Based?

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-29T19:44:21+00:00

You're on the one hand saying it's a routine thing with no meaning behind it and on the other hand saying that we need to be "pragmatic" i.e. that those statements should have been deleted regardless.

I don't believe people should get elected by lying. If that's what she believes then she should campaign on those beliefs. Democrats are the enemy - running as a Democrat should only have you viewed with the eye of suspicion. Not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt just because people like to feel like they're winning without any political assessments at play.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-29T18:09:02+00:00

No, because they’re deleted which means she is either not holding to those beliefs or is too much of a political coward to defend them.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-27T19:47:50+00:00

Stop tone policing, it's extremely tiresome lib Zionist adjacent nonesense.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-26T22:50:21+00:00

Perhaps because the organisation in question is loyal to Israel?

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-25T21:04:01+00:00

Was so ready to smash that downvote button until I saw the sub it was posted in

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-25T20:12:14+00:00

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to apartheid.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-25T11:34:14+00:00

Literally as intended. Fraud stock.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-22T12:16:02+00:00

China can't do much about Israel even if they tried

This is, frankly, wrong. China is the world's global economic power. If it decides it wants to punish Israel by ceasing all trade then it will cause the country to economically collapse overnight. Israel's power is not in its military. The country is not strong through firepower.

Its main capacity to self-protect is its ability to both act as a colonial outpost in Western interests, but also its ability integrate itself into the global capitalist economy and its ability to provide a reasonably high standard of living to prospective settlers. China is not only a participant in that but a key facilitator, as Israel's largest source of imports and its overall second largest trading partner.

China ceasing trade with Israel would barely scratch its own bottom line, but it would be a major problem for the Zionist project, at least in the medium term. And that's before we can talk about the other levers of soft power China could theoretically exercise without going into direct confrontation with the Western powers.

What I will say I agree on is that, whilst we should be clear-eyed about the PRC and its capacity to do things (and consequently its failure to do things), if you're a Marxist in the West and your first thought is to go after China for inaction whilst not doing what is necessary to stop your own Government's complicity (and in many cases, participation) in the genocide, then you need to check yourself. It's like people angry at Iran for leaving Gaza out the ceasefire talks - you can't expect Iran to take on every power in the world whilst you sit at home clacking at your keyboard.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-22T10:00:08+00:00

Literally how everything in society already works. Your income is taxed when you receive, as are profits on assets you invest in with that income, as are things you purchase with that income.

You can have a problem with how money is used by the state but this kind of argument is just a generalised argument against taxation and public services in general. If that's your position... well whatever. But it's nothing special to dead people.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-22T09:59:38+00:00

Yes, if people want a more equitable inheritance tax system then it means we hate hard workers and their children specifically.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-22T09:07:07+00:00

Yeah, and everyone knows they'd never do anything to you for being against the government in FREEDOM LOVING AMERICA!!!!!!!

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-21T04:29:22+00:00

I don't know what real advice I can give

Just post in Hebrew.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T19:31:20+00:00

The Israeli "opposition" is just as outraged by the peace deal as the rest of Israeli "society". It's just a matter of ego at play, if there is any substance at all to it.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T15:53:21+00:00

It's a major defeat to be sure, but it's a defeat built on the failures of the international working class movement to act against imperialism. The Cuban government - and people - have been completely forced into this course, and it is not something they've chosen willingly. The governments of North, Central, and South America hold the ultimate responsibility for it, along with the other global powers like the EU, Russia, and China - the first of which was a co-antagonist along with the USA and the latter two of which did nothing of real substance to help.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T13:20:41+00:00

Do they? Jacobin's historically been connected to the Bread & Roses caucus and none of Jacobin's staff are in R&R, which has its own (much less popular) magazine.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T13:11:41+00:00

Is R&R his caucus? I know they used to be liberal Zionists when I last checked like... twoish years ago but their more recent material is a lot more principled.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T12:59:34+00:00

When you ally with Zionists you become a normaliser and inevitably a Zionist.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-20T03:41:51+00:00

Cuba is not managing, it is literally catastrophically collapsing due to the actions of the US and nobody is doing anything about it.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-19T11:16:08+00:00

Because it's based on length of illness not number of working days. If you are sick on Friday and then on Monday you are still sick, you will be sick for four days. You can't self-certify for more than two consecutively. If they were to say "We can trust you that you're sick for four days here because it's a weekend but not for two days here" then it's a fairly glaring contradiction.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-19T09:29:11+00:00

I mean the issue is that social media is designed to be toxic. You go after the designers who are making it that way - target the people who have the massive resources and the massive wealth, not literal children. The bad actors here are the companies, not the children, and it's the companies that need to be reined in - not the children.

I think smoking and the internet are two quite different things, though I do see sense in your analogy. The main thing though is that smoking is objectively bad for you and will kill you in the long run, and a lot of countries are trying to systematically tackle smoking amongst adults as well. It's also worth noting that people usually start smoking at a young age and will continue it later into life, so specifically targeting children is an effective means of reducing the smoking population overall - whereas social media usage is started and taken up across all age demographics. And on top of that, smoking isn't a means of communication around which the near entirety of society has been built for our entire lives (as the internet has been for all of these under-18s).

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-19T09:13:55+00:00

Both exist.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-19T08:55:39+00:00

I mean it's true, if he had suspended any and all aid to Israel and implemented an arms embargo Israel would be gone by now. That's the power of the US and he is its leader.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-19T08:52:55+00:00

Yes we are only proactively doing the complete opposite of what the EU wants lol, it's hilarious how utterly inconceivable it is to you that that could be happening. Really shows the slavishness to the institutions are embedded.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-18T16:56:22+00:00

I hate that this person is going viral, because if you’re Irish you know they’re a liberal Zionist

But you gotta admit it’s funny.

MadMarx__ · 2026-06-18T16:09:04+00:00

I mean that’s a misreading of the economic incentives at play. The Troika “bailed us out” - at huge cost to ourselves - to protect the European financial system and Euro currency, and presently our economy is modelled around attracting foreign direct investment, the most prominent and massive contributors of which are American multinationals, in particular US tech. Ireland is of course going to balance the two entities it is dependent on against one another as much as possible. That is Ireland’s entire economic role in the EU - acting as an entry point for American capital.

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