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After withdrawal of SDF | Members and families of IS*IS smuggled from Al-Hawl Camp
Al-Hawl Camp in Al-Hasakah countryside witnessed organized smuggling operations of ISIS members and families after the withdrawal of SDF from the camp that has held ISIS cells for many years, after the “International Coalition” forces refused demands of SDF to interfere to stop the attacks by local armed groups of the Syrian authority on the vicinity of the camp. According to local SOHR sources, smuggling networks took advantage of the security chaos and withdrawal of SDF to smuggle detaineea through several routes.
https://www.syriahr.com/en/376653/

Jerusalem churches denounce Christian Zionism as betrayal of faith
Christians made up around 12.5 percent of the population of historic Palestine before 1948, compared with roughly 1.2 percent today across Israel and the occupied territories. During the war on Gaza, churches were repeatedly bombed and at least 44 Palestinian Christians were killed, according to the committee. Zionist organisations, some of them funded by the Israeli government, including Ataret Cohanim, continue efforts to take control of church-owned properties near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, close to the Christian and Armenian quarters.
https://www.newarab.com/news/jerusalem-churches-accuse-zionism-hijacking-christianity

Sadr urges Iraqi factions to set aside differences as 'great danger' looms from Syria
Sadr called on political parties to focus on what he described as mounting dangers, warning of severe consequences if divisions persist. “Leave your conflicts and your competition over this fleeting world… and pay attention to the dangers surrounding you… for neither God nor history will have mercy on you,” he said, as he appealed for unity amid regional instability.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180120261

Museveni’s son threatens Bobi Wine after Uganda election
Uganda’s General Muhoozi Kainerugaba issued the threat on Tuesday just daysPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

US justice department subpoenas Minnesota Democrats accused of impeding ICE efforts
A copy of a subpoena to the office of the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, obtained by the Guardian, requests guidance and policies related to immigration enforcement in Minnesota since last year. It also requests communication regarding those policies with other state agencies, as well as documents related to “hindering, doxxing, identifying, or surveilling immigration officers”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/minnesota-democrats-subpoenas-justice-department

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and US Sen. Bernie Sanders rally with nurses on ninth day of strike
The democratic socialists, speaking to a boisterous crowd of nurses in front of Mount Sinai West on the Upper West Side, called on hospital executives to return to the negotiating table to resolve the contract impasse that prompted some 15,000 nurses to walk off the job last week.
https://apnews.com/article/nursing-strike-new-york-bernie-sanders-mayor-mamdani-c6a23222b6275c553e78d033994a5a79

‘It Has to Stop’: Minnesota Police Chief Says Off-Duty Cops Racially Profiled by ICE
“In Brooklyn Park, one particular officer who shared her story with me was stopped as she passed ICE going down the roadway,” Bruley continued. “They demanded her paperwork, [but] she is a US citizen, and clearly would not have any paperwork. When she became concerned about the rhetoric and the way she was being treated she pulled out her phone in an attempt to record the incident. The phone was knocked out of her hands.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-racial-profiling

ICE arrests elderly, underdressed Hmong-American man inside his St. Paul home over mistaken identity, family says
The family of the man taken from the home, Chongly Scott Thao, says it was a case of mistaken identity. In an online fundraiser, they say ICE agents broke down the door, entered with weapons drawnPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

What lies ahead in 2026?
As 2026 gets underway, British capitalism is entering another year in its long-running decline and disarray. This isn’t just a rough patch. Economic weakness, institutional decay, and social malaise are converging. Together they point to a system that has reached its limits. As the management committee of this broken system, the Starmer government is hated. But the anger goes deeper than just the government. The authority of Britain’s major institutions has collapsed. The police, the monarchy, the BBC, the courts, Parliament itself – none command any real respect. What’s striking is that the distrust comes from the left and right. The right sees ‘two-tier policing’ and a biased media; the left sees repression and corruption. All see the economic crisis and falling living standards. And increasing numbers draw the conclusion that these institutions are not neutral, competent, or legitimate. Westminster’s two-party system is now finished. Historically, Britain’s electoral system produced stable governments by rotating power between two large parties that could both, when push came to shove, be trusted to defend the interests of British capitalism. That arrangement is now breaking down.
https://communist.red/what-lies-ahead-in-2026/

