“First names dont indicate familial relationsh…” sees kanji in username “…oh never mind, carry on”

inevitable only in hindsight

I’m not so sure. I’m still friends with a guy who told me emphatically “you dont understand what we did, we destroyed the global economy” and then explained the whole subprime mortgage scam to me, back in like 2007. Lots of downstream businesses, new home builders, paint and drywall companies, building materials stores, started folding several months before the official crash as well. I wasn’t nearly as aware of things then, I was a grown adult but not yet 30 and with little formal education, but there were definitely huge flashing signs. Only the media, based 100% on the words of the banks and insurance companies, thought that a crash was undetectable.

I’m not sure quite what it would look like yet, but I’m willing to bet if you look where these data centers are being built, when the cash runs out to keep the whole scam afloat, these big companies will stop paying their bills. The smaller companies providing services and supplies will run out of money before the huge mega corpos start showing signs, so that is one of the metrics I’m watching closely. I just happen to live in the shadow of these data centers so I’ll be pretty close to it, that is if I’m right.

President trajectory, god help us all

No time for learning, only tests

Isn’t that just like regular school? American schools students have to do all sorts of patriotic nationalist hoo ha

Y’all mind if I just uncancel myself like our lord and savior Jesus Christmas?

I love how this whole premise never gets questioned. By anyone. None of the super smartest people in the movie were like, “no that won’t work.” The premise just gets accepted as true, but it would be bad.

“I’m going to eliminate half of all life in the universe” hey thanos did you know that scarcity in modern society isn’t driven by population at all, and is in fact an artificial condition imposed on the lower classes by the ruling class that hoards those resources?

No its just like, “well killing people is wrong but it would probably work, people might be sad though.” No Disney, fuck you. Don’t let people believe this shit. Thanks for your endless support for cultural fascism, ya fucks

No but what if I did it?

Okay fair. But what is meant is that leases, debt, market forces are justifications for class domination.

Remember that all financial activity begins and ends with the banking system. New money is created by banks, it circulates throughout the economic system, and then returns to the banks in greater amounts via interest and exploitation. This all supports a system that ensures a wealthy few have domination over the precarious existence of poor and middle class workers.

Small capitalists are especially vulnerable to these pressures. When you own a business to take a lease on a building then the price they pay is determined by the market. But market prices are driven by political and private interests. The commercial real estate market has been described as a “zombie” for over a decade. Supply is tightly controlled so that owners can return a profit on their profit year over year. This has created unsustainable circumstances, a bubble that could pop if a movement came along to seize it.

Power over the workers is the only thing that the system offers small capitalists, who are as beholden to large capitalists as the rest of us. But for us we get mad at our boss or manager, who is more like an overseer of wage slaves than a plantation owner. Coming back to work means people have to go buy new business attire, we spend more on gas, we put more wear on our vehicles, we get less free time to improve our lives or sustain a work/life balance. And for what? People are more productive when we work from home, we make more money for our companies, we are happier and more effective. What does keeping us poor and stressed and tired do to sustain a rational system of labor, even exploited labor?

But the system isn’t rational. And if it isn’t just about profit and productivity than what is it about?

As leftists have been saying for at least two centuries, it is about the power of one class of owning capitalists over all others.

Its like saying that an automobile drives with its wheels. In a very minor way it is true, but it is a complex machine operated by many essential systems. When we look at the car its important to inspect where the rubber meets the road, and understand the component systems, but to understand it we need to look at how all the seemingly disparate systems operate together, as well as who is driving it and where they intend to go with it.

Return to work is a mandate that one billionth of the world’s population demands of .0075% of the worlds population, in order to control the remaining 99.9925%.

Relevant screen name

Magnificent

I’m so spelling pilled I thought that was the joke

Then neither does criticism.

Until I hear different from leftist organizers in Maine, imma just assume Platner is toast.

You’re allowed to be stupid, but that disqualifies you from representing the left and leading our movements.

Also I think her point is that he isn’t stupid.

My dad got a Confederate flag tattoo under identical circumstances when he was in the military. Years later when he realized how dumb it was he got it covered up.

My brother, a union mechanic in a deeply rural area and served in the military, never identified as socialist or communist. And when he saw a coworker with a deaths head sticker on his hard had immediately knew what it was, and called me.

I’m sorry, this guy is either a deep operator or incredibly dumb. His leftism isn’t practical, its just ideas. If he’s just mistaken, that’s fair. Go out and get some actual experience. But he is disqualified to lead our movements, for a very long time.

When this big tough white middle aged oyster farmer gets arrested and tortured by Israeli military for trying to smuggle aid into Gaza, when he has successfully run local campaigns that have had a real lasting positive effect on the lives of our most vulnerable workers, then let’s have a frank conversation about his qualifications for office.

I actually know someone who was on the Gaza flotilla. This guy is a joke.

I’m not in Maine, so my vote doesn’t count. I’m allowed to criticize a political subject, principled criticism is one of the only ways to uncover truth.

Also there is a difference between a united front and a popular front. In a united front, left groups retain their ability to constructively criticize each other and maintain independence and democracy, while working practically to achieve ends that would be a clear improvement for working class conditions.

A popular front is when left groups dissolve themselves into a movement, which would be actually controlled by the most powerful group, in this case the DNC. I don’t trust the DNC, and they are extremely difficult to work with. Popular fronts are authoritarian and disastrous.

There is no indication that electing one possibly left wing senator would be a marked improvement, or that giving power to the DNC in this one race would improve conditions for the vast majority of people.

1000%

But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn’t end exploitation. It’s just a beginning.

The struggle for human freedom will never end

He has to do more than get it removed.

Platner’s former political director

Yes.

Are they entitled to support from progressives and endorsement of his political campaign from the left? No.