I don’t have to imagine that I live in the US

The thumbnail looks like an noir alligator

If you didn’t, how would you ever find the motivation to start?

yeah exactly. when the system is about to blow up, they turn a valve and release a little steam

Not once it gets to that point. The release valve of elections is a hedge against this kind of thing happening in the first place.

Those movements were resolved by murdering their leaders and imprisoning their organizers for several decades.

I guess it’s best to say they do both at the same time

it happened with the antitrust act, it happened with the New Deal, and it happened in the 1960s with the Civil Rights era and the end to Vietnam

The thing that ties all of these exceptions together is the immediate threat of ideologically organized revolutionary cadres mobilizing the masses into a socialist revolution

You’re separating government from the capitalists and I don’t think that’s an accurate way of looking at the world. Capital will eat itself even more voraciously than it does right now without some mediating force on itself. Government isn’t a hedge against capitalism that mediates its excesses. It is a PART of capitalism that mediates its excesses. The anti-trust act wasn’t for us; it was for them.

But the reality that capitalism is a fundamentally unstable system can’t be fixed by blunting it. And as the rate of profit goes down, the very restraints that capital put on itself to ensure its survival must be destroyed in pursuit of that profit.

Let’s not forget that a large part of the inflation, and especially on food and housing, was driven by pure greed and opportunism from the capitalists that control those basic necessities. And that’s something that could have been prevented with tools that capital permitted under Ronald Fucking Reagan.

No, sorry, but you don’t get to say that four years later.

The economy got trashed in his last year… but remember how the sparse economic relief that were carried through the democratic congress got completely wiped out as soon as Biden took office? When the democrats took away the child tax credit childhood poverty doubled overnight. And you may say the cause of the inflation was Trump’s mismanagement (And it wasn’t. The supply chain breakdown would have happened no matter who was in office.) what was the democratic response? Fucking Chicago school.

What’s happening is the US empire is not so slowly rotting and material conditions are deteriorating. That’s independent of what party is in power. But both parties are wedded to capital. And voters are hopping from one foot to the other while standing on that hot skillet trying to find relief. You’re not going to find it without overthrowing capitalism. This is the barbarism we were warning you about.

Elizabeth Warren supporters?

VOTE

lol you’re pretty dumb, huh?

I’ve heard equally unreliable narrators complain about consequences for their actions from a place of narcissism, yes.

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Maybe .ml has good moderation and you’re just insufferable.

Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.

A pretty flippant answer coming from someone living under a western government

Are we replacing infrastructure or are we just adding capacity?

What is this number if you exclude China?