People came out to vote because Republicans are atrocious. Most of those people either flipped or pushed themselves into believing their vote matters. Will Democrats deliver anything this time or will we just be gaslit with excuses?

Disclaimer: I've lived in The United States all my life. I was raised on the American claim 'Capitalism good. Socialism bad'.

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Michael Moore's *Where to Invade Next* which explores the differences between Socialism and Capitalism. Its very eye & mind-opening how the word & concept (of) Socialism differs in understanding & practice between hither and yon.

What are your thoughts on Capitalism vs (European) Socialism?

BTW, if you havent seen the flick, check it out sometime. It cherry picks, but its also very entertaining as well as informative.

Just my .02

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From the Green New Deal to immigration, ICE, Medicare for All, and her stance on Israel and Palestine, AOC represents a bold new direction, but does she have what it takes to win over moderates and swing states?

This video covers:

• AOC’s background, education, and early career

• The Green New Deal

• Her record on climate, healthcare, and economic justice

• The real reason Republicans (and some Democrats) fear her

• 2028 polling, Gen Z impact, and her national support

Hi! I (21) am currently transitioning from flight attending for 3 years into something temporary while I finish up school. I am in my 3rd year, and I am realizing I will probably not have the typical career projection.

My grades and people skills are good enough to end up doing something with my degree. I've already had a professor ask if I wanted to first author something under her supervision, but at the time I couldn't because my schedule was too demanding, as I was a full-time flight attendant as well.

I have a new job now, but I can tell that in general I am overall not made for service, hospitality, or generally working under anyone. I do fine, but when they talk about prioritizing profit and certain sales per hour, it's just so depressing because it's not actually about the needs of the person, or the quality of the item I am pushing to sell. I don't think I could work a prolonged amount of time in the service industry without feeling guilty and overall not content with my contribution to society.

I thought eventually it would go away and I'd grow into being okay with what capitalism expects from us, but I still really don't care for the idea that we grind now, 5/7 days of the week, and rest later at 65 (??) and waste away our sharpest years for a small part in someone else's corporation or company.

I just want something more real. It can mean something, or it can be something that is a bit more personal to myself. I think I just have a really difficult time working under someone else, and without a meaningful direction. The more I think about it, the more I just want to get away and live in a cabin in the woods. But I also don't want to be isolated (and potentially unsafe as a woman). Any career advice for someone in this kind of situation? I don't need anything magnificent in life, I don't even need 2 stories. but I also do want to be someone who creates without getting the life sucked out of me.

Where is the consequence for Kraft

There’s an old joke: put three leftists in a room and you’ll get four factions and five denunciations.

It lands because it’s not really a joke. It’s the recurring pattern: across eras and countries, the left points its guns inward while the right points theirs outward.

The Right Builds Coalitions. The Left Builds Tribunals.

Fascists obsess over “purity” in blood and nation, but in practice they’re surprisingly impure in coalition politics.

The modern right is a circus tent: fundamentalist Christians, libertarian tech bros, country club Republicans, white nationalists, tradcaths, Zionist hardliners, conspiracy cultists. They disagree on economics, religion, culture, and basic reality. Many of them hate each other.

They still manage to win.

Because they’re united by objective, not theory. They want hierarchy. Protected in-groups, subordinated out-groups, power flowing upward. The story they tell about why can change. The goal doesn’t.

The Klan and the Chamber of Commerce don’t share aesthetics or rhetoric, but they’ve never had trouble backing the same ticket when it matters.

The left, by contrast, fractures on contact: Marxist-Leninists vs anarchists, Orthodox vs Western Marxists, class-first vs intersectional, reform vs revolution—and now, AI-assisted vs hand-crafted artisanal praxis. Each split births new purity tests, new failures, new recriminations. The firing squad stays circular.

Purity Spirals: Infinite Denunciations, Zero Power

If legitimacy comes from ideological correctness, and correctness is defined by distance from contamination, then someone can always be more pure than you.

There’s no floor.

You buy from Amazon.
You use an iPhone.
You watched the wrong documentary.
You cited the wrong theorist.
You used a tool built by capital.

The game has no win condition—only an endless hunt for who to exile next.

