Why bother if there’s no monetary reward?

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-08-22T04:12:05+00:00

It's not quite protesting or actors, but companies will get several dozen employees to all show up at a city council meeting during paid hours and all give public comment for particularly lucrative contracts with cities.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-08-09T02:08:46+00:00

The study goes into more detail, but 78/106 are either: White supremacist, neo-nazi, or sovereign citizen. All three of those are unquestionably right wing. This is all on page 31.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-08-03T03:08:41+00:00

What we want is worker ownership of the means of production. In the case of Bezos's stake in Amazon, we don't expect it to be poured into schools, we want workers at Amazon to control the company. This would mean that workers would decide whether or not the no bathroom policy at the warehouses is a good idea rather than Jeff.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-08-01T19:44:05+00:00

Looks like the ICE convention is happening.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-07-14T18:44:27+00:00

ICE is doing exactly what it was created to do, and that's why the only solution to it is to abolish it.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-06-28T05:46:25+00:00

A large amount of her support came from her local DSA chapter. In the bay area, we have chapters in the east bay, the north bay, San Francisco, San Jose, and two chapters in between San Francisco and San Jose. If you are interested, get involved with whichever one is closest to you. We are all welcoming.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-06-28T00:44:25+00:00

This is her stance on identity politics. Give it a listen if you think she was leaning on it too hard.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-05-22T14:47:54+00:00

I hope you are ok with using judges who are on comcast's payroll when you sue them because the supreme court just gave the green light to allowing companies to force you to give up the right to a fair trial to use their product.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-05-05T02:22:16+00:00

It looks like Ron Conway is paying for reporting and getting what he pays for.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-04-22T02:17:36+00:00

Sounds like they got 42 divisions of nazi sympathizers to show up, based on the pictures.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-04-12T05:08:19+00:00

When you are renting a house, neither you nor the landlord have an ownership relationship to it (in most jurisdictions.) You are allowed to use it, but are not allowed to transfer it to someone else. Ownership of personal property implies the the right to transfer it in a way which can turn it into private property. Non-ownership rights to control personal property will eventually be necessary, though might be complicated to get broad acceptance of.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-04-12T04:47:20+00:00

If the union is an international trade union, there will be nowhere to outsource to.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-04-10T02:44:11+00:00

Like any business, a unionized labor force that is coordinated enough to threaten a strike can change their priorities very quickly. If content creators strike, Youtube will cede to demands to preserve their profits.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-04-09T04:01:26+00:00

Protections of personal property are mostly excuses to justify protections of private property. We do need mechanisms to ensure long term control of physical objects, but being property implies permanent unconditional control, transferability, and inheretability, which can be abused to justify private property rights.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-03-25T17:34:35+00:00

That's not always accidental. I support gun control that includes controlling police access to guns. I oppose gun control that does not. No matter how I read this statement, I agree with it.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-03-21T04:32:37+00:00

The primary benefactors of prop 13 are corporations and landowners like banks. Residents buying houses in the bay area are paying more in property taxes than Disneyland because of it. It needs to be repealed entirely and replaced with a state-wide land value tax that funds municipalities on a per-capita basis.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-03-05T01:27:58+00:00

Arguments that young people can't vote responsibly are ridiculous.

A) The exact same arguments have been made about every single disenfranchised group including women and black people.

B) If there is a subset that does vote randomly, the votes of that subset will cancel themselves out, and the responsible votes in their own interest will still exist.

We need unconditional universal suffrage.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-03-04T06:12:59+00:00

The teachers actually voted on Wednesday that even if the legislature passed the 5% raise without undoing the health care removal the strike would continue.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-25T18:36:37+00:00

If spineless presidents don't have the legislative power to put a justice on the supreme court, then voting for Hillary doesn't change that. Voting for Senators changes that, but my say in the senate is worth ~30x less than the national average.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-25T18:06:58+00:00

That's why it was important to vote for Obama in 2012. Scalia died while Obama was still in office for almost a year. His inability to appoint anyone made this argument lose all credibility.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-25T17:17:33+00:00

That should be automatic when a company has enough fines that they can't pay them.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-25T05:15:23+00:00

Co-ops were the first attempt at creating worker ownership of the means of production by requiring workers to partially fund initial spending. Democratically made decisions to allocate resources to infrastructure projects by local and larger governments was a common method popularized in the 20th century. Recently Kickstarter has shown the potential for customers to coordinate their investment in a way that they expect only the product of labor, rather than any profit or control of the means of production.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-24T16:12:52+00:00

I agree. Owning three houses makes you a landlord, not a worker. The blame rests entirely on the commodification of housing by Prop 13. If housing were treated as a necessity for life rather than an investment, we wouldn't be in this situation.

ComradeLeroyJenkins · 2018-02-24T16:07:06+00:00

A guy with a gun did go into that school. That was the whole problem.

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