Similarly, one can be opposed to Christian nationalism without hating all Christians. But judging by your crusader imagery, you think slaughtering people to establish a theocratic ethnostate is totally fine.
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Similarly, one can be opposed to Christian nationalism without hating all Christians. But judging by your crusader imagery, you think slaughtering people to establish a theocratic ethnostate is totally fine.
Bullshit, Zionism is a distinct ideology that demands an ethnostate be built exclusively for Jewish people. Zionists aren't even all Jewish, and not all Jewish people are zionists. Equating antizionism with antisemitism is absurd. Jewish people aren't the only semetic people, either.
That's the flowers of chicory/endive/escarole Genus Cichorium, probably Cichorium intybus
I miss the days when Clinton gave his means of production to the proletariat, if you know what I mean ;)
Are you having a stroke?
Agree that surveillance is bad in general, but it's prolific so at least we can have a bit of fun when it gets used on the bourgeoisie. Taste of their own medicine and whatnot.
Dude is straight up experiencing a psychotic episode
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You're right, I was misled by your spree of apparent boosterism but it ain't necessary
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
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Most of these billionaire fortunes should belong to the people. They are only rich because they stole the excess labour value and public resources of the people and polluted the commons.
Maximum atomization so that everyone needs to purchase their own copy of every imaginable thing.
This dude definitely gards him some as
Perhaps you are mistaken into thinking people care about your opinion 🤷
You've created an entire universe to imagine who I am based on internet comments buttressed by an expectation that I write a lengthy retort to your handwringing. You have no clue about my praxis in the real world and at this point you've basically had a conversation with yourself. Get bent, loser.
Gosh you're adorable
"you refuse to publish an entire policy position in a reply thread for me and me alone therefore my biases remain unchallenged" Touche or whatever, dipshit
We're on a social media platform buddy, you can take it down a notch.
Feel free to keep writing yourself an essay though
Lol sis, you're dumb as fuck
Bro I'm not about to give you a course on socialist economic theory. Feel free to explore that yourself. Collective ownership of the means of production, democratic decision making, basic needs met for all.
No, everything you mentioned is not an extension of capitalism. These are all creations of workers labor and could have been organized under various economic systems. Many came from public funding which models socialism. So reorient society by doing more socialism. fin
The right-wing propaganda machine is literally an extension of capitalism at work. Leftist understand this; we must reshape material conditions brought by the distribution of capital or nothing else matters. Centrists like Will try to pretend that they can rein in capitalism and make it work.
Is that in your opinion?
It's not just that billionaires want to destroy people's creativity; They want to reduce labor costs to zero so they don't have to pay anybody and they can use their capital to print more capital. It's really just the next resource to exploit
Okay, you were just stating that Russian society is "hopeless" which is a dehumanizing statement. I think dehumanizing statements are wrong. I guess we disagree. You're free to go 🤷
Yeah Megan, do you know who else blames the "far left" for everything? ... Fascists.
Dems had 4 years to build an appropriate response to Trump's return and did shit all, whipped out a last-minute candidate with no primary, sided with Republicans and slid further right. Blaming it on some online leftists for attempting to speak out against genocide just shows you're depraved.
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
That means there is still a faction of people who are NOT in support (30% and likely more, given people refusing to self report dissent) And the faction that are supportive, like with Trump, are likely heavily propagandized and can very probably be socialized out of it.
What if we are talking about how it's bad? Then should we still be using it?
Conservatism feeds on ignorance, naivete, and poorly educated population which is why conservative politicians always push policies like this.
At least Stalin's meatgrinder was fighting fascists... Russia is just engaging in a bloody and miserable land dispute and destruction with no end.
A waste of life indeed. You could write off the US for its "broad support of Trump" too, but people deserve the right to not be minimized to just their nations' politics. Human rights and peace for all. It's never hopeless. There are always voices for peace.
