One can be critical of US imperialism in the Pacific/East Asia without supporting North Korea.
Can you be critical of both? This whole conference just shit
One can be critical of US imperialism in the Pacific/East Asia without supporting North Korea.
I had one dude give me a take that MAD was preventing a world war and I just sighed
Man militarism is helluva thing to still hold on to after all these years
Honestly I'd actually be a little skeptical if this is really extensively covered in high school textbooks in the future, especially since it's implausible that Trump will really get radical change out of this summit.I fully expect a lot of side by side pictures comparing Trump and Kim's meeting with Nixon and Mao's in a lot of future high school history textbooks as a BS example of how "Only when you act really crazy and tough can you pull this off!!"
Yeah these people are so dumb, American presidents pose with murderous dictators all the time, it's just suddenly different when Trump does it with someone we don't give financial support to.With the summit happening, I can't wait to see how many anti DPRK posts are written in PoliERA. I already saw people complaining about people posing with Kim
Yeah i find that shit infuriating. Fucking tankies.One can be critical of US imperialism in the Pacific/East Asia without supporting North Korea.
Spam has gotten me through many a lean paycheck.
Food of the proletariat right there.
My favorite part of T H E D I S C O U R S E is the idea of suggesting something against the grain is immediately met with "well you're just being naive"
It always amazes me how people criticize the left for wanting the perfect candidate yet they don't realize that we are willing to vote for Bernie who is full of flaws, but still much better than any other Democrat.My views:
- he's the best and, for now, pretty much the only thing the American left has going for it on the national stage, and he has unquestionably been very good for the left and socialism
- he is also a very flawed figure whose flaws from a left perspective should be critiqued
- having a nuanced conversation about those flaws is all but impossible in certain online spaces (i.e. PoliERA) due to the amount of blatant and transparent bad faith towards him, his supporters, and leftists more generally, from people who are still nursing grievances over 2016
- those people do not represent any numerically significant constituency in the real world, as only a small minority of Democrats view Sanders unfavorably
- leftists should generally avoid engaging those people and recognize the bad-faith grievance politics of a small but vocal minority for what it is, even as they continue to be appropriately critical of Sanders where warranted
He's a democratic politician who doesn't actively make me wanna projectile vomit acid blood all over the place, so he's got that going for him
Harris was head cop of San Francisco and basically a gigantic symptom of the Democratic Party.
I mean I straight up just don't think Sanders would be a good president, regardless of how much of his policy I nominally support. Don't get me wrong, if he gets the nom I'm voting for him, but I think we can do better in our leaders
I think pinning this as being on Sanders is shortsighted and buys into the narrative of the neolibs that they're the only smart folks in the room who understand how things work and that anything left of DLC means-tested programs and market reforms are unrealistic and unfeasible. The center-right of the Democrats have supported a wide variety of terrible ideas like the attempts to balance the budget in 2010 that I think undercuts the idea that they're the only serious folks at the table.I think if Bernie got the presidency and a DDD trifecta he'd still run into problems because he's not always one for fine print. He loves big-picture ideas but when to ask for details you get a lot of "We're working on it". He gets there eventually but he would need to be way more precise from the onset or else run the risk of the rest of the party getting to control the narrative.
Who's on your shortlist?I mean I straight up just don't think Sanders would be a good president, regardless of how much of his policy I nominally support. Don't get me wrong, if he gets the nom I'm voting for him, but I think we can do better in our leaders
I think pinning this as being on Sanders is shortsighted and buys into the narrative of the neolibs that they're the only smart folks in the room who understand how things work and that anything left of DLC means-tested programs and market reforms are unrealistic and unfeasible. The center-right of the Democrats have supported a wide variety of terrible ideas like the attempts to balance the budget in 2010 that I think undercuts the idea that they're the only serious folks at the table.
The real issue is that there isn't much of a center-left policy sphere in the US which hinders its ability to propose real left reforms. That's not really Bernie's fault, it's the result of decades of neoliberal hegemony.
That said, even if Bernie couldn't pass a serious legislative accomplishment (plausible), he would still staff his executive branch with actual social democrats (no Tim Geithners or Arne Duncans) and would be vastly better on foreign policy than any plausible alternative within the Democrats which I think makes his presidency worth supporting.
I think pinning this as being on Sanders is shortsighted and buys into the narrative of the neolibs that they're the only smart folks in the room who understand how things work and that anything left of DLC means-tested programs and market reforms are unrealistic and unfeasible. The center-right of the Democrats have supported a wide variety of terrible ideas like the attempts to balance the budget in 2010 that I think undercuts the idea that they're the only serious folks at the table.
Also would like to endorse this post, though not sure how much you'd like my endorsement as reformist socdem trash :PMy views:
- he's the best and, for now, pretty much the only thing the American left has going for it on the national stage, and he has unquestionably been very good for the left and socialism
- he is also a very flawed figure whose flaws from a left perspective should be critiqued
- having a nuanced conversation about those flaws is all but impossible in certain online spaces (i.e. PoliERA) due to the amount of blatant and transparent bad faith towards him, his supporters, and leftists more generally, from people who are still nursing grievances over 2016
- those people do not represent any numerically significant constituency in the real world, as only a small minority of Democrats view Sanders unfavorably
- leftists should generally avoid engaging those people and recognize the bad-faith grievance politics of a small but vocal minority for what it is, even as they continue to be appropriately critical of Sanders where warranted
This is complete lie. Nice job throwing in an ableist insult as well. Reactionary traitor.Venezuela is a authoritarian, incredibly corrupt ultra-kleptocracy. It's basically 90s Russia with the PSUV (and those in their orbit) and military staff being the Oligarchs. Any self-styled leftist who defends it is an unthinking moron who likely doesn't process things past "ostensibly leftist" and/or "aligned against the USA".
But Holodomor was a myth perpetrated by Nazis and nationalists. 99 percent of the supposed crimes against humanity in DPRK are bullshitTankies are scary man. Hbomb's mentions range from people denying Holodomor, to people making vague threats towards him. He denounces the crimes against humanity in DPRK and they call him an imperialist.
It's like they're slipping from reality.
But Holodomor was a myth perpetrated by Nazis and nationalists. 99 percent of the supposed crimes against humanity in DPRK are bullshit
You forgot the '/s'This is complete lie. Nice job throwing in an ableist insult as well. Reactionary traitor.
They might be serious.Edit: retracting as I fell for what I assume was sarcasm for now
a commitment to ideals of radical democracy, and a willingness to experiment with new forms of organization to achieve this. In fact, the countries of Latin America have been experimenting with such projects since 1989--just as left projects of all stripes fell into decline across Europe--in what was a moment of rebirth. Poor residents of Venezuela's barrios took history into their own hands in a mass popular rebellion against neoliberalism
So I got a question for you guys: what would a socialist society look like? Or, rather, what would be the major differences from what we have now aside from workers owning the means of production?