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>>2454195 >>2455778>>2455779they have their own delivery food ever since that got exposed.
it's fucking labor day weekend.
>>2455788you're thinking backwards. the CIA has an incentive to lie in the opposite manner: to say that the USSR is/was more brutal than the US. So when
even a biased source admits something opposite to their incentives, it's a sign that it is true and they are reluctantly admitting it.
>this is no high barit's not meant to be a high bar. it's meant to show that even an embattled, embargoed, besieged socialist nation in the middle of the 20th century, after 2 world wars and a civil war, is less brutal than the USA.
>>2455743>Rudy Got Rammed EditionDid he get
rammed or did he get
Ram Ranched?YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH >>2455434I've seen wildly varying numbers about the loneliness epidemic. From only like 10% of the populace being impacted to like 70%.
I don't know what to believe regarding it anymore. All I know is I went for an orientation and as soon as there was a break everyone immediately hopped onto their phones.
>>2455851If you're chad your life basically hasn't changed since the 00's when people first started getting cellphones. You just use your phone to connect with your friends and organize hangouts and dates with your harem of girls.
For everyone else, their phone is just an escape from the loneliness of the real world. They spend most of their time doomscrolling and not really interacting with others. This has the effect of people becoming more avoidant to the point even if you're like, mildly social but not Chad, you'll have a much harder time organizing things because people are terrified of commitment. Chad only gets around this because people(women) genuinely want to be around him.
I've noticed it a lot more after Covid. Everyone, EVERYONE is just so avoidant. Except boomers I guess but even they're addicted to their phones now.
>>2455879>"genderfluid aspies should not be parents"That wasn't even me you dumb motherfucker. That's what always happens when you go on a crusade on an anonymous board.
>the pattern to recognize here is that you say something bigoted or stupid, I respond to it, speak from experience, and then you seethe because you want the board to be a place for you to rage without response or criticism. you're just mad I actually think about what you say critically and respond instead of ignoring you like everyone else does. in your ideal scenario you would just say something stupid and get no pushbackNo, you are the one absolutely seething. You are the one upset that people would dare share any opinion you find the slightest bit unkosher. I don't give a fuck what you think. I'm just going to bully you like I do all the fucking attention whores, especially self righteous fags like yourself.
>>2455885TIME KEEPS ON SLIPPIN
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>>2455876>>2455877Hey at least they can get a room. I remember like a decade ago when I was trying to rent int he Santa Barbara/Goleta area, there was like no open apartments, and like every listing was:
>Family: Only looking for female roommate>Women renting: Only looking for female roommateor like the story:
>Creepy lonely guy: Only looking for female roommateAnd there were a number of them.
Gorka Calls Out MAGA Jew Haters: "Perverse Concatenation of People Who Can't Think Strategically"
Gorka stated these voices are "very loud on social media, but their influence on MAGA and especially on the commander-in-chief is minimal."
In the Victor Davis Hanson podcast, Sebastian Gorka identified a "very heavy overlap" in a "Venn diagram" between admirers of Putin as a "great Christian and family man" and those asserting "Israel is at fault for everything" and "the great war criminals are in Jerusalem not in the Gaza not in the headquarters of the IRGC."
Gorka described it as a "perverse concatenation of people who can't think strategically" influenced by a "mythical version of America in the 1950s that never really existed," seeking an "excuse to be anti-semitic with a thin veneer of well it's it's it's not about Jews. It's about Israel."
Gorka stated these voices are "very loud on social media, but their influence on MAGA and especially on the commander-in-chief is minimal," urging "every single day must call them out." He thanked VDH, Sammy, and Jack for "keeping the patriots sane during these world years in the wilderness, for standing up for the truth, and for never bending to the establishment or to the propagandist."
VDH discussed Darryl Cooper on Tucker Carlson's show, who claimed "we should have sided with Hitler." VDH rebutted: Hitler "declared war on us," and labeling Churchill the "real villain of World War II" ignores that "the man who actually built the gas chambers and who invaded Poland and had a secret pact with Stalin he's the victim but the man who helped save Western civilization is the bad guy."
