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  • in reply to: Syria again #255551
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    Let’s see what is going to happen to the US wanna be dictator. He does not have a mandate either

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255542
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    That is the social character of the United States of Guns, there are more guns than citizens, schools, hospital and libraries, and in the poor neighborhoods there is a church in every corners and many pastors carry guns.

    In others countries if peoples had guns they will overthrow the government,
    and the USA did not allow citizens of others nation to have guns

    The second amendment is a racist law because Indians and blacks were not allowed to have guns, they would have rebelled against the state

    in reply to: Israel and Hezbollah #255532
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    Donald Trump has said that as soon as he takes office on January 20 2025 he is going to bring hell to the Middle East, if hostages are not released.

    In 1965 Lyndon B Johson sent 50,000 marines to the Caribbeans to pick up several USA tourists that were drinking rum and coke at the beach, and the rescue operation left more than 10,000 people dead, one dictator and the complete destructions of all workers unions and progressive organizations and journalists, and they were looking for communists and the communists were invisibles and did not have a communist party, despite all their military hardware they had to negotiate with the rebels that were backed by the workers

    The thing is that the time of WW2, and post war when the USA was able to kick ass all around the world does not exist any more, and several powerful military powers have also emerged and there is a world realignment of forces that might respond back with the same military power

    The USA has been defeated several times after WW2, and its world hegemony is declining, and it is not longer an industrial might as during WW2, the real industrial might is China. War is not only terrorism with a bigger budget but it also require continuous industrial production.

    Several countries in Latin America have rejected his geopolitical and hegemonic plans including the so called war against drugs, and others have said that they are going to accelerate and increase their commercial cooperations with China, and the Chinese capitalists are constructing a mega port in Peru

    The promises made on the political campaign of ending the wars are not going to be fulfilled including Ukraine, and the Russians are the one that are dominating the situation, it is not going to be a 24 hours negotiations coming out from the mouth of a demagogue

    Workers have been fooled again, and workers are the real losers

    in reply to: Reform Party windfall #255511
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    There are rumors that Elon Musk wants to acquire a radio station known as MSNBC, but I think that his main target for federal cut is going to be NASA which his space competitor and I do not think that Boeing is going to accept it, there are going to be some fights among the capitalist class

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255510
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    This is going to be similar to the Occupy Wall Street movement, trying to motivate capitalism to create reforms to benefits the vast majority of the peoples, another movement for reformism. The problem are not the CEO, the problem is capitalism

    Revolution or Reform?

    in reply to: Stepping back from the digital. #255502
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    bibliophile ? I am one of those F pervert too because I love books and libraries. I grew up in a small town and the best center of entertainment was the town library . My father was always reading books and he was not an intellectual but he was a walking library, China books and periodical was throwing thousands of books and I took all of them and I gave all them to several Leninists organizations . In the USA they want to burn books what for ? Nobody is reading anything. They are reading the collected works of Donald Trump

    in reply to: Stepping back from the digital. #255493
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    I do not think that any member of this forum is rejecting printed books. I have two rooms with printed books and some of them were sent to a book binding company for hard cover

    There were bookstores all over, Buenos Aires is one of the few cities that has many bookstores, most bookstores were closed due to high cost of the rents and high prices of the books, only Barnes and Noble survived and Amazon.

    My first Alma-mater was surrounded by bookstores and all of them were closed, and now it is surrounded with night clubs and bars

    I have my own personal library that I have been collecting for several years and I have a 12 inches iPad and a laptop with hundred of digital books too.

    I have more printed books than digital, but the reality is that we can not live in the past anymore and printed books are becoming very expensive including the socialist literature.

    I paid $225.00 for the 52 volume of Marx and Engels, and $125.00 for the 42 volumes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Enver Hoxha, collected works, and now the price is over $3,000.00 for the work of Marx and Engels. and they have copyright, and digital are free, The MIA removed them from the internet,

    Legal books like a hornbook and a casebook the price was $35.00 and now the price is $325.00, a book on Robins Pathology the price is $250.00, and a book on Harrison internal medicine is $450.00 and they are digitally free in some websites .

