I’m a socialist so no big fan of capitalism. That said, I don’t think capitalism is just about selling things for more than they’re worth.

We add value through our labor. Think of a log, it has some value as raw material. A worker might cut it into planks, and another might make a table out of it. It’s now worth more than when it started. The value came from our labor, and we should be compensated for it.

The issue with capitalism is that the few benefit off the work of many. Based on the rest of your comment I think we’re pretty much in agreement, but just want to highlight that as a worker-owner (vs robber baron) there’s nothing wrong with charging for what you’re worth.

Wow if its rumoured it must be true

Fuck these guys.

It’s also a really nice feeling to help someone jump a car, or help push a disabled car off the road. It’s this short(ish) and well defined opportunity to do good, without much gray area of “is this the best course of action” or “am I making an impact” you get with longer and more complex activism.

If the instance is in the same country, a government can much more effectively exercise leverage against some guy running a server than a publicly traded corporation with lawyers on retainer.

If it’s not the same country maybe easier just to ignore.

The best case in terms of privacy is just not collecting data. Something like mullvad vpn where they don’t keep the sort of records that governments ask for.

Unfortunately anti spam measures often involve collecting identifying information (like email addresses).

Talking about America or any country as a single organism with just one train of thought is unproductive.

Yeah. I don’t like these guys, but for our own credibility we should be factual. TPU has had many questionable opinions about public health, including covid. But they weren’t founded specifically related to covid, or as I understand it even with a particular focus on health/life sciences.

Article about the founder dying: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

Is that an upper class student radish hanging out with a subsistence farmer radish?

Like the European Union?

Barney is famously purple

I’m talking specifically about armed conflict. You’re right we absolutely can’t go on the way things are. I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that we have to have a shooting war.

It’s sort of like throwing up. You feel sick, you try to do everything you can not to, but at a certain moment you know it’s going to happen and there’s no avoiding it.

The problem is you don’t know ahead of time which times you’re going to actually throw up. Sometimes if you lay down or drink some water or whatever you feel better.

Not sure what you’re trying to say specifically, but if it comes to violence then we’ll get to it and we’ll win.

But there are good strategic reasons to pursue every possible avenue before resorting to violence.

• War excludes direct participation by a large portion of the population - many women, elderly, disabled.

• It puts decision making in the hands of a smaller portion of the population, so it’s less democratic.

• It’s much easier to destroy than it is to build, both in terms of infrastructure but also social structures and organizations.

• You are more likely to gather support from other parties if you’re seen to have tried every option to deescalate. (In other words, “they started it”)

When we look at what’s happening in Minneapolis, I think there’s casus belli. It’s more whether it is in our strategic interest to start a shooting war, and I’d say it’s not yet.

I just tried reading about xenogender and can’t say it made any sense.

Yes, the list isn’t very useful if 70 million people are on it.

Not saying they didn’t know it was American. But what would be the advantage of Israel attacking a U.S. ship in that context?

I’ve been reading “Fighters in the Shadows” by Robert Gildea, it’s about the resistance in France during World War 2. It’s funny how big the tent can be when you’re fighting fascism. They had people from all across the political spectrum, urban and rural, French plus countless other nationalities, and they were pursuing a really wide spectrum of activities.

If you read Stancil’s feed these days he’s really doing the work, plus publicizing the issue. I don’t think it makes sense to prioritize social media grudges at the moment.

I get it’s referencing loss. But is the text referencing something specific? The URL says “Dave Tim actually said this” but I don’t know who that is, or in what context

What are you trying to accomplish here? Is your message to any Americans of conscience “no, you can’t beat fascists”? Don’t be a dick and don’t be defeatist

I didn’t do shit because I wasn’t alive then. And clearly they’re not gone, because here they are. But you may note that slavery is illegal now. Not enough but not nothing. If you want to doom keep it to yourself.

Better if it shows a Confederate soldier?

We will beat them again. It’s just a question of how much suffering until then, and how much we actually root out the ideology.