and proselitizing. don’t forget proselitizing. if possible go to squares and city centers, perhaps with a small table or tent, lots of pamphlets and some good will to explain.

to most modern “leftists” olof palme would be a tankie.

Most of them are 3rd world countries because of these movements…

with perhaps the exception of south korea and with some good will taiwan, not a single capitalist country reached the so called “developed” status coming from underdeveloped. all of those who did received a downpour of american taxpayer money.

let’s just forget for a second what he did or not in epstein’s island, being a billionaire is bad wether the person is an asshole or not. it means we live in a socio-economic system that enables someone to concentrate an insane amount of resources and decide solely out of his mind how to direct the spending of those resources. that they are not being used entirely to solve global warming or world hunger or disease issues is problematic and it’s not some token value spent on charity or point-based solutions that is going to change that. the fact that he doesn’t want to break the patents of covid vaccines is pretty much an example that, when pressed hard enough, he will act on the interest of his class, regardless of what he personally thinks.

the fact that he associated with epstein, independently of his reasons, is just the cherry on top of that shit sundae.

did you just noticed that you are literally defending that it’s ok for someone to go to a secret posh brothel which happens to have underage children as sex workers? that this isn’t a character statement on someone?

billionaires shouldn’t exist in the first place. there’s no way such amount of resources is going to efficiently be used by one single person.

many of the most emblematic coup d’états were sponsored by dems in power. brazil in 64 and 2016, bay of pigs invasion in cuba in 61, south vietnam in 63, greece in 67, dominican republic in 63 and 65, argentina in 66, bolivia in 79, south korea in 61 and 79, honduras in 2009, paraguay in 2012…

worse, they’ll say that he’s privileged for not being a gay in trump’s america, since that’s perhaps the worst thing that could happen to a human being.

tbf the democratic party isn’t a left party.

this.

adendum: in some “primitive” societies, there was no private property of the means of production. marx and engels studied that extensively.

for the rich? absolutely.

perhaps the greatest achievement (?) of trump and his cronies is making “they live” an obsolete movie. they’re saying in people’s faces now everything every past 'murican government (and their pervasive elites) tried to embelish and coat in self-righteousness. for anyone who lived outside the country, especially those outside global north, this is some sort of twisted vindication.

you know that this sort of statement only benefits nazism, right?

this is just self-centered m*sturbation.

pensioners back in the 90s: you shouldn’t trust everything you see on the internet, no one knows who came up with that; pensioners in the 2010s: of course the communists are gonna force the children to use penis-shaped peacifiers! this random person who added me on a random whatsapp group wouldn’t lie to me!

me irl.

i’m ok with that, it’s a good summary.

i will just make here a small correction, on the sense that i personally don’t believe that putin and the russian elites live in some sort of hyperreality. i do believe that they assess reality, but one can question this assessment. however trump and his cronies really shat on their pants because they truly freaked out on a small denture on their shining armor: people questioning why the u.s. is the way it is, people organizing, making strikes, protesting against racism, and then of course luigi happened. they totally freaked out because they didn’t wanted to even have the “nightmare” of being toppled down of their positions (economical, social, etc.)

no one has got to do everything. the reasons that make some particular software bad for people using them sometimes cannot be simply addressed by technical skills alone, and politics here is the tool.

apart from foss content in which you can simply pick the source code and compile on your machine, or fork or reverse engineer them, in some cases you can either p!rate it outright (hello, ms and riaa!) or have already well established alternatives in your country (sodas, online commerce platform).

either way, you’re not taking down the u.s. by claiming ethical consumption. there’s no such thing under capitalism. the best thing you can do is organize and take down the system that enables big companies that own us.