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what's the quote post? i'm blocked
so you have nothing interesting to say, you just want to argue
i believe that 90% of shooters in the US are male, i just think dismissing the problem is machismo is a really stupid way of looking at things (as opposed to like, mental illness, ideology, internet culture and material conditions)
lemme just drop a link of a link to a cnn article of an fbi study conducted between 2000 and 2013, uh ok
idk, this isn't my field of study, but it seems hand-wavy to say machismo is the problem with gun violence when the perpetrator of the subject of discussion identifies as female, and the circumstances suggest a higher incidence of female perps, this is a really dumb thing to argue imo
"socialist statesmen are not as bad as propaganda would lead you to believe" "oh so they're all angels huh" this is bugbrain logic
you can read the article for yourself en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
when did i say any of this, you dummy
Hey remember that time anarchists weren't destroyed by a violent counter-revolution, oh wait that never happened
oh damn, i hope he kills himself
I feel like this is the type of dude who calls himself a leftist but doesn't read and unironically buys into the Che-tortured-gay-people myth you see on American TV
I was reading the 'list of shootings in houses of worship' wikipedia article earlier and it looks like the majority or a good number of perpetrators in the last couple years are actually female.
I am Belarusian-Ukrainian. I am guessing you're American or European because your type declines answering the question directly and postures or talks about something they saw on social media. I recommend reading The Moscow Trials as Evidence by Grover Furr for English speakers.
i'm not, thanks
"with AI it's possible there will be more AI content" oh ok
Out of curiosity, are you a lib?
ok
i'm a white man, i don't understand what you mean at all by this
what are the dangers? i grew up in a christian community and read marxist lit, socialism seems like a perfectly natural extension of new testament ethics
wdym, there's the nashville shooting and the minnesota shooting
I think you're conflating the shooter's motives with the response to the shooting.
What does machismo have to do with the shooting? Seems like a thought-terminating cliche
"Guys while we're shilling for dems, make sure to include Lenin and Mao in there so people think socialism is scary"
Is this something you heard on Netflix or JRE
what's the problem
Doc, you think this "tumor" is the cause of all my health problems? You don't think you're being a little reductive (dare I say, baby brained)?
Socialists like Putin?
@vgdunkey.bsky.social
The shattering of faith in what?
Is this like a just finished reading God and the State post
uh ok
Ok, I guess I just don't understand the suggested course of action. You can attack organized religion's contradictions without literally knocking down or converting places of religion.
We are going to "continue trying to figure out how to get out of this fucking mess" for the next 50 years if we give this much attention to electoral politics.
There is such a thing as liberation theology and christian socialism, why not first talk about the inherent contradictions between the new testament and christian nationalism?
Reminder that Israel regularly stages videos and photo ops and @kristinmreid.bsky.social is a dumbass
ok, which book
genuinely, yes
do you think biden coulda called bibi and just told him to stop killing civilians? (oh wait, that already happened in the 80s with reagan and it worked)
this seat color is searing my eyes
i think i'm safe
engels is super easy to read and in both this and "socialism, utopian & scientific", directly answers a lot of questions people frequently ask about communist theory
that's a funny meme but i think you should take some time out of your day to stop looking at memes or ragebait headlines and read a little bit
Mamdani is not a democrat? He is the democrat nominee for NYC mayor and just hired senior senate aide Jeffrey Lerner as his communications director.
I'm not asking for a perfect solution, just a candidate whose interests clearly align with working interests and not just lying to drum up support for dems. An alternative to electoral politics is organizing with local left orgs, educating yourself/others and agitating for material policy changes
Sanders supported the bombing of Yugoslavia, did you not know this? (Not to mention, you know, the war going on right now)
well your profile is name + number and no pfp, and these profiles seem to flood posts about dems
this is how i look after eating chicken wings
for those who don't know, tren de aragua and maduro are enemies
There are plenty of leftists unaffiliated with the democratic party on bsky, I recommend talking to some of them
It's criticism of Mamdani and I think it's valid, you're making it an emotional attachment. If we, as working people, don't voice our concerns then what's the point of a democracy? And nobody said anything about transforming the country overnight
I don't support candidates who bomb kids, bust unions or take money from private equity, dunno why that's so hard to understand. What's your end goal? Or am I just talking to a bot?
this is good shit
I don't expect Stein to win an American election but if you want to "win" then just vote Republican. Pressure from, and organizing, workers is what leads to meaningful policy changes; that's how we got social security, the 8-hr work day, safer working conditions, etc., it wasn't FDR or Henry Ford
I am being real, I don't think AOC's, Sanders' or Mamdani's sheepdogging for the DNC will benefit working people in the long run. Social programs are a good idea and I won't tell you not to vote for Mamdani but Mamdani/AOC will not stop the cycle of hope and despair of electoral politics.
