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How tho

And if you don’t you’re homophobic and ableist

This is Blahaj theory

The people writing this articles are pretty good at describing symptoms of the deeper problems. Poverty, disposession, environmental damage, overextraction of limited resources.

But they provide you with false or even counterproductive solutions. One of the funnier quotes in this article / one of the linked articles is where they say it’s as if governments have forgotten about the tobacco industry’s history by bringing plastics companies on to commissions, etc. Of course, they are forgetting the actual history of social movements that have tackled exactly these problems: the socialists and quasi-socialist groups around them.

It is easy to tell that they have no plan or understanding of what to actually do because they don’t actually tell you to do anything. They say more protests are needed. Who is going to organize them, what are their demands, and how will they gain and wield leverage? They say companies shouldn’t be on regulatory boards. Sounds great. Why are they there in the first place and what is your plan for fighting them? They say that a GDP-focused economy causes these issues. Well that’s literally capitalism, the dominant global economic system. The only people who have ever directly combatted capitalism are socialists but this is not named. Instead we see “human rights” - based on what? Big business CEO over here and his 50 think tanks say no and that your country will lose $300 million in jobs if you oppose them. What are you going to do about it?

Fundamentally, the angle that we need to organize the economy around human need is true. But doing so is not going to happen by simply appreciating human rights and going to protests or voting. Those are literally all of the things that the ruling class responsible for this mess pay their NGOs and PR people to say to us. This is because they are ineffective or even counterproductive. For example, the concept of human rights is used very selectively, it functions primarily as a propaganda tool. In terms of what actually happens as a result of human rights discourse it tends to be in the interests of incredibly violent imperialistic capital. A NATO general citing human rights concerns so they can do a coups, plunge millions into poverty, and bring open air slave markets back to Africa. “Human Rights” discourse is Western-centric and it is nearly always implied that Western countries have good records and everyone else has bad records, but this is only maintained through selective memories and propaganda. The global system that creates the problems described in this article have their seat in the neocolonial countries, the Western countries with allegedly better human rights records. The countries that will implicitly respond to protest and government lobbying despite this literally never working to achieve this goal.

The problems described in this article are produced by the essential functions of capitalism. Growth is sought to maximize profits, which capitalists are compelled to do by the system itself. It cannot be reformed via any of the suggested approaches. First because it is fundamental to the basic mechanisms of the capitalist system. Second because they are the ruling class and they’re not just going to let you protest into their gone or vote them out.

To combat the system, we must read history, understand politics abs economics, and organize together so that when we do need actions - including but not limited to protests - we are not caught off-guard by the responses because we listened to the advice of academics that have never organized anything and who refuse to read the history of anti-capitalism.

What was the insult? The description of your behavior? Ponder that for a few seconds.

You have been blatantly inconsistent twice and trying to run little circles in bad faith isn’t going to change that. Please get rid of your Reddit brain where you’d rather die than acknowledge an error.

Yeah I’m a Warrenocommunist

Yeah I’m a Warrenocommunist

That is very uncharacteristic of the United States. Their usual response would be to escalate even more because they smell weakness in any country sharing a concern with them.

irl lefty organizing drama is usually even worse. A person picking fights about something they obviously don’t understand and haven’t even tried to understand. Romance drama (oh my God did you hear that X and Y broke up their polycule???). People narcing on each other (and when it is a good org, getting themselves kicked out of that org because NO SNITCHING). Absurd self-tokenizing weaponizations of identity to serve some egotistical bullshitting. Long, rambling “this is why I’m leaving the organization” essays that are about 30% factual.

And now you’ve flip flopped back to the first claim lmai

Support your local store workers by stealing as much as you can using self-checkout machines.

Realist factions in the state know this and are the ones pushing for the “onshoring” of industries. They can’t quite figure out he economics for it yet so they are also the ones pushing for these tariffs lol

The war will end with a ceasefire or the end of Ukraine - plus a bunch more dead Ukrainians.

Every time a person says, “no ceasefire! No negotiations!” they are declaring that they are either:

1. So detached from reality that they think Ukraine is going to win. This is understandable because of the PR campaigns to convince you that Russia is a paper tiger, but you only need to dig slightly deeper than surface-level bullshitting to realize how absurd this is.

2. You hate Ukraine and want as many Ukrainians to die as possible.

I assume you’re in camp 1.

Game knows game

It is worth noting that the ones who chose to return had the unfortunate circumstance of not having transferable skills and ended up working low paying jobs compared to what they had at home. Most of the people who had transferable skills have good paying jobs and are living comfortably.

Yup, I am not claiming it is the root issue, just that I think it’s one of the reasons for their struggles, based on the examples given by the article, and because I can relate.

You initially attributed all of it to not having transferable skills lol.

Instead of changing up your story, you could just admit you’re projecting.

It’s me. My liberalism is finally paying off!

Critical support to Chairman Biden in his war on the United States’ trade competitiveness

To be fair to Biden, he has never shown any signs of mental decline before this according to advisor Cornpop.

To adopt a left aesthetic without understanding the realities of what revolution looks like and how they would be treated if they ever threatened to succeed.

In effect, it’s LARPing if they never move past this.