State and Revolution is SHOCKINGLY clear and accessible, and yes, not a million pages long.
not to mention the fact that the rich have AC too so they're not in danger regardless
A vast majority of you guys who think you’re “one of the good ones” are in fact not “one of the good ones.”
Perhaps you, the liberal handwringing about american influence on your culture in response to a trans person not wanting to get genocided in america, is "not one of the good ones". Jesus how hard is it to think these things through before you say shit? Honestly, a bunch of white liberals, I get having some qualms, though the cultural influence talking point is far more pertinent in reference to media than via any imaginable number of refugees coming up.
Edit: AND ANOTHER THING, ITS NOT A "GUY"
ironically I feel like it is less likely they will shoot someone compared the goddamned LAPD
straight up this is why they don't give riot cops live ammo. No fucking discipline
the crayon eaters are probably only a marginal improvement on that front though
Sweden’s government has long advised against travel to Gaza
they didn't fucking GO to Gaza. They were the subject of piracy in international waters
be arrested with all their high profile crewmembers (greta, member of euro parliament, etc) and use that to push their countries of origin to put pressure on israel. It probably won't work but it's better than nothing I guess. if no country/other actor is willing to push back in any way to guarantee gaza's freedom of navigation rights I don't see how it can work except to raise awareness of the siege.
Rough headline, I thought they were already arrested somehow.
I've wondered this as well, often out loud in posts/comments. The urge to call our charity mutual aid just to make it "leftist" is a bad one, IMO. But there are some minor differences at least in theory. The idea is that it's a "pay it forward" kind of thing where we help eachother out when needed and then those people help others when they are able. But because of the realities of capitalist life I don't see that happening all that often. The people with the stability to send money regularly to randos from the internet tend to stay the same and the people with serious needs tend to stay the same. I think the only real difference in practice is that much of our donations goes to known community members, not random strangers. Does that make it mutual aid? idk, not really probably, but I appreciate it whatever we call it.
I think about this in on the ground work as well. Many many orgs call their work mutual aid when its really just charity. But it feels very hard to ask anything of people who are destitute, even if involving them in the work sustaining them could be liberatory
I thought that the story behind the ship full of fertilizer and the dock warehouse that exploded was pretty well documented in that case (though I suppose, the fire could still have been triggered or exacerbated by sabotage, which might be what hy's asking). Pretty reasonable to suspect but idk if there's any evidence of it
god forbid men have hobbies
even liberals who've been to syria and aren't just going based on what's printed in the NYT, seem to learn pretty quickly that Assad was the lesser of a great many evils vying for power in Syria. Its literally just the armchairs who have never been there and take western media as gospel