Jesus christ, that’s just not what socialism is.

There’s a reason why social-democrats are castigated in communist circles. Social-democratic policy is always inevitably eroded because social safety nets don’t solve the fundamental contradiction of capitalism. It isn’t a matter of ‘getting out the vote’

Almost as if the point of socialism is to strip away the the means of production from the capitalists in order to install a dictatorship of the proletariat, and not simply apply social safety-net band-aids so that capitalism can continue to function.

American liberals are so exhausting in their selective application of definitions.

I don’t think “ineffectual” is the word you’re looking for there.

Browsing their coms can be a pretty unique experience, especially if you go in with a preformed idea of what their communities are like. There’s a huge spread of interests and experiences, and sometimes you can be browsing a niche community and forget that these were the people posting BPB on lemmy.world threads a year ago.

Knowing the academic writings and history they’re referencing helps a lot with understanding where they are coming from, even if you may not agree with all of it.

I guess they are speculating that he did? Apparently they found a folder on his computer with pictures of her in underwear that she didn’t recognize or remember taking, but she obviously doesn’t have any memory of being a part of the sexual abuse since he was allegedly drugging them.

I didn’t read the story my wife did, she was just conveying it to me so I might have misunderstood something

This is the most reasonable response.

A lot of people here have long since made up their mind about hexbear based both on repeated meta posting on the topic and possibly a bad experience or two with them on a topic they assumed was uncontested but is a landmine topic for communists of a particular bent

I’ve personally never had a bad experience with hexbears, possibly because I’m more empathetic to their perspective, but more likely because I know when it’s time to disengage. There are users on lemmy who feel strongly about a certain topic that’s abrasive to hexbear users and dig in their heels when jeered at (or maybe feel a personal responsibility to stand them down) and are usually the users here who have the most complaints, because the standard reaction from hexbear users is irreverence (both the users and the mods).

Unlike a lot of liberals coming from reddit, communists often don’t have delusions about the neutrality of moderation and so they’ll ban you on a whim if they think you’re there to stir shit. They use the ban hammer judiciously even with users on their own instance. That’s often the biggest complaint both with hexbear and with lemmy.ml.

I wish people would stop comparing those uses of copyright to nonprofits like Internet Archive

While I understand AI training exemptions to copyright are controversial, and think most people here would side with IA on ebook lending.

My wife was telling me about this yesterday, apparently it wasn’t just the guy’s wife but their fucking daughter, too

He started doing this when she was 60 and it went on for 10 years

The only other thing that I can think of that compares to this is Dahmer lobotomizing his victims with a hand drill to make them into sex slaves

I’m not saying I won’t vote dem, I’m simply expressing dissent against some of their policies.

People here act as if observations about a candidate are themselves votes, and if you make enough negative observations about the democrats it will directly cause their loss, but if you balance them with negative statements about the republicans, they will somehow cancel each other out. Worse, people here seem to give more weight to statements or observations about a candidate than the actual candidate themselves, as if nobody saying anything about the democrats doing something bad will prevent it from manifesting into reality.

In this instance I think anti-dem chatter on lemmy is more likely to chill youth turnout than it is to push the Democratic party leftward

Not any more than protesting or demonstrating do (far, far less, if anything). If voicing dissent against unpopular reactionary policies ends up chilling enthusiasm, it isn’t voicing that dissent that’s doing it, it’s the reactionary policies. We’re not obligated to campaign for democrats or even temper our criticism when they’re defending and holding water for Israel as while they’re slaughtering Palestinians and reducing Gaza to rubble.

I don’t claim to know what your worldview is but using a weird metaphor about forced sterilization to blame others of enabling reactionary political movements for voicing critique of - checks notes - reactionary democratic policy is certainly not in line with the life of virtue and praxis you’re describing.

That’s a bummer though, I didn’t know that. I saw they were playing in Iowa in October and was thinking about driving down there for it. The same thing happened when I wanted to see Rage Against the Machine in 2021 - I’m not sure they’ll be going back on tour either.

seems like a poor strategy to me

Not if you’re goal is to push democrats leftward. Funny how leftists are accused of virtue signaling while liberals are quite openly saying they’re biting their tongues and acting excited for a candidate they know is going to put the party back 20 years.

Did you know Bad Religion is actually on concert tour right now though? Right now i’ve got this one on heavy rotation.

Who said I wasn’t voting?

Who said they wanted cheeto man in the white house? Certainly wasn’t me.

I can already feel libs re-calibrating their ‘electability’ meters to accommodate Harris’s reactionary immigration policies and ‘law and order’ posturing.

This is a huge step to the right but libs couldn’t give any fewer fucks about it.

They both have shit in them, there’s just more of it or maybe a different consistency to the shit in the other.

If there’s a huge turnout then I guess we shouldn’t worry about people being turned off by supporting genocide, friend!

If the democrats weren’t insisting on holding water for Israel’s genocide, the green party wouldn’t even be a nuisance to them.

Say whatever you want about how crazy they are, but the one issue the democrats are actually hurting from is their genocide support. If for no other reason than to push the dems to change that policy I think the greens are a huge benefit.

What an uplifting democratic message

Minnesota will be interesting this year. There are two things that complicate this particular ticket:

• Walz is generally well-liked by those on the progressive side because of his popular working-class policies, but disliked by conservatives and downright hated by a large contingent of Muslim and leftist voters for both his handling of the George Floyd protests and of his apparent ambivalence on the war in Gaza. He’s repeatedly postponed and then outright cancelled scheduled meetings with pro-palestinian protest groups and has largely dodged the question. It might not have been a relevant issue for him as governor but now that he’s on the national stage it’s a bit of a liability.
• Harris is generally tolerated here. Sure enough, bread and butter democrats and moderate republicans find her soothing, but her tough-on-crime stances and prosecution record are a pretty big red flag for leftists and George Floyd protestors (I’d say law-and-order policies are polarizing for MN specifically because of 2020). That, and obviously her conciliatory stance toward Israel means that all the same people who dislike Walz for his notable silence on Gaza also hate Harris. There’s also a fair number of refugees in Minneapolis that makes the war in Gaza an important issue.

I would guess that Stein and West would get those leftist voters but they just as likely might just stay home out of protest. Minnesota protestors are fairly hardened after 2020 and are unlikely to be moved by ‘incrementalism’ or harm-reduction rhetoric.

Minnesota might be the bellwether for how much of a hit Harris-Walz stand to take by their collective stance on Gaza and law-and-order posturing.

Because Israel has already proven themselves untrustworthy, even if what this story is reporting is credible on its own.

Israel has the full force of American military support against a nation and a people who’ve been systematically oppressed for 70 years. They bear the responsibility for the outcome of this conflict far more than any other.