r/stupidpol

I’m not interested in personal attitudes or why the left should dislike him, but more why the DNC seems to loathe him so much. I get why they hate Zohran or Bernie, they aren’t part of the party infrastructure, they genuinely seem to hold Left-wing economic principles, they present a threat to Dem control of leftwing/progressive voters, but Platner is the most milquetoast version of left populism you could imagine. Like just take the W and call it a day already. I do not understand why they can’t stand him, maybe his mild critique of israeli policy in Gaza?(his stepbrother works for the Jerusalem Post btw) Maybe him vaguely calling out “the oligarchy”?(Bernie, AOC, Warren have been doing a half assed version of this for years, so who cares?) Are they doing some sort of 4-D chess to make it seem like they can’t stand him? Is it just that it’s a senate seat and he’s not the anointed one as per DNC tradition? Why is the DNC resurrecting the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover to hunt down every sordid detail of this dudes life, like, what am I missing here? He’s literally just going to fall into line, even if he doesn’t, the man is not Lenin, so why do they give a shit?

No worker should be compelled to vote on—or live under—a contract they have not seen, have not read and have not had the time to study and discuss collectively.

Can they ever be stopped? I think not.

The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and unexplained origin, the signature demands that attention be given to the letter; and, for this reason, it is being made available to readers of the WSWS.

[Hope everyone will read the whole letter about conditions today form our today from the 16th US president]

"The thing itself is this. In my time, one man was permitted to own the body of another and to take, by the lash, the whole fruit of his labor. We abolished that ownership, and rightly, and I went to my death believing the work substantially done. I see now that I saw only the crudest form of an older thing. For there grew up beside the chattel, and outliving him, a system in which a few need not own the laborer’s body because they own the field, the forge, the rail, the mine, the roof above him and the tools in his hands—so that he must sell his days to them or not eat, and they keep the difference between what his labor makes and what they are pleased to return to him, and call the keeping by the name of profit, and the arrangement by the name of liberty. The whip is retired; the wage does the work of the whip, and is thought gentle because it draws no blood the eye can see. This is the cause of the present crisis, as slavery was the cause of mine: a form of exploitation, lawful, respectable, defended from every pulpit of wealth, and for that respectability the harder to name.

"From this root the rest grows as the branch from the trunk. Wealth so gathered cannot rest; it must seek to own the government framed to bridle it, for a government it does not own is a danger it will not abide. Beyond its borders, wealth so gathered must seek markets and matter beyond the sea, and so it sends the nation’s sons to make the world safe for its increase, and dresses the errand in the flag, and calls conquest by the name of defense. And the citizen, told each evening by instruments the wealthy own that he is free and that his unease is his own fault, grows used to it, and christens his custom peace. The plutocrat, the disreputable client in my house, the armies abroad, the people taught to mistrust their own discontent—these are not four troubles. They are one trunk and its branches."

The linked paper is good too:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/404435062_Extra_terra_nullius_Off-worlding_the_externalities_of_AI_Bitcoin_mining_and_cloud_computing_with_Orbital_Data_Centres

"Oh Trump is fascist and literally Hitler 2.0 and ICE is literally the Gestapo and they're going to start rounding up every brown person and genociding LGTV+ folks...but the government should be able to take guns and the only people that should have guns are the government."

These people see themselves as WW2 partisans, but imagine how ridiculous it would be if the partisans advocated for gun control.

>Xi Jinping told Donald Trump during their talks last week that Russian President Vladimir Putin might end up regretting his invasion of Ukraine. According to several people familiar with the US assessment of last week’s summit in Beijing, the Chinese president made the comments during wide-ranging talks that touched on Ukraine and included Trump suggesting that the three leaders should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

> "However, a 3D printed gun, which is suspected of having been used in Thompson’s murder, and journal in the backpack, which was later inventoried by police at their headquarters, can be used as evidence."