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>>2334938 >>2342472Kinda. Maybe. From what I hear, more of a simmer.
Might heat up again over the weekend.
>>2342565But dont worry, Cuomo's got more black friends than anybody. Like Clyburn over here!
They REALLY do not want Mamdani to get elected
>>2342579if i were a white man
yibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum
>>2342738Republicans are regularly throwing around Nazi terms and conspiracy theories but clearly the real antisemite is the one opposed to the genocide being carried out by a known Holocaust revisionist.
I swear we'll see another Holocaust in 2030 and it will bear Israel's stamp of approval because they opposed Netanyahu.
>>2342979Yeah I don't get it either. I mean, I'm totally okay with shit being made overseas, as long as the people making it aren't slaves and are being paid a wage they can comfortably live on.
I just don't want to buy things being made by slaves, is that too much to ask?
>>2342971Personally I want to be a Paradox modder.
>>2342979I'm not happy about it but I don't think Trump's tariffs are going to fix it either. Seriously Trump is not going to bring back the decent manufacturing jobs. I mean the only reason they were so good in the first place is because of unionization which is speedily working to destroy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1lgi346/did_you_know_rolling_stone_has_a_tips_email_i/I'm kind of of a mindset where it does bother me that instead of going, hey, one of our people, one of our comrades wrote this thing, and it's a very impactful, meaningful, and important thing to get out there, let's rally behind this person. And instead it's, let's attack them. Let's do what we can to make sure that we don't rally around them. Is it me that's the problem, or is it this sense of apathy. Is the crab trying to pull himself out the bucket the problem, or is the crab's bottom trying to pull him back in?
>>2343147She was braindead which is the same thing as death. She was basically a corpse on life support. She doesn't have any wishes or desires at that point. The family wasn't given input into the decision either. It was determined by the hospital under state law.
>>2343139So far yes but heard he's in the NICU.
Trump and Harvard Both Want ‘Viewpoint Diversity.’ What Does It Mean?
>The administration has accused the university of lacking viewpoint diversity. Harvard is fighting its demands, but embracing the vague term.
In its letter last month threatening to cut Harvard’s federal funding, the administration accused the university of lacking it, and demanded that Harvard submit to a thorough external audit of the problem.
“Each department, field or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse,” the letter said. So too must be the student body, staff and leadership. A failing grade, the letter warned, would result in corrective measures, including the deliberate recruiting of “a critical mass” of new faculty and students to correct the imbalance.
Harvard has rejected the Trump administration’s demands, calling them a threat to academic freedom and the political independence of higher education. But in a letter to Harvard affiliates informing them that the university was suing the government, Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, echoed that vocabulary.
“We acknowledge that we have unfinished business,” Dr. Garber wrote. “We need to ensure that the university lives up to its steps to reaffirm a culture of free inquiry, viewpoint diversity and academic exploration.”
The term viewpoint diversity began gaining currency across academia largely through the efforts of Heterodox Academy, a nonpartisan national group founded in 2015 to combat what it describes as “the rise of closed-minded orthodoxies within scholarly communities.”
In recent years, it has been picked up by Republican politicians, as a new tool to support their longstanding argument that universities have been taken over by the left.
At least eight states have proposed or passed legislation seeking to mandate viewpoint diversity (or “intellectual diversity,” as some laws put it) at public institutions. The requirement is usually paired with demands that colleges ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs and restrict teaching on race and gender.
PEN America and others have raised particular alarm at a 2024 Indiana law which says that professors at public universities, including those with tenure, could be disciplined or fired if they failed to “foster a culture of free inquiry, free expression and intellectual diversity.” Last month, the state began what appears to be one of the first investigations under the law, involving a pro-Palestinian professor at Indiana University who had been anonymously reported for criticizing both the university and Israel during class.
Since getting the Trump administration letter, Harvard has emphasized its own efforts to broaden discussion on campus. It has sponsored a welter of initiatives and committees relating to “civil discourse,” “intellectual vitality,” “dialogue across difference” and the like, including some that began before the campus tumult associated with the Israel-Hamas war.
<is vitality the hottest new buzzword rn? lol
Until recently, the term “viewpoint diversity” rarely occurred in formal statements by the Harvard administration. And even as Dr. Garber has embraced it, it inspires some skepticism on campus, where to some it carries right-wing connotations.
In a 2024 survey of seniors, only a third said they felt comfortable “expressing opposing views about controversial topics” in class or in their residential communities. About half as many conservative students said they felt comfortable. (Though some seem to relish the challenge. “Being Republican at Harvard has never been better,” the president of the thriving campus Republican club wrote last year in the campus newspaper.)
As the Harvard administration embraces the ideal of viewpoint diversity, it remains unclear what that means for the fraught topic of Israel and the Gaza war.