Yes, late stage capitalism in action. Disrupt (destroy) everything in society and remake it in their image (profit)
Doesn't Israel have nuclear bombs? We should be more worried about Israel, they have shown zero restraint, mass-murdered civilians including journalists, doctors and aid workers, leveled every University in the entirety of Gaza and poisoned the water. Shouldnt we start bombing Israel's nukes too?
Skip all those big corporate retailers and shop locally. Or even better, buy less shit
You should have accepted the last-minute, milquetoast switcheroo candidate without any critique and.... She still would have lost
Can you give an example of policies you think are a "micro target"?
Medium-low bar
U seem cool Jerry but try some weed
Happy to delete my comments and not engage if you think all conversations need to be buttressed by stats at all times.
The result is a completely different approach to public health. Students end up in the hospital with their stomachs pumped; laugh about it the next day. Those suffering opiate addictions are treated as inherently criminal and unworthy of support by many. The norms are completely different.
The point being that most of the complaints of unhoused populations aren't actually worries about the health dangers of opioid addiction... Their vague gestures toward what is seen as undesirable behavior. And off of that behavior is only undesirable because it's visibly public.
Merely agreeing with your position; lived in Lethbridge amongst students and watched extreme alcohol abuse and other shenanigans that would have been considered undesirable if it was happening in public... But it isn't because there's a difference when people are housed versus not.
If Lethbridge provided the same supports to its unhoused population that University kids receive, The problem would pretty much go away. The average 19-year-old in Lethbridge is abusing drugs, causing just as much civil disturbance, they're just doing it from the peace of their dorm room.
I think so many people think capitalism is just the existence of money and capital. Which is why they can't imagine an alternate reality. They don't realize it's about how society organizes and defends the distribution of that capital. Years and years of anti-communist propaganda 🤷
"sells books like a capitalist" *Is a cooperatively run store* People just don't know what words mean.
But the cost has a "B" after it...that's a crazy amount of money! *Places hand to cover over the police budget*
Jfc
I think you should have to empty all of your worldly possessions into a bin before boarding the subway. That will maximize safety
When you get robbed, that's three less dollars for them to steal. So crime goes down
bitch take
And decades and decades of anti-communist propaganda Nobody wants to admit that China has crushed it on the economic stage, lifted billions out of poverty, built a crazy amount of amazing infrastructure and continued to liberalize while so-called liberal nations have decayed
Ultimately I agree, I'll take what I can get. I think the ultimate goal should be free public amenities.
Sure, I think that's absolutely true No point in having a free service that is not usable or accessible. But once that is established, the idea of having free fare transit is pretty good.
Or use congestion pricing and other taxes on cars to make it so that those who would take a car see economic gain in taking the free transit instead. Use these levees to fund the transit services. The main problem you've identified is underfunding Transit. So, uh... don't do that
"the story isn’t simply that making transit free doesn’t work. In Tallinn, a host of factors conspired to make transit less attractive—or, perhaps it’s more accurate to say, the car more attractive." Good lessons on how nyc and other cities can implement free transit and have it be effective.
"the status quo is always what makes sense, don't try to do anything different"
"Look, if we make everyone pay a fare to go on the sidewalk then we can just give some extra money to poor people so they can pay the sidewalk fare. It's very logical"
"good sidewalks are worth paying a fare for" "good playgrounds are worth paying for" "good libraries are worth paying for" This is your dumbass take
But but everything has to be a market! Free stuff is communism! WAaahh
Do both. There's enough money
The fuck is wrong with capitalism
Yeah I dunno there's nothing inherently bourgeoisie about in worker using their earnings to pay another worker for their labor. The bourgeousie thing would be if you owned a cleaning company and charged $200 at cleaning but only paid your workers $50 and kept the rest.
Are you having a stroke? May be worth seeking medical assistance.
😂 Completely meaningless drivel, I live in Canada, you tool.
Completely incoherent description and a pretty funny misunderstanding to boot.
