Word around the office is you've got a little guy

That's how libs feel about capitalism

Also given his age it seems like there should have been a better succession plan

Damn I never realized he lived to be 74.

Still died too soon but that's a long life for his time/place/experiences.

The other replies in this thread are more specific to ultras, but more generally a lot of the problems with the western/online left stem from reading theory without reading history (and/or direct experience fighting against the mechanisms of capitalism). We might identify as materialists, but it's an idealist materialism, because it's purely identity, existing only in our heads or online.

It's hard to overcome without access to effective orgs, though. Individual action is largely ineffectual and thus usually idealist. Systemic problems have to be engaged with collectively, so without organization the "correct" strategies are entirely hypothetical.

But more and more people are realizing this, I think. Labor organizing is becoming popular again and political orgs are growing. The red-state smallish city I just moved from started a DSA chapter this year and now has 20-30 members (a bunch of whom are MLs). Bevins' recent book seems to be catching on among the western left.

Things are still pretty bleak, but it's a "bad times breed opportunity" kind of bleak rather than a consuming hopelessness.

Constructing a Dyson sphere so more people can be told to eat toxic mushrooms

Hedge fund models strongly favor companies with onshoring plans, further pointing to a deglobalizing trend.

Airbus projects a demand of 40k new planes over the next 20 years.

Yup anyplace with private energy is gonna have the public competing with the biggest corporations in the world

Word is all the big tech companies are in talks with US energy suppliers (esp nuclear plants) to contract a ton of future energy for new AI data centers. These places are projected to use an order of magnitude more power than existing data centers.

Love to live in a rational economy

But how will we know what porn ted cruz watches???

Eh mister "I will own slaves after the apocalypse" probably doesn't deserve the grace

Holy fuck meet the grahams is brutal