the red scares (in the 1910s and 20s, and in mccarthy era, but also it never really ends) directly explicitly criminalized communism and being a communist, and forced the purges of communists and anarchists from the ranks and board of every union, every civil rights organization, every school faculty and schoolboard, every local government position, and even in media and entertainment; purging any and all militance. The DoL makes deals with liberal remnants who agreed to purge the communists, and the ones that didn't were maligned, marginalized, criminalized, punished, arrested, crushed. This predictably left in its wake in the unions complacency, class collaboration, and corruption, which is why organized crime cozied up alongside the more unsavory class collaborators starting in the 50s, which added to the reactionary politics.

Any time any class consciousness and obstructive action raised its head, they were crushed. Reagan crushing the airline union and thatcher the miners unions was the death knell and last gasp of the any old unions' agency in working class struggle. these labor unions being what they are now is much more a legacy of all of that than anything else. Now the only good unions are the independent ones and militant dual-carding ones like the IWW. Teamsters aren't even the worst. The AFL-CIA--er I mean AFL-CIO literally flew to LatAm and Europe, most impactfully to Brazil and Poland to train their reactionary unions to undermine communism (including Poland's infamous Solidarnosc).

You also still have to fill out forms that ask if you're a communist or are/have been a member of a communist party for many governmental forms. Even citizenship applications. you can be denied for being a communist.

surely Motorola will face crushing sanctions by the for its involvement in these acts of terrorism

They'd also be kind of wrong factually, because barring coal, yet still critical alongside it, what greased and fueled the industrial revolution and its commodity production was the mass-murdering of whales to the point of almost extincting every single species of whale on the planet (and properly extincting uncountable intermediate species that relied on whalefall or nutrient cycling because whales are keystone species) extracting and using their bodily compounds to make things like 'whale oil;' and we owe them more than we could ever give them, but least of all to not keep destroying the planet, fucking up the oceans (and making them so painfully loud it disrupts their ability to communicate and hunt and contributes to beachings), killing them with fishing bycatch and with commercial boat strikes, and non-arctic-indigenous industrial peoples who still hunt them. Which is all economics as always.

We only stopped (at least, to that level) industrial-murdering them after discovering the modern fossil fuels (petroleum et al) and realizing that it was easier to pull millions-year-dead plankton and peat and trees that got their energy condensed and liquefied because fungus hadn't evolved to break them down and utilize it yet

than it was to find the previously-numerous-but-now-scant beings (of incredible intelligence, complex capability, compassion, and culture [even among different speices], much of which was lost to their communities forever); who also sometimes escaped or fought back and killed people and made crews have to eat each other ("Whale attack" they say. Whale self-defense).

Heritage Foundation are US Americans, who have existed as a right wing think tank for decades, and have pushed these exact policy trends for decades in US governance, including as a sizeable chunk of Reagan's policy advisors. There is zero reason to think "ITS DEM ROOSKIES"

Anyone who has been training you to look for Russians under your bed and in your phone and behind any and all western-hegemony-narrative-contradicting media is brainwashing you and gaslighting you into thinking it's all "foreign agitators" instead of your own ruling class being what they've always been. The Democrats started this "RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE" nonsense trying to both bolster their 'new cold war' and also pretend that Hillary Clinton wasn't such an unlikeable ghoul of the establishment that even someone as repugnant and stupid and corrupt as Trump was preferred by enough population to flip critical swing states. POOTIN did not make the US racist and divided. They had a whole-ass civil war over slavery and then sabotaged reconstruction and never stopped oppressing their colonized minorities.

The US is the largest most violent empire in the history of the world, with more people in prison than anyone anywhere now or ever, has the most expansive and intrusive and all-encompassing surveillance and propaganda networks in the world, and most of the worst conflicts in the last decades were directly or indirectly caused by the USA, oftentimes deliberately or otherwise knowingly.

Russia has an economy as big as Italy. And most of the power it does have comes from its military spending (which is still not remotely close even a little to the 800+external-base-having, largest-oil-consuming and greenhouse-gas-emitting-ass military of the US and its NATO vanguard), being a major exporter of important metals and fossil fuels, and having remnants of interconnectedness of economic and cultural/linguistic legacy with some former-USSR states. Russia is also terrible at propaganda, especially foreign propaganda, as anyone who engages with Russian media could tell you. They are not making your country what it is and has always been.

