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davel@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores ItEnglish111·7 days agoBourgeois media have always been so, but lately more and more people are realizing it. Previously.
davel@lemmy.mlto Technology@lemmy.ml•TikTok hires ex-Israeli army instructor as new hate speech manager, sparking backlashEnglish231·7 days agoRemember when everyone said TikTok was an evil seeseepee plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids?
davel@lemmy.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Can Visa and MasterCard be sued for this censorship debacle?English14·7 days agoThe First Amendment is about government censorship. The Bill of Rights is more like a Bill of government restrictions.
davel@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'English111·7 days agoIran is a theocracy, and I’d send them nukes if I had any.
Religion is less of a factor in state geopolitical decision-making than you think.
It’s just one facet of the superstructure among many.
davel@lemmy.mlto Comics@lemmy.ml•Hue bringing you that fabulous fen fun on lemmy.ml for those into DP.English3·7 days agoWe’ve been outed as the double penetration instance.
davel@lemmy.mlto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Bob Vylan calls out the media spinEnglish91·8 days agopremature antifascists
davel@lemmy.mlto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Bob Vylan calls out the media spinEnglish61·8 days agoBobs Vylan
davel@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'English191·8 days agoThat post was nine days ago… coincidence?
davel@lemmy.mlto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•AOC wrong: More civilians die when we send Israel 'defensive weapons'English352·8 days agoShe became a strikebreaker three years ago. Kshama Sawant: Rail Workers Betrayed By Biden & The “Squad”
AOC justified her vote by claiming she was fighting “tooth and nail” for the additional sick days. Jamaal Bowman claimed he was “always fighting in solidarity with the workers.” But what the Congressional “Progressive” Caucus pulled was a con job, and a hamfisted one at that. They colluded with Pelosi to separate out the vote into two, promising their roughly 100 votes on the rotten TA in exchange for a separate vote on the sick day amendment, which they knew full well would get crushed in the Senate. It took only one day to confirm the brutal reality: that the majority of the “Squad,” in coordination with the leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, sold rail workers down the river while blowing smoke about paid sick days.
On November 30, Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) national center posted a statement of support for the rail workers which included this sentence:
“Any member of Congress who votes yes on the tentative agreement is siding with billionaires and forcing a contract on rail workers that does not address their most pressing demand of paid sick days.”
What then of their own members and endorsed elected officials in Congress who voted yes? What this statement implies, and what the actions of the “Squad” definitively prove, is that these elected officials are, and see themselves as, part of the capitalist state, the state that acts for the billionaires and against the interests of the majority, the working class.
A socialist cannot be a strike breaker. This needs to be the end of any pretense by DSA that the “Squad” is socialist, and should result in their expulsion from the organization. Failing that, the Squad’s betrayal of the working class becomes DSA’s betrayal.
Today I am completely opposed to small arms and what they can do to children.
Should the little tykes have no arms at all? What a sicko.
davel@lemmy.mlto Memes@lemmy.ml•This Is What They Meant By Making America Great Again?English231·8 days agoFOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY
It’s about
psychohistoryhistorical materialism.
Unlike public CIA statements, classified CIA documents are seldom slop. This wasn’t declassified until 2008, 55 years after it was written.
davel@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Ansarallah Enters 'Fourth Phase' as More Lives Claimed in Gaza FamineEnglish4·9 days agoMilitary spokesman Yahya Saree said the group will begin the fourth phase of its blockade campaign, targeting all ships belonging to or operated by companies doing business with Israeli ports—regardless of the vessel’s nationality or route.
This seems to imply that their truce with the US is over.
weird flex but ok