@Aimee_Arti
There's a name for this: the IWW calls this the good work strike, wherein you provide the service the business is there for but don't charge ppl for it
@meleeideologue
This is the high end cocktail scene everywhere: the whitest mfs you've ever seen appropriating AAVE to make a Bacardi drink called like Gangangang
@LisaA311
Damn, it's like we don't even have a 2-party system, almost like we're living under a dictatorship... but of whomst? 🤔🤔🤔 Curious... well, better not look into that
@RetvrnOfTheMatt
In high school I went to a friend's 16th birthday party which, unbeknownst to me was a promise ring ceremony. For those who don't know, it's when a teenage girl PLEDGES HER VIRGINITY TO HER FATHER
@AllCommie
As a Jews, this is what absolutely boils my blood about any discourse surrounding Jews: right wing Jews will use antisemitism both as a cudgel and as a shield to excuse the atrocities Israel commits. To equate Jews to Israel is antisemitic and yet 'Zionists' will do exactly this
@mouseburrow
@TeaAyyAreAyy
@ComradeToguro
This also completely ignores that cheating happens in poly relationships too? What makes cheating so bad is it's a betrayal of someone's trust, which can totally still happen in poly relationships
Further to Luna's point: the forces of reaction perpetually project their own methodologies onto those struggling against them. This is how you get the CIA justifying projects by claiming the USSR and its allies were developing or had already developed brainwashing techniques etc
@mr_ooptimistic
@adamjohnsonNYC
I honestly hate when ppl call it a commission because a commission is a guaranteed percentage paid by the business on a sale whereas a tip is paid by a customer purely based on how the customer feels
@xoSashaDarling
@ghost_prole
I think Denis's critical misunderstanding is thinking that all unions are 'business' unions (ie unions where leadership is paid to 'do union leadership' things rather than being rank-and-file)
@SaICommie
Literally anything the US accuses another country of doing is either something the CIA/State Dept has done/tried or is CURRENTLY doing/ actively trying to do
@_saintdrew
Yeah, people in the third world should just be like... thankful they're still alive, right? People DEFINITELY shouldn't strive to drastically improve their material conditions or anything. No no no
@yeongno3
Marxist left: China exists as it does due to its historical and material conditions relative to its position in the global economy and should neither be viewed as "good" or "bad" but rather a state (as ALL states must) to be eventually transcended. Critical support
This is one step off from standing, pointing, mouth agape, shrieking the f slur at this guy. Honestly, these people are cowards. If you're gonna be like this l, say it with your whole chest, jfc
@politklwaitress
Took me a minute to find someone saying ag workers, but not only are they basically the backbone of our society cuz yknow... they grow our food, but they're also some of the most heinously exploited workers in the global north
@adamjohnsonNYC
Sounds like, "Intentionally atomize yourself further from your fellow humans to buy more app based therapy" is basically what they're saying
@QueerVegAnarchy
Omg, this is just repackaged 'personal responsibility' politics masquerading as a left take. This is proselytizing for your kind of morality much more than it is attempting to dismantle an oppressive power structure
@afrocosmist
All the IDF propaganda I've seen has been like "ooh, I'm smol bean, UwU" and all the Hamas propaganda I've seen is actual war footage... Feels like it says a lot about Israel and the "efficacy" of the IDF vs Hamas
@Piper_bot
@alsoabouteve
@Divinadecampo
@madison_tayt
TWO THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE. RESTAURANTS EXPLOITING WORKERS DOESN'T ABSOLVE YOU FOR ALSO EXPLOITING THOSE WORKERS. If you go to a restaurant in the US that pays sub-minimum wage, you are ALSO PARTICIPATING in the exploitation of those workers.
@feraljokes
I mean, it's small business owner propaganda, right? But also it's kind of just about how obsession will ruin your fucking life. Halfway through this season I got kinda bored cuz it felt like no one (esp Carm) learned a goddamn thing over the last 25 episodes
@AskVeraTTV
A better question to ask than "who's going to?" Is "do we need to?". They are, by and large, not people who engage in community organization anyway, so it's not a great use of time. Radicalizing our irl communities is much better use of resources
@JoeSchlabotnic
@reaghhan
They're very obviously lying. Chan board freaks are so antisemitic they actually believe not only that Jews control everything but that pretending to be Jewish will get your voice immediately heard as if there isn't a history of Jews being, shall we say, silenced
@Beaverprole
@shawarmacommie
@SammyZedong
Yeah, what
@shawarmacommie
said + the average labor time in a given society, ie if you work on something with use value, like a coat, the value isn't measured in your labor time, but in how long the average coat maker takes to make it (more or less)
@Raul_sussed
@RetvrnOfTheMatt
As in she pledges to her father that she won't have sex until marriage... not the way more fucked up way you could read it
@KateHeeChoi
Asks the INEQUALITY scholar? Seriously? You're in a position above the student, indignant that they would deign ask such a question of you... you realize the inherent power imbalance here, don't you?
@Logo_Daedalus
Shut the fuck up you dumb cunt. You've never done what you call 'proletarian' labor in your life. If you did, you wouldn't be saying such nonsense
@c_z_z_
@queersocialism
I came here to second this. I def believe it's used as an epithet because misogyny is part of the (male) incel package, and saying they can't fuck insults that base misogyny. It's kinda like when libs used to call homophobes gay
@Kai_Wong_CN
Westerners think Lucy Liu is pretty, but for us Asians, she is far from it. She has the exaggerated facial features of Asians, which is probably why Hollywood made her to fame as the token Asian girl.
@ariklus1
@TreeDemoil
@BadSocialism
Not to be "that guy" but every "communist" country isn't actually communist by definition and most of them admit as much. They claim to work towards communism and the ruling parties are "ideologically" communist but by their very definitions the countries themselves aren't
@niggy_stardust
100% agree, but I would go a little further to say that this and pop psych/self care culture themselves of a hyper-individualized society; one that lacks any semblance of solidarity or community except when people are aggrieved
@Queen_Natasia
@Pgctjp
@heddydorn
@trenchsquidink
@shrimpzoo
If it requires you an entire break period just to get to the bathroom and back, which I've heard is a very real thing in at least some Amazon warehouses, then I'm p sure they have a pretty good case for that shit to be unreasonable
@DaveyBiden2024
@JCDenton220
@Greekcommie1917
That's what I figured but it seems you missed the entire point of what I was saying and also don't seem to understand the ways in which the big "liberal" countries have on the rest of the world. Liberalism isn't an endpoint for anything except total collapse
@treeber29
@RabbitUnique
@jzlegit
I see the genocide understander has entered chat. It very much is genocide. They want and are trying to "wipe Gaza off the map" and they're not even being subtle about it
@JazzerciseDemon
P sure the use as a slur and as a term for State Dept creeps both derive from the same, earlier use of the word as an apparition or ghost