Look inward at your own ruling class, not outward at [ENEMY STATE OF THE CURRENT ERA], to find the causes of your societies' problems.

THATS LITERALLY DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH IT IN THE RESULTS

below 4 ads. what a great and innovative economic system

or pivot to fossil fuels and say “well what about them?”

Boy I wonder where all the energy powering these data-centers is coming from. how that energy is being generated.

It's less that they think it's funny (or even think about it), and much more that the universal oversaturation of markets and their avenues for surplus-as-capital to be made active and productive (a necessary law of capitalism in order to not collapse, a component of capitalism's need for constant growth), which is further tightened by workers' purchasing power being in freefall due to suppressed wages in order to maintain profits, has made it so any slight opening of a new market is utterly torn asunder by the explosive rail-gun jet-stream torrent of backed-up capital starved for movement, bubble or not

but due to said saturation and capital back-up, usually bubble or inevitably made into a bubble just by the volume of hyper-invested capital that has nowhere else to go grossly over-exceeding the capacity of said market and the profits that can be wrung out of it. Which then causes an extreme oversaturation of supply compared to demand, which causes prices, and so profits, to fall into a cascading collapse. This will lead to many things, including further suppression of wages (to try to salvage lost profit) and contraction of markets, which as previously mentioned, are necessary and require constant expansion for surplus-value-as-capital to continue being made active and productive to stave off economic crisis and collapse. Rinse and repeat in the natural and inherent cycle of capitalist contradiction and its inevitable crises. This problem of total market oversaturation and capital having nowhere to go is also in large part where the root of the neo-colonial system of cyclical loans, debt, austerity, then more loans, comes from.

And worth mentioning it's not so much that they would "rather" engage in this than not pay the workers

but that capital needs to go anywhere it can be made active; and those who don't thin their costs as much as possible to maintain the best profit margins possible in doing so to reinvest that surplus as capital, can not compete with those who do, and will be ruined and subsumed by their competitors (those that even remain anyway). It's not a choice by the capitalist who has any other while still remaining a capitalist, because making any other choice means not being a capitalist anymore and being cannibalized by the capitalists who "won". They will never make a choice that ends in their ruin, and would have no material reason to, hence why they need to be not given a choice by an organized working class.

If only someone could have foreseen these contradictions and problems. Perhaps by forming a concrete analysis of capitalist laws and relations and the roles played within it by its constituent classes, then providing the world with a methodology of unmatched predictive power to expose it and awaken others in the working class to the inherently inevitable need for its forcible overthrow to overcome these fundamental contradictions.

He apparently spent months trying to smuggle in Iraqis and Syrians to be Slava Ukraini cannon fodder last year.

don't worry the CIA is already on it (youtube link, proxies are down)

clearly we need to develop mitochondria for machines (mitochondria are the real hero behind eukaryotic efficiency)

Gary Busey lookin mf

I wouldn't say that; and no disrespect to you, but I think it's irresponsible and dangerous to allow this notion to be pushed, in the sense of undermining vigilance. The US objectively has the most, and the largest, organized armed fascist militias in the world. Most of them just aren't adventurist dipshits. (Also this guy seems to be a radical neolib rather than a political fascist, which is honestly very funny.)

But just as there are adventurist provocateur dipshits on the left, as well as shrewd Marxists who denounce individual acts of violence or terror as adventurism that only alienates the public from us and gives an excuse and support for hyper-violent suppression of the left by the state; there are also adventurist provocateur dipshits on the far right, as well as shrewd fascists who denounce individual acts of violence and terror for the same, and are instead quietly training and movement-building; keeping their activities such that half the people in their life and at their jobs don't even know they're murderous racists. For every group of neo-nazi oo-rah chestbeaters you see on the street, and every lone-worm mass-shooter, there are 100 groups and 1000s of shrewd fascists, quietly growing their base, who are infinitely more dangerous. And it's worth holding that in mind.

Or maybe it was