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Says the guy who literally built a fucking pier to delivery food because Israel won't let trucks go through on the road.

Nominally pretty far from it. She's part of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (the current president of Mexico) Morena party.

While everyone is right about the reasoning, no one brought up the relevant historical example: Eugene Debs in the 1920 Election... which is unfortunate because it's a good one.

Euegen Debs was a socialist candidate who ran in the 1920 elections after being jailed by Wilson's Sedition Act of 1918 for opposing the US joining WW1 and the accompanying draft.

The words "right" and "left" politically mean the same thing they did 200 years ago. Left means you view human rights as paramount over property rights, and "Right" means you view property rights as more important than human rights. This means the dividing line is pretty clear. Capitalism, as a system, depends on property rights being enforced at the expense of people (see, being allowed to own empty residential property while people are homeless), and is therefore the dividing line. Left of center is anti-private property and anti-capital, and right of center is pro-private property rights and pro capitalism.

There are actions that can be taken that are far more effective than shit like that. I'd maybe go see what Andreas Malm has to say on the topic, for instance.

They probably just assume that because they don't know the difference noone else does either lol. I was in shock for a moment "they gave Ukraine F-35s? The US okayed that? Can they even operate them?"

The alternative would be helping those countries most affected to prevent migrations from happening. In practice, that would look like giving them [Shitloads] of (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8694300/) money .

Like, regardless of ethics, those people will not stop existing once climate change makes their homelands unlivable. The two available plans appear to be "solve climate change as rapidly as possible and bootstrap poor countries up to developed countries pro Bono" or "shoot migrants at the border".

Their solution will be "shoot migrants" not "solve climate change".

As much as I don't like this bill the answer to your question about the house is "because the house has been an absolute cluster fuck (more than usual) and it would exactly be surprising if they modeled incompetence for us again".

I also suspect that the goal is to sweep the wedge issue and win moderate republican and non-affiliated moderates, not to increase democratic voter turn out. They're basically giving the Republicans the "let's shoot immigrants" bill they've always dreamed of to take that card out of play for them.

Noone is saying that. The argument is pretty much that people want more scrutiny applied to other companies beyond tiktok, and ideally not be under constant surveillance by any of them, not that people want to be monitored by all police states equally.

Fascists fundamentally support political violence as a method for "solving division". Anyone who is not a fascist and supports such violence at this moment needs to understand that political violence is going to backfire and play into the fascist's hands unless you can first build alternative systems of power and support outside of the government.

If you start violence without that network of support in place, you will disrupt people's lives, and the only support structure that can help will be the current Government. The military will be the ones providing food, medicine, and shelter. If you don't have a strategy to get regular people affected by the disruption food, water, healthcare and shelter, you're going to make the government the hero.

If you're not a fascist, and believe political violence is necessary, your first step isn't violence, your first step is to take a page from The Black Panthers and starting a community breakfast program.

Mike Johnson all but said he has the Democratic votes to avoid the fate of his predesessor. This might be the "Sedition Caucus"'s death knell if he's right. This is basically all their leverage.

This is 100% the real explanation.

No. Not at all. If I remember correctly, Guyana has a ~2500 person military. But it's still weird because even though Venezuela has a more capable military and shares a border with Guyana, it's not clear how Venezuela would actually invade. There is no road from directly Venezuela to Guyana, the area their border is on is dense, sparsely populated forest. The only road between the two countries goes through Brazil, who has a real army, and has moved troops to the border, I think. The other option is an amphibious assault, but that's sketchy too because amphibious assaults are notoriously hard and there's a US (and I think UK) naval presences just off the coast. So, like, Guyana's military can't really defend itself, but it's also unclear how Venezuela would actually prosecute an attack.

They got part of one demand (4 days of sick leave for some workers, iirc) out of 5 or 6 demands ( more pay, 15 days sick leave leave than they got, different scheduling that would allow for more time to inspect trains to prevent shit like East Palestine, Ohio, amongst other things). Absolutely not everything. He took away their right to strike and gave them the tiniest possible consession so that people would go and defend him by saying "ok. He crushed the strike, but he actually turned around and helped them get what they wanted after". Purely doing whatever is politically convient, just like him standing on the picket line with the auto workers only a few months later. Disgusting. Thank for reminding me why he sucks.

I recently heard somewhere that the joke in India is that in western tech company's "AI" stands for "Absent Indians".

it'd be a great place to grow some weed.

Money is a means of determining the distribution of resources. It doesn't matter if stuff costs less or if people make more money, what matters is that nessecities, at a minimum, are more equitably distributed. You can make that end goal take different forms. Money is a little awkward for that end because you use money to purchase both food and nice cars.

This reminds me of that time. England and Iceland went to "war" over fishing rights in the 70s and just, like, cut fishing nets and rammed each other's boats

Careful. You're saying the quiet part outloud.