“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”
“Fuerza, fuerza, fuerza! Fuerza, compañeros!” bellowed a man in a miner’s helmet into a megaphone. Marching through the sun-drenched streets in the haze of noisy firecrackers, thousands of miners, workers, peasants, civil society associations, and indigenous organizations in Bolivia descended on the city of La Paz earlier this month in the biggest social mobilization in at least five years. Beyond the city, road blockades led by union locals brought transport to a near standstill across the country. In the streets, the mantra was “Bolivia no se vende” (Bolivia is not for sale). The mass protests against the executive decree of newly elected Rodrigo Paz’s conservative government lasted nearly a month. While presented as the elimination of the fuel subsidy, which keeps gasoline prices artificially low, Decree 5503 would have also privatized key natural resources and implemented a wide range of austerity measures. The impressive display of workers’ might, combined with an effective negotiation strategy by the traPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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What do you think about rightoids who idolize autocracies and isolationism like Juche?
They have been pushing for a multi-polar world and I have definitely seen rightoids that idolize centralized governments, mainly Russia but also places like North Korea and Juche for being self relying and so on.
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>>2657420
even fucking CNN states it but people here still believe communism is democratic so its *gotta* be about "the majority"

>muh haz
idk how that retard can correctly point out skilled professionals have vastly different material interests to proles and then say shit like "uhhh baristas arent proles bc uhhhhhhh purple hair"

There is no cohesive observable ideological core for the MIGA movement. It's a tool to control the cattle.
On top it's imperialism, on the bottom the tune changes every 5 minutes. One second it's "globalism sucks", the second "we invaded a country and kidnapped its president, and we're supporting regime change on the other side of the world, and we're sending more weapons to Israel"

>>2657422
>even fucking CNN states it
Maybe, just maybe, the fact that you agree with CNN, the libest of all lib outlets, that working class = white people without four year degrees, is a sign that you don't actually know shit about Marxian class relations and should probably study up.

>skilled professionals have vastly different material interests to proles
The labor aristocracy is still a segment of the proletariat. A programmer might have a higher quality of life than a factory worker, but at a fundamental level, they're both exploited by the bourgeois in the exact same way. Working class, in the context of Marxian economics, does not mean "poor person", it means anyone who provides a product or a service to an employer who then profits off said good or service. Poverty is an effect of this relationship, not a cause, and starts affecting more and more people further up the pecking order the more emboldened the bourgeois becomes and the further capitalism advaces.

>>2657420
why do you think the working class is comprised exclusively of white people

>>2657464
I don't. CNN sure does though.


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Can someone tell me about whether there are classes inside the proletariat other than the lumpenproletariat, the labor aristocracy, and the managerial class? Is there a pyramid for it? Is there a similar differentiation on the classes constituting the bourgeoisie? What'd the lower middle class be defined, as a term? Can someone tell me more about the view on the middle class in general?
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>>2642553
A Neuro surgeon did go to school for ten years and has to deal with a lot of bullshit even in the medical field to actually practice and adheres to strict practice or loses the medical license. So they cannot competitively be called bourgeois as we understand the term. They don't even necessarily own capital. They're just highly paid (because they're a fucking surgeon) and it's an overall reputable job that gets you lots of pussy and praise.

There's nothing wrong with calling someone privileged. You can be privileged without being bourgeois.

>>2657285
>they invested absurd amounts of money to become a professional who is so highly sought after theyd have to be incredibly stupid to suffer unemployment…… so that means they CANT be petit bourgeois (??)
lmfao ofc its a retard with a christcuck flag posting dumb garbage

>They don't even necessarily own capital
they earn stupidly high wages which lets them acquire assets you fat fucking retard

>You can be privileged without being bourgeois
the proletariat is immiserated and the bourgeous includes the petit bourgeois you braindead dipshit

why is everyone here a stupid amerilard bro. its incredible. nothing but bullshit after bullshit

>>2657272
>>2657285
>>2657293
Liberals - because they are bleeding hearts for democracy - just lump everyone into the proletariat because they think communism is about the "masses". Like, watch them go "uhh, actually bureaucrats are proletariat too since they don’t own the means of production."

Where would you put an engineer in the oil industry who oversees projects, makes three figures a year, has large shares in the company, has a pension fund and private healthcare? Is it by accident that they will vote for parties that cater to the oil industry? Cue some academic quackery about how they're literally brainwashed and not simply following their class interests.

The petty bourgeois is a constantly decaying class that has very easily spotted positions in society and in industry. Only here is this remotely controversial.

