Absolutely love to change the system from within

You had higher expectations of a cop?

I’m very confused over how this is happening even though we voted out fascism. A real head-scratcher.

Haiti freed itself from slavery, and for that the West will never forgive them.

I was not referring to the monarchical government, no, nor am I claiming that the US flat-out invented the mujahideen. However, Operation Cyclone began in 1979, almost immediately after the founding of the socialist republic; to claim that the US didn’t have a major role in arming, funding, and developing them is…

Uh oh looks like you’re on some sorta TERF hate list now — watch out, these people might make really stupid arguments at you!

I mean a healthy chunk of those authoritarian theocracies and dictatorships are ones we support or overthrew other governments to establish, so I think it’s worth remembering US “nation building” is done to buttress our own hegemony and not for the good of those fortunate enough to recieve our “help.” Afghanistan had…

The dress was very corny and I question the faculties of anyone who thinks her wearing it to the fucking Met Gala genuinely constitutes speaking truth to power (“Tax the Rich”? No, not exactly!) but the second those pictures dropped you could just feel the excitement of people on all sides of the discourse readying…

The dress was a dumb/cringey stunt (hint: if your message constitutes a genuine threat to the ruling class, it will not be allowed and celebrated at a ruling class gathering!), but I don’t really understand getting much more worked up over it than an eye roll and a sigh. Liberals engage in performative liberalism:…

Much as I’d like to see these two hounded by constituents and protestors day in and day out until they decide to do something worthwhile, my suspicion is that if those constituents and protestors were to be successful, all of a sudden some other Democrats would discover their own deeply-held concerns about actually…

Who cares

As a general rule I don’t dismiss responses no matter how wrongheaded I may find them but I happily make an exception for cop lovers :)

Kind of frustrating, though very much par for the course, that popular political discourse surrounding the orgy of ruling class frivolity that is the Met Gala is currently focused on AOC’s stupid fucking dress rather than the actual political action — and corresponding state repression — that took place on its…

Like the depressingly evergreen tweet says —

Lol this dude is going to amazing lengths to avoid acknowledging his weird/disingenuous reading of your very easily comprehensible (and correct!) post.

Also I know this is a dying website that utilizes a dying comment platform but for fuck’s sake I can’t even read, let alone respond to, the grayed commenters who’re either agreeing with me or calling me an idiot or a tankie or whatever (probably the latter) — I’m not sure which, because I can’t read their comments!

Not discounting that vote, exactly, but a non-binding yes/no resolution with 55% turnout isn’t necessarily something to hang your movement on, particularly considering the long history of resistance/opposition to the US presence there (our malfeasance in PR goes back way further than Maria, as I’m sure you know —…

Puerto Rico — like all our colonies — deserves emancipation and reparations, not to be brought further into the empire, and has a strong pro-independence movement. Aside from that, Dems assume PR would be a lock for them for reasons I’ve never quite understood; their current (non-voting) representative is a…

That’s because they’re not a coherent political party, they’re the Washington Generals.

US gun culture is viciously reactionary, deeply absurd, and incredibly stupid, but even if you don’t own a gun I think it’s worth at least learning how to handle one — especially at times like now, and especially if you’re part of an oppressed or marginalized class. I don’t base that stance on a desire for violence,…