PumpkinSkink @ PumpkinSkink @lemmy.world

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I'm just gonna post the Cory Doctorow quote

"Take politics: One common refrain is that ‘‘I don’t even know what right or left even mean anymore, they’re just tribal identities.’’ Many years ago, I said something very like this to Steven Brust, who skewered me with his response:

‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’"

Yeah those bastards should let all of us buy stock with penis.

I really hope he's stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He's the best advertisement of all time for "Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have". Keep talking Musky.

They'll clearly just send them to El Salvador regardless, so Canada will likely be spared.

Great powers rearming will not be good for anyone no matter what the context is around it. After Napoleon, European leaders were so afraid of war between great powers that they avoided it for 100 years. The moment they let their guard up we got WW1. The weapons do not make us safer. Don't think for a moment it can't happen again.

If she's banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.

We have to keep in mind that Europe needs to justify austerity for the citizens and rearmament for their militaries. I have no evidence of this, but I think it's an entierly sensible read that the warning from Germany is an overstatement with that intent in mind.

If the choice is "be an acomplice to the destruction of an entier country and it's people" and "don't get a discount code for college", like, surely we can see that's not really a good excuse.

More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It's much safer to bomb them from a plane.

Also there's the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.

You might be right, but I also submit that, when talking to Trump voters (older family members of me and my friends mostly), instead of "proving them wrong" about Trump, I've been redirecting the conversation toward "isn't all that bad stuff the fault of rich people?", and it has had a 100% success rate so far. They fucking hate the wealthy too. They ain't waving the red flag, but I bet a lot more of them would vote for someone just to screw over the rich than most people think.

I mean the "neoliberal world order" was just facism abroad.

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

Was there an alternative word he should have used to describe himself?

Instead of sending you to the Vaush Gulag I'm going to instead reccomend that you try audiobooks. There are many on youtube, but that is not the only place you can find audiobooks of Marxist theory. Let's just say Marxists are real keen on making sure these texts are readily accessible. While a lot of theory is old, not all of it is, but you'll be lost in newer theory if you don't know the basics.

I highly recommend "Black Shirts and Reds" by Parenti for newbies to Marxism. I also recommend "Socialism Scientific and Utopian" by Engels, "Reform and Revolution" by Luxembourg. All of these can easily be found as both pdf and audiobook, and are short, and easily digestible by lay people.

Ok even if that is the case. Why is it even possible for them to deliver ads to a car? The very fact it could happen "accidently" is more than enough for me to be angry.

This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.

My money is on you being right... But if they wanted to prove it wrong, getting arrested would be a good start.

Are you seriously Destiny posting rn?

When one of them gets arrested I'll know they mean it.

Wow! Finally! A use for AI! A means of kicking the metaphorical cat litter on the giant turd of private industry firing your neighbor to cut costs. I always knew they could figure it out eventually.