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Drewfro66

@ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

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He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL NEO and UFCW local 880. ASAB (All Scolds Are Bastards). Plague rat settler. I administrate a DnD 3.5e West Marches server for Socialists called the Axe and Sickle. https://discord.gg/R5dPsZU

  • Lost my job, might not be able to afford rent next month

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  • Update: started my new job today, bummed some money off a couple friends, no longer in the hole but still going to be short for next months rent.

  • PSL Candidate running for governor of California

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  • We're better than any of those things, we're Workers

  • PSL Candidate running for governor of California

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    We need to bring Gregposting to Hexbear

    You can see the back of my head here:

  • What are some examples where the more you know about the world, the better it seems?

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  • Not the captain, the political commissar.

  • How the "Kill Line" Redefined the American Dream in China

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  • We are 26 years into the Chinese Century

  • as expected its just a white guy

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  • Weird timing, I made this yesterday

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • "When is the last time you hit your wife?" ass question

  • UK Poll: Hitler Party gets 60% of the seats

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  • After Farage, Our Turn

  • UK Poll: Hitler Party gets 60% of the seats

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  • Is "Job Bot" really the best anyone can come up with?

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  • Applied for a job at a local grocery chain yesterday. They used AI to autofill their bullshit forms from an uploaded resume. It was honestly incredibly handy, saved me at least half an hour of stress and typing and required only minimal manual adjustment.

  • Kerryposting was a year long wrecker campaign against the site in which thousands of accounts were created to do nothing but spam pictures of John Kerry. They would get banned within minutes but they

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  • Terk-Rockefeller is not a TERF

  • Liberals try to understand economics without any Marxist analysis: Difficulty Level: IMPOSSIBLE

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  • I used to listen to their podcast back when I considered myself a socialist but didn't read theory, now I just can't anymore

  • Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal power as the polluting fuel struggles to survive

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  • I appreciate the point but I think this is a bit of an ultraleftist position - the basis of any economy is production. Even if the mine owners are taking the surplus value of labor, hundreds of workers were still making a wage, and spending those wages at local shops, supplied by local light industry. Even if they're just barely scraping by, the wealth created by a single miner sustains an entire community of clerks, porters, drivers, engineers, bureaucrats. The issue today is that the Appalachian economy has no productive base. Capitalists extract the surplus value of labor from every industry.

    The difference between then and today is that artisanal mining is no longer profitable. Like with many industries, automation has reduced the number of jobs provided by mining at the expense of the environment. I'm not a Luddite - automation isn't bad, per se - but it does put Capitalism into an overproduction crisis, and without distributive justice it is now impossible to base an economy on coal extraction in Appalachia.

    I wasn't trying to say that coal mining in West Virginia was some kind of golden age, but what it was was a functional economy.

  • Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal power as the polluting fuel struggles to survive

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  • Northeast Ohio

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  • Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal power as the polluting fuel struggles to survive

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  • In NEO, I've noticed a lot more coal trailers on the trains locally. I was wondering if it was part of a larger trend.

    The white snow over black coal is beautiful.

    I'm conflicted on the issue. I have family in West Virginia. A reactionary part of my brain thinks that increased reliance on coal is good for me and my family, at least in the short term.

    But those days are gone. Coal doesn't provide jobs anymore. One guy running an excavator is doing the work of 100 artisanal miners 50 yrs ago. It's just funneling money to the guy who owns the excavator, the guy who owns the mine, even the truck drivers are being squeezed so much these days.

    I think there's a lot of people in my region who think "if only they let coal come back, we'd be rich again!". But that's just not in the cards anymore. Automation has come too far. I understand why people think a pivot back to coal is an easy, short-term solution to economic degradation, but it isn't.

    Excuse me for ranting, I'm a lil drunk rn.

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    Lost my job, might not be able to afford rent next month

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  • -23 wind chill today, high of ZERO

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  • We had an anti ICE protest today locally and it was like 10 degrees in the middle of the day. And that's warm compared to how it's been. -12, -16, worse with windchill.

  • Communism @lemmy.ml
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    The results are in!

  • Party for Socialism and Liberation @lemmygrad.ml
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    The results are in!