If anything, the opposite is true. The left was much stronger than it is now under FDR, and the New Deal didn’t really kill any momentum for the left by itself, instead the Red Scares and McCarthyism had to perform that function. However, under neoliberalism, workers in the imperial core have turned more reactionary and often incorrectly prescribe blame on immigrants for their poor employment numbers and stagnating wages. The poor understanding of globalism leads people to believe that their enemy is the sweatshop worker in Indonesia, instead of the shareholder in Wall Street. The left can offer an alternative paradigm for the people that fall into that reactionary trap by showing that development isn’t a zero sum game, we can have manufacturing at home without protectionism, xenophobia, and imperialism holding the international working class back.

Your gut is correct. The international left needs something to offer all workers, it’s idealist nonsense to expect that a Western left would ever be able to attract enough people to have leverage and use it to advance the position of the international working class without improving the situation for Western workers. That comment is grossly overgeneralizing the notion that imperialism incentivizes class collaborationism and false consciousness, which is true, but does not imply that anyone is better off by having a leftist movement that has nothing to offer to the people it’s trying to attract.

Does ChatGPT hang out in the news mega? This is extremely good.

Something about having direct access to the levers of power nerfs you by 40% basedness.

Genuine question: Even if this is true, isn’t it just irrelevant? How is Cuba supposed to use US dollars to buy food and medicine, if they can’t export anything else to any countries that use US dollars? Are they just supposed to be in debt permanently?

Stalin Putin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin Bakhmut.

There is absolutely reason to capitulate: the fact that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have an average age above 40 and are absolutely scraping the barrel by conscripting any poor man they find. There is no universe where Ukraine pushes back the front to recover any substantial amount of territory. They have already attempted to launch counteroffensives in better conditions, and all they’ve achieved is to slow down Russia, never actually regaining any territory. The only reason they’re even in the war still is because NATO wants to sacrifice Ukrainian lives to weaken Russia, and corrupt Ukrainian politicians are making a quick buck by privatizing they country in the meantime. This is obviously not sustainable long term; in another year or two they won’t be able to recruit more people, or they’ll run out of artillery shlels.

I think at minimum we have to shut down the playful homophobia until the Church goes 5 years without a child abuse scandal. After that, priests can make jokes about twinks. Consider it a trial run.

People don’t want to work these days-

The change in question being carpet bombing Syria.

Dang, I have similar issues with mine and I have experience soldering, but it’s crappy and doesn’t have any clear way of disassembling it. Planned obsolescence can eat my

It makes no sense at all. I can see how it could be a little easier to pass it off in a more segregated society when you haven’t grown up seeing people of other races, so it hasn’t had a chance to set in your mind that they’re just normal people. But the more exposure you have as a child, the harder it is to entertain some notion that there’s something fundamentally different about some person because of their skin color and some facial features.

Beating the picky eater allegations.

PR feels like IRL Revachol sometimes. The NPP the article mentions is by far the dominant party because of brain drain, half of the gen X people who’d vote for the feckless lib colonialist PDP left the island years ago. But the NPP is currently on a crusade to privatize our energy infrastructure as thoroughly as they can, and the party is split according to which American company they want to sell to. The winning candidate, JGO, is a corrupt POS Republican aligned bootlicker who has spent, to my knowledge, grovelling at the feet of gringo overlords, and wants to sell generation off to Genera PR (only transmission and distribution were privatized previously under LUMA Energy).

But to make matters worse, the left is extremely weak and made up almost entirely of students. The brain drain problem means that even though some people grow up in radicalizing conditions, they just leave to Florida where they’re drowned out by gusanos anyway. Bleak stuff.

They’re gonna bring out Brooklyn Dad Defiant by subsidizing his child support, and they’ll get Jeff Tiedrich a little bit of coke so he posts 5x as frequently. Strap in for a very annoying 4 years before we go Mad Max.

But then he gets bonked in the head with a big funny clown hammer and he becomes a twitter radlib.

He’s smoking Goblin Gas!