On the right, opposition to the genocide is miniscule.

Both major parties ardently support Israel’s “right to exist”. Only our most left wing federal politicians, who are like moderate social democrats, have voiced any opposition, fewer willing to call it a genocide. Often that opposition is uneven, unreliable, and conditional.

Israel is deeply embedded in USAmerican politics and culture. And our right wing is a growing fascist movement.

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I don’t remember spending $1.5T destroying 200,000 acres of farmland to build data centers for pets.com and GeoCities.

You say so knowingly, without elaborating, like a true sage /jk

The constitution is a social contract. Since such a contract can serve as the basis for all society, then the legitimacy of all contractual obligations are linked to the legitimacy of this one, that ensure we have rights and freedom in order to enter into contractual obligations.

Since the representatives of the state founded on the constitution have broken the social contract, then all contracts are null and void.

I bought my son a cheap little computer, basically a windows version of a Chromebook. When windows needed an update there wasn’t enough memory to perform it, and the computer would no longer connect to WiFi. I thought this was very dumb so I figured out how to remove windows and install Mint. Was impressed by how well it worked.

When I needed a new computer I bought a $150 thinkpad and installed Fedora. Been a fedora main ever since

Where do the produce boxes come from? Sourced from local farms?

Oh no! I hope you feel better!

I’m right there with you. Even if it is lost for a little while, these things have a way of coming back around stronger than before.

But I agree 1000%, we need decisive collective action to meet this moment.

For a lot of people, staying alive, keeping hope, is what you are doing. Just educating ourselves in a way that helps us see the world and the people in it more clearly, to recognize the connections between us and society, is itself a revolutionary act.

I had the privilege of being elected by my city’s DSA chapter to attend the national convention this year. And believe me, we are building that infrastructure. The sense of connectedness and shared mission along with about 1200 socialist organizers, not just online weirdos but actual wonderful, committed, very busy and diverse people, it has been an incredible feeling each time I was sent.

But there is a cost. I’ve been doxxed, I have my own KeyWiki page. I’m in several databases, I’ve written articles in my own name. But at a certain point I just started to see people as having a target on their back because of nothing they did, it came down to the color of their skin, their gender, who they love, what they believe or where they came from. As an middle age dude I just figured if they have a target on their back then I should do something to put one on mine too.

I’m not a fraction of the man’s measure, but Eugene Debbs, who got a million votes for president from prison in 1920, said at his trial for sedition in 1918, “As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

When you’re ready and able to join the movement, I’ll have saved a place for you in it.

I was just joking you can like those things, I have an interest in a lot of stuff. Be curious, learn history and culture, its an improvement over the garbage we are force fed in public schools.

I don’t agree with the ol “power corrupts so power bad” mindset. It’s learned helplessness. Workers need to become very interested in building power for ourselves as a class. Of course its rife with problems, the 20th century was disaster after disaster wrt socialist politics. Some bright spots, but it didnt pan out. Granted, I am not an anarchist, I know lots of anarchists who organize pretty darn well while pretending they aren’t building power.

But we can’t pretend, we have to deal with facts. How are going to create a better world without a comprehensive theory of power? Its pure idealism and I don’t have time for that.

But educating yourself, being interested in something like ancient Rome, and then building on it and educating is probably the best way forward for a lot of people.

I just have an issue with the neoclassicism of all these slave owning founders, who didn’t understand what the romans also didn’t understand about their society: the basis of all their progress and success is the slave labor they compel to carry it out.

I saw a Tesla truck this am with a license plate something like “S3XY B3AST” and it did not belong to Ben Kingsley.

We have no way of carrying out a general strike right now. GSUSA is a pretty good group trying to build capacity, and UAW President Shawn Fain is pushing for unions to renegotiate their contracts so that they all end on May 1st 2028, obvs including UAW.

General Strikes are illegal in the USA, a union can’t call a legal solidarity strike, thanks to Taft-Hartley. I’m not a legalism guy, I think legalism is an illusion the workers need to overcome. But the fact is, we haven’t overcome it. Even a lot of pretty militant leftist groups in the US have a “new constitutional convention” fetish, it’s even in the old DSA program.

There is no infrastructure for it. A few dozen Americans on Lemmy not showing up for work isn’t gonna do shit. The best chance we got is 2028, which will be badass if Trump is still in office.

There is so much work to do and frankly its frustrating when people are like “just do impossible thing”. Stand up and help us we need help so badly. I think a lot of people in USamerica who say this kind of shit have absolutely no fucking clue what they’re talking about. No one wants to give up a fraction of their quality of life to have a political discussion about real shit. People just want someone else to come along and save them, and then even if someone does come along, complain if we don’t have our butt kissed just the way we like it. The only thing we know how to do is speak to a manager. We are a nation of Karens. We are not ready.

Why are ppl still buying teslas. How does he make so much money if everybody fucking hates him? Whyyyyyy

Well then you are of the same ilk as the illustrious founders of our great nation, which is to say, a fascist

Schools? No, that won’t be federal. Healthcare? No that won’t be federal. Social Security? You guessed it, that won’t be federal.

Racial, sexual, gender repression? Oh yeah we are going international with that shit. We will wreck your economy, and ours, to make you more racist.

God bless the United States of America

Really? Lets vote and consume about it

Its ironic that the strategies that America used to terrorize Europeans into accepting NATO, are being used to terrorize Americans while dismantling NATO. That old imperial boomerang keeps coming back around

As completely innocent people are wont to do

I really don’t think Trump is creating an infinite money glitch, I think he is using the fed to crash the economy, and make a hefty sum on the side. Money isn’t a commodity like diamonds, where there is a limit to how much diamonds you can mine. Money supply is pinned to the productive capacity of a national economy.

Money is a social relation. It takes the form of a commodity but oversupply and undersupply isn’t determined by the number of dollars in circulation, its a relation between what can be produced and what is actually produced

The whole point of the federal reserve is so that no special interest can seize control and crash the US economy on purpose. It sets up a political entity with vast but very particular powers, that is accountable to the president, so that it is almost always in the best interest of big finance not to crash the economy. The US government pays the federal reserve system, which is just a bunch of banks who buy into it, about 7-8% roi, to manage the money supply. Sometimes more money can still be made by crashing the US economy, for example the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, and technically recessions are pretty good for the ruling class predators, but for the most part it provides concrete financial incentives for major institutions to keep the whole thing on the rails. It protects the economy from rogue bankers who already wield an incredible about of undemocratic power, from doing something selfish that would harm the country.

No one considered the possibility of a rogue president who selfishly wants to crash the US economy because he thinks it will help him become king. In that case, if he gets the approval of fed reserve bank executives, then there’s nothing stopping him.