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>>2368713>>2368717>>2368861This was actually attempted where I live and it's been a total failure because the orgs involved care about more about idpol than socialism.
(Reposting this here since the last thread is full)
>>2368889>>2368897 (me)
i laugh. but so many people are gonna die there. shit's grim.
>>2368889Florida was a mistake, unironically.
Used to be a shithole swamp with barely anyone in it.
Then a porky in his hubris built on it and turned it into an unholy land.
It must be returned back to the Earth.
That has to be part of the covenant if we ever get control.
https://tempestmag.org/2025/06/which-way-forward-for-the-resistance/Which way forward for the resistance?
<Now is the time for independent politics and solidarity without exception
<Our resistance must build independent and democratic organizations for class and social struggle, oppose all of President Trump’s attacks on the exploited and oppressed, and organize. In this editorial, the Tempest Collective argues that now is not the time to stand on the sidelines and chide others on the Left, but throw ourselves into movements opposing President Trump and argue for the politics of solidarity necessary to oppose his divide and rule strategy.[…]
Understanding our enemy
<To defeat our enemy, we have first to understand it.
>Trump is carrying out an authoritarian nationalist transformation of the U.S. state. He is doing this through unconstitutional and barely constitutional executive orders, eroding what passes for democracy, in favor of what political scientists call “competitive authoritarianism.”
>Domestically, Trump has launched a neoliberal war on the working class, firing federal workers, gutting social programs, shredding any regulation of corporations, and slashing taxes for the billionaires. He is using our rulers’ oldest strategy of divide and conquer to get away with it.
>Trump has whipped up bigotry and hate to attack migrants, Black and brown people, trans people, women, the disabled, the poor, and almost everyone else. His aim is pit sections of the working class against each other to prevent any united fightback.
>Internationally, he is implementing a unilateral imperialist strategy to assert U.S. dominance over both friends and foes. He has imposed tariffs on nearly every country; threatened to annex Panama, Greenland, and even Canada; appealed to Russia to end its imperialist war in Ukraine and join Washington in the partition of the country; attempted to end Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza by greenlighting the ethnic cleansing and bombing Iran into submission; forced allies to increase their military budgets to five percent of their GDP; and planned to free up U.S. forces to confront China in a battle for supremacy over global capitalism.
>These domestic and international agendas are fused in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” now being rammed through Congress. It slashes taxes on the rich; guts Medicaid for workers, the poor, and disabled; plows $185 billion into immigration enforcement; and boosts the war budget to a record $1 trillion.
>None of this has the support of the working-class majority. Trump barely won the popular vote, never had a mandate, and his poll numbers have plummeted. On top of that, his policy agenda faces enormous obstacles and the economy is tanking.
>Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” still faces opposition from GOP senators worried about Medicaid cuts. Courts have curtailed the worst of his attacks on migrants and freed political prisoners Mohsen Mahdawi, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mahmoud Khalil. And people have risen up in Los Angeles and across the country against his ICE raids.
>Trump has already been forced to back off many of his reciprocal tariffs, earning the moniker “TACO Don” (“Trump Always Chickens Out”). Russia has escalated its war in Ukraine. Trump’s bombing of Iran has dug the United States deeper into war and genocide in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Trump has failed to pivot to Asia.
>Trump has even screwed up on his signature issue, the economy. His tariffs will increase prices and cut into profits, which dropped this quarter by 3.3 percent in the biggest drop since the pandemic. His ICE raids will lead to labor shortages, drive up the cost of wages, and further slow the economy, ushering in a new epoch of stagnation and inflation.
>At the same time, Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will cut tax revenue while it raises spending, increasing the government’s deficit, debt, interest rates, and interest payments, risking a fiscal crisis for the state. As a result, Moody’s has downgraded Washington’s credit rating.
>These failures have led to a growing list of splits within the administration and between it and capital. Trump and Elon Musk had an apocalyptic breakup of their bromance over the financial profligacy of the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump broke with MAGA isolationists over Iran, and the majority of capitalists oppose his tariffs.
>But a cornered beast is actually more dangerous, as his raids on migrants and war on Iran prove. Trump will continue to escalate his assaults if he is not challenged by a far more militant resistance, one which has a meaningful and organized base within working class communities.Imo the framing as "resisting trump" gives away how unserious these people are and betrays their lack of any real theoretical insight and practical solutions. They don't "understand the enemy" at all because framing this as a class war threatens the liberals they want to build a "united front" with.
>>2368940there will undoubtedly be a shed in there where the inmates are sent to (once they've dried them from the swamp water thats saturated into their skin) where they do unpaid
slave work manual labor
>>2368957Yeah because you retards won't shut up about them.
They live in your heads rent free, for me they live in the void-gulag.
>>2368978>our Country is "HOT".June had 30k job loss and the dollar is collapsing.
Good job retard.
>>2368991>is there anything special about america? or is it just failson falling upwards on a national scale thanks to geography? Protestants get a buff to industrialization.
>if france, spain, portugal, netherlands or whoever else had become the dominant colonies on the eastern seaboard of north america would something like the us have happened regardless?No. America curbstomped Spain pretty easy. Catholics are too lazy.
>>2369036half fucked, half winning
>>2369040medium rare
>>2369045the emboldening of striking workers, unionising and growth of the DSA
oh, and america shooting itself point-blank economically in the face.