👆 main character syndrome
Dafuq? How is anything that they said Nazi-enabling? Seems like claiming people shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore is the more fascist angle...
Liberals don't pick sides though do they? If they did, they'd be socialists. In the modern political context, liberalism is basically status quo centrism. It's not a progressive ideology anymore. Liberals are not going to achieve a fight for freedom so long as liberalism is based in capitalism.
I too like chrimp 0 grits
This guy is such a a psyop
Fuck America and fuck the fourth of July (Don't worry, you don't need to tell me to leave. I already live in Canada)
This whole arc is a result of late capitalism and Trump embodies it. But "we tried to save you but you didn't listen so you got what you deserved" ain't it. The whole US empire, both political parties, And all of US citizenry is responsible for this arc. Not some girls at a camp that washed away.
No, I am not. But as soon as you start dehumanizing your fellow citizens who are dying from climate change because you're mad that the empire is collapsing, you've started to veer away from good praxis and into reactionism.
Okay so you are essentially justifying the deaths of children. That's some fascist adjacent shit
The thing about the entire establishment class of the Democratic Party is that the NYT does speak for them and to them... (Because they are basically conservatives)
The oligarchs are freaking out and twisting every dial at the New York times that they can
"Trump voters" are a huge group with completely incoherent ideologies, And I guarantee not one of them was rooting for people to die in floods. Unfortunately most of these people are completely politically illiterate so what they think they were voting for is unrelated entirely to what they got.
Sure but not all of the 24 dead are Trump voters? It just seems strange and horribly insensitive to mention both things simultaneously as if they are the same subject. Certainly there are direct consequences a far-right ideology but we're getting pretty close to blaming victims here...
If your response to tragedy is to try and triangulate the way it’s the victim’s fault or their own moral failing, you might be more primed for fascism yourself than you realize
Who said no? The children?
Anecdotal evidence is fine, but if you actually look at statistical evidence, the vast number of individuals in post USSR territories preferred life prior. I have friends and relatives who live in the US who would argue vehemently. That's not a robust way of analyzing economic systems.
This whole thing primarily illustrates how race and ethnicity are really complete fabrications usually constructed as a means for majority populations to dominate, galvanize, and marginalize people. It's all weaponization which is why the Times teamed up with a white supremacist to publish it.
Well, if the whole thing's going to be about a semantic quibble, maybe you should actually check your source?
This is kind of the problem though, isn't it? Things weren't exactly peachy keen in the US before Trump 2.0 But you're right that if a Democrat would have been elected, a bunch of so-called liberals would have plugged their ears to go "nanana" Now it's even worse but at least people notice.
Except no he didn't, he chose "African American" which is not the same as black. Otherwise it would have said black...
Even most of socialism's failings can be traced to US capitalist interests lobbying to overthrow and coup any movement that attempts organize the economy to benefit workers over landowners, capitalists and industrialists. I don't think that blaming our fellow comrades gets to the root here.
I really think it's capitalism that has made this contemporary mess, it has distorted human motives, commodified everything, polluted the commons, financialized every interaction and atomized society, ruining land, community, and labour relationships
Sure I think that's entirely fair
Pair that with: "I'm special so I will get to become that selfish minority" Narrator: "He did not, in fact, get to become that selfish minority"
Fair, but capitalism is literally designed around exploitation for private profit. Abuse IS the ism At some point we must acknowledge that collective democratic ownership of the means of production is a better ism, even if imperfect. Not taking a position is still deferring to the current ism.
Liberalism is a nice upgrade over feudalism and contains the roots of truly progressive ideals but so long as liberalism is an ideal based on capitalism, it will always attempt to export injustice and inequality into the imperial periphery. Thus a need for continued evolution into socialism
Wire grid mesh (chicken fence) wrapped firmly on the top of each pot and guide the plants through the gaps
But will you steal the labour of underpaid workers?
