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Pizza Segregationist
Jul 18, 2006


woah

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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Autism Sneaks posted:

all power to the homeowners associations

I thought we were trying to come up with a term that didn't have negative connotations

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
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finally got around to reading the black socialists' of america statement that they delivered to AOC. apparently she was receptive and the meeting went well :unsmith:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1022555720196206592

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Non-reformist reforms are basically what we've been arguing about here.

Dreddout
Oct 1, 2015

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Yossarian-22 posted:

A soviet is just a "workers' council" which can be rebranded according to the needs of whichever society's cultural history

Good work, you repeated what I said

Mia Wasikowska
Oct 7, 2006

Plutonis posted:

+ Epic Revolution Heroes!

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Finicums Wake posted:

finally got around to reading the black socialists' of america statement that they delivered to AOC. apparently she was receptive and the meeting went well :unsmith:

https://twitter.com/BlackSocialists/status/1022555720196206592
basic face to face stuff like this has gotta be important, if only to remind these new 'rising stars' where they come from, and who helped them get where they are.

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
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rudatron posted:

basic face to face stuff like this has gotta be important, if only to remind these new 'rising stars' where they come from, and who helped them get where they are.

yeah, definitely. the BSA's statement struck me as more than basic tho--it struck a good balance between criticism and, for lack of a better word, comradeliness. and while it's no assurance on its own, the fact that the BSA came away from the meeting feeling good about it relieves some of my worries about AOC that ppl raised earlier ITT

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
the concerns aren't unfounded -- it's not like there's a lack of a history of soc dem betrayal -- but there's simply no other cards to play.

even if aoc eventually flips succ dem, the act of helping her get elected wasn't necessarily a 'bad play', because you're playing the odds. you win some, you lose some.

I wouldn't rule out a flip in the future either, she's not fully integrated into the political machine. but there's zero point throwing a tantrum now, because you can't prevent it.

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Finicums Wake posted:

yeah, definitely. the BSA's statement struck me as more than basic tho--it struck a good balance between criticism and, for lack of a better word, comradeliness. and while it's no assurance on its own, the fact that the BSA came away from the meeting feeling good about it relieves some of my worries about AOC that ppl raised earlier ITT

bsa kind of suck tbh

big business man
Sep 30, 2012

R. Guyovich posted:

bsa kind of suck tbh

:wrong:

they're good, very good in fact

Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
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R. Guyovich posted:

bsa kind of suck tbh

otoh, i get linked to some cool poo poo by following their twitter. on the other, they seem overly reliant on co-ops. not sure whether they push co-ops as a transitional demand or as an end goal :shrug:

why do you say they suck?

Tiberius Christ
Mar 4, 2009

R. Guyovich posted:

bsa kind of suck tbh

I just read the statement from BSA for AOC, it's really good. They want her to promote decentralization, workplace democracy and that the message of socialism should be to transition out of capitalism and not stagnate in social democracy.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

https://twitter.com/nathanhrubin/status/1022476404913582083?s=21

https://twitter.com/nathanhrubin/status/1022553499383414785?s=21

Lol

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
i'm thinking about the USSR

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

We want to be like a First World country not like a Third World country.

WhiskeyJuvenile
Feb 15, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

i'm thinking about the USSR

Same

Serf
May 5, 2011



"capitalism is bad, but communism is also bad and therefore we should just accept capitalism"

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

let's be honest if the US became venezuela we'd be in the PSUV equivalent and be paid off through those sweet sweet petro bitcoins

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

For the US to become Venezuela we'd have to intentionally de-develop ourselves. Weirdly enough material conditions never factor in to why people think all the third world revolutions didn't bring peace on earth.

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

For the US to become Venezuela we'd have to intentionally de-develop ourselves. Weirdly enough material conditions never factor in to why people think all the third world revolutions didn't bring peace on earth.

See: The entire Venezuela thread in D&D

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Pablo Nergigante posted:

See: The entire Venezuela thread in D&D

or most other threads in c-spam tbh

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
The US is already de-developing, and has been seen off-shoring started. the only thing keeping it afloat is the tech scene money grift, and, well:
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1022581610259013632
so i wouldn't discount the possibility of venezuela-like conditions in the US just yet

GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

rudatron posted:

the only thing keeping it afloat is the tech scene money grift,

no it isn't

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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GalacticAcid
Apr 8, 2013

NEW YORK VALUES

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




Emmideer
Oct 20, 2011

Lovely night, no?
Grimey Drawer

alsothere
Oct 14, 2014
Taco Defender

fabergay egg
Mar 1, 2012

it's not a rhetorical question, for politely saying 'you are an idiot, you don't know what you are talking about'


Finicums Wake
Mar 13, 2017
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an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

lollontee
Nov 4, 2014
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the facer of gently caress

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

lol if you think that facebook's stock going down means that anything is changing

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

an actual dog posted:

lol if you think that facebook's stock going down means that anything is changing

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Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




idk I think zuccboi will be a little less smug for at least a few days

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