The next stop after the state visit to the USA should be Cuba!

Food diplomacy! Sharing delicious snacks and om noms with folk is a great way to break down barriers.

Some awesome posters like the soviet art of old would look great on just about any wall.

Is there a PVDA equivalent in NL?

They know they have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, they have been warned that they would be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, and still continue to conduct war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The greatest joke of it all is to do this naked in front of the UNGA. The greatest irony is without the typical US press, and will instead be brought to you LIVE on Trump TV.

USA is the pariah rouge state that they demonize in others. USA, and those that support it, cannot be trusted.

Its interesting reading these moments through a ‘state’/class lens; the People’s democratic dictatorship will be a difficult foe as seen through the eyes the US oligarchy. How can the US compete against a foe that is able to think in terms of it’s whole? If the US is unable to see that helping the people is in everyone’s interest then they are doomed to fail without their vassalage or colonial network.

Where the US ruling class is purely interested in preserving the tech/military/financial/industrial complex so as to extract as much surplus value from their citizens as possible it will never be able to stand up to a DotP that’s aim ois to improving the lives of the people- healthy and happy people are productive people. Higher productive capacity empowers more and more: its an ever greater climb to an ever growing top!

I am currently reading “Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde” which is centered around Víctor Dreke. A couple of moments question the editor but its an interesting read about the last colonial empire (Portugal) in Africa and Cuba’s role in supporting independence.

If you go to some old churches and cathedrals in europe and you’ll see Jesus was depicted very much like he was a man born in Nazareth.

Trump is the Baron with Dementia

I am going through the painful experience of buying a mop and bucket under capitalism.

Every store has a single brand for all your cleaning needs, that all work with their own proprietary system so you need Brand™ System™ refills or Brand™ compatible handles. I thought I finally had one that is ‘just a mop’ but the squeeze for the bucket ‘that came free’ was made too small for the same brand’s mop head and it will break in one more use and barely worked. I will have some plastic waste that will outlive humans on my hands.

I just want a fucking mop that goes on a fucking handle that can go in a fucking bucket to mop some fucking floors. Capitalism is hell. I refuse to participate in this, and will never order online for the same thing. So its an ongoing mission to just find a damn thing in this damn country that hasn’t been captured.

Heya!

“We’re all living in America”

Denying consent is just 1 part of the puzzle. You will still be accepting all “legitimate interests”.

Thats where I was hoping you can expand, comrade! If we still rely on the wage system, where others are paid more for their contribution beyond the common needs of others to pay for luxuries then I don’t know how revolutionary the future’s day to day will be. I struggle to see if the money-wage system is still in place how different it would be from today. The then joyful task of tallying and monitoring and weighing and counting and judging the individual contributions of all at scale with I expect the office to do all this work (and then enforcing and punishing and shaming?) then we are not really too far away from how the world works today. But the challenge of reward or punishment to work is a difficult one, so that’s where I’d love if people can give some insights, as my view is very pessimistic in that form of labor relations.

Today, festivals are luxurious, expensive, and artificially constrained to extract the most amount of capital for the least amount of effort. The idea then is to maintain a fine line from extractive food-drink prices, entry-stay fees, artist-lineup attractiveness, and to make as much profit and maintain as much of a reputation to do it all again. In a communist society, extracting money for profit is not the goal, and the luxurious nature of organising cultural events for society should be seen differently. We’re quite biased to the monopolies of festivals today and need to lean much more towards something like Aste Nagusia in Euskal Herria (basque country), you’ll love its revolutionary character.

The “extraction of surplus-value” is a, if not the, defining characteristic of capitalism, and a eureka moment in Marxist theory. I am interested in then how this productive force use converted into surplus ‘value’ - meaning working beyond the needs of society and our collective plan for the betterment of society to grow. It feels distinctly ‘line must go up’ so any material you have to help me there would be helpful!

Is there anything further you could expand on or have some more get support on this poiny?

This just sounds like ‘money’ with a different face, and those that can’t contribute will be penalised. This is where I get stuck with any ‘contribution’ system, as it will involve an ever more complicated system of totalling and tallying and tokens and cheques and so on. If we still are left with a wage system, we’ve failed.

The ‘rank’ stars arent even stars.

I would come back to ‘the challenges’ people face, as this is where my ‘just do it’ brain says so what?

yes

Zoos, for the most part, are conservation programs. It is not just the animals, plants, and such you see behind glass that are in some cases the last of their species kept alive by people with the passion to do so, but also the wealth of data and samples and collections that are used for research and medicine.

In a world where climate change is going to render large parts of the world uninhabitable as we know it, these will be some of the only places left on earth that have any forms of biodiversity.

Does it matter? It gives the US an opportunity to use this agreement in the future if anything goes against their ‘legal’ agreement. 20 years from now is a generation away, and gives so much runway to the US that if Venezuela does ‘regain sovereignty’ and tries to ‘take control’ of what the US thinks are now their resources.

I do not know the challenges people face where you are, but why do you not see much squatting?