The phrase “viewpoint diversity” and close variants occur dozens of times in the university’s report on antisemitism, which describes a “disturbingly one-sided” view of Israel and the Palestinians in some academic programs. Many of the antisemitic events described in the report, it says, stem from “insufficient respect for viewpoint diversity.”
Such references occur less frequently, and more skeptically, in the university’s parallel report on Islamophobia released at the same time. Some community members, the report notes, said the university’s stated goal of balanced perspectives was being used “not to foster a wider range of viewpoints but rather to suppress specific views.”
For some on campus, recent moves by Harvard leadership have reinforced that impression. In late March, as pressure from the Trump administration was building, Hopi E. Hoekstra, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, sent an email to leaders of nondepartmental centers and institutes saying they should be prepared to answer questions about how their programs exposed students to “diverse viewpoints.”
The next day, the faculty leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, whose programs had been accused by some prominent Harvard affiliates of promoting antisemitism, were dismissed. (Dr. Hoekstra, after an outcry from some faculty members, defended the removals as part of “addressing the needs of our academic units.”) The university also suspended a program at Harvard Divinity School that had drawn similar criticism.
The next move in the standoff between Harvard and the government is unclear. But in a letter last week introducing the antisemitism and Islamophobia reports, Dr. Garber returned to a now-familiar theme.
Among his pledges: to “speed the establishment of a university wide initiative to promote and support viewpoint diversity.”
>>2343511wrong you are neomalthusian zionist liberal
>>2343516i see many annoying liberals typing paragraphs of liberal nonsense. this cannot be tolerated.
Map of land eligible for sale:
https://arcg.is/15nvWL0https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lee-defends-millions-acres-public-land-sale-2088458A significant amount of even Western state MAGA is furious on social media because of a push in the budget reconciliation process by the GOP to sell millions of acres of Western public land, including BLM land (Bureau of Land Management) and national forests. This land is largely free for Americans to explore and hunt. The meme being shilled in support of this plan by MAGA leadership is to increase space for housing, but virtually all of the land is uninhabitable and would go to wealthy ranchers, billionaires, and wealthy speculators to be fenced off and logged. This land is incredibly difficult to recover once sold. When polled, even 60% of Trump voters opposed the sale of recreational public lands, and it goes up to 80% for Harris voters. A compounding factor in public opposition is the fact that National Parks, which are exempt from this sale, are highly overcrowded and understaffed, leading many to prefer the nearly unlimited ease of access to vast tracts of national forest and BLM land for casual use. Exactly what land is to be sold in this proposal has been kept vague, so anywhere on the map may or may not be on the chopping block.
>>2342752>Hitlers famous policies:<made more transit freeAnne Frank literally died because of lack of transit to the one hospital available to colonized nonwhite working class. You do realize America is also an apartheid state where
certain people are routinely denied healthcare by UnitedHealth etc
>>2343044>Iran is at the point>it can…within months>if they decide>finalize the assemblyTulsi is a Muslim transman (she's almost at 90% conversion by next week [by which I mean getting close to approaching 30% within a month)
>>2344198>He's literally right, the framers indeed had intended for the phrase, "We the People" to refer to white people. This was literally affirmed in the Dred Scott case. Descriptively he is correct in the sense that he is accurately
describing history., but he also was
prescriptive:
>he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhitesso do you agree with his
prescriptive conclusions that we already fought a civil war to change? Be honest.
>>2344198also he is incomplete even descriptively. constitutionally "We the poeple" refers to white MEN, not women. So if he wanted to PRESCRIBE a society DESCRIBED by the original frames of the constitution, he would not only need to PRESCRIBE the removal of voting rights and protections for nonwhites (as he has already openly ADVOCATED) but he would also need to advocate for the rmoval fo voting rights and protections for WOMEN (which he has not advocated). He is being strategic in this incomplete advocacy because he doesn't actually want to target white women. It's harder to build a white supremacist coalition without white women. The constitutional framers also excluded those white males without private property from suffrage and he is not advocating for the RETVRN of that either because it would exclude non-wealthy whites from the white supremacist coalition he is clearly advocating the creation of in order to "TAKE BACK SOCIETY."
So in his description he strategically OMITS
certain truths about the past and strategically
prescribes only a PARTIAL restoration of that original political order advanced by the framers of the constitution.
Meanwhile he also advocates "abolishing the jews" (???) which even if you're one of those people who say "90% of jews are zionist bourgeoisie so I don't care what happens to the 10% who aren't gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet am i right fellow communists hehehe" the founding fathers and constitutional framers actually did not exclude white male property owning jews from the constitution, because the constitution is indifferent to religion.
