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assuming you’re doing 8 hour days five days a week was what I meant but yeah, there's exceptions.

I once had a (non-union, no less!) job where every day where 8 hours was surpassed, everything over that was overtime, regardless of whether there were 50 hours worked a week or 32.

I've had a few jobs that did that but a rate on production bonuses. There exist some decent places to get paid if you don't mind brutal labor; but really, it all circles back to realizing how much money they actually make on each project or widget you do versus how much you get paid. Modern-day profit truly is something else.

If you're working forty hours a week and you work more than eight hours a day assuming you're doing 8 hour days five days a week you are getting OT because that's more than 40 hours total a week. Anything over 40 hours is OT and most people work their eight hour days. Special circumstances aside.

Yeah, I more so meant if you’re working 40 hours a week. Good catch, am exhausted myself from OT.

I made a mistake, I was assuming full-time work; anything over 8 hours is overtime

Yeah, I more so meant if you're working 40 hours a week. Good catch, am exhausted myself from OT.

No. I had a dental emergency where I had an infection burrowing through from the top of my jawbone to the bottom of my jawbone like a little tunnel. I used every measure of financial aid with insurance and still ended up owing over a grand. Impacted wisdom tooth that turned bad.

You do still get overtime over 8 hours; not sure if that's what they "extended" in Argentina or if they just mean it's normal for 12 hour workdays now.

Dismissal without severance pay is typically the case. Americans rarely get access to unemployment; the four times I've tried to access it, it takes so long to approve me that any bills that I Would have needed to cover would have already gone past due. I never got approved, anyways, because the employer basically has to be like "Yes, he did voluntarily quit and I want to give him unemployment!" and if you challenge it the court usually sides with the bougie.

Most "essential" unions are deemed "critical" and are unable to strike. Public employees, for example. That basically kills a good chunk of people that would be striking.

I think the method of not interfering at all is far more effective. It does sound weird; but I personally think that if any attempt at meddling is made by China overtly or even just something that's not completely covert it will be taken "to the end-zone" so to speak. America will use that, more than it already does with baseless accusations against BRICS, to associate any movement related to socialism or even leftism as "Chinese-influenced" and seek to terminate it by any means necessary with a free casus belli to do so.

China doing otherwise gives them no credibility, no basis to any of their accusations. It makes them seem more estranged and gives added emphasis to the hypocrisy. It also establishes a precedent that they respect national sovereignty..more so than the IMF or what the west has to offer.

It wont let me post my edited photo of Kirov Airships with the Cuban flag dangling over them.

Yeah, that's a tough one. I do wonder what the solution to that is.

happy to ban people who are not they’re favorite flavor of perpetually online leftists familiar with whatever YouTube flame wars they follow that week.

Actually, I think it's a good thing Marxists on here engage in endless critique and "flame-wars" as literally instructed to do by most major theorists of Marxism (within reason, here). It's how we actually refine proper takes and have political literacy beyond supporting an actual burgeoning Nazi-state that is being used as a tool for NATO imperialism.

Laundry-list of sources below.

я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml (not a native english speaker, I believe)

i do not support the current administrations internal actions, as capitalism has brought nothing but injustice, suffering, poverty, crime and corruption. but i absolutely do support its foreign policy, especially regarding the ukrainian question. the putin government has evolved to become one of the most effective anti-imperialist forces on the planet and even if you ignore the terrible nature of the terrorist zelensky-regime one has to be grateful to our military for fighting the biggest enemy of mankind, america.

so lets detail the happenings that led to the current situation:

(it may be important to note that the current russian administration pushes a slightly different narrative due to sadly being a right wing state)

banderite collaborators parading in front of nazi officers the banderites (see picture), members of the fascist “organization of ukrainian nationalists” led by stepan andreyevich bandera were a gang of rapists and murderers who collaborated with the invading german hordes and assisted them by conducting acts of terror against civilians. It is important to note that popular support for them was close to zero. after the victory of the heroic red army, the majority of those parasites fled to the west, predominantly to canada. they received funding from american and british intelligence agencies, which were more than happy to welcome “former” nazis into their own anti-communist ranks. another subset of the banderites remained in the ukrainian ssr and conducted a campaign of terror and sabotage against the civilian population. their bloody deeds were supported by the cia and its european puppet agencies through the so called “operation aerodynamic”.

spoiler

referendum on the preservation of the ussr. its results were ignored by the anti-communists

After the illegal and undemocratic dissolution of the ussr, the leaders of those fascist gangs were glorified by the ukrainian far-right, with support from the cia. efforts to further their “rehabilitation” were primarily directed by nazi expatriates in canada. outlets such as voice of america portrayed them as “heroes”. (aerodynamic, some of these were manufactured in the U.S under Operation Mockingbird like a lot of U.S state dept. bullshit)

election before cia intervention. this division between neonazi northwest and pro-russian southeast is visible to this day

in 2004, the west sabotaged the ukrainian presidential elections and installed their puppet, viktor andreyevich yushchenko, through a color revolution. he was a terrible leader, not only dismantling the remaining aspects of the ukrainian economy and managing to make life even more miserable than it already was, but also granting “hero of ukraine” status to banderite leaders and holocaust perpetrators stepan bandera and roman iosifovich shukhevich.

