The full quote: “Arouse, ye slaves! Declare war, not on the capitalist, but on the capitalist system, and if it should be your fate or your fortune to suffer in years to come, that suffering will not be the result of your own deliberate act. I am for the freedom of the working class. Though my heart yearns for the freedom of men, I am powerless. Only the working class itself can achieve its emancipation. The workingman who is not yet awakened, who has not yet realized all his class interests, is a blind tool, the willing instrument of his own degradation, and thousands of them on the 4th of July, when reference is made to the capitalist flag that symbolizes the triumph of capitalism only, thousands of these wage slaves will applaud their own degradation. What is wanted is not a reform of the capitalist system, but its entire abolition.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/fourth-july-eugene-debs-socialism-flag-independence-day

Community is the answer. Find people around you who you can love and who love you. They are out there you just have to look. https://youtu.be/wBYjv7dc7Qw

Leftists and just good people in general do value Palestinian lives, hence all the protests and anger over the genocide. I think the reason Bushnell gets highlighted so much is because it’s not only pretty unique (30k Palestinians dead in the recent Israeli attacks versus now just two Americans self immolating) but since it’s an American it personalizes it. Palestine is a place way over there. But Bushnell grew up here and lived a life very similar to mine. It makes his sacrifice a stronger propaganda tool to advance the Palestinian cause. That’s just my reading of it.

edit: I think this video makes a good case for why it’s so impactful

https://youtu.be/Xsgdk-DDSXc?si=-H-YfTBNrYtyzJ5Y

Yeah I could have worded that better. What I meant was the pink washed “mainstream” version of the gay community. Like you said radical voices are maligned in the mainstream such as in any group.

Yeah I could have worded that better. What I meant was the pink washed “mainstream” version of the gay community. Like the gay people our parents and grandparents are aware of.

The lack of radicalism (instead faux radicalism) in the LGBTQ community is a great example of elite capture.

It’s a growing trend all over the western world. As the climate crises and political destabilization caused by the history of western intervention causes mass immigration the same countries will shut their borders and become more right wing. It’s more likely we see a resurgence of fascism across the west then any left wing momentum due to the built in power structure.

Yet those fomenting the hate will never face consequences.

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The most telling quote from a republican on this imo is from Mitch McConnell.

“The American people know that the Biden Administration’s student loan socialism plan would be a raw deal for hardworking taxpayers. Now that the Supreme Court has rejected the Administration’s position in Biden v. Nebraska, they can know that it’s illegal,” McConnell said in a statement.

It’s socialism when millions of normal people get there small loans forgiven to help them out of crippling debt, but it’s not socialism to forgive PPP loans for literal millionaires.

This is class war, people. And only one sides been putting up a fight.

100% agree. I think that’s largely what we see right now. Easy answers and solutions are given by reactionaries that already confirm to the worldview of people growing up in the US. Hence the growing fascist movement. Fascism is capitalism in decay, after all.

Save our children from the police.

The amount of dehumanizing of Russians I see on the timeline from both liberals and conservatives is sickening. The American media propaganda machine is so strong it can get people to forget there basic humanity.

I pirate because no money. We are not the same 👨‍💼

Haven’t watched it but thanks for the recommendation. A show I have started to get into recently with some good anti imperialist politics is Code Geoss.

The DA’s office filed 19 new criminal cases against Heron, for a total of 21 cases involving alleged sexual abuse and assault of young girls and women, and threats made against witnesses.

Save our children from the police.