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Could it be the complex interlocking and stifling nature of Capitalism, leading governments to defund education and drop support for poorer communities? No, it's the technology that's causing cognitive decline. Capitalists are fine actually and can stay as they are.

No, what you want is for Labour to say what you want to hear. They are already saying things that you don't want to hear and you are acting like it's some accident and that they should just come to their senses and say the nice liberal things you want them to.

They are vile on immigration because they believe that it appeases a particular bloc of voters and because having scared and compliant legal and illegal migrants means that capital can exploit their labour to even greater extents, in fear they will be deported if they aren't the model migrant. They are discussing it, regularly, but not in the way you want.

No you aren't highlighting that. If you were you wouldn't have laid into consumerism and personal brand signalling as part of commodity fetishism.

Don't lie when you get called out.

People have liked trinkets for millennia, commodity fetishism is nothing to do with whether or not a use-value fulfils a biological need or social need.

Labour have been clamping down on immigration and spouting off Reform style rhetoric since getting to power. What more could you idiots want?

Maybe if they started doing live executions of immigrants to appease Reform voters and saps like you?

So if they build it then if Hamas and the resistance ever take control over it they have access to loads of American military tech and infrastructure.

Always have to look at the world as it develops and locate the contradictions being worked through and generated.

Building a military base in a strip that has been historically very difficult to finally colonise and maintain settlements on seems like hubris to me.

They sell the output of their labour, not the right to use their labour for a day/week/month at the going rate for labour power (the average cost to reproduce a worker plus maybe some bonus pay for scarcer labour skills or a bribe for being a labour overseer).

In the one case, the service of photography is being sold at the going rate for photography and no surplus value is extracted from the labour. In the other case labour power itself is purchased, and the capitalist is now responsible for extracting as much useful input as possible from the labourer during the time they've purchased the labour. In that way they can profit from surplus value produced in excess of the cost they paid for the labour power.

Boycotting Israel would be a unilateral movement of active hostility that, unfortunately, would be viewed with hostility by the US and its vassals. China gets away with bilateral trade wars because they are acting in response to actions taken against it directly, not for a third party.

So we can agree that sanctioning and blockading countries is effectively an act of war when the US and its vassals do it but if China were to do it, no one on the international diplomatic stage would care at all and would let it slide with no reprisals.

You have not thought this through. At all. It is pathetic.

Yeah the PRC just popped into existence and was never poor and destitute and being hunted by fascists you're right we shouldn't do anything and if the Chinese don't sacrifice themselves by the millions they are the reason why everyone around the world suffers.

Entitled, pathetic behaviour.

How many solar panels have you sent to Cuba to support their crumbling infrastructure? How many have western communists been responsible for sending?

Stfu with this 'no internationalism' horse shit.

Go and grab a gun and fight for the Palestinian resistance otherwise stfu I swear to god. Trade isn't support! Trading with the entity is no worse than trading with the US itself.

Cuba is building up its solar energy infrastructure and is able to do so purely because of the existence of China. The global south is able to develop past neocolonial condemned poor development solely because of the USSR and now China. They are fulfilling an important role even if you personally would rather see a few million Chinese people die for the cause.