being organized to negotiate better wages puts you in a better position to start a revolution as well, even if that’s not your initial intent. I mean, that’s why unions have been at the forefront of nearly every major leftist revolution.

Of course, which is why it’s still good advice, but to follow up on that example I’d argue that the unions at the forefront of major leftist revolutions were a lot more aggressive than anything America has now, because for instance they were the ones who (sometimes literally) fought for essentially everything modern workers have. Compare to modern unions who won’t even strike if it’s illegal and you’ll see two completely different mentalities at work; unions back then were already predisposed to forceful direct action, which is at least part of why they were such important revolutionary actors. It’s still better to have the organizational infrastructure (assuming it’s not captured by capital) than to not have it, but the mentality shift needs to happen for anything near what 19th and early 20th century unions were doing to take place and so far almost nobody with nationwide prominence is even trying to have that conversation. This gets us back to my original point: The people best positioned to hasten this mentality shift such that it happens within a reasonable timeframe are all in denial. I’m not asking for people like Bernie and AOC to call for anything illegal, but the fact they’re not out there actively calling for active resistance to the regime is a problem; someone needs to fill that hole and fast.

Because the clowns running the show weren’t willing to even entertain the thought of fixing the deeply broken status quo. When Trump, a political outsider, came and promised to take a sledgehammer to the system he was welcomed with open arms by many of the people who were most hurt by it. Of course Trump is, if anything, an escalation of the worst excesses of the system, but he was still a perfectly positioned straw to people who had nothing to hope for from the status quo. There’s simply no equivalent sledgehammer coming from the left, so even people who would be predisposed to progressive politics flock to the only credible attempt to take down the system. What’s going to replace it? They don’t fucking care; nobody is out there selling the communist utopia so they’re flocking to the all-white ethnostate.

PS: To anyone who feels the need to say “but Trump is bad!!!”, yes but that’s not the point.

Beautiful.

By not experiencing the horrors of concentration camps and genocide. Zionists like to Holocaustwash their atrocities, but the people who built and now populate Israel for the most part have nothing to do with the Holocaust. Prominent Zionist leaders in British Palestine were all there before the war, and half the population of Israel is of Middle Eastern—not European—descent. In fact at least at first (not sure if it’s a thing now) Zionist Jews actively looked down on Holocaust victims and survivors as weak diaspora Jews who suffered because of their weakness, unlike strong Aliyah Jews who would never go through such a thing.

I mean they never said a word about Jews, and the deception inherent to Israel from its inception to the present day is a fact.

Israeli report

Let’s wait for someone credible to confirm it, then. Oh what’s that the UN already investigated and concluded that no such thing happened? Then don’t fucking post Hasbara.

They’re going straight to the gulag aren’t they?

War is peace.

Of course they’re not the same; Tories are conservatives and Reform are fascists, but that has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. There’s still no hope in “unity” with Labor or any of their ilk; they’re simply not going to allow the things that need to be done to be done. We’ve literally just seen this happen in America, and nothing makes me believe Labor is different enough from the Democrats to produce a different result.

People also need to be realistic about what the electorate overall wants.

The electorate can be made to want new things; they’re simply not thinking about leftwing politics and ideas seriously enough for the status quo to be final, and why would they? The people who should be championing those ideas actively avoid acting on them not to alienate the neoliberals, so of course leftwing politics will have zero credibility with the electorate. You need to promote and make a good faith effort to enact your ideas before you can expect others to believe in them.

Taking the limit of the partial sum of Hitler killings we find that he killed half a Hitler, so he’s morally in the black.

So tragic.

I didn’t have any tahini but I figured if I did that peanut butter substitution it might work enough to figure out if I should buy some.

Middle Eastern guy here, you should buy tahini anyway. Tahini sauce goes well with all kinds of grilled meat and kebab.

Fight Oligarchy tour, The Limits to Growth (haven’t actually read it), quicksort, La Marseilles and Borzoi (is it worth it?).

Organizing is the first step, the groundwork.

Certainly true, but what you’re organizing for is also important, because organizing can be the groundwork for anything from negotiating better wages to starting a revolution. My point was that it’s very possible that the sort of organizing we’re talking about is very different from what Bernie is calling for. It’s still useful advice, but not “fighting words,” so to speak.

Fucking hate the enshittification of search engines, finding a set of transcripts or simply searching tweets is a fucking Herculean task. I’ll get back to you on this if I find more than fucking two transcripts.

Uh… good luck, you’ll need it.

Labor productivity has grown faster than real wages

And this is supposed to be a good thing?

That has literally nothing to do with what I’m talking about. I’m responding to the common idea that religion is somehow a significant motivator for Zionist atrocities, not commenting on the impact of religion in general. Then I explained why I thought that was the (or at least a) point made in the parent comment.

Okay I don’t like talking like this, but what part of “to a much lesser extent” do you not understand?

Which is why I said “to a much lesser extent.” Mass shootings are on the rise in multiple European countries, as are homicides and hate crimes. I mean hell, France is looking to restrict knives over this stuff. Having a non-broken society contributes a lot more than what murder weapons are available, and now that European societies are generally fraying at the seams murder rates are unsurprisingly rising.

Your comments were unprompted

Huh? I am literally responding to a point made in the parent comment. What the fuck are you even talking about?

I mean we’re seeing this in Europe with mass shootins and such, though to a much lesser extent than America.