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archive.today • Trump Is Top Choice for Nearly 60% of GOP Voters, WSJ Poll Shows - WSJ

I'm joking, but the proxy state of Ukraine are doing full neoliberalism like their new owners in the US/EU, so give it some time and I'm sure they will start extracting that sweet, sweet, sweet blood soon enough. "ACTUALLY Putin is the real imperialist for stopping ~~blood theft~~ voluntary exchange between individuals, we must join forces with nazis to smash the state!!! Putin's critique of the global labor aristocracy isn't TRUE MARXISM"

As one of the few countries in the world that allows donor remuneration, the United States provides between 65 and 80 percent of the world’s source plasma, functioning as what medical journalist Douglas Starr calls “the OPEC of plasma”. In 2016, the United States exported $19 billion worth of plasma, a value comparable to what we export in medium sized cars and clothing. By another measure, plasma is worth more by unit than oil

Tell me again how the book Settlers is wrong in casting the class of Liz Warren wendigos as demonic nazism that only exists as a "parasitic genocidal entity"?

"Thinking of plasma donation as work might feel uncomfortable for some" https://jacobin.com/2023/08/blood-money-book-review-plasma-donation-exploitation-labor

comfy PMC at Jacobin really did say 'blood work is work' lmao woke neoliberals are beyond parody, I could never be so cynical to write this joke

"We should not assume that US government officials know what is best for poor Mexicans better than the latter themselves do. Such paternalism is especially worthy of condemnation...the argument that paid plasma donation qualifies as "labor for hire" strikes me as highly dubious. It is far more akin to the sale of a commodity." https://reason.com/volokh/2021/06/25/biden-administration-imposes-cruel-border-restriction-barring-mexicans-from-crossing-to-the-us-to-sell-blood-plasma/

the "google Bookchin" anti-communist PMC at Reason demonstrating woke anarcho-neoliberal ideology, glorifying the individual as a free market enterprising agent who transforms themselves into a commodity. I can't wait til blood workers start making LinkedIn blood pages branding themselves: "genuine 100% artisanal Oaxaca plasma" :matt:

This Reaganite hegemonic project of deregulation in favor of "free markets for individual consumers" is a cornerstone of woke Liz Warren adjacent radlibs since OWS. Whether its empowering ~~Ukrainian teens~~ sex workers in rationally navigating the global marketplace to make choices as an individual to visit ~~Epstein's island~~ decolonized pagan temples, or getting ~~alienated workers~~ excess free-time having consumers addicted to the 'small consumer joys' of Big Tobacco/opiate corpos, or if its crossing the border to sell blood to labor aristocrats. "Harm reduction" is a cute meme for neoliberal demons to pretend they are progressives fighting "oppression" (a woke radlib term, Marxists are proud to oppress bourgeois vampires lol) and not amoral cheerleaders celebrating new forms of exploitation and rape previously thought impossible

When “defund police” became a national cry in 2020, police organizations mobilized to beat it back by laying every uptick in crime or high-profile violent incident at the feet of Black Lives Matter and any public official in support of the movement. This national reckoning happened to come at a crucial juncture in Oakland’s budget cycle, and the city council surprised activists by voting, in June 2020, to create a task force to Reimagine Public Safety with a goal “to reduce OPD budget by 50 percent by investing in crime prevention and community.”

One year later, then-police chief LeRonne Armstrong, the department’s 10th chief in 10 years, linked “out-of-control” crime in the city to the first actual budget cut, which had been approved by the council only days before. [emph. mine] Shortly thereafter, then-Mayor Libby Schaaf made international headlines for “reversing course,” saying “defund the police went ‘too far,’” though no cuts had yet been implemented and Schaaf had always publicly opposed them.

In October 2022, ABC News investigated claims that defunding has contributed to increasing crime numbers and found that in the vast majority of cities, police funding has increased since 2020. Oakland followed this national trend, with an 18 percent increase between 2019 and 2022.

Check it out.

The US regime of terror has done nothing but wage wars and interfere with global stability and democracy.

#FreeHawaii

I didn't feel like getting into it but my god.... People are really buying in to the whole Bidenomics bullshit

no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony