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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • While a specific party within bourgeois parliamentary democracy can be said to be a progressive historical force and enact quantitative changes, as long as they are forced into coalition with bourgeois parties then they are forced into a qualitative position of class collaboration. That's why parliament's composition matters, it's still a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

    A revolutionary agenda determines whether they can turn a majority into qualitative change, but no matter how revolutionary their goals might be they still aren't actually in command at the moment - though that isn't to say that they need a majority to achieve a revolutionary agenda! They could seize power in some other way. What matters is who is actually in control, and at this point it isn't the socialist parties in control of the government or economy.

  • I think there's a difference between IA forming bourgeois parliamentary coalitions and PSUV being a ruling party.

    The transformation of quantity into quality only occurs in the last instance, when bourgeois electoralism gives way to worker power. At best IA has had a plurality of seats in the ruling coalition, but it has never had a majority of seats in the government.

    It got damn close in 2009, though. Maybe the US is preparing for the next market crash?

  • If you don't reign in the wild animal chasing you down then it will eat you.

  • Went to the dermatologist the other day. They did fraxel and TCA cross, basically felt like getting laser facial hair removal all over my face and 8 times in a row. Right now I look like I was stung by bees and my face feels like it's made of sandpaper.

    But! Maybe when I heal my scars and discoloration will look, like, 5% better?

  • Is that actually inconsistent? If the tariffs stop Europe from defending Greenland then they couldn't really defend it.

  • Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism goes in-depth into this.

    There's an entire industry of ideological production to create non-revolutionary "Marxists" that reject the contributions of non-Western Marxist theorists and revolutionaries. Their job, which has been largely successful, is to recuperate Marxism into a form that is class collaborationist, aligned with Western hegemony, and (most importantly!) aligned against actually existing socialism.

    They're not just online here in the West. They're respected in academia, they're on TV, and they're always publishing works.

  • Misanthropy.

  • It still doesn't really make sense, Denmark would happily work with the US to exploit Greenland for its resources.

  • Petition to cast the most blocky, angular woman we can find to play Laura Croft.

  • Republicans have come to their senses. They're not in denial anymore, they realized they're evil and they love it.

  • Neither is it capitalism that's exiling, imprisoning, and executing billionaires when they break the law. Just sayin'.

  • You see I'm basically a centrist.

  • What really jumped out is fucking vitamin C. It's an absolutely pointless supplement for people who aren't on sea voyages in the 16th century. Just eat a raw orange or something.

  • Border enforcement for the past two centuries have basically just been an international apartheid agreement to control the movement of undesirables while ensuring the free flow of capital. Borders only really exist for the poor.

  • He'll be kept under a heat lamp with a side of fries.

  • Trump will live to be 100 and the preservatives will ensure his body never rots.

  • My wallet is a phone case, and the phone has a little magnetic jacket I can pop out to stick onto any metal surface.

  • They have to strike a careful balance between not winning but still plausibly being able to win. Their ideal year is one where they lose every single election by a single percentage point.

  • They think co-opting BLM hurt them and that "defund the police" was a bad political position.

  • Yeah that's my point. He can just do whatever he wants and Democrats will make a strongly-worded speech condemning it.

  • News @lemmy.world

    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
  • World News @lemmy.ml

    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
  • News @lemmy.world

    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
  • Ask Lemmygrad @lemmygrad.ml

    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml

    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

    ghostarchive.org /archive/c8b8b
  • Firefox @lemmy.ml

    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?