@AlexZarkage What is there not to get? He's saying he's aware of what Saddam did, and still thinks the way he was murdered by the US was barbaric, and the country was worse off because of it.
One of capitalism’s greatest ideological victories is convincing communists that the problem is who owns capital rather than the social relation of capital itself. A cooperative still produces commodities, remains subject to the law of value, and competes on the market.
@remiliuh@gigapooncel Outside of the US often significantly easier, as you may have to import internationally and customs throw it out if they find it, compared to t which can be found domestically in many places bcs of demand
@AsimovsGhostIII@Logo_Daedalus Abolish the prison industrial complex would be a better position and seems to more accurately capture the valid criticisms of the extremely faulty US prison system anyway
@ContraPoints I remember when Israel was actively starving Gaza and you made a long post about how the main problem was anti-Zionists striving for unachievable goals (the end of apartheid in Palestine?), that's probably where I checked out
@crownedjordan The idea that trans people transition to fit better into a gender role is an idea cis people come to independently all the time, because that's how they understand gender/sex. It is barely reflected neither in transexuals or cissexual nbs presentation at all
i think peoples politics would become very different if they stopped seeing the global south as a collection of humanitarian crises and started seeing it as the majority of humanity
@duhshaun_@GoodVibePolitik Messaging and policy are two different thing. If you disagree with the policy DSA is probably just a different "we" than you.
@splitzerr1@analytichegel 100%. Honestly embarrassing sometimes how clearly it comes across as actually it seems like you were the stupid one, more than the ideology you adhered to.