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A radfem talking about women being more productive than men is comparable to Marxists talking about workers being more productive than capitalists. The difference is they believe class hierarchy (the most recent incarnation being capitalism) stems from patriarchy instead of patriarchy stemming from class hierarchy, as Engels argued. They want to do to men (and often transwomen) what we would like to see done to capitalists.

What kind of social-chauvinist loser highly ranks the opportunists (e.g. Vaush, Cody, Natalie) who went full popular-frontist, critically endorsing Biden and tarring independent socialist supporters with the same ultraleft brush as the strict electoral abstentionists (while still putting the anarchist Thought Slime in a mid-high tier)?

Who puts women with much better politics (e.g. Mexie, and Lily Orchard to a lesser extent) in bottom tiers with Peter Coffin?

What the fuck is Jreg doing here at all when he’s the Political Compass subreddit in YouTuber form and known magnet for fascist recruiters?

I feel like this explanation slightly underemphasizes the role of USD inflation. Stock prices, if denominated in dollars, must increase in the long run if their real price (“real” meaning inflation-adjusted, with the USD’s value anchored to what it was an arbitrarily chosen base year) stays the same, and the rate of inflation remains positive, even if it’s low inflation.

The Federal Reserve (which indirectly controls inflation and interest rates, which they do by buying or selling bonds, the former being how they “print” new fiat money) definitely has a hand in propping up stock growth, especially in indices like the Dow and S&P. I would go so far as to conjecture that much of the stock growth we’ve seen since 2008 is thanks to interventions by the Fed (i.e. quantitative easing).

Probably because she’s a lot younger and still has plenty of time for her politics to get much worse.

But yeah, Bernie deserves more criticism for many of the same reasons. Both are Dem entryists presenting themselves as “democratic socialists” when the limits of their imaginations are somewhere in the neighborhood of FDR New Deal liberalism and the right wing of social democracy. Bernie deserves even more shit than AOC does for promoting a sort of US-American social imperialism, consistently supporting the growth of the military-industrial complex.

AOC undermines the socialist movement by encouraging would-be socialists to vote for and therefore compromise with Democrats, which is class-collaborationist because the Democrats are a 100% bourgeois-controlled party with no mass membership or internal democracy. Her and Bernie’s entryism has allowed us to draw important conclusions about the Democrats being ghoulish libs at their core, but this entryism was an avoidable mistake. We should have already learned this lesson from the Jesse Jackson campaign in 1988 that eventually turned Black and Rainbow Coalition Dem-entryists (some with even Maoist and Black Panther backgrounds!) into Obama-supporting liberals and Democrats. Even Angela Davis critically endorsed Biden!

If AOC and The Squad remain in the Democratic Party, they will follow the same trajectory and repeatedly betray their working class supporters, misleading the masses into thinking they can have any consistent or meaningful control over Democratic Party policy the whole time.