I quoted Natasha Lennard in my socialism thread, but I'm rereading her essay "Riots For Black Life", published last year, and it says everything I wan...
Stepping on necks? That's the metaphor you're going to use here against those who support protests over a man who died by way of having his neck stepp...
Y'know what? Worth addressing this - the poor in America don't have many skills or certifications - nothing to do with capitalism? Yeah make another j...
My God, you really gonna miss the point that badly and make me spell it out for you? No, it's because the society you live in is so absurdly, supremel...
And you think this is because what? Because people burned down a Target? You think that's why people have 'few other options'? And there's nothing rea...
Yeah, sorry, I 'don't trust' people whose first instinct is to defend Target in the wake of all that's happened. Maybe consider that if a Target being...
From Natasha Lennard, whom I will quote until the breath leaves my body: "A categorical error is made in any media narrative resting on the idea that ...
I've come around to what you've said about the charges. It's not a topic I'd given much thought to before, but the more I've looked into it the more a...
Both also dumb ideas that have confused more than they have helped. Little known fact: Schrodinger invoked his cat to try and show how absurd certain ...
Zombie experiments are dumb and bat experiments are dumb. Faster we get over them the better. They don't even deserve the name of experiments. It's ju...
The police exist to secure private property. They are agents of capitalism first and foremost. Look again at that distribution of theft types. It is n...
Trump and his cabal of fuckwit enablers have presided over an enfeebled American population - angry, scared, poor, and ignorant - and encouraged to be...
That's super interesting. I'm not well versed on these issues, but I wonder if the trade off here is thay prosecutors and can throw everything at the ...
Interesting! I'd never actually read the paper before, and appreciate you linking it. It's interesting what Foot does: she doesn't use the thought exp...
That was my first thought as well. For all the American wringing about "Chynah", their police state is no less effective. I agree but I suspect 3rd is...
Yeah, and I mean, the lavish social and cultural attention given to larceny in total disproportion to real life - that's class warfare. You can't get ...
https://www.smh.com.au/national/underpayment-as-business-model-what-is-wage-theft-20190509-p51lko.html As they put it here, wage theft in Australia is...
I don't know where I can find comparative figures outside of the States, but I don't imagine this is confined to it. In Australia, our major retail an...
Those figures are just mind-boggling to me. I mean, culturally, burglary an larceny are seen as paradigmatic of crime in general - but this... wage th...
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/minneapolis-police-officer-who-knelt-on-george-floyd-arrested-20200530-p54xwj.html May this fucker burn in ...
https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1263841909774127104 Given that our comrades over at Fox News Communist Headquarters themselves have acknowledged ...
I have to admit, the very fact that anyone is talking about any of this in terms of voter fraud is itself already a concession to Trump. It's about de...
Of course - the Swedish experiment has been a total failure. And insofar as the US is the 9th worst affected country by capita - measured by deaths - ...
The handling of virus is a matter of politics through and through. And the denial of that is no less political through and through. Disgusting is tens...
Correct. Because this is killing Americans at a way faster rate, and moreover, alot of this death is preventable. And while we're at it, the fact that...
Also, Twitter bullshit aside - 100,000 Americans have now died under Trump's watch from COVID. That's almost 3 times as many as the next highest count...
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