>>2642556
>>2643426
>>2643609
>>2657285
Someone who earns a salary high enough to begin accumulating assets is very obviously not a reserveless wage-labourer.

Leaving Marxological justifications aside for a moment, do you really think that someone who works at an office and can look forward to having a nice career, eventually being able to buy a home etc. has the same immediate interests and need for association as someone working in a factory? The former obviously enjoys a position of relative security. The fact that home ownership gives people a stake in the stability of society is widely known to governments and policymakers. You can even find people like Peter Thiel talking about it openly.

That isn't to say that homeownership automatically makes someone petty bourgeois or that one becomes petty bourgeois only when one buys a home, but you have to take factors like this into consideration. A student who takes a minimum wage job but can expect to make 200k after finishing university is also not a proletarian in any meaningful sense of the term.

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>>2642530
>>2642553
>>2642561
>>2643609
>>2657293
>>2657303
>>2657306
I'm glad to know leftypol has the same level of class analysis as CNN.


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SO LONG, SPACE COWBOYS

Recent news:
Keep in mind the previous thread lasted months, so these events are separated by weeks.

Suwayda conflict basically freezes.
Minor clashes between SDF & STG.
STG attempts to capture Omar Omson, the leader of a French foreign Islamist faction accused of kidnapping women, at his base in Idlib countryside. They fail and come to a truce.
More clashes between SDF & STG.
Small anti-Alawite pogrom in Homs caused by the murder of two Sunnis there, despite STG investigation revealing that there was no sectarian motive to the murder.
Protests by Alawites in the coastal region in response to the pogrom. Multiple deaths among protestors, counter-protestors and STG security forces.
Multiple deaths among US soldiers during a joint STG-US patrol in Palmyra. The attacker infiltrated and was a part of the STG's MoI and was with the patrol.
The STG-SDF conflict escalates. SDF agrees to withdraw from Deir Hafer in exchange for a ceasefire, but the STG & tribal auxiliaries keep advancing despite the ceasefire. Revolts by Arab tribes inside of the SDF and them losing a lot of territory makes them sign an integration agreement that basically amounts to capitulation.

Links:
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tl:dr kurds get fucked. we don't need you anymore now that we have jolani. integrate and stop being a nuisance or die

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>>2657120
>I'm pro Iraqi genocide
Shia v shia isn't genocide, dimwit.

>>2657150
they are the wrong kind of muslim

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>>2657166
Who? What?

You posted a statement by a US cumrag and moved the goal post 10 times since.

Take the L as your mother takes my D

NEW

>>2657193

>>2657193

>>2657193


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I've come to the conclusion that right wingers (especially American ones) are completely indifferent to the idea of them or anyone they care about being killed. You might see them fearmongering about it every time there's a minority in the news for doing something violent, but they react that way any time a minority is in the news for any reason, good or bad. Or on TV at all. Or even just out on the street. It's the fact that they're forced to be reminded that minorities exist at all that is truly making them lash out.

Conversely, when a cishet white person kills someone, even if it's someone they allege to care about, they shrug their shoulders and think nothing of it. White guy shot my husband? Well it wasn't a trans so I don't really care anymore. White guy shooting citizens in their cars without consequence? Whatever, at least I see fewer brown people outside. My own child dies because I didn't get them vaccinated against measles? Well, that was my decision, and I'm white, so who cares? Half my family drowns or starves because the president tricked me into refusing disaster aid? Why should I care, rich white people can do whatever they want! And don't even get me started on their military cuckoldry fixation.

What do you even call this phenomenon? Psychopathy? Extreme NPC Syndrome? It's hard to even believe that people like this are real, let alone such a large percentage of the population.
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Death is scary though

Yes they did not fear death, where do you think the day of the dead came from?

>>2655428
Indeed. Inca was a young empire with tributary relations with communities, which communities already had tradition of communal labor obligations and communal system before empire. It's legit.

>>2655434
Life is worse.

>>2655428
That's just a quote from the article he's responding to, which talks about the Day of the Dead celebration they are participating in. He uses this to make a broader point about the Amerindian civilizational culture, specifically the Inca

>We have taken this article from an Italian children’s comic just as it is and under its own title. It is one of countless rehashes of U.S. “cultural” production which pass from tabloid to tabloid and from review to review without the hacks in service noticing anything other than the degree of effect of each piece that circulates. This umpteenth copycat has not even dreamt of the deeper meaning that its diffusion hides, albeit in a conventionally conformist guise.
>The noble Mexican population, having become Catholic under the merciless terror of the Spanish invaders, would show that they have remained “primitive” by not being terrified and horrified of death.

