Firms driven by transient investors act as entities independent from society entirely. Each one is focused only on maximizing profit to please investors; the investors, likewise, are only interested in the next quarter, because at any given time they can take their investment and sell it. They are simultaneously putting money into renewables, but only insofar as it is profitable; as long as fossil fuels (still the larger portion of energy generation in most places) are more profitable, they will put more money into it. A self-feeding cycle which starves renewables.

The thing that is sometimes misunderstood by a disdain for the owner class is the incoherence of the owner class. They don’t make plans. Even their alignments are only because of common interests (such as ‘let the ultrawealthy investors make more money from their shitty investments’), not ideology or long-term plans.

The Communist Manifesto is linked in the sidebar - good and a pretty short read.

Honestly, if someone wants me killed, that’s generally the least of my beef with them.

I don’t remember the names of most interchangeable tankie fuckwads, but I presume, from the mention of NCD, that this is the one that opted to call the Tiananmen Square massacre as perpetrated by “CIA militants” fighting with the glorious PLA who were only heroically defending themselves against Amerikkkan aggression.

“Socialists are routinely assassinated”

Damn, is it 1970 again?

The simping for propaganda and totalitarian surveillance of the population is amusing, in a grim, dark, “Fascists are so fucking braindead” kind of way.

It’s welcome here!

Tell me you know nothing about any of those famines without telling me you know nothing about any of those famines.

Facts don’t matter. All up and down this thread is just utter disregard for any aspect of reality that contradicts the narrative.

We’re not any smarter than the fascists, apparently. Just less morally repugnant.

Yeah, but first you were talking about how the general populace was going right

They subsequently elected Starmer, of all people, didn’t they?

This idea that success (which maybe doesn’t require to form the next government) translates to a higher share in votes might be a statistical thing, but it’s not constructive, it just leads to opportunism.

I’m sorry, if Corbyn didn’t form a government, as majority or coalition partner, didn’t move politics in the UK left, nor politics in his own party left, nor moved demographics in the UK left… what kind of success are we looking at, here?

For the record, I’m not blaming Corbyn for this loss. Far from it. I’m only saying that going left is not enough

Yeah you can say that to suit your narrative, but it’s complete BS. In fact Corbyn had significantly more votes in 2017 and 2019 than Starmer in 2024.

Which governments did Labour form at the time, again?

The left has to convince voters, not follow them, wtf

Electoral success and convincing people are not mutually exclusive options; the former is an immensely powerful tool for the latter. Unless your plan is “Hand the gun over to the fascists, put it to your head, and hope that when they pull the trigger it will inspire the masses to spontaneously learn the words to the Internationale in their hearts and rise up against fascism”, it involves some amount of concessions to the majority of voters.

But sure, run on gay marriage in 1940 until you win, I’m sure the Black folk who are being lynched won’t mind waiting another few decades, nor will the unions seeking better conditions, nor the folks trying to stop social security from being repealed etc etc etc etc.

And when you ask them what performative outrage that is, their answer is generally less “They made minor economic concessions to the working class!” and more “They acknowledged that BROWN people and TRANS people have RIGHTS”

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There are definite parallels, but I think they relate more broadly to the general behavior of authoritarian states rather than being exceptional comparable as policies. ICE is currently being used as to scapegoat ‘foreigners’ using bureaucratic violations, real or just percieved, to justify expelling them from US territory, with probably the ultimate goal of extending this to citizens and the general operation of a secret police on US soil. I would compare this more to internal Israeli policy for the first few decades of its existence with regards to Palestinians - the goal is expulsion, using a legal gray area (that is, nonetheless, plainly and unambiguously morally abhorrent) to engage in a form of ethnic cleansing.

China’s current policy resembles more the Residential Schools of the US and Canada in the 19th and 20th centuries, wherein the culture of a native society is stomped out by a mixture of violence, relocation, sterilization, and economic and political pressure, with the end-goal of either reducing their numbers to the point of being entirely marginalized or exterminated, or eliminating their culture and ethnic existence by force. Or else the Turkish treatment of the Kurds and other ethnic minorities in the mid-late-20th century. The goal is the destruction of the ethnicity itself, not just its removal from valuable territory.

It’s hand-drawn, just mocking GenAI pics.

Though AI pics sometimes still have trouble with text.

You made no real argument whatsoever originally other than saying Obama wasnt a neoliberal president, which is just baseless and stupid.

Would you like to re-read my original response and point out where I said anything about the neoliberal characterization of Obama, or is that too arduous and trying a task to attempt?

You refuse to asses information from an article that well predates the Palestinian Genocide by a longshot and has nothing to do with the conflict whatsoever.

That’s not one of the several genocides that Jacobin denies, and thus not one of the ones I was talking about. Though, for that matter, the article certainly does not predate 1948.

Best of luck living with your head in the sand

What irony.

I mean, there are almost certain some who are susceptible to that same dumbassery. But enough who aren’t already voting to cripple the GOP?

I don’t know what the solution is, and I’m not saying don’t find something to hammer the dumb-drum on to get the rats of Hamburg to follow us to a slightly-better-world. I’m just saying that it’s unlikely to be any single or easy solution unless there’s some radical new coalition combination of the electorate that we’re just missing.

https://collection.carnegieart.org/objects/c2e073e8-0dbd-48cd-9da1-cd8139fc35fe

Oh fuck off dude, youre pathetic and you know it.

For… objecting to something that you said, and that you have been entirely incapable of mounting even a nominal defense of, probably because you’re aware that it was said as bad-faith bullshit with no grounding in reality?

Uh, okay.

If I wanted campist apologia from genocide deniers, I could read Jacobin rag on my own time. I’ll pass on someone trying to use it as a replacement for having thoughts of their own. I note that you didn’t actually respond to what I actually objected to,

He massively carried water for the whole “if I made it, anyone can” and “black people suffer from a culture of poverty” type of nonsense,

But I guess that would require you to defend the points you make, and wouldn’t that just be an awful fate?

when in reality they’re walking hand in hand with people that are pushing us to absolute limit of barely acceptable and then dangling what they’ve known they should’ve done forever ago in front of us when we’re finally at our breaking point.

Please, talk to some ordinary Americans sometime. Some of the real, salt-of-the-earth types who regularly and reliably vote, and who make up the majority of the country.

You know, morons.

“The Dems aren’t going left enough fast enough!” is not generally the refrain, even from those who do vote Dem.

ChatGPT ass reply bro touch grass

Lord.