Wouldn’t a full fledged abandonment of electoralism, the kind that would be required to look at AOC as an enemy, just be excellerationism? I guess if your loyalties are always strictly dismantling* US stability then you’d just view it as starving the beast. In this way you’d be pretty well aligned with incompetent fascists, since the US is in a spiraling decline that will now inevitably result in us losing our authority on the world stage. Just for different reasons than they would use I guess.

In that way, how can leftists take MLs seriously, when their world view is largely agreement, but their actions and attacks are directly opposed to democratic socialists a lot of the time. You also have to couple in that while you may attack fascists too, any division amongst the left is multiplied by 100x over divisions in the center or right since billionaires hold the microphone.

It’s not really arbitrary when those you agree most with are also in your crosshairs on actions of substance. It’s also very telling that most situation here on Lemmy that at least I see ML presence it’s on these edge cases, rather than things like Rick Scott almost single handedly showing a failure of electoral politics when he created the nations biggest organized Medicaid fraud ring, something people being polled seem to care about, and then was elected into office anyways as an equal to Bernie Sanders. Is this a blind spot on my part or do you feel calling out the best representatives as more impact for your message that the system sucks? What we see is us working and you complaining.

Edit: word missing.

I see a lot of agreement, not “the opposite” in this post. You talk a lot about nuance but didn’t cite an example when you’d use it to navigate a difficult subject to grasp, or what that might look like. You also lean into the America bad trope without showing you can do any different. If it is opposite then make that point, not the word salad of how hard it is to be a ML and be right all the time, btw on topics the left very broadly agrees about as your examples.

Cuba’s embargo is not supported by the left. If you’d like to expand more on my points, then what good does attacking AOC as AOCIA bring to the cause of Cuba’s starvation?

It seems to me like they take the wrong lesson from leftism, which is that the US is usually the bad guy in most situations and they represent oligarchy interests by default, then extrapolate that to other countries opposed to the US being the good guys by default. Nuance and taking the facts at face value for every situation is much harder to explain to others as an ideology.

They’ve also been infected with a cynicism that makes them open to grifts similar to the right. Our best fighters can’t be perfect, so they try and rip support off of them. Jimmy Dore, the Aussie green party, Jackson Hinkel, the Caleb sex pest dude, they all have criticism of everyone else while providing no real ideas of their own and how to get there. They’re just propped up as a distraction rather than a movement.

Wowzer, booking.com fucking sucks I guess

In this case there was no bid, which is supposed to be a rare government assessment when it can either only be done by one vendor due to technology, complication, or a deep history of success on the same project environment. I’m not sure what the federal limit is to trigger the bid process, but I know it’s lower than “millions” of dollars. Basically the finance office and corruption watchdogs are not doing their job here because they’ve been replaced by rubber stamps.

It’s usually bots. Unfortunately it’s not easy to moderate them, but if a bot is reported, doesn’t have a bot flag, and says a bunch of pro-ai stuff in addition to the reported activity it’s usually enough evidence to ban. It’s just one of their current tells, I wouldn’t base a ban only on that though. Report when you suspect them though.

Not sure how you got the impression that, “here in the US, it’s always weekly pay.” Semi weekly or bi-monthly is more common.

There are some delinquent employers and I’d say despite the illegality wage theft by an employer is considered a lesser crime by our justice system than stealing from your workplace.

Pandora has a vastly better “radio” mode, it’s pretty intelligent about related songs.

Reminder for Israelis that fascism cannot exist without an out group. The moment it stops being possible to invade those around them they will invade the homes of those they target next. All of this talk about LGBTQ rights from zionist libs is going to dry up faster than Ben Shapiro’s wife (who is a doctor).

Too many, I’d side with the government morally on Ye. Not sure whether they should be the final say on who fits that description though since they think Kneecap fits it too.

He recently apologized and said more or less he’s back on the meds. I could see them opening back up to him if they felt it was genuine and the government stepping in to say it doesn’t matter if he apologized.

Israel sure does talk a lot of shit for a country that won’t put its own soldiers in danger. The joke is we not only let them get away with little dog big ego syndrome, it’s that we let our children die to further it. Pathetic.

Short term stability for sure, but I don’t think Russia has been able to provide any more long term stability to anyone better than the US can. China maybe, but we haven’t really seen this version of China show their true colors to a nation they don’t consider part of their original borders.

I don’t think it’s so much about US having soft power over China. I agree they have always been highly resistant to it. The important bit is that Chinas soft power is growing faster than probably any nation’s has since post WW2 US while US hemorrhages what little they have left in the coffers.

I don’t present this as a good thing uniformly, because China is certainly capable of becoming fascist in a single generation too. I think this sort of power in general is problematic.

Accused? It was on video. The dropping of charges mean they know what they did and are okay with it because the victims aren’t humans to their own country. I never want to hear that there is no Israeli apartheid again from these fucking demons.

https://youtu.be/LiEUnlv2kjU

This guy is very well known already for car audio builds, but this video in particular was nice to have when I thought I destroyed a brand new Focal 165ES K2 speaker. Never gasped so loud in my life as I saw that screwdriver slip straight through the surround.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4A0248AE2B0DF1A3

I found this series useful when getting into DC electronics. He takes topics very slowly and thoroughly. He’s also got a series on oscilloscopes and a more advanced multimeter feature breakdown.

Most of the time you see a fascist scared of something it’s because it’s exactly what they’ve already or are working towards themselves.

Not really looked down on, but every time I mention that I have an indoor greenhouse everyone assumes I’m growing pot.

This was the Mexican army, not US