tocopherol @ tocopherol @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Every election in my life has been 'the most important in history ' or whatever. As a brown person you should have more awareness that no vote, no established politician will save us from the right, that Democrats are hardly even opposition anymore and are simply a donation gathering organization putting on the airs of a relevent party.

There is no political motivation for anyone in power to slow the rise of fascism, or to stop a genocide going on in Palestine or one being prepared in the US. There is no point in acting like Kamala or anyone in the US political class has any chance of preventing the numerous crises building, or even a desire to. The sooner more on the left can recognize this, the sooner we can start working on actual solutions.

Which are you referring to? There are still thousands of Palestinian people in Israeli detention, many indefinitely with no charges, including hundreds of children.

Sbarro was founded by two Italian immigrants in Brooklyn, they were probably real NYC pizza at one point

If someone is shot and paralyzed, but dies years later from complications it is ruled as a murder in connection with the shooting. If someone is horrifically abused and commits suicide, should the suspects of the abuse have some culpability in the death?

Whether suicide or murder, her blood is on Epstein and company's hands.

I have had a day where I was sure I wanted to die and years where I didn't. It's possible for it to change in an instant. I don't know any details of her situation, but just pointing out that that can change from moment to moment.

It's so clear how much more the state cares about the rich. They spent millions searching for him when the same week there were multiple other people killed in NYC that didn't even receive news coverage let alone a multi-million dollar manhunt.

According to most that would use the term disparagingly these days I would be a tankie, so I mean we as in me and other 'tankies'.

Make a post on hexbear or another 'tankie instance' about the issues of China in good faith and you will see many posters elucidate the flaws. We say 'critical support' for a reason, because we can support an action that may be good in the struggle against imperialism or whatever but still critique the source of that action.

Representative for who? Natives, black people, queers, anyone remotely to the left wouldn't say the US has been exactly democratic during it's time. Trump and the GOP are just the current incarnation of the settlers that massacred the indigenous people and the racists who enforced slavery and later Jim Crow and segregation. They have been a part of America since it's founding.

I'd rather my comm ban people that complain about 'tankies'. It's a useless term which can mean 100 things to different people, only serving really to divide the left.

Well yeah it's probably not actually useful right now for establishment dems to use it. Occupy Wall Street helped popularize the idea of the 99% vs the 1%, I think that sort of language is more useful for encouraging unity among the working class.

Like describing workers vs the owner class or something along those lines, there are many ways to explain marxist/socialist concepts with simple, easy to grasp language that isn't stained with the connotations of 'communism' that many Americans are instinctively opposed to due to decades of red scare propaganda.

The fetishists yes, but to anyone thinking otherwise mostly all the leftists I know are strapped. It's just an issue of organization.

Years ago I was site-wide banned for "multiple false reporting" or something for reporting comments that advocated blanket murdering protesters and black people related to BLM protests. These comments are probably still there while antifascist users and subs are banned regularly.

Yeah, I don't think it's very likely that a mythical jolly man brings presents to kids worldwide

At best ICE and DHS officials should be tried in a Nuremberg style court.

I think it would help teach people the term, and that could increase class consciousness among average people, which would probably cause more people to see both parties as the shams they are. If they used more explicit leftist language like that though it could trick some into thinking they are truly a left-wing party.

Yes because I would raise my daughter to get to know someone before dating them and have a good sense of character, and not assume someone was evil because they were in a prison. It's also been shown that innocent people have been sent there.

If you're talking about actual 'leftists' on a true scale, not the center and right wing dems and reps, most support gun ownership for all of the proletariat. Democrats talk about qualifications for gun ownership or more restrictions but all the leftists I've personally known would agree with the maxim from Marx:

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

From the Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League

I can't help but hear every quote in the voice of Connor O'Malley like Endorphin Port

They are being paid to send people to a death camp, no one is intended to be released from the prison in El Salvador by their own admission. ICE has already sent people there who committed no crime.