https://wyrk.com/buffalo-city-council-considering-abolishing-buffalo-mayor-position/
I wonder if this has anything to do with a democratic socialist winning the primary...
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/7/19/22580472/child-tax-credit-biden-tiktok-memes
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 2 August 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
where's the check for people who already make too much money and have no kids huh???
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
tension in that article between the vox house style and the actual material things that - well, turns out they actually seem to matter a lot to people, who knew? can we do something to capture this effect for our purposes? of course there are these institutional obstacles which might as well be ontological preventing us from generalising from this very specific articulation so we are basically at an impasse where all we can do is say hey, cool new thing, what does this mean for the democratic party going forward
― Left, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
site:vox.com "class struggle" 38 results
why bernie lost, some zizek bullshit, inequality is problem but we're working on it, more why bernie lost...
― Left, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
"The federal government is not a family. And it's not a small business. And it's not a local government. And it's not a state government," @RepJohnYarmuth says at Rules Committee hearing. "We can spend whatever we need to spend in the interest of serving the American people."— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 23, 2021
(Chairman of the House Budget Committee)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 August 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
jesus christ thank you
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 August 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
I've been saying this
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
if the democrats manage to open up the money faucet and then not lose the house next year I will give Joe Biden one (1) credit for it
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
They should find a reason to justify a stimulus check next October. Actually use the legalized bribery strategy that could have kept Trump in office.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
speak for yourself john yarmuth, when my family runs out of money they just print more money we call it familycoin
― criminally negligible (harbl), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
Everyone needs to spend big on their post-COVID (maybe) Halloween costume in 2022, here's $2k.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 23 August 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
If the SPD forms a government after the German election, which polls think is pretty likely right now, you would have social democrat-led coalitions in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Germany— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) September 13, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link
Carbon tax, land value tax to pay for for UBI and high quality public housing. What a king https://t.co/vWhEPoq18E pic.twitter.com/XzhAPJafmt— big burgers, all-day breakfast and pies (@TribTowerViews) September 14, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
thats dope
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
the outsmarting and hacking of epik along with these developments has me feeling somewhat heartened lately. i like humans
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
Doubtful that a SPD led coalition in Germany can be counted as "left wing" tbh.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 11:13 (two years ago) link
swedish & especially danish socdems are even worse, the danish ones have been full-on anti-immigration & anti-islam etc.
the actually decent socdem-left government in europe is portugal but no mention of that
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 11:32 (two years ago) link
Thread is “Left wing drift” not “left wing”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
dunno if it even counts as drift tbh but not worth arguing
Wouldn't actually dispute this but in terms of nomenclature it's a socialist led govt and the actual socdems haven't ruled out a coalition with the fascists.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 17 September 2021 10:08 (two years ago) link
yeah but that's just a quirk of portuguese politics, the actual socialists are the left bloc & pcp-pev, the socialist party is social democrats, and the socialist democratic party is (fairly unusually) conservatives. it's surely more common than not for a european "socialist party" to have been very ordinary social democrats for ages now.