VDH refuted Cooper's inaccuracies:
on 20,000 POWs, "Russia liberated German camps… ultimately almost all of them we know were given back";
Patton "did not say that he wanted" to join Hitler but post-victory viewed Soviets as a threat; the Holocaust was "predetermined" via the "hunger plan," with "7,000 Jews were rounded up in 3 weeks" in Poland.Gorka attributed the trend to "clickbait… it's not the truth that drives. It's it's it's the outrage," dismissal of expertise as "all experts are liars," and the "woke right" seeing themselves as victims, concluding "truth doesn't exist."
VDH cited October 7th as a trigger, reviving notions that "World War II was caused by overdue empathy for an exaggerated Holocaust," with "our natural allies were the Germans," and now "the Jews are doing exactly what they did in World War II. They're trying to get us into a Middle East war when our natural friends are the Arabs and the Iranians."
This "greatest loss of Jewish life since the end of the Holocaust" emboldens "those who hid their anti-semitism" to declare "who the real war criminals are."
Gorka praised Trump as "the most philosemitic president since the reestablishment of Israel in 1948," backing Israel's October 7th response, representing "America first… the pinnacle of the spear for a Judeo-Christian civilization."
VDH affirmed: "the Jews did not prompt us to get into World War II" nor recent conflicts
>>2455893What's actually happening here is you're having an argument in public and another observer is telling you that your behavior is bad. You've created a person in your head based on a bunch of anonymous posts on a forum that made you unhappy, and you're on the street raving about how you're going to punish them for how upset they make you.
<No, you are the one absolutely seething. You are the one upset that people would dare share any opinion you find the slightest bit unkosher. I don't give a fuck what you think. I'm just going to bully you like I do all the fucking attention whores, especially self righteous fags like yourself.That's not the kind of thing that someone says when they are fine and okay about posts on the internet.
>>2455907Here is a counter argument to this
I have to ask, is the astroturfing of the term “Woke Right” a foreign influence operation being peddled by the Israeli Government?
I broke down the evidence in my monologue for “The Matt Gaetz Show” on One America News Network tonight with Patrick Casey
https://xcancel.com/VishBurra/status/1961250219313836185#m One of the architects of Queer Theory was Judith Butler, whose work it has been said can be reduced to the following six words: "Life is drag; drag is life." What this refers to is her concept of "gender performativity." Another more modern way to summarize it is "all gender expression is gender cosplay."
The idea behind gender performativity is that all expressions of "gender" are, in fact, performances. If the underlying biological substrate of sex (male or female) matters at all, it doesn't matter at all to how we interact socially or in how we see ourselves as people. It doesn't factor in at all.
Instead, we aren't living as members of our sex with all attendant diversity; we're performing our gender as a role, somewhat like on a stage ("all the world's a stage") but more like the way a professional plays the role of his career.
For example, consider a hypothetical judge, Judge Smith. Judge Smith might just be Bob in his day-to-day life, just another upper-middle class guy with a professional class job and country-club lifestyle, but when he puts on the robes and sits at the bench, etc., he's "Judge Smith." Judge Smith talks in ways becoming of a judge, dresses as a judge, uses a judicial-specific dialect of English, etc., but Bob doesn't usually. Judge Smith is a performance.
That performance is meant to do an array of social signaling, particularly of his judicial authority, not just to others but also to himself. The entire courtroom engages in an extended performance too, calling him "Your Honor," for example, and deferring to his judgments and leadership of the court. It's all just an act to convey a kind of professional status that "Judge Smith" has but that isn't located intrinsically (or essentially) anywhere in Bob.
This idea of "performativity" comes from J.L. Austin from a lecture series in the mid-1950s, and Judith Butler appropriated it rather badly into her critical constructivist view of sex, gender, and sexuality (what became called "Queer Theory") in the 1980s, expressing the idea most fully in her two most famous books, Gender Trouble (1990) and Bodies that Matter (1993). Her idea was, as I said, all of "gender" is the same kind of social-signaling performance.