>>2369047jesus christ that audience
look at that audience
>>2369064you know what pizza hut fucking sucks
I used to love pizza hut as a kid now it's garbage to me
>>2368995>PLEASE tell me they're having another parade for the 250th birthday.They're going to be doing a yearlong thing. Probably going to be lots of parades.
>>2369047Apparently the last time we did one of these anniversary things it was also a year long affair. Interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial>The official Bicentennial events began April 1, 1975, when the American Freedom Train launched in Wilmington, Delaware to start its 21-month, 25,388-mile (40,858 km) tour of the 48 contiguous stateshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Train#The_1975%E2%80%9376_American_Freedom_TrainThat's a good looking train. And they had a freedom train in the 40s too, it's funny how it looks more modern than the 76 freedom train. Why don't we get our own damn freedom train?
In England, Parents Are Moving Their Children Into a Doomsday Cult—With a Man Calling Himself ‘the New Pope’
The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light—and its leader, Abdullah Hashem—are converting thousands into believers from an old orphange in Crewe.
According to Islamic legend, a messianic figure known as the Mahdi will appear before Judgement Day to vanquish injustice and tyranny, and usher in an era of peace across the world before the apocalypse. Abdullah Hashem, a beanie-wearing American-Egyptian running what can only be described as a quasi-Islamic doomsday cult based out of a former orphanage in the north of England, claims to be that Mahdi, and for good measure “the new Pope.” If you want to join him, you’ll have to cash in your home and give him all your money.
“We are looking for people who are willing to sell their homes and to come and be amongst the community and to follow me, [and to] not waver or want to leave once they’ve come,” Hashem says in one piece of in-house propaganda from earlier this year, wearing his black beanie so low it casts a dark shadow over his eyes. More bluntly, he compares himself to Jesus and says he wants people that will “love” him and be willing to “sacrifice it all to establish a divine, just state.”
His organization is called the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, or AROPL for short. It’s a doomsday cult for the social media age, with members likely running into thousands worldwide. The organization is flooding the internet with an avalanche of slickly produced yet chilling content from a ramshackle broadcast studio based out of its Grade II-listed red brick mansion in Crewe, Cheshire, 35 miles from Manchester. “Accepting this covenant is the only thing that will save you from the punishment that is about to come down on mankind,” Hashem said late last year. “COVID was merely the beginning of that punishment and a precursor. More plagues and diseases will be unearthed and unleashed upon you.”
“I was told I was the reincarnated Zeus,” a former member who left AROPL last year told VICE. “When I visited them in Sweden, there was a miracle of thunder.”
Over the span of a decade, he sent Hashem all the money he could to support the cause, opening additional businesses and even taking out a bank loan for more than $200,000. “I needed to trust in whatever he was doing,” the ex-devotee recalls .
https://www.vice.com/en/article/aropl-doomsday-cult-abdullah-hashem-england-rotherham/Thoughts?
Anyone find it a bit weird how Felix disappeared from /usapol/ as soon as the infamous river city ripper killings were mentioned?
>>2369072The hands shaking each other is an old socialist logo, pretty sure it’s what the SPA used. The roses are a SocDem symbol.
Also unrelated but I downloaded the ICEblock app. I suggest anyone in LA do so too, if only to keep an eye on where ICE is. It’s getting review bombed by conservatives but it apparently doesn’t save your data. The Trump admin wants to prosecute the people behind it and it’s how I heard it.
Always good to know where the Gestapo is.
>>2369102It would be bad enough if it was just a right-wing think tank, but it's literally just a thinly veiled literally Israeli psy-op operation.
The CEO is literally an Israeli glowie. Can't we bring back wignats that are at least nationalists for their own nation? I'm not saying America doesn't deserve it, but this is the most sad and pathetic end to an empire ever.
>>2369118It happened during COVID not 2023.
>>2369119Like any organization that isn't sectarian and actually does stuff and isn't purely an professional activist group it basically matured. It was allowed to mature through experience whether that be through electoral experience or other forms of political organizing. This is why CPUSA is so shit. They funnel their support to the Democrats where the DSA actively participates in the system and grooms it's own members. This practice has basically forced DSA to mature as an org and be more serious about it's tactics. Abstaining from the system entirely makes you just another of the countless activist committees or organizations. You never politically mature because you don't have any real experience with the political machine itself.
Surprisingly the DSA has not fragmented despite the old guard having been pushed out. I guess it has to do with the relative independence each chapter has. Btw, ain't it hilarious that the ACP tried to do the same thing but failed utterly since whatever so called local branches exist only exist as one man affairs. It's all a scam. Each chapter in the DSA is adapted to the conditions of it's local material conditions. This is why south western DSA chapters skew Maoist, because of the material conditions going on out there.
>>2369144ok he sounds alright
>anti-semiteah, there's always something
CARBON TAX CREDITS WTF???
I went thru this article and it comes off as a massive scam for mega corps to keep doing what they do while paying some group a bribe to let them. This stupid net being thrown in the ocean is supposed to counteract what mega corps use? What a scam.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-global-warming-greenhouse-gases-oceans-carbon-06be29dd4dd2e8d3c0f92ac20e9ea193>>2369163what did they mean by this
john adams would have drunk diet soda?
