or, the single most jarring and disorienting emotion I have felt in my life - both simultaneously

oh shit whatever got in RFK has come back to life and is taking more victims

There’s a book called How Capitalism Ends by a guy named Steve Paxton, it’s that largely libbed up brand of trot brit socialism but it did have some good points interspersed, one in particular I’m thinking of here is an argument for making a distinction between a “technocracy” and the rest of the working class:

It’s important to note that the technocracy are not excluded from the proletariat because they earn too much money, or because they enjoy a large degree of autonomy in their work. It is the effective (though incomplete) control they exercise over productive assets by virtue of their technical knowledge that separates them from the proletariat. They make largely autonomous decisions about how and where productive assets will be deployed, and the expert knowledge which gives them the ability to do so puts them in a different relationship to both the means of production and to the bourgeoisie than that of the proletarian. At the same time, they do not enjoy the full range of ownership rights over the assets they control – they cannot sell or bequeath them for example. This limitation sets them apart from the petty-bourgeoisie.

I kind of like this distinction in this context, might be more prudent than labor aristocrat in describing some folks

communist manifesto

communist maneifesto

imagine being given such a fucking EZ task and still being such a fucking brat that you throw a fit so you can add even more exceptions to your goofy ass ultra-easy-mode fast.

I can’t believe this is happening. There was no possible way to have seen this coming from a man who cosplays as “General AnCap”. I’m just beyond floored that this man could do something bad to an economy.

kids these days have no respect for the greats of the genre

just kidding I’m not gonna gatekeep Sankara lmao, he’s an African revolutionary from Burkina Faso who did phenomenal things for his country, was universally loved by the people, and then got assassinated by a counterrevolutionary coup orchestrated by the French. Here’s one of my favorite speeches of his on women’s liberation and here’s (YouTube) a good short documentary about him.

anyway cut taxes on the rich

I am neither right nor left you see, I’m just your average country guy

It’s technically not holocaust denial, they got their ethnic cleansing death toll pretty reasonable. Double genocide works by dragging down the Holocaust and dragging up the USSR’s deaths, they’re only doing the latter. Obviously none of us agree with their take on the USSR’s situatuon but I wanna give them a minute to say their piece so we can talk about it

who’s the 1.6 million? And does the 3.5 - 5.0 million figure account for naturally occurring drought, needless deaths brought on by embargo, and farm owners intentionally and preemptively destroying their grain and slaughtering their livestock (cited by Wikipedia, see [17]) to prevent peasants from getting any of it?

I’d love to engage in good faith with you on this, what are your thoughts?

To be clear, I do believe that central mismanagement played a role in the death toll, but I also believe (and precedent suggests) that a capitalist state in charge of the same situation would see far, far more deaths and suffering

internalized transphobia does hit comrade but you are a girl

We wouldn’t call a cis woman any less of a woman if she never had that past of being subjected to the violence of patriarchy, and that aside, as a trans woman you have suffered the violence of the patriarchy in a way unique to womanhood. The thing that makes you a woman is that you are your truest self when you confidently align with womanhood, and however you choose to align with womanhood, you are your fullest, happiest, most authentic, and most alive self when doing so, even if you feel like you don’t have your bearings quite yet and you’re on unfamiliar ground for a bit.

You’re literally so valid and I have so much love for you and if you aren’t in touch with what it takes for you to feel that in your heart yet then I hope me feeling that you’re valid is enough for the both of us

absolute dogshit take

People like OP want to scapegoat trans people so they and their friends can continue harassing children without taking any heat themselves

L again

this us a made up problem, Christians and conservatives are the ones sexualizing children ten thousand times out of then thousand

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this is literally pizza gate shit cross posted from exploding heads, what the fuck are you rambling about

Welc

We did it at hexbear, the changes might make it upstream some day!

more discussion!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

just dug this up!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

new thing bad!