zerocapitalism:

zerocapitalism:

lauramoon:

wtfisgoingonews:

wtfisgoingonews:

It’s a “pie in the sky” when you want to your citizens to have healthcare and a cleaner environment. 

Also there’s some kinda twisted shit with Biden constantly using the phrase “pie in the sky.” 

“Pie in the sky” is a phrase from the 1911 song “The Preacher and the Slave,” by Joe Hill. Hill wrote the song as a parody of the Christian hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” which was sung by Christians from the Salvation Army to drown out labor protests at the time. In the pocket of the coal industry, the Salvation Army insisted that the poor and starving people of the labor movement should be grateful for what they had and they would be rewarded after death. 

The Salvation Army was nicknamed the “Starvation Army” and Hill wrote the following lyrics referring the organization telling the workers they don’t need food, they’ll have pie in the sky when they die: 

You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.

Over 100 years later and the corporate elites still use this line to tell us to shut up and die… and to be grateful for it. 

I’m sure Joe Biden doesn’t know that. I didn’t know that, and I’m a collector of useless and boring history trivia. Stop trying to make things look worse than they are. It’s an incredibly common turn of phrase, and I doubt 1 in 100 ppl know its origins.

Does that change the meaning of the phrase or the intention behind it?

What Joe Biden is saying if he DOES know the meaning behind this phrase: shut up and die

What Joe Biden is saying if he DOESN’T know the meaning behind this phrase: shut up and die