This guy is just a basic nazi who wants nonjewish white men and nonjewish white women to have political sovereignty and everyone else to basically be expelled or enslaved. That is not quite an accurate description of the political order that prevailed in America after the war of independence.
>>2344328Yeah, it's a scorcher.
Oh and there's more stuff happening I guess.
>>2344353Dude I fucking love seeing reposts of months old news to ragebait me.
>>2344357Both are zoomers dumbass
>>2344209>>2344225Conservative legal doctrine of Originalism means what is descriptive is prescriptive. He left out the idea of women not voting but that is the obvious conclusion. Seems they loved it until they realized he was also talking about the original very restrictive view of what was counted as "White."
And the Civil War didn't solve anything about the constitution. It just imposed a new political reality thorough force. 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments were passed without the southern states voting or being represented as would have been constitutional. Constitution as written is full of dumb loopholes that will constantly create governmental crises. An obvious one is the 1803 power grab by the Supreme Court's in Marbury v. Madison that can one day be ignored by the Presidency.
Americans should get rid of their current Constitution and just make a new one.
>>2344343Formal integration of the Bourgeoisie and the military for when proles start disobeying in the formal political/civil sphere.
Their formal positions will allow them to force soldiers to obey directly with no feet dragging like with recommendations from consultants.
Tech from communications and drones is the linchpin of the military. Can potentially control the entire military and bypass normal channels.
>>2344467Went to the big No Kings one on Saturday, my family (lots of libs) were depressed with what's going on so I chose one a bit closer to home so we could all attend. They expected something like 300 people but the organizers said it looked closer to 3000-4000. It was genuinely amazing. Diverse crowd, lots of old liberal boomers, huge semitrucks honking in solidarity with us. Shit, in our case there was even an LAPD cop that waved and honked his horn (ACAB though) I think some protesters are finding hotels ICE is staying in and making as much noise as possible late into the night/early morning. Want to see I can't join one. I'm a night owl anyways.
I don't think the protests will fizzle out. Everyday there's new videos of Gestapo thugs abducting pregnant women and children. For fuck's sake, I work with a ton of Hispanics and one of them mentioned being scared of his kids going to school 'cause ICE is just grabbing any brown person they can. Until this crisis is over, Angelenos are gonna take to the streets and tell these fascist cunts to fuck off.
>>2344468Saw their stuff on Zohran, raised my blood pressure.
>>2344343>I still don't fully understand why they did thissatanic anti-Christ prophecy, read the book of Revelations
>>2344475>Formal integration of the Bourgeoisie and the militarythe corporate-state, i.e fascism
>>2344468The funny thing is is being from New York I could absolutely believe trump is generally okay with gays but his party would never allow it and I don't expect him to do anything remotely good for gay rights.
Like if it's found out Trump sneaks out on Friday night and does drag standup I will genuinely not be surprised. I'm a person of Gay and he tickles my radar for sure.
Minnesota shooting suspect and wife were ‘preppers,’ FBI affidavit says
Vance Boelter and his wife were “preppers” with a “bailout plan,” according to an affidavit citing terms for people who prepare for catastrophic survival events.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/21/minnesota-lawmaker-shooting-suspect-prepper/>>2344500>>2344515Revolutions generally start with the masses and are then guided by a vanguard. Like I’ll say this for anarchists, they aren’t wrong for admiring the “purity” of spontaneous uprisings by the masses, however without leadership those uprisings end up being repressed.
Which is to say, I don’t think it can be forced, it’s a dance between the will of revolutionaries and the masses. They aren’t just pawns on a chessboard.
The “good” news is I think we’re led by an administration that’s unprecedented in its sheer degree of incompetence, rage, and pettiness. These are the people who make revolutions possible through stupidity. That said, revolutions are rarely fully formed or at their most radical in the beginning. The French first welcomed King Louis to Paris as “King of a Free people”, the Russians just wanted the war to end. An American revolution could begin with demanding Trump resign and end with a new constitution or even (God willing) a Socialist State.
I think we shouldn’t (as some ultras might say) disregard the peaceful protests of liberals as toothless wastes of time. I believe recently it came out that more than 1.5% of the country was protesting for “No Kings”, at 3.5% it’s been common for governments to collapse. Now I doubt someone as narcissistic and petty as Trump would resign in disgrace, but the harder he pushes the more likely people will push back.
Best thing you can do, I think, is join a socialist group and try to forge ties in your community. Be there, even if it’s just liberals protesting.
>>2344649Eh, think it was just some Latino guy who for better or worse at least feels a little disconcerted by ICE doing Gestapo raids on immigrants. In real life people are complicated and have some contradictory beliefs and ideals. Like I’ve got a coworker whose simultaneously upset about the ICE raids (cause she’s an ethnic minority and her family immigrated here) but has a cousin whose a cop so she can’t take the full ACAB position, and then her other cousins are in the marines so she just ominously brought up that the marines out here are “built to kill”.
