regul @ regul @lemm.ee

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They're the government now and are funded through taxes, so they can afford to be truer to their own beliefs.

Don't they always surround Gaza City on 3 sides? The sea to the west, north, and east?

Depends on how bad the US wants that lithium.

Boo! Do the Campanile!

TIL

Archive link: https://archive.ph/P6XL8

The gist of the article is mainly: there isn't any evidence China is actually subsidizing green tech, it's just that land, labor, and materials are cheaper there and they've massively scaled production. The US and its allies claim that because their prices are so low they must be cheating, but there's little evidence to support this, and retaliatory tariffs are kneecapping the West's efforts to decarbonize.

Seriously. The championships weren't anywhere near close, the tracks they're racing at keep getting shittier, and they keep introducing shitty gimmicks like sprint races. Oh and there's some shitty billionaire's kid who sucks ass but still has a seat.

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The proper revolution requires there to be no people who would put people in gulags

Talk about irrelevant. You yourself recognize it's not happening anytime soon. So explain why any of this matters. Go do what you can to help your community. There's no revolution coming, so we should all just be doing what we can to ameliorate the effects of capitalism. If it's your hobby to have little arguments online that's fine (it's one of my hobbies too!), but don't pretend you're actually laying the groundwork for anything.

You think the reason there's no class consciousness in the US is because tankies enjoy Soviet aesthetics? Buddy that's not even top 50 on the list. Fucking Marvel movies are higher on the list of reasons why there's no class consciousness in the US than the online weirdos who wear ushankas.

I’d prefer not to be put into a gulag

See? This is the shit I'm talking about. All of your fears of tankies throwing you in the gulag are predicated on some sort of revolution happening. Do you really think that's imminent? Like, look around. Name a prominent tankie who is poised to lead the vanguard and replace the government of whatever country you live in.

You're just telling yourselves ghost stories.

"Deplatform" whoever you want, but none of this online shit matters. There's no class consciousness in the US, there isn't likely to be any anytime soon, and should it ever materialize they won't be third-worldists.

...okay. I guess I missed the dude with the clipboard checking everyone's tendency at the protests but I guess you saw him.

I think posts like this are just emblematic of being too online. And if, like you're saying, tankies don't do anything because that would be counterrevolutionary or whatever, then what's the problem? Keyboard warriors aren't changing shit.

I find all this weird exclusively online rhetoric around what's an acceptable type of communist to be exhausting. My metric of whether or not someone is a good communist is if they help their community and help workers. You can have whatever takes you want on the kulaks or the Hungarian revolution as long as you're standing next to me at the soup kitchen. You know why? Because nobody's thoughts about the Hungarian revolution or even the war in Ukraine matter one iota. In the west we're all so far from even seeing a lever of power that it doesn't matter one whit what any of us think. There's not about to be a tankie coup d'etat of the American government any sooner than an anarchist one.

All this post and the responses to it are are leftists wrestling in the mud to see who can have the fewest allies when they get crushed by global capital.

they’re too busy wanking off to their own perceived superiority

Unlike all the people commenting on this post!

This is just another stupid online factionalism post. None of what anybody says online (especially on a tiny niche forum) matters one fucking bit.

Antifa, feed the homeless, or get social housing or public transport built

This is what matters. And I guarantee you there are MLs participating in black bloc protests, Food not Bombs, and all sorts of other useful things you can think of, but your tendency doesn't matter when you're actually out there helping people. Did you turn to your fellow protestors and ask them what they think about China or what they think about some shit that happened a hundred years ago? Or did you just do what needed to be done in the moment?

You think the US isn't funding Ukraine to advance its own imperial interests?

You truly think we're just doing it because we just love "democracy" so much, or something like that?

Buddy, an imperial power is winning either way.

Healthcare pls

healthcare pls

I mean the Aaron Carter thing would be pretty impressive considering he died last year.

I was at the Peter Iredale this weekend.

You know the US does have groups of people cordoned off in New Mexico? We have similar situations all over the US. They're called Indian Reservations and we did regularly massacre the people that lived there (Wounded Knee being the most famous example).

But at least by 1924 we gave Native Americans citizenship and therefore the right of free movement. It only took about 150 years but they at least got basic rights eventually, even if the discrimination and violence continues.

Israel can't even meet the standards of decency that America, a continuously not-decent country figured out for itself before Israel even existed.

What do you mean? Jewish politicians are the only ones allowed to even mildly criticize Israel, because anti-semitism claims against them are taken slightly less seriously.

It's only a matter of time until Hamas rocket strikes Guatemala.