>If under the guise of the squalid Catholic saints the most ancient form of a not-inhuman divinity, like the Sun, continues to live, this brings to mind what knowledge we have — all too often a travesty! — of the Incan civilization that Marx admired. It is not that they were primitive and ferocious enough to sacrifice the most beautiful specimens of their young to the Sun who cried out for human blood, but that such a community, magnificent and powerfully intuitive, recognised the flow of life in that same energy which the Sun radiates on the planet and which flows through the arteries of a living man, and which becomes unity and love in the whole species, which, until it falls into the superstition of an individual soul with its sanctimonious balance sheet of give and take, the superstructure of monetary venality, does not fear death and knows personal death as nothing other than a hymn of joy and a fecund contribution to the life of humanity.

This is when he starts talking about primitive communism and shit. Which makes sense, because they were the ones sacrificing the "most beautiful specimens of their young", not this little tribe by the lake where they dress up for day of the dead

>>2655472
>life is worse
Explain. Also, how does one learn to not fear death and precarity? (Inb4 muh voluntarism)


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The absolute state of the discourse on this board lately is pathetic. It’s almost 2026 and I’m still seeing "socialists" parroting CIA talking points like they’re reading from the Black Book of Communism. It’s time to filter the radlibs and the ultras who care more about moral purity than winning.

If we actually apply historical materialism instead of utopian wish-casting, it becomes obvious that Stalin and Deng aren't just "good" – they are the two greatest practitioners of Marxism in history because they did what Western leftists refuse to do: they prioritized the survival of the revolution over the approval of the bourgeoisie.

1. Stalin: The Shield
Stop crying about "authoritarianism" and read Losurdo. His Critique of a Black Legend completely exposes how the "millions dead" narrative is just recycled Nazi war propaganda that the West adopted during the Cold War. The "Holodomor" wasn't a genocide; it was a combination of kulak sabotage and cyclical drought that the Soviets eventually ended through collectivization. Stalin understood that you don't survive capitalist encirclement with good vibes. He took a country of wooden plows and turned it into a nuclear superpower in a single generation. He purged the fifth columnists because he knew a war of annihilation was coming. Without that "authoritarianism," the Wehrmacht would have wiped the Slavs off the map.

2. Deng: The Sword
The hate for Deng is even more embarrassing. You guys claim to care about the poor but hate the man who oversaw the greatest poverty alleviation program in human history? Deng understood that "poverty is not socialism." He developed the productive forces necessary to compete with the West. And regarding 1989: He saved China from the fate of the USSR. Tiananmen was a textbook color revolution, backed by Western NGOs and intelligence. Deng saw Gorbachev selling out to Pizza Hut and realized that sometimes you have to crush a counter-revolution to preserve the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Because he had the spine to do that, China is now mogging the US economy while Russia spent the 90s getting looted by oligarchs.

TL;DR
Parenti said it best in Blackshirts and Reds: you people want a revolution without a revolution. You want a clean, safe process that never makes mistakes and never exercises power. That doesn't exist. Stalin secured the state; Deng secured the economy. If you reject them, you’re not Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>2647795
Don’t forget Franco, Juan peron and joe Biden

>>2647795
But they didn't alleviate poverty, though. Americans remained poor until Marshall Plan. ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler both failed to alleviate poverty, too

>>2629216
>Luxembourg, Panenkoek, Bordiga
Their legacy is 12 belgian boys and 3 art hoes.

>>2656667
clearly it's bigger than that since leftchads own leftypol and the brains of thousands of mls

>>2656816
Being very annoying and retarded doesn't mean you own anyone's brain anon, Im so so sorry to break it to you


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What you should know about the Syrian government-SDF truce agreement
A central pillar of the ceasefire deal revolves around the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces into Syrian state institutions. Under the truce deal, SDF fighters and security personnel are to be individually vetted before being integrated into Syria’s defence and interior ministries. Civilian institutions that were previously administered by branches of the SDF are also stipulated to be absorbed into state structures, per the agreement. Al-Sharaa said that the current ceasefire plan remains in line with the 10 March agreement, which called for the integration of all civil and military institutions to be under the control of Damascus.
https://www.newarab.com/news/explainer-what-know-about-syrian-government-sdf-truce

