I sail the high seas of the Lemmyverse, posting snarky + Lefty comments

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Cake day: May 7th, 2023

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  • So much name-calling in this comment LOL.

    The US literally started as a rebellion against the capital holders in England you dunce. (Cheap insult 1)

    When Capital holders fight against each other, that’s not the same as fighting against Capital. The local ruling class instigated the revolution and richly benefited from its results.

    Plantation owners of the South lost.

    Yes, I think this is one of the few examples in American history where “assets” (human being slaves in this case) were forcibly repatriated from the ruling class

    Robber barons of the 1920s lost.

    Yes, I believe that for all his other faults FDR faced down the fascist coup and actually did some progressive policies. The Democratic party has thoroughly squandered that legacy for 70 years

    There are countless incidents where does happen even if it’s not enough. You need go touch grass if that’s a genuine belief you have. (Cheap insult 2)

    Can you kindly tell me a substantial policy win that has weakened Capital in the last 70 years?

    Bullshit. You have zero interest in ever considering anything beyond “America bad”.

    So you actually know what I believe and desire? How fascinating

    There’s a post bringing up many that you just shrugged off already eg Dems supporting Lena Khan who made exceptional progress breaking up tech monopolies you clown. (Cheap insult 3)

    Pray tell what tech monopoly did she break up?

    And the beholder would have to blind to think you are anything but a disingenuous monster that wants to push policy that hurts people. You’re an accelerationist. You are evil.

    This is just a lot of projection and backlash. It seems you have literally no idea what I believe or what my policy preferences are, yet you are more than happy to assign me MAXIMUM EVIL in your worldview. Do you think that could be because of the propaganda you have been subjected to your whole life?


  • Pretty much sums up your entire philosophy and why no one takes tankies seriously.

    Do you think Capital ever loses in the US? Do you think it could ever lose in the future? How would that come about?

    Literally leaving no room to discuss fixing America.

    I mean it’s really really bad. I don’t personally think it can be fixed without first acknowledging the atrocious history and deep structural contradictions, but it sounds like you disagree?

    You just want to destroy it

    I mostly want the American imperial period to end which is a different thing.

    you want Trump

    For the record I didn’t want him elected but I am quite amused by his bumbling teardown of the imperial project

    and will ignore every reasonable point.

    What reasonable point are you accusing me of ignoring?

    Stop being evil

    Evil is certainly in the eye of the beholder


  • Ok! First off, thanks for engaging instead of the ol’ donvote-and-run

    The guy literally said that Israel should “finish the job”.

    Few things. First, don’t confuse words with actions (ESPECIALLY with Trump). He got the ceasefire done before even taking office.

    Secondly, I definitely think he’s a soulless ghoul who would sell out the Palestinians for any reason or no reason at all. The point in this argument is that he exposed the blatant dishonesty of the Democrats.

    Lina Kahn has left the room.

    Like - good for her and the Biden White House for nibbling around the edges. Good thing they actually passed laws and not just regulations that will get immediately dismantled when the pendulum swings. In America, CAPITAL ALWAYS WINS

    Which is only fully captured because anti-electoralists/accelerationists approach to changing the party has been “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”.

    Unfortunately this one is frankly ridiculous. You literally think the arrow of causation goes in that direction instead of people becoming disillusioned after trying to make change inside the party? People try to make change, discover Capital is in complete control, and abandon “civility”.

    “Cut one and we all bleed.”

    I fully 100% endorse this statement. I lament the loss of lifesaving aid. I lament MORE the decades of self-determination that were stolen by the USA.

    I really think that “the imperial core” is pretty cringe, considering the imperialistic expansionist policies of the “AES” states (the big two are not socialist states).

    Are you an ultraleftist? Which countries have Capital on a leash and which countries are on Capital’s leash? Think carefully before answering.

    Adding to that, removal of funding for vaccination and other health initiatives is a net negative for the global South.

    Sure, if we are only counting that I fully agree. We haven’t even talked about the collapsing effect food aid has on local food economies.

    Really seems that you’re less supportive of developing nations and more just wanting the West to lose, even if it means everyone else in the world is wise off.

    I definitely want the West to lose, that’s not in question. The better question is: Is the Global South suffering because the US just hasn’t dropped enough rice out of C130s or because of decades of exploitation?


  • Here I go again, taking the bait.

    • Trump put the lie to the Democrats’ claims about wanting to end the war in Gaza
    • The Democrats would never dare to upset Capital like Trump just did. (Trump will of course always capitulate in the end as he has done here)
    • Bernie is old and tired. He says a lot of the right things but he keeps trying to work within the fully captured DNC.
    • Minorities in the imperial core are surely worse off. It remains to be seen if Trump’s attacks on the soft power apparatus are sufficient to free the Global South from Western exploitation. (I am aware there is some actual aid in there with the labor suppression, coups and propaganda media. Both seem to be being dismantled)
    • I doubt anyone could destroy USA’s international prestige and credibility as quickly as Trump has