Right, now try and say that in a way that doesn't make you sound like some smartass Socrates wannabe.

You're right about this new 'woke' Left representing a kind of controlled rebellion but, given that industrialisation was the very thing that gave Marx's concept of class any real meaning, do you (as a self-proclaimed Marxist) really think that class, and especially class-conflict, is a viable idea within the context of an increasingly de-industrialised West? After all, many of those we'd traditionally consider working class moved away from the very kind of manual and manufacturing jobs that Marx saw as key to their revolutionary potential towards a very different kind of employment: within the service industries, or in white collar jobs, or in many cases continuing in manual or manufacturing work, but as their own bosses. Nor should we forget those made unemployed as a consequence of de-industrialisation, who became part of the lumpenproletariat as a result.

These people (whatever we want to call them) definitely deserve far better political representation than I currently see them getting from the 'woke'/'progressive' Left but I'm no longer sure that an emphasis on class, especially in terms of Marx's rather narrow and historically-defined concept of it, is particularly helpful to them either right now.

class without accounting for race?

this is what happens when you’re middle class, even upper middle class, and black in america

http://powerreporting.com/color/color_of_money.pdf

And Bernie had 25,000 people turn up to his rally in Queens yesterday :rolleyes:

Many such numbers

so math

5,500 people, population of 193k = 2.8% turnout (Beto)
25k people, pop 8.6 million =0.29% turnout (Sanders) (thanks for the QC, Claire!)
20k people, pop 1.34 million = 1.0% turnout (Trimp)

Beto 3x more popular than Trimp, 10x more popular than Sanders

put that in your trunk, Shunk!

You've got an extra 0 in the Sanders figure, but it's pretty good otherwise

yup, corrected!

dallas population is underestimated above

sure city limits is correct, but dallas-fort worth metro, which is the real demographic, has 7.5+ million

mango 0.33%

I do think that the issue of race remains a particular problem for the American Left. Especially any version that wants to hold on to a specifically Marxist concept of class. I recently came back from Miami. Yeah there's the massive divide between rich and poor but what struck me far more was the seemingly unfathomable 4D complexity of its racial tensions and how they appeared to transcend any easy notion of economic disparity or class conflict. I'm not sure what kind of politics is needed for a city like that, tbh.

ah, miami! hahahahaa... the capital of latin america. everyone does business and brings their regional prejudices there.

the political solution is... just more fucking. i mean it in the hybridizing crosspollinating way. capulets and montagues without the suicide. viva el caos primordial!

Fuck The Systems. Grab Your Ky Jelly Cause They Coming For You.

"Saudi Arabia at my request has agreed to pay us for everything we are doing. That is a first. Saudi Arabia, and other countries soon now, but Saudi Arabia has agreed to pay us for everything we are doing to help them and we appreciate that."

Honestly, h8kurdt, my confusion grows: no “deliberate” mishandling

If my understanding of the law is correct, it specifically states that intent is irrelevant.

If this is true, please understand that you or anyone else reading this would be going to prison for doing anything similar.

THIS is why I questioned the possibility of then President Obama granting immunity to Hillary the same way he did her attorney. If immunity was granted, there is no way Hillary could be prosecuted.

If intent is indeed irrelevant, then Hillary is receiving special treatment!
(don’t forget removing SIM cards & destroying cellphones after receiving subpoena)

If immunity was granted, as I’ve stated previously, I would consider that treasonous.

I was questioning possible traitorous activity based on actions and NOT skin tone or proper names.


Because all of President Obama’s questionable actions took place in his final months-weeks-days & hours of office. Hillary’s attorney didn’t reveal the status of her immunity until she testified under oath earlier this year.

your "understanding of the law" fucking lol

so it's just coincidence that the subjects of your ire are always women or minorities?

Tiered Justice is BOLD and THOROUGH injustice!!!

Possibly you can comprehend this......the next time you get pulled over for speeding, tell the officer you didn’t “intend” to speed and see how works out.

Hot Damn Candace

Yeah, I just googled the pop, not accounting for the spread out territory associated with TX cities (lack of land use laws)

So Trimpy even worse, works for me. He’s gonna lose
:D

Trump comparing what he's going through as a "lynching" is something else. I mean, I should be shocked but I'm not. At all.

