Proud this has reached over 125 sponsorships. Convention must pass this reso, which ties our immediate tasks to an electoral offensive for city council supportive of Zohran but openly and explicitly struggling around an independent radical program not limited by his compromises
Socialists talk about capitalism like every business owner inherited a factory and a monocle. Sometimes it’s a guy with a food truck who would quite like to keep the food truck.
@rskhm__@lyrasie And then to have the audacity to say recognizing that the right does things and hurts people is the REAL problem and what actually hurts trans people. Fuck off
50 billion dollars on putting people in camps , ending abortion access, manipulating and undermining election mechanisms are all real things that have real significance. Only Marxists see this as infinite grey, only a Marxist can look at the past decade and believe nothing has happened
@HankeyLeone@obus_r Just infinite circle of people doxxing and badjacketing each other and saying: “oh yeah? How can I be bad if they’re the ones doing it to me?”
trump *will* attempt to self-coup, pending a serial change in attitude (which isn't impossible), but i severely doubt he has the capacity to succeed. on the other hand, the opposition is extremely cowardly and impotent so we've really got a stoppable force vs. a movable object
Seems like a lotta people are being confronted with concepts like “creative nonfiction” and “the inherent subjectivity of the camera” and “documentary’s slippery relationship with Truth” for the first time. The good news is YCSE is actually a solid intro to all of that stuff.
ah great some more marx hadith scholarship because nobody wants to admit the main point which isn't an item of rhetoric but that labour exists as a social relationship not an inherent aspect of individuated human beings. great job left twitter
@ocksportello Thank you so much for writing this. Have been really confused by people suggesting that there is some moral or cognitive strength in not having empathy toward someone preparing to spend a decade incarcerated.
been discouraged by the conversation about YCSE. people who left the movie feeling saddened that elizabeth holmes is in prison are not "marks." they are people who glimpsed how cruel prison is even at its most palatable, even when used to cage the least sympathetic person
I hate this trend because in the movie Billy is extraordinarily excited because this moment reveals an effective truth about how Holmes engages with words (or, less charitably, because he wants to affirm the narrative of her being incapable understanding what she did)
Nathan: 10 monkeys were jumping on the bed, one fell off and bumped his head. Now there are 9 monkeys jumping on the bed. Do you get it?
Holmes: is it like, cause the monkeys should be asleep?
Nathan: it’s a cautionary tale
Holmes: oh I didn’t get it
Billy: turn the cameras off
@kaywisehero@RedPatriot_76 This is just empty rhetoric, he explicitly says and does work with petty bourgeois, agrarian, and liberal forces through his entire life
Pretty easy litmus test for yourself. Answer this question: as socialism grows as a political force, do you think we’ll work more or less with people like Nithya Raman and Layla Law-Gisiko?
@kaywisehero@RedPatriot_76 Well this is fully compatible with his explicitly class collaborationist position. Now what? He said both of them, is he lying in the shared screenshot or saying something different?
Second part of my essay on AOC and executive power is out. It outlines the specific, unilateral tools a DSA-backed president can use in 2029 for Palestine, Cuba, and the climate crisis.
https://t.co/u5LFCMDe7U