In her interview with that zionist, she had a lot of opportunity to absolutely shred that bullshit

Sure she could’ve, but I’m sure the logic going on in her head was: “If I lose my cool and come off too aggressive, they’ll just fire me and replace me with someone more explicitly Zionist. If I stay calm and professional I can ask questions that prompt the settler to expose her own bigotry to the audience without looking like I’m trying to do a debate instead of an interview. I’ll get to keep using this platform to reach people and ask questions that others wouldn’t.” The joke is that it didn’t matter at all because in the end they just fired her anyway because they didn’t like a black woman’s face while she was being slandered by a bigot.

Maybe I keep wanting to see a new generation of black panthers, instead of someone who doesn’t want to cross the invisible line. Going against the imperial narrative in US media is hazardous to your career, for sure. There’s room for her if she wants to move left, but the forces of capital won’t let her use their media monopoly to undermine their interests.

There’s ideological room for her on “the left” (the limits there being her own class interest and political education), but lets not pretend there’s room for her to have a career “on the left”. The Panthers didn’t organize a 501c4 to pad their resumes. People like BJG desperately want to believe they can turn meaningfully positive political action into a job that pays the bills, and it always ends up like this. To ideologically move beyond the limits of professional reformism, she’d need to accept that it’s almost never going to come with a financially successful career. You can make a living, and you can be a revolutionary, but you can’t make a living being a revolutionary in a capitalist framework. The contradictions will always make you choose one over the other, and a person’s material conditions will usually end up being the deciding factor.

She’s not especially impressive, I just can’t help but pity her being continually hung out to dry in increasingly degrading ways by the systems she keeps trying to work within. A person in her position could live an easy and comfortable life like any other DC suit passively toeing the liberal line. She burns all her bridges with the DNC to be Sanders’ press secretary after they’ve already fucked over Sanders once before, and Sanders turns around and disowns her when she doesn’t endorse Biden. She can’t get work in DC, so she uses some of her only remaining relationships to try to make a living as a podcaster by attaching herself to a Chapo host at the height of their success. The Chapo host gets outed as an alleged sex pest and ghosts her, with the scandal sinking the podcast. She gets a job as a talking head on a DC tabloid rag’s pivot-to-video internet talkshow where they make her interview a settler colonist promoting an ongoing genocide. Gray stays professional throughout the interview, and they fire her anyway, not for anything she said, but because they didn’t like her alleged facial expression after the settler accused her of being a rape apologist.

Obviously she’s a privileged imperial reformist whose politics are nothing special, there’s just something surreal about how disproportionately her career seems to keep getting worse every time she fails to seig heil with enough enthusiasm. If anything, she’s a living morality play for every DSA-adjascent professional “progressive” reformist: you can do everything “the right way” and this is still the best you can expect.

Seems like this woman’s career has just been getting continuously fucked over ever since she decided to work for Bernie Sanders.

Joe Biden correctly believes that US involvement in the western front was about directly securing future Nazi control of Germany from the Soviet Union once it became clear that no amount of private sector US funding and resources would keep the Nazi leadership in power. Joe Biden again wants to secure a weakened, dependent Nazi state in Ukraine from being liberated by Russia.

I’m sure there were Palestinian civilians that participated in “horrific events” on October 7 like breaking their illegal containment and taking valid prisoners of war from the illegally occupying military and settler militia, and those civilians are heroes who should be internationally celebrated for their restraint.

Are people still falling for this lie that all Jews are Zionists? It’s getting really boring.

It’s the official position of the US government. It may soon be considered a hate crime in the US to say that Judaism isn’t Zionism.

Mortgage originators this summer: “75 percent of your gross income is actually a perfectly healthy housing payment if you cut out extras like car payments, student loan debt, or food.”

The season antagonists in Korra were all pretty much right. Amon tried to empower an oppressed underclass, Unalaq was ostensibly fighting to end segregation (his ulterior motive ultimately undermines this), Zahir tried to disrupt a literal secret cabal of world controlling elites, and Kuvira tried to end hereditary monarchy and decolonize stolen land. The show briefly touches on this, though unfortunately it’s only S2 (the worst season) where Korra learns from her antagonist, rejects the status quo, and changes the world for the better at personal cost. The show missed an opportunity to build on that and have Korra deal with the fact that she was raised as a child soldier/WMD by the white lotus to secure the Fire Nation-led “united forces” control over colonized land.

By contrast, Ozai was basically a one dimensional obstacle to be overcome. With the lion-turtle ex machina, Aang didn’t even have to sacrifice anything to overcome that obstacle. I’m conceptually fine with Aang staying true to his principles and finding a non-lethal solution to Ozai on his own, but having it passively handed to him at the last minute by magic without him needing to change, learn, or grow was one of the show’s biggest missteps.

