[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

When you start locking protesters up for a year, they're going to start doing something worth getting locked up for a year.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Why does the US need to solve the issue?

I agree -- the U.S. should stay out of the conflict by immediately ceasing all shipments of bombs and money to Israel.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

If you still think Democrats actually care about a potential mass deportation, ask yourself why Biden hasn't simply pardoned all undocumented immigrants.

Immigration offenses are federal crimes, the president can pardon federal crimes, and you don't actually have to be charged with anything or convicted to receive a pardon (see Nixon).

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Rare British W?

I'm under no illusions that this will do anything concrete, but it does seem like another step towards making Israel a pariah state. Easier to convince people to support BDS actions when an increasing number of institutions recognize that Israel is committing war crimes.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Everyone I know voted. No one I know irl felt democrats didn’t go far enough left.

Yeah, if they thought Democrats were too far right they probably were among the 11 million who voted for Biden but stayed home this time.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Harris didn’t run as a Republican and you know it.

She touted an endorsement from Dick Cheney, said she'd put a Republican in her cabinet, and said she'd pass Trump's immigration bill.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml to c/history@lemmy.ml

Not a new revelation, but the article pulls from good sources and it's nice to see this myth repudiated in a mainstream outlet.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 8 months ago

It's important to note that Nazi Germany mobilized something like 18 million people over the course of the war and saw over 5 million military deaths. When Stalin suggested that the Allies would need to execute 50,000 Nazis after the war, he was talking about a small sliver of Nazi leadership and those most directly culpable for atrocities.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't know. You can waste a lot of effort on convincing people of the need for security, establishing significant security, not weirding people out in the process, and actually sticking to it, only to find out that it's not as good as you think/it's yet another program with some sketchy back door built in. Or you do everything right and there's a fed in your group in person, a tactic they've used for at least a century. Or there isn't, but a serious adversary can piece together who's in the group and when you're meeting based on public posts and phone data.

This isn't saying orgs should take zero steps on information security, more that you're never going to be able to hide a domestic political group from the U.S. government. Expect leaks and wreckers from the start and you can set up ways to minimize their harm.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hard to tell how much is pro-Palestine, how much is actual anti-Semitism, and how much is simple self-preservation/people who actually thought they would be "defending their country" when they joined the National Guard. It's also possible (assuming this is real, of course) that, like many higher-ups, this general does not actually have his finger on the pulse of the people under him. If he does, we don't know if this is localized to his troops or present more broadly.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 year ago

If one doesn't know high school-level history well enough that "this guy fought against Russia in WWII" doesn't set off a million alarm bells, they have no business being in government.

If their defense is "I was told to clap like a seal, I did, and it turns out I was applauding a Nazi," same thing.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 year ago

Yep, the man himself

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 92 points 1 year ago

The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 1 year ago

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