The real "low hanging fruit to not do" is blaming individual choices for societal issues. Capitalism is the one and only reason for anthropogenic climate change. Ending capitalism is the one and only way to solve it. There is no individual action you can take that is effective, we have to reorder society in such a way that it is impossible to profit from environmental destruction.
There's a natural price cap in place for basic needs like this because of their relationship to labor.
We passed that cap years ago. People have been using pay over time credit to buy groceries since the pandemic.
In any other society the riots would have started before that. But USians are domesticated enough that I genuinely believe most of us will starve and die before we lift a hand in self defense.
Can we just nationalize all corporation right now and divvy them up later?
Depends, are you a member of a militant communist group that's training and drilling for street to street fighting? Do you have a few hundred thousand members?
If yes to both, then yes. If no to either, then we have to do a lot of building class consciousness and organizing first.
Having the capacity to remember things that happened before 2022. But if there's a particular assertion in there you want to call bullshit on I'll see if I can go find a source that hasn't been purged along with all the pre-2022 coverage of Ukraine's Nazi problems.
So Blue MAGA is now openly admitting to being the heirs of McCarthy? We're now openly acknowledging that the DNC is not to the left of anything but the RNC?
"Better dead than Red" sounds like the perfect mantra for such a party.
Imagine thinking the billionaire owned party is going to save you from the other billionaire owned party.
I do fault him for kissing US ass, but that's not relevant here. I fault him all the more for smiling and kissing the ass of Ukrainian Nazis in front of giant Nazi symbols on Ukrainian flags, in the service of a Nazi inspired massacre in Ukrainian territory that they'd really love to get back to if they could just stop having to fight against a Russian invasion.
When an Capitalist Oligarchy launches an expansionist war against a Nazi state engaged in ethnic/linguistic purging, anyone opposed to both Capitalism and Nazism should recognize that the only side worth supporting is the stoners popping the popcorn.
You could have saved everyone some time by just leading with the fact that you haven't opened a history book that wasn't required for school ever in your life and that you uncritically accept everything the billionaire class tells you as fact.
You're arguing against things I never said because I foolishly assumed you to be literate, so I didn't spell out everything like this was a ELI5.
When you understand what Domination Systems are, what the Kurgan Invasions were, and how most humans actually lived in prehistory, come back and read that comment again and see if you can't do better.
And punishing the perpetrators of injustice is still not itself an injustice.
an acronym i have never heard of in my life until just now,
Well that just proves you aren't qualified to be a part of this conversation.
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense.
Local policies seem to cap the rent to protect renters, so they make up some bullshit extra fees to bypass those caps.
And a functional local government wouldn't allow that kind of sophistry and would treat that exactly like illegal rent increases. But you can't have both landlords existing and any level of functional government.
there will still be enough Democratic voters who were politically shaped during the Cold War and would never vote for anything with “socialism” in its name.
Then they deserve the fascism that the Neoliberal ghouls they've been supporting for decades have enabled. Too bad the rest of us will have to suffer because the fucking ShitLib wastrels are too Lead-addled to get out of the way.
In the 100,000 years of humanity it has been, most of that time. In the 8000 years of the existence of domination systems we've been moving away from that ideal and not towards it, and for the 300 years capitalism has existed we've been sprinting away from it like it was an apex predator, but it was the norm up until fairly recently on the scale of human evolution. There were even a few generations between the invention of the ox-driven plow and the waves of kurgan invasions where people likely got to enjoy the benefits of agriculture and urbanization without the crushing demands of laboring for the good of an oppressor.
So in your mind causing further injustice to stop an injustice is morally acceptable? You said any means necessary.
Punishing the perpetrators of injustice or violently preventing them from doing further injustice is not an injustice, so your entire point makes no sense.
Yes, and from your comment history I'm quite sure you haven't, but you've absorbed some US State Department propaganda and mistaken it for research, so you have that going for you.
China will punish racism as a crime.
But at what cost?!?
The real "low hanging fruit to not do" is blaming individual choices for societal issues. Capitalism is the one and only reason for anthropogenic climate change. Ending capitalism is the one and only way to solve it. There is no individual action you can take that is effective, we have to reorder society in such a way that it is impossible to profit from environmental destruction.
We passed that cap years ago. People have been using pay over time credit to buy groceries since the pandemic.
In any other society the riots would have started before that. But USians are domesticated enough that I genuinely believe most of us will starve and die before we lift a hand in self defense.
Depends, are you a member of a militant communist group that's training and drilling for street to street fighting? Do you have a few hundred thousand members?
If yes to both, then yes. If no to either, then we have to do a lot of building class consciousness and organizing first.
Having the capacity to remember things that happened before 2022. But if there's a particular assertion in there you want to call bullshit on I'll see if I can go find a source that hasn't been purged along with all the pre-2022 coverage of Ukraine's Nazi problems.
So Blue MAGA is now openly admitting to being the heirs of McCarthy? We're now openly acknowledging that the DNC is not to the left of anything but the RNC?
"Better dead than Red" sounds like the perfect mantra for such a party.
Imagine thinking the billionaire owned party is going to save you from the other billionaire owned party.
And typing in a password every time is the opposite of usability..
Ok, but since they're too cowardly to implement real price controls they just raised the price of everything by 10%.
I do fault him for kissing US ass, but that's not relevant here. I fault him all the more for smiling and kissing the ass of Ukrainian Nazis in front of giant Nazi symbols on Ukrainian flags, in the service of a Nazi inspired massacre in Ukrainian territory that they'd really love to get back to if they could just stop having to fight against a Russian invasion.
When an Capitalist Oligarchy launches an expansionist war against a Nazi state engaged in ethnic/linguistic purging, anyone opposed to both Capitalism and Nazism should recognize that the only side worth supporting is the stoners popping the popcorn.
You could have saved everyone some time by just leading with the fact that you haven't opened a history book that wasn't required for school ever in your life and that you uncritically accept everything the billionaire class tells you as fact.
You're arguing against things I never said because I foolishly assumed you to be literate, so I didn't spell out everything like this was a ELI5.
When you understand what Domination Systems are, what the Kurgan Invasions were, and how most humans actually lived in prehistory, come back and read that comment again and see if you can't do better.
And punishing the perpetrators of injustice is still not itself an injustice.
"Last minute" nominations of an establishment ghoul to block any chance of a leftist getting in are something she knows a lot about.
Found Elon's account
That's a good dog!
Well that just proves you aren't qualified to be a part of this conversation.
Anybody who's been pictured smiling and shaking hands with that many Nazis is close enough to make no odds.
And a functional local government wouldn't allow that kind of sophistry and would treat that exactly like illegal rent increases. But you can't have both landlords existing and any level of functional government.
Mao was far too kind, tbh
Then they deserve the fascism that the Neoliberal ghouls they've been supporting for decades have enabled. Too bad the rest of us will have to suffer because the fucking ShitLib wastrels are too Lead-addled to get out of the way.
In the 100,000 years of humanity it has been, most of that time. In the 8000 years of the existence of domination systems we've been moving away from that ideal and not towards it, and for the 300 years capitalism has existed we've been sprinting away from it like it was an apex predator, but it was the norm up until fairly recently on the scale of human evolution. There were even a few generations between the invention of the ox-driven plow and the waves of kurgan invasions where people likely got to enjoy the benefits of agriculture and urbanization without the crushing demands of laboring for the good of an oppressor.
Punishing the perpetrators of injustice or violently preventing them from doing further injustice is not an injustice, so your entire point makes no sense.
Yes, and from your comment history I'm quite sure you haven't, but you've absorbed some US State Department propaganda and mistaken it for research, so you have that going for you.