GivingEuropeASpook

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[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

All they care about is their base

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

But it isn't the same as if the entire working class had a collective say in the capital, not just those who choose to and have the resources to pay in. It isn't the same as the workers of that company having a say in their working conditions, shift lengths, compensation, etc.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

A better way to say it would instead be the inverse: "If you don't work for a paycheck, you probably hold enough capital"

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago (9 children)

They want a shutdown lol this idea that negotiating will avert it is silly since you don't negotiate for things you don't want.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Captured implies that the State didn't already function as a tool of capital

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

All this because Republicans in the US don't like that sending arms to Ukraine makes Biden look good to the general public.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yes, although the US pulled itself back enough with some of FDR's reforms that it kicked the can down the road a few generations, whereas the Weimar Republic actually collapsed.

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

I know right? This quote in the headline makes her out to sound so tepid like "please mr president could you maybe be more confrontational against the fascists who want to kill me and my allies? 👉👈"

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Too busy trying to court centrist voters and uphold a dying status quo

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Nah if Trump was in office in the last four months there'd be open conflict across the Middle East with thousands of US troops bound for Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, etc

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Oh yeah, if he started talking like half of his most rabid supporters do online then he'd be way more popular.

If people could quote President Biden's personal attacks on white supremacists, book bans, etc then they'd get a lot farther with the politically disengaged.

Imagine if you had Biden (or his social media team) out here on the daily constantly mocking GOP culture war shit as inherently un-American and out of touch with normal people?

[–] GivingEuropeASpook@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

What matters is perception and public messaging and that is currently one of a centrist president incapable of reigning in a foreign ally or continually calling out House Republicans for their shenanigans that put American lives at risk at home and abroad.

Conservatives have constant control of the conversation because they have zero qualms publicly stating how their political adversaries stand in their way. But instead it looks like Democrats trying to win Republicans support by adopting republican policies instead of bullying them into accepting the plan of the majority party of the upper legislature and presidency.

 

Key takeaway from the article for me was this paragraph:

"The stark reality is now inescapable: legislations targeting the medical care of transgender adults have taken root, despite the claims of anti-trans activists that they are trying to “protect children” with these laws. Florida's new provisions represent the first significant restrictions on trans adult care to fully materialize."

 

The headline should read something more like "Florida students to return to schools after fascist-overhaul of the curriculum" but that wouldn't be "objective" enough for NPR.

Students will literally be watching Prager U Kids videos, require parental permission for a nickname, and be forcibly misgendered by even their closest, favorite, teacher as a matter of State Law.

 

Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4580386

From the article, my emphasis added:

"Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina's legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor's veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state's Republican leadership."

 

One of my favourites from Alan Fisher. Seriously, just one more lane bro!

 

I love to see this sort of solidarity, but I wish it was the norm...

 

Sure, updating patients rights would help but how fucked is it that our system allows this by default in the first placd?

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