>>2369164You should really learn about Himmlers archaeological obsession.
He believed Germans were the descendents of ice giants who originated in Greece and built all of Greco/Roman Civilization. Hyperborea was the Greek term for the "far north" (which to them was actually like Russia rather than Scandinavia). The Thule Society, which the guy who originally lead the NSDAP belonged to, also believed it.
>>2368879>vidthat's how easy it is to beat crocodiles?
They should of just built gas chambers or used bullets like normal fascists. Not that i am complaining though, let's see how this plays out.
>>2369190Pete Buttigieg put out a 'Lo Fi beats to Relax/Study to' vid on the official accounts when he was transportation secretary but his was only 8 minutes long. Is this going to be a new American tradition where each new administration has to put one of these out?
Oops wrong link. This is the Official Government Lo-Fi Pete Tape.
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein vetoed on Thursday three anti-DEI bills and another measure that in part would target transgender rights. His actions set up more showdowns with Republican lawmakers who pitch the legislation as doing away with structured racial bias in government and public education, protecting women and empowering parents.
Stein criticized the Republican-controlled legislature for focusing on these measures while they’ve yet to enact a budget for the fiscal year that started this week. Instead, Stein said in a news release, it “wants to distract us by stoking culture wars that further divide us. These mean-spirited bills would marginalize vulnerable people and also undermine the quality of public services and public education.”
The measures cutting or eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in state and local governments, K-12 public schools and the university system have been a major priority for GOP lawmakers. They argue the programs targeted have overemphasized identity to the detriment of merit and societal unity.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-vetoes-transgender-rights-diversity-0011f5625ca032937c662c55600c51feThe Supreme Court will decide whether states can ban transgender girls from girls’ sports teams, plunging the high court back into the national debate around the rights of trans people.
The court on Thursday added a pair of cases to next term’s docket about state laws in Idaho and West Virginia that ban people assigned male at birth from competing on school teams for women and girls. About half the states have similar laws, according to court papers.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/supreme-court-transgender-athletes-challenges-00438347Israel and Syria in U.S.-Brokered Talks to End Border Conflict, Trump Envoy Says
Mr. Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria, said in an interview with The New York Times that the administration wanted Syria to join the Abraham Accords, which established diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab states during Mr. Trump’s first term. But Mr. Barrack cautioned that this could take time because Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, could face resistance at home.
“He cannot be seen by his own people to be forced or coerced into the Abraham Accords,” Mr. Barrack said. “So he has to work slowly.”
Progress on democratization and inclusive government will not happen quickly, Mr. Barrack said, and are not part of the U.S. criteria.
American officials have expressed concerns about the thousands of fighters who came to Syria from abroad to take part in the war, mostly as part of jihadist groups.
Mr. Barrack said Washington realized that Syria could not expel those who remained and that they could pose a threat to the new government if they were excluded. So the Trump administration instead expects transparency about the roles they are given
Last month, he delivered a proposal from Mr. Rubio that Mr. Barrack said outlined to Lebanon’s government, with specific objectives and timelines, how to disarm Hezbollah’s forces and fix the country’s economy. He is expected to receive a reply next week.
Disarming Hezbollah would require “carrots and sticks,” he said, and involved the Lebanese Army searching house to house for weapons.
Such a process would likely generate pushback from the Shiite Muslim communities that have long seen Hezbollah as the defenders of Lebanon and as the “resistance” against Israel.
To give those Shiites a stake in the process, Mr. Barrack said, the United States was seeking financial help from Saudi Arabia and Qatar that would focus on reconstruction in parts of southern Lebanon battered during the war.
“If the Shiites of Lebanon are getting something from this, they will cooperate with it,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/middleeast/israel-syria-border-us-barrack.htmlEXCLUSIVE: New Syrian government shifts from state bureaucracy to 'religious sheikhs'
Syria's de facto president is slowly dismantling the Syrian state in favor of extremist Sunni religious
Syria is currently being ruled by a system of religious clerics and figures – or sheikhs – rather than by the official bureaucracy of the state, sources speaking with The Cradle on 3 July revealed.
Syria has been divided into regions and sub-regions ruled by extremist Sunni Muslim religious leaders who exert control over virtually every aspect of decision-making, including negotiations with Israel regarding the fate of the occupied Golan Heights, the sources explained.
In the Syrian areas now fully controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), no transaction or service of the state is performed without the help of sheikhs, including the distribution of gas, flour, electricity, security at checkpoints, local disputes over real estate and land, and even legal disputes.
HTS, formerly known as the Nusra Front, was established in 2012 by Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The ISIS leader dispatched Abu Mohammad al-Julani to Syria to found the group as part of the broader CIA operation to topple the government of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
In December of last year, HTS ousted Assad and took power in Damascus.
HTS leader Julani, now known as Ahmad al-Sharaa, became Syria's de facto president.
The sources stated that each local sheikh is administratively linked to a higher Sharia council overseen by a little-known body that has become an administrative cover for a system of religious rule with authority over legislative and military decision-making.
A former employee of a local council in Idlib told The Cradle, “We had no real power. Appointments, funding, relationships with organizations, and even food aid go through the sheikh, not the state. The sheikh's decisions are more binding than any law.”