I think an important skill to build is learning to work within the contradictions. Get some religious guy with casual homophobic views to work alongside an openly gay atheist to form a labor union for example.
>>2344684The funniest thing about this video is everyone ignores the context which is way more politically consequential than Rudy G in drag. I prefer posting THIS VERSION of the video without the
Inside Edition commentary.
You can see at the beginning this video was taken from the "Mayor's Inner Circle Press Roast" in the year 2000. Inside Edition cuts that part so you don't know when or where the video was taken. At the end of the video, right after the silly skit, right at the part that Inside Edition cuts again, you hear a voice say
>Mayor Giuliani, he's given away over 2 billion dollars in corporate we-And then it cuts off. I can't find the full video of the press roast but it sounds like they were saying "corporate welfare"… like it's a GOOD THING. Remember this is an inner circle press roast for the rich friends of the mayor and his hangers-on in the press. The whole point of the skit is that Giuliani is saying "I'm a sugar momma for you corporate types wink wink wink"
>>2344709>>2344720>>2344731I think there’s a weird quirk of the American system especially that even as the country (as in, the populace) moves left, the institutional power either stays the same or even moves further to the right.
Something I’d say makes a good historical case to examine is in the lead up to the civil war you had the Dred Scott decision as right wing southern planters trying to “settle the slavery issue once and for all” …only to inflame tensions even more.
Because our system is broadly built on insulating itself from popular backlash you’ve got these divergences where the right ruthlessly exploits institutional power (recognizing that’s where power actually lies) and the left develops popular power and one without the other foments conflict.
It’s why “centrism” would be the sensible position of the more in touch capitalists. Because even if you cant convince people that the institutions are in their interests, you can create this myth that they’re neutral arbiters—we’re not cutting Medicaid out of greed or ideology, but because “we have to”—Trump is trying to turn those institutions into explicitly ideological entities. He literally said he’s targeting democratic cities to punish them and weaken his opposition party. He said this explicitly.
He’s gonna fail because ideological states are hard to make work, especially with massive pushback.
>>2344744>>2344757It's technically true but it's fundamentally ignoring how bad wage growth is historically. Especially compared to growth of economy, inflation and increased cost of living.
>>2344763>He’s gonna fail because ideological states are hard to make work, especially with massive pushback.The capitalist liberal state that is controlling America is ideological though. And it's been existing over 200 years despite pushback.
>>2344772>Creates a state. Doesn't call it a state. >>2344791Couldn’t hurt to reach out to all those groups and chat!
I get you on the problem with finding orgs though. I mean just as a funny aside from what I understand the Hawaiian CPUSA clubs are all scattered on the different islands (there was a funny case on here of someone saying the fact one worked as a bag checker for the TSA as proof that feds run the party)
Regardless I think given the state of the Left the onus would fall on you to try to develop the Left locally.
>>2344843The "real wage" accounts for inflation as tracked by the capitalists which is not reliable. Even if reliable (it's not) the "real wage" as a metric completely ignores the cost of living, what it's growth is compared to the growth of economy and the increases in wealth inequality.
Wages are crumbs tossed onto the floor and not the main dish.
>>2344882Is this the beginning of WWIII?
>>2344892True. The left is pretty weak here. Too many Trump supporters for some reason. It's disheartening.
>>2345005maoist much?
trump needs to stay alive just a little longer: turmp existence is to the liberation of the exploited masses within the Middle East. Trumps manifestation, a regrettable manifesttation of a particularly malignant capitalist system has the capacity to demonstrably maintain an semblance of order in these afflicted regions not hold differing pearspectives with the adherents of maoesque doctrine Its crucial for the sustained empowerment of the proletariat in these strategic areas
>>2344799So I figure I should explain what I mean by an “ideological state”, I mean active and conscious participation in an ideological project. Liberalism sinks to a deeper level of realism—eg establishing the ideology of the day as “the natural state of things”—the difference is that the ideological state pursues the enthusiastic participation of the populace and heavily represses even moderate dissent.
Sorry if that sounds confusing.
>>2344956>Too many Trump supporters for some reason. It's disheartening.Was thinking of making a video on Trumpian populism and how it “works” but my computer crashed a while ago and I lost all my data. Anyways as for why there’s so many Trump supporters out there.
Most people aren’t that ideologically educated, especially in America. And I think this is something the Left has trouble understanding. That a lot of nationalist sentiment plays on gut feelings a subconscious understanding than rigorous logic. But that there’s sincere beliefs and real desires undergirding it.
