GiantSpoonWielder

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Seeing Biden give credence to bullshit propaganda about beheaded babies while committing without reservation to genocidal retaliation was nauseating. Without any acknowledgement of decades of proven Israeli crimes against humanity and the absolute immiseration of Palestinian people. Generations born and murdered inside a concentration camp. The colonial hegemony is so fucking desperate to defend the bloated corpse of the old empire. I'm so tired of hearing the pearl clutching criticism of Hamas or Palestinians tactics from the 'left.'

How many Palestinians must die before they are allowed to fight back? Should they schedule their attacks around music festivals held at the fucking walls of their prison at a military base? Should they consider how colonists might feel scared?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They need to stop interfering with market mechanisms. This company will naturally lose value as its surviving customers use their vast wealth (inherited from the dead under the collapsed buildings) to pick a place to live built by a more reputable developer. What's a few lives lost to maintain market freedom (definitely exists) which is the same thing as human freedom.

If the government cracked down on these developers to save lives... something something 666 million football fields worth of people were killed by COMMUNISM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I am not trying to pile on, genuinely curious about your perspective as a socialist.

I don't think many people around here have an issue with strategic voting alongside actual organizing and support. The way you worded your first comment sounded like uncritical support for Biden/Democrats in regard to their rail union 'achievements'. From later comments it doesn't sound like that is what you intended, but I am struggling to understand why they deserve any credit. Even from the article you posted, they removed the only actual leverage the workers have, then after significant public pressure, helped avert further unrest by convincing the companies to give less than 50% of the workers 3 or 4 days of paid sick leave a year. I don't see anything laudable here. (And for the absolute idiots, [email protected], I agree 4 sick day more gooder than 0 sick day).

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (22 children)

It's just liberal bait, best to ignore them.

When rail unions were preparing for a potential strike, Biden made it illegal for them to do so.

Rail unions wanted to strike for better benefits, vacation time most importantly as the corporations had them working a lot of hours with virtually no paid time off. Part of 'efficiency' in the pursuit of profit, running as much freight, with as few train engines and workers also means greater wear on the infrastructure and less maintenance work being done. All this contributes to the more regular occurrence of accidents, some incredibly damaging to public health and the environment.

They got some minor benefit increases, but i don't believe much, if anything, related to their main complaints. And now they have no real recourse. The only credit Biden and the democrats should get is from their capitalist sponsors.

Here's an opinion piece summary from a rail union member

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Any time a famine occurs, look for the commie with a big spoon. Always taking the g(r)ains and giving nothing back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What do you mean, what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

These blood drinking chinese child super soldiers probably caused America's egg inflation by demanding all those chickens be raised to the age of maximum blood production.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for the oh so mournful reporting on children still being maimed by failed munitions in 10 years. What an unfortunate and unavoidable situation that we have never created before and is certainly not still happening in places like Cambodia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the geopolitical analysis we need. Everything should be understood through the lens of mediocre western pop culture. Was Hitler more of a Chandler or a Monica? Was G.W. Bush like Anakin Skywalker being manipulated by Palpatine/Cheney?

Man, it's really opening my eyes. Now I understand why it was good to kill all those Iraqis.