhere, sir. :-)

Wait, so, are you trying to argue that, like ObamaCare, as long as Soviet Communism helped at least one person, it was OK?

This is Slashdot. Staying on topic is highly accidental thing. :-)

Seriously? You think there is some measure by which the U.S. was not superior to the U.S.S.R., for, like, everyone?

In the first place, I'm offering brief quotations as linkage to the fully quoted passage, rather than in-lining my remarks.
And in the second place, I'm just really not sure that the bourgeoisie ever accomplished Marx's stated outcome:

I guess it makes partial sense if you consider the transition of some of these professions from ones involving patrons to commission musical works, or endow universities.
That said, this smacks of an evidence-free charge to make the bourgeoisie into bigger super villains, or something.

Does he mean:
"The emergence of the bourgeoisie is the flip side of the brutal Middle Ages vigor (e.g. Crusades?) that all of the reactionaries admire, and but which today has all gone to foppish decadence?"
I'm working far too hard to make this mean something.

I'm endeavoring to take this noise seriously. I'm actually surprised damn_registrars played along at all. I half thought it the whole thing merely a head trick to say: "Ha ha, made you dance."

The hell, you say. Did the USSR import grain from the US to feed itself, or vice-versa?
Did the Commies bail us out after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
While I'm not going to accuse capitalism of being perfect, my contention is that it does a relatively better job of empowering human greatness.
Which is not to say that Commie infiltration is impotent, or incapable of destroying a good thing from the inside, as a glance at our tragically cratered academic system reveals.

Regret if I was too heavy duty with the feedback there, but think about the engineering of a cloverleaf. The flyovers, the ground prep, the planning for shifting the lanes. Your "craftsmen" notion makes a lot of sense for, say, craft beer. But it just isn't going to fly past niche markets boss, sorry.

. . .

I guess the bourgeoisie is some kinda bullet proof, if it's turning weapons on itself without ever letting the power disperse.

Wait. . .
. . .the horror:
is ManBearPig a specimen of the bourgeoisie?