    The University of Buenos Aires is selling teachers lectures because the books are very expensive and students can not buy them, many libraries have computers with digitally textbooks because it is cheaper for them and cheaper for the students. I go to the library almost every day and I take my own printed books

    in reply to: Sri Lanka #255471
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    But what is a “Marxist-leaning” person?

    The same thing as left leaning person which is frequently used in the USA and nobody knows the meaning, and they call marxist anyone that is opposing Trump including Kamala Harris who knows shit about Karl Mar and has never read anything about Marx or Engels

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255470
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    https://www.leftvoice.org/there-are-five-million-ways-to-kill-a-ceo-but-ending-for-profit-healthcare-requires-more/
    There Are Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, But Ending For-Profit Healthcare Requires More

    All of social media is talking about the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan, and much of the country seems to be in favor. But individual revenge will not be enough to end the injustice of this system.

    Nathaniel Flakin

    December 5, 2024

    Early Wednesday morning, Brian Thompson was walking into a hotel in Manhattan, when a figure in a hoodie stepped out from behind a car and shot him in the back.

    Since then, it feels like there is no other topic on social media. The entire country was talking about the assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), the largest health insurance company in the United States, with a market valuation of almost half a trillion dollars.

    Pretty much everyone was celebrating, and the jokes were endless. Would he be denied coverage if he was picked up by an out-of-network ambulance? Or get turned away from the hospital because the bullet wound was a pre-existing condition? Did his plan cover assassination? A vacuous statement from UHC has gotten over 33,000 laugh reacts!

    There were also long, moving testimonies from clients of UnitedHealthcare about when they were denied medical care, sent enormous bills, or forced to spend months on the phone. And former call center employees recalled the ongoing pain of being forced to deny people’s claims.

    The assassin fled the scene on a Citi Bike and disappeared into Central Park. Yet everyone assumed that the shooter was motivated by the near-universal hatred of these parasites. According to news reports, the bullet casings said “deny,” “defend,” and “depose” — seemingly a reference to a book called Delay, Deny, Defend about how and why insurance companies avoid paying insurance claims. The motive for the killing might be quite close to the popular imagination.

    in reply to: Taliban style capitalism #255469
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    And those are the liberators and benefactors supported by some leftwings organizations. They need an ideological excorcism. No wonders that so many workers are moving away from socialism/communism because all these groups have confused completely the working class and the right wingers are getting their votes

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255467
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    https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKLbNFRvNfJLWzgCmcTqMSVZCpBFlQTfZbLjdmPSlXKpmwrKCNkvPQVTWVRvNxbrjSsQ

    Hit on a CEO

    United provides healthcare coverage to almost 50 million people, bringing in $281 billion in revenue and paying Thompson more $10.2 million in total compensation package annually.

    Normally, when someone is tragically murdered (God rest his soul), it would not be customary to mention their comp package. But it’s unfortunately relevant to this story because hordes of people have seized on this murder, acting like it was warranted because a healthcare company CEO must be, in their telling, quite evil. Some have theorized that it’s a spurned patient, someone who was deeply wronged, who may have a vendetta against Thompson. That is possible, but we don’t know enough yet.

