Culture Wars

[seahawk]

why do you pay and not the Europeans?

[rmgill]

I don’t know. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

14 hours ago, rmgill said:

We are paying for more than military gear. We are apparently paying for economic stimulus and basic government services in Ukraine. 
 

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/congress-approved-113-billion-aid-ukraine-2022

I bet some of you still cry yourself to sleep over the cost of the Marshall plan.

[sunday]

Some "friendly fire", looks like

[Rick]

Two excerpts from an early 1960's 'Handbook for Boys" by the Boy Scouts of America.

"The Scout shows true reverence in two principle ways. First, you pray to God, you love God and you serve him. Secondly, in your every day actions you help other people because they are made by God to God's own likeness...'The unalienable rights' in our historic Declaration of Independence comes from God."

"Work for the satisfaction of accomplishment, and self-respect, is the measure of the greatness of a person or a nation."

Compare this age old wisdom for what passes as education in today's schools and universities.

[Murph]

You get what you vote for.  Sh*thole democrat cities can choke on it.  Sorry she had to die, but this is what you get when you vote Democrat.  

[Murph]

FBI once more shows it is a criminal organization.

 

 

[Murph]

Mostly peaceful looting.  Typical Democrat shi*thole.   Notice the race here.  Oppressed people of color, no charges to be filed.

 

 

[lucklucky]

Democrats continue to destroy black people.

[JWB]

[lucklucky]

 

[NickM]

Meanwhile, in toney upperclass Marin County, there's antisemites, bigots and white supremacists afoot:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/marin-council-meetings-disrupted-with-bigoted-comments/ar-AA1hjDIJ

 

Apparently rude language has been used.

Edited September 28, 2023 by NickM

[17thfabn]

17 hours ago, lucklucky said:

 

They should dedicate eight windows to George Floyd depicting his acts from his eight felony convictions. Saint George Floyd. 

[lucklucky]

Good idea for a graffiti artist.

[seahawk]

Symbols of a godless country. I hoped the US would not see this happen and become just like Europe, but it did.

[Murph]

Some days, I can really relate to this:

 

 

[Murph]

Wow, the left makes this sh*t normal.  Its not normal.

 

 

[lucklucky]

Woman wins discrimination case because the test she failed was not discriminatory.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/29/fitness-test-does-not-account-for-biological-differences/

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Koren Brown, who was a Ministry of Defence Police officer, has successfully argued she was the victim of unlawful discrimination after she was sacked for failing to meet the required standards in the fitness exam.

Her solicitor, Jillian Merchant, said the ruling should serve as a warning to employers who test the fitness of staff and that “biological and physiological differences between men and women” must be considered.

The bleep test is a common measure of fitness in which participants run back and forth between two points at increasing speed.

Ms Brown failed to hit the required score of 7.6, instead scoring just 6.7. She was still deployed to a Scottish site in April 2017 but then failed other attempts at the test, leading to her dismissal in October of the following year.

 

 

[17thfabn]

6 hours ago, Murph said:

Some days, I can really relate to this:

 

I can relate to it most days that end in y.

[R011]

1 hour ago, lucklucky said:

Woman wins discrimination case because the test she failed was not discriminatory.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/29/fitness-test-does-not-account-for-biological-differences/

 

Is the test meant to determine fitness or the ability to run x distance in y time?  If the latter, how is this directly related to the job?

[17thfabn]

1 hour ago, lucklucky said:

Woman wins discrimination case because the test she failed was not discriminatory.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/29/fitness-test-does-not-account-for-biological-differences/

 

I thought the leftist said there are no biological differences between men and women. So why would there be different standards?

[R011]

7 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

I thought the leftist said there are no biological differences between men and women. So why would there be different standards?

Don't ask me.  Ask a straw leftist.

[seahawk]

When a man can be a woman and woman can be a man, how can the test be discriminatory?

[BansheeOne]

On 9/18/2023 at 11:58 AM, BansheeOne said:

Allegiance to Moscow became so ingrained in Western communism that it even survived the collaps of the USSR. As evidenced by the support Putin gets from orthodox Eurocommies, even though they will readily admit he's no fellow leftist. But apparently the tradition of the joint fight against the US, NATO, Western imperialism etc. beats everything.