(not adding picture of 2014 ukrainian nazis since you have already said you believe in that)

in 2014, america and the west orchestrated another coup, this time not even bothering to hide the involvement of neo-nazis. the new regime perpetrated unspeakable atrocities against the russian population, whom it consideres “subhuman,” as well as against ukrainian anti-fascists. in odessa alone, 39 people were burned alive in the local trade union building.

those developments led to the revolution in the predominantly russian populated donbass-area and the creation off the donetsk and lugansk peoples republics, as well as the referendum in crimea that led to the peninsula finally rejoining russia. from 2014 till 2022 the majority of humanitarian aid to the donbass republics came from the cprf.

the reason for the smo is the ukrainian western-aligned nazi regime violating the minsk accords by refusing to demilitarize, trying to join the fascist nato-block and murdering russian civilians for years on end. the russian government showed itself extremely lenient, to lenient even, as any sensible politician would have staged a military intervention much earlier. if you need further proof for the tyrannical nature of the kievan regime just look at the fact that zelenskiy has banned all opposition parties in his country, refuses to hold elections and effectively rules as a military dictator. furthermore he has outlawed the russian language, made any negotiation with the russian state illegal and is currently selling whatever is left of his country to the highest bidder. combine all this with the fact that the west and its puppets need to always be opposed due to them being a cancer of humanity and you’ll get a pretty good picture of why to support the russian military.

[Query: Do communists have to support Russia?]

from @davel@lemmygrad.ml

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.
Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.
Robert Parry, 2015: The Mess that Nuland Made
Jeffery Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Also, Ukraine really does have a fascism problem and has for a long time, and the coup government has materially supported it.

BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
Consortium News, 2022: Evidence of US-Backed Coup in Kiev
Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

from [@muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml] https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/

but I’d be cautious about giving him too much credit for those

Weren't a lot of these drafted by the bougies as the nobility died? Basically was their appeal to the proles; I know a lot of trade law and commerce law come from that.

I wonder how much of this will draw Cuba into a more green approach. Not out of any moral necessity, but purely out of actual necessity. Oil is hard to ship; but if any green technology from China or even their own indigenous designs can make it then I suspect they'll be alright.

I looked through 8 days of titles and the comments that were banned under specific communities and I didn't see anything that fell under the softer rule 4 code of conduct. I'm mildly confused too; even if I missed one thing that wasn't gregarious isn't there a warning system? I've been warned and corrected my behavior before.

Could be the rule 4 they're talking about but I have yet to see any of that in a cursory six days glance. I wasn't looking too hard though, I'll look again.

the most honest, the best, the best merchants folks.

They were at least cognizant enough to offer the devices for free to their employees. I got to be a bit vague when talking about it. Feel free to come to your own conclusions though, hehe.

I think for every 18usd the staff get, they make them well over 50,000 dollars in a day.

It truly is absurd money when each device costs like 200-600 and they ship out over a 1000 a day.

It's a medical device that is glass and glass only. I actually do think it's a slight monopoly thing; but it's sort of a monopoly because there really is no way to get into the market these days without budging into the giant entity that controls it. Like they won't stop you...but good luck.

I have received a new job; very well-paying with great benefits. However, if you're a marxist, it really blows your mind.

They make medical devices. These medical devices cost roughly 20-30 dollars to manufacture; with the equipment being at most a half a decade old, already paid off. Each one of these medical devices can cost up to 200-500 dollars at purchase. There is legit just a 300-400 dollar profit margin on each medical device (over a thousand made and shipped a day) while people are getting paid 17-19 an hour.

Crazy stuff!

“if communism is so great why did it fail everywhere”

It hasn't, there are still successful socialist projects in the world. When you bring that up, they switch to discrediting those; you simply point out that Cuba has a higher literacy rate, life expectancy rate and lower child mortality rate than the United States despite their poverty, to which you can point to the fact they've been under relentless sanction and embargo..making their achievements in spite of American action.

“Communist were just authoritarian”

*"But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social conditions that gave birth to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority.

Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists(reactionaries). Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?"* ~ On Authority

“China is just as bad as the US”

China has a higher life expectancy, higher literacy rate, higher home-ownership rate, higher protein consumed per capita and generally better social services when you compare the average of the U.S (including the deep south). The great transportation in this nation and infrastructure is an outlier where wealth is concentrated while productive forces build it for all.

Hope these help, comrade!