Thank you for the Capital readings. Do you plan to read, or have any thoughts about, Grover Furr? Specifically, his book The Moscow Trials as Evidence.
Is she right
Yeah it was fun, I enjoyed the chat. Cheers dude
this unlocked a memory in my brain where my bro and i saw an old lady walking in the rain and we had to knock on neighbors' doors to contact her relatives
Agreed, lobbying is just legalized corruption
Nearly all research and development in America (drugs, defense, microelectronics, whatever) comes from federally funded research grants (I used to work in R&D but this is an open secret and doesn't take much effort to Google). I agree regulation can be hurtful when it's poorly written
www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobb...
Smart! Raven loves winning Tic Tac Toe.
Of course the private sector wins 100% of the time when policy is written to benefit the private sector at the expense of public welfare.
It's true that the American public sector is inefficient but it's also corrupt and designed not to compete with the private sector, so there is a conflict of interest between funding the postal service and allowing FedEx influence over public policy
Conrail was the first time freight rail turned a profit in decades. After privatization we're back in the same spot, with regular derailments like the one in Palestine, Ohio.
It's already socialized, but only in the risks and costs of doing business. Big business is subsidized and bailed out if it fails, American workers absorb the risks. Socialized American industries existed, like Conrail, but were privatized again.
Volunteers (1985)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2h...
poor people can't buy stuff, as it turns out
You can also control your costs by socializing production, instead of filtering profits to a class of wealthy shareholders and trust-fund babies. McDonald's, Monster, drugs and processed foods are all consumer goods produced by privately owned businesses who influence our policy.
tesla engineers invented a spatula
idk why i capitalized banana republics
Ecuador is also capitalist but they're extremely poor. We live in the 'imperial core' so a lot of our wealth comes from exploiting workers in Bangladesh, Ivory Coast, Banana Republics, etc. At the same time we have a lower life expectancy and housing rate than Cuba, it's not all roses
Yeah, living in a city in america sucks but why should this be the norm? Why is good or why should we defend this instead of calling out abuses?
this is both funny and sad at the same time
It doesn't, no article from a privately owned publication will point out the causes of problems, only point to the problems themselves. If you want to understand why then I recommend reading Dutt or Fanon or Kollontai or Engels and Marx
Living in a rural state doesn't mean you're not gonna be poor, some of the poorest states are in the American South. I think some people do understand what's going on but they're buried under misinformation because policy and media ultimately benefit big business and the political class
South Korea is a neoliberal state like the United States, they copy a lot of their policy from us. I just think it's informative to show people that bad policy affects seniors as much as "young people"
I don't think you need a degree in gender studies to understand political material outcomes, just a tiny bit of theory. And yeah, some individuals do make poor decisions but policy also affects social trends and saying everything is individuals' fault is missing the forest for the trees.
Did you read the other things?
I'm an engineer, who am I jealous of? And Marx was a cool guy, you should read him sometime instead of looking at memes.
You unironically use terms like "young people" so you're a boomer in my mind. I also don't struggle with money but food on my table doesn't mean other people aren't hungry. And trying to reduce the problem to avocado toast and door dash is bugbrain logic
you can have some reading material www.malaymail.com/news/world/2...
Real estate speculation and wealthy capitalist exploitation of workers is everyone's problem, trying to make it an age thing is really dumb.
This is the shortsighted nature of uneducated boomers who deflect problems of policy onto individuals. Where are you gonna move when the real-estate bubble pops, you lose your job and 401k? You gonna be part of the growing elderly homeless population?
morgan freeman true
no i'd rather do something to fix our problems instead of pretending dems aren't fascist collaborators
reminder this is the same matt yglesias who defended sweatshops after the 2013 bangladesh factory collapse
Uh ok a single-payer system would be nice but what are dems gonna do about it? Biden had the public option on his policy site and promptly removed it following election. Dems and republicans are both in the pockets of private equity, who own the healthcare system. Why the fuck should I vote dem?
true, dems are complicit and will probably normalize his policies and pretend like nothing happened, you know like they always do
constituents chanted in french before putting on striped trousers and chopping vegetables with a guillotine, megan
whenever i read politico comments it's like half AI and half people recovering from TBI
not recognizing israel's right to exist is pretty based
oh no, not the top earners and the fancy grocery stores
is deezer worth using?
as someone who is ontologically evil, i don't appreciate the negativity
just found out high explosive ammo for india's main battle tank is literally called "penetration cum blast"
why do we need crypto in the banking system, isn't that like, bad for fiscal policy?
uh which f-word
this is ridiculous because sonic's timbs would simply disintegrate from hypersonic bow shock