Thus, her work can be summarized in those six words: "Life is drag; drag is life." Drag is a stylized and deliberately parodic (like parody) performance of sex, but given as a performance of "gender." An obvious male portrays himself as a highly stereotypical female in the "drag queen." An obvious female portrays herself as a caricatured male in the "drag king" (less common). Butler's wacky idea is that everyone is actually doing drag all the time.
If you are male and acting female, you're a male doing female drag, but if you're a male acting male, you're a male doing male drag. You're still doing drag. The same goes for women. Everyone is doing drag all the time. Much in those two books specifically discusses the role drag performances play in formulating her conception of "gender performativity," in fact. It's not an idle correlation; it's intentional.
Moreover, Judith Butler's idea is that all of society goes along with and reinforces these performances. Men are supposed to play "male drag," and women are supposed to do "female drag." For her, this establishes a sociognostic circumstance ("system of oppression") called gender normativity that came to be called "cisnormativity": your "performed gender" is socially and sometimes legally expected to match your sex.
Her idea is that people learn to do these signals from people already enacting the society-wide "drag" drama, whether to fit in, avoid trouble, get advantages, or whatever else, and they replicate the performance from one person to another. Thus we're all complicit in spreading the "performative drag" to everyone and reinforcing the sociognostic circumstance of normativity.
To "queer" something, as it came to be known, is to challenge this whole "production" and its underlying assumptions and actual truths through deliberate parodic "drag" performances outside of the normative range. See, Judith Butler didn't believe the normative frame could be overcome, but it could still be mocked. She called this approach "the politics of parody," again based on drag (and the fact that drag queens are doing critical and deconstructive performances in womanface, ultimately).
The idea behind this strategy is to transgress the boundaries of normalcy in the name of overcoming alleged repression or perceived oppression (oppression in a free society tends to be a matter of histrionic interpretation). It is to slowly erode the concept of normativity by mocking it around its edges and shocking the conscience further away from them. The goal is to dissolve the stability and connection to reality that the norms provide and represent.
So, to queer is to transgress with a deliberate aim of dissolving or moving the so-called "Overton window" of acceptable "performances" of self, particularly relevant to sex, "gender" (stereotypes about sex roles), and sexuality.
It is possible to transgress those boundaries through performative cosplay in another way. Rather than seeking to transgress against norms believed (or just said) to be too repressive, you could transgress against norms believed (or just said) to be too licentious. That is, rather than asserting normal and healthy boundaries based in reality, morality, decency, stability, etc., one could engage in a kind of virtue-signaling cosplay performance of strict, narrow, and old-fashioned modes of expression, including around sex, gender, and sexuality.
The name for this "reverse queering" we use today is "Trad," which is a kind of faddish style and commodity-identity that people can take up and perform in a variety of ways, especially at the conference scene and on Instagram.
"Trad" seemingly refers to "traditional" or "traditionalist," but that's only where it gets its inspiration. It is not actually traditionalist except in pastiche, and it attaches to no living tradition whatsoever. While someone might like 1950s styles today, for example, to suddenly adopt them outside of the continuity of the evolution of culture and style is, in fact, a performative action. It's wanting to be seen in a particular way and to see oneself in a particular way in a very fake-it-til-you-make-it way. It is, in short, a "gender" performance, just not one expanding the range through artificial manipulation (queering) but contracting it artificially. That is, it's the same activity.
When this performativity is adopted for deliberate political ends or means, it is, in fact, a kind of "politics of parody" through performative negation of the current mode and current style. It remains essentially a kind of queering, however, and it is still living life deliberately in drag for political ends, which is what Queer Theory claims as its raison d'etre, at least in a certain way.
Because it is "trad performativity" (or, "trad drag," if you prefer) and because the traditions it draws from are not living traditions at all, "Trad" actually refers to pseudo-traditionalism, a kind of act pretending to be traditionalist while being conspicuously not in line with living tradition anywhere. Because of the break it represents, it is also a (mild, for now) form of transgression, though there are associated things that are not so mild (e.g., whatever the radicals mean by "based," which isn't "based in reality and principle").
