[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

There is absolutely no scenario in which Trump decreases funding for Israel. He was in many ways the most Zionist president to ever exist.

When he handed Jerusalem to Israel, he broke with decades of strategic resistance from the US because he didn't understand the instability it would create, and wanted to give Israel whatever it wants.

His current position is that Netanyahu is to blame for allowing harm to come to Israeli civilians. Not that Israel is bad for genociding Palestinians for 75 years. His fear is that Netanyahu is reckless and creating instability that might result in Palestinian liberation rather than their slow, competent strangulation by more "liberal" Israelis.

I know he's not the President now, and Joe Biden is evil, but can we at least try and remain committed to the goal of independent working class power? We didn't tail Biden in order to "stop Trump", and we shouldn't tail Trump to stop the Democrats.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Hopefully constructive critique:

This just sounds like a mirror of American exceptionalism. Down to the portrayal of your human enemies as subhuman. More extreme rhetoric cannot be traded in for a quicker path to socialism, especially if it comes at the expense of oversimplifying Marxist strategy.

Defeats of the hegemonic empire are good, but they are not an unqualified good. Keep your agitation focused on US defeats, not on the triumph of warlords.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Technically yes since there's audiobooks of State and Revolution on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfLQsyUYig

I imagine that's not exactly what you're looking for if asking for a video, but if shorter, more conversational video did exist that book would be the primary source for it anyways.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Capital directly benefits from spending money in this way, and directly suffers if social spending increases.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Oulianoff

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

fair share

Social imperialist dead giveaway

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Not everything is a coded message. Bernie is one of the most memed individuals of all time. Do you want us to explain why putting him in a red army uniform is funny?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I don't see how an argument against US tech startups and an argument against tech debt in 50 year old bank computer systems are both supposed to apply to the same institution. This really feels more like an investigation of every rhetorical argument that could be made against a hypothetical brics bank rather than a real one. Supported by the fact that they seem to think the difficulty in coding a bank system is making sure the ledger doesn't "misread" entries - this is a difficult problem for humans but not computers, and it doesn't get harder whether you have 1000 statements or 1 million.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I mean, most of any audience is going to be workers, they're 99% of the population. That's never going to be sufficient for determining whether an action is worth supporting. This event was paid for by GOP-aligned billionaires. You couldn't pick a less favorable environment for worker outreach. You could go up to random people on the street and ask them how they feel about the Ukraine war, and you'd have a more serious anti-war movement than this in a month.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It must suck to be so unpopular that you have to talk about yourself in the 3rd person

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

And the United States called it a war crime when Russia started doing so. Pure hypocrisy.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Caitlin Johnstone made me a communist

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