I wish Israel commiting crimes against humanity wasn’t normalized. Fuck my country for supporting this bullshit, and fuck Zionism.

Perhaps I was being overly cynical but last years grocery hike was all of those businesses acting in concert. Which I’m sure is illegal for everyone but the rich…

Without a way too keep them from just raising costs to match, raising min wage has a limited effect. Taxes on profit are more effective. Reinvestment or raises should be deductable, tax the everliving fuck out of gross profit for the rest.

Israel is not a functional democracy, pretending as much is gross intellectual dishonesty.

I think she has to toe the line because she is still the acting VP. Going against the president in that position is not a good look. That said it makes knowing her actual position there really tough.

They have a high power one for those bastards.

Does anyone actually want to be in Ohio? If something is Ohio, it’s that vague uncomfortable ugly failure feeling.

He’s very Ohio. ( That insult makes me happy as I HATE that shit hole)

I feel that in my soul. I’m a sysadmin, however it’s mostly password resets 🥲

Royalroad has some hfy stuff. Read the end of First Contact on RR and Raltzs’ other stuff is there too.

Played since vanilla, took a break in the middle for a while, dragon flight hit the fun of Wow really well compared to the other recent expansions. I’ll probably stick around for war within too. They learned a lot of lessons from the mess that was shadow lands.

Business insider being left biased is one hell of a take. They’re a corporate outlet for sure even if they don’t shill the GOP line.

Already blaming the left I see. Ahead of the curve. Good job.

You’re probably joking, but this is where I landed. We’re no where near ready to join a galactic community.

Oh yeah. We’re fucked. It’d be funny if it wasn’t also terrifying.

Ah ok trolling. Nevermind. Move along.

I don’t know what I clicked on that. It was exactly what it says.

99%? Are you sure?

That’s interesting… Communism is by definition stateless and without significant hierarchy. I don’t think other Tankies would disagree with me there.

The ideological difference is in how we achieve communism. I would really suggest reading ‘What is to be Done’ by Lenin. It’s a real short read but was one of the things that sold me on Marxism-Leninism vs. regular “Communism is a neat idea”

Capitalism will sell you the “you’re your own boss, go forth an conquer” all while keeping you under their heel. There is no equality or opportunity there; but even worse is that they will worm their way into any system that does not harshly and consistently fight back against them. Ergo the need for a ‘communist’ (or rather pursuing communism) state.

That then leads into “Well how does the state go away once we’ve got communism?” That’s a whole 'nother can of worms…

Sanction, Denounce, it all boils down to “The ICC can fuck itself, we do what we want; and what we want is to support the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

If your argument boils down to near meaningless (there is a hassle for ICC members with the sanction) pedantry, then your argument sucks.