That's a good price and sounds like it could be fun!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
Covering the strike wave https://theinsurgents.substack.com/p/ep-82-are-we-in-a-strikewave-ft-jonah
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
ty
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
item: saw a kid wearing a sleeveless shirt with a hammer and sickle on it at the gym yesterday
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
What's up with the Qiao Collective ties to the DSA, leading to the decision by the DSA International Committee not to condemn the forced dissolution of an independent Hong Kong Trade Union? I was thinking about reaching out to my local DSA but after that I'll pass. Got in touch with Food Not Bombs here instead.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
...ok
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Is there a better thread to discuss this in? I'd genuinely be interested in seeing the thoughts of other leftists here on the matter, it's something I've seen tearing up Twitter and other leftward forums but maybe I missed any discussion of that here, sorry.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
Better than the last time you responded to me I guess.
really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts
― ingredience (map), Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:07 AM (one year ago)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
thanks for reminding me i should go back to doing just that
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Qiao Collective are known apologists for the CCCP. The best left site coming from that part of the world, run by some people that I have met and can vouch for, is here: https://lausan.hk/
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
The left mainstreaming of apologism for Xi Jinping and the CCCP right now is appalling. Just because the US and China are sabre-rattling doesn't make China some sort of paragon of decency and virtue. Caping for a state is always a bad look.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
agreed but I'm not sure this mistake should really invalidate the DSA completely (I mean, it won't for me), fixing potholes and brakelights is good regardless
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
afaic the DSA is like all socialist cult associations: occasionally OTM and doing actionable work, mostly full of shit.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
the DSA is like all socialist cult associations
Huh?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
RevCom? Cult. ISO? Cult. Blackhammer? Cult. DSA? A larger cult, but a cult nonetheless.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Socialism is certainly closer to my own personal ideology, but I'm not interested in socialist organizations at all, because I've been burned by them in the past. I've watched them burn others in the past. The good work that some of the do seems anomalous rather than par for the course, in my experience.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
i'm also trending more anarchist lately in my political orientation, the little of it i have anyway
i don't know where to put this but i enjoyed this book review. the baffler has been on a roll lately?
Peace Inc. has flourished since the end of the Cold War. This dating is not accidental. The industry’s rise is bound up with the dreams of the end of history that were so frequently hallucinated in foreign policy circles in the 1990s. The anti-politics of peacebuilding is part and parcel of a liberalism that tries to neutralize actual struggles. Rather than seeing violence as part of some overarching goal—an end to colonial rule, say, or a revolution—contemporary peacebuilding sees violence itself as the problem. Countries might remain woefully unequal and bereft of socio-economic justice, but the peacebuilders have done their job as long as peace is obtained. As Autesserre summarizes, for Peace Inc., war and poverty are “technical problems . . . which can be solved using technocratic solutions based on best practices and a large body of universal, time-tested ideas.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/give-peace-a-chance-craze
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Thanks for that. My grandmother was a big peace activist and would sometimes be lightly involved in this sort of world. Luckily her more radical friends and her own curiosity often won out so she could form more nuanced views.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
As in, I'm looking forward to reading it!
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
it's a juicy review with a lot of striking anecdotes that starts to paint a picture of what's really going on with this stuff. it does not like the books very much.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
i'm also trending more anarchist lately in my political orientation, the little of it i have anywayThis has been my direction as well, antiwar above everything else
― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 November 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
ha jacob did you read the rest of that post
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 23:17 (two years ago) link
I did and I'm still thinking about it. I'd like to read the book.
― JacobSanders, Monday, 15 November 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
Leninism is the future
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
#Boric #Presidente #Chile 🙏🙏🙏 pic.twitter.com/zm5M5UY7DZ— Pedro Pascal he/him (@PedroPascal1) November 23, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
boric,,,hello
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
Honduras elects democratic socialist as first female president, unseating conservative ruling party
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
Hillary Clinton in shambles
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:52 (two years ago) link
If you need a good excuse to cry, here you go https://t.co/6CzBd2zizS— Carter Moon (@CarterDMoon) December 9, 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Nice
It's been called by Chilean media:Gabriel Boric will be Chile's next president. pic.twitter.com/3NYB00iSOc— Taniel (@Taniel) December 19, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 December 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I've always liked Pablo Pascal as an actor and he publicly supported Boric and is Allende's great nephew.
― calzino, Sunday, 19 December 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
based
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 19 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
Mind-blowing scenes in Santiago, where hundreds of thousands have flocked onto the streets to celebrate Gabriel Boric's victory pic.twitter.com/uirvG1mVBg— John Bartlett (@jwbartlett92) December 20, 2021
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:47 (two years ago) link
🇨🇱 Y bien si votaron los chilenos. Gabriel Boric, nuevo presidente de Chile. #compol pic.twitter.com/EzH3Lkvr39— Sergio Paz (@sergiopazc) December 19, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 25 December 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
The exact moment the German health minister became legendary on philosophy Twitter pic.twitter.com/R4HgWIohMs— Anthony Ballas (@tonyjballas) January 27, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 January 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
holy shit
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
sorry, that just connected a lot of dots for me
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 27 January 2022 06:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/portugal-general-election-pm-antonio-costa-wins-surprise-outright-majority
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 31 January 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
it really grates on me to see Starmer congratulating the Portuguese centre-left social democrats of the type who are not welcome anywhere near his fucking Labour party.
― calzino, Monday, 31 January 2022 12:11 (two years ago) link
Not worth getting angry about calz, the PS are p much melts and Costa a blatant careerist.
Entirely one for the right-wing drift, I'm afraid: Chega (actual fascists) and Iniciativa Liberal (free market fundamentalists) surpassed the BE (Leftist Block) and the communists for the first time, votes that would've gone to the left instead ended up at the PS because of polls suggesting that the centre left and centre right were neck to neck, which turned out to be total bullshit. PS now has no pressure whatsoever to swerve left and the amount of virulent racist scum MPs has moved from one to eleven.
Really wish that anglos (not Tom in this thread, to be clear) would stop shooting off rockets every time a party with "socialist" or "social democrat" in its name triumphs in Europe.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
ah right, I thought they were amongst the better class of Euro-melts but now I think I recall you posting before that they aren't any good.
― calzino, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link
yeah I mean better than Starmer labour of course but that's not the highest ceiling
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 13:55 (two years ago) link
tbh I was taking a shot in the dark there, I'm not in the least surprised to find out they're not very left.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Monday, 31 January 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link
Yeah, as I said, the main story here really is the fringe right parties surpassing the left for the first time. A party that openly advocates for the forced sterilization of paedophiles now the third largest political power in the country, not great.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 January 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
Ajamu Baraka on BPM right now, talking Ukraine and domestic matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLn45wQ2Beo
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:50 (two years ago) link
“Leftism” is when my opinions somehow always coincidentally align with the geo-political agenda of the world’s premier exporter of fascism
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 February 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
.. the us?
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:01 (two years ago) link
Well, sure, since half the politicians in the US are openly in cahoots with Russia. But those aren’t the politicians that guys like the dude in the video ever object to.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
Do you check under the bed for the Red Menace before you go to bed?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:14 (two years ago) link
You bring up a good point. Why would people on the left behave like old-school tankies when Russia isn’t even nominally communist anymore?
― Dan I., Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link