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I'd rather see these people who leave stay and actively undermine things. Leak shit, purposely fuck up communications, etc.

Or at least I would like to see that in a new screenplay I'm writing where I ponder the legality of stating I'd like to see this done

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Alternatively,

Material conditions are still too good in the US for the type of extremism you write about to manifest (yet). People who are getting fucked over but not starving won't be murdering anyone anytime soon.

However, the trend is clear, your observation is correct about where capitalists would like to take things. This will worsen conditions and push more and more people towards extremism... which is where it is up to "us" to push people leftward and point their anger where it belongs, towards capitalists/capitalism.

As I find myself repeating a lot, things just simply aren't bad enough yet across the board in the US to see the unrest which is required for actual change. It's going to get worse, worse probably than any of us can imagine right now, before it starts to get any better. If you can see the inevitable future coming then you can see things like this court case being another domino in a line of them that is still fuzzy. It won't change anything on its own, but all these small events will eventually add up to something big. We just aren't there yet, and that's probably good in some ways because there is effectively no leftist movement of any sort in the US. Like the fact that these cases get decided in the obviously far right way, and that we expect it, shows that the left is totally annihilated in the US. Absolutely no power currently. Just gotta work on changing that however we can. It's very bleak.

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I was in the Rockies on Jul 4 like over 10 years ago. It was snowing at the higher elevations. Definitely a weird experience to go from snow and then like an hour later (driving back down to Denver/surrounding areas elevation) it's 90F and you're at a lake.

But anyway, let me crank up my AC running on fossil fuel-generated electricity and maybe later water my extra dry lawn...

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If a website (like Twitter or facebook) make money off ads and our posts bring viewers to ads then yeah us posting creates value in some way for the capitalists who own the websites.

I don't think lemmy has ads though? I never see them if it does.

Wtf was their point anyway? "You claim to hate capitalism, yet you participate in capitalism. Curious!" posting? Classic reactionary dipshittery

UAW rank and file demand that their union divest from extermination ( www.workers.org )

The financial argument does not hold water. The UAW has committed $40 million to organize unorganized auto workers. We applaud this commitment and hail the victory at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, we find it unacceptable that a union with $40 million to fund organizing cannot part with half a million dollars to...

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If the UAW does this, I wonder what the insane overreaction will be from DC

Beyond forcing capitalists to share a few more crumbs of their stolen profits, unions and student led organizations have been the sort of the tip of the spear in past socialist revolutions. Surely this is not a secret to those in Washington and elsewhere. This has to be scaring the shit out of the more historically literate ones.

A lot of westerners, Americans especially, always ask "yeah but can I do?!" This is what you can do. Unionize your workplace or help unionize others. Push for (or be!) radical leadership that seeks to squeeze the owners for every cent they can get. Push the union to take up issues like divestment from Israel. This is how political change that actually matters happened in the past and it can happen again. Workers hold the power, ultimately. Capitalists and their subservient politicians want you to forget that or give up.

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Loyal subjects of His Majesty King Charles:

Can you guys do something finally about that whole thing 👆

The fuck are you Angloids doing still begging some sausage fingered, inept, inbred his permission to "dissolve parliament"? (work on that wording too btw. Or, alternatively, don't and make the dissolution much more... literal)

So-called antisemitism bill passes House ( www.workers.org )

There are several House members who have serious reservations about H.R. 6090, especially some progressive Democrats. Jerry Nadler is one of the most outspoken critics of the new bill. Nadler, who is Jewish and represents a district in New York City with one of the largest Jewish populations in the U.S., called out the hypocrisy...

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I don't know how to not fedpost on this topic, but it's very clear what the fascistic politicians and those too cowardly to stop them are doing.

Pointing out hypocrisy is good rhetorically, but its downside is those with power simply ignore it. They're not going to stop unless...[insert fedposting]...

Can't even really type further. [federal sad noises] Greenblat [more federal noises]

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Spoiler: Biden is one of the most racist and antisemitic people to ever hold office.

Dude hung out with Strom Thurmond, called him a friend, and gave his eulogy. The senator for like 75 fucking years of his 100 year life who famously filibustered.......the civil rights act. That guy was Biden's bud.

So, call me very skeptical of anything Jim Crow Joe has to say about hatred towards any ethnic group.

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If we apply SW lore to modern politics (Biden was like 30 something when the original Star Wars came out... consider that... almost 50 years ago) Vader is basically Biden and the Emperor is, I suppose?, Trump.

You can get the guy shooting lightning out of his non-functioning cock and openly just saying "yeah, we gotta kill all the other species or otherwise enslave them so fucking what?"

or you get the "lesser evil" going around, chopping up younglings, fire bombing and genociding entire planets for resisting the empire... but maybe he feels a little bit bad about it.

He's just killing all these disgusting non-empire, non-humans, non-subservient planets/species because they said they don't want to live under the yoke of the empire. "That's anti-imperialism, man! Come on, man! Just sit back, let me swing my giant red laser-dildo around a few planets, maybe daddy can blow a few up, and hey, I bet those dog-creatures on Kashyyyk realize their knees can bend after all. It's all gravy from there! Just stop being so fucking liberal, ok!? Millions of empire-haters gotta die. We all must live with this fact. Please just shut the fuck up about it already because you're kinda starting to sound like you also hate the empire and my dildo-trigger finger is getting very itchy. All these questions are making Vaden very angry!"

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I'm doing my part to push that number in the 35-dead? range

Also I would like to HOPE that this is day by day instilling some sort of radicalization in the minds of young people that actually do something about it sooner rather than later. Imagine basically the entirety, or huge percentage, of people under like 40 just willingly allowing 60, 70, 80 year olds rule over us. Most of us don't even return calls from our racist relatives in that age range, but we continue to let them do genocides in our names. Shit sucks

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I thought this was all basically totally dropped once it was tied back to that guy in that "totally not the CIA" "totally not a cult" "religious group" Falun Gong shit. Pretty sure those weirdos were behind the "very organic" pro-Hong Kong (whatever that even means. Hong Kong is fine) protests becoming big in the US, helping spread anti-Chinese conspiracies around covid, bunch of shit from laughable to actually life threatening

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Correction:

One is a boring, sleepy genocidal geriatric

The other is an entertaining genocidal geriatric

Your move, America!

Also I like how libs spend their time downvoting memes here. You guys could just go read your hug box "Joe is good!" memes on the entirety of reddit, twitter, or lemmy minus basically two instances.

Please do not approach Hasan IRL and criticize him for breaking the boycotts he promotes, leftist thought leaders are allowed to be hypocrites and consume whatever treats they want.

Im being serious. The left needs to embrace a “do as I say not as a do” attitude towards our leaders, with great power comes a large amount of treats and who are we to judge Hasan for not living up to the ideals that he sets out for us. In fact I think its good that he doesnt do what he says, it means you are willing to...

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I honestly can't tell if this is serious or dripping in like 4 layers of irony and sarcasm and whatever, but in any case, let's all just go touch grass today. Just go sit outside for like 30 minutes with no phone.

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