You want me to recycle my half eaten hamburger?
Had one in my apartment in Shanghai.
Assuming that owning a common house hold appliance is a signal of social mobility is a FOX News talking point even when it comes from AOC.
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It sure as fuck has nothing to do with whether or not someone owns a coffee maker.
Practically the entirety of the US working class starts the day with a cup of coffee. You wanna lecture them about how they need to make their life a little bit less convenient to be more "socialist"?
"Your coffee machine automatically brews a cup at a set time instead of you having to press the button yourself? I'm sorry comrade but I must deduct two points from your Socialism Meter."
Next time keep driving.
It's a social media video about being surprised with an amenity of her new apartment that she didn't have before, and the caption just says "Is this what social mobility is? Using kitchen appliances you never saw growing up?" accompanied by a laughing emoji. If she straight up thought that garbage disposals were some accurate indicator of the economic opportunities you have access to, yeah that'd be dumb, but I think it's reaching to take what happened here as evidence of that.
Oh no, MLK plainly said we needed socialism and fought hard to help organize black working class communities.i thought malcom x was a socialist and marthin luther king was a social democrat, that was a surprise to me
This isn't really a rebuttal though? Nate Silver made a probabilistic claim "the socialist left in America is disproportionately white and black Americans tend to hold more moderate political views and support moderate candidates relative to white Democrats", not that leftism or socialism is intrinsically white and there are no important black figures or that it's wholly alien to black communities.The Black Socialists of America did a nice take down of that BS (thread):
mlk was a social democrat and referred to social democracy as socialism because that's how 99% of people use the term. I don't think he was a marxist and he was anticommunist (at least in terms of being critical of Marxism-Leninism which he terms communism, he obviously was famously against the vietnam war). His famous quotes refer to "democratic socialism" which except on narrow online arguments is always laborist social democracy.i thought malcom x was a socialist and marthin luther king was a social democrat, that was a surprise to me
Yeah exactly, which is why I'm confused by the AFL-CIO tweeting this:Breaking the picket line generally refers to workers continuing to work through the strike, not customers.
I simply posted the first tweet in thread.This isn't really a rebuttal though? Nate Silver made a probabilistic claim "the socialist left in America is disproportionately white and black Americans tend to hold more moderate political views and support moderate candidates relative to white Democrats", not that leftism or socialism is intrinsically white and there are no important black figures or that it's wholly alien to black communities.
yeah this is an obvious better rebuttal!http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/29/rel6a.-.2020.democrats.pdf
Starting at Page 44 is a series of policy questions only asked to democrats if it's important for the primary candidate to support the following. Unfortunately it's grouped by non-white, but it's the best I could find.
Impeach Trump
White democrats - 60%
Nonwhite democrats - 84%
Pay reparations
White democrats - 53%
Nonwhite democrats - 75%
Address climate change
White democrats - 95%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Medicare for All
White democrats - 86%
Nonwhite democrats - 96%
Tuition free college
White democrats - 71%
Nonwhite democrats - 87%
Executive action on gun laws
White democrats - 81%
Nonwhite democrats - 89%
Restore voting rights for all convicted felons
White democrats - 55%
Nonwhite democrats - 65%
Just came across this, I figured this was the right thread for it. "Dinosaurs" was an interesting show LOL:
Why?
It's OK to feel that way about anybody who put hundreds of people in the ground.been watching a lot of docs on che lately, i'm polarized as hell on him
Thanks. ❤️
been watching a lot of docs on che lately, i'm polarized as hell on him
As the Qing dynasty began its slow collapse, thousands of peasants were funneled into port cities to staff the bustling docks and sweatshops fueled by foreign silver. When these migrants died from the grueling work and casual violence of life in the treaty ports, their families often spent the sum of their remittances to ship the bodies home in a practice known as "transporting a corpse over a thousand li" (qian li xing shi), otherwise the souls would be lost and misfortune could befall the entire lineage.
