I am all for horrid racist psychopaths dying in defence of Ukraine but I am not going to mourn them or even be nice about them

By the fact that it's not all over my feed any more, guess everyone else knows it was fake too :D

Honestly I think it should be plainly illegal for white Americans to claim their way of life is being destroyed. Given that you are literally the global hegemon culture, that can only be true if you caused it yourself!

He poasts hard.

I /love/ how effortlessly racist Australians are, especially when they're trying to be antiracist.

It’s not hard to understand why the post-OWS ended up the way it did when you realize that—however well intentioned—the idea of ‘the 99%’ was effectively an attempt to create class collaboration.

Wilhelm Reich has entered the chat

🇺🇦🇵🇸 is the only humane alignment

Some Trump lackey said something about bringing manufacturing back to the US so generations can stay in the same tiny town working at the same factory. The dream of fascists and the conservative Left - making the wheel of progress/human mobility stop.

I'm a Marxist so I can name the screenshotted glurge for what it is: pure petty-bourgeois ideology

The dream of perpetual economic growth in an authoritarian state is every oligarch's wet dream. The dominant global ruling class faction dream of a planet divided between China and Dubai. But you only get the "creative destruction" which renews capitalism in places where new things are possible /1

I think Zack Polanski is a pretty cool guy, eh lines up against King Big Ears and doesn't afraid of the evil Brit press

People who defend capitalism's periodic need to blow everything up but still keep going are like a bipolar person refusing to go on meds because they get so much done in their manic phase

This. Is. The. Way. Against neoliberalism, fascism and conservative leftism For all power to skilled workers/professionals/the mass intelligentsia

Capitalism has solved the problem of cheap abundant commodities at the expense of massive social inequality, environmental devastation, and a whole new set of social/emotional pathologies. Important to recognise that the first bit is a historical achievement though /1

Huge if true

TBH one of the biggest structural weaknesses of the left is the fact that so much of the 'intro-to-activism' content kids encounter when they first get involved is total bullshit written by the worst people which then takes years to unlearn (if folks ever do, and many do not).

The main evidence that it's fake is also the evidence the Pee Tape is fake. It is too transparently exactly what "we" would like to hear. And like the Pee Tape, once debunked it will tarnish all the *real* stuff by association.

USAmericans have this charming belief that their country's racism is caused by inadequate social services, which renders them incapable of explaining how fascism is also growing in continental Europe

My most NIMBY-coded belief is that we all know NZ transit is a disaster, so wtf are we doing with congestion charges

Gnosticism is so popular among edgy Westerners because "The God of the Bible is a bad guy who's trapped us in a hell realm for shits and giggles, but don't worry, the Real Jesus will get us out" is the most compelling and exciting counternarrative to everything your priest taught you

Finally, a good use case for AI. Get to it.

I recommend this hateread in particular 1900hotdog.com/2025/03/fuck...

Attention all you liberals who, while meaning well, allow yourself to get negatively polarised against socialists: this is what you end up sounding like

I hate to be one of those "what Marx failed to consider" clowns, but: is there anything in the Marxian tradition of political economy which discusses the situation in which small capital can outcompete big capital? Which has been the "hidden motor" of neoliberal growth, esp. in tech, for decades

I don't get it. Surely Greenwald would be pro-CECOT because Bukele is part of the Axis of Resistance, justikd Mr Trump whom he does not support

An aging, shrinking population is great if you're a conservative gentry with no future who just wants to retain privileges as the world burns. See: Ireland, 1930s-90s

Everything is gender, and everyone is 12

It's easy to imagine that antisemitism and Islamophobia are existentially opposed and that combating one means tolerating the other, but then you read what all these people have to say about Syria...

Orthodox Trotskyists still call the late USSR a "degenerated workers' state", because of Trotsky's assertion that a State monopoly of foreign trade meant that the proletariat were the ruling class. No, I don't get it either. But honestly, I think part of it is sheer workerism...

Told the kid that David Walliams was cancelled. She was all like "even if he's a bad person I still like his books" and I was all like KID, one day I'll tell you a story about a man called Gaiman

"extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system" is precisely the process by which unions become reactionary. It leads to the worst form of class collaborationism.

"i'm a Heritage America" - no, you're english except your ancestors were too shitty to bring steak and ale pies

in conclusion

"buying music is expensive but i wanna support artists and spotify is the only option for that" i have a tip for you: pirate all the music you want. all of it. no matter how much. set aside each month a spotify subscription's worth of money and use that to buy something off of bandcamp or itunes.

Transphobia leads to total brain collapse, part 94

Question. When the USSR's economy turned into producing bullshit that didn't work so some checkbox could be ticked, that whole social system collapsed. How can contemporary capitalism support it?

my e-bike is a life-saving mobility aid, and i deserve to use it without being threatened or put at risk by people operating heavy machinery

Please don't put this shit on the timeline. It is a cognitohazard that encourages fascism.

I just remembered where I heard this before. "COVID is not going to go away (so give up and allow mass death)"

"I support Partick Thistle. That's Partick Thistle FC. I say this because people who only listen to the results think our name is Partick Thistle Nil." - Billy Connolly

🇺🇦🇮🇱 is not a coherent position and will not be a coherent position for a very long time barring some very drastic shifts

Oh fuck

This is the problem with contemporary Leftism being dominated by people who live by writing and are therefore "petty IP capitalists"

Russia is trying to reverse engineer the Bob Semple tank otherwise known as the deadly assault shed.

What a coincidence - that's also the reason the Right wing want to kick kids off the internet

I recognize the look on that face. The Evangelist Smile. If you know, you know

A super interesting, complex profile of Standing Together & how it fits in Israel's political landscapes: nationally, within the Left, among Israeli Jews, Palestinians & shared struggle groups. Recommended, whether you're instinctively a critic or a fan. www.972mag.com/standing-tog...

“Fascism is not real” and ”it’s all economic anxiety“ are luxury beliefs