This is so infuriating. Don't they have a principle of proportionality or something similar in the US?

I'd think this is a joke if I weren't aware of Patsocs' existence, which unfortunately I am.

10 morbillion dead😔🙏

Do you have a source for that quote? I'd like to save it.

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This comment goes incredibly hard

Yemen Yemen make us proud. Turn another ship around!

This issue is not as black and white as it seems. I'll leave you with an excerpt from the book Revolting Prostitutes which adresses sex-positive sexwork advocacy. I recommend reading the whole book if you want to gain a deeper understanding about the issue, I learned a lot from it most importantly that criminalizing sexwork is harmful to the sexworkers themselves and should therefore be opposed. Here's the excerpt:

Is Sex Good?

In this context, where sex represents loss, threat, and bodily degradation, it is no surprise that some sex workers – and those who advocate for us – have responded by emphasising the value of sex. Sex work, they agree, is sex – but sex is, in fact, good. In agreeing that sex work is sex, they place commercial sex in a category with other kinds of sex which have traditionally been considered ‘wrong’ or degrading – for instance, queer sex or women having sex outside of relationships. These advocates push back against narratives that associate bodily or moral degradation with ‘the wrong kinds of sex’, instead asserting that sexual pleasure is a personal and social good. They position sex work as an adventurous, fulfilling, and sexy experience for the worker.

[...]

This discourse of sex positivity helped produce the figure we term the ‘Erotic Professional’. Easily identifiable as one of the more vocal, visible figures of the sex worker movement, the Erotic Professional positions herself as answering a vocational ‘calling’ that seems to have barely anything to do with being paid. In downplaying economic coercion and instead emphasising her pleasure and desire, the Erotic Professional attempts to make commercial sex more closely resemble the sex life that society is more ready to endorse – that for which women receive no payment. One escort, for example, is quoted in an interview as saying:

A prostitute will do everything for money. Not me … I try to forget about the money … it’s very affectionate … I don’t even think about [payment] until the very end. I don’t demand payment up front, because the guys I go with are always good people … I also adore sex. I wouldn’t be in this profession if I didn’t like it. So, I found a way to make money doing something that I like.

[...]

These sex positive politics create the illusion that worker and client are united in their interests. Both, we are told, are there for an erotic experience, for intimacy, for hot sex. Raising the subject of the worker’s needs (for safety, money, or negotiating power) would spoil the illusion that the worker and client are erotically in tune, and that she’s just as sexually invested in their encounter as he is. In this rhetoric, the focus can easily shift to the needs and enjoyment of the client. Carol Queen’s influential 1997 essay on sex positivity and sex workers’ rights describes sex work as a ‘life of sexual generosity’ and has a subsection titled ‘Why Johns Need Sex-Positive Prostitutes’ – a subtitle it is hard for us to read without wondering, who cares.

[...]

This elision is harmful. The worker’s interests are not identical to those of the client. Ultimately, the worker is there because they are interested in getting paid, and this economic imperative is materially different from the client’s interest in recreational sex. (Footnote: However, as we shall see later, criminalisation – whether of the worker, the client, or both – pushes their interests to overlap, as both will have a shared interest in avoiding police detection in order that the interaction can proceed.) Losing sight of that leads to a politics that is inadequate in its approach to workers’ material needs in the workplace. As sex workers, we sympathise with the wish to over-emphasise pleasure, freedom, or power. This narrative may feel much better than being stigmatised as damaged, an animal or a piece of meat. However, there is an obvious conflict of interest between a fantasy persona who loves their job and an activist who demands policy intervention to remedy the abuse of their human rights in the workplace. Using just one persona to assure your clients that you love your working conditions and also to highlight how inadequate they are is a difficult line to walk

[...]

The difficult truth is that harm will come to people selling sex tonight, tomorrow, and for the foreseeable future. Nonetheless, for many people, doing so remains the only viable way to survive. The politics of Happy Hookers and Exited Women have no space for the existence of the unhappy sex worker, whose inconvenient truths disrupt the comforting delusion that prostitution is a sexual orientation. Instead, she is forced – usually by economic necessity – to continue choosing survival over a noble exit, and she reminds us that capitalism cannot be magicked away with liberal or carceral solutions. For this person, sex work may be sex – but it is also work, in a world that allows no alternative. Understanding what work is, however, is easier said than done.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230208125256mp_/https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

I think that's probably satire. At least the one on reddit is.

::: spoiler Joe Mama :::

this is some of the funniest shit I've seen in a while. "In Stalin's constitution men and women were guranteed equal rights, Bernie Sanders much?"

😳

Praxis

Jesse we need to cook... chicken tenders

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Midwestern_Marx

Please tag me if someone explains what is meant by this.

Waiting for the next headline "Anti-Israel camp peacefully dissolved after massive orgy"

Me too haha

There's a new one at another location if it's the uni I'm thinking of

Praxis

Biden's getting desperate. Seems like he's fishing for votes after struggling in the polls because of that pesky genocide.

🤮

I've been having this a lot on YT. Probably because I mostly write comments like "free Palestine" under German government-funded media when they do their genocide denial.

A student campus close to me has a political discussions gc where I always argue with the same 3-4 smug libs most of them easten europeans who went to western europe to study and hate communism. They are so exhausting to argue with but there's like 80 people in there so I figured even if there's just 2-3 semi-active lurkers in there they might learn something new about marxism so whatever. I had a really spectacular takedown today. They started throwing Solzhenitsyn, "Stalin was antisemitic", the "doctors plot", "Gulags" and "my grandparents died in Siberia" at me🤣 I just screenshoted the relevant passages of Losurdo's Stalin and they stopped arguing lmao.

I feel like they are putting the spotlight on this to distract from the bombing of the Iranian embassy and they're not going to cut support to Israel in any meaningful way, although I'd love to be proven wrong.

not me (it's wrong because I actually am, checkmate liberals😎)

The more of this type of developments I see the more convinced I become that critical support for Russia is the right stance. The imperialists seem to be struggling to hold onto their neocolonies and I'm all for it.

F-16s are so pre 9/11

I just feel so sorry for the kid.

Bringing up Chinese debt trap diplomacy in geography class. I was really proud of it as well.

Good

Hot. No extras, just coffee. If you have to thin down your coffee with milk and sugar you shouldn't be drinking coffee.

I remember seeing an interview with an ex Israeli intelligence guy who admitted that they funded Hamas in the beginning. It's probably true but it's not a good talking point imo since it leans heavily into the "both sides bad" trope.

It's so funny how they throw in brain areas to sound smart lmao. That's not how it works dude...

I can very much relate. Y'all are great🥰

If only all of those "cultural Marxists" were actual Marxists😔

I don't mean that it's impossible but the timing seems weird. Western media is still running with ISIS, which isn't impossible but if they are responsible it seems very likely that they were backed by the US. So why would they decide to carry out attacks in Europe now? I don't see how that would serve their interests, although I guess the same is the case for previous attacks on European soil. Still, given how ISIS is pretty much gone at this point and is likely dependent on CIA/Mossad backing would they be allowed to carry out attacks in Europe? Maybe I'm missing something tho, this whole ISIS thing is admittedly breaking my brain so if you can make sense of it I'm happy to listen.

"Heroic Struggle, Bitter Defeat: Factors Contributing to the Dismantling of the Socialist State in the USSR" by Bahman Azad is a very good read that I think is not that well-known. Highly recommend.