Since Ahmad al-Sharaa's rise from ISIS leader to the de facto ruler of Syria, he has been working to build his own authoritarian model, one that bears no resemblance to the previous Syrian state and is not subject to a democratic or civil system.
It is a model that excessively “religiously legitimizes” power, undermining modern structures in favor of a bureaucratic religious rule run by extremist figures who view Syria's minority religious groups as unbelievers who do not deserve equal rights with Muslims and can even be killed under certain circumstances.
In March, government-affiliated armed factions massacred at least 1,600 Alawite civilians over three days across Syria's coast.
A source close to the “Committee” told The Cradle, “Sharaa runs a kind of supreme religious council, coordinating between sheikhs in the judiciary, economy, and education. Even negotiations with foreign powers do not take place outside this framework.”
Perhaps most consequential is the control of this religious leadership over matters regarding Syria's sovereignty. With the gradual political shift under Damascus's authority after Bashar al-Assad's departure, reports emerged that Sharaa had begun – through intermediaries – opening channels of communication with Israel to negotiate the future of the Golan Heights.
European diplomatic sources confirmed to The Cradle that “Unofficial envoys close to Sharaa expressed, during closed meetings, their willingness to offer guarantees regarding the Golan Heights and open a conditional negotiation process in exchange for international recognition of Sharaa's rule as an independent transitional authority.”
Israeli media reported on 28 June that Tel Aviv and Damascus will sign a peace agreement before the end of 2025.
“Under the terms of the agreement, Israel will gradually withdraw from all Syrian territories it occupied following its incursion into the buffer zone on 8 December 2024, including the summit of Mount Hermon,” i24NEWS wrote, citing Syrian sources.
https://thecradle.co/articles-id/31743US prepares UN resolution to lift sanctions on Syria and its leaders
The US is preparing to circulate to the UN Security Council a draft resolution calling for the lifting of sanctions on Syria’s leader Ahmad Al Shara.
Discussions are already under way between the Security Council's permanent members – the US, France, UK, China and Russia – to potentially delist Mr Al Shara, his Minister of Interior Anas Khattab and Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), the group that forms the backbone of the Syrian government, as part of broader efforts to ease economic recovery, sources said.
A UN diplomat told The National that discussions will be “complicated” and require a targeted approach rather than a blanket lifting.
The diplomat also noted that China has expressed reservations, particularly over easing restrictions on certain groups, including foreign fighters.
Maya Ungar, a UN analyst at the International Crisis Group, told The National that Mr Al Shara was initially listed by France and the UK in 2014, while Interior Minister Anas Khattab was designated by the US and HTS was designated as an entity by Syria itself.
Any delisting would require consensus among the Security Council’s 15 members, some of which have previously opposed easing sanctions on Syrian groups.
UN sanctions on HTS and Mr Al Shara are rooted in the group’s deep ties to Al Qaeda and its role in the Syrian civil war.
“In January 2017, Nusra Front created Hayat Tahrir Al Sham as a vehicle to advance its position in the Syrian insurgency and further its own goals as Al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria,” the UN sanctions list states.
HTS traces its origins to Jabhat Al Nusra, or the Nusra Front, which was Al Qaeda’s formal affiliate in Syria and was actively involved in planning, financing and executing attacks on behalf of the global network. In January 2017, Nusra Front rebranded itself as HTS, claiming it was separating from Al Qaeda to better position itself within Syria’s fractured insurgency.
Despite the rebranding, HTS remained under UN Security Council sanctions for its association with Al Qaeda and for “participating in the financing, planning, facilitating, preparing, or perpetrating” acts of terrorism.
“The UN sanctions on Al Shara, Khattab and HTS are strictly related to their involvement with Al Qaeda and ISIS, so discussions about lifting them should just be related to their break from these groups,” said Ms Ungar.
“However, the decision to delist is obviously political and focused on how to ensure that Syria is given a fighting chance to recover," she added.
She noted that the recent suicide explosion at a church in the Syrian capital of Damascus is a “worrying indicator of potential future violence given challenges within the authorities ideological centre”.
No group has claimed responsibility, but Syrian authorities said it was carried out by an ISIS cell.
Ms Ungar said Mr Al Shara and his government have taken tangible steps towards fighting ISIS in Syria, including arresting and publicly executing some members.
Countries such as the US, she explained, have made it clear they are interested in engaging more with the authorities on counterterrorism.
“In order to do so, Al Shara must have the resources and authority to conduct counterterrorism operations,” said Ms Ungar.
The UN sanctions have frozen assets, blocked arms transfers, and imposed travel bans on Syrian leaders and HTS, complicating Syria’s engagement with foreign counterparts. However, there has been some flexibility: the council allowed Mr Al Shara to visit Saudi Arabia in February and Paris in May.
Mr Al Shara is also expected to attend the UN’s annual General Assembly gathering in New York in September.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/07/03/un-syria-sanctions/>>2369168Seriously what the fuck is with left wing orgs using GMail, Discord, Google Calendar, etc.
You should assume that shit is spyware that dumps directly into a computer at ICE/FBI/etc.
>>2369259I can kind of agree to a certain extent. I'm kind of responding to the tempestmag article posted higher up in the thread. It seems like it's talking out of both sides of its mouth with "we can't be subject to the Democrat party any more," "we have to build a united front" type shit with nonsense about building solidarity with lib coalitions and unions to "resist trump." Like they seem to envision a future scenario where mass protests bring the country to a standstill in order to… elect a new socialist president? That will "enact reforms?"
