In-n-out is privately owned, and puts out a solid, consistent product at a reasonable price. The menu is simple, and the facilities are always adequately staffed (even though they still get crowded). I’d heard that the wages and benefits are well above par for retail fast food. It’s basically what you get if you’re in the fast food business for normal reasons (and maybe a mild amount of greed) instead of unlimited greed like every other business and industry.

Biggest flaw? The owners are christian and put a bible verse on the bottom of every soda cup (not even the verse itself, just the name of the verse).

In-n-out and Costco are at the back of the post revolutionary tribunal line for me; hopefully they just voluntarily nationalize after and make it easier for everyone. We will have our hands full with Amazon and the US defense industry anyway.

All I’m saying is that we need to make major amendments to the constitution as defined by Article V of the document. That’s literally not undermining it but ok.

I think there is value in the US-American Left using the electoral system to force the issue. We know from theory that a pro-capitalism bourgeois party will no be able to do something good. Liberal voters, who do largely agree with us on topics like the support for Israel and healthcare reform, do not understand this. If they read theory they wouldn’t be liberals.

There is a strong argument to gas up the Democrats with anti-zionist soc-dem (or better) candidates, just so they can prove on paper where they stand. Many here were radicalized by Bernie getting crushed by the Democratic Party (twice). The Democratic party is not the path to success (of course, of course!), but they must be politicked with as a prerequisite for actual progress, whether that is a via a militant left movement, a DemSoc third party with anti-imperialist characteristics (most likely IMO), or a collapse and reform of the Democratic party (unlikely, but not off the table IMO).

The monkey’s paw curls tighter as this opens the path for a lefty candidate who supports universal healthcare as a common sense policy… And is also a literal billionaire…

Minnesota keeps dunking on our west coast asses FAH!

I think we need to differentiate between the "empty head " liberal with some treatlerite tendencies (aka a socdem at heart, but potentially a comrade with the right training and principles) from liberals with institutional power (no difference from republicans in economic or foreign policy). We know that liberal institutions are heavily misaligned with their base, even if the base supported some sort of den federalization it wouldnt happen. It’s fun to see the contradictions heighten with minimal effort on my part.

Liberals have brought this up to me a few times (cause that’s where the conversation naturally leads) and it’s just like “OK but also be aware that you are provoking a civil war, just want to make sure we’re on the same page”

We stand for the motherfucking flag

TSA works on behalf of the department of homeland security, but they are not law enforcement officers. They have the same legal authority as mall cops (so technically not cops).

Someone needs to translate it to meme format, but no, settlers colonial projects are not real countries. The only common cultural identity is endless exploitation and extraction of everyone and everything around them.

I wish there was a meme on like ~2 layers of irony that I could spread around that expresses this, but its not my wheelhouse.

The only way to stabilize a settler colonial project is to decolonize itself and actually have a less-than-maximally extractive relationship to the land. Otherwise, it is doomed to turn to fascism and cannibalize itself.

More and more people are saying it!

Remember that these people were taken advantage of in their darkest moments (70-90% of their numbers taken by disease, whether intentionally or unintentionally spread by Europeans), had violence perpetrated against them, were forced into poverty, and then forcibly reducated and subject to abuse at boarding schools.

It’s gross, but I’m not truly shocked to see that the colonization, genocide, and assimilation have been largely successful. This obviously results in right-wing brainworms, but there have always been people fighting for indigenous sovereignty. I hope we see the movement for indigenous liberation continue to grow, as it has a fair amount of intersection with the economic liberation offered by a socialist future.

The only way for us settlers to possibly offer (full) justice to our American Indian/First Nations comrades is to build a strong socialist movement that will dismantle the continued exploitation we all suffer under capitalism. We must work to offer partial justice as soon as we cannon the meantime (land back etc…)

One way to explain socialist motivations to people is

really i just think it sucks to get old right now. The healthcare sucks, the old people are bitter about young people all the time, some end up homeless, the urbanism sucks so everyone is isolated and has to drive or become super isolated. Older people also cling to power or jobs instead of just retiring, chilling out, and trusting the next generation to handle things while they can actually peacefully be elderly.

I guess I’m selfish, but I want none of that. I have [30-50] years until I’m old too, and I suppose it’s now my life’s work to make sure that my generation and those after us will be able to be old in peace. I need to see walkable cities, strong communities, and advanced healthcare and eldercare before I need to really start relying on them. I think it’s important to connect and look out for (personally and socially) those who are younger than me, so I can trust that they can handle our community/country/world’s affairs and I can be old in peace past a certain age.

It really bundles things pretty nicely without needing to understand theory or use barely any “politics words”. If somebody were to adopt this as their core doctrine, they would have an overall positive effect on the world around them, and the “selfishness” has a whole bunch of positive externalities.

Idaho had a much larger “incoming Nazi” problem. Oregon and Washington have more 2nd+ gen homegrown Nazis, but the amount of leftists and liberals moving to cities far outpaces them. Right wing people in these States usually wasn’t to move to idaho, montane, Tennessee, or Florida. They’re pretty comfortable in southern Oregon or east of the cascades, but the liberal cities still outsize them by far.

Yes, if anything you’ll be closer to finding a group that may be a better fit for you, and there’s nothing wrong with being a good influence on people who are more liberal than you.

For those who don’t know, Portland switched to a ranked choice election with districts last year for city council. There is now a “progressive bloc” of 6/12 members, and 4 of those are part of an inner block of DSA candidates (not DSA-endorsed, but directly out of DSA).

Candace Avalos is one of the two non-DSA progressives…

If you went to the protest, did some canvassing/organizing work, and posted about it here later in the day, you’d know exactly where OP is coming from. I know because I did the same thing, but didn’t have enough fury to bang out 7 paragraphs about it.

It’s important to call out this ultraleft position in our community to invite our comrades to reflect and develop a different perspective.

Cascadians support the liberation of our Californian comrades from the genocidal and regressive United States empire.

Don’t be a pessimistic dick, this is literally the correct tactic and would have a positive effect on the world, whether or not it’s actually successful in what it’s trying to achieve.

It’s like electoralism in the bourgeois system. You use it as a marketing platform. Socialists already know that there is no redemption for the US. The federal government is where progress goes to die. Unfortunately it’s taken two trump terms for (some) liberals to finally get the idea that all roads lead to trump.