Cimbazarov

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[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 49 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

1000 more luigi-dance 's wouldn't be enough to cleanse this land

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"You can’t be putting your hope on China to save us, we have to save ourselves”

I think the greater emphasis is on the fact that China is not going to save us. If we are going to be saved, it will have to come from ourselves. Maybe its improbable we are going to be saved at all.

Saying we need an American Che is "great man of history"ing Che and the Cuban Revolution. In the past I said "we need an American Lenin" because I thought there isn't any intellectual figure that can lead a party or revolution in the US. Im also probably wrong in stating that we "need an American Lenin", and what we actually "need" is a theoretical understanding of how revolution can move forward in the US because that I don't see. I don't see a mass workers movement happening because the working class is just in disarray. It feels like we are in much different times than 1917 and even during the rise of fascism where there were semblances of class solidarity.

What shape would a revolution in the US take today?

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I followed some of it (regrettably) and I think it's pretty clear Ethan is acting in bad faith and has no intention of changing his mind. I think Hasan also knows this and was using the debate to try to reach to his audience, but from what I've watched I'm pretty sure any Ethan viewer is already set in their ways and will just project whatever they already believe in on the debate. They're also dumb so they probably think Ethan's gotchas owned Hasan, cause they don't understand anything besides drama and normalize Islamophobia so they can't even identify it.

The best thing Hasan could do was just ignore him, becuase he was crashing out on his own and was heading to irrelevancy. The debate put him back to relevancy while doing nothing for the causes Hasan is supposed to care about.

Anyways, I wish I could forget these people exist because internet drama is so pointless

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 30 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Wait this isn't the fake news comm what-the-hell

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

On rednote I saw a man from Palestine calling Hasan an idiot for debating a person who is clearly mentally unwell, all while he and his people are being killed. I am inclined to agree with him. I think this does barely anything to move the needle on Palestine

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 27 points 10 hours ago

Condemning a country of 254 million people what-the-hell

Yea this guy is probably not racist at all, he's just more educated than us

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 15 points 13 hours ago

I like Traore's fit sankara-salute

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

So did Starmer capitulate? Says they won't lower the standards on agricultural imports but lol if you think Trump is going to increase the standards on American exports.

tory just seems deadset on destroying the UK. Neoliberalism is a suicidal ideology

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 16 points 14 hours ago
[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 25 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Half the existing workforce is made up of immigrants, and that's a conservative estimate

Not to mention Trump is also enacting anti-immigrant policies making it even less attractive for immigrants to come in and be part of the workforce that the ruling class desperately needs. This is why I've always been saying Trump doesn't understand capitalism/imperialism.

Whether intentional or not, we are heading for a re-proletarianization of the labour aristocracy

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Maybe that was JDPON Don's plan the entire time. He knew the CEO's wouldn't move manufacturing back to the US

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 21 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It's exactly what the capitalists want: an unskilled workforce that can do productive work with little to no training. Well the question is whether or not the work is actually "productive" in the economic sense, since most of the work I see genAI tools automating are bullshit jobs

 

Talking more about how we in the imperial core are exploited, rather than how imperialism exploits other countries' resources, labour etc. I'm trying to find a satisfying explanation for why "well-paid" workers are also exploited.

From my understanding of Marx, exploitation happens in capitalism by the worker producing more value than what they are paid. This is evident by the profit these companies make, as it wouldn't exist if their workers were not exploited. But I find it awkward to try to get this across to people not well versed in theory. You have job types like office workers that don't really produce anything and only contribute to the companies bottom line indirectly. I get that theres unproductive and productive labor, but this is also alot to explain to someone who is not deep into economics.

This also got me thinking that exploitation is broader than just underpaying workers. There's also psychological and physical abuse at the workplace that I feel has some connection to exploitation. The fact that the employer can threaten you with firing, or cutting some benefit also seems like exploitation to me.

 

https://xcancel.com/DavidLe76335983/status/1910523571199189264

deng-salute Have to hand it to him. America totally bought his propaganda

 

So was talking with a Sunni friend, and he was telling me that Iranians are not muslim. He was also saying this is a common belief in the middle east.

I couldn't tell if this was some old prejudice thing, or I am just ignorant on the matter because from my understanding they are Shia muslims and have a religious head of state (even though maybe they are not following Islam in the same manner as other muslims would approve of).

When I asked him to clarify if he meant that Shia muslims are not true muslims or if he meant Iranians are not muslims it also got kind of confusing. He was talking about the history of the split over who would be the successor to Ali, and then something I've never heard before. He said a Jewish person created a new Shia'ism with "12 infallible imams", which honestly sounds like some antisemetic conspiracy but Im just not knowledgeable on the matter. From what I searched I dont see any origin from a Jewish person in Shia'ism.

Anyways, curious to know more about how Iran is viewed by the rest of the middle east and how they view themselves. Also hope I didn't say anything offensive.

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