Quote of the Day: “Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. It won't do! You must investigate! You must not talk nonsense!.” (Mao Zedong)

In history today, Palestinian leaders met to demand a general strike to protest against British rule in 1936.

The noir of the day is 1950's D.O.A., directed by Rudolph Maté for Cardinal Pictures and starring Luther Adler, Pamela Britton, and Edmond O'Brien.

A small rainwater killfish with yellow-green scales and blue and orange fins swims around mossy rocks.

Good morning! It is April 21st in the United Socialist States of America.

Today we commemorate the Day of Train Travel. Travel in comfort and efficiency!

We celebrate the rainwater killfish, luciana parva.

Stanley Fish was born today in 1938; Mark Twain died on this day in 1910.

FAFE

Look we all have to just get on board with gen AI, how else are we supposed to get images of this quality

Infors

I would legit buy a "Your Lies Won't Touch My Baby" tee

1999 flashba

Their education was good enough to read the Communist Manifesto but not so good as to understand why or how it was written. A manifesto should be more than "one guy's assertions about how the world works".

Never fails

That is called a political demand. The Democrats chose not to change position, and they lost. That is their fault, not the fault of the people making the demand. They had ample chances to reverse course and they chose not to. How is anyone supposed to effect change without making a demand?

If it is made clear to a candidate that they will not receive votes if they maintain a position, that is leverage. They can change or they can lose. That is exactly what happened. Thousands of people clearly articulated they would not vote for the Dems if they did not change position on Israel.

How is it reductive to say that one of them wanted to give weapons to Israel to kill Palestinians and the other wanted to give weapons to Israel to kill Palestinians and then build hotels on their land? The Palestinians are just as dead either way

To answer your question:

Just to clarify, are you saying that choosing one of two options whose positions are identical on the mass murder of Palestinians will result in a change in that position? I'm not sure I understand how, could you explain it?

If one party says "we are going to enable the mass murder of an entire people" and another party also says "we are going to enable the mass murder of an entire people" do you think voting for one of those two parties is going to result in political change

How do you think political change happens

I'ma be sad to be dead

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...but I'ma be happy to be right.

Me when I talk about anticommunism

But you can say “Democrats and Republicans are capitalists and make political decisions based on a class solidarity they share as members of the bourgeois elite” and this is absolutely self-evident and visible constantly but people still act like it’s in “the moon landing was fake” territory

Except for the one about Stevie Wonder not really being blind, that’s legit

I never know what to say to the “what’s a conspiracy theory you genuinely believe” prompts because most of the things I believe actually and demonstrably happened but nobody knows or cares

Is FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S 2 the same five nights or five additional nights

Like does it start on the 6th night at Freddy's

This is pretty funny considering that for the past decade plus the Democratic Party strategy has been to make no promises and deliver constant threats

All right! I will!

You winsome you losesome

When I was a teen we showed *initiative*

I'm thinking about having a chronic apocalypse myself later today

Your bio also says you are a feminist, a liberal, and an LGBTQ ally. How did voting for the Democrats under Biden and Harris help people who also meet those descriptions in Palestine, when they were sending weapons and providing political cover for the people massacring Palestinians?

Those are mostly good things, but they have not historically stopped fascism from happening.

But to be more direct, what is it about fascism you don’t like? Do you think genocide is a characteristic of fascism, and if so, why would you vote for a party or candidate aiding a genocide?

Your bio says “ANTIFA”, how are you enacting your belief in fighting fascism?