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And 90% of the replies are people going "cuz they are dumb and bad!" and maybe like three guys heavily downvoted at the bottom trying to provide an actual explanation.

Not saying we NEVER get posts like that here. But the whole practice of making posts like these weekly/daily/hourly just screams insecurity to me. I feel like us HexBear commies are all pretty aware of why our opponents don't agree with us and don't need daily session of us all collectively reminding each other.

Edit: typo

This section is for the real big brains

Mondragón’s approach has proved itself profitable and resilient, so could it become a realistic alternative to the modern corporation?

It’s a moot point. Despite their worker-first philosophy, the movement’s leaders are reluctant to denounce the wealth-maximising nature of modern market capitalism. The reason is as simple as it is awkward: Mondragón must actively participate in that same capitalist system for its survival.

This tactic of being “in, but not of” the world of mainstream business has seen the Basque-based movement face charges of double standards. In particular, critics highlight its outsourcing of some of its production to low-wage countries with weaker labour standards, such as China and Mexico. Mondragón argues that it has checks and balances in place to ensure that its foreign business partners uphold workers’ rights, and that keeping costs low is part and parcel of staying competitive. “For us, workers will always come before capital. But capital is still important because without it we cannot fulfil our mission of social transformation,” says Javier Marcos, Mondragón’s director of communications.

Radical as that mission is, its focus is and always has been primarily on el territorio (the local Basque region); less about rewriting the global economic order and more about improving co-op members’ lives. That said, if others want to copy the Mondragón model, then its doors are always open, insists Etxeberria. In the past month alone, he has hosted large groups of policymakers and business students from the Philippines, Brazil and the US. “They come to see if our approach works in practice,” he says. “They all go back pleasantly surprised, I think.”

Look at this scary tankie forum.

Also I'm not going to apologize for including my own post

Shit looks comfy for warm climates

Arabia and India have the right idea. Stupid British clothing norms

https://twitter.com/ShouldHaveCat/status/1783365600971997666

I think I might be unironically be on team #defundtheABC ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-25/fertility-rates-in-china-dropping/103654528

Me: "Yes"

Lmao I wouldn't even call me an angry person. I'd call me an empathetic person that is responding naturally to a shitty system.

Being submissive isn't a virtue. You just dislike justified defiance because it makes it harder for you to pretend everything is okay. It reminds you of your cowardice.

But remember, we're the "authoritarians" for opposing this

And by that I actually mean very hot.

IT'S IN THE STORES KATHLEEN IT'S IN THE TELLEVISION KATHLEEN AND THERE'S KIDS AND THERE'S ADULTS AMD THER'ES EVERYONNE IS ALWAYS TALKIN ABOUT THE HASBARA IT'S SICKENIN KATHLEEN THAT IT'S EVEN IN THE CINEMAS KATHLEEN AND THE MAGAZINES YOU GET IN THE STORES FOR THE KIDS KATHLEEN IT'S GOOD FER NOTHIN FOREIGN PERSUAGINGS KATHLEEN

No you're absolutely right, Michael, I think it's a disgrace that we see so much Israeli propaganda around us.

ISRAELI...????

Uh, yeah, Israeli propaganda, the hasbara.

THE ISRAELIS, KATHLEEN...?????

What did you think we were on about????

THE MY LITTLE PONIES AND THE TRANSFORMERS KATHLEEN

I've fought HAMAS for years.

You'd think we're all terrible online debatelords but I don't think any of us could beat 5 consecutive comments of "I see you have no more arguments left, good sir, and shall now disengage" while they're too raving mad to actually pull through

Fool the hogs that it's 100% real.

I normally don't criticize artists, but come on. You don't have a tech guy on your DJ set at COACHELLA when you don't know how to do it? They must be paying her like $1 million to DJ and she can't even bring a tech person that knows how to fix a double tempo issue.

Also the bible verse into LLM messiah complex bit at the beginning removes all sympathy.

If a performance is going badly, typically you don't want to apologize in the middle of it. And if you do, just do it once, not 6 times.

I have absolutely no idea what he says in the video and probably won't watch it. I just thought the thumbnail was really funny.

the video

edit: oh just to add he is a finance ghoul, so be warned. I only sub for the crypto and rap content.