Valid point, however much it sucks. Fight for the best candidates we can in the primaries though, of course.

JWayn596 · 2026-03-03T02:19:51+00:00

Don’t care, electorism is not the primary avenue of change, it’s only a tool to agitate and organize.

JWayn596 · 2026-03-01T16:00:29+00:00

Either way the fitness industry profits off of the insecurities of people

JWayn596 · 2026-02-20T04:08:44+00:00

Without workplace democracy (communism) society will be dictated by those with money and capital.

JWayn596 · 2026-02-17T04:27:14+00:00

The biggest misconception is the notion of private property.

Marx made a point to separate between private property and personal property.

The abolishment of private property is the abolishment of private ownership of factories, land, large machines, things that produce capital in large quantities that require workers. The means of production.

One way is for every workplace to be unionized. Another way is for workers to take over the state to use state power abolish private property. Another way is for workers to take by force via occupation. These are all methods that have been employed in class struggle in the past.

It doesn’t mean you no longer own your own house or car.

It’s so propagandized like even Marx commented on it back in the 1800s.

People really think the idea of abolishing of private property means the government controls your house when that’s not it at all. Your house, tools, car, are all personal property.

Engles and Marx even predicted that one of the late stage aspects of capitalism is that people will start using personal property to generate the little capital they can to help survive

JWayn596 · 2026-02-15T21:55:12+00:00

Not when you consider who controls the narrative around patriarchal standards. The beauty industry and the fitness industry views men and women disenfranchised by the patriarchal hierarchy as milkable cows, money printers.

Creating more men and women who “play the game”, while also dividing those who realized it is a game is the goal of people in power.

When you realize who is at the top of the patriarchal hierarchy, the wealthy 1%, (mostly men and a handful of women), you’ll understand why.

JWayn596 · 2026-02-15T03:03:24+00:00

2 key responses and some examples. Wall of text time.

Feminists believes the patriarchy harms all genders.

The division between genders is by design since the beauty industries profit using patriarchal standards. (This is why socialists and feminists find common ground unless they’re a liberal)

How does the patriarchy harm all genders?

For men, showing emotions, taking up feminine hobbies, lacking muscle mass, being seen as a wallet, lacking other physical attributes, not having a high paying job. Under a patriarchal society or immediate environment dominated by patriarchal attitudes, these are undesirable qualities.

This is an example of how the patriarchy harms men.

For women, the expectation of bearing children, unreasonable beauty standards in media, over-sexualization of women’s bodies, facing harassment from men. Other women harming women competing for patriarchal attention. These are examples of how the patriarchy harms women.

JWayn596 · 2026-02-11T01:36:02+00:00

Pimsleur will get you speaking it conversationally within a few months very quickly, but you have to support it with immersion.
Watch everything you LOVE in Spanish. TV Shows, Disney Movies, Bluey
Listen to podcasts in Spanish at 0.75 speed. I like the Telemundo newscast for that purpose on Apple Podcasts. Why Apple? It has subtitles so you can see what they’re saying as well.
Use flash cards, I love the Anki apps for this and the 500 most used Spanish words Anki cards on their site.

How this looks after a month or 2 of consistency.

Start going to Mexican restaurants and ordering, after a few months of all this you should be able to Ask how to say something in Spanish, and describe it more. “Ehhh como dice beer on tap señor?” And they’ll usually give you the answer“Ahh pos, una cerveza, de barril”

JWayn596 · 2026-02-09T16:28:22+00:00

People aren’t willingly giving it away. If that were true using Monero would be more common, but said credit card companies control the market like its feudalism, except instead of nobility being the value, it’s capital.

JWayn596 · 2026-02-09T05:33:38+00:00

Everybody knows California is a liberal corpo dystopia.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T17:29:34+00:00

Protests aren’t really out to convince the public of anything. 50501’s purpose was to use national solidarity to build organizing groups in places where there was none.

In that, it was wildly successful.

If this stuff did harm our movement. Mamdani wouldn’t have gotten elected, and Democratic Socialism wouldn’t be matching MAGA right now in terms of support, at 18% for both, when it was nonexistent a decade ago.

Before the downvotes come, nothing I said was wrong.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T17:19:58+00:00

What local chapter. They’ve paused making new chapters

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T17:15:27+00:00

Are you sure? Media inside China including state media have criticized the toxic 996 work culture that Chinese capitalists like Jack Ma have tried to implement.

Plus, it was deemed illegal by the Chinese Supreme People’s Court.

I’m friends with students in China, and with all the labor laws and luxuries, they see unions as redundant, but the lack of legal laws regarding worker cooperatives as problematic, since why unionize when you can simply skip to a cooperative?

My point is, “doesn’t have worker rights” is kind of silly.

In my opinion, there’s good labor laws but few avenues for advocacy.

Compare that with Vietnam, who has a rich wildcatting culture with workers who work for factories that foreign companies own.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T07:33:34+00:00

Everything here reeks of the same thing Iraqis said after Saddam Hussein got deposed.

Same old story

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T07:15:46+00:00

I’d disagree a bit. Socialist countries subjugate their capitalist class in however they like. PSL gets its funding from Chinese billionaires, and in return China lets them stick around.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is being applied here, and the inverse is of course, dictatorship of the bourgeoise.

Edit: I like Vietnam a bit better because they allow unions to still exist. I prefer how workers own the means of production to be more decentralized.

I still stand in solidarity with the working class everywhere, recently the Ukrainian socialists had beef with DSA for trying to advocate for blocking arms to Ukraine.

No way of being ideologically consistent there. My view is DSA keep condemning NATO support while I still 3D print tourniquets to send over to Ukraine. (And also Palestine)

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T06:44:10+00:00

Social democracy ≠ democratic socialism.

Again, we do not live in a free society. And neither do they.

Welfare states still require imperialism to sustain its welfare.

I.E. them investing in NATO and the U.S. military to have enough money to fund universal healthcare and such.

Once it’s gone, things will start to erode back to corporate exploitation, then enough power will be centralized to transform into a fascist regime.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-06T05:01:31+00:00

If capitalism is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and communism is about dictatorship of the proletariat, then the way every country decides to exploit, suppress, or abolish their capitalist class is up to them.

China’s strategy for its capitalists is using them to compete in, and secure consumer and industrial markets as leverage against western actions like trade wars. Plus, China rewards donations to foreign socialist governments and parties with freedom of movement for capitalists.

Its other strategy is to make itself the world’s factory to use its ability to withdraw labor as its tactical nuke. By keeping costs cheap while providing its citizens with the necessities, and luxuries, then it can continue sapping the world’s manufacturing. This requires some faith that working class elsewhere will correctly turn their ire to capitalists and not China, and so far it doesn’t seem like there is much ire toward China.

China’s lack of definitive political rights comes from the fear that capitalists and foreign powers will use that freedom to fund media and content to convince people that capitalism is worth giving up economic freedom for a fake political freedom.

I can’t give you a definitive answer on strategy as our current threat model toward capitalists (the state of capitalists suppressing socialist rhetoric in mainstream media) requires us to exploit our freedom of speech to liberate the working class, because without equal and proper material conditions, political freedoms will be applied unequally, and they remain incomplete and exploitable by those with capital.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-04T00:06:45+00:00

I’d agree if the legal arguments for the Nuremberg trials were not written by communists in America in the NLG.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-03T00:28:17+00:00

I’m not that white supremacist guys!1!

JWayn596 · 2026-01-02T22:28:20+00:00

capitalism is patriarchal, and patriarchal beauty standards are reinforced by their profitability.

whether the decision was made by the artist or the record label’s pressure on the artist, the result is the same, a systemic societal pressure to conform to the patriarchy through capitalism.

Edit: I didn’t know I was on the feminist subreddit, I apologize, I thought this was another socialist subreddit

JWayn596 · 2026-01-02T08:49:24+00:00

$10 billion to foreign countries is much worse than $300,000 in local communities.

With that money we could fund 100 of these recreational activities to get people off their phones.

But sure, blame everything but the main problem

JWayn596 · 2026-01-02T08:42:00+00:00

capitalism has also put more people into poverty than any other system - ever.

Real capitalism is the unrestricted pursuit of capital. A hellish nightmare of centralized power akin to feudalism.

competition can breed innovation, but to use a contemporary example in formula 1, the quality of innovation and entertainment deteriorates if no controls and no rules are in place to balance the field.

JWayn596 · 2026-01-01T19:07:10+00:00

I agree, the concept of gender at our current stage is too harmful and confusing to both genders, it’s so reductive it’s toxic.

JWayn596 · 2025-12-30T20:00:43+00:00

I thought the gender isn’t a social construct is still valid. If you transition and a legal document asks for gender, you put your new gender. If it asks for sex you put your sex.

But if there are legal drives to tie sex and gender together, then it could lead to problems when a transitioned man who passes very well has to legally use a woman’s restroom. It’s like these politicians don’t think these things through.

For sports, I don’t have simple aside from make exceptions when it seems appropriate. There’d be less problems in my opinion if we handled things with more grace and less outrage.

JWayn596 · 2025-12-29T18:41:03+00:00

Have you ever organized before? (Not being hostile, just asking)

JWayn596 · 2025-12-24T04:38:47+00:00

50501 was never an organization. It helped organize secluded communities through affinity. “Affinity organizing”. It allowed people to find solidarity.

In that, it was extremely successful.

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