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H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Dr. VooDoo posted:

That’s the one where the relatives who took him in were chuds who brought the baby back to the hospital in order to get in the photo op with Trump, right?

his uncle or something yeah

also they were hardcore catholic latinos iirc

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Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009


idk why my brain conjured a different prez so here u go, funny politics poo poo I suddenly remembered




edit: I would post waco orphans but that's less iconic

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

this was so loving insane. why would they send a squad of fully kitted out cops/soldiers to an unarmed house to secure a child

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Any time anyone, especially Democrat, has tried to politically pander to Miami Cubans. They're single issue voters, the issue is Fidel Castro, and he's dead! :mad:

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

indigi posted:

this was so loving insane. why would they send a squad of fully kitted out cops/soldiers to an unarmed house to secure a child

I believe they weren't his family so it was technically kidnapping for Elian to be there in the first place :v:

But yeah, they probably could have left the MP5s and poo poo in the van

Flavius Aetass
Mar 30, 2011

indigi posted:

this was so loving insane. why would they send a squad of fully kitted out cops/soldiers to an unarmed house to secure a child

obviously wasn't justified but the rationale was that there was a huge crowd of people outside and presumably inside who had pledged not to let them take the kid back

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


It rules that Gonzales is now a committed communist

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
How could one not be tbh

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
i went to see what Elian looks like these days. he sort of looks like Ben Shapiro. :lmao:

Fish of hemp
Apr 1, 2011

A friendly little mouse!

Have the trotskyites ever amounted anything in anywhere?

Ichabod Sexbeast
Dec 5, 2011

Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle

Fish of hemp posted:

Have the trotskyites ever amounted anything in anywhere?

Trotskyism led us to Posadaism, which is both hilarious and got some traction in south america

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Trotskyism led us to Posadaism, which is both hilarious and got some traction in south america

Poseidonism been around since ancient Greece yo

Ichabod Sexbeast
Dec 5, 2011

Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle

Inceltown posted:

Poseidonism been around since ancient Greece yo

Yeah but now the dolphins are armed

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).

https://gothamist.com/news/request-andrew-yang-vax-daddy-takes-public-stage-washington-heights

quote:

Since creating TurboVax, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have credited Ma for helping them find vaccine appointments. On Tuesday, the New Yorker made his first public remarks at the invitation of Bronx Congressman Ritchie Torres and mayoral candidate Andrew Yang. The event was politically staged by Yang's campaign, for which Torres serves as the co-chair.

But the attention was squarely on Ma, who did not endorse Yang but said he was watching to hear what all the candidates had to say.

Andrew Yang manipulated the TurboVax guy into standing in front of a thousand TV cameras next to a bunch of giant YANG FOR NEW YORK campaign signs.

But also...

quote:

It was one of the rare days when Yang's fame was eclipsed by another Asian American in the city. Earlier, Yang had quipped that Ma was "now on the shortlist of people that my wife Evelyn is allowed to leave me for."

If you had Andrew Yang cuck fantasy on your 2021 bingo card go ahead and fill that one in now.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
terrorist fist jab...?

Chuka Umana
Apr 30, 2019

by sebmojo

Fish of hemp posted:

Have the trotskyites ever amounted anything in anywhere?

No but that's never going to stop them from loving SCHEMING ALL THE loving TIME NO MATTER WHAT loving MOVEMENT THEY'RE APART OF SO THEY CAN TAKE IT OVER.

Always loving scheming

Really not surprised the MLs purge the Trots first thing during the revolution.

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Chuka Umana posted:

No but that's never going to stop them from loving SCHEMING ALL THE loving TIME NO MATTER WHAT loving MOVEMENT THEY'RE APART OF SO THEY CAN TAKE IT OVER.

Always loving scheming

Really not surprised the MLs purge the Trots first thing during the revolution.

the theory of permanent revolution means my revolution to seize control of this discord channel is just as important as a revolution to take over the state

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

Private Cumshoe posted:

terrorist fist jab...?

terrorist vax jab

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Fish of hemp posted:

Have the trotskyites ever amounted anything in anywhere?

Some city council positions in Seattle and Liverpool, a few labor movements in Anglo countries. They had the ear of a social democrat English politician called Tony Benn for a while and I think the guy wii started IMT was in the European Parliament for a while. It’s hard to say there are smashing successes.

https://lh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/lh/article/download/5681/4874 posted:

