Just stop digging at this point.

“My health care provider(s) withheld treatment or forced me to accept treatment that I did not want.”

Mistreatment is not the same as “not get the support I want”.

Of course “mistreatment” is not the same as “don’t get the support they want”. And if it were the case that the majority of Canadian mothers are mistreated at birth, don’t you think that even without an actual scientific study we would have some kind of pop culture ambient feeling about it? Like articles, anecdotal stories, tiktoks etc? But we don’t have such ambient cultural references because there is no baseline of a majority of Canadian mothers being mistreated at childbirth. Stats would indeed be great but don’t use their absence to trivialize the systemic racism indigenous people face in our country.

I honestly hope Angine de Poitrine show up to play his election rally.

Now the post is just a photo?

My read is that just like only Nixon could go to China, only Carney could put his foot down for a post-unipolar order.

This isn’t about praising him but about understanding the geopolitics and web of international relations that we live in.

If you want a chance to impact it all in some positive way and maybe exert some degree of leverage on these fucks, organize with the NDP.

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a cold war brought on by drones instead of nukes

Oh great now I am worried about drones carrying dirty bombs.

Funny how the “blue no matter who” and “vote for the options you have not the ones you wish you had” arguments just seem to have poofed out of existence.

Solarpunk is high tech, albeit high appropriate tech.

I mean, that’s presumably why heads of state don’t go about assassinating other heads of state in the first place. Once you open that can of worms, what do you expect.

Even Chess rules tell you to not do that… And it is quite telling that that rule was indeed added by the Persians… Heed the fucking ancient wisdom you philistine fucks.

The NCAG was established by the Board of Peace, which was in turn set up by US President Donald Trump when he brokered the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel last October. But it has remained based outside Gaza for months, reportedly due to Israeli objections to its entry into the war-devastated territory.

Hamas and other Palestinian factions have held several rounds of talks in Cairo with mediators to narrow differences, particularly over the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire.

The first phase involved the release of the last Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained by Israel.

The transition to the second phase, which was to involve Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, has been stalled for months.

Israeli forces have actually expanded their presence in the territory in recent months, taking control of nearly 70 percent.

I love the smell of Oslo in the morning…

The Iran war is winding down

Well…

I would assume these kinds of meetings are scheduled weeks or months in advance.

I guess I’m helping by articulating my understanding?

Otherwise, yes we seem to not be disagreeing.

Nobody has ever reached a point where that was actually a practical decision to make. So nobody has ever said oh yea this is enough we should stop :)

Edouard Bernstein, the first theoretical of social democracy famously said that the “the final goal of socialism is nothing, the movement is everything”. I think it’s a matter of perspective, of what you choose to care about. My most sympathetic read of this position is that actually abandoning capitalist relations is not something that you can “choose” to realistically do because capitalism is too tied up with the survival needs of people.

Well, when it comes to practice there are a few things:

• People should not be scared to call themselves socialists and still lay claim to liberal democratic bona fides. That combination is not a ruse and a fraud as the Right would like to insist but a real current in socialist thought since the beginning. The newly elected leader of the NDP here in Canada actually came out and called it recently.

• I would actually also argue that honest social democrats, can in practice be more radical than self proclaimed socialists, if in practical politics they propose and achieve deeper reforms. I’ll trade an effective Mamdani for a high falutin big mouth talking European self proclaimed socialist that does fuck all (looking at Tsipras) any day of the week. It’s easy to talk a big game and do nothing and we shouldn’t underestimate the transformative power of promising modest reform and delivering.

• It’s also important to keep reminding so called moderates eg in the Democratic Party that DSs and SDs can very much coexist in a left of centre party and that cosplaying the red scare all the time is extremely self defeating. Common ground exists.

• Finally, I would say it is also important to not cede the socialist vision to the MLs as if they are the sole and rightful owners of it. They are not, never have been, and liberal democracy is not as alien a concept to socialist thought as they pretend it to be. Political liberalism is not only reconcilable with socialism but there are very legitimate currents of Marxist thought that assert it. Nicos Poulantzas famously argued that “socialism will be democratic or it will not be at all”, asserting that institutions of representative democracy are essential for a socialist transition to avoid authoritarian state-socialism.

John Kerry of all people warned the world in 2016:

here is a fundamental reality: if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic – it cannot be both – and it won’t ever really be at peace

The Israelis have made their choice for a One State solution and have physically implemented it. So now they are faced with Kerry’s stark dilemma: Jewish or democratic. They are taking the former route, creating a genocidal apartheid state.

How anyone can still support such a path in the name of “shared values” is beyond me. There are no shared values with a genocidal apartheid regime unless you yourself are genocidal and pro-apartheid.

Yes it is very different from Leninism. But what you’re describing are still “how” elements not “what”. And to call a spade a spade, Democratic socialism and social democracy are both deeply rooted in the Marxist tradition. The former in the thought of Karl Kautsky, the latter in the thought of Eduard Bernstein.

Bernstein is exactly who Rosa Luxemburg is responding to in “Social Reform or Revolution?”. Kautsky positioned himself in the centre between Bernstein’s revisionist reformism and what he saw as Luxembourg’s adventurism. He was in fact a huge influence on Lenin himself, who considered Kautsky a real authority in Marxism but disagreed on his tactical analysis and ultimately he ended up rejecting it.

Long story short, democratic socialism is not external to the body of Marxist thought. It played a key role in its intellectual development. For Leninists it became the anvil on which they hammered their own understanding. But since the fall of the Soviet experiment and the dengist/nationalist turn of the Chinese one, taking a serious second look at democratic socialism is, I think, the intellectually robust thing to do.