I’ve seen more than one artificially-fed waterfall in my own US city, so I don’t know what you’re on about.

You spelled donations wrong.

and they don’t get maimed by robots much

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• Is there evidence that Chinese workers have high high rates of this?
• People are getting maimed at Tesla plants all the time.
• The US created the neoliberal WTO to crush labor rights worldwide, worker safety among them. The only reason the US is sabotaging the WTO now is because that system no longer favors it.

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Honda and Toyota posed the same problem and they were forced to create factories here in order to eliminate the labor cost disparity that would have destroyed the lives of UAW members.

I don’t understand. Were Honda & Toyota forced to, or did they do it out of the kindness of their hearts?

I’m of the opinion that we can’t expect any improvements from the political class before we take more of the profits so we can buy those politicians like corporations have.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. — Audre Lorde

I don’t think we should try to play the game by the capitalist class’ own rules, which they created for themselves. We’re never going to be able buy the political system by outspending the capitalist class: they own the means of production and it’s their political system.

Right now labor is very divided, shattered. It was significantly more organized a hundred years ago, though still divided along racial lines, a mistake we mustn’t repeat. People don’t seem to remember now how many socialists existed back then and were deeply involved in that organizing, before they were crushed by red scares and other skulduggery. And unfortunately almost all of our surviving unions came from explicitly anti-socialist roots, the others having been purged. Socialists are still extremely few in the US.

We can’t buy government, and we know our vote alone has very little power. What we need is a resurgent, re-organized labor movement, and new labor media (we used to have our own newspapers!) to counteract corporate media, and we need new mass industrial actions that fit today’s material conditions*. That’s how we forced the state to make concessions in the past.

*Simply organizing “blue collar” workers again won’t cut it, because many of us are not that now.

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Don’t search back too far: he was terrible twenty years ago. I’ve never seen someone’s rhetorical chops improve as much as Doctorow’s has over the decades. He’s quite impressive nowadays.

Indeed. And the Jewish faith isn’t monolithically Zionist either, not even in Palestine itself: Edah HaChareidis

JPost, 2017: Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in New York protest IDF draft law Anti-Zionist Satmar Hasidic group joins Israeli Orthodox in campaign against Orthodox conscription into the IDF.

Daily Mail, Oct. 2023: Thousands of pro-Palestine protestors shut down Brooklyn Bridge after flooding NYC streets alongside orthodox Jewish members to condemn Israel’s war in Gaza - as businesses are plastered with ‘Zionism is Terrorism’ stickers

JPost, Mar. 2024: Ultra-Orthodox Jews block Israeli highway in protest of IDF draft

As Genocide Joe has been saying for decades, you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. You just have to believe in the project of Atlanticist Jews settler-colonizing the Palestinian people’s land.

• The Nazis were a major contributor to the Zionist project
• Many antisemites are Zionists
• Many Christians are Zionists

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Another reason the imperialist US government is Zionist is that Israel is its unsinkable aircraft carrier in oil-rich Western Asia. As Biden has been saying for decades, “were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interests in the region.”

It matters insomuch as they are protesting/committing acts of civil disobedience or hounding politicians or not donating to AIPAC or whatever else they can do from across the ocean.

Because despite what you say, many of those Jews you are referring to are actually Zionists once cutting off the hand that feeds their homeland is threatened.

Many who have actual ties to the occupying state, or who still consider it a “homeland” despite what they’re seeing before their eyes, probably.

Non-Jews need to understand that unlike Christianity there is a level of identity politics steeped in nationalism, religion and culture are all so heavily intertwined it’s hard to break through.

That Religio-nationalism isn’t alien to us. Look at American Christian nationalism. Second Thought: The Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism

Settler-colonialism isn’t foreign to us either: we created it. The Jewish state is a settler-colony created by and still supported by & deeply dependent on Global North colonizers. America itself is a settler-colony: we genocided the indigenous peoples and settled here.

I couldn’t find a worldwide survey but it doesn’t seem altogether unfair to conflate the jewish religion with the worldwide bastion of that religion any more than it would be wrong to conflate Catholics and the pope.

This analogy doesn’t work. You’re conflating the Jewish people with the Jewish religion. Catholicism is not an ethnicity, and many Jews aren’t religious, in fact quite a few are atheists.

How are we almost six months into this genocide and people are still conflating Jewishness with Zionism?

Most Zionists are not Jews, and many Jews are not Zionists, in fact some Jews are fervently anti-Zionist.

Putting the star of David on their flag was propaganda.

Working on it.

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Maybe not many Russians shed a tear over Navalny’s passing because he was a fascist who wanted to hand Russia back over to Global North neocolonizers for a second helping of shock therapy.

Wikileaks Reveals Alexei Navalny’s US Funding as Washington Exploits His Death

The Russian people like Putin for the same reason US “national interests” hate him: he kicked the shock therapists out of the country: The Crisis That Created Putin

If so then the workaround for Sync users would perhaps be to block the neon.nightbulb.net instance, and for the long term, file a bug with the Sync folks.

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