Let me try to give an example: the phrase “Make America Great Again” and the utter inability of liberals to grapple with it. Hillary tried to respond with “America is already great!” But if you’re some schmuck who lost everything to outsourcing or 2008 “MAGA” speaks to you, “things are fine” doesn’t. Then there was this thing recently where Brian Cranston said “America was never great”. Well let me use my own family’s experience as an anecdote: my grandparents could afford a big house in a good neighborhood with just my grandpa working for SEARS. They could raise 3 kids, afford new cars, and go on vacation.
My parents started off single income, then my mom had to pick up work while juggling child rearing to afford a house close to “the ghetto.” We shopped at the goodwill, never went on vacations, tried to scrimp and save what we could.
I work in a grocery store. I’m probably never gonna afford a home.
Yeah America had its problems, but for at least some segment of the population there’s a predominant feeling of things getting
worse. Life is getting tougher. And what the fuck do you say with “Well America was never great!” We once went to the fucking moon and now we’re giving Elon billions to blow up rockets in Texas. You had st least some people able to afford a home on a single income and now you’ve got to get roommates to afford a shitty apartment an hour and a half from where you work; things keep getting more expensive, the climate is worsening, things are bad. How the fuck is “well things were always shit” a way to get people off their ass and into your movement?
Like it’s baffling. Imagine living in a house with a leaky roof, the air is frigid, you can smell mold everywhere. You’ve got one housemate saying “We need to fix the roof!” One saying “it’s fine, don’t worry about it” and a third that says “well the roof has always been like that!” Only one person is exclaiming they want to fix things.
When Trump and other nationalists talk about “saving the nation” people transplant their own experiences onto the nation. You’ve got Q anon types convinced Trump is gonna declare their debt gone by fiat and bring people free healthcare. He won’t, but it’s likely these people suffer from health issues and debt, and Trump’s rhetoric of the country collapsing and him saving it appeals to them.
They are America. Not the state.
>>2345247>Most people aren’t that ideologically educated, especially in America"most fish don't know how to swim, I think that's something the Muskellunge have trouble understanding"
>Only one person is exclaiming they want to fix things.<" Yesterday I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities." - Kamala Harris, 2019>They are America. Not the state.Its a company town, dude
>>2345342I think breaking the conditioning can be important, with dyed in the wool MAGAs that might be easier said than done. I’ve got family or friends that are right wing, voted Trump, but when Bernie was running their son sat them down and showed them some Bernie stuff and they came around to at least liking the guy.
Thing is it’d be a long term investment and not something done in a day. I wouldn’t start by tearing down their prior beliefs or attacking them directly, but giving them a gentle push.
Here’s the thing though; introducing a new ideological reality is a double edged sword, it would change you and your community in turn. Guess a good comparison is how various Pagan tribes were christianized but elements of Paganism made their way into Christianity. You won’t turn some right wing midwestern town into the “New Berlin Soviet”, it’ll be something different though. Become keenly aware of the culture of your community; is it religious, is it the kind of place where everyone knows each others’ name? Is it undifferentiated suburbs? I heard once that part of the success of the McCarthyite movement is it got people rotting in the suburbs out into the streets and forming a community, granted one about seeing “communists” on every corner and harassing them. I’ve got a buddy who lives in a podunk town in Montana, they recently had a boomer cult move in next door led by some lot lizard who claims she’s the reincarnation of Jesus. Cults shouldn’t be doing better than Communists. Figure out how to become indispensable to a segment of the community and use that to branch out.
Shit, I had some right-leaning friends defend me as an “all American guy” when a relative tried pulling some “go back to Russia” shtick.
Semi-relevant
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https://youtu.be/ijZKT7SOMmkAll the imperial factions unite when it comes time for mass murder
>>2345613John McCain was actually this guy irl and both parties loved him for it
>>2345673What exactly is filtered to "hazbin hotel" anyway?
>>2346037fr makes you miss the /pol/acks
they at least made for passing femboys
>>2346389I've noticed that whenever you criticize Trump to any "leftist"(not leftist, but a "leftist"), they go ape shit and immediately assume you're a democrat or are defending the DNC and the conversation gets lost from there. And I don't mean just people on here.
>>2346436>Trump said ukraine would end in one day.I'm going to bring you unicorns and hookers if you vote for me.
I remember this one dumb bitch who voted for Trump solely because he said he was the father of IVF, and she wanted a baby, and then republicans started restricting IVF
It's called LYING YOU FUCKING KNUCKLEDRUGGER.
>>2346496>TRUMP LIED TO USI know and I dont give a fuck. Ukraine is getting BTFO. Israel is getting BTFO.
>IVFIVF is an expensive and bourgeois control mechanism. its restriction is good for proletarians
>>2346668I assumed this the minute Elon joined the team and started screwing the pooch again and again. Anyone else and Trump would've thrown a fit and cut ties with, Elon had some dirt on him.
