Whoah hell yeah. And nearly 50k? Does that mean commiefornia is responsible for half of PSL's votes or has the total gone well past 100k?
I would suspect that the matrix chats have inadequate infosec. Like the platform is secure so participants are not as careful. For example, I would bet there's plenty of info on admins' alts in there.
Never do that to us again!
I have always lived on Liberal Mountain and met hexbears there.
I stay because it is entertaining, informative, and has a good smattering of people that know theory and/or irl practice. And because it's vehemently pro-trans, anti-white supremacist, and so on, although of course there is room for improvement.
The insufferable "wonk" libs already turned on it because they stopped supporting Ukraine.
The paint has probably improved its structural integrity.
Capitalists operate at different levels and for this topic and its contradictions I think it's good yo think about a few of them. You can group caoitalists by their ecological level (like petty bourgeois vs haute), by their level of concentration and organization (individual businesses vs. consortia and cartels), national vs. international, industrial vs. finance, etc. Fundamentally this is a case where capitalists are, in aggregate, working against themselves by fighting wage increases due to its impact on demand. Marx talked about how they would do this in even more dire circumstances and under conditions where finance was much weaker than it is today, driving down wages below even the level of workers being able to sustain themselves and become useful for the industries in question, which is a step even farther than "non-optimal" demand.
One aspect is indeed labor discipline. This is also why they target certain levels of unemployment by making more or fewer businesses fail. Precarity drives the reserve army of labor and this shows its face in the form of people taking lower paying jobs and worse conditions rather than being unemployed. In a sense, being unemployed is really the lowest you can be paid when it comes to driving demand and so these deliberare attempts to increase unemployment via interest rates are intentionally cutting into demand. So in terms of fiscal policy, the prevailing wisdom is perfectly fine with destroying demand in order to serve othet purposes, namely labor discipline and consolidation and managing the next recession.
For individual businesses, they try to minimize wages as variable cosy, of course. They don't want to pay their employees more, their balance sheets say, "but that makes the red bigger". Most businesses are run by petty tyrants with no concept of balancing demand, so this is a goid chunk of where small business coakitions and chambers of commerce are coming from. In addition, smaller businesses tend to be more geographically localized, so wage increases that are local (as minimum wages often are) are seen as reducing local businesses' competitiveness. For example, a local business might make bespoke machine parts and has to compete with a larger company with employees in other states with lower minimum wages.
This general dynamic plays out across a lot of levels. There are no, "let's increase the minimum wage" national efforts led by business groups because they're all looking for their own unique angles for reducing costs or crushing their competition and they are not overly concerned with aggregate demand. And by the time you get to the tippy top groups you are looking at finance, not productive capital, and they are, to simplify, looking to maximize debt so long as it can be serviced enough to be traded and repackaged and offset by various scammy behaviors and federal bailouts. They are fairly removed from caring that much about demand and would usually rather liquidate an entire industry to sell its parts for a profit (because it makes them more money) than try to stimulate demand through wage increases.
That sucks I'm sorry.
I've gotten nearly this with just one job before because I got back-to-back scheduled 6 days (Tues-Sun and Mon-Sat). Knowing how they did scheduling where I worked this was almost definitely a lazy accident by an underpaid faux-"manager" and in my infinite wisdom I didn't even try to swap shifts or complain, I just thought, "oh yeah I can handle that okay". It was not fun. Oh and I got a clopen on that Sunday-Monday, as was tradition from said lazy scheduling. Oh, and for ne a clopen meant closing by 2:30 AM and being back by 8 AM. I didn't even notice until that Sunday...
Anyways just letting you know that I feel your pain even though in my case I was a bit of a silly goose that took way too much nonsense for no reason. I'm sure it's a constant balancing act with the two jobs.
Stop the steal!
Influenza is mostly spread through water droplets, so masks should still help! Wear ya masks!
It may also spread by touching objects with droplets on them and then touching your face (we touch our faces a lot) so also consider carrying hand sanitizer and washing your hands more often.