Today, China itself has become such a wandering specter. The rural world is dying, yet hundreds of millions of workers still seem stuck between their peasant past and a future that fails to arrive. Two decades of staggering economic growth built on a series of credit bubbles have left a legacy of "development" defined by wastelands of apartment complexes sitting next to half-empty factory cities, each year filled with fewer workers and more unmanned machines. While the elite children of the country's financial and administrative centers collect sports cars and foreign degrees, the children of today's migrants are guaranteed little more than the fleeting chance to become yet another corpse crushed to pulp in the factory.
As growth rates dwindle, the country seems nonetheless driven ahead by an undead, mechanical momentum. Workers are laid off with nowhere to return. Ruralites give up their land in exchange for a fraction of the condos built on them, soon losing their value to an inflating currency. Entire landscapes are poisoned by decades of rapid industrial expansion, while urban centers succumb to man-made landslides, earthquakes and chemical explosions. Riots and strikes proliferate, but fail to cohere into anything larger. The working class has been dismantled. Nothing is left today but dead generations united in their separation, shambling through the fire and the dust.
Chuang is a collective of communists who consider the "China question" to be of central relevance to the contradictions of the world's economic system and the potentials for its overcoming. For us, this question is not primarily historical. Our interest has little to do with the professed socialism of a country run by a "Communist Party" left over from the peasant wars of last century. Instead, the question raised by China is founded in the present. As a lynchpin in global production networks, Chinese crises threaten the capitalist system in a way that crises elsewhere do not. A bottoming-out in China would signal a truly systemic crisis in which the overcoming of capitalism may again become the horizon of popular struggles.
In this journal, our goal is to formulate a body of clear-headed theory capable of understanding contemporary China and its potential trajectories.
The history we review in this article is not intended to revive old, internecine battles within the left, nor to engage in a game of historical reenactment in which we map out our political direction according to a set of coordinates long ago rendered obsolete. Instead, we hope that our economic history of China can give some insight into contemporary conflicts in the region, illuminating both the inheritance of the socialist developmental regime and the unique limits to any emancipatory project that arises in the world's largest nation and second-largest capitalist economy, which remains under the control of a regime that still claims a commitment to communism.
The age-old battle can finally be put to rest. Thanks, Fox Business!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerless_(TV_series)So what does that makes us. The Avengers, or Thanos and his cunt flunkies ?
Superheroes are naturally fascistic/conservative. They exist above the law, are not democratically accountable, only fight threats that concern the destabilization of middle to upper middle class society and not, say, poverty, or lack of healthcare. Superman will save an old woman from falling and breaking her hip but he won't pay her healthcare bill. Tony Stark will invent a revolutionary energy source but not displace the coal industry.
Probably the latter.is that a debate? or its just the usual thing to make socialism and aoc look bad?
Ohh no no. I completely agree with you on that score.Superheroes are naturally fascistic/conservative. They exist above the law, are not democratically accountable, only fight threats that concern the destabilization of middle to upper middle class society and not, say, poverty, or lack of healthcare. Superman will save an old woman from falling and breaking her hip but he won't pay her healthcare bill. Tony Stark will invent a revolutionary energy source but not displace the coal industry.
Superheroes are naturally fascistic/conservative. They exist above the law, are not democratically accountable, only fight threats that concern the destabilization of middle to upper middle class society and not, say, poverty, or lack of healthcare. Superman will save an old woman from falling and breaking her hip but he won't pay her healthcare bill. Tony Stark will invent a revolutionary energy source but not displace the coal industry.
Oh yes, Golden Age superheroes were occasionally pro-labor and outwardly humanitarian but once people got "politics out of comics" they became allegories for sustaining the status quo at all costs. I was referring to mostly modern superheroes because that's where most of my experience with them lies.Put respect on the original vision for Superman. He sealed corrupt mining executives into their own mine and forced them to survive there so they'd see their workers' own deplorable conditions.