Or play DnD 3.5e, a horrible game but one we run a West Marches server for (link in bio)

Mutual Aid is fundamentally an Anarchist idea and, while I don’t seek to defend CPUSA, there are legitimate critiques. It serves as a “release valve” for organizing work: effort that could be put into overthrowing the system as a whole is instead put into helping a small number of people.

Building parallel power structures through Mutual Aid isn’t by any means bad (just like many other things in Anarchist thought), but it is not an effective means to challenging state power in all cases.

Mutual Aid takes a lot of work, and an org performing Mutual Aid has an opportunity cost - less time for organizing protests, educational events, recruiting, social events, speaking at councils, canvassing for petitions, or any other important things that political parties are supposed to do.

I am in a Marxist-Leninist party in Northeast Ohio. We do not do Mutual Aid, but many of our members do work with Serve the People, a Mutual Aid org mostly run by Anarchists (the one Aaron Bushnell was in). I believe this is a more effective way to organize and is compatible with MLism in a way that the political party directly organizing mutual aid is often not

Are you sure you’re on the right side of history when your side includes Germany, Italy, and Japan, and you’re up against Russia and China?

Perhaps it isn’t the developing third-world country with improving quality of life every year that is the fascist, but rather the same people who have always been the fascists.

I do not care about the country

Ohio is too good for the rest of this dog shit country. Setting your river on fire is a sign of progress. Ohio is a microcosm of the country and should be a country into itself. We also have the best flag. And we won the war against Michigan even if they have better beer

Crazy that Taft is renowned as “The fat president” and was only 243 lbs.

Jill Biden lookin good for her age 😏

It’s Her Turn.

Tariffs are a fine answer - if coupled with cheap, domestic EV production. From a Keynesian point of view (I am not, I am a Communist), the right tack would be moderate tariffs - high enough to protect domestic industries and adjust for lower production costs overseas, but low enough that domestic producers still must compete.

The issue with the current track is that the very-high tariffs are too high - domestic producers are not incentivized to even enter the budget EV market, since they can continue to sell budget ICE autos and luxury EVs to those who care. They make more profit if they only sell highly marked-up luxury EVs, so the extremely-high tariffs benefit only auto industry shareholders - not the American people.

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