Also that lib was full of shit. Steam has never actually banned racists, no matter how many times they're reported.
Tachanka
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https://nitter.poast.org/redstreamnet/status/1806701150940385757
what is happening?
The response to this tweet:
Evo Morales is already declared as the presidential candidate of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS-IPSP) at their party congress in Cochabamba a few months ago. The congress has also voted to expel President Luis Arce.
Is this true?
When Jeff Peticolas was a boy, he wondered how his dad could stomach owning Japanese cameras. Sam Peticolas had survived Pearl Harbor. He'd flown 52 missions against Imperial Japan. He'd nearly drowned after crashing a B-17 into the Pacific and received two Purple Hearts. What was he doing using products like Nikon that were made by his former enemy? Jeez, those are the guys who were shootin' at you, Peticolas thought, and here you are buying their stuff.
Now 66, Peticolas is tall and sturdy for his age, with gray hair, a gray mustache, and deep-set wrinkles. He feels guilty about having never served. The draft ended two years before he was eligible, not that he particularly wanted to go fight in Vietnam. Instead, Peticolas trained to become an auto mechanic at Ferris State University, where his father taught, in Mecosta County, Michigan, in and around which he has always lived.
But in September 2022, when the county announced that an electric-vehicle-parts manufacturer was coming to town, Peticolas decided it was time to serve his country. The company, Gotion, is the American subsidiary of the world's second-largest EV-battery maker, a Chinese conglomerate called Gotion High-Tech. The $2.4 billion battery plant promised to bring nearly 2,500 jobs to Michigan's fifth-poorest county. But as Peticolas saw it, not only was America's most powerful adversary setting up shop in his hometown, but local officials in Green Charter Township had committed something close to treason by inviting the enemy in. This was nothing short of a communist invasion, in his eyes, and the patriots of Green Charter needed to rise up and confront the Red Peril.
"Yes, I have Chinese stuff in my house all over the place," Peticolas says. "But it's way better that they build it in China and sell it here than to build it here and be here. It's called embedding with the enemy. It's an age-old military tactic."
beyond fucking parody
Peticolas and his neighbors formed a rebel coalition, christening themselves the "No-Gos." They began to see conspiracies around every corner. How long had this Chinese project been in the works? Who among the town's leaders was on Beijing's payroll? In rowdy droves, the No-Gos started attending town-hall meetings in search of answers. They unleashed a barrage of Freedom of Information Act requests, sifting through the emails of Green Charter's township board for signs of "corruption" and other shady dealings with the Chinese.
To them, the Gotion project was a Trojan horse en route with communist spies. Some even speculated that Chinese missiles might be concealed in the factory's water tanks.
are the chinese missiles in the room with you, right now?
vegan ice cream exists btw. i've seen it made from like almond milk, etc.
from the talk page lol
""""current fad""""
I was taught that factory workers in the north had it worse than slaves
In Marx's "Theories of Surplus Value" which he never published while he was alive, but was instead compiled from his notes by Kautsky, and then later Riazanov, he called out 1700s reactionary anti-capitalists like Linguet who made these kinds of arguments.
Linguet however is not a socialist. His polemics against the bourgeois-liberal ideals of the Enlighteners, his contemporaries, against the dominion of the bourgeoisie that was then beginning, are given—half-seriously, half-ironically—a reactionary appearance. He defends [...] slavery against wage-labour.
(Linguet was guillotined by the Jacobins lol)
regarding the Adam Smith quote, I love the number of Adam Smith quotes that sound like Marx quotes. you can really break a person's brain with those.
who must go?
sh.itjust.works and sh.it.takes name a more iconic duo.
Jewish supremacism is a real thing (as we can see from how the IDF treats palestinians) and in Hebrew there is a term for non-jewish people, "goyim". It is sometimes used in a derogatory way. Nazis have decided to capitalize on the existence of this term, and they now use it way more than actual Jewish people do. They love to make memes where, like, some antisemitic caricature calls a white man a "good goy" for having left wing opinions, etc. etc. It's very repugnant stuff. I've seen it for years coming out of nazi cesspits like /pol/. They also love to say that America is a "ZOG" (zionist occupied government). And then some of the neo-pagan nazis like to also pretend that all of Christianity (and sometimes also Islam) is a Jewish psy-op because they're all Abrahamic religions. This is particularly useful rhetoric for them, because it allows them to pretend that the American government, which is overwhelmingly full of white christian straight cisgender men, is some kind of "Jewish" government. Also they let the tail wag the dog with regards to Israel. They pretend that Israel has "colonized" America because they receive so much military aid from America, when really, Israel is mostly a NATO settler-colony in the levant. i.e. the reason Israel receives aid is because they have become a Forward Operating Base for the imperial core bourgeoisie to carry out imperialism in the middle east. Ironically I would also say that Israel is a result of antisemitism in the first place, because the whole reason Jews wanted to set up a Jewish state was because Europeans kept doing pogroms against them.
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the richest man in the world (240 bn net worth) is acting like he's a lone crusader against corporate tyranny and his reactionary simps are lining up to lick his boots.