Has there ever been a more whiny, moaning, pathetic snowflake president in history?

Probably not, at least publicly.

And by re-industrialise you mean go back to building fossil fuel factories? In that sense then he's on the wrong side of history.

Well done h8kurdt, you broke him.

Eh, because I've got nothing better to do: isn't moving to a post-fossil fuel society the better thing to do anyway? When we do rapidly move to renewable energy, and it turns out that we were wrong on climate change...how is it a bad thing?

Yeah, carbon capture technology is no doubt cool and helpful and could save us all. But, like - fossil fuel's going to keep adding carbon, and we'd have to keep capturing it.

This will absolutely get us some way back to climate equilibrium. And renewables would keep us there much better than recapturing carbon.

Or you could look to the American cities and cities around the world that are getting most of their energy from renewable sources* and realise that shutting coal factories isn't the equivalent of throwing people out onto the streets. Accept fossil fuels and) is quickly becoming replaced by renewable energy. The people who still cling onto it (I'm including Trump and his lobbyist pals) are looking like relics

Funny how the Republicans favourite Republican Regan had a big hand in helping companies shut factories down and outsource to the very countries Republicans are now riling against.

You think you're championing the working class because you're blinkered by Trump's empty words.

*More than a hundred and rising

Even if Trump has shown no intention of doing that?

It's about as witty and funny as a SNL sketch. Carry on if it humours you though.

drunkle bob’s comedy hour is presented to you by listerine

Republicans storm secure room, delaying Pentagon official's impeachment deposition
Laura Cooper was expected to face questions about the Trump administration's decision to temporarily withhold military assistance to Ukraine over the summer.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...nD_cvnRZG8oP4k

Just saw this now and it really has come full circle hasn't it..scary times but hopeful for better times ahead.

the sex doll ads in the profile do reek of spam...

Trump accuses Obama of treason for ‘spying’ on his 2016 campaign

I'm sorry, but - the US president keeping tabs on his potential (and eventual) successor? The 'traitor' thing would be to ignore it and just mentally check out for the last year of his presidency.

Speaking of...will be mildly interesting/vaguely horrifying to see what Trump does between November 4, 2020 and January 20, 2021.
(Or, [heaven forbid] November 6, 2024 and January 20, 2025.)

Oh, and (as far as I'm aware) Obama never sent the Secret Service to investigate a rapper - like Trump has done with Eminem, after being alerted by a TMZ employee.

Sources: Buzzfeed News (original story), The Guardian (corroborating story), FOIA documents (obtained for Buzzfeed)

”unlike the inspector general, is a federal prosecutor with the ability to convene a grand jury“

—POWER OF SUBPOENA—

This next week is going to be awesome!!!



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lmfao bytor talking to itself again cuz nobody likes him

Silly Juvenile, I’m not talking to myself......just a reminder of what I was pointing out over a year and a half ago.

My narrative and purpose hasn’t changed!!

Pointing out that Special Counsels are appointed to pursue known crimes and NOT to seek after possible crimes.

Understanding the DOJ was soooooo outside the scope of what they were authorized to investigate.

I knew then the chickens would eventually come home to roost.

In May 2018 I questioned if it was Obama, Hillary or her campaign who colluded with Russia? Not because I have hate towards DEMS, because I could clearly see what they were doing was wrong.

YES - eventually questioning if Obama’s actions were treasonous?

On June 7, 2018 I questioned why President Trump didn’t overturn Executive Order 12333?

“ FISA is a statute, so you’d need congressional action to change those rules, and you have a built-in check there. But 12333 is not constrained by statute; it’s constrained by executive order.”

Personally, I believe President Trump has known for a long time what deceptive extremes were taken to spy on him and his campaign.

No reason to kill the Mueller Report when you know it will prove you didn’t collude with Russia......and you know that the investigation into FISA, Mueller and Executive Order 12333 will reveal that President Obama used his position and influence to help Hillary Clinton win an election by colluding with Russia just so they might stand a chance against an Orange Cheeto who never held a public office.

The cherry on top of this EPIC FAIL will be people going to prison.

silly senile still talking to himself cuz still nobody likes him xD

Shifty Schiff Tries Buffalo Wings For The First Time

and again