Where did I tell people not to vote? I’m saying that if voting is the only political action you take, you are declining to have a significant impact on politics. Voting is the least effective political action you can take, but it’s still political action.

Relying on elections is how you give away all of your political power to the wealthy class. Both parties represent the rich, we need to be organizing grassroots networks that can take political power, not ask for it.

Well yes, because Russia is Evil, everything that our own oligarchs do is clearly the fault of Russia.

This isn’t a generational issue, this is all out class warfare.

The US’s capitalist class is the same people as Israel’s capitalist class. The two countries are essentially interchangeable with how they act on the world stage.

Statistically, it was the communists that saved Germany. Soviet and Chinese efforts in WW2 dwarfed any other contributions.

Edit: If you’re downvoting me, did you forget that the USSR lost 25 million lives fighting the Nazis, while the US lost only 100,000?

The person you are replying to has obviously never suffered a real loss, and probably needs to go touch grass.

I sympathize with you. Sounds like you and your family are doing the best they can given an extremely shitty hand dealt to you.

ROFLMAO this guy literally just equated landlords with minorities. Oh won’t someone think of the poor landlords!

Wait, you guys have read Capital? 😂

So your argument is that nothing that China does is good because China bad? Not a lot of room for nuance in that worldview.

Agreed, the Iranian oil angle is a good analysis of a material reason for China to support Palestine.

When I say clout, I mean clout as a good actor on the world stage. China has to overcome decades of negative propaganda (some of which is based in truth, most is exaggerated or taken out of context, and some is outright fabricated). Actions like this promote China as an arbiter of peace and as a humane alternative to the naked barbarity of US/Western imperialism.

I don’t see why altruism can’t be a core motive for this move in addition to the strategic value. They are people, after all, who surely suffer as we do in the face of murdered Palestinian children.

How are you going to prevent billionaires from giving money under the table? Seems simpler to me to just not have billionaires.

Well yeah, every state action done by every country is for political/strategic reasons. I think their motives are clear: 1) Help Palestine achieve liberation through passive aid; and 2) increase China’s clout on the world stage.

Yeah TubularTittyFrog is a pretty notorious misanthrope on this site.

If Trump had gotten his way the first time, we’d be in a fascist dictatorship that is 9 years old now instead of one.

This is just so dismissive of the ugly history behind ICE that I’m actually slightly disgusted.

How about the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Myanmar, or any of the other countless places where US capitalism has incited genocide, murder, rape, and torture. Or is it only fascism when it happens inside our borders to white people?

I think it’s more likely that they are trying to break through the walls of capitalist propaganda and make people realize that the USA has always been fascist-oriented and that getting rid of this latest symptom (Trump) will not fix that. After all, fascism is imperialism turned inward. We desperately need a wholesale movement away from capitalism and towards socialism to actually ensure that fascism cannot rise again.

Previously, ICE was only set loose to terrorize, incite, and murder the brown population. So yeah, this is pretty much business as usual.

Or it means that the education system is tailored for one specific learning style and that those with different styles or a neurodivergency are shit out of luck.