[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 23 hours ago

Still my go to to start deprograming the liberals in my life who have a heart.

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Solidarity forever, comrade! Educating yourself on theory is a long road without an end. We will always have new developments to understand and synthesize with marxism. It is at least as important to get into organizing in community with comrades. We learn through the struggle and grow stronger and develop our real-world capacity to resist the forces of capital and build alternatives by doing it.

And you don't need to have mastered ML theory before you hold a sign, go to a party meeting, join a strike line, show up at a protest, work with a community organization, etc. I think a lot of us in the heart of the beast experience some amount of imposter syndrome. Don't let that stop you from starting to work! The world's gonna burn and capital is gonna become increasingly more desperate and incapable of managing the contradictions during its decline. We've got a lot to do, glad to have you on the side of humanity's future.

I can't believe you've done this to Democracy.

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 8 months ago

The best defense is a good... encircling of potential rivals with disposable puppet states who prop up your inflated MIC.

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 9 months ago

"Nor has it [China] publicly offered a viable alternative to America’s actions."

Ansar Allah: 'did we fucking stutter?'

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 11 months ago

Such smug confidence can't be wrong!

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 11 months ago

Is this a genuine question or sarcasm?

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 11 months ago

We're FiGhTIng FoR tHe sOuL Of AmErIcA!1!

Continues criminalizing refugees and poverty, continues funding genocide, escalates economic warfare against China, sends hundreds of thousands of bodies to die or be maimed to protect unipolarity.

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Seeing Biden give credence to bullshit propaganda about beheaded babies while committing without reservation to genocidal retaliation was nauseating. Without any acknowledgement of decades of proven Israeli crimes against humanity and the absolute immiseration of Palestinian people. Generations born and murdered inside a concentration camp. The colonial hegemony is so fucking desperate to defend the bloated corpse of the old empire. I'm so tired of hearing the pearl clutching criticism of Hamas or Palestinians tactics from the 'left.'

How many Palestinians must die before they are allowed to fight back? Should they schedule their attacks around music festivals held at the fucking walls of their prison at a military base? Should they consider how colonists might feel scared?

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 1 year ago

It's just liberal bait, best to ignore them.

When rail unions were preparing for a potential strike, Biden made it illegal for them to do so.

Rail unions wanted to strike for better benefits, vacation time most importantly as the corporations had them working a lot of hours with virtually no paid time off. Part of 'efficiency' in the pursuit of profit, running as much freight, with as few train engines and workers also means greater wear on the infrastructure and less maintenance work being done. All this contributes to the more regular occurrence of accidents, some incredibly damaging to public health and the environment.

They got some minor benefit increases, but i don't believe much, if anything, related to their main complaints. And now they have no real recourse. The only credit Biden and the democrats should get is from their capitalist sponsors.

Here's an opinion piece summary from a rail union member

[-] GiantSpoonWielder@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago

It seems to me they don't want to get embroiled in a proxy war with NATO. They have a longstanding policy of non-intervention which has kept them free of conflict and able to focus on improving the economic life of their citizens. Avoiding conflict allows the CPC more time to develop its economy and global connections in ways that will defeat the American hegemony in the long run. Every year the forces of capital hollow out western economies, particularly in actual industrial production, while China continues planned development.

We cannot place all our hope for the defeat of capitalism and imperialism in the CPC. It is weird to expect China to stand in open opposition to the global order before it makes strategic sense and will benefit their people.

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