Who fell off harder, Zizek or Chomsky?

Parenti stays winning, of course.

“We are not an authoritarian nation where we silence people or squash dissent,” Biden said. “… Peaceful protest is in the best tradition of how Americans respond to consequential issues.”

"But,”

Take yourself a little bit seriously Joe

I think a lot of people who are saying this are radlibs who balk at socialism or anarchism or anything actually real that opposes capitalism. A lot of people call themselves "anticapitalist" when in reality they are social democrats. There's also a lot of "anticapitalist" media that doesn't actually portray any solution or any other system as being good. Like, its very easy to think of a lot of pop-culture that criticises or satirises capitalism from the past couple years - Parasite, Squid Games, Fallout etc - but their conclusion is usually just "this world sucks." They never say "this world sucks and a better world is possible".

But even so, its definitely a good sign. People are moving towards anticapitalism, and the next step is for them to want revolution.

Oh awesome! They finally made an app for guys who join the DSA to pick up girls

GENERAL STRIKE ON 18TH OF MARCH! BRING AN END TO THE WAR MACHINE

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‘My reasons are personal and political’: Leo Varadkar stands down as Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach

For context, the Taoiseach is equivalent to prime minister in Ireland and Fine Gael are one of the two major neoliberal parties. Varadkar is a snake who has led imperialists to plunder Ireland, and has allowed it to be a tax haven in the EU. He has openly shown contempt for the working class as he left all public services to be neglected and underfunded, and Ireland has been seeing big emigration of young college-educated people for the past decade. He's probably stepping down due to pressure from Fine Gael members, because FG has only grown less popular and more hated over the past decade. They're polling very badly for the next general election next year and 10 Fine Gael TDs (equivalent to members of parliament) have left the party since being elected.

He's a bastard and I wish he had died instead of getting to resign

Can anyone else just not do the 9-5? I hate working in the morning (or doing anything in the morning) and also hate capitalism

"I have to support the guy doing the current genocide in case the other guy does a worse genocide."

For anyone who missed it: last night there were riots in the city centre of Dublin following the stabbing of children outside of a school during the day. The far right assumed that the attacker was an immigrant and began burning buses, trams, police cars and destroying and looting shops. From what I could tell, it was loosely organised and was mostly oppurtunists and fascists looking for an opportunity to attack people. Supposedly the attacker was an immigrant, but had been made an Irish citizen 20 years ago. He was subdued by a Brazilian immigrant. Police were very slow to respond to the rioters, despite them always being organised and showing force whenever a left wing gathering is happening. Group chats were leaked (the veracity of them is unclear), with one particular group chat called "kill all immigrants", and a voice message sent by the owner of the group chat telling people to go out on the streets and kill any immigrants they see.

Supposedly no one was seriously injured during the riots. This shows the serious threat of the far right in Ireland which, while previously extremely small, has been growing rapidly over the past five years. The neoliberal parties in power, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, have done nothing to oppose the growth of these fascists, and instead handed them a silver platter to base their anti-immigrant platform on, that being the housing crisis in Ireland. Fascists have grown more popular mainly due to their insistence that the housing shortage is because of immigrant invasions, white replacement etc, instead of pointing their fingers at the landlords and investors who hoard homes.

On a personal note, its been a kick in the backside for me to get back into organising. My mental health has been atrocious lately so I've been inactive in my org, but clearly no one has the luxury to take breaks anymore.

Made the mistake of looking at a reddit thread about Palestine

Of course they are using Palestinian attacks on Isreali citizens as a reason to call for the full extermination of Palestinians. The most vile, white supremacist shit you can imagine, calling them savages and barbarians and and wishing for their genocide. Of course while Israel has been dispossessing, massacring and performing ethnic cleansing for the past 70 years, that's just something to shrug their shoulders about

Also context for any shitlibs who are crying over this (not that it should matter) - that thread was showing how popular outright nazism and white supremacy are on Reddit. Literally whiteys calling for concentration camps.