Maybe certain kinds of hand tools?
Any kind of rotary tool/machine really. If your ring gets grabbed by any spinning equipment it can pull you into the machine or deglove your finger.
I don’t really wear my ring unless I’m going out somewhere nice with my wife because I work with a lot of heavy machinery.
Also a brat who spent around 16 years growing up on various military bases… The problem with this idea is the expectation that enlisted men are knowledgeable enough to recognize an illegal order, while simultaneously being stupid enough to put their necks on the line to refuse a direct order from an officer.
In the military as an enlisted man, you are guilty until proven innocent. It would be easier to get off knowingly participating in a war crime than to knowingly refuse an illegal order.
The idea that American servicemen are trained to recognize and refuse illegal order is a fallacy. My dad did 26 years as an enlisted man and eventually made chief, he will openly admit to having zero faith in the US military ability to do the right thing.
Yeah, the duality of pretending to be a state who cares about stopping discrimination is clashing with decades of supporting organizations that just so happen to be run by literally Nazis.
The National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism is breaking ties with the heritage foundation over the whole Tucker Carlson Nick Fuentes interview. Like…it took Nick Fuentes to alert you that the Heritage Foundation was a bunch of neo Nazi, not all the Nazi shit you’ve been doing together?
Of course during the interview the leader of the NTFC said they were still primarily focused on the antisemitism in the “Left”, but we’re now going to shift some attention to this new development of antisemitism on the alt right.
This is kind of the elephant in the room that every large scale political/economic model like to ignore.
While I don’t agree with a lot of what he writes about, Murray Bookchin makes some pretty persuasive arguments about how hierarchical structures themselves are an issue no matter what system theyre found.
Pretty unanimous with liberals today. However, we have to remember she is fucking ancient and back when her career started there were still liberals who believed in government spending.
What? She’s always been socially liberal but fiscally conservative and in the pocket of big businesses.
She has always lived a privileged life who got where she is today because of her family connections. Her father was a congressman and her brother in law was a long term member of the county and city advisory board for San Francisco. Her husband is the head of a venture capital and rel estate investment group.
Do you think people are protesting…but not voting?
No one seriously believes that protesting is going to change the administration’s mind, protesting is a way to bring attention to a problem. Which will hopefully get people who normally wouldn’t participate in the Democratic process to get involved.
The article doesn’t advocate for any particular solutions, it’s just identifying a problem. I’m not sure how a criticism of protest really adds anything to the discussion?
How about instead of a completely useless non sequitur… Maybe an opinion of something that you think is more effective than protest would be more helpful?
For cardboard and especially aluminum/copper there’s actually a pretty compelling profit insensitive for recycling them. For glass, it kinda depends on your locality.
Most trash that is “recycled” is put into a landfill with no processing.
I wouldn’t say most trash, just most plastics. Glass and especially cardboard and aluminum are able to be recycled almost endlessly and are more efficient to recycle than their original production cost.
UBI has always been a scheme developed by billionaires to lower the tax burden. Seriously, just look at any politician or think tank associated with it, and it will usually be funded by a billionaire.
UBI is meant to keep the status quo, or to even roll back social safety programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and social security. Billionaires would rather pay people a static couple a thousand bucks a month than pay for the inflating cost of healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
Almost all serious attempts to pass a UBI bill have been made as a response to things like Medicare for all, or to programs like rent freezing.
Yeah… Things are not great for America, but it’s unfortunately a bigger problem than that. Democracy in general is being put against the ropes around the world, and isn’t putting up much of a fight.
Pretty much every democratic nation with a large economy has been flirting with fascist the last 10 years, America is just being the trail blazer. Democracy has become too entangled with capital. Instead of creating boundaries and limitations upon the predation of capitalism, we’ve largely just traded social security and stability for economic exploitation.
I’m guessing there’s a bit of a difference between chapters? The closest one to me doesn’t seem to do much but sporadically organize protests.
There’s also been a lot of accusations of coverups of sexual assault and anti trans biase over the years. I mean at least bad enough to have its own section in the prolewiki.
Eh… The PSL is less of a political party and more of a political “think tank” funded by Neville Singham. The entire party is basically just the host of BreakThrough News.
