#lefism

[queerintheuk]

remember when you used to be able to buy things. like. you could buy a thing. and then it was yours.

[marlshroom]

guys... start buy-nothing groups with your friends... im so serious its such a great way to start local community and this shit will be needed. its not even that hard i started one with my friends on discord maybe 2 months ago now and it started with literally 3 people and now its up to 18 people(doesn't sound much but there should be more on the way!)

its so gratifying to get rid of stuff knowing that there are people your stuff is actually going to. and also, it doesn't just have to be fore things you need to get rid of!

you can offer services like being somebodies ride, offering help with car repair(I'm literally getting my car repaired tomorrow in exchange for books), offer to clean for somebody, etc!

mutual aid is so important and its extremely important to remember that while you may not FEEL like you have anything to offer, you are helping by RECIEVING. it HELPS when you are able to relieve someone of something they don't need anymore, cause not only do they not have to worry about it anymore, you are preventing it from potentially just ending up in the landfill!(not to say that donations will always lead to that, but if like ur closest donation drop off is goodwill, like in my case, there's a high chance that shit will not make it to somebody)

[titleknown]

...I will say, as much as I understand where it’s coming from, “You’ll have to have less flavors of soda and Doritos under capitalism,” is a fucking stupid argument because soda is just fucking syrup and carbonated water, it costs pennies to produce and the profit margins are gargantuan, and most “new flavors” are just recombined versions of the same old ones.

Ditto in the case of Doritos, they’re just different fucking varieties of cheese dust on the same corn chips. Both sorts of things would probably be relatively simple to make cheaply in a post-capitalist word on a made-to-order basis.

Like, for fuck’s sake, if you’re doing that gotcha at least talk about, like, the actually difficult-to-produce ethically-fraught “luxury” foods for the Global North like bananas or chocolate or; most controversially; beef; so we can have an honest fucking discussion.

[bwitiye]

thousands of prisoners are not being evacuated even though there is a category 4 storm in the winds

please call prisons to demand that prisoners be evacuated

[dramaqueer-commie]

ill tell yall this, black friday might ruin any sense of community between shoppers (assuming there ever was one...) but it sure as hell binds together service workers

we've bled on the battle field together and ill remember that

[anthonybialy]

Fun and Tyranny on a Cuban Excursion

Cuba is charming if you look straight ahead and down.  Using subversive free will to turn one’s head might alert visitors to conditions their guides don’t want them to see, and you don’t want to be a typically rude American.  Respect cultural traditions by not observing what’s happening.  Make sure to also avoid pointing out how the despotic holdout represents everything monstrous about the emblematic failed ideology.  That’d negate the trip’s purpose, anyway.

Hotel patrons are the only ones on the island having a good time.  I’m sure communists would never have a sinister secret agenda.  But it sure seems interesting that their fans will return to their non-impoverished nations and rave about how incredible this workers’ paradise is.  The only members of the category they encounter are hotel staff and barkeeps.  As in capitalist hellholes, they’re pleasant to customers as part of their jobs.  In their case, the fear more than getting fired.

I’m not saying Cuba-loving leftists are ignorant.  But they don’t realize that everyone who lives on their favorite island and hasn’t befriended the comically ridiculous despots in charge is suffering.  The inability to grasp that tourists get special treatment is as ludicrous as not grasping that guaranteeing everyone everything is the surest way to make it all suck.

People who still believe communism works in 2026 might just be dim enough to not grasp that they’re being used.  Using gullible visitors as unwitting propaganda tools seems unnecessary when they’d do so voluntarily.  But their willingness leaves their acting skills to chance.  It’s better to convince them everywhere is as pleasant as the resort than let them see life past the perimeter and try to convince America that it’s super.

Reporting back how glamorous Havana’s resorts are has been helpful in its way.  Everyone sensible realize why commies lie so blatantly, namely because their devotees lustily believe the world’s most manifest falsehoods.  Universal health care is just a boat ride away.

Accepting lies instead of food is an unfulfilling consolation prize.  Commies suck at advertising not just because they’re awful at everything.  Lousy sellers don’t realize they’re supposed to have a good product first.  It’s unsurprising yet disappointing that they believe commerce’s entirely is tricking dupes into squandering decadent payments for toil on bad consumer goods.

You think they couldn’t possibly believe their experience is genuine.  Then you check what they believe.  Anyone who has been on this planet for more than a day should be able to determine which parts prosper and suffer.  Those blaming free exchange despite experience don’t see that they’re being used.  Of course, all-time dupes believe Cuba is functioning well in the first place, so they’re not superb at perception.

You’d think propaganda represented a waste of time until you see who falls for it.  Enthusiasts really believe in a show, which is what communism is.  It’s one where you can’t look at the actual performance.  The magician performs a trick with no saw, box, or person in it.

The convenient chance to lie on behalf of a diabolical failed regime is one some apparently can’t decline.  American participants can kvetch about their home.  Blaming the country that points out how rotten Cuba is brings to mind demonizing police for fighting back against crime.  They do that, too.

It’s an amiable gift to keep them from trading with the rotten United States.  Blaming the embargo for the island’s dejected morale is like claiming prison made a murderer evil.  The glorious people’s outpost shouldn’t want to engage in stupid capitalism, anyway.  Importing items from other countries means both parties benefit, and that reeks of free markets.  They don’t need our fancy pocket phones or running automobiles.

Enthusiastic pinkos enjoy the lack of traffic travel.  They don’t seem to have grasped that they’re the only ones who go from America to Cuba.  It’s the same reason getting a U-Haul in California is as hard as affording taxes while the Florida market is as glutted as Funko Pop shelves.  The thoroughly oblivious don’t even notice they’re flying and not sailing makeshift rafts in a desperate attempt to escape tyranny’s yoke.

Oh, and they also got to leave.  The truly dedicated should be shredding their passports rather then heading back to a monstrous kingdom with natural rights and private gun ownership.  I just want to help them fight hypocrisy as well as exploitation.  Virtuous smugglers should help illegal immigrants escape America after they made the regrettable decision to enter a horrid place with a Second Amendment and no universal insurance.

The emblematic example of state failures apparently isn’t obvious enough.  Believing otherwise requires either lying or ignorance.  That brings us to everything they hold.

The only thing worse than thinking Castro knew what he’d be doing before taking power is thinking he did fine work.  The sole person with a job where he did anything would’ve have been better if he were unemployed.  Fidel’s ghost is still suckering the maliciously foolish in an era where voters elected a freaking socialist as New York City’s mayor.  Explaining in 2026 why government controlling everything doesn’t mean they’re helping people shows how even evidence won’t deter to regrettably committed.

Getting used is clearly something fans of Cuba enjoy.  Every fan is open about enjoying humiliation.  Demented freaks can’t keep their fetishes to themselves don’t understand anything about polite society.  Believing communism works is as perverse as it gets.  There’s one last island where sickos can still parade.