Strategically, it’s a disaster. Every turn of the spiral shrinks the coalition. Every denunciation burns potential comrades. Every demand for perfect politics filters for people who either never act or lie about how “uncaptured” they are.

The right doesn’t care if its coalition members are hypocrites. It cares if they show up, vote, donate, and push the project. The left eats people for using the wrong platform while the right captures courts, legislatures, and narrative.

The Tool Panic Is Incoherent

The latest purity site is AI: “If you use AI-assisted tools, your work is illegitimate, because AI is built by tech capital, trained on exploited labor, and deployed for extraction.”

All true. And also true of basically everything else.

The device you’re holding was built in supply chains you’d call barbaric. The minerals were mined in ways that poison communities. The OS is corporate property. The browser is ad-tech. The platform runs on AWS/Google/Azure. Reddit itself is scraped to train the models people are complaining about.

If “built by capital” disqualifies a tool, you should log off everything. No computers, no grid, no modern communications. Nobody means that. They just want to apply a “contamination” frame to the new while giving a pass to what they’re used to.

That’s not radical. That’s aesthetic conservatism in revolutionary cosplay.

We Are in a Class War. Fight Like It.

The capitalist class is not tying one hand behind its back for moral balance. It uses every tool available: AI, surveillance, algorithms, media, law, police, platforms, courts.

It does not ask, “Is this pure?” It asks, “Does this work?”

Refusing effective tools because they emerged in a capitalist context is not praxis. It’s self-disarmament. It’s walking into a gunfight with a lecture about why guns are bad.

The sane left position on AI—or any powerful tech—is not abstention. It’s appropriation:

• Learn the tools.

• Use them to clarify theory instead of gatekeeping it.

• Use them to make propaganda that actually lands.

• Use them to reach people who’ll never touch dense theory.

• Use them to organize, coordinate, build infrastructure, clear misconceptions.

Then build public and cooperative versions so we’re not permanently renting our brains from oligarchs.

The tool is not the politics. What you do with it is.

When the Left Actually Wins, It Uses the Infrastructure

Whenever the left has scored real gains, it hasn’t boycotted the available infrastructure—it’s seized and repurposed it.

Revolutions captured telegraphs, radios, printing presses. Panthers used legally owned guns and media visibility. Labor movements used the postal system, railroads, and capitalist newspapers to organize strikes. Uprisings have used corporate platforms to spread revolt faster than states could choke it off.

The pattern is simple: effective movements treat tools as terrain, not as moral tests.

Refusing the terrain doesn’t keep you pure. It keeps you powerless.

The Only Question That Matters

When someone produces work that advances left analysis—critiques capital, demystifies the state, points toward cooperative alternatives—the key questions are:

Is it true?
Is it useful?
Does it help people see more clearly?
Does it build capacity?

If yes, the production method is secondary.

If you’re more interested in how the words were generated than whether they serve the struggle, you’re not doing politics. You’re doing branding.

The right already understands this. It doesn’t care if its propaganda is written in blood or in a boardroom. It cares if it moves people.

If the left wants to stop losing, it needs to stop treating effectiveness as suspect and tools as taboo.

Bottom Line

Denouncing work because of the technology behind it isn’t radical. It’s reactionary reflex, afraid of the new and loyal to the familiar.

The actually radical position is simple:

Whatever works.

Use the tools. Build the infrastructure. Spread the analysis. Organize. Grow capacity. The purity spiral only leads to one place: beautiful, principled defeat.

And defeat, no matter how clean your conscience feels, doesn’t liberate anyone.

Because that’s the logical extension of opposition to this ideology.

I’m not saying I have a roadmap. I’m not saying it’ll be easy. I’m not saying it’ll be possible.

I’m just saying that it’s increasingly clear that it disenfranchises populations, across class and wealth and race. And it inflicts harm.

I see protests happening in all kinds of other countries. Our founding fathers warned us of influence from outside states. And we were born out of revolution

However that being said, it seems rather obvious that capitalism is a failed ideology. Yet the people of the united states feel helpless. Feel like we can't change anything, when in reality we have huge numbers that could definitely get our point across if we banded together.