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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if someone posts Mamdani with huge boobs the site may explode

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

don't sleep on this tidbit that ~~shows~~ forecasts tourism growing literally EVERYWHERE except the USA

U.S. Stands Alone Among 184 Economies to See Decline

https://wttc.org/news/us-economy-set-to-lose-12-5bn-in-international-traveler-spend-this-year

EDIT: looked at it more carefully, and it's a forecast. we'll see how this shakes out, but the WTTC does have an incentive to doom about this because they want intervention

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I would like to say something about the appearance of the dog killer lady, but I shouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

best part is immigrants to the US commit crimes at lower rates than US citizens, so this would raise the crime rate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

only the Polytron reduces an entire C-List media personality to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

speak a lil' Chinese for em Derek

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

she Taichung on Magong until I Hualien

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

fascist skulls are even more brittle

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

all OP has to do is invoke the magic thought-terminating buzzwords and the redditors get a euphoric rush of being The Good Guys, which means they've won. that's the point of politics right? to feel good about your position in the bloodsoaked death machine?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

pray to the Machine Spirit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

tbh now I kinda want to change the title to Hummus

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

What we see during COVID-19 is stark operational differences between nations where politicians are the top authorities, and nations where Capital is the top authority. We are endlessly told that nations with activist governments are unfree, and that any support for these governments must come from either a pathological culture of obedience or the threat of state violence. And yet socialist nations plainly outperformed capitalist ones in terms of fighting the virus. [12]

This analysis does not imply there were simply two modes of response: capitalist and socialist. Market domination is not a binary affair, and Capital doesn’t rule by decree. As Roberts puts it, the market doesn’t tell capitalists what to do — rather, they have to guess and prognosticate and forecast and hope. Capitalists don’t find out whether they did what the market wanted until after the fact. [13] People around the world defended themselves from the virus, repressing the political will of Capital, in proportion to what they could get away with politically and economically. In socialist states, resources were deployed as deemed necessary to meet the challenge. In capitalist states in the sphere of influence of socialist China, such as South Korea, capitalists offered a decent response, perhaps because catastrophic handling would create a domestic political shift in favour of socialism. In the imperial core, where white supremacy reigns and there is no political will whatsoever to look to China for a good example, self-assured capitalists simply allowed the plague to spread essentially unopposed. In fact, imperialists succeeded to a great extent in turning the ensuing resentment into a foreign policy weapon. [14] This isn’t isolated to the most proudly capitalist nations; the kind of political power, infrastructure, and resources needed to enforce a tolerable quarantine has been completely eroded in social democratic havens like Canada and Sweden. No notable political force in the West referred to socialist successes in their efforts to affect domestic COVID-19 response policy, and I attribute this mistake to chauvinism.

from https://redsails.org/why-marxism/

 

https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1819379179084767462

it would be so nice to see these numbers at demonstrations here in the imperial core but as soon as a hundredth of this crowd was in place they'd get teargassed

 

the NYT article this comes from is crawling with "China bad" anticommunist brainworms

 

Koupe Tet Boule Kay (2020)

Haiti is the world’s first Black led republic and, in 1791, created the largest slave rebellion in order to seek independence from its French colonizers. Haiti’s revolution is one of the ultimate symbols of Black power and the revolutionary phrase “Koupe Tet Boule Kay” (“Cut Heads, Burn Houses”) stated by Jean-Jaques Dessalines can pertain heavily to the current Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. To liberate you must aim for the head to tear unjust institutions down. In a Capitalist society, that head is money.

[...]

Acquired by Frances Mulhall Achilles Special Collections Library at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

https://www.montinart.com/portfolio/koupe-tet-boule-kay

 

Hence, make ready against them whatever force and war mounts you are able to muster, so that you might deter thereby the enemies of God, who are your enemies as well, and others besides them of whom you may be unaware, [but] of whom God is aware; and whatever you may expend in God's cause shall be repaid to you in full, and you shall not be wronged

 

probably come in handy in the next three months

tags: can't afford to live pls help literally inappropriate bizarre laughter

 
 

by SLAMMER slammer

 

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3082851

excerpt:

Due to its interconnections with imperialism, racism, and capitalism, international development needed to be thoroughly transformed. Sankara discontinued the United States Peace Corps program in Burkina Faso in 1987. A Mexican American agroecologist invited to visit rural villages at the time recalled that a small group of American volunteers had driven a 4×4 vehicle over a meticulously dug irrigation canal, destroying hours of labour. Sankara was reportedly furious. The episode revealed the duplicities embedded in the Peace Corp programme during the Cold War years: naïve, inexperienced American youth sent to various destinations across the world for personal skills and career development and a fair bit of soft power diplomacy as ‘good will’ from the anti-communist US government. But too often good intentions devolve to dangerous outcomes, and often with little accountability. Sankara requested that the Peace Corps funds be channelled into an account overseen by a Burkinabé group or collective. This suggestion was rejected, and Sankara discontinued the programme in Burkina Faso. He was convinced that “Aid must go in the direction of strengthening our sovereignty, not undermining it. Aid should go in the direction of destroying aid. All aid that kills aid is welcome in Burkina Faso. But we will be compelled to abandon all aid that creates a welfare mentality” (Sankara, “One Color: African Unity,” August 1984).

 

excerpt:

Due to its interconnections with imperialism, racism, and capitalism, international development needed to be thoroughly transformed. Sankara discontinued the United States Peace Corps program in Burkina Faso in 1987. A Mexican American agroecologist invited to visit rural villages at the time recalled that a small group of American volunteers had driven a 4×4 vehicle over a meticulously dug irrigation canal, destroying hours of labour. Sankara was reportedly furious. The episode revealed the duplicities embedded in the Peace Corp programme during the Cold War years: naïve, inexperienced American youth sent to various destinations across the world for personal skills and career development and a fair bit of soft power diplomacy as ‘good will’ from the anti-communist US government. But too often good intentions devolve to dangerous outcomes, and often with little accountability. Sankara requested that the Peace Corps funds be channelled into an account overseen by a Burkinabé group or collective. This suggestion was rejected, and Sankara discontinued the programme in Burkina Faso. He was convinced that “Aid must go in the direction of strengthening our sovereignty, not undermining it. Aid should go in the direction of destroying aid. All aid that kills aid is welcome in Burkina Faso. But we will be compelled to abandon all aid that creates a welfare mentality” (Sankara, “One Color: African Unity,” August 1984).

 

reformulated: "do not give us food, give us the means of production"

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