Which I don’t really mind the left having a think tank funded by a billionaire, I just wish they did more than self promote such a small pool of people and didn’t represent themselves as an actual political party.
Despite claiming that they have representation in over 50 cities, they lack any kind of physical fingerprint outside of NYC. And despite being based out of NYC but have been completely silent on the mayoral race.
Eh… I feel like this guy is a good example of the difference between a traditional conservative and a fascist. They want the same things and will fight for them, but the fascist has no qualms about breaking the law to do horrible things, while the traditional conservative just wants to reshape the law to do horrible things.
I’m glad he’s blowing a whistle, but he’s still a huge piece of shit.
see no reason to believe that the military will respond any differently than Congress has.
Yeap, imo they’ve already done a test crossing of the Rubicon. When the military agreed to utilize active duty service members to transport prisoners from the US, it was a blatant disregard of their prohibition of policing on US soil.
I had an argument with someone on here a while back over this. They claimed that America couldn’t ever go full on fascist because our military is taught to question illegal orders…
Like a private who joined the army to get out of poverty is really going to have the legal understanding to question the constitutional grounds of his orders. People have no idea how the military works, or exactly how much control an officer or NCO has over their enlisted service men.
It’s kinda shocking how the tactics of colonialism end up mirroring itself throughout history. The occupation and destruction of Gaza and the occupation and destruction of the Indian Mughal empire are devastatingly similar.
The beginning of the end for the Mughal happened during the Indian rebellion in 1857 when troops of the Mughal empire rebelled against the British East India company. It started as a popular uprising against the military of the company, but after an incident akin to Oct 7th around 200 British women and children were taken hostage and eventually killed by a small group of rebels.
In response the British went on a retribution campaign that would end up killing upwards to 800k Indians, most of which were civilians. During the retribution campaign there were motifs we can recognize today being implemented in modern colonialism.
Particularly the use of false allegations in media to justify retributive violence and sexual assault against women.
“British soldiers also committed sexual violence against Indian women as a form of retaliation against the rebellion.[163][164] As towns and cities were captured from the sepoys, the British soldiers took their revenge on Indian civilians by committing atrocities and rapes against Indian women.”
“Incidents of rape allegedly committed by Indian rebels against British women and girls appalled the British public. These atrocities were often used to justify the British reaction to the rebellion. British newspapers printed various eyewitness accounts of the rape of English women and girls. One such account was published by The Times, regarding an incident where 48 English girls as young as 10 had been raped by Indian rebels in Delhi. Karl Marx criticized this story as false propaganda, and pointed out that the story was written by a clergyman in Bangalore, far from the events of the rebellion, with no evidence to support his allegation.”
“During the aftermath of the rebellion, a series of exhaustive investigations were carried out by British police and intelligence officials into reports that British women prisoners had been “dishonoured” at the Bibighar and elsewhere. One such detailed enquiry was at the direction of Lord Canning. The consensus was that there was no convincing evidence of such crimes having been committed, although numbers of British women and children had been killed outright.[181]”
So then maybe not give a shit who they endorse and just vote for progressives running in the Dem primaries regardless.
I didn’t say to do otherwise?
My point was that we need to vote out the old guard who fall over themselves to compromise with conservatives any chance they get.
If enough voters show up for the available candidates, then the DNC heads don’t have any fucking choice in the matter.
One of the problems we have to deal with is that the old guard has a lot of influence over where election funding is spent. People like Mamdari might be an outlier that candidates in more rural localities may not be able to copy.
Isn’t that just in the case of later developing capitalist countries? My understanding was that he believed later developed capitalist countries would be unable to build the industrialized economy that creates a large proletariat class. So in these countries the existing proletariat would have to seize control and then later form an alliance with the peasantry down the road.
However, I don’t think that means he only wanted to develop socialism with western nations. I mean Stalin and him had a major rift develop over Trotsky wanting to support the Chinese communist and Stalin siding with the kmt. One of the things I kinda agree with when it comes to Trotsky was his opposition to the socialism in one country policy.
This is kinda dependent on what year it is of course, Trotsky was kinda all over the place once he fell from grace.