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The writers admitted they added that line in hopes of getting a free Tesla.

Tbh I’ve come to kind of downplay workplace democracy in the transition to socialism, personally. Not to say that collective enterprises in socialism can’t be productive (of course they can). But ultimately do I want to have a vote on how many tons of steel we’re manufacturing this week? I think workers care more about income inequality, work hours, safety, and economic insecurity. If you already have a system that guarantees you a job and your needs like housing and food will be met regardless, that you won’t have to work crazy hours and that you get vacation time… I’m not sure workplace democracy is all that critical of an issue. A lot of the notions of workplace democracy and syndicalism were forged in a time when central planning with computers was something that was difficult to even dream about. And there are some incompatibilities with central planning and workplace democracy under socialism.

Not that that shouldn’t be a goal of course, just that I think in the socialist stage I don’t know if that’s really a critical issue.

Incredible. What does it say that I find this pick very reassuring. Like, it’s such an incompetent pick to head up defense. This is like Milei selecting one of his dogs to lead defense. The American imperial project is so cooked. And just to clarify it’s real.

A couple quotes I liked:

Co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend,”

Dude’s not even on the main stage, he’s been stuck in weekend spot for years (weekend viewership is so much lower, FYI).

Hegseth has served in the military, although he lacks senior military or national security experience.

Lmao.

It mentions he got degrees from Princeton and Harvard which… ok, I mean I know a Princeton grad. Smart enough person but not someone who could manage the geopolitical pitfalls of the role just based on inherent intelligence.

Comrade I say with with genuine respect, but I feel this is pessimistic beyond what the facts of the situation warrant, thus being unhelpful. Things are rough, but we are not even at Special Period levels of rough yet.

For what it’s worth, everything that’s happened to Cuba in recent years is still nothing compared to the Special Period, and they weathered that storm.

The SOS Cuba protests were very much small potatoes. There is not enough domestic unrest for the US to push a coup. And the US is already applying maximum pressure, there’s nothing more they can do other than threaten to torpedo any ship approaching the island.

I think Cuban leadership and to an extent the people of Cuba know what capitulation to the US means: a future more bleak than anything they are going through now. The islands assets will be stripped and handed to US corporations and gusanos. And there’s no way they will be allowed any sort of “democracy”, because they already have that. It would have to be some sort of US viceroyalty until the socialism is beaten out of them.

There’s no path to a better relationship with the US with Rubio, but not like a Harris administration would have offered any rapprochement either.

Trump has picked Elise Stefanik to be the UN Ambassador for the US.

While I maintain that functionally, Trump and Harris policies will be no different on the ground in Palestine, there is definitely worrying signs already that Trump will also be pretty horrible, in particular for the West Bank.

Stefanik is an uber-Zionist even by US Congress standards. She was the one grilling university presidents over not being tough enough on student protestors. There are rumors that Miriam Adelson donated $100 million to Trump’s campaign on the condition that he support Israel annexing the West Bank. And Israel has tapped a settlement expansion activist to be the next ambassador to the US, who is also very pro-annexation as well.

This might a small W but it’s a W nonetheless. The Libertarian Party is the most popular and best organized third party in the US, by a long shot. They have decades of work put in, not to mention ideologically they are very compatible with (white, middle/upper class) American superstructure. And Chase Oliver is objectively their best candidate they’ve fielded in maybe ever. He’s articulate and is good at emphasizing the least bad aspects of the ideology, like being anti-war and anti-MIC. For a Marxist-Leninist party that’s only gotten big recently and doesn’t even focus on electoralism, that’s honestly a great showing.

Technically she was on the Peace and Freedom Party, not the same org but they have ballot access in CA so they accepted de la Cruz as their candidate. Still, it should at least be PAF or something.

Jointly issued on Sunday by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce, the new negative list, which will take effect on Nov 1, reduces the number of restrictions from 31 to 29, achieving zero restrictions on the manufacturing sector.

I’m not sure I understand the details of the “negative list”, but it appears that 2 items from that list have been removed, and either one or both relate to the manufacturing sector? If so, unless each item has a tremendous amount of details, it would seem that not a lot will have changed from the status quo i.e. if there are only one or two items on a list that are restricting the sector, then there couldn’t have been much restrictions in the first place? These are questions, though, not statements.

Both parties are in a death spiral right now. The democrats, for the reasons you mentioned but also because what gets them donations from billionaires and what motives the base are entirely opposite and mutually exclusive as neoliberalism is eating itself alive. But for the GOP, whenever Trump dies that party is going to rip itself apart. A huge chunk of the base loves Trump and hates the party. They were about to destroy themselves in 2015 as the party was going to shove hated “RINOs” like Jeb! and Rubio down their throats.

It’s a race to the bottom right now.

Would he though? If the new justice isn’t as liberal-leaning, even if they are bit younger I imagine he would take that deal. I mean, put yourself in the shoes of a liberal. If you could replace Clarence Thomas with a slightly more moderate republican, you would probably do that.

…it’s a cartoon.