Bernie_Sandals @ Bernie_Sandals @lemmy.world

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That's probably closer to Zoomer language. (Zoomer here)

When I saw Guthrie I assumed it would be the song about Trump's dad written by Guthrie. (Unfortunately, I can't find Guthrie performing it himself)

Bonus Guthrie song about the Farmer-Labor Party since Walz is technically a member.

Which is what they like, go look at the Republicans in Congress.

Not sure why, but learning this was one of the most humanizing thing I've seen about almost any politician.

Palestinians will not coexist peacefully. They do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.

Yikes okay I hadn't heard about this, that's really bad. The only way I'd be surprised if a Republican said something like this would be that it's above a fifth grade level of grammar, this is unacceptable for a Democrat. Do you have a source for where he said this?

Can you give me a reason as to why? I haven't seen him say anything worse than the normal Pro-Israel democrat positions.

Ignorant American here, are any of the parties in Brazil trying to defend Maduro? I was very surprised to see even Lula take a stand against him.

which is really, really far away from socialism in soviet controlled eastern europe

In that it's democratic and they want to expand rights from just being political to also being economic? Yes I agree, they're severely different from the Soviet style parties, but that doesn't make them not socialist, their left wing members will usually still argue for the ownership of the means of production by workers, usually they just argue for cooperatives rather than mass nationalization nowadays.

what's the basis for this being a slur?

It's a slur just like "Uncle Tom" would be for conservative black Americans, it's not exclusively racial, but it has a nationalist and racialist element, that's added onto by ideology.

That would make Tankie a slur too, wouldn't it?

If Tankie was used like Gusano is, to justify violence and to persecute, then I would be against using it too.

The term was also prevalent in hate crimes against anti-revolutionary Cubans. In September or October 1961, over the course of a week, 12 deceased bodies were discovered over Havana with notes attached to them that said "gusanos with pro-revolutionary [ideologies], CIA agents

During the 1962 wildfires that destroyed sugarcane plantations, locals in Cubas were reported saying that "gusanos have infiltrated the canefields."[28] This led to quick military tribunals resulting in death by firing squad for "gusanos"

But no use of Tankie has ever neared how the Cuban government used Gusano to justify mass persecution of those unfriendly to the regime.

Not a place you'd want to live in.

Of course not, which is why it's unfair to lump in welfare state creators like the demsoc parties of western Europe, and the brutal leninist parties of Asia and Eastern Europe.

I agree with most of what you've said, you should read more from anarchist philosophers like Tolstoy or Goldman though.

Socialists

However I would subtract the socialist from you comment and just keep it at communist, there's plenty of democratic socialist parties that never devolved into rampant totalitarianism like the leninist parties did.

The gusano

You know there's a way to make your point politically without using literal slurs right?

You understand that Castro went after than more than just slave owners right? It's super disingenuous to pretend that most of the 1.5 million people who have fled Cuba were slave owners.

Lmfao.

Trump was never even charged with insurrection

So you think Al Capone was just a normal dude who forgot to pay his taxes? A Supreme Court also has found Trump guilty of insurrection.

The Dems just used that word hoping they could get a conviction on it

So now you think the justice department is controlled by the dems? If the dems have control over the justice department, why wouldn't they charge Trump with more crimes?

That way, he wouldn't be able to run for office again.

That's not how the 14th Amendment works, Congress would first have to pass a law applying the 14th Amendment to Trump, it's not automatically applying. Did you not read the Supreme Court opinions?

I paid less taxes under Trump and made more money.

Imagine supporting a literal insurrectionist because you might pay lower taxes maybe. Very cool dude.

During times of war it legally is.

Her family is pretty interesting as well, definitely worth reading about them too.

There's all sorts of reasons being unionized could help create a better product.

Hopefully it means less insane crunch but it's still up to the higher ups to say "ok good enough" and release before it's polished right?

Yes you're correct, but the union beyond just meaning less crunch, also means that the average worker has more pathways to be vocal about problems with the product. They also now have a "nuclear option" of going on strike if management makes a decision regarding the product that the union really doesn't like.

Beyond all that though, even just basic stuff like job satisfaction/happiness at your job, can lead to a better product in creative industries, and unions are proven to lead to happier workers.

If we only want to overthrow leftists because of economic resources.

Then why has the Biden administration kept good relations with the socialist president of Chile, one of the world's largest producers of cobalt, instead of overthrowing him like we did with Allende?

Why did Biden save Brazil, an oil producing nation, and it's socialist president from a fascist coup?

It's not even a leftist thing, the U.S. opposes right-wing power grabs and coups abroad as well, and has for at least two decades.