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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on SPOOPY SEASON HATH ARRIVED 2 days ago:
This is the plot of Parasite Eve
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 2 days ago:
Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It’s the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It’s the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It’s a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.
There’s so many reasons that it’s hard to even guess which is the most important.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
Reading theory is for tankies.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 days ago:
Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.
If a firm isn’t growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you’ll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation, so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.
Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.
It’s a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 1 week ago:
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 weeks ago:
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don’t blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 weeks ago:
You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.
Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 3 weeks ago:
Because they’re fascists.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 weeks ago:
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s fewer horses these days.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?
Are you confusing me with someone else?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
And now you’re insulting me.
What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?
I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!
These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.
Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.
And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.
We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Well, yeah, government contracts are going to be the only way any of them make money once the AI bubble pops/deflates.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.
The white ones did.
- Comment on Ha ha ha, A LEAF! Go fuck yourself redeit. 4 weeks ago:
… bomb pops are five fucking dollars?
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
Work for whom?
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 month ago:
Some atheists so believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.
- Comment on Checkmate Atheists! 1 month ago:
The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.
So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.
And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.
- Comment on I NEED to eat this! 1 month ago:
Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.
Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 1 month ago:
Next you’ll tell my coyotes can’t operate catapults or rocket shoes!
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 1 month ago:
Yeah, I understand that gender goes beyond this pink and blue “men are like this, women are like this” bullshit.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 1 month ago:
Sounds like a “no” to me.
Stop trying to take credit for the accomplishments of other men and try making some art yourself. I promise you won’t regret it.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 1 month ago:
Maybe women would rather be mauled by bears than talk to you for a reason.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 month ago:
Misanthropy tbh
Hate has a material basis, it’s not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 month ago:
I’m talking about contradictions that can arise between religion and politics.
If their religion says to be charitable to the poor, but their politics say to starve the poor, they’ll starve the poor. If their religion says to love their neighbor, but their politics tells them to hate their neighbor, they’ll hate their neighbor. When there’s a contradiction between religion and politics, they’ll choose politics and then work backwards from their to justify it religiously.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 month ago:
Abrahamic religion isn’t set in stone, it’s capable of reform and has even done so in other historical contexts. This doesn’t even require secularism, all it requires is that they read their books in a different way for different interpretations.
But secularism isn’t impossible. As the colonizers become less secular and more religious, the historical currents begin to push against religion among the colonized. Less so among Muslims because they can deflect the contradictions onto sectarianism, but African Christians will have to reconcile the contradiction between their anti-colonialism and worshiping the god of religious colonizers.
There are lots of ways this can play out.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 month ago:
Doctrine and religion are always changing based on historical forces, so if the historical winds are blowing against “lgbt=colonialism” then this will have effects on religion and doctrine. The contradiction will need to be resolved somehow.
- Comment on 🌍😍🙌🙏 1 month ago:
I wonder if the West having this new wave of anti-queer reaction will short-circuit this cycle. Hard to claim we are agents of neocolonialism and imperialism when the US is attacking trans people and is on the cusp of rolling back gay marriage rights.
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 1 month ago:
I suspect those are a smokescreen for maybe deeper problems.
Chatbots don’t really reduce the need for staff, but it’s a great excuse.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
But we don’t have to see it, and there’s value in that. Also, people don’t really use the word literally because it gets removed. Normal people get the idea that they aren’t supposed to say it, so they stop. It works.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
It’s not about rudeness, it’s about women being a repressed minority and so by definition the words used to denigrate them are slurs.