@aarond
@Srirachachau
Well, there’s a bunch. Like many people on here I too am interested in history and read about US policy in the early Cold War. I’d say Iran and Guatemala. We also heavily supported the non-communists in Italy and elsewhere.
italian workers been doing shit like this for a while. back in the iraq invasion they would also refuse to load arms shipments headed out there. it’s also a powerful example of what radical union locals can accomplish and a type of labor anti-imperialism.
A pathetic aspect of rightwing “intellectuals” is their eager moral self-infantilization: only people on the left exercise moral agency. Reactionaries, by contrast, are always helpless before their worst urges, their most evil choices an unavoidable reaction to leftist action.
notice there’s nothing about love, or family, or friendship, serenity and contentment, satisfaction, or intellectual, athletic, and aesthetic pursuits.
@GoadGatsby
@MitchellAHorton
I definitely have an anti-communist agenda. I love capitalism. It gave me an iphone, twitter, amazon, google, air conditioning, cars, hdtv, cameras, trains, airplanes, should i go on? Things im sure you enjoy as well. Your also a capitalist you’re just in denial.
piers morgan & j k rowling have been chosen as the Autumn King & Queen—they will be entitled to a sumptuous meal before they are sealed into the tomb with the queen.
eventually every single holiday will be about the troops. memorial day, july 4th. labor day about the work of troops. on halloween kids will dress up like troops. christmas will celebrate the birth of the troops. easter, the eternal recurrence of the troops.
based on your vibe alone i suspect your friend’s wife was subjected to one nightmare after another until she summoned the courage to leave him. good for her.
an old story about st francis of assisi: one day the holy man was working the land. a man came up to him and asked, “if the Lord returned to today and the end was at hand, what would you do?” to which st francis responded, “i would finish harvesting these beans”.
one of the major problems with this argument based in Beauty is that there is nothing beautiful about monarchy or all the crass accessories of your Most Special Boy. there is more beauty in a muddy puddle than there is in all of buckingham palace.
anno domini 2022
ex bernie staffer: bernie would’ve won
me: come on man, get the fuck over it
random coworker: bernie would’ve won
me: you’re absolutely right. i was down with bernie too. hey, how much they paying you round here?
Because that one silly fake map of a U.S. high-speed rail system refuses to die (you know the one I'm talking about) I thought I'd try to make a hypothetical map of a high-speed rail system that would actually be usable and practical.
Here goes:
I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school
They represent the summun of popularity and success
Those who fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy
A mirror into your soul
OK! listen UP yall. i do NOT see any one even PRETEND to care about this: from killing Jesus to literally inventing fascism to…that’s right we need to talk about THE ITALIANS. 🧶(1/509)
@PetreRaleigh
as i get older everything i see is a form of labor discipline and i mean EVERYTHING. from irregular workweeks to illusory and multiplying “manager” roles to old standbys like employer health insurance.
@nkulw
no doubt in my mind that the IDF leadership knows their military is a shambles and couldn’t deal with the inevitable mass attack from Hez so they are waiting for more USA guarantees. it ain’t ‘67 anymore and they KNOW it.
If you are calling for a ceasefire deal or an arms embargo but are upset by any of the tweets below, which have been part of the discussions and frameworks being negotiated, you aren’t serious about ending the violence.
my zoomer coworker informed me that among their tribe it is understood that if a man knows his zodiac sun, moon, & rising off the top of his head that means he “gets around”.
Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in California's Klamath River. And wildlife officials said the Sacramento River is facing a "near-complete loss" of young Chinook salmon due to abnormally warm water.
the subtext is that the Democrat party feels that even their stalwart paraparty institutions (unions, black churches in the south, non profits) are under the obligation to solve the problem but not the elected politicians or leadership.
Remember ya'll, the meme that cops die in two seconds by having contact with a sealed ziploc bag of fentanyl or whatever is all a ruse for the fact that the cops are the ones trafficking the drugs
the basic operative logic of the economy in the last few decades is that no one is to own anything. everyone will pay rents, loans, or licensing. instead of DVDs—we stream. instead of wage increases—credit cards.
when they tell you what they want and what the are—believe them. when matt walsh calls himself a “theocratic fascist”—believe him. when rod dreher says “if this is fascism let’s have more fascism”—believe him.
the 2020 uprisings, of which stop cop city is an heir, were widely embraced by regular people. small mountain towns in my state had hundreds coming out. the only person out of touch with “normies” are bores like yourself.
Yeah man, it's a training facility for cops and fire fighters and a bunch of white leftists from Wisconsin and Oregon drove to a heavily black city to throw Molotov cocktails at minority construction workers over it. Strangely, this is not how the New Yorker reported the story!
listen dawg those kids were cooperating with all your bullshit rules so then you bitches went and changed the rule so you could send in the stormtroopers. fuck you and your fucking school.