    Some people have taken to celebrating this theoretical vigilantism, like prominent journalist Taylor Lorenz, who in few words has suggested that more CEOs be gone after due to their perceived misdeeds.

    in reply to: Housing discrimination against the poor #255463
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    When the person that has been killed is an importance figure and is rich, the police and the bourgoise media find the killer right away, or they initiate a big campaign to find the killer, and they offer big monetary rewards to find the killer

    The son of sam was killing peoples in New York including women, they found him right away because the business of the mafia were being affected ( specially, prostitution, alcohols, drugs and bars ) and the mafia was going to find him before the police and it was going to show that they are ineffective

    When the person killed is a poor man or a woman, and is a black person, it takes many years to find the killer, and sometimes they place in jail the wrong person and then after 20 or more years they release him because it was an error ( legal technicality ) and most of the time is a black man

    When the killer is a white person, they say that is light skin, but when the killer is black they say loudly that is BLACK or a LATINO, they specifically mention a nationality even if that person was born in the USA

    Malcom X used to say that when Black Americans or Latinos voted for the Republican or the Democrats they were chumps, and both ( Democrats and Republicans ) were always in a close race all the time, and recounting votes, and the Democrats needed the votes of the black and the minorities in order to resolve the impasse,

    Having control of both houses ( Senate and House of Representatives ) they have never passed any reforms to benefits them including Obama who was the so called hope, it is a society based on lies, and false illusions since it was founded by oligarchs, counter revolutionaries and slaves owners

    They brought Puerto ricans workers to New York as cheap labors for the textiles industries and to obtain more votes for them, and to be cannon fodder for wars , and they were not called Americans, they were called Puerto Ricans, and now they are called and island of garbages, but the Puerto Rican were close to obtaining a more progressive governor than the Democrats in this election, he was in second place by forming a coalition of left-wingers

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/alianza-juan-dalmau-puerto-rico-governor-race-rcna176890

    The new cabinet of Donald Trump is composed of thieves, crooks, rapers, drugs addicts, and ex convicts but they are important figures because they have money and the president elected is a convicted felon according to the so called rules of law, in a third world ( called shithole countries ) nobody would elect a convicted felon, on the contrary, several of them have died in jail like Videla in Argentina, and Augusto Pinochet had house arrest, and Bolsonaro probably will face jail

    PS In eror I posted on the wrong thread but in someway they are related, it is part of the same shit

    in reply to: New socialist YouTube channel #255457
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    It should have been done a long time ago, many leftwing parties have had their own podcasts for many years, some of them have a daily podcasts and I listen to them in my car or in computer hotspot,

    It is much better than wasting time in Facebook which is full of commercial advertisings and pornography, hackers, troll and right wings spies and bootlickers

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255431
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    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/05/vzlh-d05.html

    UnitedHealthcare CEO gunned down on New York City street

    A law enforcement manhunt is underway in New York City for the person who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the sidewalk outside of a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning.

    The killer left a cellphone and empty bottle of water, and he run away on an electric bike from a rental station, all three things are traceable, phone calls, DNA and credit card/ ATM card used to rent the bike

    in reply to: United Healthcare CEO murdered in Manhattan #255427
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    Pretty soon some fanatics are going to be targeting health insurance workers, as they did during the Covid 19 pandemic targeting medical students, nurses, physician assistants and medical doctors. Several specialists and internists were killed.

    They never hit the capitalist class, on the contrary, they protect and love them. pure masochism.

    There is a good article published on the SOYMB explaining the futility of this type of assassination and this is a very powerful industry that produce large profits and it has large wall street investments, and like a good winding clock will continue operating, they just replace the missing part,

    They paid 22 millions dollars ransom to some hackers . They calculate that the loss was around 705 billions dollars, and the victim of New York was under stock trade investigation, but several members of the US congress ( the club of millionaires elected by the workers ) were involved in stocks trade too and they had to pass an act because it became public

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1679#:~:text=%2F21%2F2023)-,Bipartisan%20Ban%20on%20Congressional%20Stock%20Ownership%20Act%20of%202023,any%20other%20form%20of%20security. H.R.1679 – Bipartisan Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership Act of 2023

    https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/03/ransomware-payment-debate-resurfaces-amid-change-healthcare-incident/395026/#:~:text=Change%20Healthcare%20reportedly%20made%20a,reemerge%20under%20a%20new%20name.
    Ransomware payment debate resurfaces amid Change Healthcare incident

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