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'No,' Kamala Harris Says to Withholding Arms From Israel | Common Dreams in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

"Israel had a right, has a right to defend itself."

Obviously I know the answer, but why is such an easily disproven lie uncritically repeated? Does literally no one in the mainstream media have the guts to call it out?

No. You do not have a right to defend yourself from your own illegal occupation for fucks sake.

Lindsey Graham Says Joy ‘Doesn’t Exist in the Real World’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I definitely chose to spend my day organizing for better conditions instead of settling for scraps and being joyful that other people have it worse.

Lindsey Graham Says Joy ‘Doesn’t Exist in the Real World’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

You know, fuck Trump, fuck Graham, and fuck every Republican. But:

Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”

Is perfectly accurate. I get that everyone is excited about Harris, but lying to ourselves about the economy makes us look out of touch, at best. Most of us can't afford a down payment on a house. Most of us are a few missed paychecks away from homelessness. Most of us are one bad doctor's appointment away from bankruptcy. Most of us are drowning in student loans. Republicans absolutely want to make all of those worse, but pretending everything is fine is bullshit.

Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Ugh. I do like the idea of defederating in theory, but this is the third time I'm going to have move instances because something I want access to is blocked.

Is this just a 'me' problem or something everyone has to deal with from time to time?

Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Republicans attack transgender rights on RNC opening night in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because their only real interest is funneling wealth upwards. Very few Republicans in power genuinely give a damn about any cultural war topics. No Fox News gasbag is choosing to live in Alabama lol. But the only way they can build a viable electoral base that supports stealing from the working class is by inventing and/or exacerbating working class divisions.

"Oh no, you're not unemployed because your boss outsourced your job, it's because, uh, that gay brown migrant took it!"

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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)
 

The issue, rather, is what picture of “political violence” this messaging serves: To say that “political violence” has “no place” in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, “There is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.”

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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)
 

The issue, rather, is what picture of “political violence” this messaging serves: To say that “political violence” has “no place” in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, “There is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.”

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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose (theintercept.com)
 

The issue, rather, is what picture of “political violence” this messaging serves: To say that “political violence” has “no place” in a society organized by political violence at home and abroad is to acquiesce to the normalization of that violence, so long as it is state and capitalist monopolized.

As author Ben Ehrenreich noted on X, “There is no place for political violence against rich, white men. It is antithetical to everything America stands for.”

If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Because my labor creates their super wealth, and because they're destroying the planet to maintain it.

If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (7 children)

The vanishingly small amount of people that will be unfathomably rich in a privatized post-scarcity economy will give us just enough in UBI to make sure we can buy our Mountain Dew verification cans. And without the ability to withhold our labor as a class, we'll have no peaceful avenue to improve our conditions.

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How anarchists in North Carolina rescued books banned in Florida (archive.is)
 

From the Washington Post:

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — When the managers of a small bookstore in this Appalachian mountain town received a call from a distributor wondering if they could take in 22,000 books rejected by a Florida school district, it felt like a colossal ask.

Firestorm Books usually stocks fewer than 8,000 books — titles that range from historical fiction to solarpunk. The self-described queer feminist collective wasn’t sure where they’d put them, and their customers typically weren’t looking for picture books.

“We were like, this feels like a bigger thing than we can manage,” said Libertie Valance, a managing member of the group that runs the store. “But I think even in that conversation, there was an acknowledgment that we were going to do it.”

And so began the journey to bring eight tons of books — most of them banned under Florida’s state laws restricting classroom discussion on race, gender identity and sexual orientation — from Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville to left-leaning Asheville.