Trump was always a Zionist pet, tho
>>2346496>I've noticed that whenever you criticize Trump to any "leftist"(not leftist, but a "leftist"), they go ape shit and immediately assume you're a democrat or are defending the DNC and the conversation gets lost from there. And I don't mean just people on here. It's definitely not just people on here. I see that a lot. There are also academics, political journalists, etc. that like to say Trump is a dove. But I think the main thing is that the anti-war movement has extreme difficulty navigating a political context that turns everything into Democrats vs. Republicans because people like to think in these binaries, even though presidents do 80-90% of the shit their predecessors did or wanted anyways. The anti-war movement has never been that strong but it's remarkable how weak it is right now even though polls show that most Americans want to stay out of foreign conflicts, and that may be part of the reason why. It's hard to generate a movement when its public figures run interference for the U.S. government and condescend to their own most likely supporters. You just have a lot of rhetoric (which can be ignored).
Another aspect is that misdirection is part of warfare. Take this story about the B-2s flying to Guam yesterday. It's actually not clear there were any B-2s but there were tanker aircraft with callsigns used for B-2 flights, and the aviation spotters noticed that, but it was possibly bait the U.S. military threw out on purpose to disorient expectations of the timing. It wouldn't be for another day that those westbound B-2s would arrive but then KA-BAM the B-2s actually tasked with the mission carried out the attack. At the same time, there were planted "leaks" in the media that Rubio told the Europeans the U.S. prefers a diplomatic solution and that Vance objected to a strike and the administration was divided. This was all bullshit to confuse and disorient people about the intent and timing of the attack.
BTW, you can see this visually on Polymarket where there was a lot of volatility, such that minutes before the strike, there was less than a 60% chance of an attack, and around 40% that morning, with quick dumps every time another one of these bogus "the administration is divided" stories would get reported in the press. Which turned out to be profitable for others. The more cynical you are, the more you win!
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The Grayzone had a story yesterday that "Israel's Mossad is using CIA Director John Ratcliffe and US CENTCOM's Gen. Michael Kurilla to influence Trump with cooked intelligence on Iran's nuclear program." The article goes on to mention that a "Trump official" told Grayzone that the president is isolated from dissenting voices like Tulsi Gabbard and her deputy Joe Kent (a former CIA officer who they've promoted in the past). Vance, according to the Trump official speaking to them, has also "encouraged robust debate and included diverse perspectives" while being constrained in public "by the obligation to demonstrate loyalty to Trump."
Whether that's true or not, and leaving aside what an anonymous Trump official is doing talking to the Grayzone during a misinformation and disorientation campaign, what's amazing is that these guys never even consider the possibility that Trump just affirmatively supports what Netanyahu is doing, even though that's where all the evidence is pointed. In any case, being opposed to the liberal international order does not necessarily mean someone is opposed to the use of military force, but some people can only see what they want to see.
Lastly, the bulk of the MAGA crowd will follow what Trump says or does. It's pretty much a win-win scenario to him. He decided to bomb? Win! If he decided it's too risky, so no? Win! The consequences of a strike will mostly be felt on the other side of the planet. As long as he gets his naps and Diet Cokes, he will be fine. If it spirals out of control? Not his fault! The media (and the alt-media) will explain that to the crowd. The average American in any case likes to feel "strong" and blowing things up is "strong" unless and until Americans start dying in significant numbers. Then oopsie poopsie maybe that was a bad idea.
>>2342625Things broken ✅
Fast moved ❌
>>2346314America! America!
Marx shed his grace on thee,
And praise thy good with workerhood
From 习主柴宁席
>>2347701I want to get a black Budenovka, low key you know, a non-insignificant amount of goth fashion as a nazi chic vibe, but every goth ive ever met has been ahead of the game in terms of understanding the vibe
FOR YOUR UNPLEASURE: THE HAUTEUR-COUTURE OF GOTH
http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/005622.html >>2347912>lumpenproletariatmuh ragproles is possibly marx's most counterproductive vocab he invented. i can elaborate if you want.
>criminality revolution will never be legal. it is fascinating to see contemporary communists complain so consistently about "Criminality" when the bolsheviks robbed trains. But even setting aside hardcore crimes like armed robbery, do you really think it's productive to sound like a bourgeois politician with a stick up his ass constantly complaining about the trashy ghetto proles (lumpen prole literally means rag prole) and the "criminals" (LEOs, prosecutors, corporate defense attorneys, and Judges protect the rich criminals and criminalize the poor workers)
>>2347978Also I have to add,
>palestinians are communist muslim nazisis like the NAFO/BlueAnon version of rightoid boomers calling Obama an atheist muslim
>>2347912I’ve come to the belief that Maoist thought, while valuable, has done excessive damage to the western left by transubstantiating the class struggle into a purely anti-colonial struggle. It’s still a useful tendency in the third world, but as it manifests in the west it’s completely dissolved dialectical thinking in favor of moralism and aestheticism.
