ufcwthrowaway

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[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 28 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Does anyone know where to find accurate numbers? Like, summaries made for economists and investors, that sort of thing

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago

The left's anti-sweatshop discourse had two main points:

The first is that commodity dumping was putting people out of work in domestic industries and driving them into cities and sweatshops. Modern day trade deal driven inclosure.

The second is that sweatshops need to be organized and have all the protections of production in the first world both so that those workers are protected and so they stop undercutting American workers.

Responding to these points by saying "well at least sweatshops give people jobs" is not responding insightfully with a hard truth, it is responding with a threat.

thats a nice 10c an hour job you've got there, it'd be a shame if it went away...

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

People think there's only two options: Shredder or Master splinter, but I'm here to tell you there's an alternative: A socialist alternative. I'm here to advocate for every-day working people: for the goons getting clobbered by nunchuks for $14 bucks an hour and without healthcare! The turtles and shredder fight, nobody wins. We are calling on all goons to lay down their arms and refuse to fight a Mutants' war.

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What you've gotta understand is that hes a DSA-right guy. He wants to win people over to socialism by running socialist campaigns on the democratic ballot line and eventually become an independent party at some indeterminate point in the future.

He's read Marx, thinks hes a communist, kind of is in some important ways, but his praxis is Sewer Socialism.

"We need to fully fund the police and keep response times fast" = "create alternative crisis response to reduce police workload"

"Israel has a right to exist as a democratic state" = "Israel doesnt have a right to exist"

"We should make the democrats better" = "we should win races as socialists within the democratic party to create a split"

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 39 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

The NFL stuff is based on a note NYPD """found""" on his body, just like they """found""" a statement of intent on luigi and """find""" an unregistered fire arm on the body of every black man they kill in Harlem.

I'm calling it now, this was a sane man setting out to kill the CEO of Blackstone for what theyre doing to nursing homes and the housing market. The NFL stuff is NYPD and the media trying to prevent this from getting away from the like it did with Luigi.

~~Let's not forget that Blackrock is a plurality owner of United Health"""care"""!~~ edit: this is Blackstone which is different. Also not to be confused with Blackwater the PMC.

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago

You're confusing Justice and vengeance. Vengeance at this point is inevitable, Justice is an open question.

Justice is one state with universal suffrage and protections for ethnic minorities and a right of return.

Executing heads of state is vengeance.

You can want both, I won't stop you but lets not mix them up.

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately she does in fact make bangers

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm a little disappointed by the definition of imperialism as "exploitation of nation by nation." Because of the way that it takes the nation as a given and doesnt look at the nation itself as being an imperial imposition (and of course, later a tool for anti colonial organizing. Fanon writes beautifully on the ambi-valence of nationalism in the colonized world and would be a great addendum of this book.)

I think because of this limitation Rodney puts forward a partial understanding of imperialism that is useful as a primer but ultimately fails as a theory in that its too simplistic to be rigorous

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even Red Hot?

[–] ufcwthrowaway@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The really insidious part here is thay the authors see the means testing as an important component. You have to be clean from drugs, not psychotic, etc. To donate, so it creates pressure to abstain from drugs, risky sex, etc. Because it could jeapordize your income stream.

They are making an explicit argument for putting moral requirements on access to welfare.

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