Yeah, it saves everyone a lot of time lolIf you don't have any kind of dialectical or material response for when you're asked what your ideological position is then I think it's best for you to figure that out rather then go head first into conversation acting as if others do not know what they are talking about.
sorry dad! I'll stop postingThat same user also made clear that they're no longer a landlord, that they actively campaigned for AoC, that they donated to the Sanders campaign, and that they actively support socialist policies.
You may not agree with everything they say, but that is the nature of a discussion forum.
This thread literally just got locked due to this area of discussion bring focused on one specific user. Do you guys really want to do it again?
lmao I apologize if this isn't appropriate but did someone come into the socialism thread, mention that they used to be a landlord, and then brag about how the market was good to them? what kind of response did you expect here, buddy?
these kind of posts don't really help anyone. let's move on from this.sorry dad! I'll stop posting
It is missing, yeah. Mods can (and do) remove it on a thread-by-thead basis.Is it much me or is the "Yeah!" button missing?
Is it much me or is the "Yeah!" button missing?
Wow!
Someone sent me this video!
And I have a lot more respect for Marx/Engels.
I'm a member of DSA, my chapter unfortunately though got set back by COVID in terms of membership/productivity and I don't think it ever fully recovered. I've wanted to look into more local options but health problems have made that difficult as of late.So who is everyone here?
Anyone apart of DSA?
Or SRA?
IWW?
Any AFL-CIO or independent labor union?
It's incredibly hostile, but the movement picked up steam in the 2010s and now it's really hitting critical mass since 2020.The first of many, hopefully. Trade unionism is more of a thing here in the UK (though I'm not sure the movement has ever totally recovered from what Thatcher did to it), but seeing workers in the US - a country generally hostile to trade unions - take steps to unionise is genuinely great to see.
Work wise International Union of Operating Engineers.So who is everyone here?
Anyone apart of DSA?
Or SRA?
IWW?
Any AFL-CIO or independent labor union?
My org has a lot of members in the Appalachian part of my state, but I'm afraid of doxing myself so I'll say no more.Work wise International Union of Operating Engineers.
I do work with On the Streets Committee, a local tenets’ rights org and Appalachian People’s Front, a mutual aid network. Member of the local chapter of John Brown Gun Club.
When I vote, it’s usually for West Virginia Mountain Party candidates.
Unite member here.So who is everyone here?
Anyone apart of DSA?
Or SRA?
IWW?
Any AFL-CIO or independent labor union?
I'm afraid to mention the org that I'm in.Unite member here.
Largest general workers union in the UK, and until their recent nonsense, the biggest financial supporter of the Labour party. Keir Starmer seems to be under the opinion that he can replace union funding with backing from big businesses. We'll see how that goes for him...
Relevant:
In other news, the AP is laundering racist misogynist youtubers who will happily function as "experts" on China for them:
So who is everyone here?
Anyone apart of DSA?
Or SRA?
IWW?
Any AFL-CIO or independent labor union?
According to the National Housing Law Project, 86% of the 119 lawyers across the country who responded to a survey gauging how the end of a federal moratorium on evictions was affecting tenants said they had seen cases where landlords either declined to apply for assistance from rent relief programs or took the money and proceeded to kick out their tenants.
“The industry standard here is fraud,” said Stuart Campbell, managing attorney at Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center, speaking generally about instances in which landlords receive rent relief funds and evict tenants. “These landlords are the prime beneficiary of these rental assistance programs and just en masse have been violating the provisions of the programs and on top of that consistently misleading judges and securing judgments and evictions, even when they’re receiving funds.”“The industry standard here is fraud.”
— Stuart Campbell, Dallas Eviction Advocacy Center
just landlords being parasites as usual. nothing new here.
My org is currently organizing around the issue of tenants' rights.just landlords being parasites as usual. nothing new here.
That’s good, we need more tenants rights groups and parallel power to the hold real estate interests have over local politicsMy org is currently organizing around the issue of tenants' rights.
@Ostia There are a few tenants' unions that have popped up where I'm at.
Also, currently reading this article from Monthly Review:
Monthly Review | A counter to denialist Marxism (“Value Chains” lauded by The Review of Radical Political Economics)
“Value Chains” should be read by anyone with an interest in the practicalities of offshoring, outsourcing, and supply chain management. It should also be required reading for those who fail to…monthlyreview.org
Haha, I forgot why I don't like David Harvey.
