Millions of socialists have not read theory, it's fine.
Edit: very anglo-online-centric responses here lol
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Ah yes, quite bad, but I think "worst of all time" is a bit of a leap.
Were there environmental consequences to the demolition of the pipeline? I wasn't aware.
Gmail is still probably the best email client out there, don't sweat it.
There was originally a wave of encouragement to wear it by Palestinians as an act of solidarity, and there was at least one shop in Palestine that sold out completely in like November. It doesn't sound like you have any issues with that and neither do I.
Of course, these things take on their own life at times, and it's definitely cringe of the profits are not finding their way inside Palestinian borders, and if people are acting like wearing it is anything other than an act of solidarity, and maybe a couple dollars donation (probably not that).
Not sure if it helps, but I personally don't think labels matter much unless you are actively organizing. I even have a hot take that one can only be a "communist" if they are a member of an org, otherwise they're functionally a liberal with better than average political views (perhaps they are a Marxist, or align heavily with the views of communist parties idk...).
I just say that to mean that it might not matter in your case, and you can keep talking to your wife about single issues to whatever level she's interested in that conversation. You can just tee it up so that if you ever got involved with an org (where labels start to matter) and she's like "communism? Socialism? What?" You just respond with "yeah they literally agree with all that shit weve talked about over the years". At that point it's just a tap-in instead of a "grand reveal".
Oh I thought Zelensky was making the comparison from your phrasing.
What a great fucking deal holy shit, and they just gave that away for free with no real external pressure at all that's crazy. Thats gotta rank as an all time foreign policy own-goal I can't believe it.
What was the context of this?
I think it's more trying to make themselves a meme stock for the hype like Tesla or Gamestop
From what I understand the oil was never cleaned up, it was just chemically sent to the bottom of the ocean so people didn't have to look at it as much.
I know that methane is bad, I know that the climate change situation is catastrophic, speeding up the 200 year long process of climate change by 2 days doesn't really register imo.