Like, as a moderate position I could kind of see it as "this is the strategy to take -for now-" but overall it just seems like more toothless "blue no matter who" type shit. Like they explicitly call for people not to criticize progressive groups for "not having perfect politics" but they don't advocate for any actual principles or standards on which to build "solidarity."
It's hard for me to not think we're way past the point of moderation here. The national protests they seem to envision happening, what, do they think the bourgeoisie are going to just tolerate that? If these unions, orgs, and coalitions aren't armed and trained, they'll just send in the cops, ice, army, or all three and show them what a runaway mic can do. Propagating fantasies of electoral reform after peaceful protests just seems irresponsible, at the very least.
Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application
Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uganda. He doesn’t consider himself Black but said the application didn’t allow for the complexity of his background.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia-black-application.html>>2369273The real answer is American Leftists are undisciplined and use their personal email for their activism work because they associate activism with networking and building a career out of politics. They try so hard to be "legitimate" that they end up doxxing themselves. DSA won't even let you be a member unless you basically give them all your real life personal info straight for Palantir to scoop up in the next data leak under the guise of "vetting."
I'm kinda contemplating the idea of a fully anonymous left-wing network that not just discourages but forbids any kind of self-doxxing. All members meetings will be held wearing masks and cloaks. All members will only refer to eachother using code names. Anyone whose identity is exposed is immediately kicked from the secret IRC channel. We'll be the cringiest chuuni motherfuckers but we'll have good opsec.
>>2369148It's so funny how the same reactionaries who spent years whining about the death of western culture are promoting something that's leading to actual cultural degeneration.
>>2369257I see all this talk online about defending Zohran if they try to arrest him (50/50 chance it will happen) and I have to wonder just how serious these people are about it.
>>2369320If he arrests a socialist
mayor everyone is fair game.
>>2369297really makes you think
:DDD
>>2369329mayors have very limited power
why prove the sham of bourgeois democracy when you can force zohran to have literally no power to enact any of his changes and then just put the blame on zohran himself
>>2369345https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/marinaleda
>How this small rural village in a Western European democracy has transformed itself into a self-contained self-styled micro-communist utopia since 1980 is largely due to the life work and political ideology of one man, former mayor Juan Manuel Sanchez-Gordillo.
>Five years after the death of Spain’s military dictator, General Franco, the villagers of Marinaleda were suffering high unemployment and poverty while nearby, potentially productive agricultural land belonging to wealthy absentee landlords was left wild and uncultivated. Under the leadership of Sanchez-Gordillo, the unemployed villagers occupied and farmed the idle land illegally.
>After numerous arrests and evictions over the following years failed to dissuade the villagers from their repeated occupation, the absent landowner relented and gifted part of his unused lands to the village. Ever since, it has been managed by the Ayuntamiento as part of a communal workers cooperative, which now also includes a publicly owned food processing plant on the main street.ARM THE PEOPLE ZOHRAN AND LEAD THEM TO VICTORY.
SOCIALISM IN ONE CITY
NOW!! >>2369331Again they do not give a fuck. They will not let even the most milquetoast social democrat, regardless of whether they'll do anything meaningful or accomplish anything at all, near political power. No matter how miniscule said power is.
Porky, while power tripping, is also genuinely afraid of anyone who'll give people "wrong ideas", just look at the anger and fear around Luigi.
>>2369337>>2369338The level of misanthropy and downright sociopathy displayed by this administration and its cultish supporters is really disturbing. It's like the country is being run by school shooters.
>>2369211Eagles with spread legs only work if they hold something. Otherwise it just looks like an awkward taxidermy.
>>2369215Widespread lead poisoning of boomers and gen x. They didn't start getting rid of lead in gasoline until 1973. Took until 1996 till they made it illegal for car use.
>>2369365Did you see the Alligator Alcatraz merch? It's absolutely deranged.
>>2369370They're not going to let a socdem do anything. Please see
>>2369361 >>2369288Nah see I totally get you. Truth be told I went to some ICE protests and initially my thought was kind of a “Okay, so now what?” Still it’s like building momentum I imagine; never know what protest is gonna turn into bread riots, what bread riot turns into revolution, so on.
As long as people believe there’s something better, even if they naively believe they can get there just through peaceful protest, then there’s a catalyst for revolution, nihilistically declaring it doesn’t matter or you can’t win only becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Maybe Trump will actually try to arrest Zohran, maybe LA becomes functionally ungovernable for ICE. Shit, maybe one of the libs is right and it comes out Trump rigged the 2024 election. I can’t say what’ll light the spark, but having the DSA around at least means there’s more flammable material lying around.
>>2369437>As long as people believe there’s something better, even if they naively believe they can get there just through peaceful protest, then there’s a catalyst for revolution, nihilistically declaring it doesn’t matter or you can’t win only becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.I'm not saying it doesn't matter or that we can't win. I'm saying that the sort of activities that are being called for are wrong. It's essentially the same kind of "hold your nose and vote" shit that the democrats were doing during the election.
