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And a neighborhood communist leader gave a decent showing at the last presidential election.

It’s funny because he also could’ve just sat on it instead of drawing attention with an edited video and an AG announcing it won’t be released.

The EU could try to negotiate a graceful exit by seeking to keep their IP agreements and legalized tech advantage that is otherwise only enabled by US imperialism. The “designed in Sweden (made in China)” types of business and various cultural cottage industries like parma cheese etc etc. Obviously China will lap them quickly on this, and arguably already has in many ways, but China’s leaders would likely see this as a win-win as opposed to the deindustrialization and cleaving off of Europe - and they continue to work to keep normal relations with the EU.

Whether the EU can politically functionally do this is a very different question, though.

Michael Hudson wrote a fairly popular book called “Superimperialism” with exactly this thesis and it gets periodically updated with more recent examples. It is a common source for folks here speaking about debt and balance of payments and China, so I highly recommend checking it out. There was (is?) a recebt hexbear book club about it as well.

The rhetorical calculus of calling it “the left party” is actually pretty great. Reactionary news media in the UK (basically all of it) moved on from “communist” and “Trotskyist” as negative left shibboleths and now just say “hard left”. They would have to say things like, “the hard left left party” and that is at least very funny. Or, “hard left MP from the left party” and sound like fools. It feels like an attempt at reappropriation and that is a good instinct.

This is also its downside, though. Not snappy and a bit ambiguous.

It’s ghoul to ghoul communication

Reminder that “Israel” sterilized black Jews without their consent.

Not my mayonnaise sandwich!

They only think it was a mistake because they lost and the hippie generation got PTSD.

Neoliberalism is a financialized path to austerity and stripping productive industry for parts while disciplining labor.

China has increased investment in healthcare and vastly expanded coverage in recent history.

It would certainly be better to implement a universal system with no out of pocket costs / removed from capital, but this is also not neoliberal.

A pressed sandwich can be great! I prefer the kind wrapped in parchment paper and pressed with weight, myself (cold sandwiches). Or the kind where you just put another (cast iron) pan on top while frying it.

Yes or even shooting themselves/others. It takes knowledge and practice to handle that recoil, especially if, like one of my friends, you are very skinny and not strong.

The good ones have free food. No good jobs, but a free meal is nice.

I feel like we already knew this stuff 10 years ago, it is just having a media moment now because of Trump’s flip flopping.

Communists have consistently been skeptical of student movements because of their naivety and class dynamics (usually petty bourgeois). They fall apart quickly, they lack the capacity to seriously organize with a consistent line and are easy to coopt because they rarely have robust leadership or committees to appeal to.

Incidentally, this is the same basic formula for NGO-based protests and liberal false catharsis protests and even many “anarchist” movements (keeping in mind most self-labeled Western anarchists are not serious and arguably not anarchists).

It’s not really better most places, including pre-socialist imperialist ones. Those American student protesters made bad deals with admins and shut themselves down when summer started. Many were coopted by petty bourgeois muslim student associations using tokenizing IDpol, then shut down for petty bourgeois concessions.

The place they wanted to go has either a rifle (I assume .22) or handgun training (each 1 hour) but, get this, they promote you renting and shooting anything you want after taking either. So if you take safety for a .22 they will let you rent and shoot a magnum.

This could have been several Estonias of suburban single family housing instead. Never forgive the Soviet planners.

My friends are flabbergasted that a 1 hour gun safety course is not enough and that I said any shop/range that lets you go ham after that is a dangerous place to be.

The only things I know about Hulk Hogan is rhat he was corny and he was racist.

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