***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Sharpshoeter13]

GOP = corruption on top of corruption on top of corruption

 

[Benny Hinn]

Kayleigh better off creating an OF account. More money and less degrading

 

[IATT]

 

[whywesteppin]

I 10000% agree with this quote. Libbie elites are smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else. That's why they are un-American!

REAL America was built on being dumb, irrational, and morally bankrupt. TRUE Americans are stupid. These LIBBIE SCUMS threaten the HERITAGE of the US of A.

Here's the tweet:

 

[IATT]

 

[mplsdunk]

We should make more stuff in America and bring back good union jobs. But that’s not what he was getting at at all.

 

[Nike Jordan]

I bet he uses an iPhone though.

 

[aepps20]

 

[IATT]

 

[wavycrocket]

Driftglass got the Best political podcast on the planet

 

[IATT]

dwalk31

 

[mplsdunk]

SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH

 

[stuntman mike]

would someone who truly condemns racism and xenophobia go on to hire, and tolerate, so many people that spew such filth? i’m truly confused here dwalk31

 

[boris]

Cute avatar, but it definitely caught me by surprise.

 

[plansb]

Is that gif from a real exchange?

 

[storm2006]

 

[elpablo21]

Is that gif from a real exchange?

Trump Jr's exchange was with a local reporter back in May(?) Cuomo was mocking him

 

[rexanglorum]

That adorable avatar must mean something, a signal of some sort. Is this the siganl that the storm is coming and Q is about to unmask all the libby pedos, have them rounded up, killed and replaced with holograms.

 

[whywesteppin]

 

[whywesteppin]

That adorable avatar must mean something, a signal of some sort. Is this the siganl that the storm is coming and Q is about to unmask all the libby pedos, have them rounded up, killed and replaced with holograms.

It's a sign that Sleepy Joe Biden is a wussy -- he's too PC to grab a *****.

 

[Methodical Management]

2.) The example of two coworkers being encouraged, by capital, to not unionize because they have a different sexual orientation is a concept endorsed by most socialist LGBT+ people. The example I used is an amalgamation of examples of “rainbow capitalism” that I have been taught.

Just because you want them to unionize together doesn't require you to be dismissive of their difference. Acting like their perspectives and needs are “fundamentally the same” and differences can be essentially ignored is akin to "colorblindness."

As Lorde puts it, "Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist."
"Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening."


As a student of history, you know full well that divided labor movements fail. Targeting the "lowest common denominator" in this instance means centering around straight, White, able, cisgender Christian men, and letting them take up all the oxygen in the room. When that happens, the last thing you ought to do is take a look at your gentrified movement and say, "how can we educate the people who aren't here about their best interests?"

Your pitch to that hypothetical second generation bisexual Vietnamese-American woman who has never felt safe in public over constant threats you do not face cannot be that she doesn't understand how the true locus of her oppression is the capitalist's yoke.


Why is it that the compromise must be "set your other issues aside and focus on our common cause" and not "if you're not committed to full equality for everyone, you need to suck it up because none of us may be truly free until we are all free?"

The movement for racial inequality in this country hasn't ignored class. Why should the movement for class inequality ask everyone else to take a back seat?

Exhibiting scorn for "identity politics" comes across like chiding those fighting for basic survival rights for failing to sufficiently tether their liberation to yours, when you haven't asked the same of yourself or your movement.

It takes a lot of nerve for anyone who would use the phrase "oppression Olympics" to build a hierarchy of hierarchies and declare classism the most brutal oppression of all. (And without acknowledging the additive and interrelated nature of varying forms of oppression.)


As long as White men are seated at the head of the table, setting a place for everyone is an empty gesture.

To borrow an oft-stolen phrase from Flavia Dzodan, your socialism will be intersectional, or it will be worthless.

Do you really think that capital does not nor will ever reinforce the public and psychological wages of whiteness, being male, and being cishet and use false solidarity with PoC, women, LGBT people?

I referenced this in a previous conversation in this thread, and was essentially told that, because Du Bois wrote a century ago, he is less relevant to a discussion of racial inequality in the US than the dogma of a White man who died in London before Du Bois was even born. (And you wonder why people don't want to engage.)

You can go back and read it if you'd like.

Mind you, I am not saying that the ostensible audience for all this corporate wokeness is or will be swayed but well off white liberals could be nudged away from sympathy for large scale labor or community organizing. In the case of the former, corporate media loves talking about how Trump is the result of working class whites despite the fact that it was more we’ll off whites who were his base. The trick is to conflate white racism with the working class and if there ever is a sectoral strike among all warehouse workers, corporate media can center white warehouse workers to dismiss the entire movement. In the case of the latter, the neoliberal mayor of Seattle dismissed the George Floyd protests as mostly being done by white men.

As it becomes harder and harder to defend capitalism with utilitarian arguments, capital will increasingly rely on presenting itself as the woke alternative to socialism, which it will present as always being one and the same with white socialism.

If you're worried that Amazon is going to fool people into thinking that they're more “woke” than you are, Amazon is not the problem.

 

[gry60]

I 10000% agree with this quote. Libbie elites are smarter, more rational, and morally superior to everyone else. That's why they are un-American!

REAL America was built on being dumb, irrational, and morally bankrupt. TRUE Americans are stupid. These LIBBIE SCUMS threaten the HERITAGE of the US of A.

Here's the tweet:

Yeah...
We can't save this ship.

 

[aepps20]

Is that gif from a real exchange?

Yes, it was on tonight when Fredo's brother was Ethering DeSantis for puffing out his chest a month ago about how great Florida was doing.

 

[dacomeup]

Didn’t realize RustyShackleford and Methodical Management were having this same debate with -Red- last year

 

[aepps20]

That adorable avatar must mean something, a signal of some sort. Is this the siganl that the storm is coming and Q is about to unmask all the libby pedos, have them rounded up, killed and replaced with holograms.

Jameson is the leader of Coal Gang's animal unit. cragmatic can explain.