It’s kind of folded Marxism within itself and become unrecognizable.
>>2348039I was listening to a Radio War Nerd episode about the history of the PKK and they described it as originating in Maoism, which if true, isn't something I knew about. Ocalan's movement evolved later on but it made sense as a language of liberation for a nationally oppressed group. In the 1970s, it was illegal to speak the Kurdish language in public in Turkey.
Anyways, there were these student and youth Marxist groups, and young Kurdish Marxists chafed at the Soviet-aligned Marxists who could come across as condescending. It's like the same politics that play out today with identity politics and what's described as class essentialism.
>>2348043Imagine if the shooter missed trump's ear, missed the firefighter guy, and hit one of these whores
>>2348048That's what the H1b shit was over. There's a very restricted and closed space over what's consider acceptable when talking about immigration here, and mass amnesty and giving people rights and labor protects is almost fucking never on the table. And stupid inbred hogs and """""leftists"""" still pretend open borders is a thing here
Illegal immigration only exists for slavery. No, not the act of immigrating itself, the process of deportations and ICE shit exists to bring fear and keep people in slavery.
>>2347681>and all Elon did is break through the programming to remind everyone of it.And they quickly forgot about it
I hate treating them like people
>>2347688They pretend he was some kind of white-hat pedophile. The most extreme is QAnon, where he's some kind of secret agent bent on bringng down the jewish vampire liberal pedophile elite
That's what they're forced to settle on, because him being friends with Epstein doesn't make sense. They say he broke off his friendship, but him being friends for ten years doesn't make sense either.
Anyways maybe reeducation is not a dirty word . These guys don't believe in consent anyway
>>2347809>>2347762They're so afraid and desperate, they even got Peter "The Reptile" Thiel involved, I literally cannot fucking escape this vampire he's fucking everywhere christ almighty
Hopefully this wakes a lot of people up but Palantir NWO is nowhere near as feared as Soros taking a fucking random shit on his deathbed, because we are a psyop'd to oblivion
>>2348124A lot of this is a fairly recent development, though. Even a few decades ago it was not really the case
>>2348017The rules-based order is the Greater Satan. It's the invisible empire of capital; it's imperialism itself. There was a historical pivot that saw the rise of the nation state; another such pivot now sees its degradation in favour of global capital itself in its true flesh (and this is why the reactoids are upset).
NATO, IMF, etc are mere appendages all; even the USA is a dead and hollow shell parasitised by this monstrosity, existing only as its appurtenance. It's the cause and the effect of the abject impotence of the US government against capital
>>2348148Did he care about climate change
Did he even care about anything at all besides jerking off in a cabin and being incomprehensible
>>2348155He did care about it by connecting it to climate change.
But his main focus was the….other stuff…
>>2348110President Xi, my country yearns for freedom.
>>2348091>Radio War Nerd Nice, I just listened to his two recent episodes on Iran.
That said, I think Maoism does have a place, it’s got some serious successes, but every now and then it just goes… batshit. You get Shining Path dunking babies in boiling water, you get Japanese Maoists doing literal circular firing squads because they’re convinced that everyone except them is a plant, you get shit like Black Hammer (though that might be a more “generic” anti-colonial movement that takes hints from Maoism) and it just all spirals out of control.
But to be honest I think there’s a really broad problem with western Marxism retreating from “moving past Capitalism” to a kind of reactionary framework inspired by Maoist aesthetics at least of “apologizing for capitalism” or “redeeming” ourselves.
>>2348204Cladistically speaking, we are also monkeys.
>>2348110Keep telling yourself that's the problem.
>>2348170That's why we must retvrn
>>2348192>>2348180Hence the Playboy bunnysuit
>>2348451The totality of human history must be grasped to have materialist world-view of current events.
>>2348453Wrong read stalin
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm>>2348463bullshit retards spout because they cant analyze shit themselves nor follow along marxs investigations on their own
>>2348463>Wrong read stalinlmfao midwit
>>2349030vibes based idiocy only beaten by mao
>that 2nd picmfw stalin was the first "we are le 99%" retard lmao
>>2349280"Cuba Venezuela" sounds like a Gundam character that got rejected for being too racist for Japan
>>2349144>Iran>AESI'm giving it 5 posts until this guy starts screaming about how child labor is praxis
>>2349288Maybe this is wrong to say but I can’t find myself caring about antisemitism that much anymore
Blatant hatred of Jews for their ethnicity not for their political views sure but otherwise I don’t care especially when so much of it is just in defense of Israel
>>2349264i have returned from the future with news. zohran wins the primary, then cuomo runs anyway as an independent and most of the dems support him and throw zohran under the bus and cuomo wins the general. it's the old joe lieberman play they like to do.
hopefully a lot of progressives will join those of us who woke up to what the dems are in 2016 or 2020 and now despise them with the fire of a thousands suns. voting in their rigged games will not help you.
