The main protagonist was laid off from his job because the bosses (capitalists) mismanaged the company and had to cut costs (capitalism).

What? You think a guy who spent eight years serving the interests of Wall Street, lives in a $13 million compound in Martha’s Vineyard and pals around with billionaires and celebrities is worried about us poors?

Well, I’m from Baltimore. I still live here. And that has happened.

A Black man, raised by white women, who admittedly didn’t have any Black friends until college and had to make a conscious decision to embrace his Blackness should never be allowed to speak for Black people. I don’t see the appeal. Black people project their own desires onto him but he never cared about us. Black…

You actually believe this? Why would China give a shit about a minority group living OUTSIDE of its borders? Does that make any sense? Just because this Oxus Society sounds official doesn’t mean it’s reputable. Adrian Zenz is a researcher there. In case you didn’t know. Adrian Zenz is a disgraced Christo-fascist who…

I was with you until the part about China. You’re comments are generally on point, but I think you need to re-examine your views on China. I’ll say this. Everything you read about China in corporate, mainstream media is either an outright fabrication or a gross distortion. I’ll leave it to you to work that out. But…

I wasn’t disagreeing with you. Different countries, different experiences, so on and so forth. Haitian immigrants, based on what has already been stated, have a different experience than Nigerians when it comes to the immigration and naturalization process, obviously. Immigration policies are nakedly political. I know…

I think we can all agree that Black people are treated poorly in this country, right? Therefore, Black immigrants will also suffer the same fate. I don’t think the author was trying to group all of them into the same boat. While true that within the Black immigrant community, Haitians are among the most mistreated, it…

America, meet the new boss...same as the old boss.

Haiti will forever pay the price for being the first free Black republic in the new world. The Haitian people, in a true, proletariat revolution (not a bourgeois revolution like the U.S), overthrew the forces of one of the most powerful empires of the time. White Western imperialist nations have never forgotten that.…

In what way is it useful?

I think he was being facetious.

Anyone trying to primary a “moderate” gets blacklisted by the DCCC and smeared in the media. I know the DCCC nominally walked back that policy but the message was clear and still stifles progressive candidates.

They’ll blame progressives again and their lackeys in the media will signal boost it. Then they’ll have an excuse to move even further to the right. The usual who’s who of Democrat sycophants in the Root commentariat will spew their nonsensical takes as well. 

If history is any indicator the Dems lose in 2022. This and the fact that the only campaign promises Biden has kept are the ones he made to the billionaire oligarchs leads me to believe the Dems lose big in 2022. 

Democrats are also in the business of keeping power for themselves. See the 2016 and 2020 elections and the DCCC blacklisting anyone working to unseat “moderate” incumbents.

Electoral politics alone is not an effective means to bring about change. Both parties are beholden to the same corporate interests that profit off of the immiseration of the working class.

The Filibuster is a made-up rule that has historically been used to stifle any and all progressive legislation, especially any legislation dealing with racial or gender equality and labor rights. It is not codified anywhere in US legislation that 60 votes are needed for legislation to pass. The party in power can…

Yeah. It’s sad that for so many of us “Black faces in high places” is the end all be all, policy notwithstanding. 

I can only see this as an attempt by the U.S. ruling class to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative, further cultivate intelligence and military assets on the Continent and increase the exploitation of people and natural resources.