I think you’re half way to a perspective not reliant on 2010s Reddit atheist cliches (and the implicit western chauvinism within). We agree that religion absolutely is an instrument of class domination and always has a class character. During the Russian Revolution the church was persecuted by the bolsheviks because it was an instrument of Tsarist autocracy that ordained the oppression of the serfs, peasants, and workers. But how about liberation theology in Latin America? The exact counterpoint. We should talk about institutions rather than religions, because is Islam intrinsically this?

No, it’s something the US, Saudi, gulf regimes and Zionist entity promoted as a bulwark against Arab nationalism and Arab socialism. Religion remains a key social force in most of the world, and this intrinsic inarguable position that ignores the social forces at play won’t due.

The fascists and the ‘moderates’ will bridge the gap. Think of the German SDP working with the Freikorps. They come from the same money.

“We need to stop anti white racism” ass statement. Meanwhile every french has a charlie hebdo racial caricature in their back pocket in case the spot an Arab.

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International solidarity between settlers

There’s… there’s a freaking , cheeoto. In the White House. It’s orange house now, ch dust

Literally just “no u”

Neoliberal brainworms can’t be distinguished from ragebait

Germany moment

Aren’t printers pretty restricted due to needing to have surveillance and anti-counterfeit features? Is this legal at scale?

China survived the color revolution attempt in 89. Here on the western left we only accept martyrs and losers.

Yeah Xi’s speech was very obviously ghostwriter/AI, and the bit about making China and America both great again was a bit on the nose. Trumps latest truths are pure ai no sauce, Chinese are gonna do the same reciprocally. It’s clear Xi is just indulging our dear leader as a matter of decorum.

Average Lemmy.world poster:

Russia will bomb US military industrial complex donation centers, Foreign Minister says

Authoritarian PLUS state capitalism is what, a combo of trot and anarchist jargon? Using it says they haven’t properly investigated the topic and are just repeating comfortable compatible left narratives

Imperialism is when a country does something in its interests, which tends to be most things?

Maybe don’t join the Reddit Brigade

You realize the both sides thing comes from the idea that one side is actually different? I hate these internet cliches because smugly incorrect people will grandstand with them. Whataboutism too. You know the democratic party also gets aipac money right? Democratic Party politicians and democrat media are equally (if not more due to their neoliberal globalist stance) compromised by Israel. Get a spine, if you can’t even break the party line to whisper a mild critique about the milquetoast “””opposition””” that’s been complicit in a genocide for 3 years I have nothing to say to you. Politics is only a sport for you, then.

A lot of labor in slaughterhouses or for that matter construction, landscaping, etc. is done by undocumented immigrants. If they try to unionize the owners and coyotes can just turn them in to ICE. The reason republicans are so obsessed with the border is because controlling these unofficial immigrants/migrant workers is a form of labor discipline that keeps prices of otherwise untenable products like a lot of meat or seasonal fruit low. Dems in turn want an “open border,” because the neoliberal agenda means not letting borders get in the way of cheaper labor.

In the end, there’s homeostasis. Made possible by extreme violence by human traffickers, ranchers, border patrol, and plant owners. Enough get in to keep costs low, but not enough to fight for bargaining power. If we look at the characters in The Jungle, they came from immigrant groups being basically let into the country no problem. They could participate in strikes because they were “legal,” and eventually when the postwar consensus saw the American labor movement fall into a pit of consumerism, become white people rather than Poles, Jews, Slavs, Italians, etc. That’s not going to happen again.

This isn’t even a meme it’s just repent for your sins

Isn’t the biggest thing he’s known for is supporting humanitarian stuff in Palestine? I know ‘campist’ used to mean anyone who condemned imperialism, NATO anarchism, and seriously analyzed the forces at play (finding that the primary contradiction, the thing we need to break to lay the foundation for anything else, is imperialism). But now it just means thinking third worlders are human? Bar was low but Jesus.