Me: "You're not going to take over the Dems. You can't reform the party. We've been through this before." DemSocs: "Yes, we will! We'll run candidates, primary the establishment, and kick them out of office!" AOC: "Nah."

Somehow I doubt that liberals will continue being outraged about bin Salman murdering Khashoggi once a Dem gets into office again. After all, Biden kissed the crown prince's ring once oil prices started going up, and they never made a peep about it.

After the recent AWS outage and now this, maybe we shouldn't have centralized the entire internet and made its existence dependent on such a small number of corporate monopolies?

More immigrants! More gays! More communists! F**k your backward, insular culture

Saw a few protest signs from the climate change rally in town today Not a single one mentioned capitalism. Just minor reforms. Nothing will change until we toss capitalist thought and practice into the dustbin of history. We need to dream bigger.

A wind power project situated at a max altitude of 5,370 m in Qonggyai County of southwest China's Xizang was connected to grid on Monday, becoming the world's highest-altitude wind farm in operation.

Break up big tech monopolies. The system has become too vulnerable. Build local alternatives, resiliency.

Twitter disabled Hebrew machine translation because they didn't want people to easily see how horribly genocidal israeli posts are.

The only conspiracy theory I subscribe to but don’t actually believe is one where the intelligent aliens won’t talk to us until we achieve communism.

It has never been so obvious that capitalism has outlived any supposed usefulness it ever had a claim to

The @theguardian.com runs with "tensions rise", to describe what is in fact unilateral US aggression against a country that poses zero threat to the US or to anyone else.

With the genocide in Palestine, the mask of humanity has fallen from capital. The entire world knows, now, that there can be no just world with these monsters in it.

as a staunch opponent of capital punishment on ethical and practical grounds i want to be abundantly clear that hanging is on the table when the gestapo faces the tribunals

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“Red Heat” (1988) was a U.S. film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, packed with stereotypes straight out of every Western Cold War fantasy. But its real achievement was different: it refused to portray the USSR as an ‘Evil Empire’ and instead showed a genuine desire to find common ground.

The same journalist who watched Israel and the US kill 245 Palestinian journalists without objection? The same journalists who watched Sam Husseini get dragged out by security for asking Blinken about the genocide? Those journalists?

Billionaires will cash out of the stock market before it collapses. The modest percentage of the population that has money in the market in the form of a 401K or IRA is penalized for early withdrawls and won't be able to cash out before it crashes. It's designed that way on purpose.

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Israel, the country of rape.

This really is the core of the issue no matter what group you're talking about. Nothing good will ever come from people who watched a genocide and did nothing (or worse, participated in it). We all know this. Yes, you too.

I always find it weird when a liberal who has all sorts of pro-Democrat stuff in their bio follows me. I'm a communist, I dislike both the Democrats and the Republicans. Both parties are on the side of the capitalist class, while I'm on the side of the working class.

It should be common sense that the system will never let you use its levers of power to destroy it. Electoralism largely functions as a safety valve. That's not to say that you can't deliver meaningful things on the local level, but you're not going to abolish capitalism by voting.

We're at the point where people need to understand that you can't take over the Dems and expect to change the party from the inside. This is a systemic problem, not one that boils down to a few bad apples. This has been attempted before, and even when we gain power, it doesn't work.

On this #marxistmonday Karl Marx points out it is the fact of being paid for one's work that validates capitalism as a viable socio-economic structure, but beneath this veil of "free commerce” lies the foundation of wage slavery, racism and immense inequality.

Capitalist interests oppose policies designed to reduce poverty, including but not limited to resisting minimum wage laws, unionization, universal health insurance, and progressive taxation. The poor are forced to sell their labor in a system that perpetuates their condition. #marxistmonday

“Israel and Taiwan are bases of operations for imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective.” - Mao Zedong (1965)

Let's not forget what kind of man Patton Oswalt is just because he was mildly rude on the internet. This man is not an ally.

that whole 'this country isn't ready for a woman president' line is really upsetting because it shows exactly how neoliberalism works, redirecting blame from issues of policy (or lack thereof) onto a flattened, vague type of sexism in a way that ultimately doesn't even challenge sexism!

You know that a lot of the folks that frequent elite circles know who was hanging out with Epstein, right? It's an open secret, like Bohemian Grove shit. Epstein was arrested in 2019, so you should be asking yourself, "Did all these powerful men stop being predators, or did they find a new Epstein?"

Workers are busy laying straw grids to establish a green belt against desertification in Minghua Township, located on the edge of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwest China's Gansu.

I really like this anime-style art.

Mikhail Kalashnikov (wearing an AK-47 tie pin) standing next to Colonel Gaddafi on the shores of Tripoli, Libya. Late 1990s.

Rich people like to pretend their work ethic is somehow better than other people's. But the truth is their success is built on the backs of the people grinding just to survive. Let’s stop pretending billionaire wealth is earned, it’s extracted. Happy #marxistmonday ✊🏻

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out. Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

Catholic schools are used as legal conversion therapy because you have to wear a gendered uniform cut your hair a certain way etc etc and you are expelled if you don’t. Do you understand this. do you understand how many kids at each school are there for that reason

"Have died"? They were murdered by Israel.

The number of times victims of the Catholic Church are silenced or dismissed by people on all sides is truly amazing like you are literally disgusting you make me vomit the rot of idealism has consumed you and it’s a parasite piloting your corpse

"We must support the Catholic Church in their fight against the Trump Administration" why do we need to root for any pedophiles at all? Have we asked ourselves why we are sorting ourselves into pedo vs pedo teams?

A tamed hedgehog from the Moscow Circus on Prospekt Vernadskogo having breakfast. Photo by Roman Poderni (USSR, 1987)

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Michael Parenti on the US overthrowing governments if their economic model didn't directly benefit the US interests.

Listen to the corporate centrists. They do not care about people. Their only priority is protecting the capitalist machine that feeds them. They’ll sacrifice anyone, normalize fascism, do anything if it means the checks keep coming in.

Neoliberals will never take responsibility for their actions. It's maddening to see all of these people that brought us to where we are now pretend that all of this materialized out of the ether and that they had nothing to do with it.