WWIII Blues

Socialist; USN Veteran; Conscientious Objector; Chomsky Reader; Software Developer;

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

BREAKING NEWS: There is no such thing as the US war against terrorism, only a US war for geostrategic domination of the most oil-rich region on Earth and the vitally important shipping and transportation routes that run through it.

[Joseph Kishore @jkishore]

In reality, the posturing and maneuvering on all sides over the stimulus check is to evade discussing what is really required and what all of them oppose: the shutdown of non-essential production with *full income* for all workers. This is what is needed to save lives.

[Jan☭🇵🇸 @GodandtheBear]

Biden predicts surge in deaths, proposes no measures to stop it, and pledges to reopen the schools https://t.co/7A54912a9V

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@iGotBadTakes @MikeKofiA Isn't there a shared methodology? All have suppressed dissent through incarceration, execution and assassination. The class interests served is a question of ends, not of means or method.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@iGotBadTakes @MikeKofiA True. But it certainly does apply to say Saudi Arabia.

I'd argue that a proper application of the term would show that it could be frequently applied to Western countries as well. That said, and you'd disagree with this part, its application to the USSR under Stalin is correct.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@iGotBadTakes @MikeKofiA I mean, only if you define authoritarian as the exercise of any authority by the state whatsoever. If you define it according to the common usage, a state which infringes upon personal liberty to maintain dictatorship, then he literally says nothing about that in his three pages.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

Rank-and-file factory committee gives automaker black eye. Workers defend 8-hour day and stop 84-hour work week pushed by Fiat Chrysler and the UAW.

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

In an embarrassing retreat, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) is abandoning plans to impose a grueling new Alternative Work Schedule (AWS) on skilled trades workers at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in suburban #Detroit.

https://t.co/cvphHZrULp

[World Socialist Web Site @WSWS_Updates]

In an embarrassing retreat, Fiat Chrysler (FCA) is abandoning plans to impose a grueling new Alternative Work Schedule (AWS) on skilled trades workers at its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in suburban #Detroit.

https://t.co/cvphHZrULp

[Moon of Alabama @MoonofA]

New on MoA:
The 'Mighty Wurlitzer' -
How U.S. Financed 'Human Rights' Organizations Create Anti-Chinese Headlines
https://t.co/L7crU2VFBr

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@jennyjenli @grumpybirdieS If your point is that US media, in a country that regularly kettles protestors and targets whistleblowers, has no moral high ground from which to criticize Chinese suppression of dissent, with that I would agree.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@jennyjenli @grumpybirdieS It's very clear that China has handled covid far better than Western nations. But the US is a clusterfuck because of the deliberate policies of the US ruling class (the back-to-work/back-to-school campaigns), not because individual citizens promoted bad ideas on social media.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Trump pardoning those blackwater scum is definitely one of the worst thing he's ever done. Beyond the pale.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@paulmorrinIE @jared_perov It has long been argued that soviets subordinated to party rule, as in the USSR, do not constitute worker's democracy.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@Comrade_Waluigi I'd argue the dipshit posting icepick emojis on this very thread to celebrate Stalin's assassination of Trotsky is a tankie.

[Smedley Butler @antiwar1984]

'No humanity': Trump pardons Blackwater war criminals who massacred Iraqis https://t.co/zv8TCHPmke

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@wrkclasshistory Lincoln, against enormous political pressure, also reversed 265 of the death sentences. The Minnesota governor, army generals and the US Senate were calling for more than 300 executions. Absent Lincoln's intervention, the death toll would have been far higher.

[WWIII Blues @halljaredc1]

@MikeKofiA And hence the long-standing Federal target of 5% unemployment. The government actually tries to make sure that one out of 20 of us can't find work :(

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

What lessons have we learned from the Holocaust when the person nominated to head the most important Holocaust museum in #Israel advocates “expelling” an entire population of people because they are a “cancer”? https://t.co/FdFth9JOID