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so fucking depressing. setting yourself on fire to ask people to call their senators. we desperately need a mass movement. normal people can’t see a way out and it’s crushing anyone with a conscience
IIRC, China has been doing a lot of stuff with low-flying drones over the water. Very hard to see on radar, reported as "UFO"s in the South China Sea.
A dense cloud of drones is silly though that’s not the point of drones
either altogether fake image or the site was very quickly fixed. meme version not in the archive sites. this is the link being passed around https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/hoslov-rodyon-tymofeevych/
He said the lawsuit has cost him about $400,000. “My retirement is set back five years
125k yearly Disney spend
80k yearly retirement savings
someone help me balance my budget
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I guess I have to be the one to post it today: no investigation, no right to speak. Marxism will lead you to the correct analysis, but you have to actually have the facts in order to analyze them. Don’t get complacent.
WSWS published a series of articles defending Roman Polanski and a bunch of stuff against #MeToo. I don’t think they have good takes outside AES either. I believe that they think feminism is “identity politics” and a distraction from revolution, which will somehow unify the whole working class without addressing the special problems within its constituent blocs. Common L.
i’m not familiar w good critical refutation.
I don’t think capitalism can keep collapsing and reforming forever. Extinction is possible (nuclear war, maybe climate change), and different economic systems are possible. The key thing is that as long as there are contradictions, there will be change. Under capitalism the biggest one is within the mode of production: capitalists organize labor in a way which results in great inefficiency and suffering, and this produces a class of workers who are incentivized to change the system. The longer capitalism goes on, the larger and more definite the working class becomes, sharpening this contradiction. Eventually something has to release the pressure: socialist revolution (likely via a DoP, which will have its own contradictions to work through on the way to communism), or a reconfiguration of classes into some new arrangement which will result in a different kind of conflict than bourgeois-proletariat. Social upheaval can blow off steam without fundamentally changing class relations, but pressure will just keep building up and it’s unreasonable to expect infinite, e.g., BLM outbursts to never turn into something more. Nukes may kill us all at once, but I think it’s likely that even though climate crisis will cause vast devastation, this will increase class conflict and therefore opportunities to resolve these new contradictions.
the way I see it, all societies fall into
the theory of marxism can be applied perfectly fine to indigenous societies. go down and see if there are classes and what they’re doing in the same way as e.g. Mao in Hunan. you may very well find that there is not a proletariat! marxism doesn’t say that there will always be a working class, just that capitalism builds one
Lenin said that communism won’t simply emerge spontaneously and that it needs to be agitated for by people and communist parties. If we believe that capitalism is a European ideology that emerged from the material conditions of Europe, then it’s antithesis communism should be the same, right?
Well communism isn’t gonna emerge with a snap of the fingers, but what is guaranteed as long as we have classes is that there are going to be people who figure out what’s going on. Those are the ones Lenin said must struggle in order to get to communism. Marxism was discovered in European context, but it applies just as well whenever you’ve got classes and I don’t see any reason why it won’t keep getting rediscovered in different contexts if the original strain goes extinct.
i disagree strongly with israel’s policy of existence
lol. Israel’s economy depends on immiserated Palestinians coming over the border to do low-paid work. Like how US food production depends on Mexican farm laborers who get paid less than min wage. Wtf did they think was gonna happen?
water doesn’t because it’s practically incompressible. needs to be able to squish, like Styrofoam or packing material
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thank god China is building the productive forces outside US imperialism in… saudi arabia
Please stop posting this cringe fake story about how Reddit divorced dads are cool
surprised they’re making anything that doesn’t have Chinese chips in it. guess that’s why military electronics are 200x as expensive as consumer stuff and also worse
Who would win:
HackerNews post. Dunno if it’s real, does twitter really store this stuff in okta + own twitter.okta.com
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do spaces like that exist? maybe some corners of tumblr. I think this is a common experience for young boys having their first crushes.
Grown feminist men are supposed to have figured out how to relate to women as other people so they’re not paralyzed by trying to talk to them. Even without explicit theory you learn not to put women on pedestals. Posting this kind of stuff would look like softboi performative harmlessness (usually a lie), and it would be weird to try and combine that with an open expression of desire anyway. If you are a left-of-center man who’s attracted to women, the cultural norm is to shut up about it because the misogynists are saying gross shit in locker rooms and you don’t want to do that. There’s not really space for healthy/nonthreatening desire yet.
Grown anti-feminist men are supposed to have learned a specific script of heterosexuality (PUA, etc) to follow, where they are in control of the interaction and set the terms of it. For these men, open expression of harmlessness or being disarmed by a woman’s gaze or whatever makes you a cuck and is therefore verboten.