The argument isn’t “don’t vote for biden” it’s “stop deflecting the harm your candidate is actively doing by pointing at someone else”. Why is that so hard to understand? The fact the democrats want to die on the hill of commiting genocide and squashing student protests against it is their own fault, no one elses.

The fees the red cross charges is the costs related to the blood collection. It’s a non-profit organisation.

Thank you! I envy your imagination though in thinking that the red cross can donate the blood plasma to hospitals while also paying the donors a bunch of money. Seems like it would cut into the other important work the red cross does just so they can compete with for profit companies that sell the plasma to the highest bidder where it goes to tech companies wasting it on fake anti-aging cures. But what do I know.

So you’re saying it’s better that you donate plasma to companies that sell it to silicon valley bros at the highest bidder than donating for free to the red cross and having it going to a hospital?

Boy Boy made a great video about this. A lot of the blood is actually going towards silicon valley tech billionaires who think other peoples blood can cure aging. Companys also sell the blood at a profit so it’s not like they’re actually better than the red cross who give the blood to actual hospitals. There is a reason we don’t allow people to sell their organs. Giving too much plasma can be dangerous. It shouldn’t be any different.

Meaningful change never comes from voting. It never has. It has always come through organizing and direct action. If you have been around for awhile you should know this already. In my country two elections ago the social democrat party got elected and implemented some of the most anti-worker and anti-immigration policy this country has ever seen. It’s not about who is the president or who you vote for. In non swing states your vote literally doesn’t matter at all. In swing states it’s rare one vote or even a thousand matter.

The real vote for genocide is arguing and putting your faith in voting. I honestly thought that Biden enabling genocide would make people see the flaws in our system. But people only seem to bury their heads in the sand deeper. If you truly care about genocide do something about it. And if you already do please take some time to try to understand why people, many of them muslim who care and do everything they can to stop this genocide, might not wanna vote or participate in this useless and meaningless action.

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Tbh the military can often have the effect of beating class consciousness into you. Also not everyone who joins does so for imperalist reasons but because they need a job and education that the military can provide.

They said almost no and virtually no coverege. It’s not anti-semitic to point out that western media is heavily skewed towards Israel. You’re completely delusional if you think that’s not the case.

Obviously there were going to be articles about the man who set himself on fire just as there was for the person who did it in 2022 due to the climate crisis. The point is the attention the media places on WHY it happens that is being ignored or heavily downplayed.

Because she recently said she was going to sue the person tracking her plane. Idk I kind of think we should hold billionaires accountable for being shitty people.

Thank you for that response I appreciate that! I’m glad you are in a better place now and I completely understand where you are coming from. I agree that fantasizing about murder is harmful and that the first option should never be to result to violence.

I also understand where the OP and many of the comments are coming from too. I think many, myself included, are very frightened about what direction the US and many other countries today are going towards. I don’t own a gun nor do I ever intend to, but I have friends who are trans that wants to own one. Not at all due to anger but just because they are realistic about the situation and knows the importance of self defense for them and their family.

I am a strong proponent of forming strong communities based on self defense similar to what the black panthers did. I interpret the way people are responding as a call towards that type of organizing not as some form of vigilante justice. Maybe that’s wrong idk but I think when people post stuff like this it comes from a general sense that people don’t take the threat that marginalized groups face seriously and this is a way of increasing awareness towards that. And yeah I’m sure for some it comes from a place of anger but if you are trans you might fear for your life just going outside. When other people don’t recognize that fear as legitimate or aren’t finding ways to make you safe, anger is a understandable reaction I think even if it isn’t the best response. I just think that we shouldn’t focus so much of our attention on that reaction and more towards preventing what is triggering it.

So then why post it under a thread about trans people doing self defense? Like if someone says “trans people has the right to defend themselves” and you say “NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL ANYONE” and “if you’re having homicidal thoughts…” that is what you’re implying. You’re doing the classic far right troll thing where someone makes a pretty basic statement and you respond with something obtuse implying the person said something they didn’t, and then when called out just keep backtracking and pretending that’s not what you meant.

I’m going to assume you’re not trolling but at this point I think it’s a lost cause tbh

“NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO KILL ANYONE”

“if you’re having homicidal thoughts”

etcetc

You posted “lol kill people” and started complaining about trans people doing homicide about a post that is clearly about self defence. That seems to be exactly what you’re saying or you need to work on your reading comprehension.

That only works if what you want doesn’t also affect other people. If you buy a giant pick up truck that endangers other people, for no other reason than your own ego, you’re probably an asshole.

Many people in the US also live in food deserts where easy access to healthy food IS a luxuary due to simply not being able to buy it where they live or work.

What are you talking about? The point was that fossil fuel companies are promoting carbon capture. Not that google without adblock is going to show you sponsored content. Everyone knows that.

There is a difference between use value and exchange value

Yeah but the way you said made it seem that value (exchange value according to Marx) is determined by cultural factors, thus making it untrue. The debate around labour theory of value have existed since the 19th century.

How is it culturally biased? It’s a theory of how exchange value functions within capitalism