Tomato Town never stood a chance.Happy birthday to Karl Marx, the biggest mass murderer in history.
Tomato Town never stood a chance.Happy birthday to Karl Marx, the biggest mass murderer in history.
Happy birthday to Karl Marx, the biggest mass murderer in history.
God damn it.
I get it, when you have even an iota of empathy it can still feel baffling to see some asshole defend that kind of thing. But, our entire global structure has been organized to idolize the dollar above all else. mRNAs have already been passed over in the past because it wasn't seen as profitable at the time; who knows what other kind of advancements in medicine (and in other fields) that we're not even aware of because of profit > human welfare.The ghouls at the WSJ Editorial Section are complaining that Biden is hurting IP rights with the move to suspend vaccine patents.
Imagine being that obsessed with money that human lives are dispensable for some portfolio gains.
Capitalism operates by depriving ppl of basic necessities so they're forced to serve as cheap labor for industry. Gov't assists private industry by creating policy that forces ppl into poverty & also criminalizes poverty. Police enforce it by evicting ppl, targeting poor ppl, etc
/ You can't really understand the complex relation between capitalism, racism, classism/poverty & the US govt without understanding that kidnapped Black ppl were/are used as investment capital to fund the entire system. Slavery was never a minor issue, it's the basis of the economy
/ The rest of the social/cultural traditions of the modern society stem from the centuries-long practice of regarding kidnapped Black ppl as tradable commodities, no different than any other financial asset a person might own.
She's absolutely on the money. Expropriation (of land, shelter, bodily autonomy, raw resources, and lives) and capitalism cannot be extricated from one another, but it is an expropriation always levied against the other: first against the native peoples of America and Africa when capitalism was built on their literally commodified backs and stolen land and lives, and then too against underclasses of the poor and newly freed from chattel slavery, and now again revisited on foreign lands with the modern plausible deniability of outsourcing slavery and abuse, and the obfuscation of plunder through organizations like the IMF, USAID, or the various generic names that squeeze the global south for its resource wealth and pass them along to the brands we know and love. There must always be an other in this system to steal, cheat, and undervalue for capitalism to function, and liberals (whether they call themselves conservatives, progressives, or otherwise) are kidding themselves and re-entrenching the lie to describe it otherwise.
"For every dollar of aid the South receives, they lose $14 in drain through unequal exchange, not counting illicit financial outflows. Poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around."
Lenin said:Regarded from this, the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns.
😂entremet I apologize for giving you shit over the CNBC Make It threads, nothing you have ever posted can come close to the depravity of that BossAttack thread.
Yep. When you expand it globally, it's just even more egregious and unforgiveable.
I think watching in real-time the constant mass global exploitation and murder, especially when it's done by your guys, is a big radicalizing moment. I'm still a baby socialist, but my entire adult life I've watched the world be plundered, looted, gutted, and paved over for a minority of special interests. I'm only in my mid 30s, so I've still just experienced a limited sneak peek behind the curtain. And all this evil just to sustain a parasitic life for the privileged few.
The future is going to be even tougher to mitigate the longer we take to toss this exploitative system into the dustbin of history. Capitalism will always devolve to (eco)fascism when things start going south and the systems can't keep up.
Even if communism doesn't solve all our problems, then at the very least , us throwing out capitalism might buy us some goodwill from later generations pissed off at the world they're inheriting from the "fucked around" generations.
The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration's shaping of the judiciary.
The first 17 hires to the court system responsible for determining whether migrants get to remain in the country is filled with former prosecutors and counselors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well as a few picks with little immigration experience.
Almost none have made their career representing migrants in court.
the question of violence only comes up when colonized people use it to RESIST.
no one asks about violence when the u.s spends trillions on military bases all around the world. no one asks about violence when u.s trains police in other nations how to better murder their citizens
Thoughts on Robert Reich? Clinton's former cabinet member. He's also an economist.
I read The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It the other month, and while I like hearing his experienced views based on his time in government, his book goes on and on about these issues in capitalism, but he doesn't take the extra step to say that capitalism probably isn't going to work to improve on all these problems. He's pretty good on a number of issues, and I think he has some smart ideas about how to make some things better, but I don't agree with him on everything.Thoughts on Robert Reich? Clinton's former cabinet member. He's also an economist.
Personally speaking, I like him well enough. He's still way too liberal-adjacent sometimes, but he's usually pretty right on a lot of issues and is a great communicator of the more progressive values the Democratic party could achieve if it was actually interested in doing so.
The world's great ecosystems − moderators of climate, nurseries for evolution − are still being destroyed in the service of global trade, to meet the rich world's demands. Once again, researchers have confirmed that the wealthy nations are in effect ploughing savanna and felling tropical forests at a distance.
In the first 15 years of this century, the growing demand from the well-heeled for chocolate, rubber, cotton, soy, beef and exotic timber has meant that poorer nations have actually increased their levels of deforestation.
In effect, every human in the G7 nations − Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US − is responsible for the loss of at least four trees a year, mostly in the developing world.
