Mixing an acid and a base makes a salt. She’s drinking saltwater.

ICE is law enforcement, you are mistaken.

Christ some of you people are so smug.

Listen friend, I didn’t insult you. How about instead of attacking people out of nowhere you extend the benefit of the doubt that someone is engaging in good faith? Like I assume you’d like people to do for you.

never follow it up with any inspiration or call to actions

I’ve shared all the same advice and links you have in this post. I just don’t do it every time because I’m not a robot.

It’s more “it’s time to try something else.”

I don’t know who else needs to hear this, but electoralism is over in the United States. These people have stopped playing by any rules.

This is in our hands now. Nobody’s coming to the rescue.

When they don’t cede it we take it. There’s hundreds of millions of us and only a handful of them.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

You feel this way because you’ve been intentionally individualized.

There is strength in community, but community threatens the capitalist class so they’ve done everything they possibly could to drive wedges between us.

You’re absolutely right that nobody is coming to save us. That means it’s up to us to save each other. It’s not too late.

Regex is a write only language.

Liberals are pro-capitalism, which is the ultimate mechanism for inequality.

“Neoliberalism” isn’t a pejorative, it’s a political philosophy that has dominated the Western world for about 50 years, though it has roots much further back. It is a philosophy embraced by both Republicans and Democrats. It’s about privatization of services, lowering taxes, and deregulating corporations. It’s why we have for profit healthcare in the US, for example.

Just putting a fine point on it.

Thanks, comrade!

Or that everybody owns. The means of information distribution and the means of production should be completely in the hands of the people.

“I’ll be glad when they all get deported or end up in camps, serves them right for being anti-genocide single issue voters.”

Totally rational statement.

For anyone interested, this is one of a series of sculptures in Poland meant to evoke playground equipment. You can crawl on it, but it’s not actually meant as a slide.

https://umtychy.pl/131896-tychy-rzezbiarskie-formy-zabawowe-na-os-g-zjezdzalnia

Or they just use the gig to grift. Seems like there would be a lot of opportunities to take bribes in a position like that.

Clinton signed into law a whole raft of neoliberal policies that were started by Bush, and the cumulative effects of those policies over those decades are what we’re feeling right now and what we warned about back then. The frogs have been boiled while the populace bickers about which neoliberal corporate shill sits on the puppet throne. They’re after all our money and they’re getting it by distracting us with the political circus and dividing us with wedge issues.

Believe me, I’m with you. But a complication to this is that insurance companies employ millions of people. Nationalizing them needs to take all those livelihoods into account, and would be nearly impossible without going full on socialist (which I am completely for, I don’t think it’s feasible to continue a capitalist system when it is clearly breaking down and killing the planet while doing so.)

And the same people that own the media also own and operate the state.

I’m so glad this stuff is starting to finally bubble to the top of the public consciousness.

Now, everybody read Marx.

You’re preaching to the choir here, friend. I’ve been trying to shake people on the shoulders and get them to understand this for a while now.

The slightest bit of material analysis exposes the whole thing, but the minute you add “Marxist” to that sentence everyone shuts their brain off because of over a century of red scare nonsense. As designed.

Here’s me discovering socialism, new to the (actual) ideas but vibing with them pretty well.

Start talking about it online.

Anarchist: fuck you you stupid fucking tankie.

I had no idea what a tankie was, but I figured out real quick that anarchists are the angsty atheists of the political world.