I've been working with the tenant union in my city for a while now and the situation is fucking dire
folks are fighting tooth and nail to keep as many pandemic-era protections in place for as long as possible, but once that dam breaks we're going to see eviction rates higher than we've seen in decades, and a lot of people are going to lose their homes
Of course!That’s good, we need more tenants rights groups and parallel power to the hold real estate interests have over local politics
Hello everyone!!
In this new episode of the show I dive into some of the intricacies of how we can approach, understand, and even reconsider the ideas of genre in fiction. Both on their potential and their limitations to criticism and breaking apart gatekeeping efforts and the walls that harm our attempts at writing, reading, and understanding.
That's the reason for the provocative title of this episode! On the necessary attitudes to question and think anew these ideas of genre and how we can critique to open up and create in new ways, instead of closing them off.
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Has anyone seen this blog before?
Newest episode is called Episode 54 - Criticism, Genre, and Unbuilding Walls.
From the description of the most recent episode:
Has anyone seen this blog before?
Newest episode is called Episode 54 - Criticism, Genre, and Unbuilding Walls.
From the description of the most recent episode:
As a fan of progressive rock, one of the biggest things I've picked up on over the years is how most of the great progressive rock bands never considered themselves specifically as prog rock bands: they were simply trying to do new things without any particular thought to genre. The prog rock label came after as a catch all umbrella to categorize their work, and most bands hate the genre label.
Which i believe the mods here are doing a great job here in steering conversations without being daft, obtuse, malicious, dishonest or outright idiotic like in that hellhole, hopefully it can continue that way.This is not supposed to evoke off-site drama, it's essentially a kind reminder to this site that we really need to watch how to handle moderation especially in topics revolving around politics. Let's try to always remember why this site was created.
Which i believe the mods here are doing a great job here in steering conversations without being daft, obtuse, malicious, dishonest or outright idiotic like in that hellhole, hopefully it can continue that way.
I'm not sure why good people and communities are still posting in that fake ass, performative place run by egotistic idiots, i would not trust a potato gun to most of the staff members there, let alone trust in their criteria and judgment to moderate hundreds of people and very difficult conversations.
This is not a dig at the last website but it sucks to see moderation in other spaces give more fucks about decorum and civility than recognize that there's an aspect of grief that's constantly hitting a certain ideology and its suffocating any enthuiasm.It's rather off-topic and I only occasionally lurked in the socialism thread in the old place and now lurk occasionally here too, but lots of mainstays that were instrumental for actual discourse have been banned there which is extremely sad to see. Just saw that Chikor was permanently banned for nonsensical as well as made-up reasons, went to the socialism thread and saw lots of other good posters I remember banned with very poor reasoning. It's kind of defeating to see how leftism is suffocating on ERA after only 4 years of its existence.
This is not supposed to evoke off-site drama, it's essentially a kind reminder to this site that we really need to watch how to handle moderation especially in topics revolving around politics. Let's try to always remember why this site was created.
I don't know why either, but I feel it's best for all here if we don't watch and comment on the goings on over there, in here.
I think the logic was that the white middle-class was the large majority of voters and they would punish at the ballot box if the climate emergency demonstrated a direct (instead of indirect) threat to their lifestyle/status quo and no one was doing something about it.Oh yeah, thinking climate change will be addressed once it effects middle class white people is way too optimistic. People caring about climate change doesn't matter when the people who are polluting the planet don't have to listen.
Correct. I would call it's a naively optimistic thought, that there's a line that can be crossed to easily change things before huge consequences have happened.I think the logic was that the white middle-class was the large majority of voters and they would punish at the ballot box if the climate emergency demonstrated a direct (instead of indirect) threat to their lifestyle/status quo and no one was doing something about it.
The main flaw in that thought process is that electoralism has given the white middle-class the incorrect assumption that they wield great power through it, an idea that has filtered down through them into the greater public consciousness. And while it’s true that the middle-class is important (if not necessary) for the maintenance of capitalism, both for their consumption and for their ability to widely champion it above all other options, when it comes to who holds and wields power in society, the white middle-class are a barely-tolerated convenience to obtaining desired outcomes that could be easily discarded if it becomes less than useful. They genuinely have no clue how disposable they’re considered to be, even as an entire cohort rather than just individually.