Rachel Maddow is mild compared to the average Finnish news outlet

I see Putin’s face every single day on newsstands in groceries and cafes. He’s basically the Trump of Finland

Silently adding a new person every time this is reposted until someone notices

Biden has not known his whereabouts for twenty years

Our intrepid publications

Their nefarious propaganda

It was funny the first time I went to Stockholm and thought people were being silly with the Kermit voices. But it’s actually a regular vowel sound in that language and they allegedly struggle to hear his it’s different

Is there any evidence of DPRK soldiers in Ukraine?

I know what you mean. I also don’t like when people hand-wave about “material conditions” as if they will automagically produce a revolution when they fall below some arbitrary threshold. Marxist theory centers action and human agency as necessary elements alongside material conditions.

I think you misunderstand me a little bit… I’m not saying you should do nothing until someone deems conditions bad enough. For one thing, conditions aren’t uniform across space or class lines, so there isn’t a single answer for “what are conditions right now” like how the weather depends on many factors.

You can and should do something now. My point is only that there are effective and ineffective actions. It is much better to seek out likely allies and work with them, than to distract and frustrate yourself debating people who either aren’t ready, or will never be convinced.

The US is in debt at the federal level, but it still represents one of the largest markets because of how much spending power is held by the middle class, relative to other nations. It’s on the decline but it still isn’t at the point where China can just shrug off the US.

I want to believe, but, why would they make this game in English?

Communism is fundamentally about human dignity. We are so used to negating capitalism that we can forget that communism is also a definite, positive conception of the future.

Needing an organ transplant is a vulnerable, scary, and undignified position to find yourself. I don’t care who needs my liver when I’m gone. They are 99.999% not responsible for capitalism even if they are a random Trump supporter, and their suffering will not bring about communism. As a human being I am happy to reduce unnecessary suffering.

Comrades should embody the humanity that they want to see in the world, and let go of petty angers that do not substantially advance the cause.

Hexbear is the opiate of the masses doodoo shit of pigs asses

Edit: just realized this isn’t bad posting, so just read it very seriously instead of deeply unseriously

The point of organizing is to change open minds. If someone stops to listen to a speech about Palestine, they might not agree right away, but the idea is planted and that person has access to resources if they are interested to research it later.

A debate, for all its pretense of dialectical refinement of ideas, is a rare place to find open minded people. People don’t debate about things which they are uncertain; all it does is mix up ego and defensiveness and actually harden the participants against a change of mind.

I am an optimistic person and I agree with you that many people will change their minds given enough time. But socialists can’t be infinitely patient, there will be good people on the wrong side of history whose individual political learning timeline didn’t line up with the timeline of revolution.

Practically speaking, revolution can’t take the electoralist approach of campaigning to persuade people to switch sides. If the material conditions exist for socialism, then people will seek out the organization. But this only happens after people are convinced of their own accord. They won’t be browbeat into it and we can’t expect to browbeat people into a revolution — they wouldn’t be loyal anyway

It’s good that Wikipedia is doing the right thing here, after exhausting all other options.

Unfortunate that some of the comments on this article are denying the holocaust though. Don’t know if they are genuine people or feds or what.

how do you all deal with the conflict of people that you love desperately clinging to the horrid power structures that replicate the horror of the modern world?

The answer is difficult but simple. Stop trying to change everyone’s opinion, because you won’t.

Unless your friend has political power, there is no point in trying to change their mind beyond honest and unashamed expression of your own opinion. By openly debating with someone whose mind is not open, you work to close them off further. It makes your views seem desperate for support; only tentatively reasonable, therefore easy to dismiss.

Socialism is inherently righteous. It does not need to beg for acceptance. The truth of anti-imperial, anticapitalist politics is sustained empirically and based in scientific theory. Bourgeois political theories come and go with the rise and fall of bourgeois interests.

Your friend likely will never change their mind. But they might one day, through life experience, gain some curiosity about it. Only at that moment is there an opening, and instead of fire-hosing leftist theory at them, they will ask earnestly for information. Onboarding only works if it’s a mutual desire.

Fascism is like rabies, except instead of fearing water, you fear a normal fucking haircut

The Onion could capitalize well on this if they make satirical Alex Jones-style rants

The difficult part lies in topping the rants already occurring on InfoWars while still actually being satire (ie, not actually defaming or harming others)

It already is tbh, it just sounds like a lot of slurs and calling people dummies instead of implying they are dummies

Tipping is anti-labor and discriminatory. Excluding tips as taxable income is an attempt to save it from growing anti-tip sentiment.

State and local taxes will still apply anyway

Lead us not into temptation

Pretty sus that the author bothered to provide a short history on tips which glosses over the whole slavery thing