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Aren't there? Seems like it would make at least a dent in the graph.

5% of men of all ages groups are willing to admit, they're attracted to other men. 6.2% say they've had sexual contact with other men.

For context: 23.1% of Gen Z adults self identify as LGBTQ+.

Yes of course, I understand. I didn't mean to direct this all at you personally. I hope what I wrote just gives some context.

maybe you've seen this sentiment weaponized, but that's not what this is

Yes, I have, but no need to apologize!

And for everything else, the monks have peasants who do the real work.

It's weird reading that without context. It's rarely the case, that people sit at home, randomly have an idea about what society should look like and then stubbornly refuse to tell anyone about it. Rather, when people say "it's not my responsibility or duty to educate you" it's usually, because you just were racist or dehumanized queer people or something similar. People who are victims of this shit educate and argue with people all day all their lives, not because they passively would like to see one of their random ideas put into practice, but because it's necessary for their survival. But all this is tiring, even traumatizing. They can't do it every single time someone is being an asshole again. There are just too many assholes. So when they encounter the one too many assholes of the day, that's in my experience the usual time when people in real life sometimes say: "Please educate yourself. Just because I'm queer (or black or muslim or etc.) doesn't mean I'm your unpaid tutor on how to have basic human empathy." And that's valid.

Surly we don't need to worry about this fringe culture. Now if the author held any position of influence, that would be different, but the world couldn't be that crazy already, right? Let's just check Wikipedia, just in case.

Director of the FBI

Well fuck...

It's like the court of a crazy emperor. The courtiers, sycophants and bootlickers crawl over themselves groveling and competing in crafting the best lies to rise in favour. It's so embarrassing to see humans degrade themselves that way. Soon they'll write poems and songs praising Trump.

It's US American exceptionalism. What's special is the largest military power to ever exist. Actions of Israel are actions of the US.

Israel is not capable of accomplishing anything on it's own and it's hasn't. It was always the US. It should really be called the US-Israeli Genocide. And the US is way more powerful than Nazi Germany ever was.

Israel does still have a mote of self-preservation

I'm not so sure of that.

That's not even the worst case. Israel is a fascist death cult and fascists need enemies. They won't stop at Palestine. If they aren't stopped, they'll continue wars and genocides until they collapse from internal contradictions, outside sanctions or military defeat.

Lebanon is the next obvious target. Also what's left of Syria. More war with Iran too. Remember how while the war on Iran was still going, Israeli politicians already talked about who to attack next? They favored Pakistan, but also had a whole list of other countries, including even Turkey.

But don't think the "West" is safe from Israel! The US empire and others will surely import more and more fascist tactics and actual fascists from Israel to suppress leftists and general unrest as deteriorating living conditions lead to rising class consciousness. It's already happening.

Love that look!

It's true that the talk about competition plays a deceiving role in liberal propaganda. But the very real role it plays in capitalism is also analysed in great detail by Marx. The labor theory of value for example relies on it. Competition disciplines firms that cannot produce at or below the socially necessary labor time.

Individual corporations can be very ineffective from an objective point of view. Even most of them. But the effect of competitive advantage is still felt on average across an industry and over time. Individual firms and capitalists don't have to be rational for this effect to work. Hypothetically, if everyone were equally ineffective and irrational, an increase in productivity/the power to exploit would still create a competitive advantage.

You can argue about things that limit the extend to which competition effects certain aspects of life within capitalism at a certain point in time and space. That's perfectly good dialectics. There are always opposite forces at play. And today, there exist many monopolies, that have reduced the effect of competition.

But, why do you think corporations do everything to acquire a monopoly position? It's to avoid competition. Even in late-stage capitalism, where real competition has in large part been eliminated by monopolies and oligopolies, it's still the drive to avoid renewed competition, that determines the politics of these mega corporations.

It doesn't matter if they personally care or even know about competition. If they grow slower than a firm that offers the same product, they cease to matter.

I like that particular feature, but I'm sure it won't be long until they make an app to block out homeless people.

No, I don't think so. You can totally still be ML. Also, there are anarchists and libertarian socialists who fail to support the struggles of sex workers.

I think it's tires.

I spent years never having read or heard of this fish at all, but thankfully that dark dark time in my life just ended.

Still better than thoughts and prayers.

The title of the original post is "based on a dream I had"

Literally happened to me yesterday in an online space. "We don't allow the discussion here to get political" after I replied to an "unpolitical" comment with bullshit idealist liberal takes under a nihilistic liberal doomer post. No such warning for the other two.

I think this is the best, most practical answer.

Always ask what the point of a speech-act is, how it's going to influence the world in a given historical context. And the context here is speaking to mostly people outside China, while a global imperialist coalition actively prepares war against China. It's absolutely clear, that the primary task of leftists in the imperial core is to work against these war preparations. I wish this side had more comrades who are actually from China to weigh in on such questions.

It all comes down to the question "Will you still stand for peace, if the US goes to war with China?" We'll have to stand against the empire, even if they force China to act first by attempting to station nuclear weapons on Taiwan. Because I totally see some people falling for this old trick and switching sides if this happens. Like: "I thought China wants peace, but now they're evil for having started it instead of just letting a mortal enemy build up deadly weapons of mass destruction on their doorstep."