rockSlayer 16m ago • 100%
I honestly thought B&N would join them 10 years ago. I'm amazed that they managed to hang on
rockSlayer 2h ago • 100%
The best part is the juice, I always suck on the texickles so I get every drop
rockSlayer 4h ago • 100%
Yes, the dissolution was made complete by Gorbachev in an official capacity. That doesn't change the fact that the CIS was started illegally to the personal benefit of Yeltsin, Kravchuk, and Shushkevich.
rockSlayer 5h ago • 66%
If you don't like my phrasing, then perhaps you should tell me why it wasn't illegally disbanded. The RSFSR, SDPU, and BSSR leaders met independently and agreed independently to secede from the USSR. That's just as illegal as the example I provided about the US.
rockSlayer 5h ago • 50%
I'm not going to mince words over partisan bs. It was illegally disbanded, just as the US would be illegally disbanded if California, Texas, and New York agreed to leave the US.
rockSlayer 6h ago • 66%
It's like you have no historical context for the topic you're trying to discuss. They do have some heavy industry, they produce 4% of worldwide nickel (and therefore also cobalt). Oil production is also heavy industry. They didn't develop it very much because it's an island, so after the Cuban revolution they relied on the USSR for heavy industry. That was a major flaw in international soviet socialism, relying on the USSR for most industry. However it made sense for an island nation, but impacted them substantially after the USSR was illegally disbanded.
This article has the backdrop of the energy revolution program within the country, started in 2005 to diversify energy production and fight climate change. You want to talk about how the embargo hasn't impacted them? Let's start with how they've been trying to modernize and decarbonize for 20 years, but hurricanes, the embargo, and the historical effects of the embargo have hindered this program.
rockSlayer 6h ago • 66%
There's more to growth than literal expansion. The Helms–Burton Act is what I'm referring to. The companies that trade with Cuba are banned from operating in the US. That doesn't mean no country can trade with Cuba, it's just forcing foreign companies to choose between one of the wealthiest and most populous countries in the world and a poor little island in the Caribbean.
rockSlayer 7h ago • 57%
So a couple things:
- I'm not entirely blaming the US embargo, the Cuban government is also at fault and are responsible for ensuring food security and electrical production.
- It's ridiculous to claim that the embargo hasn't seriously hindered the growth of Cuba or made it more difficult to maintain status quo for their citizens. The embargo prevents any trade with the Cuba if it involves the US, including foreign companies that want to do business in the US. Food and medicine purchases are allowed but still bound with significant red tape.
rockSlayer 7h ago • 55%
They specifically pointed to the embargo twice, as points for wavering food security and oil for energy. It's part of the problem.
rockSlayer 21h ago • 66%
That's fair, it's relatively unattempted as far as political systems go. However I think it's pretty promising based on the anarchist communes out there and the success of the CNT during the Spanish revolution
rockSlayer 22h ago • 100%
For fucking real. Same deal with autism for me.
rockSlayer 22h ago • 33%
Funny you reference that, because I'm actually an anarcho-syndicalist and that's actually the system I want to replace our government with (not as described in the skit, but still) The joke is good, but the politics are better
rockSlayer 22h ago • 100%
I hadn't considered that aspect. I suppose it does add some complexity to the OP
rockSlayer 1d ago • 50%
I think you're imagining these unions to be bigger than what they would be. A library economy is where all nonperishable goods are exchanged at a library. There's no market to be positioned in. Each union represents their workplace, and these unions coordinate their production to meet the mutual needs of both communities. The unions have a very narrow scope, limited to what the workers produce and have the right of free association. The work needed to protect the environment would be managed by the entire community based on their ability to do so.
rockSlayer 1d ago • 61%
It's nonsense to assume that every vote for Stein in 2016 would have voted for Clinton. Most exit polls showed that people who voted for Stein or Johnson would not have voted in the first place. Hillary was a losing candidate from the start.
rockSlayer 1d ago • 100%
I prefer this take down of his "masculinity". It avoids the body shaming, which hurts more people than the target.
rockSlayer 1d ago • 100%
Next to the peace deal and the stop order for arms shipments.
rockSlayer 1d ago • 33%
Not the same person, but my vote is for nothing. No government. Maybe a national workers council during the transition to no government. Before you ask, no capitalism either. Just a library economy with production managed by worker-led unions
rockSlayer 1d ago • 100%
I've come back around to the thought that even by the metric of working as intended, the system is broken
rockSlayer 1d ago • 100%
Walz walks the walk. MN is a sanctuary state for trans people in the Midwest. Age appropriate gender affirming care for minors is protected by law, and the state refuses to work with subpoenas about traveling for healthcare.
10 points for guessing the street
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19747660
Some of the more avid history fans might be thinking, "Casey Jones saved several lives, why is he being portrayed as a scab?" The intro that Utah gives for this song doesn't explain it enough in my opinion. It's a fictitious and comedy song that uses the name recognition of Casey, simply because there weren't really any well known railroad scabs and Joe Hill was basing this song on the Ballad of Casey Jones in honor of a rail strike.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17394988 > *Company could endure biggest US strike of 2024 as unions accuse it of intimidation during contract negotiations* > > Disney could face the largest strike in the US this year after it was announced that thousands of theme park and hotel workers in California will vote on whether to stage a walkout. > > Three trade unions representing 14,000 “cast members” at Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the Disney hotels announced an unfair labor practice strike vote would be held next week amid negotiations over a new union contract. > > In a critical statement, **union leaders accused Disney of “unlawful discipline and intimidation and surveillance” of union members**. The entertainment giant did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/13847307 > Taken from a [Press Release by the group](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/support-grows-as-teenage-trans-activists-enter-their-third-day-of-protest-at-nhs-englands-headquarters): > > LONDON, 1 July 2024—Two young trans activists scaled the NHS England’s London headquarters at 133–135 Waterloo Road in London on Friday to stage a protest and have remained there ever since. The group, now made up of seven young protesters, all 18 or under, has one simple message: Trans Kids Deserve Better: we are not pawns for your politics. > > The powerful direct action has been organised by the “[Trans Kids Deserve Better](https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/about)” network, which is calling for: access to gender affirming healthcare for trans children and young people, protection from discrimination and disrespect in their daily lives and the right to be heard in all decisions that affect them. > > Their protest comes in the wake of the government using emergency powers to ban all access to puberty blockers in the UK, a move that was supported by Labour’s Wes Streeting, likely to be the next Secretary of State for Health. It also comes in the context of a General Election campaign where trans people and trans youth have been used as ‘culture war’ talking points, but not allowed to speak for themselves. > > “We are staging this protest to remind politicians and voters that we’re real kids, not just political talking points. We may not have a vote, but it is our lives that are at stake,” said one of the activists staging the protest. “Gender-affirming healthcare is a matter of life and death for us, and we hope that our actions will bring awareness to this fact and encourage others to fight for the healthcare and dignity that we are so shamefully denied.”