[โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

First of all, you mean petite bourgeoisie, which would be like craftsmen, independent store owners, small businesses, or self-employed contractors.

I am referring to the factory workers owning the factory, or social cooperatives. That might be a far cry from what people wish socialism encompassed, but that is not petite bourgeoisie. You won't find me championing the cause of small business tyrants, lordy.

The Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy comes to mind, where nearly 1/3rd of the GDP comes from worker or social co-ops.

Sorry you don't like cooperatives, but that doesn't grant you the right to misconstrue my intentions based upon a flimsy, hand-wavy reference to Marxist jargon. We get it, you've read all three volumes of Das Kapital.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Or establishing legal frameworks that promote (or require) worker cooperatives/socialist enterprises where shares/decisions are redistributed amongst the workers comprising the enterprise (but not the whole of society).

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 3 months ago

    He's likely referring to the M4A1 Colt, which the US openly ships to Israel as recently as this year..

    A lot of those rifles make their way to settlers' hands through various channels.

    And machine gun is just vernacular for a fully automatic rifle.

    Making it loudly known that you're ammosexual doesn't detract from the point the Congressman was making, which is that it's fucking ridiculous to have a bunch of plain clothes teenagers pointing weapons that the US gave them just for visiting a village that they decided to vandalize days prior.

    Red dot vs laser sight, machine gun vs AR, silencer vs suppressor โ€” who gives a shit about the right terminology? You understand perfectly what he's saying and what happened.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    US is a net exporter of refined fuels (what you put in your car), but the US doesn't produce the heavy crude that its refineries are all set up to convert into that fuel.

    It's like saying you produce more cakes than you consume. That doesn't really mean shit when you run out of sugar, bomb the supermarket, mine the roads between you and the supermarket, and burn all the bridges between you and your neighbors. Can't exactly "borrow a cup of sugar" your way out of this one.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 4 months ago

    Israel dropped 10 missiles in Doha, Qatar in September 2025, targeting the senior political leadership of Hamas who were there to negotiate an end to the war in Gaza.

    If I were speculating, the U.S. probably wanted the Swiss to host the Iranian negotiations (w/ Vance taking part) because they wanted reduce the likelihood that the Israelis would attempt to literally kill the negotiators--like they've done in basically every conflict in which they've been involved.

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