― ufo, Friday, 17 September 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah I am aware, which is why I said nomenclature - it's because after the fall of the dicatorship no one wanted to seem right-wing so every party's name is to the left of its actual politics.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 17 September 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
Always read the footnotes. Fed economist: "I leave aside the deeper concern that the primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide anapologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." https://t.co/9kphNPQ8La— Danny Yadron (@dannyyadron) September 24, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 24 September 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
now to not leave it aside i guess
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 24 September 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
a remarkable referendum today: Berlin voters by a comfortable margin voted that the city should expropriate housing from large landlords (that have at least 3,000 units) & socialize those units. Roughly 200,000 units fit that description.— Taniel (@Taniel) September 26, 2021
The landlords are making memes y'all pic.twitter.com/7Y4b5XnCeY— Themperor Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 (@kennedytcooper) September 24, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 26 September 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
Lol pretty sure those are memes from the Radical Centrist Instagram page, which is run by Brad Troemel.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 27 September 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
Read that as Brad Toenail
― Are You Still in Love With Me, Klas-Göran? (Tom D.), Monday, 27 September 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
He's an artist and social commentator, makes a fair amount of money off of his Patreon from my understanding.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 27 September 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link
He got shadow-banned on IG for a meme he made that mimicked an actual Biden ad that said, "Not his head, but his heart". A lot of people shared it thinking it was an actual Biden ad rather than a leftist shitpost.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 27 September 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
Rutgers is offering a 6-week labor history class with three leading labor historians for $90. Seems like a really cool/fun course!Register here: https://t.co/sYgEdGPFTf pic.twitter.com/NnHWr4orbI— Chris Brooks (@chactivist) October 3, 2021
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
That's a good price and sounds like it could be fun!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 4 October 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
Covering the strike wave https://theinsurgents.substack.com/p/ep-82-are-we-in-a-strikewave-ft-jonah
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
ty
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
item: saw a kid wearing a sleeveless shirt with a hammer and sickle on it at the gym yesterday
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
What's up with the Qiao Collective ties to the DSA, leading to the decision by the DSA International Committee not to condemn the forced dissolution of an independent Hong Kong Trade Union? I was thinking about reaching out to my local DSA but after that I'll pass. Got in touch with Food Not Bombs here instead.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
...ok
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Is there a better thread to discuss this in? I'd genuinely be interested in seeing the thoughts of other leftists here on the matter, it's something I've seen tearing up Twitter and other leftward forums but maybe I missed any discussion of that here, sorry.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
Better than the last time you responded to me I guess.
really looking forward to wearily scrolling past all your posts
― ingredience (map), Tuesday, December 10, 2019 12:07 AM (one year ago)
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
thanks for reminding me i should go back to doing just that
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
Qiao Collective are known apologists for the CCCP. The best left site coming from that part of the world, run by some people that I have met and can vouch for, is here: https://lausan.hk/
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
The left mainstreaming of apologism for Xi Jinping and the CCCP right now is appalling. Just because the US and China are sabre-rattling doesn't make China some sort of paragon of decency and virtue. Caping for a state is always a bad look.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
agreed but I'm not sure this mistake should really invalidate the DSA completely (I mean, it won't for me), fixing potholes and brakelights is good regardless
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
afaic the DSA is like all socialist cult associations: occasionally OTM and doing actionable work, mostly full of shit.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
the DSA is like all socialist cult associations
Huh?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
RevCom? Cult. ISO? Cult. Blackhammer? Cult. DSA? A larger cult, but a cult nonetheless.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Socialism is certainly closer to my own personal ideology, but I'm not interested in socialist organizations at all, because I've been burned by them in the past. I've watched them burn others in the past. The good work that some of the do seems anomalous rather than par for the course, in my experience.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 8 November 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
i'm also trending more anarchist lately in my political orientation, the little of it i have anyway
i don't know where to put this but i enjoyed this book review. the baffler has been on a roll lately?
Peace Inc. has flourished since the end of the Cold War. This dating is not accidental. The industry’s rise is bound up with the dreams of the end of history that were so frequently hallucinated in foreign policy circles in the 1990s. The anti-politics of peacebuilding is part and parcel of a liberalism that tries to neutralize actual struggles. Rather than seeing violence as part of some overarching goal—an end to colonial rule, say, or a revolution—contemporary peacebuilding sees violence itself as the problem. Countries might remain woefully unequal and bereft of socio-economic justice, but the peacebuilders have done their job as long as peace is obtained. As Autesserre summarizes, for Peace Inc., war and poverty are “technical problems . . . which can be solved using technocratic solutions based on best practices and a large body of universal, time-tested ideas.”
https://thebaffler.com/latest/give-peace-a-chance-craze
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
Thanks for that. My grandmother was a big peace activist and would sometimes be lightly involved in this sort of world. Luckily her more radical friends and her own curiosity often won out so she could form more nuanced views.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
As in, I'm looking forward to reading it!
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
it's a juicy review with a lot of striking anecdotes that starts to paint a picture of what's really going on with this stuff. it does not like the books very much.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 15 November 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link