General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 10 - International Women's Day (Week) Edition

I would just point out that that is an incredibly inappropriate area to comment on at work

Honestly, if it was a temp job or shit warehouse job like I've worked a million times I'd just say "no worries, your wife is stopping over for lunch". Either you'll get into a fist-fight or they'll respect you. Not saying that's the correct thing to do.

If you're above that kind of thing, no worries, I get it. Sometimes these dipshits just wanna see how you can toss it back.

I unfortunately haven’t the source for this, but I remember reading somewhere that somebody forced a transgender man to compete exclusively with women wrestlers, and he won against every single one of them.

I miss the news thread more than the bear site tbh

me too

Yeah, they were both CPUSA members too, which is kewl for me pesonally, but Pete Seeger became a Webbite or at least sided with Angela Davis to dissolve Marxism-Leninism from the program of the Communist Party and to liquidate it in the 1990s.

One major disagreement was whether or not Boris Yeltsin was a good leader and the legitimate leader of Russian Federation; Angela sided with Boris Yeltsin in this case, and said the "August Coup" was wrong.

Read this:

https://www.cpusa.org/article/ina-wood-oklahoma-communist-behind-the-union-maid-song/

How do y'all talk to libs about how the media is portraying Trump as subservient to Putin?

Ask them why they love war so much. "Finally an American administration is trying to make peace with Russia and this is what you are most upset about?" Whatever the ulterior motive, an end to this proxy war is still a good thing.

And since i live in Europe and have to deal with our own uniquely European brand of deranged, delusional liberals, i usually add: "I wish our own politicians were as interested in peace rather than war. More money for war means less money for your parents' pensions and your children's schools."

Of course we as communists understand the more complex geopolitics at play here. We don't believe that Trump is just doing this because he's some kind of do-gooder peacenik. But there's no need to get into the weeds and start discussing imperial strategy when talking to liberals. They only comprehend the most simplistic of narratives and so you have to keep your responses extremely simple and dumbed down. Nuance is a no-no.

"Peace good, war bad. I don't care about Putin or Trump, i care about stopping the dying. Why do you want people to keep dying?" That is all you need to say to them.

Its fairly clear to anyone following geopolitics that Trump appeasing Putin is an obvious attempt at wooing Russia away from China.

Like its not even a secret, every single conservative figure mentions it, from Tucker Carlson to Narco Rubio to Trump himself, this "oh trump is a putin puppet" rhetoric is just infantile discourse.

Blue maga likes to portray themselves as the intellectual wing of american politics but damn they so dumb too

Trump wants to stop the losing war on Russia to focus on a war with China. This was known forever ago. The sanctions, funding arms, and even sending mercs to Ukraine has failed. It has nothing to do with subservience.

This was their goal https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html

Trump is friendly to Putin because Putin says nice things about Trump. Putin says nice things about Trump because Trump is vain and highly susceptible to flattery. (Look how easy it was for elon to brown nose himself into being trump's left hand.)

Trump is impressed by Putin's use of violence and his resolve. Trump would be afraid of Putin if he yelled and made threats. Trump should be scared but because Putin smiles and says flattering things he isn't. Trump thinks he is getting respect from a dangerous person and he thinks that means he must be a dangerous person too.

Putin makes trump feel like a "big man."

Trump hates zelenski because he's a fraud. He acts all tough, talking in his growly voice like he's batman, wearing millitary slacks and looking scrufy but then all he does is beg for help and money. When he isn't begging he's complaining that the help he got isn't enough and it is everyone else's fault.

Zelenski is a grifter. Trump hates that because inside he knows he is a grifter too. Trump isn't the big deal businessman. the savvy politician or the billionaire land tycoon he pretends to be, he's a 78 year old playboy failson who never made anything on his own. And everywhere he looks he is seeing that America is a grift too. He wanted to "Make it Great Again" but the more he looks the more he sees its just layers of kick backs and pay offs papered over and held together with string. Zelenski just reminds him of all that.

Analog FTW!

The internet's back on! Still listening to this Blur CD though

Yeah you can spoof your caller ID to be any phone number at all. Scammers usually give themselves your local area code, but I've never seen one bold enough to pose as a bank. That's definitely illegal if they're ever caught (they won't be).

I don't have an active phone-number so I dunno.

sadge

I guess it depends on how you define it, whether as principled or not, and where its roots come from in understanding the struggle. But I know there are terms for like the whitewashing of imperialism under the guise of such causes. Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris in the US would probably be a good example of this kind of thing, where on a surface level, they support feminist messaging, but they also back the brutal capitalist and imperialist status quo. So it's a co-opting thing.

Not really. There are people who call themselves feminists that support capitalism but they are pretenders who haven't really understood (or even read) any feminist theory. Like "anarchists" who want to live in mad max world.

"Nobody's free until everybody's free" True liberation ideoligy is infectious. How can you fight for the end of oppression for those born with XX chromosomes and not feel connection to those who are oppressed because they were born with higher melanin production genes? And why should being born to poor parents limit your access to education and job prospects? and why should people who's parents own lots of things, never have to work?