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Hate to be right.

ICE killed yet another person yesterday but yeah great and normal use of rapid response, yall

I think everyone is Team Mexico here. Justice for the families of the people murdered by ICE.

@ergotloaf @Slimeonhersnail They're real. They tweeted about how they showed up to orientation and were sorted into a right-leaning caucus, then the person doing the orientation clarified that they specifically asked about caucuses and which ones were not communist.

@Slimeonhersnail Lowkirk they might of not even been real

Amid everything this saga is very funny and I hope everyone can take a break from fighting to laugh at this person in particular

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things. If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different. This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand. Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created. As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes. According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour. Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need. Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital. Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins. Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency. Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition. Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow. So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture. If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

@enoughformethx Most DSA members are focused on the organizing projects at the local chapter level and do not even tune in to or engage with the national level politics at all, and they are happier and more effective for it.

Every time I want to get more involved with DSA, I encounter elements of the internal reasoning by people in charge of organizational decisions and it’s so involuted and gnomic that I reconsider

Dude was just kidnapped by settlers and the IDF and he’s still like “we should send them bombs” 😭

China crashing the blood diamond industry is such a great story, really brings a tear to my eye

CBS is just making shit up now

I’m now a single issue voter. I’ll vote for whoever tf marches these Neo-Nazis up to the gallows like Nuremberg.

His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero. - He was here legally. - He was authorized to work. - He had Social Security Number. - He was NOT target of ICE investigation. - DHS: He did NOT try to kill ICE agents. He was executed in front of his 3 year old daughter.

Further proof that for presidential hopefuls like Khanna “genocide” is a buzzword to signal maximum outrage, not a moral and legal designation with implications and obligations. “They’re committing genocide but we must provide them military defense” is a patently insane position.

“Israel is committing genocide but an arms embargo against the genocidal state goes too far” is a deeply unserious position. Khanna also suggests Leahy applies to military sales which it doesn’t, it only applies to military subsidies so this is a non sequitur. More goofy hedging.

@Solidarity_Star IF she tries to play nice? What in her record suggests she would do anything else? If we endorse nationally we are sunk.

I don’t want DSA to split, and I think endorsing AOC is our best bet to avoiding one. But I also think there is a strong danger to associating our brand too closely to AOC. If she tries to play nice with the political establishment as President, they will sink her and us as well.

here’s an update on keith porters case from organizers and relatives: 1. LAPD took six months to produce a report. They refused to name his killer 2. community members and journalists with the LA Times exposed Keith Porter’s killer themselves. The killer’s name is Brian Palacios

Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes Murray: And the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2% Murray: So, a 12.4% tax for people making less than $184,000, but 2.2% for a millionaire or .0002% for billionaires.

How is this not treason?

"Israel is killing journalists in Gaza at a scale the world has never seen. The role of a press freedom organization should be to defend them and demand accountability, not to help Israel cast doubt on the people it has killed," says @AliAbunimah of leaked emails that reveal push at CPJ (@pressfreedom) to exclude Palestinian journalists based on political criteria.

I took this picture of Mitch McConnell on May 12th. No way that photo of him they released today is real.

@RefrmDemocracy @GoodVibePolitik That’s what they said about Obama. Hell, it’s what they said about Trump.

@GoodVibePolitik This ignores the far more important antecedent question: whether AOC would be less likely than the alternatives to bomb other countries in the first place. She would be.

No one seems to have a real answer for “what happens if AOC wins and then oversees the bombing of ____” which would be a near guarantee given our global military spread. With no congressional majority or even plurality either like what would we even be able to do? Censure? Lmao.