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There was a very relevant article that was just published today that I'll summarize. The economy is not doing well and people actually have fairly shakey confidence in it if you don't cherry-pick polls and dates. People are finding it very difficult to afford healthcare, student loan repayments star...

Why would you put Oct 7th attack stuff in a Holocaust museum? Aren't those totally different and unrelated events?

What if we also talked about housing and rent prices? That shit has gone absolutely bananas in the US and, while rent increases are cooling a bit now, rent is up significantly and home prices are just totally out of reach for anyone who isn't wealthy or in the middle of nowhere. People in the US are...

The only good news about the current Israel/Border/Ukraine bill is that it won't go anywhere. If the Republican opposition crumbles and they give themselves what they want (crueler border, more genocide, more money to defense contractors) they are more likely to lose the election, and if the Republi...

We need to tell all the Marxist intellectuals to stop doing whatever the fuck it is they do asap, DDM has proven Marxism is wrong because he doesn't understand bourgeois and proletariat. And also he has no idea how popular musicians make money apparently? To try and bring it back on track, Dead all ...

This is one of the simplest fucking concepts I can imagine. If you make your money by doing labor you are a proletarian, if you make your money by owning shit you are bourgeoise. This is not complicated to anyone but you, and it is totally coherent to everyone but you. Perhaps the problem here is y...

70% of Americans contribute to a retirement plan (like a 401k) meaning that they own a piece of the means of production. Just want to add, trying to conflate owning stocks in general with "owning the means of production" is a pretty bad take. That's why it's incoherent. Warren Buffett isn...

Bourgeoise refers to the members of the bourgeois class. The bourgeois are the class of capital ownership, they are the ones who own the means of production (ex: Jeff Bezos, the guy who owns your local car dealership, every single landlord, etc.). It can be broken down further (the petit-bourgeoise...

Also, why did you put bourgeois in quotes? You used the term 'bourgeois democracy' in quotes. We haven't discussed exactly what you mean by the term, but it is generally used to refer to the 'middle class'. Statistics I see say that 50% of U.S. households are 'middle class' in 2021. This is signifi...

Deaddm, come on man. Really putting your ignorance on display by saying all you need to run for office is to be able to go without income for a few months. You need donors you silly goose, or to be personally wealthy. Even running a small campaign for a state office costs several thousand dollars, l...

Deaddm your post has confirmed exactly what I was thinking, thanks. I disagree with you entirely and think you don't have an accurate grasp of just how bad things are in the country you live in, but I understand that you've bought the propaganda wholesale about what a democracy is and how states sho...

What do you mean when you say "People may be tired of hearing that Democracy itself is at stake, but I absolutely believe that it is."? This question is intended to understand if you consider the USA to be a democracy or not. It's worth mentioning that if the USA were a democracy (as in, r...

It does seem like Trump will win unless the Democrats change up their strategy or peoples' economic conditions improve significantly in battleground states. Biden has earned the moniker of Genocide Joe and I think for lots of voters that'll never really go away, he is old as shit and not particularl...

MA, VT and NM are the only states with 2 halfway decent senators, incredible. We also labeled the Houthi's as a terrorist group because they have promised to keep disrupting trade until Israel stops doing its genocide. Maybe South Africa's case will get this to stop, because our illustrious rules-ba...

The IDF shot 3 hostages who were holding a white flag, they said they thought they were Hamas but that is obviously a poor reason to shoot 3 people under a white flag. Not that we needed more evidence of it, but Israel doesn't care about the hostages. Or the rules of war. Or Palestinian people. Or s...

They're not even going to teach about the wide-ranging famine, just the Ukrainian part of it! That's so fucked, both because it's bad history (imagine thinking only Ukrainians starved) and because it's red scare anticommunist propaganda. And this coming hot off the heels of giving a standing ovation...

I woke up today to this motherfucker having died and it brightened my day a bit. Sure he wasn't that important anymore, but I'm glad he finally bit it. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

His economic record on the macro side is decent, but the thing that's really hurting him (and fueling everyone's dislike of his handling of the economy) is that he let all the COVID welfare expire while inflation went up. This has led to most households in the US making less money in 2023 than they ...

There has been an uptick in attacks on US military bases, including ones in Iraq, because of our open support for genocide. We bombed a bunch of people in Iraq (US media claims the people we bombed were Iranian proxies) in response to this.

If I'm trying to put myself in Israel's leadership's shoes I do see little reason to stop the genocide, at least not until my allies stop supporting me. They finally have a chance to accomplish their goals. The US still hasn't stopped getting revenge for 9/11, Israel can ride this out for as long as...

The UN has announced Russia has now killed 10,000 civilians in Ukraine (actual death toll is likely higher), this is a stark contrast with Israel's genocide in Gaza, which has been going on for roughly 1/20th of the time and has already killed more than 10k civilians. In very recent news, the murder...

The IDF has released pictures of a hole with a ladder in it that they say is proof of Hamas tunnels in the hospital. Why not just release a video of somebody going down the ladder and showing there's tunnels? Why would they not be able to produce immediate evidence that tunnels exist? Why not show a...

But Kaelik, the IDF says they found ten (10) rifles and some body armor! The IDF never lies, and it would be impossible for them to bring ten (10) rifles and some body armor into a place that didn't already have ten (10) rifles and some body armor. Also, military headquarters are famously marked by ...

Oh that's fucked, thanks for sharing that. No wonder unions have a hard time exercising power, it's literally illegal for them to do shit like solidarity strikes.

Thanks to the war in Ukraine we know that modern militaries will sometimes use missiles that are designed for airborne targets to instead target things on the ground, and that this can result in missiles doing dumb things. I wouldn't be shocked if Israel was using some Iron Dome rockets to bombard G...