Jabril

joined 5 months ago
[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Okay so the neoliberal union machine run by the US government that represents 10% of workers will be disbanded, and then workers will have to break the law to get what they want? This is bad because we respect the law and think that unions should be yoked by the US government? This is bad because the workers with the largest concessions afforded by the US government will lose those concessions and no longer have an economic incentive to maintain the status quo? Do we not like wildcat strikes? What is your critique here?

Things are accelerating, contradictions are sharpening, the economy is crumbling and fascism is on the rise. Are we not allowed to have an honest analysis of the situation? Is that accelerationism? The treat factory is ending, inshallah, and the treat addled mind along with it. When people awaken from this haze and realize they are gonna have to break the law to survive, maybe they will actually join with the rest of us who have been living this way the whole time. Maybe instead of wishing to protect the institutional systems designed to destroy the labor movement, we should celebrate their downfall and the downfall of all of the institutions that keep the neoliberal fantasy alive. We are entering the best period for revolutionary organizing since the 60's and, as always, it is because the conditions have gotten bad enough that people will do something that would have been previously too uncomfortable. I did not organize for this to happen, nothing I did or thought accelerated this situation into being, but this has obviously been where we are going for a long time and now we are here.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Labor's Untold Story does a decent job covering it and the later Taft-Hartley act within the scope of the US labor movement

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 39 points 2 days ago (15 children)

NLRB was an essential part of the destruction of the working class movements that preceded it. If unions are no longer regulated by the US government, they can exert more pressure in more effective ways.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

Literally no other way democracy can really take hold

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Absolutely, I think a bit part of the long term Ukraine strategy is funneling Ukrainian Nazis into US and EU to radicalize and train domestic fascists. They were even on the ground in Hong Kong doing training during the the protests there.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago

A lot of Latinos are white tho I'm surprised I haven't seen more people pointing this out with all the recent rhetoric around who voted for Trump.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago

I think Fanon is more compelling and providing material evidence whereas settlers wasn't saying anything I hadn't already gathered from studying other works, Fanon especially

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not even just settlers, plenty of Black folks coming out with similar takes about Palestinians and Arabs, someone posted abunch of screenshots of comments about buying Starbucks and not feeling guilty about funding the genocide because Arab voters didn't get Kamala in office. The settlerfication has taken root deep into even colonized subjects, not even just the bourgeois comprador strata as it was when Fanon was writing about them.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

Sure dm me any questions.

They get guest writers who are not involved in their actual organization who sometimes have good takes and most likely have no idea who they are submitting to so might be the case irt the Austin situation.

But I will say beyond that, it is easy to write good takes and harder to live by them or follow through with them. They might be able to repeat good lines on something like settler colonialism but it doesn't mean they have killed the settler within or ever intend to

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Straight from Herzl, damn.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

This group is ironically a split off from a different group because the leader of this group is a wealthy cracker who is permanently posting online and got barred by the last group from posting on Twitter because he was making trans members feel uncomfortable with his posts so he rage quit and took all the cis men with him to start this group.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Was the use of it by Nazis with armbands marking who was Jewish the beginning of the prevalence?

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