ISIL fighters flee jail as Syrian army clashes with Kurdish-led SDF
The Syrian Operations Authority also told SANA that control of the al-Aqtan prison and security facilities in the city northeast of Raqqa would be assumed by the Ministry of Interior following the operation, and claimed that the SDF had deliberately released ISIL members. The army did not say how many fighters had been released from the prison. The SDF said in a statement that it had lost control of the prison after an attack by the army, a claim that the military has denied.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/19/isil-fighters-flee-jail-as-syrian-army-clashes-with-kurdish-led-sdf
https://archive.ph/ZULKx

Iran suspends reformist newspaper Ham-Mihan over protest coverage
The first was an editorial by Ruh titled "From January 1979 to January 2026", published in the issue on 16 January 2026. The second was an article by Laleh Mohammadi titled "When the sanctity of treatment collapses", published in the issue on 8 January 2026. The article featured on the front page under the headline "The story of hospitals from Ilam to Sina". It also accused security and police forces of attacking hospitals during the protests.
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Judge refuses to block new DHS policy limiting Congress members’ access to ICE facilities
Cobb said she wasn’t ruling on whether the new policy passes legal muster. Rather, she said, plaintiffs’ attorneys representing several Democratic members of Congress used the wrong “procedural vehicle” to challenge it. The judge also concluded that the Jan. 8 policy is a new agency action that isn’t subject to her prior order in the plaintiffs’ favor.
https://apnews.com/article/minneapolis-shooting-congress-visit-ice-5eb6749b18d59ed8c47b5eeab9784432

Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline
One month after this deadline mandated by Congress’s Epstein Files Transparency Act, however, Trump’s justice department has not complied with this law, prompting questions about when – and whether – authorities will ever release investigative documents about the late sex offender.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/jeffrey-epstein-files-unreleased-trump-doj

DOJ says won’t investigate ICE agent’s fatal shooting of Renee Good
Speaking to Fox News on Sunday night, Blanche said the civil rights unit of the Justice Department would not bow to pressure to investigate the shooting death of Minneapolis resident and mother Good, 37, earlier this month. “We don’t just go out and investigate every time an officer is forced to defend himself against somebody,” said Blanche. “We investigate when it’s appropriate to investigate.” “So, no, we are not investigating. And if there comes a time when we need to, we will, but it’s not now,” Blanche added.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/19/doj-says-wont-investigate-ice-agents-fatal-shooting-of-renee-good
https://archive.ph/Gn9ix

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
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BONUS - I Want My M(amdani)TV (Chapo Trap House)
Over the holiday, Will and Chris caught up with Donald Borenstein, Andrew Epstein and Debbie Saslaw of the Mamdani media team to discuss how their video and online strategy helped win the campaign’s stunning victory. We look at their team’s success as the result of years of NYC organizing, how the candidate’s principles and policy informed the media strategy, the right and wrong lessons on political communication from their campaign, and the bizarre outsider art of Adams & Cuomo’s video output. PLUS: production, editing, color grading & gear talk for all you A/V heads.
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-i-want-my-mamdanitv

CP of Greece, Mass event at the Athens University of Economics and Business: Solidarity is our weapon–The people of Venezuela will win!
Following the mobilizations that unfolded from the very first moment of the imperialist intervention in Venezuela, members and friends of the Communist Youth of Greece (KNE) from universities in Athens gathered on Thursday, 15 January, at the Athens University of Economics and Business for an event in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and, more broadly, with the struggles of the peoples worlwide. At the opening of the event, KNE members formed the slogan “Solidarity with the people of Venezuela” using pickets inside the packed amphitheatre where the event was held, while chanting slogans in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples. The event was attended by Themis Gionis, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-Mass-event-at-the-Athens-University-of-Economics-and-Business-Solidarity-is-our-weaponThe-people-of-Venezuela-will-win/

Toronto Is Segregating Dissent
The mainstream media and political response to these incursions into a Jewish neighborhood was swift, framing synagogues as being targeted. This account omitted two critical facts: first, that protests targeted secular commercial rPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

tybna


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It doesn't matter if everyone has to wear red on Tuesdays, or sing Maoist songs at their workplaces. So long as everyone does it there's no material consequences. The moment actions start to change the material conditions of man, or the structure of power they become significant. Is there room any longer for: peace, freedom, equity, and fairness? Spooks. The moral principles and value to institutions which have made our social fabric have run their course. Only power and material conditions remain.