Prime example, by an American Marxist-Leninist. As most of leftist agitprop, it is chiefly directed against other leftists who deviate from pure doctrine. 😁

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Support for Russia is the most important point of unity for Marxists at this stage in the class struggle

Rainer Shea ☭

29.09.2023

The effects that Washington’s Ukraine proxy war has had on the global class struggle aren’t going away simply because the conflict is now bringing fatigue to the American people, and the empire has to start abandoning its puppet regime on Kiev. This is a development whose impacts on both the global capitalist order, and the worldwide socialist movement, are permanent. The backfiring of Biden’s geopolitical gamble has accelerated the decline of U.S. hegemony, while irreversibly worsening capitalism’s crises. And even if the imperialists had won their latest economic and military battles with Russia, we still would have seen the Ukraine-related events that have recently reshaped the world’s communist forces. Those events being the decision by most communists to side with Russia; and the decision by the imperialist-aligned minority among them to forsake solidarity with Russia’s anti-fascist struggle.

All the socialist parties around the world that are intensely involved in the fight against U.S. hegemony have come to back Russia, and their support has gotten more solid as time has gone on. The leaders of the DPRK, the PRC, socialist-led Nicaragia, and as of this year Cuba have felt compelled to make statements affirming their alignment with Russia in the conflict. Within the Global South movements that aren’t influenced by Washington’s soft power network, support for Russia is seen as the default stance; from an American perspective, it may feel incredible that the participants in the recent anti-colonial revolutions of Africa’s Sehal region have been flying Russian flags. But on their side within the system of global exploitation and imperialist violence, it’s simply logical to align oneself with NATO’s biggest sources of opposition. 

Whatever “leftist” or “Marxist” forces throughout the Global South that disavow Russia (or oppose Russian partners like China) are ones which are based within petty-bourgeois radicalism; that seek to replicate the opportunistic model of the left within the exploiting countries, where unserious “socialist” groups can find support from a niche of students, intelligentsia members, and now social media circles. It’s these places that are often associated with purity-fetishizing, dogmatic currents of leftism, like Trotskyism and Maoism. And with the trend towards military leaders taking power so they can defy the liberal global order, such academic projects for normalizing American-style leftism across the Global South are failing. 

In the exploiting countries, though, the unserious elements that lead socialists towards the anti-Russian stance continue to dominate. Which has created a conflict between them, and the minority of socialists in America and Europe who share the Global South’s predominant view of the new cold war.

In Europe, the divide is often based on country, since historically Soviet-aligned places like Serbia are where the support for Russia is overwhelmingly found; and in these countries, the number of people who are hoping for Russia to win is in the millions. In the USA, though, support for Russia is more marginal, if only because the country’s traditional Marxist movement got replaced by the anti-materialist “New Left” decades ago. America’s pro-Russian communists are in a situation where they have to try to rebuild the old labor movement; that doesn’t mean they aren’t threats to the system, though. 

The imperialism-compatible left is vulnerable to losing its dominance to something more appealing; this is because it represents an innately ineffective type of practice, whereas the pro-Russian orgs are offering something with genuine hope. And the compatible left has already handicapped itself in terms of its ability to gain popular support, desiring solely to appeal to a “left” niche as opposed to the broader working class. So the anti-Russian leftists are having to try to keep their opponents marginalized, hoping that through scandal-mongering, they can prevent the pro-Russian groups from building a relationship with the people.

[...]

The essence of the reasoning these critics use to try to discredit the anti-NATO coalition is the idea that we shouldn’t act like U.S. hegemony is the primary global contradiction. That we can expect to defeat the American capitalist state, while wilfully making ourselves insufficiently equipped to fight against the global power structure which does the most to keep this state strong. And this necessity of doing all we can to combat NATO isn’t just about our inherent responsibility as residents of the imperial center to help end our government’s global crimes; it’s also about how keeping pro-imperialist ideas normalized within organizing spaces is the way the Democratic Party maintains its monopoly over these spaces. Uniting the pro-Russian forces is instrumental towards workers victory; don’t be convinced against this by opportunistic actors who don’t truly care about our cause.

https://rainershea.substack.com/p/support-for-russia-is-the-most-important

[Rick]

Need toilet paper for the eyes after reading the above.