Buy a loaded submarine on the hush-hush and sail it to Vancouver? I like it.

I don’t think we could realistically hide it from their agents but yeah, totally. That’ll probably be the way if our gov’t decides to do it.

Agreed. I just think that would make it certain.

If we could get nukes secretly I’d be all up for it.

I wish but… Do you think they won’t invade us at the whiff of nuclear armament?

If only there was a vaccine…

It’s not that socialism is a silver bullet that eliminates racism. It’s that capitalism makes it virtually impossible to stop competing for profit growth. This turns more nature and human labour into things, even if we throw those things away. That drives much higher exploitation of resources and people than needed to have decent average standard of living. And when some people organize to stop their own explotation, racism is deployed by capitalists to exploit more the groups that didn’t.

Socialism allows to stop the unlimited profit growth cycle and thus decrease the intensity of exploitation, which allows decreasing or stopping the explotation on the basis of racism. Doesn’t guarantee it but it surely makes it likely. Capitalism makes the opposite likely.

And that’s before we consider class consciousness’ effects on people.

A friendly reminder that she was a Prager U staff.

In my opinion I don’t think some of the things you’re saying show good understanding of capitalism. I’m not saying this to offend or belittle.

I think it’s both. There’s also the argument that racism (more specifically dehumanization) was fostered as a tool for acquiring new resources and people for capitalism to exploit during colonization. Removing racism from the equation but leaving capitalism in place would likely lead to fascism which would invent a new type of racism or discrimination. Removing capitalism from the equation would remove the economic pressure that drives racism and start further processes that contribute to lessening of racism and building solidarity across people.

This political reapobse will lend a lot of credibility to Palestinian and allied voices who’ve been saying this forever.

Israel, much like many other countries needs to go beyond capitalism.

“And I have another message for you: it will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.”

Okay, now that he says this in English to our faces, can we stop talking about Israel’s cooperation in a two-state solution?

Dear trans comrades from the US, arm yourselves and organize if you have the means to. I’d say get out of there but that’s probably much more difficult. 😔

“We’ve been there during the war when it came to aluminum, we’ve been there during the war when it came to steel,” Champagne told reporters including CBC News.

“Obviously when someone turns its back, you have to find ways to strengthen the Canadian economy and look at new markets, look at new industries.”

Hoekstra fired back saying using such language is “a dangerous place to go.”

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Haha no, they didn’t purge shit. I’m referring for example to the Russian Communist Party of the USSR killing people. And I’m not attaching a moral value on the methods, just looking at it as objective removal of fascist people and then observing modern day Russia. I think there are other similar examples. I imagine Hungary also purged any fascist they could smell ubder the commie rule, haven’t checked, and yet here we are today.

Is this the sound of a bunch of chickens, coming home to roost?

Well instead of dealing with their fascist problem after WWII, they decided to repress (and sometimes kill) the most reliable antifascists - the leftists.

That said some countries that objectively did purge their fasists seem to still have that problem today. Perhaps the theory that capitalism creates fascism as it declines predicts this.

That’s a nice summary of some of the mental gymnastics going on!

Jerry, is this you?

Specifically pretend-progressive idiots, for whom progess is great when it’s for their approved groups.