God: “I transcended gender 15 billion years ago”

Im sure they’re hopped on amphetamines but that’s because every single army in a protracted war since fucking Crimea has shived uppers at their soldiers.

I think you’re broadly correct, though I’d argue the Ukrainian fascist issue is worse, due to structural conditions in their state.

I will say that due to broadly friendly Russia-China relations, a Russian victory would substantially benefit China and allow greater penetration for its overland trade routes. From what I hear they’ve driven a hard bargin for even the current aid to Russia

It’s a common baby leftist failing. Think about how many supported the libyan colour revolt uncritically, or the white hats and us aligned militias in Syria. Manufactured consent is powerful.

Of course in both cases there there were active independent socialist militias, and it’s hard not to have had an idealist desire to see the DCNS win. But we should have had better material analysis.

In Ukraine it’s chuds vs open fascists with an increasingly strained liberal comedian facade and the poor bastards of the Donbass republics in the middle.

I sympathise with your friend, I dearly want to see Putin get the wall but this is clearly a US destabilisation and more critically the concept of a Banderan Fascist state on the border of the EU should terrify Liberals as well far more than any Russian hegemony over its historic sphere.

GMO camomile smuggling.

Every day i think Zhdanov had more of a point. Enforcing ideological purity has a heavy cost, but if you don’t the lanyards get in and ruin everything.

I think there’s definitely an important place for both elder statespeople and representatives of older generations. That place is well away from the day to day running of government.

Basically if you inhabit and maintain an abandoned property for some number of years without the owner complaining you get ownership rights. It’s why all the crumbling unused mansions in Kensington owned by Saudi princes as speculation have 24 hour human surveillance.

They demand to be taken seriously.

Many of them think that work means “making an effort at a task” and not “if you don’t sell your labour you will die.”

Sure, some of them labour for long hours when the mood takes them. But they’ll never have to work if the mood doesn’t take them.

Want to take the week off? Fine. Boss doesn’t like it? Call Dad and have him explain to boss what will happen to his credit cards. Fired anyway? No problem, 6 months in the alps and then a similar gig at the next company.

Just to point out that Coutts is where the Royal Family banks and a savings account requires a minimum balance of…a million pounds? More?..some obscene amount

Honestly surprised insurance company employees can walk down the street safely in the USA.

He did, collective action.

Don’t eat stick insects and we wont eat you.

Now the northern countries which were in their islands were quivering in their bodies. They penetrated the channels of the river mouths [the Nile Delta]. They struggle for breath, their nostrils cease. His Majesty is gone out like a whirlwind against them fighting on the battlefield like a runner, the dread of him and the terror have entered their bodies, they are capsized and overwhelmed where they are. Their heart is taken away and their soul is flown away, their weapons are scattered upon the sea. -Ramasses III, last major Pharoah of the New Kingdom, about the Sea Peoples.

Later in his reign was the first recorded strike in history, when his tomb builders stopped work due to lack of payment or supply.

Big corporations suck. Startups and SMBs suck even more mostly. Freelancing sucks too. I’ve done all three at high pay and senior levels.

You can mostly only choose how much it sucks and why, and what particular flavour of shit sandwich sucks least. For many, stability and benefits is what sucks least, even if the company is soul sucking.

The only good companies I’ve heard of are those with very strong unions or outright constructed on the German Derigisme model with worker board input.

It’s a question isn’t it? How to turn religious thought from the opiate of the masses to the amphetamine of the masses.

I think the answer is as ever to change the material conditions to support socialist beliefs, and the local religious people will develop their theology in turn. It does help that aside from hardline Calvinism and some of the more esoteric mystical branches of other religions, most religions emphasise “putting in the work”. Jesus doesn’t say, “Pray and have faith that god will liberate the poor from oppression,” he says to the rich man “, Sell everything you have and follow me”.

Ruling classes have spent centuries trying to make passages like this into metaphors or parables about some internal mystical state of mind, but most of the original texts and early commentors are very clear, very direct on how being a member of the oppressing classes is basically the worst thing you can be. It’s very easy to break this via discussions on a local level, and because it has a ready made ideologicalmframework to spread, it is easy to do so.

This can backfire of course, like nationalism as a component of struggle can result in a resurgence of reactionary thought. But if you are a religious socialist you have a duty to try to do this.

I’m honestly trying to remember a more Fascist candidate for president than either current one and I’m not sure andrew Jackson or Alexander Hamilton cross the bar and they ran on doing genocides.