You might have better success including in invitation to a protest event, or even just a morning coffee, or whatever you can make a regular thing. Even a weekly drink night can become a thing. If you are trying to recruit neighbors, you don’t have to lead with politics. Considering that many maybe relying on the dynamics of war for their buttered bread, it’s often easier to start with as entertaining approach as you can.

I love the Russian version of the international, Onimusha demo is closest that I’ve played recently to those games recently, do you have any idea what city you would like to be in?

Music and hobbies help me when I’m feeling overly isolated. I think at the moment my favourite song is the communist have the music by they might giants. What is your’s?

woops, good point.

You are okay. That’s important. Living in the middle of nowhere sucks. If you can hang on, people may need you soon. I will never forget a time when I was inches away from winning but gave up and lost the race. Don’t do that. Do what it takes to keep yourself strong as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone. Be ready.

If the party leadership doesn’t understand why you need to step down, they aren’t worth supporting. I wouldn’t join or support a org who did that. The first thing you need to do is get safe, you’ll be able to do much more at lower cost to yourself when you are healthy. That party won’t allow you to be healthy, get away from them. That’s a reactionary party.

Get away from them, get healthy, find a new group.

You’re clearly good at what you do, why not do it for a group that us capable of caring about you.

The capital maximizer that survives is the one that controls legislation to suppress small businesses that might break it’s monopoly. It has found that by putting one group of people under horrifically unbearable conditions, it can worsen the conditions of all others with few complaints so long as they keep the less suppressed workforce convinced that they have it better and may even be superior than the super suppressed (see racism). Destroying the property of others creates demand that it can used to extract more capital from those who have had their property destroyed (see war). Tearing up industrial infrastructure from steel mill to slaughter houses just to prevent small farmers and or any competition from rising in their own backyard and moving manufacturing to places far away allows them to pay people even less (see de-industrialization and the battle for Seattle). Ensuring that there aren’t enough jobs to go around so that those who work have to work so hard they only time to think about work and look down on those who can’t find work. Any waste of resources is a source of capital for the Capital Maximizer. If the Capital Maximizer doesn’t do these things, and the system isn’t changed, it will be bought or destroyed by the Capital Maximizer that does. It can’t even be called the law of the jungle for that is far more fair and just.

If nothing changes it ends when the population dies out because people no longer have the ability to engage in reproductive labor, due to a lack of resources and sheer energy. At least that’s the current theory, as birthrates in capitalist countries have fallen below the replacement rate. Or when wars get too far out of hand and we all die. Automation and AI just allow the Capital Maximizer to keep going a little longer.

The system itself is the capital maximizer, to destroy it without perishing requires a complete dismantling of the system with a new system built to rise in it’s place. How we build and support that system will determine if we see what a world without capitalism looks like.

Do you know the story of the paperclip maximizer? It’s a cautionary thought experiment written in 2003.

Oddly enough if you think about it, the story could just as easily refer to capitalism insatiable need for accelerating growth. It is a wealth concentrating ideology. The irresponsible use of AI is killing people but that is to be expected. Every kid AI relieved of life, whether they were driven to it, or living in the wrong place, or starved by job loss, makes the capitalists who sell the AI richer.

The Britannica is phrased in a way that makes it impossible or at least extremely difficult to label the creators and enforcers of unjust laws to ever fit it’s definition. A criminal can only be a criminal if they have committed a crime, but it’s legal for a cop to shoot someone on a suspicion of a crime or at least impossible to convict them of that, than they can never be considered criminal.

There are places in the US where it is illegal to feed homeless people. Feeding the homeless would cause someone to definitionally become a criminal if they are caught and convicted. If one of the people they fed, turned around and say mugged someone, the one feeding the homeless can be called a terrorist. There are also store owners who consider the downward pressure that puts on the price of their wares to be coercive violence. In these twisted minds a cop killing a nurse trying to give aid to someone else, is not a terrorist but the random person feeding the hungry who can’t afford food is.

Most people hear the word criminal and think that it refers to someone who has broken a just law. However it seems that more and more lately criminal refers to anyone who challenges the status quo or just got too poor. Prisons need their slaves after all.

The root terror evokes a certain set of emotions, for that reason it’s probably better to just point out that all violence delivered by any government is terrorism.

I heard about that, it sounds like Will Lehman wants to bring some systemic changes to the way UAW is run. Shawn Fain doesn’t sound like the kinda person you’d want running a union after what happened Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock

Revolution is coming to the US soon. The question is what kind revolution it will be. History seems to indicate that if we don’t have alternative systems ready when it comes the violent chauvinists will. Those alternative systems are being prepared as I type this. For decades only weeks of progress have been made, but it seems likely that the imperial pedophile cannibals are no longer capable or willing to keep their subversive counter measures in place. They seem to be relying more and more on overt violence. We must have alternative systems for resource distribution, education, health care and physical infrastructure reading. Marches are the first step, networking is extremely important for building new systems.

Maybe dandelions, combined with some tasteful signage about their use in cooking? Greening and renaturalizing can help to build community, but I also want to build class consciousness. Start the process of building alternate networks of resource distribution and changing public land use theories and practice at a literal city street level.

I evaluate political parties based on policies they promote and what they’re leadership says. They’re leadership conflates anti Zionism with anti semitism, Hadash doesn’t. Even the DSA in the US doesn’t do that.

Political parties evolve over time so in order to remain principled, we must remain up to date on where they stand.

So unfortunately while die linke might be able to do the same, they don’t.

These days when asked to picture a terrorist, I picture the faces on the currency of USA.

They claim to be anti Zionist and it sounds like their leaders oppose the occupation, support icj case, and support equal rights for all. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/anti-zionist-israeli-mp-i-will-never-surrender

If the psl as an anti imperialist party can exist in the US the imperial core, it would make sense that an anti-zionist party could exist even in a state built on Zionism. There were Jewish people there even before the British occupation, let alone it’s recognition by the UN.

It sounds like they made a tactical choice to use their privilege to leverage whatever political power they can get to stop the oppression.

Trump isn’t really bringing manufacturing back, the tariffs won’t do that. They will cause chaos in the stock market that he can profit off though. He’d have to subside manufacturing here to bring it back, and it doesn’t seem like that’s something that he’s willing to do.

However they do appear to be preparing for war with China and this could easily lead to a third world war.