This isn't even an anticapitalist text dump on my part, just basic US history and sociology. If you're drawing anti capitalist conclusions from it, that's on you.
The New People's Army, a socialist guerilla force in the Phillipines fighting against the Marcos-Duterte regime and for democracy, land reform, indigenous sovereignty, gay rights and worker control of the economy.
It's both. Disney is a strong brand and going after it feels like an attack to people with strong positive associations. DeSantis lost the Disney adult vote and that's got to be whole portions of a percent of his base.
It's worth looking at how that environment is produced too. There's a need for cheap labor in agriculture, laundry, hospitality and textile industries that dovetails well with the US's history of anti-mexican racism (grounded in the need to dehumanizing indigenous people to steal their land as well as the US-Mexico war).
By controlling people's movement through the border regime, we can make them willing to take sub-minimum wage jobs, while also keeping Mexico poor through lopsided trade agreements like NAFTA and low level insurgency achieved by escalating the drug war and flooding the country with weapons.
In this context of US oppression of Mexicans, it becomes necessary to dehumanize them to justify the violence. This is where fox news comes in. Hell, even CNN plays a role by creating categories of migrants some good and some bad, and playing them against each other while justifying border control (think about the rhetoric about dreamers vs drug smugglers).
To change this environment, we either need to undercut this propaganda by organizing white and brown workers together, or either take back control of media from big business or make our own media with similar reach.
And the Iowa caucus was only last week. Crazy.
On further read, you guys kind of feel at the very least like the left-wing equivalent of somethingawful.com.
Oh my God that's genuinely so sweet
We were a lifeboat for /r/chapotraphouse since it's been banned. We were running a proprietary version of lemmy for most of that time and only joined the main fork a month ago.
Those are bad examples of democracies, since Poland is captured by the right wing and Taiwan and Korea only swing left when there's a popular uprising. These countries have elected bodies, but they don't reflect the will of the people.
I'd encourage you to take a look into the foundation of Taiwan and the Republic of Korea.
As far as defending democracy, call me when New Zealand or Bolivia are under attack.
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Smh fucking liberal
You failed the order following test.
Two things: if a post is doing well, give it a vote even if you wouldn't normally, let's boost our presence in the fediverse and lure in more libs.
Second: mods, give us more time to engage the libs before you ban them. It's no fun if they're banned before they can get throughly ppb'd
Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he'll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he'll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.
It's like, he has two settings: "actually useful moderate" and "KILLKILLKILLKILL"
Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter