Wow. I am shocked the Yemeni military were not able to sink a US aircraft carrier moving with a group of military ships but were able to strike and cause fires on singular trade ships, shocked.

In both cases they were acting in opposition to genocide, so I hope they have better luck in the future.

Definitely worth checking out.

Yeah, but ball in hoop good

My condolences, I said goodbye to my canine friend this year. It’s so hard. She looks like a very good girl. I hope you have some good photos and video. They’re still hard to watch for me but they help me remember all the good times and adorable personality she had, and not just the pain of losing her.

I don’t need bullets; I need a CIA funded retirement in a US client state.

It’s the most american thing ever. A psychopathic murderer praised as a hero lies about killing desperate poor people from atop a temple of capitalism during a crises largely ignored by the government.

I don’t think it’s quite so simple as war is good for the economy in any term. War can have loads of positive and negative effects on an economy. It seems to me the war is good for the economy idea is an American construction as military spending is the only jobs program our ruling class likes to support, and military intervention is necessary to defend western economic hegemony.

We should also be aware those effects will be experienced differently by the ruling and working classes. War can shift economic focus away from satisfying domestic needs and allow certain industries and their owners to flourish and gain influence while workers see increased austerity and reduction in rights.

Is this a genuine question or sarcasm?

We’re FiGhTIng FoR tHe sOuL Of AmErIcA!1!

Continues criminalizing refugees and poverty, continues funding genocide, escalates economic warfare against China, sends hundreds of thousands of bodies to die or be maimed to protect unipolarity.

Good, fuck the Canadian mineral capitalists. Does anyone know if there is pressure to nationalize Panama’s extraction industry? I didn’t see it mentioned in the article.

Seeking to ease one’s conscience by means of spending excess money is hyper-individualistic and conforms with a self-interested worldview.

The perverse thing is how neoliberalism has left people with the idea that they can meaningfully impact the world through deciding where they spend the pittance left them after their bosses and government warmongers have taken their cut.

If you give a shit about the environment stop believing the propaganda that market forces will be swayed by your hobby of guilt spending. It will be the hard work of organizing people and uprooting the financial interest who direct national and global policy.

Seeing Biden give credence to bullshit propaganda about beheaded babies while committing without reservation to genocidal retaliation was nauseating. Without any acknowledgement of decades of proven Israeli crimes against humanity and the absolute immiseration of Palestinian people. Generations born and murdered inside a concentration camp. The colonial hegemony is so fucking desperate to defend the bloated corpse of the old empire. I’m so tired of hearing the pearl clutching criticism of Hamas or Palestinians tactics from the ‘left.’

How many Palestinians must die before they are allowed to fight back? Should they schedule their attacks around music festivals held at the fucking walls of their prison at a military base? Should they consider how colonists might feel scared?

I am not trying to pile on, genuinely curious about your perspective as a socialist.

I don’t think many people around here have an issue with strategic voting alongside actual organizing and support. The way you worded your first comment sounded like uncritical support for Biden/Democrats in regard to their rail union ‘achievements’. From later comments it doesn’t sound like that is what you intended, but I am struggling to understand why they deserve any credit. Even from the article you posted, they removed the only actual leverage the workers have, then after significant public pressure, helped avert further unrest by convincing the companies to give less than 50% of the workers 3 or 4 days of paid sick leave a year. I don’t see anything laudable here. (And for the absolute idiots, [email protected], I agree 4 sick day more gooder than 0 sick day).

It’s just liberal bait, best to ignore them.

When rail unions were preparing for a potential strike, Biden made it illegal for them to do so.

Rail unions wanted to strike for better benefits, vacation time most importantly as the corporations had them working a lot of hours with virtually no paid time off. Part of ‘efficiency’ in the pursuit of profit, running as much freight, with as few train engines and workers also means greater wear on the infrastructure and less maintenance work being done. All this contributes to the more regular occurrence of accidents, some incredibly damaging to public health and the environment.

They got some minor benefit increases, but i don’t believe much, if anything, related to their main complaints. And now they have no real recourse. The only credit Biden and the democrats should get is from their capitalist sponsors.

Here’s an opinion piece summary from a rail union member

What do you mean, what?