“You have to sacrifice your earthly attachments to master the Avatar state to defeat the firelord.”

“No.”

“Oh, ok then, nevermind. But really though, you have to sacrifice your principles and kill this guy in order to save the entire world.”

“Also no.”

“All right then, here’s some never before established magic to resolve this extremely specific problem. Also here’s the girl that rejected your advances as a reward. Enjoy getting everything you ever wanted!”

their wife, girlfriend, mother, sister

get a girlfriend, ya horny losers

Orgasms do not increase the productive forces.

This is the crux of my problem with the language around this topic on this site. I don’t think you’ll find anyone here that disagrees with empowering workers and fighting workplace exploitation. I do disagree with the idea that women’s “sexual purity” is something to be owned and protected by men, and it’s very easy to infer that motivation from some of the emphasis often used around this topic.

I’m not accusing you of that motivation, but I think people are right to be sensitive to it. You can very easily find “real workers” and “real Marxists” whose hatred of “prostitution and pornography” specifically manifests as a hatred of women that have sex outside of a heterosexual monogamous relationship for the purpose of procreation. From there, it’s a pretty short jump to “the LGBTQ movement is Western liberal bourgeois decadence”, “abortion is antinatalism depriving the Party of future revolutionaries”, and other reskinned conservative opinions.

Just as it wouldn’t be fair of me to assume the worst of you, I don’t think it’s fair of you to assume that anyone sensitive to language that most often precedes a call for more police are straight men that want a Revolutionary People’s Prostitution office.

Am i the only one who…

No

You will have a coal-powered SUV that falls apart after 5 years and you will like it

A person can be a fitness enthusiast and eat a ton of junk food, but that doesn’t mean a synthesis between the two is possible.

Business Insider writers molest and eat children, says report unable to be independently verified

It definitely feels true

Mainstream liberals will laugh about how anyone could be stupid enough to believe that the 2020 election was stolen by a secret pedophile cabal as though it’s not still totally hegemonic in 2024 to believe that the 2016 election was stolen by a secret cabal of KGB Manchurian candidates. Both of these ideas are evidence-free nonsense, but it’s the one debunked by years of comprehensive bipartisan congressional investigations that it’s normal to still believe. Hell, at least they’ve actually found pedophiles in congress, which is more than I can say for secret Russian Skrulls or whatever the these lunatics believe.

The class interests of the labor aristocracy are conservative when the empire is stable and reactionary when the empire declines.

Do they really think that the CPC holds any amount of power over some kid living in Iowa?

47% of US voters believe that Vladimir Putin personally changed the results of the 2016 presidential election over the internet.

Confronting your own internalized misogyny would be commendable if that’s what you were doing. Blaming your internalized misogyny on an involuntary biological sexual response is not. Claiming that you can change your own sexual attraction but are somehow powerless over your own negative thoughts and actions toward women suggests a reactionary worldview that just straight up doesn’t exist outside of religious bigotry. You did not arrive at this conclusion from reading Marx. Nobody else in history reached that conclusion from reading Marx, and you aren’t somehow the first to divine it. You could only have arrived at this conclusion through adopting it in the only place it actually exists in the world (religious fundamentalism) and substituting terms in a way that you found aesthetically palatable.

You’ve claimed in this thread that you believe you can choose to force yourself to be sexually attracted to men against your own will as a political act of defiance against internalized feelings of misogyny. Find me a single actually existing communist party or political grouping of queer people outside of fringe religious cases that take this position.

This claim does nothing to address the root of your misogyny (your own beliefs and actions toward women) and instead adopts the extremely homophobic idea that queer people have been fighting against for longer than you’ve been alive: that they’re simply choosing to be queer, and that they could just as easily choose not to be if they wanted to badly enough.

If this is just a bizarre expression of you discovering a genuine attraction to men and struggling with reconciling your bisexuality with your sense of self then I wish you the best in working through it. If you think you can just adopt a marginalized identity without authentically feeling that way to avoid having to do the work of decoupling your misogyny from your attraction to women, then I again urge you to please talk to a mental health professional in real life about this. It doesn’t do you or any potential partners any favors to be carrying around this sense of shame and resentment or to fake an attraction that you don’t feel. Both are extremely shitty things to put on another person.

the idea that your sexual attraction to women makes you inherently misogynistic isn’t a position that you picked up from any actually existing communist party or Marxist writer. I don’t believe it’s an idea you picked up from any living human outside your own head. On the vanishingly small chance that this isn’t a bit, I sincerely urge you to work through your self-hatred before pursuing any real life relationship with someone of any gender that you’re either not genuinely attracted to, or that you feel ashamed of your attraction to.