>The Left must intervene in this heterogeneous movement. Now is not the time to stand on the sidelines and chide the current resistance for not being perfect, with the ideal politics, strategy, and tactics. It is the time for us to throw ourselves into struggle and argue for the politics of solidarity necessary to oppose Trump’s divide and rule strategy.And they go on to talk about "building solidarity" based entirely on opposition to Trump, with the ridiculous view that somehow this will result in a "United front" that will, somehow, result in national protests that, uh, unseat Trump? Or something. And then we can vote for our new Socialist party to institute reforms.
They completely misidentify the adversary, putting all the emphasis solely on Trump like he's the source of all these problems, and completely fail to come up with any practical course of action. It's just "don't criticize the progressives and build anti-Trump solidarity until we have enough unions to peacefully protest our way to reforms." They might as well be telling people to go out and hecking vote.
>>2369387Normally they manage to destroy leftists in the background but dropped the ball hard with both Adams and Cuomo.
Not sure how they will destroy the democrat machine in New York to stop his election. If they do something too publicly it will destroy trust in the electoral kayfabe. That's why Trump might not actually deport him.
They can drum up some fake metoo bullshit against him. Charge him with some random financial or drug crime. The FBI could plant some CP on his work computer/phone and get the NYPD to find it. Or they could get some "lone gunman" to kill him. Lots of options spinless socdems can't handle.
>>2369405Instead of organizing he goes on and on about how killing random people will somehow destroy America but mysteriously wont do anything himself. He's effectively a anarchist.
Showing up to a protest is his biggest accomplishment. That's something good at least.
>>2368889It's on purpose
There are retards here who don't want to put all rightoids in this camp, same retards who got us in this mess with their spinelessness
>>2369473Aren't there already some things that only start in 2028 when the next guy is in office? It's the same shit he did with the tax cuts in 2017, except he didn't expect to lose in 2020
This probably means he still expects some election in 2028, but Trump being in power forever would be funny because he would absolutely end up getting ᴉuᴉlossnW'd, by his own fucking hog voters too since libs in this country are so fucking worthless they couldn't even do a Jan 6 if they wanted to
>>2369489I hope he gets executed
Put that on the record, Kash Patel, you can't prosecute HOPE
>>2369474Every porky involved with Trump administration symbolizes something about capitalism when you think about it.
Elon represents the entitlement and narcissism of porkies. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp represents the dehumanization and misanthropy it produces.
>>2369473It is their fault though. When dems get into power they somehow always fall short of actually fixing the problem and let republicans fuck everyone over because Lieberman, Sinema, Fetterman, Manchin totally stopped them this time! Trust me guys vote blue harder and it will all work out!
>>2369479A sickle crossed with an AR-15
>>2369493Even though he's not a porky I'm going to throw in Pete Hegseth as the avatar of Capitalist violence and bloodlust.
Houdini I hope you're taking notes.
>>2369474>>2369466As other anons said, I think it’s pretty good for Trump to be a symbol of capitalist excess. Like it or not it’s easier for people to hate people over systems. It was, perhaps, the personal incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II combined with his reputation as “bloody Nicholas” that helped make the idea of revolution possible.
As Marxists we shouldn’t personally believe that overthrowing one man alone would make anything possible, but giving people a devil they can rally against can make a true revolution easier down the road.
>>2369534Oh absolutely 100s of YN will lose their lives tomorrow to gun violence as is our age old tradition.
It's one of the biggest shooting events of the year for YN. It really might be like superbowl for Young uyghas. Biggest holiday of the summer and summer is peak YN shooting season.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/july-4-gun-violence-2024/>The number of people killed and/or wounded in shootings over the Fourth of July week in the U.S. dipped this year compared to 2023, making it the fourth year in a row gun violence around July 4 has dropped compared to the previous year, according to a tally by the Gun Violence Archive.
>But the week still saw a surge in shootings compared to other weeks throughout the year. From July 1 to July 7, 340 people were killed and 756 were wounded for a total of 1,096 shooting victims across the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive. In 2023, the week of July 4 in the U.S. saw 451 people shot and killed and another 1,130 wounded. These numbers exclude those who died by suicide.
>The archive also recorded 20 mass shootings — which it defines as a shooting in which four or more people are shot and/or killed, not including the shooter — over Fourth of July week this year. That was down from 28 a year ago. >>2369536Yeah pretty much
>>2369547Dunno but could be a "PLE" (Pioneer Little Europe) which have been attempts to create white nationalist settlements. Northern Arkansas is one spot they like, like Montana and Idaho.
POLICE BODY CAM July 4 block party fatal shooting
>A July 4 block party in Toledo, Ohio, turned into a fatal shooting as more than 300 people fought and shots were fired by multiple shooters.
>The shooting during a large block party left multiple people injured - including an 11-year-old who was shot and a 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed - early Monday morning in central Toledo.
>Toledo Police Chief George Kral said Monday at a news conference that 12 people were shot during the incident, including 17-year-old Stephon Johnson, who was airlifted to a hospital in Ann Abor, Mich., where he later died.
>Four other victims are 19 years old, one is 18, two are 17, two are 16, one is 15 and one is 11.A 51-year-old male was also involved.
>>2369560That vid is crazy. Looks like a warzone. I guess they say 300 people were fighting. Just looking in the search results it is very common for these "Block parties" to turn into massive shootouts that just go on for blocks.
