My friend in Hexbear sent me this picture of the shelves in his Bearmart:

It’s just a matter of time before they cave to liberals; we need to defederate NOW to protect ourselves.

The Palestine thing was the first time she took a position that was categorically leftist and not liberal.

Up to that point everyone knew she was a tool for the liberal establishment, and it was safe to assume she was a sock puppet with no actual agency. When she started speaking out for Palestine it was clearly not desired by the establishment that gave her her platform, judging by the way media and talking heads covered (and often didn’t cover) it.

So it was a hopeful thing. Stanning her specifically would have been a mistake, but the possibility that this one teen that the libs had invested so much celebrity power in might be developing class consciousness and turning all that power against them was something to root for. It didn’t last. Easy come, easy go.

Pretty sure they consider USians equally disposable. And easier to leverage their deaths for manufacturing consent.

I worry that they’re doing it to justify some kind of action against DPRK directly.

Reuse whatever cheat code I used to topple Gorbachv to topple Wall Street

Be careful who you back up with, as well, if you live in a country that could potentially get sanctioned by the US i.e. if you live outside the US.

Yeah the ‘I expect a complete apology…’ has the same texture as ‘Five demands not one less’ from HK 2019.

It’s making demands of the authority figures of a community that are designed to undermine them whether they accede or not.

it can only be changed via an elected employee representative in a collective workforce agreement which I sincerely doubt they have.

“But we’re all one big family at [insert corporation]! You wouldn’t hold out on your family, would ya, sport? 🥺”

“Oh shit they’ve built a fence! Now we have to go the long way round if we wish to meddle in their elections!”

Sounds like a golden opportunity. MAGAs are usually so painfully close to class consciousness but the stupid political ecosystem you all have over there makes everything adversarial and so they dig in and cover their ears when they anticipate interacting with someone such as a communist. Being neighbours with one gives you the opportunity to build a rapport with them without them reactively closing their minds off and othering you. It’s a fantastic opportunity, so long as you haven’t already othered them first.

This list reminds me of how every now and then a liberal will pop up on xitter or some other public space and proclaim that they’re uncomfortable with what’s happening in Gaza being compared to the Holocaust because “the Holocaust was on a whole other level of cruelty”, and I’m never sure if they’re saying that out of idiocy or malice.

baristas […] unproductive labor

The coffee beans and hot water don’t turn into coffee without the barista’s labour.

The existence of instant coffee doesn’t make it unnecessary labour: in the case of instant coffee the work was done earlier.

The fact that I can brew my own coffee doesn’t make it unnecessary or unproductive labour either. It’s production whether I do it or pay a barista to do it.

And it’s not unskilled labour: if the coffee machines in any of the coffee shops I go to were self-service, they’d break down within hours from misuse. And when you have a really skilled barista, you can taste it.

You should tell your mutuals-with acquaintance that whoever’s insisting to them that baristas are unproductive ought to be chewing coffee instead of drinking it.

I think it’s just credit cards.

They definitey don’t to wechatpay or alipay.

But I bet there are other ways to get funds to African Stream if you contact them about it.

They’re on Patreon.

As soon as I found out they were susended I went over to support them

Not if you want leftists to think they’re labels that leftists came up with.

Maybe I’m paranoid. If it wasn’t for OP’s post history I’d be accusing, but as it is I’m just wanting people to consider who benefits from this kind of terminology being created.

“China campists” in one thread

“Beijingcap/Beijingfash” in this one

Trying to introduce language to conceptually ‘other’ China: cui bono?

What?

White people before they visit Tibet: “Oh, the government requires we have a guide with us? Ohoho, is that to stop us from seeing things we shouldn’t see? Is that to stop Tibetans from seeing how glorious and enlightened we are as we prance about with our unfettered freedom?”

White people coming back from Tibet: “It’s a good thing we had a guide with us. They don’t warn you about how thin the air is! [they do] We didn’t think we’d need any help with breathing [because we assume we’re better than everyone else]. Some of us would have literally died if our guide didn’t arrange for oxygen tanks for our hotel rooms.”

Yeah they did. Speculation: one of the videogame companies channeling funds into fusion reactor research may be the result of some bargaining over this.

Some of the sources I get news about China from are definitely not supporting China for any reason other than it’s not the US.

Is it that, or are they supporting China because it’s not the US and it’s playing an instrumental role in undermining US domination of global south countries?

What I mean to say is if those channels understand that the US is evil, then they have a commendable reason for supporting China.