Willie Thompson has acknowledged in his survey of the history of the world- wide left, The Left in History: Revolution and Reform in Twentieth-Century Politics, that the Trotskyists "occasionally achieved some marginal industrial influence"intheUStradeunions.' However,outsideoftheTrotskyists'rolein the Teamsters Union in Minneapolis and unlike the role of the Communist Party (CP) in the US labor movement that has been well-documented in numerous books and articles, little of a systematic nature has been written about Trotskyist activity in the US trade union movement.' This article's goal is to begin to bridge a gap in the historical record left by other historians of labor and radical movements, by examining the role of the two wings of US Trotskyism, repre- sented by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Workers Party (WP), in the United Auto Workers (UAW) from 1939 to 1949.
In spite of these two groups' relatively small numbers within the auto workers' union and although neither the SWP nor the WP was particularly suc- cessful in recruiting auto workers to their organizations, the Trotskyists played an active role in the UAW as leading individuals and activists, and as an organ- ized left presence in opposition to the larger and more powerful CP. In addi- tion, these Trotskyists were able to exert an influence that was significant at times, beyond their small membership with respect to vital issues confronting the UAW. At various times throughout the 1940s, for example, these trade unionists were skillful in mobilizing auto unionists in opposition to both the no- strike pledge during World War 11, and the Taft-Hartley bill in the postwar peri- od. They also organized UAW members in fighting for the inclusion of the esca- lator clause in 1947-1948 while constructing a non-CP left-wing presence with- in the union. This activity was based largely on how these two organizations came to conceive of left-wing politics in the post-World War I1 era, both with- in the UAW and the nation as a whole.


Some stuff in India iirc but it barely counts when the group in question decided to start calling themselves Trots after other communists accused them of being so, although they had no connection to him or his theory before then.

Prurient Squid
Jul 21, 2008

Tiddy cat Buddha improving your day.
There hasn't been a succesful worker's revolution in Britain (yet!) but the Militant had mass dimensions in Liverpool in the 80s as the dominant influence in the Labour council that refused to make cuts.

You may like to listen to Bill Mullins talk about the struggle against the Industrial Relations Act in the early 70s that made it possible to jail stewards for illegal action. Bill was the senior steward at the Rover, Solihul car plant, one burough over from the very large Longbridge plant over in Birmingham whose convener was the famous Derek Robinson (of the Communist Party, smeared in the tabloids as Red Robbo).

https://soundcloud.com/socialismpodcast/107-1971-how-workers-beat-anti-union-laws

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
Trots gave us Posadism.

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
Ivanka Trump was going to fix childcare

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

moist turtleneck posted:

Ivanka Trump was going to fix childcare

Trotsky's skull was pierced by the holy ice pick and out from that gory hole sprang a wellspring of wonder.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

I would watch a show about the trotskies and trumps in wacky situations

Jon Irenicus
Apr 23, 2008


YO ASSHOLE

John Kerry, who famously testified to war crimes committed by soldiers in Vietnam, accepted the Democratic nomination for president in 2004 by screaming "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty!"

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Posadism's a funny meme but it's a pretty depressing accomplishment that what most people know about Trots boils down to 1) icepick lol and 2) this poor dude got tortured by fascists until he went literally insane and started talking about aliens and dolphins lol

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Jon Irenicus posted:

John Kerry, who famously testified to war crimes committed by soldiers in Vietnam, accepted the Democratic nomination for president in 2004 by screaming "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty!"

Imagine how loving lame AOC will be in 30 years

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Mantis42 posted:

Imagine how loving lame AOC will be in 30 years

Future Pelosi

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Mantis42 posted:

Imagine how loving lame AOC will be in 30 years

AOC will still be as committed to fighting for Medicare For All in 30 years as she is today

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

AOC will still be as committed to fighting for Medicare For All in 30 years as she is today

lmao

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer
the free tibet movement

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

Jon Irenicus posted:

John Kerry, who famously testified to war crimes committed by soldiers in Vietnam, accepted the Democratic nomination for president in 2004 by screaming "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty!"
Kerry was awarded three purple hearts. At the 2004 RNC a bunch of people wore bandaids with purple hearts.

moist turtleneck
Jul 17, 2003

Represent.



Dinosaur Gum
this strangely deleted tweet



and him referencing it to judge wine mom
https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1233943415190061056?s=20

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Never noticed before how the one with a tiny chin clearly is wearing dentures

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
holocaust centres

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Crazycryodude posted:

Posadism's a funny meme but it's a pretty depressing accomplishment that what most people know about Trots boils down to 1) icepick lol and 2) this poor dude got tortured by fascists until he went literally insane and started talking about aliens and dolphins lol

I feel like people should be talking about aliens and dolphins even before they go insane

Feldegast42
Oct 29, 2011

COMMENCE THE RITE OF SHITPOSTING

Crazycryodude posted:

Posadism's a funny meme but it's a pretty depressing accomplishment that what most people know about Trots boils down to 1) icepick lol and 2) this poor dude got tortured by fascists until he went literally insane and started talking about aliens and dolphins lol

And if you know a little bit more about Trots, that 3) most of them snapped and turned into hardcore neocons and got us into the Iraq War

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Christopher Hitchens was a trot for a while too

while Norm Finkelstein was a teenage maoist

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Low Desert Punk
Jul 4, 2012

i have absolutely no fucking money

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