rockSlayer @ rockSlayer @lemmy.world

Posts

27

Comments

2,647

Joined

2 yr. ago

Why do the concerns seem to be focused on what data was extracted rather than why there's a massive, state sanctioned civilian surveillance network? I mean, I know the answer, but it's extremely frustrating that people are just fine with intensive surveillance on US citizens from at least 14 countries.

There's a difference between a political entity and the people it represents. The people of Israel have a right to exist, just as you, me, the Palestinian people, Ukrainian people, and Lebanese people have a right to exist. Political entities do not have a right to exist. The fascist Israeli government should be dismantled.

Gulf War 3: this time it's genocide

Because it's part of the sports-ification of politics.

This is an actual nonstory.

Real question, are there any instances of someone's research being so niche that the only option is to cite themselves?

The appropriate response when a fascist makes a good point is to tell them to fuck off, because they're going to twist that to fit their bullshit.

Nothing. He's banking his win on core supporters only, hoping Harris fumbles in the days leading up, and planning another coup. He's just detailing the culture war stuff.

And the dude said it to a native American whose tribe has been in the region for millennia. He's not even a native to the state.

Right, I'm not denying that. People have always been smart. The problem that calculus solved was the intensely difficult algebra that it replaced

The joke is that calculus as a field of mathematics didn't exist until millennia after the fall of the empire

It's ok for symbols to have different meanings in different contexts. If someone is new to the context, they should research or ask about it. People that are familiar should provide the mutual understanding, provided they have the will and ability to educate.

I know you're getting downvoted, but I appreciate this analysis. I have autism and don't pick up on body language

22 people is hardly a survey for a national election, and is a total nonanswer. I'm asking you what you think Vance did better.

What specifically do you feel Walz didn't do as well as Vance?

Believe it or not, but you don't have to explicitly state something for you to be doing something. It's extremely obvious that you approached this news with that bias.

The same way you organize anything. Start by talking to a couple trusted coworkers to form an organizing committee. All the members of the OC need to talk to coworkers, handle workplace drama, agitate for better conditions, educate people about unions, maintain systematic campaign tracking, and fight against the boss during their union busting campaign. When I worked remotely, it was as simple as sending a dm like this:

Hey, would you be able to talk over break? Some coworkers and I were discussing some issues and I wanted to hear your thoughts.

Unions are legal in the US. The labor movement is currently seeing a huge swell in new bargaining units across most unions

Unions generally don't write or repeal laws, but a union contract can negotiate overtime pay where there isn't any.

The meme doesn't make sense to me either, but I can tell you that the person in the second panel is Michael Parenti, a highly regarded communist historian known for analyzing history through class struggle. The quote in the 3rd panel is a famous one from his lecture about the US War against Yugoslavia:

• Cited quote
• Full lecture

Africa is rich! Only it's people are poor. There are still problems in Africa today, there are still outrageous things happening today. '"Building your own pharmaceutical factories in Sudan" where do you think you can get off where you think you can do that, when you should be buying from the multinational pharmaceutical.'

Take the case of India. India was a rich, advanced, developed country. Until the British went in 1800. Between 1800 and 1830 the Indian textile industry, which was outperforming the British textile industry, was dismantled and the great industrial centers were de-industrialized. The people were sent back out onto the land to grow cotton for the factories in Manchester and London. Between 1850 and 1900, the per capita income fell by 65%. So that poverty in the third world, that so called 'underdevelopment' ... These countries are not underdeveloped, they were overexploited- they're maldeveloped.