>Tuesdayism
>Maoistism
>consequencism
>actionism
>changism
>significantism
>spookism
>moralism
>principleism
>valueism
>institutionism
>socialfabricism
>remainism
readism marxism

>>2643767
Define for me power materially

>>2644048
Your five words have tied me in a bit of a knot. These two forces were intentionally distinguished from one another, but perhaps this was wrong, and power is empty without material implications.

Trying to untangle this knot, I've run into several problems. The most significant is thinking in terms of there being things which rather than being materially inconsequential are in fact immaterial. Spooks.

So you can debate whether or not hate speech legislation is material consequential, is it enough, but you can't debate if it's material. Or that there's something like an immaterial power. This should have been obvious.

The second mistake is the idea that potential to use force (the monopoly on violence) is the same as using it, and what the implications of this are? Potentials are empirically immaterial - an immaterial power. So there's nothing special about threats except that they might elicit a reaction with material consequences.

>>2644136
>Potentials are empirically immaterial - an immaterial power. So there's nothing special about threats except that they might elicit a reaction with material consequences.
To put this most clearly, it's only that material implications of the removal of arbitrary threats of violence by coordinated threats of violence that would implicate the validity of its removal.

Once you've reject the materially inconsequential, how do you structure the remaining space of material consequences?

My instinct is to go against suffering, allowing for some in "skillful means" to reduce suffering.


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The Simón Bolívar International Brigade is an initiative by comrades from the Latin American continent in defense of Venezuela.

Our goal is to raise €5,500 to cover the travel costs of 9 to 12 comrades to Caracas, where they will be incorporated into the popular militias of the MRT (Revolutionary Tupamaro Movement).

From this first group of combatants and through propaganda by action, our intention is to expand the Brigade and begin bringing comrades from other countries and continents.

For more information and details, contact us via our Telegram: @brigadasimonbolivar

Instagram: @brigadabolivar
FireFund: www.firefund.net/brigadabolivar

Telegram Channel: https://t.me/brigadabolivar
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Up up

Interesting. Do you have any secure email?

[email protected]
[email protected]

>>2648621
this might sound retarded, but why not unite all comrades of Latin America for a wider class struggle?

like I always seem to hear about these 1000 different paramilitary groups who are mostly ML but gang why not unite?

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Big if true.

my bf doesn't like the idea of me going and i tend to agree even tho you'll probably do mostly training drills til it's not sustainable anymore for either party, which is fine, it's also probably the best case scenario.

i'm gonna have to sit this one out because i don't wanna make my family worried at this point in my life but i hope ya'll come out alright and honestly have a good one in general, tell us cool stories without revealing anything important when you're back or if you have a chance to log back in after awhile.


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The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
The conditions for dharma are terrible in Europe
And all of the West too
Russia has Kalmyk buddhist republic and a bunch of others so its good
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>>2655957
>implying authentic eastern buddhist monks aren't also rapists
>don't ask teh dalai llama about sucking tongues
Buddhism doesn't adhere as a whole to the dalai llama, buddhism isn't even a united "religion" its more like hinduism with several hundread different sects, routes, offshoots, lineages, teachings and whatnot often contradicting eachother.
These pics doesn't even illustrate the full extent of it.

>>2655957
>>2656049
For reference most of the largest buddhist schools and traditions do not follow the tongue sucker:
Theravada Buddhism (Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia)
Zen Buddhism (Primarily in Japan, Korea, China where it originated as Chan Buddhism, and Vietnam as Thiền)
Nichiren Buddhism (Japan)
Pure Land Buddhism (East Asia broadly, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam)
Shingon / Esoteric Buddhism (Japan)
Drukpa Kagyu Buddhism (Bhutan)
These are just a few examples that don't follow or endorse the tongue sucker who is part of Tibetian Buddhism, and even within Tibetian Buddhism there are many sects which don't approve of him.

>>2656049
He's still correct. It used to be so common that it was a meme that western hippies would go to India or Thailand or whatever to learn le eastern wisdom and end up getting scammed or raped by their guru.

>>2656138
>goes to poo throwing festival village
>gets poo thrown on face
<HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME?????
Jai shri ram

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