“Through every diplomatic means possible”

I.e. he’s gonna ask nicely

Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he’ll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he’ll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.

It’s like, he has two settings: “actually useful moderate” and “KILLKILLKILLKILL”

Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter

Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.

If we can get it, they’re still in bargaining and the Stellantis proposal was basically “fuck you, suck my nuts”

The 32 hour workweek is huge.

I don’t think you got the joke

Moreover, the natural development of economic antagonisms, the waking consciousness of an important fraction of the proletariat, the constantly increasing number of unemployed, the blind resistance of the ruling classes, in short contemporary evolution as a whole, is conducting us inevitably towards the outbreak of a great revolution, which will overthrow everything by its violence, and the fore-running signs of which are already visible. This revolution will happen, with us or without us; and the existence of a revolutionary party, conscious of the end to be attained, will serve to give a useful direction to the violence, and to moderate its excesses by the influence of a lofty ideal.

–Ericco Malatesta, Anarchy and Violence

I was comparing more or less heavy handed ways of doing it. I’m advocating for as light a touch as possible. I’m trying to say that authority is a meaningful concept and that we should engage with it because it’s actually very important.

It’s like how some US cities put you on a payment plan for debts, while others put you in jail. They’re both situations of capitalist class rule, but it’s fair to call the latter authoritarian.

I mean, there’s pretty clearly a difference between the Cuban approach of letting capitalists leave vs the Russian approach of imprisoning them.

There’s also a difference between the Bolivian approach of arming and training the peasantry and the GDR approach of maintaining an armed military police into peace time.

There is a meaningful difference between methods of protecting working class power, and pretending there isn’t serves more heavy handed approaches.

For those of us who are abolitionists, this is a central question.

Yeah, but please don’t say that too much, we don’t want to carry water for the CCP

Oh thank God. This is a huge break for anti colonial movements in Africa

This isn’t even an anticapitalist text dump on my part, just basic US history and sociology. If you’re drawing anti capitalist conclusions from it, that’s on you.

I once botched an alpine start by getting my buddy’s truck stuck in the snow, took two hours to dig it out and once we were on our way, the sun was rising.

I did not climb the south sister that day.

Puffballs that are past their prime to eat sometimes brown on the inside too, so if there’s any discoloration, don’t fuck with it.

Night hiking is fun and wonderful on well maintained trails if you have food, water, light and warmth.

Ask me about the time I fucked myself by not having those things.

The opposit of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference

The New People’s Army, a socialist guerilla force in the Phillipines fighting against the Marcos-Duterte regime and for democracy, land reform, indigenous sovereignty, gay rights and worker control of the economy.

It’s both. Disney is a strong brand and going after it feels like an attack to people with strong positive associations. DeSantis lost the Disney adult vote and that’s got to be whole portions of a percent of his base.

Well, what AMLO did sounds borderline fascist. Maybe the Klan is a necessary evil? We’d better flood Mexico with weapons and then refuse to negotiate a surrender and hope that improves the situation.