orrk
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- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
the entire idea of the progressive moment is to abolish these hierarchies, then again the American “leftist” understanding is so fucked at this point that I can see you believing this, as most “communists” in the states are tankies, that would also explain the horrible misunderstanding of fascism along imperial lines, because you literally don’t have any other larger critical lens in the states, as most of you aren’t upset about the existence of hierarchies, but just have the feeling that you are not in your deserved spot of said hierarchy
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
Words DO have meaning, and you just butchered so many of them it’s not even funny.
fundamentally, fascism is the belief that social hierarchies are not only natural but preferable to any other social system that attempts to disrupt said natural order, all other aspects of fascism stem from this one line of understanding
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
nope, the Marx Leninist idea of a vanguard party doesn’t even purport to be communism, rather the idea that you must go through a phase of state capitalism to grow the nation’s capital after a revolution (revolutions tend to destroy capital) before you can enact communism, it’s just that during the age of ML Fascism was the popular new political ideology, and Lenin did heavily base the idea of the vanguard party on a lot of the same basic understanding as the fascists did.
and of course the fascists did what they do and killed the lefties
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
see, the difference is, in the US they already won, tho in the American context liberal s still more progressive than the neo-cons/fascists on the other side
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
that’s because liberalism in Europe is mainly “liberty” for rish people to do what they want
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
when the American education system has failed you
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
look, tankies aren’t leftists, they are fascists wearing the skin of the lefties they killed
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 4 weeks ago:
You make claims about what happened during the Spanish Civil War, yet are upset when called out for not knowing who even participated? after having made claims as to the motives of a good deal of the people, somehow involved?
Also, since I didn’t actually insult you, but do want to live up to your expectations: “are you an idiot or do you just repeat everything you heard a tankie say without thinking”?
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 4 weeks ago:
Spain had 2 revolutions, the first fascist, the second anarchist, why do you think it had a bourgeois revolution? that requires some next level not knowing anything about Spain beforehand…
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
the soviet did support the republicans, as far as the republicans were the “original” Spanish government, they imposed a lot of stipulations to their aid tho, stipulations that would allow soviet influence and later annexation of the region as most of its military being soviet supplied and having a large contingent of soviet “volunteers”
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
so, first off, my standpoint is that the Bolshevik were against both of the revolutions because they wanted to quasi annex the Iberian Peninsula as another soviet client state.
you, as far as i have understood, believe that the USSR supplied the spanish goverment under some noble “just help” goal instead of the backdoor annexation that the USSR has become famed for
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
it means that if you really believe that, you are gullible.
and I know “educated” tankies have put a lot of effort into some ham fisted explanations for why this and that bust have been the case, but, straight factually, with all the evidence we have, it shows that the USSR was a fascistic imperialist dictatorship using the aesthetic of communism, nowhere that the USSR intervened was spared from it trying to control the region.
infact that’s the entire reason we disparage them as tankies, because they support the use of tanks and military might to subjugate vassals and destroy any political group not preview to their control, political groups like workers not wanting to be controlled by some shareholder class (what, you think the Russian oligarchy came from nowhere over the last 30 years?) with little vested interest in the actual running of the workplace
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
sure, meanwhile, if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
i would hope the mockery of the needs for a strongman to lead the “revolution” would give it away
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
no, the Catalonians betrayed the revolution, so they were working together with the francoists, because we need a big daddy strongman in charge!
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 5 weeks ago:
to be fair, tankies are the fascist skinwalkers wearing the visage of the lefties they killed
- Comment on I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices 3 months ago:
if you could show the bank you could get away with it they would be more than happy to fund you
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 3 months ago:
because people really do end up chugging the pills, among other reasons.
i am totally for reducing waste, but we have bigger fish to fry first
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
nothing happens overnight, and even if everyone switched the smaller company does not have the capital to realize such a jump in demand, nor would it have the capital to protect its self from hostile market strategies the larger company can and generally will entail.
now please do try and vote with your wallet if 90+% of everything is owned and sold by some small group of companies
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
supply and demand is econ 101, and in econ 102 you learn that econ 101 is about as predictive as Nostradamus
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
yet the cost to produce hasn’t gone up in any meaningful metric, and is nowhere even close to the price increase we saw in grocery goods.
rent isn’t much different, there is no shortage of rent, and the (evil leftist word that means you need a house and food to live) Material conditions are the main reason why companies jack p these prices, you can’t just not have a house and not have food
and pointing out that supply side economics in practice has just lead to an oligopoly increased cost of living, an increasing wealth gap, and a new class of super rich that make the fucking Rockefeller look poor. And the theoretical side is literally fairy tale beliefs that make revolutionary communists seem grounded with reality
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
most people with serious economic issues work minimum
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
like you don’t have some uncle that goes on about how Biden stole the election, or how taxation is theft
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
you think this is new or unique to Europe? downside of Eurocentric history education i guess.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Unions did shit when the corporations and government could literally shoot them, stop being a larper and get to work
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
partly because the German Aldi union forces them to abide by minimum standards around the world
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
fuck civility politics, if some “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” is calling for more bullshit, call them out on it.
no one remembers the “nice guys” in politics because they never accomplished anything.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
eat in an economic context, and if shit gets bad enough, a literal one as well
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
dude, there is no evidence for supply side economics to have ever worked, the price has nothing to do with supply and demand
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
the myth of supply based economics, and other fairytales.
Realistically there is no reason for produce or rent to be increasing in price, there is not any actual reason for the hikes in COL other than “record profits”