Great!

Cranks be banished. Half the fun of going to popcorn movies is the experience of talking to it with the rest of the audience. If you can't enjoy collective experiences then just stay at home desolately weeping with your criterion collection. stfu!

prayers up!

Worker cooperatives prove the important but limited point that while capitalists need workers, workers don't need capitalists. Most 'employee-owned' companies in the US and UK are mainly owned by the highest levels of management with some more buy-in for middle management. It's typically done with some kind of vesting scheme that keeps junior employees on the hook for years.

These firms still exist firmly within a capitalist context and require workers to become their own exploiters.

If you like your instance, you can keep it.

I think unfortunately you do need to have a lot of pre-emptory remarks prepared. The key things to cover are to establish your self-awareness and then discuss some of the triggers of your difficult behaviors and how you want others to feel empowered to address them.

This isn't one-to-one with a cluster b disorder, but I struggle a lot with compulsively making mean comments. With new friends, I have a short speech explaining it, how I share my true thoughts, and encouraging them to directly speak to me if they feel upset or offended. Sadly, it doesn't work all the time and more people bounce off sooner, but the people who do stay around it has been possible to build more secure and healthy friendships with.

It might be helpful to find a similar process for yourself.

the extraction of wealth from the imperial periphery would not be possible without the inherited wealth stolen from the indigenous people of the imperial core. the people doing the former today are the children of the people who did the latter and passed on that stolen wealth.

I completely agree with this analysis. However I think you have shown that there is a qualitative transformation from the primitive accumulation of indigenous peoples to mature imperialism. I agree it COULD NOT have happened without settler-colonialism, but that settler-colonialism is no longer the dominant mode in most of the West---even if it is preferred as seen in the rampant plunder and subjugation you are correct to point out in West Asia.

The argument of making a 'socialist US' or 'socialist Israel' seems to be a strawman. No theoretically consistent communist wants to 'turn a state socialist'. Marx explains "the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made State machinery and wield it for its own purposes." As such, real communists seek to smash the bourgeois state.

You are not responding to my main point which is that these acts are not the primary aspect in the economy. The primary contradiction is not between internally oppressed nations and the United States, it is between the United States and peripheral nations. I completely agree that Black, indigenous and other nationally oppressed people are disproportionately exploited, underpaid, and policed. However, I do not agree with your slippery and unsubstantiated claims that 1) this is the primary aspect in the US economy, and 2) whites are settlers whose principal economic basis is the primitive accumulation of oppressed nations. White workers are shielded from the most intense exploitation because of the super-exploitation of oppressed nations and so hold a dual-character but the settler characterization is absurd.

What is your definition of settler?

What is your definition of a settler? To me, it is someone actively expropriating and profiting from indigenous people. Where is there a homesteader or a militia forcing people off the land in the US?

You're missing the point. What is the basis of most wealth generation in the USA currently? Is it the theft of land and natural resources from indigenous peoples or is it imperialism? The origin of that wealth is in settler-colonialism but that is no longer the primary aspect of the US economy.

But how is the ideology prerequisite to taking those actions going to form if all white workers are principally settlers? The point in the FRSO article isn't that racism doesn't exist or that racially/nationally oppressed people aren't exploited at a higher rate. It's that settler-colonialism is a specific stage of development where the dominant force in the economy is the primitive accumulation of indigenous wealth. Whereas now the "USA" is mainly an imperial power characterized by the export of capital. Calling the main economic paradigm of the "US" settler-colonialism is not an accurate or useful characterization.

This type of defeatist third-worldism is even worse white man's burden. If genuinely nothing can be done in the imperial core, than all that remains is to wait for revolutionaries in the Global South to establish JDPON. Unless you are going to put up and join in with the 'legitimate proletariat' in the Global South, you are basically saying you are entitled to do the intellectual work of revolution while revolutionaries there do all the fighting and dying. This seems like a sublimated justification for inaction.

From 'A Critique of Maoist Reason' by J. Mouffawad-Paul:

What ultimately disqualifies [third-worldism] from correctly representing [revolutionary] reason is that it has no logical basis upon which to develop its theoretical insights. If there is no proletariat in the imperialist metropoles, and thus no proletarian movement, the first world third worldist cannot make a correct assessment of anything since it cannot practice the mass line.

I would be interested to see a single vibrant organization in the Global South that upholds this line. If you know of any, please share.

my anxiety is too bad for video games anymore

Who are you going to depopulate and how? Why not build fewer yachts?

No need to be stinky, they're just asking for advice. If you're annoyed don't respond, but why be rude?

Usque tandem Cappolina...

Do you want the red team or the blue team to continue the genocide?! You decide!

I hope you feel good about it you smug ghoul.

I have been using the same $20 alcatel flip phone with little degradation in quality for 2 years sounds like a skill issue.

She is fundamentally not anti-apartheid. She has said that the bombs will keep flowing and that Israel may continue killing children and bombing hospitals at-will. She is a depraved warmonger and you are a disgusting piece of shit for caring about her.