it’s one of those things that I think appears accusatory but imo it’s a matter-of-fact observation. You aren’t born in the core with the opinion: ‘I approve of my raised stature thanks to exploitation of the global south’. It’s tough to describe, yes all proles in the core are ‘implicated’ but I give those kinds of statements a charitable reading maybe. In another way, I think it’s meant to enlighten rather than guilt

The central point norfield is making cannot be emphasized enough, because so many liberals and socialists in imperialist countries try very hard to put it out of their minds. h&M makes handsome profits, to be sure, but these are dwarfed by the state’s take, once taxes on wages and profits of h&M and suppliers of services to it are added to its VaT 14 iMPerialiSM in The T wenT y-FirST CenTury receipts. in 2013, the tariffs charged by the u.S. government on its apparel imports from Bangladesh alone exceeded the total wages received by the workers who made these goods. The state uses this money, as we know, to finance foreign wars, health care, and Social Security, and even returns a few pennies to the poor countries in the form of “foreign aid.” as Tony norfield argues, low wages in Bangladesh help explain “why the richer countries can have lots of shop assistants, delivery drivers, managers and administrators, accountants, advertising executives, a wide range of welfare payments and much else besides.”12 his blunt conclusion: “wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other poor countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.”

:settlers: moment

Where in my comment did I give anyone an out? I simply added to the conversation by stating a difficulty of organizing.

congrats to them for defending their lively community from your tomfoolery

I don’t like these new rules SHOW US THEIR USERNAME

No witnesses, no suspects. No motive could possibly be speculated!

The literal blood-sucking class should strap this ancient fucker down and extract whatever’s inside him for christ’s sake he’s gonna live to 120

can you link me to any reporting on that? I haven’t read anything specifically but I believe it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/puzzling-number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died-n984261

yes the shooting of Michael Brown from 10 years ago. Weird to type out, goddamn

it is one of the 3 podcasts I listen to regularly i feel like I get my news updates from them (besides the mega thread here). Or rather, they’re my talk radio. Red Howard Sterns

Annoying internet arguments aside, the people on the ground in the core also face the most expansive and advanced police state mankind has created yet. This makes doing anything close to truly subversive impossible without extreme precautions. Some Ferguson organizers dying (being murdered imo) comes to mind.

very flat

sometimes when I’m aimlessly internet browsing I’ll check out the modlog, and for one, I think there should be a way to filter it by instance, and two: what the fuck is going on on other instances? @robinn2@hexbear.net what did you say lol

i just investigated further and no one uses that community on that instance anyway. Which is even more bizarre of a ban.

ctrl+f ‘train’

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Across the pond, the climate scandal of multimillionaire and billionaire private-jet use has been provoked by the Paris Saint-Germain football club taking a private flight to Nantes, a mere two and a half hours from the capital by train, and by Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury-goods giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Arnault, who surpassed Elon Musk this year to become the world’s richest individual, had taken 18 such flights in one month, mostly between Paris and Brussels, an even shorter train distance of just an hour and 22 minutes.

Adding to the challenge to the claim that private jets play no socially constructive role is the vital role they regularly play in disaster relief due to their ability to mobilize rapidly. Global freight constraints, for example, hindered delivery of supplies to Ukraine in the early months of the war, while private jets were much more flexible.

all in all yes, absolutely communist in their analysis of the subjects they cover.