If we get double pandemics with this one, you will *really * want to have some stockpiles as the mortality would likely be higher and you would probsbly see runs on pantry staples, masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer. Oh and preemptive runs on gas and toilet paper if you are in the US.
Obviously mutual aid is a better way to stockpile, but it also doesn't hurt to store enough rice and beans to feed you for a month just in case. Like an insurance policy for, "what if I didn't want to go outside for a month for good reasons?"
Excuse me but before you made these changes did you even consult the parliamentarian!?
Racists that spend all their time playing Fortnite and [new fad] aren't the Hitler Youth, they are just atomized reactionary liberals.
Fascists arose in opposition to socialists. They were supported by the bourgeoisie, particularly the petty bourgeoisie, to fight a left that was ascendant and asserting people's power, taking over cities and taking over factories. With the liberal institutions failing to guarantee bourgeois control, the armed right wing gangs bringing violence against the left were the only other game in town and were funded accordingly. This is how organized crime basically functions as well - it is just filling a space where the state monopoly on violence has been undermined. And later fascistic groups filled a similar role, like with Pinochet, who restored the (largely international) bourgeoisie's capital control in Chilé through a coup and terror.
Nothing like this is happening in the United States. The United States does not have a left, there are too few of us. All of this is happening without a left and without a bourgeoisie that has been dispossessed. Accordingly, there are no brownshirts, not in any real numbers. They have nothing they would defend in retribution anyways.
But there are other factors that rhyme a bit so that you see what we have in front of us. There is a material decline, particularly for the least marginalized groups, and it requires a false consciousness under liberalism. The classic scapegoating of minorities is not a fascist invention, liberals were doing this long before and after European fascism. And with no left, the only people who could be mass opponents to violence against the marginalized are liberals, and they do so in an ineffectual liberal way. Providing no solutions, not addressing the underlying dynamics at play, destroying the education system, funding and owning social media that blasts right wing conteny while doing their best to censor left content, emphasizing electoralism for their ghouls, these are the liberal "solutions". They create the conditions for reactionaries to exist, feed into their scapegoating (Dems have always been racist and xenophobic, e.g.), use their power to punch left instead of right.
So what you see today is more the typical liberal order in empire where no left exists. It is a resetting of the terms to the more typical arrangement. "Progress" is not inevirable, it can be crushed and reset, all it tajes is for those in power to have no real fear of the people. And the American people are almost the least fearsome they have ever been, though there are undercurrents of riots that could break out during a recession. If left organizations were just large enough and just ready enough, they would be able to provide direction and longevity for the next mass expression of pain and frustration.
In terms of messaging reality doesn't matter at all. Just begin asserting it was due to being too right wing, including doing a genocide.
The "why" of losing an election isn't entirely knowable anyways. Most people didn't vote at all. Every candidate that loses mostly loses because the majority of people see no value in it. The consistency of this should mean most reflection be about the illegitimacy of American "democracy", but that is rarely the focus. Instead, all of the air in the room gets taken up by cynical party "strategists" trying to normslize even farther right views to placate donors and get their next gig on the next campaign, now defined as, "we are woke but are against trans people and latinos".
The "it's because they're right wing genociders" line is more correct than 90% of what anyine will otherwise hear. It is also in line with why there are so many non-voters. What is the meaning of being politically "engaged" in electoralism when you don't see a material benefit to it, can't really personally do anything about it except check a box for one of two Hitlers, and see correct popular will on important topics routinely ignored despite how the party suckups tell you it works?
Smoosh that stuff together and take up more space!
PS all I'm saying is that nobody would be mad if a new admin named ASOCRAC were, by a stroke of luck, recruited today.
I demand that this resignation be like that of Stalin: a mere formality that is soundly rejected.
IMO he tends to be hypocritical to the point that any sense of proportion gets lost. So when he's criticizing something horrific or someone that is a jerk you can easily nod along and go, "yeah, get 'em". But if it's something with both substantial positive and negative aspects, you have to think, "c'mon man".
And he tends to pick dumb fights on Twitter.
I see you have never craved SPEED
The anti-woke police deprived us of Picard's gams.
Okay I'll give him another shot even though he usually annoys me
Nice!