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Iranian flag looks kinda like The Onion logo

I bet Candace Owens would

If I had to guess, they’ll say 😡

Needs a controversy section just for this

I’ve had some success appealing to people who are into conspiracies with the real stuff the feds have done. Anti-communist propaganda campaigns and stuff like Radio Free Asia can be good topics to ease them in.

Sometimes you can just get them talking about how they don’t trust the US govt and how anything the govt seems to want turns out bad. So maybe the things governments don’t want are actually good? Why is the US so opposed to communism? This line of thinking won’t always work, but a thoughtful person will consider these questions and if they already hate (or at least don’t trust) the US government in general…well, the most straightforward conclusion is that communism is a good thing.

This way, the person doesn’t have to understand communism at all to understand that the US opposes it for selfish reasons (everything they do is selfish)

The most liberal circuit court’s version of resistance

I smoke too much weed to have dreams

I wish they really needed the masks, but all the cool USAians already went to prison last time around

Can someone explain to me the results of consumer actions that are going to help us get to communism?

I don’t think anyone was ever trying to say we should only take ethically pure actions (because there is no such thing, this is just silly tbh). That seems like a purposeful misunderstanding of the phrase similar to the argument every liberal makes about purity tests during elections.

The whole point is that it doesn’t matter what you buy under capitalism because exploitation exists at every level. Focusing on what we buy is a distraction from the things that can actually make real change like building a vanguard. I guess you could make an argument that boycotts and such can be used as an avenue to radicalize people, but that’s true of just about everything because capitalism relies on exploitation at all levels.

And you’re talking about reforming consumption, which is a waste of time. Reforms do not work, we’ve had a century of reforms and look where we are today.

It’s the magazine release, I think. I’ve never held one of these, but I can’t think of anything else it could be and I don’t see a magazine release anywhere else

It is a rifle, an AR7 receiver. The AR7 is a “survival” rifle that was issued to pilots back in the day. Basically a lightweight collapsible .22

This is built on that, but the OG has a wooden butt stock (that might really be plastic idk)

meat tastes like ass

This is…bad?

Not even full colonels? Guess money can’t buy everything

That last sentence is what I hope happens, but libs have short memories

Capitalists absolutely consume a lot. Idk how accurate the numbers are, but everything I’ve read about this suggests the top ~10% are responsible for nearly half of all consumer spending in the US. That number is probably higher in major cities where everything is more expensive and there are typically better public services.

Got curious and did some research on what kinds of unilateral powers the mayor of NY has. I actually think this guy could do a shit load of good things if he really wants to. The budget is massive, like 100 billion. They directly control the heads of police, fire, health, etc. There are dozens of positions like this where they can freely appoint/remove people.

The city council can override vetoes, but it doesn’t seem like they have an easy path to block the mayor from doing what they want if it’s already within the scope of their power. Even the other elected officials who can reject budget plans and stuff (I forget the name, they have a lot of weird positions, comptroller maybe?) can just be ignored by the mayor. This happened not that long ago when Adams went forward with a contract with DocGo even though it got rejected. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/mismanagement-of-docgo-contract-by-adams-admin-wasted-millions-of-dollars-on-unused-hotels-unauthorized-subcontractors-moldy-rooms-for-asylum-seekers-new-audit-from-comptroller-lander-finds/

However, I’m sure a concerted effort by local officials could really bog things down for the mayor if they wanted. The real problem will be the state government, they can step in at any point and stop whatever they want via legislation. Idk how conservative the NY state government is, but my guess is they’ll be the main enemy of Zohran if he wins.

But at what cost?!

They mentioned the other issues, but clearly this person understands the govt isn’t gonna do anything about rent, food, and transportation costs. The least they could do is let this person waste their money on gambling even though rent, food, and transportation are too expensive and maybe they shouldn’t prioritize gambling…but freedom or something idk pretend this comment was funny

Honestly, if an LLM can replace any person at a company it’s probably executives and middle management. Unlike other roles that actually need entry level people to grow into senior positions (like software engineers), most management could be done by anyone with enough sense to type emails and schedule meetings.

Executives don’t do anything special, they make decisions that are often vibes based or just have a team of people doing data analytics and basing their decisions on that. Any LLM can do that right now and won’t even embezzle or SA interns or make me listen to their life story once a year

I’ll never understand why it’s so hard for some people to understand that the US is literally an evil empire that exploits, oppresses, and murders people all over the world. Of course all rightwing governments suck, but it’s easy to see that the US is the primary enemy of leftist movements across the planet. If we want communism, we need the US to collapse and movements all over the place preventing the vacuum from being filled by something worse.

Idk seems like anyone left of liberals would understand this.