My impression of the Russian communist party is that they’ve become more a nationalist party than anything promoting class struggle.

Yet one more way we are more complicated than middle school biology

The number of Google apps that have been killed astounds.

From the unionized weed store down the block. They’re open until midnight.

Targeting a journalist, not opposition Hezbollah.

Largely ineffective rocket attacks. See these charts for what near daily rocket attacks and near daily snipers, police beatings, etc, do for relative casualties between Israeli and Palestinian peoples.

https://israelpalestinetimeline.org/charts/

Yeah, it is infuriating that this history is being down voted. In fact, the secular Plastinian national movements (PLO and its constituent organizations) considered Plastinian Jews (ie, indigenous Jews living in the British Mandate prior to 1948) to be Palestinians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews

It’s terrible I can only upvote you once.

What happens to good cops: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2021/12/09/blue-wall-police-misconduct-whistleblower-retaliation/8836387002/

It’s important to note that our sexuality is socially constructed, our desires are not solely based on biology but culture.

“In the Christian medieval world, some theories held that women received far more pleasure from a sexual encounter than men, and had much greater sexual appetite.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_female_sexuality

Ups and fedex still frequently use USPS for last mile in many areas. USPS has a mandate to serve and maintain infrastructure in the whole US, and the corporations use that. So does Amazon of course.

I use those events in the US (and many more) to condem capitalism. I also use Tianamen (and others) to condem state capitalism.

Stock buy backs were illegal until 1982. Capitalism survived without them. https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/news/stock-buybacks-were-once-illegal-why-are-they-legal-now

Given a long enough time on the right hormones, and most (not all) of that advantage disappears. “While absolute lean mass remains higher in trans women, relative percentage lean mass and fat mass (and muscle strength corrected for lean mass), hemoglobin, and VO2 peak corrected for weight was no different to cisgender women. After 2 years of GAHT, no advantage was observed for physical performance measured by running time or in trans women. By 4 years, there was no advantage in sit-ups. While push-up performance declined in trans women, a statistical advantage remained relative to cisgender women.”

There’s also a large band of ability within people. Michael Phelps has a genetic advantage, but his accomplishments are still celebrated.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgad414/7223439?login=false

A good (and entertaining) primer on revolutions is the now completed Revolutions podcast. I think you’ll find revolutions more complex than that simplistic characterization. Most violence in a revolution happens during the counter revolution.

Raising the spectre of possible revolutionary violence ignores the violence of the current system. Can you imagine the world overcoming climate disaster, with all the carnage it will bring, while under the rule of capitalism? Any revolutionary violence should be compared against the ongoing and future violence of capitalism, and its interconnected systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.

Edit to add url for podcast: http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~jwp/revolutions-episode-index.html

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772

After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, homosexuality (as well as abortion) was decriminalized.

It was only after Stalin’s counter-revolution that gay sex (and abortion) were made illegal. People spoke out against it, including queers and feminists in the Comintern. Again, wtf are queer (or feminist) tankies thinking?

A job is something you do that someone WITH MONEY wants done, ON THEIR TERMS.

there are rare, lucky, exceptions to this.

My exception is my job is with others that unionized. So even tho we are only doing something that many someones with lots and of money want done, we’re able to skim a good deal of money off of it.

Does she look like a cat “owner” to you?