Ironically, many of the richer nations have expanded the areas of forest on their own soil. More than 90% of the deforestation caused by five of the G7 nations was beyond their own borders. In effect, the rich were exporting the destruction of the natural world, and the cost to the planet was disproportionate. The loss of three trees in the Amazon might be more damaging than the loss of 14 trees in Norway, the scientists argue.
"Most forests are in poorer countries who are overwhelmed with economic incentives to cut them down. Our findings show that richer countries are encouraging deforestation through demand for commodities," said Keiichiro Kanemoto of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto.
Reich is about as good as a liberal gets, but at the end of the day, he's like Warren in that he believes capitalism can be regulated to be "more fair." He's a useful tool for communication at times, but that's about it.
Can anyone decipher for me what the fuck is going on in this tweet?
US capitalism during its worst economic crash and worst viral pandemic in nearly a century: 82 million need unemployment compensation while 650 US billionaires get almost $1 trillion richer. The system is the problem.
Jeff Bezos buys $500m superyacht so big it comes with a ‘support yacht’
Experts say that yacht industry has seen a boom during the pandemict.co
Not a strictly socialist post, but I have to say, while I didn't vote for Joe Biden (thank fucking god, what an absolute piece of shit both-sides'ing a genocide), I'm starting to consider not voting for Democrats downticket who are on the wrong side of this, either, even though they don't directly set foreign policy. My House rep is generally decent, more or less a socdem, but he's parroting Biden here:
Progressive except Palestine, just terrible. As a black American my father was born under a system of apartheid, and our people had their property seized. I can't in good conscience support politicians who would voice their support for an apartheid ethnostate even if they are solid on other issues. It isn't right.
Thanks for this. I'll be attending the one in Houston, it won't make much of a difference but I can't in good conscience be silent about this.STAND WITH PALESTINE! Say NO to apartheid! Join or organize a protest in your area!
Act Now to Stop War & End Racismwww.answercoalition.org
Updating list of rallies/events planned in support of Palestine.
Can't say I know who the best tactical or transformational vote here is, but I hope whoever it is exceeds all expectations and that ya'll see immediate relief and a paradigm shift. Godspeed ✊So, this weekend in Chile we have a bunch of elections: local authorities, our first of regional governors, and most importantly the one for the members of the Constitutional Convention.
Members of this institution will be elected under the D'hont system, just like our congress, which favors pacts or lists rather than individual voting. The center-right, right and far right is going under a single unified pact, while the rest of opposition goes in several lists: independent pacts, anti-party pacts, center/center left parties pact, a left-parties pact, etc. This will probably leave us with an overrepresented right and disperse the opposition votes.
And that makes me really torn on who to vote. I could vote for the "Lista del Pueblo" (People's list), activists who have actively participated in the protests and movements since October 2019 with somewhat clear left wing policies and ideas, or I could go with the left wing pact of parties (Composed by the progressive parties, the Communist party, and some independent people). The second one will probably get more votes and have more chances of carry another candidate under the D'hont system, but that's where the idea of giving power to the people who actually tackled the system in the first place dies.
There is a lot at stake in this. The over represented right is probably gonna block a lot of stuff (they only need 1/3rd for that, since 2/3rds are needed to approve any one motion), so the process has been in peril since it's conception. This constitutional process was hijacked by parties with the clear intention of keeping the power in them during a moment where people was organizing constitutional councils locally and the Piñera's government was *this* close to collapse, and some left wing parties were too afraid of a vaccum of power and just gave in to the election system when the reform to allow this process was concieved.
Still, all in all, it's still the best chance we have to change the neoliberal system we have. How much of it, it remains to be seen, but a lot of uncertainty for everyone on this.
Yup, heading out in an hour! Austin, TX.Anyone going to a Palestine march this weekend? I have to sit out due to illness.
It's common to describe Biden's three initial legislative packages as "ambitious," but in scale of federal budget and national GDP, are they really? - $1.9T Covid relief bill, yet nominal wage growth under 1% - $2T infrastructure plan is over eight years
Biden's per year investments would be $250B infrastructure and $170B families plan. The DoD spends $274B per year on its top 100 contractors; the floor of military spending next year will be $753B; total spending on national security every year tops $1.2T
Anyone going to a Palestine march this weekend? I have to sit out due to illness.
And I want my damn stimulus check lol. Trump was still more of a pandemic Santa Claus than Biden is at this point.
Wolff still on the prowl
Imagine coming out of this pandemic a devout capitalist that still pretends that we can still merely reform this system, all while using the same people who crafted said shit system to be the dumpster fire it is today. Couldn't be me.
I'm really disappointed in quite a few statements, but especially this one. And I think I might be there with you on the whole Dem downballot vote. I probably will stop that going forward, because this whole whitewashing of a genocidal ethnostate is stale and unforgiveable.
I can't in good conscious +1 people like that anymore or recommend them.
Which is why I now rarely even talk about the vote. Preaching to the choir here, but it's better to dwell on the message and conditions; people can make their own choices about their individual vote after we have conversations about that other stuff and more.
So yeah, I'm all for voting and voter registration too, but that's like side item #XYZ in a big list. And one of those more important items on the list will be talking about how politicians will disappoint you and instead ingratiate themselves in the rot. So instead of elevating some politician, we elevate ourselves and our communities and we force that smiling fox to meet us and not the other way around.