A pro-Palestinian protest ended on Grounds Saturday after University, local and state police cleared the area. This followed repeated policy violations. Violent conduct and failure to follow police directions led officers to declare an unlawful assembly.
me: “didn’t brigham young have like 33 wives?”
her: “when you look at his wiki page, under the ‘spouse’ line it’s a whole other page just for his wives”
me: “33 right?”
her: “56!”
me: “what??? wow”
her: “i don’t think i could name 56 people”
i sit in lotus posture at the banks of the river. i see The Discourse gently rocking back and forth amid crooked branches and bloated corpses. it passes by. all is well.
amazing to me that everyone from ben burgis to the entire Democrat party to elon musk all believe that we must dismiss and reject whatever is to the left and coddle and “give an argument” to anything on the right.
Just half of younger Americans now hold a positive view of capitalism — and socialism's appeal in the U.S. continues to grow, driven by Black Americans and women, according to a new Axios/Momentive poll.
I’ve just instructed the president of
@LaGeoSV
(our state-owned geothermal electric company), to put up a plan to offer facilities for
#Bitcoin
mining with very cheap, 100% clean, 100% renewable, 0 emissions energy from our volcanos 🌋
This is going to evolve fast! 🇸🇻
This should go without saying, but PPP loans aren't the same as college debt. We faced a natural disaster (pandemic) compounded by government shut-down orders that blocked people from working. PPP is better viewed as a form of disaster relief.
everything that’s happened in south america is the result of decades of labor organizing, building communal institutions in the city and country, and an indefatigable commitment to revolutionary politics & philosophy.
my theory is that it’s similar to the reasons the IDF sucks on the battlefield. they spend most of their time bullying & beating up teenagers which degraded their capacity to face a real opponent. they’ve never had to actually *try* w/ their agitprop until now & they’re flailing.
Would love a piece trying to uncover why IDF propaganda is so bad rn, but also why it’s bad in ways reminiscent of NYPD (and other police forces actually). Both have ungodly sums of money, zealous support, the technical know-how, but their shit just surprisingly sucks
Recently
@lacosheriff
said, “There’s cliques everywhere. Every single police station, I guarantee you.” This patch I just got from BeTactical seems to confirm that notion.
More on Sheriff Villanueva’s comments here:
*brushing my teeth, pauses*
me: “so we know that sam and frodo were together. were merry and pippin also?”
her: “oh yeah they’re gay”
me: “ok so, was this like a poly thing or were they just two couples that are friends?”
her: “i don’t think the english have sex”
*manager in a state where UI only lasts two months*
people are just quitting or not putting in applications for our company. it’s this damn UI, people can just stay home and make more money that way. i can’t believe it
I don’t think the 23 yo anti-Biden people can comprehend the resilience of we who lived through Clinton impeachment, Bush2 anti-gay jingoism, Iraq, 2008, Obama v Hill, the tea party, Hillary V Bernie, Donald Trump, COVID, 🐀🐍, the Squad, etc—y’all can barely live w/o DoorDash.
i wanna examine the brain of people who “critically support” the Democrat party despite all the millions of corpses that can be laid at their feet while at the same time acting as if the
@DSA_Intl_Comm
has signed over all control of the organization to caracas
anyone who knows immigrants could tell you that after some time here this tune changes to a dirge. since we’re doing anecdotes, i have met countless immigrants who say that this country isn’t anything like they thought it would be, that this is a mean spirited & cruel place.
all bosses and management have gone insane. ive spoken to a couple senior management guys and they truly believe unemployment is preventing people from working. this is VIRGINIA, mind you.
it really does feel like there’s a push for mass paranoia. everything from the rightwing groomers lie to sex trafficking tiktoks to true crime media pushes attention away from likely sources of abuse: people you actually know, respected authorities like clergy, intimate partners.
News over the weekend said "Hey you aren't scared enough. Let's throw out a couple moralistic parables about why you ought to fear your neighbors and never help anyone ever."
i cannot for the life of me understand why a man that rich even knows what a meme is let alone cares about it. if i was that rich i would be sitting on a mountain of cocaine on some random tropical island.
recalling in the first few months of the plague when distilleries switched from liquor to hand sanitizer, neighbors were knitting little masks, & ppl went out to the park. for a brief moment we got to see what happens when our poor society believes we are all in this together.
If "the left" sits out the 2024 election because they are mad that Biden isn't pure enough, they will help elect a Christo Fascist government that will waste no time turning this country into a Christian theocracy. So breathtakingly stupid, my teeth hurt.
considering all the problems in this country that are leading to the total destruction of society and the natural world, it would be in the best interests of all life on earth to ruthlessly suppress the GOP.
a reminder that michael harrington was down with puerto rican independence and per a deal struck with the PIP back in the day, the latter is considered DSA’s equivalent on the islands. this is why there is no puerto rico chapters of DSA. you are expected to be with PIP.
@PatrickTShep
my hot take is that we should actually *raise* the pay and benefits of public office. allows working people to make a living if they get in and could act as a deterrent to those who seek office purely for personal enrichment.
one of my favorite local government meetings is when there’s something going on like a protest or a specific issue that’s got a lot of action and so the normal crank who always shows up tries to shoehorn their pet grievance into the meeting.