I HATE how no politician does anything but the most ridiculous kind of double speak anymore... atleast in the past they made it slightly clever so you had to take them apart, now I have to read stuff like this:

"This is not a state of emergency to restrict people’s lives ... It is a ⁠state of ​emergency to give freedom back to the people, to free ​Bolivia from those who use political conflict to block roads and harm the population" ~ Paz

????????

or

"Last night, our long-range sanctions once again reached Moscow Oblast" ~ Zelensky

Long range sanctions???????? Wtf is that supposed to mean even?

Anyways

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Every person defending millionaires/billionaires/trillionaires is just stating their support of white supremacy and approval of the benefits it gives them, without actually saying it.

Leftist people in 2026, 6 years after George Floyd, 12 years after Ferguson, 40 years after the Black Panther Party, 43 years after the March on Washington, 45 years after Wretched of the Earth, that are still wondering why working class people are defending rich people, are also just part of the machine obscuring white supremacy and ongoing colonial structures.

Same for every time a marxist describes capitalism as a unkque evil at the root of everything, when it is just another sympton in thousands of years of history of the creation of abused, terrorized, racialized, gendered and otherwise oppressed servant classes...

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In the countryside of Germany there are a lot of train stations, that are partially been taken over by nature again and that are old and decrepit.
This country... I wonder how much longer it will exist. You can build as many roads as you want and try to paste as many city centers as possible over with the cold lifeless brush of concrete and "looking modern", it won't change that more and more places are getting old and abandoned.
Soon a quarter of the population will be in recieving pension age, with not nearly enough young people there to care for them all.
And instead of opening the borders, making immigration and asylum easier/possible, and making life enticing here, there is only fear to hold onto the power they have, not noticing that it is already mostly dead and soon gone.
What a miserable existence.
But hey, maybe we will atleast see some more anarchist communes growing out of the rotten leftovers like mushrooms. Growing over and the ruins, like those train stations.
That is, if they don't kill us all first.

- Cat

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"Men also suffer under patriarchy"

An objectively true statement that still nearly always is obfuscation of the patriarchal power structure, since it nearly always doesn't follow it up with an explanation of how it is still a hierarchy of different levels of horror and suffering.
Instead it then often follows with a "critique" of feminists that is so generalized that it becomes meaningless and doesn't even talk about feminism, but feminism as how it is percieved by the majority of people.

And it is annoying to see this play out again and again.

Another fracked statement in the same vein:

"White people also suffer under white supremacy" followed with a generalized statement of being kind to each other, totally missing a materialist analysis of the current structure.

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I wrote out some thoughts on the law and Epstein.

- Cassandra

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It's interesting how we haven't really seen people realize, how the Epstein files and what followed, show that the law is a fundamentally oppressive system and only exists to protect power, while never applying to it.

Instead we get antisemetic dogwhistles about an "Epstein class" controlling the world.

Side note: Sometimes with "Israel controlling western states" thrown in there, which totally ignores that Israel is the proxy for western colonialism in the region and thus gets supported by states like the US, UK and Germany, in favor of antisemitic dogwhistling. Israels genocidal apartheid politics are not being ignored by these states, because Israel controlls them, but because these states fundamentally do not have a problems with these things happening, if they happen in their favor. A good example of this is South Africa, but to be honest it applies to all "former" and current colonies, and we see the same dynamic play out again with newer states (for example how european states and the US are trying to get closer to the new regime in Syria, ignoring their past and current actions in favor of their own interests)

Back to the original point, what Epstein and the people arround and connected to him did, is not an error in the system, it is how it was constructed to work.
The law exists to frighten people into not following their own wishes and autonomy, protect the system of racial-class paternalism that exploit them, and throw any dissenting entity either into slavery/quasi-slavery or traumatize them into helplessness (depending on the state).
And this is something that does not come up in discussions around Epstein, even though it desperately needs to, if we are actually interested in making sure this stops happening.
There are multiple other organizations like Epsteins in the world, and we need to destroy them all, which means having to destroy the current system that serves them.

Yes, release the files. But what will we do afterwards? Because I can promise you, the law will do nothing except making a few examples to pacify people.

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"Mitleid steht nicht im GG" (translations: Empathy is not part of the constitution)

One, sadly unironic, sentence I saw today by somebody defending their racism, that perfectly sums up so much shit in this country... 

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They are really trying to get rid of the 8 hour work day... 

75% of people are against it and only want a maximum of 8 hour workday, 95% want to leave woek at 6 pm, 73% prefer a start of the workday between 6 and 9 am, 98% of people are categorically against more than 10 hours of work a day. Unions want to keep the 8 hour workday and lower the maximum of 60 hours work a week and strenghten worker rights.

Conservatives and social democrats: let's get rid of it and make an upper limit of 48 hours a week instead, so that on some days people work 13 hours. 

SPD destroying their party once and for all Any% going strong

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It's all "diversity of tactics" until somebody wants to bring propaganda of the deed back. And then suddenly nobody wants to question the cop in their head

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