Slop.

All the subjugating other peoples had nothing to do with the high standard of living. Korea, vietnam, and so forth to all of latin america. None of that helped working people, imperialist wars never help working people’s situation. Unions, and good leaders got those gains. They put 90% taxes on the rich at obscene levels to discourage the rich taking more than their share, etc.

And that is what is missing now, organization, we need unions, but not just around where we work, we need to be organized otherwise, I think innumerable groups federated together on general forums, to cooperate on what they agree on, like not getting fucked by the super rich without consent. From that forum, where we can organize around issues, cooperate on what we agree on, both privately and publicly, we could find and groom real leaders to take government from these parasites that now control it. We are stronger than they are, we just need to unite.

I FUCKING HATE NOAM CHOMSKY I FUCKING HATE BERNIE SANDERS I FUCKING HATE NOAM CHOMSKY I FUCKING HATE BERNIE SANDERS I FUCKING HATE NOAM CHOMSKY I FUCKING HATE BERNIE SANDERS I FUCKING HATE NOAM CHOMSKY I FUCKING HATE BERNIE SANDERS I FUCKING HATE NOAM CHOMSKY I FUCKING HATE BERNIE SANDERS

this class-collaborationist third-positionism will be the death of us. that and the liberal imperialists who count as the "labor movement" in the west.

I'm starting to think these people constantly talking about revolution might have some kind of political goal in mind...

We DO have an agenda 🪥

This is the first time we've had a president that wasn't at least trying to do the right thing

W (from his perspective at the time) justified our invasion of Iraq with both liberating the people and reducing our reliance on Israel and Saudi Arabia

Liberals can't forgive Trump for removing the pretense, because that was the only thing sustaining their delusion that America is good.

What no class consciousness does to a mf

Tankies: hold no power while bearing the burden of being right about everything

Liberals: is this the tankie agenda?

one of the annoying aspects of reading redditor comments is that they remind me of my politics as a teenager in the 2000s, and had I come out from school with a career in typing on a keyboard instead of doing physical labor, I also would have convinced myself that I had reached the apex of political philosophy requiring no further development

Animal Farm

Animal Farm is a work of fiction, God damn it. You can tell because it is located in the same section of the library as Moby Dick and The Hobbit.

Tankies stop at the system is fucked. It can’t be improved according to them, tear it down and build a new thing. Obviously that won’t happen and if we tried it would animal farm into something worse right off. And just isn’t true, the system here worked relatively well after the second world war. Never perfect, but with controls on the system and governed by mostly reason, we did make the most prosperous working class the world has every seen by a large margin. Now gone, chiseled away by the CPI having been understated for half a century averaging 2-3 percent a year just by 2008 under the new measures, while it was 5-8 percent under the old.

That was not a good faith change, it was done to steal from working people at every level and stage, and give to investors, and no one questions it even still, as the ivy league suits tell us our buying power has never been higher, when that clearly isn’t true.

the system here worked relatively well after the second world war. Never perfect, but

You mean the people who kept threatening people with nukes? The people who proliferated atomic weapons giga? The ones who did 56 military interventions (old figure btw, doesn't include Venezuela, for example) in South America post WW2? The one that proliferated military bases all across the world? The Bay of Pigs people? The ones that invaded Vietnam because they were bored? The people who made North Korea the most bombed place ever? Coup in Guatemala so that bananas were cheap? The people who would rather destroy civilization than coexist with the USSR? You're saying that system worked relatively well? I'm saying that they were barbaric up to and through current events.

I could have a prosperous working class too if I decided that my money was the world reserve currency because everyone else died in WW2 and proceed to loot other countries. But the prosperity that was enjoyed by others would, and was, only because there was a big strong union fighting and bleeding for the advocacy of the working class.

This is like when Biden said "Trump was the first racist President".

Yeah, I'm sure in his heart Hayes was really just trying to do the right thing, and Nixon and Reagan and the rest of them. Look, if you're racist, then doing incredible violence to people of color is just trying to do the right thing. The real problem with Trump is that he's not a sincere and moralizing racist, he's just a flippant racist.