Cajoled [he/him]

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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: November 17th, 2020
  • Cajoled [he/him]tomain•The "It was actually $1400 checks", but with private prisons
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    4 years ago

    As expected, the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration29 policies have led to a record-high number of immigrant detainees.30 Currently, there are about 54,344 immigrants31 detained in about 200 detention centers across the country. In 2017, the last time ICE produced such data, more than three-fourths32 of the average daily detainee population was being held in a for-profit detention facility. CoreCivic and the GEO Group are recipients of more than one-half of private prison industry contracts.33 These companies manage the detention34 of immigrants seeking asylum, those awaiting hearings in immigration courts, and those who have been identified for removal. For every 100 immigrant detainees, 32 are in GEO Group facilities, and 21 are in CoreCivic facilities.35

    https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2019/08/30/473966/private-prisons-profiting-trump-administration/

    As of now, there are 28,000 prisoners in DoJ funded private prisons (affected by this so)

    In 2017, there were 35-40,000 detained in for profit ICE prisons (not affected by this wo). Can only imagine there are much more now. Jfc....

    Also, the other 100,000 inmates in state funded centers are not affected (though Biden technically can’t change this with an eo)

  • Cajoled [he/him]tomemes•Neo-Colonialists be like
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    4 years ago

    For anyone that wants an intro to international neoliberal colonialism, I'm currently working my way through Unholy Trinity by Richard Peet. Pretty good for introductory materials on IMF, World Bank, and WTO. Writing is somewhat subpar, but it is easy-ish reading if you already have somewhat of a background in Marxist theory and know buzzwords from the neoliberal economics world. Would recommend if you have the time. It can be found on Zlibrary!

    Anyone more knowledgeable have other resources? So far the book is more history and broad explanations of these institution's policies with some brief case studies. Would love in-depth reading on specific crises. Might just resort to Wikipedia though lol.

  • Cajoled [he/him]toelectoralism•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    You're right, but unfortunately, I don't think we have any of the 3 right now. I wasn't against punditry, but I'm against opportunistic punditry. I wouldn't be so fast to lay that claim on people like Virgil and Bri just yet, but I don't feel like they've been overtly pushing Marxism (admittedly haven't listened in a few months though). Rashida Tlaib is also the only house member other than Tulsi to vote nay on the stimulus/omnibus bill. Now there's certainly a process to all this and maybe this is all ramping up to more overtly ML ideas being pushed in public, but the popular and mainstream left feel very superficial atm. We need hard stances and loud overt Marxists in positions of power. I'm not in a position to judge the elected left, but Sanders endorsing Biden and AOC voting for the stimulus bill and continually giving in to capital isn't the answer.

  • Cajoled [he/him]toelectoralism•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    We should look to Lenin. Pundits do very very little for the working class. Unless we're out there building class consciousness in our communities (which I know many here are!), nothing will come of all the coming pain.

  • Cajoled [he/him]tojudaism•Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
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    4 years ago

    About a week late here, but thank you for posting! It's funny that, as a Jewish leftist, I've ignored so much of my own past and identity as a Jew (except for reading a bit of Arendt). I think this essay hits the nail on the head for being both a colonizer and colonized and how that is anti-semitic / alienating in itself. A third alienation for me is with establishment Judaism itself. My side of the family def feels the alienation because we don't go to temple every week and such. The bad jew kinda deal I guess.

    Since reading through Anarchist Jewish identities, I think that the best way for the alienated Jew is through Yiddishland. Instead of playing into the tropes (as Arendt and this article states - "the strong arab jew"), we should be fighting directly against the anti-semitic tropes and developing an identity of our diasporic ancestors. Through the Yiddish language, food, and traditions, we can develop a community that fights against not only the colonizing Jewish class, but fights for ourselves and other proletariat. Ofc doesn't fully work for non-ashkenazis who don't have Yiddish routes though, but getting involved in the burgeoning culture has at least empowered me a bit.

  • Cajoled [he/him]tojudaism•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    hahaha, I guess I take back my previous statement about chapo.

    Gave you an upvote in that case. Voting doesn't count towards anything so I'm not sure what downvoting even does except voice distaste in their own self-examination lol...

  • Cajoled [he/him]tojudaism•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Glad to see the calling out in the thread, but yeah seriously, shits gross. Anti Semitism is so ingrained in western thought that it's super easy for people to slip into. Gotta just keep calling that shit out. Easy for someone being anti-semitic to call someone a zionist than actually be introspective about their own views.

  • Cajoled [he/him]tojudaism•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Ayo, finally a /c/judiasm! Funny this is the first post I see from it.

    Def get this feeling from some of the anti-zionists. Some spaces make me feel like I can't be Jewish and care for Palestinians/hate the state. The worst has been when I start dunking Israel and people start bashing Jewish people. That's been f'd up. IRL it comes for woke libs, but online I feel like I get it more from ML's.

    Don't think I've felt it on chapo though which is both cool and good.

  • Cajoled [he/him]togames•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    I don't know much about tetris and I know there's differences in different programs, but I play on tetr.io sometimes. It let's you play multi-player battles.