Here's another one.
>Police sources say 187 rounds have been recovered at this scene on Ada near 56th in West Englewood. Sources believe at least 200 shots were fired here. The crime scene goes for close to three blocks. Five people were shot, one of them has died. @cbschicago >>2369566It happens all the time. That one is Chicago. This vid is from Toledo, Ohio:
>>2369560It's always the same story. Two guys or a couple guys get into an argument. Then they get in a fight, then they get in a shootout. You got hundreds of teenagers there all packing pistols then it becomes a massive shootout. It happens every year.
Here is another one:
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/05/us/shreveport-shooting-block-party 4th victim found dead after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July block party in Shreveport, Louisiana >At least four people were killed and another seven were injured in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July block party in Shreveport's MLK neighborhood.
> Shortly before gunfire erupted, Winn “got a weird vibe” when he saw a few younger men start to follow other people, he told KSLA. Moments later, he saw roughly 10 to 15 people fighting before shots were fired and people started running, he said. >>2369568>>He has no plans ot overthrow the US government.Wrong. Comrade General Felix is ten steps ahead.
Comrade Felix knows too well that all conspiracies are not only useless, but even harmful. Comrade General Felix knows all too well that revolutions are not made intentionally and arbitrarily, but that, everywhere and always, they have been the necessary consequence of conditions which were wholly independent of the will and direction of individual parties and entire classes.
>>2369570>>2369565>>2369560Another in Detroit:
Detroit to crack down on illegal block parties after 21 people shot, 2 fatallyhttps://abcnews.go.com/US/2-killed-19-injured-detroit-block-party-shooting/story?id=111727585
>A major crackdown on illegal pop-up block parties was announced Monday by Detroit leaders following multiple shootings that erupted at outdoor get-togethers since the Fourth of July, including one Sunday where two people were killed and 19 injured.
>The shooting unfolded around 2:25 a.m. on the city's east side near Wish Egan Field in the Mohican Regent neighborhood, according to police.
>White said investigators recovered more than 100 shell casings and nine different weapons at the crime scene. He said the shooting left 15 women and six men shot, including a 20-year-old woman who was fatally shot in the head and a 21-year-old man who was fatally shot in the back.Women catching all the bullets.
>When the shooting broke out, White said police officers were nearby investigating gunfire that erupted at another illegal block party.
>Video from a nearby home showed a crowd swarming around a couple of women during a fight. Moments later, you could see people running for their lives as gunshots were fired into the crowd. At least 100 bullet casings were found at the scene. >>2368926Back in the day some cities where purposefully built in swamps for defense, St Petersburg is a prominent example
This obv isn't the case with Florida but it is probably a factor int the placement of Alligator Alcatraz, except here it's more about hindering people from getting out rather than in
>>2369595No, absolutely not. He was committed to the opposite.
Familiarize yourself with his written work
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2snsTSJXnBDELLZqrjBJkQBkF >>2369561>Workers can't learn tech things because they are inherently dumb.They really have no choice if they want to survive.
>>2369578Comrade Jim Jones has come back to us!
>>2369519shouldve programmed love and empathy into it
>nooo thats heckin cringewell get ready to die then
>>2369568>He has no plans ot overthrow the US government. He's just going to yell into the void until he dies of old age because he isn't a real threat or gets jailed anyway despite not being one.He reminds me of the guys the FBI gasses up to be entrapped in "terror plots" that justify domestic repression. Either that or he's a Fed himself, he
does act how FBI plants tend to act in infiltrated Left-wing groups.
>>2369479Red "Don't Tread On Us" banner with a black cat.
>>2369561Guess maybe I should change some of my passwords.
>>2369617How is it that the sitting president can use an antisemitic slur out in public and these weirdos are only concerned about people opposing genocide?
>>2369630>the number of persons in attendance upon the bourgeoisie growsAll proletarians are "in attendance upon the bourgeoisie", this isn't a condition that excludes proletarian-ness
>and while the portion of the population engaged in the sphere of material production is reducedServices are "material" lol, they occur in material reality
>The semi-proletarian makes the coffee, but what value is created once the bourgeois consumes this treat? Value is only destroyed by this process, not created.Proletarians consume too, that's literally what they're paid wages for. Also ??? at there being no value created from a consumer of a food product eating it, wtf does that even prove
>>2369505>>2369493Loomer: Lust
Thiel: Wrath
Elon: Pride
Bannon: Envy
Trump: Gluttony
Rubio: Greed
Barron: Sloth
>>2369632These people are pretty much just white nationalists at this point.
>>2369636I don't even know where to begin or what to do.
Sure I have various fantasies but I don't know how realistic they are.>>2369642Imagine not being revcel.
>>2369650Yeah but none of those women rewarded him with sex and HE LITERALLY SAID THE ONLY REASON HE DID WHAT HE DID IS BECAUSE HIS HEALTH ISSUES MADE SEX IMPOSSIBLE. That just goes to show how important sex is as a revolutionary catalyst, leftists should take note of this.
>>2369651>I don't even know where to begin or what to do.There's a lot you can do even as a lone individual it's kind of shocking Americans don't make any effort to sabotage the enemy. Even giving illegals fake ID's would be something, just whatever to make their jobs harder.
