The New Deal was passed in the USA in the 1930s not because it’s exactly what the people asked for but because the American labor unions and Communist Party were strong, and they were pushing a much more egalitarian agenda. The New Deal was the compromise to keep Capitalism as the dominant form of labor relations. Now a days in America it seems like the Capitalists have to compromise with, at worst… Chuck Schumer.
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fort_burp@feddit.nlto News@lemmy.world•The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession3·7 hours agoIt just gets creepier and creepier as you read on, especially considering it was written in 2019.
The Antichrist will form an alliance with the ruler of Israel and will desire to occupy the coastal area.
fort_burp@feddit.nlto Europe@feddit.org•Europe in ‘most dangerous situation’ since second world war, Danish PM warnsEnglish1·8 hours agoIsn’t Chat Control where they use AI to scan all your online/mobile communications for CSAM? How is that a gift to Russia and China?
fort_burp@feddit.nlto World News@lemmy.world•German jets scrambled after Russian military plane flies over Baltic SeaEnglish32·11 days agoA lot of people here encouraging shooting down a plane flying in international airspace. I suspect a lot of you are of the same mindset where it’s OK to shoot random boats in the Caribbean and kill everyone on board.
Don’t follow the war hawks ffs.
fort_burp@feddit.nlto politics @lemmy.world•It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy2·11 days agoHmm, you usually have pretty accurate takes on things so I’m going to take a second to reply to this.
When you respond to “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter”, you’re saying in effect that Black Lives Don’t Matter and we can continue with the status quo, which is White Supremacy. The article you linked described White on White violence throughout America in the 19th century, which has nothing to do with the structural racism Blacks face in America (and Whites do not) but instead is used as a distraction to discourage change. Talib Kweli explains it pretty well:
ELLIOTT: You said, of course all lives matter. But until black lives matter, all lives won’t matter. Can you expound on that a little bit?
KWELI: Yeah, well, the problem with a lot of social movements for change is that people who are on the opposite side of this change, people who don’t get to experience why we’re even protesting in the first place, they start to feel guilty and they start to feel like their relationship to the situation is more important than the actual situation. So right now, police brutality has not gotten worse in this country, we just have cell phones with cameras on them, now. So now the things that hip-hop has been saying for years, the things that activists have been saying for years, are now videotaped. The fact that the police disproportionately brutalize communities of color, now we can not just show you the stats, or just yell it from the mountaintops or just say it in a song. Now we can show you the videotape. And so it’s clear that the police are doing this disproportionately to us. To young people of color, to black people. And so that’s the issue. When you make it about all lives matter, you’re making it about yourself. When you’re saying what about white people, you make it about yourself. When you say what about black-on-black violence, you’re somehow saying because you personally believe that black people are more prone to violence that somehow that means we don’t have the right to exist. That’s a very slippery slope. It’s very dangerous to think that– You know, first of all, black-on-black violence is a myth. All races kill each other more than other races. Do black people kill each other disproportionately more than other races? Yes. Because disproportionately we have higher unemployment. Disproportionately we’re forced into poverty. We have, we don’t get to be educated. We get denied jobs. We get denied good housing, good healthcare. And that creates crime. So yes, poor people are going to murder each other more than rich people are, definitely. But that comes from white supremacy. That comes from Jim Crow. That comes from the prison-industrial complex. If you don’t add a historical context or historical perspective to your discussion, then you’re being selfish, you’re being a coward, and you’re making it about your personal feelings.
But even if we don’t agree on this point, we do agree on a lot of other things that we both agitate for (like such hot takes as “Genocide is Bad”). Kweli also spoke to your point about how now more people are seeing the footage of what the Black community has been undergoing for hundreds of years, which is fascism (and never was Democracy) so the truth is undeniable for more and more non-Blacks.
You are probably already familiar with this but the history of the Black Panther Party is illustrative of this theme. The BPP “represent[ed] the greatest threat to internal security of the country” according to the director of the FBI. One of the more troubling aspects of the BPP was their Free Breakfast for School Children Program. In the J. Edgar Hoover quote above, “internal security” was being used euphemistically for… you guessed it, White Supremacy.
fort_burp@feddit.nlto World News@lemmy.world•US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier MileiEnglish141·11 days agoAh yes, the free market at work.
fort_burp@feddit.nlto politics @lemmy.world•It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy1·11 days agoHave to stand up for the Whites in America. They’re the real victims here o7
fort_burp@feddit.nlto politics @lemmy.world•It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy11·11 days agoBlack lives matter. They always have. White lives matter, too. The truth is, lives matter.
Lmao all lives matter ok
fort_burp@feddit.nlto politics @lemmy.world•It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy4·11 days agoRoss Perot would like to have a word with you, lol
fort_burp@feddit.nlto politics @lemmy.world•It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy41·11 days agoLmao burned. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the headline was the experience of southern Blacks trying to vote between 1870 and 1965. The White terrorists made sure America was not a democracy. The thing now is that more of our White brothers and sisters are starting to find out this truth, and it is shocking.
fort_burp@feddit.nlto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Charlie Kirk ally reveals 'absolute miracle' that may have saved lives during fatal shootingEnglish15·11 days agoI knew it. I knew Charlie’s Mom was special.
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Hey how do you get those pictures and stuff in your replies?
fort_burp@feddit.nlOPto askchapo@hexbear.net•What's a Marxist and a non-Marxist?English10·13 days agoThanks for your answer.
most people in a place like America have literally never heard the phrases “fictitious capital” or “reserve army of labor,” or perhaps they heard it in passing once but don’t remember hearing it.
Yes, this is a great success of class warfare :/
Thanks, interesting site. I found something on there relating to my question, from “Why Marxism?”:
The ideological struggle for a correct political strategy is fierce, even among those who already have identified capitalism as the enemy. Reigning perspectives in the West could be broadly described by three categories: the Reformists (e.g. social democrats, legalists), the Anarchists (e.g. mutualists, syndicalists), and the Marxists (whoever “extends the recognition of class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat”). [1]
Emphasis mine. Seems like there are different definitions of what it means to be Marxist.
fort_burp@feddit.nlOPto askchapo@hexbear.net•What's a Marxist and a non-Marxist?English11·13 days agoOk, cleared up again by Cowbee. That’s exactly what I was asking, thanks comrade o7. Btw did you see you made the front page of MeanwhileOnGrad? Someone didn’t know what propaganda is and somehow blamed that on… tankies? Idk it was pretty embarassing tbh lol.
Edit: Here it is
fort_burp@feddit.nlOPto askchapo@hexbear.net•What's a Marxist and a non-Marxist?English13·13 days agoAre you… are you doing something with your hands??
fort_burp@feddit.nlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Outcry over ExpressVPN ownership: What the Israeli connection means for user privacy5·14 days agoThis is like 2 posts up from this post on my feed:
Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA
fort_burp@feddit.nlto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Samsung Embeds Israeli Surveillance App on Phones Across MENA33·14 days agoIsrael… aren’t those the guys that put bombs in the pagers?
I think it’s the Democratic Party.