I assumed it was just “hire more LGBTQIA+ prison guards!” so-true

It’s worse than that. What I’ve seen recently because of federation is “(verbal performative) support for disadvantaged people as long as they maintain a successful small business in a disadvantaged area for no less than three years and aren’t anywhere to the left of Bernie Sanders!”

maybe-later-honey 🍷 🍷 maybe-later-kiddo

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    We’re various flavors of Communists, Anarchists, and related ideologies. We broadly believe in the abolition of private property, the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism (though some, especially some Anarchists, advocate other methods), and the establishment of varying economic systems that all have the end goal of abolishing states, class, and in most cases money. We recognize that Capitalism’s death grip on the planet is responsible for increasing human misery and has put us on a course to severe disaster in the form of Global Warming. We recognize that this misery is not an accident or a mistake or bad policy, but rather a core, deliberate, and inescapable feature of capitalism.

    Liberalism in the world today is the chief enemy of the left and the primary obstacle preventing the creation of a better, more prosperous world that supports human life and dignity. Liberalsim is, very broadly, a belief in “free” market economics, “free” trade, free movement of capital, along with a host of other complicated economic and political theories. The current dominant trend, Neoliberalism, is an evolution of the Fascist economics of the 30s, implemented as Capitalism’s inherent failures - The need for endless growth and endless increase in profits to sustain the system, and the resulting need for endlessly expanding markets, kicks the damage and misery caused by capitalism in to overdrive; The looting of all public institutions and services so Capital can devour their resources, the Imperialism necessary to maintain access to cheap resources and to find new markets to exploit, the constant threat of nuclear war as competing market blocs jostle for dominance, the police state violence and terror needed to keep the population suppressed and under control in the throws of this madness.

    The actual theory is fairly complicated, but the very short version is that Capital is killing humanity and we need to stop it.