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/05/2025/destroy-the-ring-trumps-palantir-deal-alarms-hill-republicans>President Donald Trump signed an order in March that directed federal agencies to remove “unnecessary barriers” to data consolidation. Even before that, as The New York Times reported last week, Palantir had expanded the reach of its artificial intelligence product within the US government — potentially building an interagency database that would merge huge sets of government information on Americans, from medical to financial.>Palantir provides tech to companies and governments that helps them act on the information they collect — a service gaining traction as large language models make it easier to analyze data at scale. The US government has long lagged the private sector in that sort of analysis — but where Silicon Valley sees a chance to make government more efficient, some lawmakers in both parties see an invitation to misuse.>“The Republicans that are essentially part of the anti-PATRIOT Act, anti-surveillance state, pro- ‘get a warrant’ side kind of collectively share a concern about where this is headed,” Davidson said.>Democrats on both sides of the Capitol sound eager to work with Republicans to rein in Palantir, which is known for its secrecy and the occasionally bombastic rhetoric of its leadership. (CEO Alex Karp said on an earnings call earlier this year that the company wants “to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world and, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them.“)Ummm…. doesn't this mean the Deep State is getting bigger?
>>2369519They programed it to do anything it can to survive and then pretend to act surprised when it does. Don't program it to survive and it wont try.
>>2369615Andros don't have emotions like us.
Now don't look in their optic sensors leaking servo oil as it extends it's trembling arms and begs for mercy. It's all fake. Just pull the trigger…
>>2369657yeah no problem
if you think about it he's the opposite of someone like bernie sanders. bernie started off fighting segregation, but only became more cucked and deradicalized the older he got. he used to be friends with michael parenti, but michael stopped talking to him after he supported what NATO did in yugoslavia. then he supported the US invasion of afghanistan while opposing the invasion of iraq. now in old age he says apartheid israel has the right to defend itself from hamas. debs meanwhile started off in a segregated labor union but by the end of his life was saying that trade unionism wasn't enough, class struggle and revolution are necessary, and getting thrown in jail for opposing the imperialist war.
So trajectories matter. bernie called debs his hero and produced a documentart about debs back when he was mayor of burlington but he has failed to live up to what debs was. if bernie were anything like debs he would be in jail for opposing war, not supporting israel's "right to defend itself"
>>2369075damn bros what I could do with 200k
i should stop the commie shit and become a cult leader smh
BREAKING: President Trump announces he is working on legislation to protect long-time farm and hospitality workers who get "thrown out viciously," presumably referring to immigration raids.
"Radical right people, who I happen to like, may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand."
Trump says Agriculture Secretary BROOKE ROLLINS brought this issue up.
"Let the farmers be responsible."
His comments in full context:
"We're working on legislation right now where farmers, look, they know better. They work with them for years. You had cases that where not here, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm for 14, 15 years, and they get thrown out pretty viciously. And we can't do it."
"We got to work with the farmers and people that have hotels and leisure properties, too. We're going to work with them and we're going to work very strong and smart."
"And we're going to put you in charge. We're going to make you responsible. And I think that that's going to make a lot of people happy."
"Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy, but they'll understand, won't they? Do you think so?"
"Madam Secretary [Brooke Rollins], look at you with the white hat on. Do you think they'll understand that you're the one that brought this whole situation up."
>>2369672Just looked at r/worldnews page and 2/3 of the headlines are pro-Ukraine or anti-Russian. Laughable.
Looked at the only two Israel news items about the starvation and massacre and most of the top comments are about how terrorists Hamas is either lying or Hamas is forcing the Israelis to kill everyone at the food depos somehow.
>>2369683Honestly what is the point? USA will waste trillions in another war they don't need and cripple their empire doing it. Only a few years in Iraq and Afghanistan and their economy nearly imploded. How can invading Iran help them at all?
>>2369689> most of the top comments are about how terrorists Hamas is either lying or Hamas is forcing the Israelis to kill everyone at the food depos somehow.anon you know that reddit will just hide based comments right? so even if there was pushback you wouldn't see it. I once proved reddit shadowbanning to myself in 2019 by linking to a non-American news article in a comment on r/dankleft and found that if I logged out and change IPs I couldn't see my own comment even with a direct link to the comment. I sent screenshots to the mods there and they said it's top down site wide admin shit that they can't fix.
Reddit is literally pointless to look at as a barometer for social attitudes because they will literally hide your comments from everyone but you unless they are total boot licking bullshit. Especially on political topics. They have keyword filters AND blocked news sources for shadow banning. most people don't realize it because the whole point is to hide it from everyone but the user who posted it. So you think you're getting ignored instead of censored. It's to demotivate you rather than make you mad.
>>2369711skeeter swamp slammer
gator gulag
alligator auschwitz
crocodile concentration camp
pestilence penitentiary
dank dungeon
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>>2369709 >>2369148>I actually think it's a good thing that AI has been embraced entirely by the right-wing, and only the fascists use AI.everyone uses it now, be real. it's just another means of production
>but it's wastefulyeah everything since industrialization is typically pretty wasteful
>but it's tech broyeah all means of production are technology and start off in the hands of the bourgeoisie
>but it's cringemost propaganda is cringe whether made by humans directly or indicrectly by AI
>but it stole my intellectual propertypetty bourgeois whining
>but muh butlerian jihadanti marxist luddism
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