>>2349590>>2349596More likely they’ll just rig it
Lose a couple early votes here and there
>>2349630Giuliani won, and Bloomberg and Adams are basically republicans. And Sliwa was a meme candidate.
If Cuomo does split the vote it is possible a Republican could win, but i'd bet that Cuomo just wins as indy.
>>2349137actual glow post, 9/11 was an inside job
bush admin, mossad and the saudis were in on it
>>2349737meanwhile in reality..
https://today.yougov.com/topics/international/survey-results/daily/2025/06/22/ba0fb/463/13 approval/disapproval from republicans. Super high approval from boomers too
>>2349328The reason Israel can exist as it is nowadays is just that it extends US/NATO power. The bloody hegemonic power which also hosts most of the remaining Jews outside of Israel. The power which practically forces it's political class to swear allegiance to Zionism and gives it full institutional support against anything.
I don't think antisemitism is a problem worth caring about in the main sponsors of Zionism. Jews don't need rescuing.
You are not responsible for the Zionists allying with actual antisemites, or encouraging antisemitism to justify the ethnonationalist project of Israel. If they want to shit at their own door, let them enjoy the smell. If the fascism they court victimizes them or the tide turns on Israel as a regional power, then tough shit. None of this matters AT ALL. Because the basis for supporting Israel and Zionism is the MATERIAL interests of the US/NATO , not ideology. You can't convince Zionists to give away their privileges and you cannot match them either, nor should one.
>>2349671> dudes who hired poor POCs and paid them well try to be a little more stealthy next time /pol/. nobody here likes the petty bourgeoisie, jewish or otherwise.
"oooooooooh i used to love the orthodox jews but now i look at them with le prejudicial eye" man shut the fuck up this is about opposing zionism and genocide of palestinians, not your personal feelings about orhtodox jew small business owners.
>>2349663did i say you were under arrest? why is it that I'm accused of language policing every time I remind people of the history of the ZOG term,
even when I'm not telling them to stop using it?
>>2349630Eric Adams is running on some "Stop Antisemitism" (or something ticket) and appeared on a podcast with Sneako which is just fucking perfect
>>2349328>>2349671I think antisemitism is bad and dumb, but for me it's something that goes beyond prejudice to an emotional need for people to flee from responsibility for their situation and to find a scapegoat for it, or why things have gone wrong. It's not a question of antisemitism being "bad" in a moral sense for me but a sign of decadent, toxic idiocy and a cope for losers and failed movements. It's not chafing at Orthodox Jews on the street. That might be prejudiced in some ways (I guess), but I'm with Sartre on this.
But you also have all these Zionists who are demanding people vote for some meatball Democrat who looted the transit system to bail out his friends' ski resorts. Cuomo is just a notoriously awful candidate whose with a personally intolerable reputation with many Democrats in the state. If he loses this, the neolibs will have blown an election on a socialist outflanking them on the whole "abundance" agenda that Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein have been shilling, which would be hilarious.
All they're doing is shoving horseshit down people's mouths about Israel. But even if you supported Israel, how many Democratic voters are going to make that their ride-or-die issue? Elderly Jews and Brianna Wu make it a priority but it's not at the top of most people's priorities.
>>2349744Well if the NYPD quiet quits then the city can quietly not pay them. It's not like they're doing much anyways other than standing around turnstyles playing Candy Crush on their phones.
>>2349880The pandering is so funny but the kid's facial expression is telling you something.
>>2350142 (Me)
And I forgot which tab I was on. Good. Great.
>>2350203god he keeps recycling the same bits
i am not, in fact, just now hearing this for the first time.
>>2350435I know it was over when Dangist and Stalinist
came into power :^)
>>2350460and when i mean
came, i mean cum.
>>2350465>schizothat word has lost it's meaning already
care to make a point that isn't buzzwords?
>>2350530he a demsucc :^)
succ is in blowjobs
>>2349308>>2350383>>2349289>brownsocbait
at worse he just be another aoc or an
early Andrew Cuomo
>I'm skeptical that Mamdani won't cuck out to capitalthat is of more likely out comes, But it's still oppressive that he managed to campaign this far, but then again he is still going up against Andrew Chromeo.
>>2350536yes. What ever you want to believe :^)
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