Am I saying you shouldn't be "Trad"? No, not really. It's (still, for now) a free country, or free society, and you can represent yourself as you wish (again, for now). You should just be clear on what you're adopting: a form of queering just as queer as queering but with a mind to constrict norms rather than expand them. You're as free as you want to be a Queer Theorist in your own fashion.
Judith Butler might grumble about the expression, but if she understands her own theory, she'd strongly approve.
PS: Most of the people posting this performativity on the 'Gram aren't living any more of a "Trad" life, much less a traditionalist one, than Bob would wear his judges robes to the golf course on Saturday afternoon. Those people are a TV show, and they might be taking you to the cleaners.
https://xcancel.com/ConceptualJames/status/1961475420278128902#m>>2455933https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/jackson-hole-2025-monetary-policy-demography-and-productivity/The economy is starting to spin out of control. Unemployment is increasing and the fed is both unable to get inflation under control while Trump is winning the battle over control of the board of governors.
>In sum, inflation remains above target and full employment is disappearing. Powell posed the dilemma: “In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside, and risks to employment to the downside—a challenging situation.” Indeed!
>In his speech, Powell was more concerned with the deteriorating employment situation ie he was more worried about stagnation or recession than rising inflation. “Overall, while the labor market appears to be in balance, it is a curious kind of balance that results from a marked slowing in both the supply of and demand for workers. This unusual situation suggests that downside risks to employment are rising. And if those risks materialize, they can do so quickly in the form of sharply higher layoffs and rising unemployment.”Rough times ahead.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/post-war-plan-sees-us-administering-gaza-least-decade-washington-post-2025-08-31/Post-war plan sees US administering Gaza for at least a decade: Washington Post
>Aug 31 (Reuters) - A post-war plan for Gaza is circulating within President Donald Trump's administration that would see the U.S. administer the war-torn enclave for at least a decade, the relocation of Gaza's population and its rebuilding as a tourist resort and manufacturing hub, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
>The Washington Post said that according to a 38-page prospectus it had seen, Gaza's 2 million population would at least temporarily leave either through "voluntary" departures to another country or into restricted areas within the territory during reconstruction.
>Reuters previously reported there is a proposal to build large-scale camps called "Humanitarian Transit Areas" inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population. That plan carried the name of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, a controversial U.S.-backed aid group.
>Anyone who owns land would be offered a "digital token" in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, the Post reported, adding that each Palestinian who left would be provided with $5,000 in cash and subsidies to cover four years of rent. They would also be provided with a year of food, it added.
>The Post said the plan is called the "Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or GREAT Trust," and was developed by the GHF.
>GHF coordinates with the Israeli military and uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get food aid into Gaza. It is favored by the Trump administration and Israel to carry out humanitarian efforts in Gaza as opposed to the U.N.-led system which Israel says lets militants divert aid.We finally literally, unequivocally, get to die for Israel, well in what Israel considers Israel even. It's glorious. What more can a muttoid ask for? We definitely have earned our spot with the Jewish god.
>>2455945Cool, I can't wait for all the
>guys am I still a leftist even if I own a condo in gazaPosts
>>2455947cenk a gaetz are just worried that some segments of the population are getting out of their control. they want to shepherd them, that's all.
>>2455943I wonder if trump will get ousted. lel.
>>2455989>as many then foresaw, in a few hundred years this would lead to child sex changesHe never posted a quote of that. I thought maybe he was going to twist some hidden meaning out of some text, but he didn't even bother.
This guy is dumber than your average twitter schizo honestly. This is like thingnoticer tier.
>Be Trump>Tell Palestinians to leavealso:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/politics/state-department-refuse-most-visas-palestinian-passports US tells diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders
> The US State Department has instructed its diplomats to refuse most visas for Palestinian passport holders, whether they live in the West Bank, Gaza, or overseas, according to a cable seen by CNN.
>The internal message, dated August 18 and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, told all embassies and consulates to refuse nonimmigrant visas to “all otherwise eligible Palestinian Authority passport holders” who are using that passport to apply for a visa. The posts were instructed to do so “effective immediately.”
>Nonimmigrant visas include a wide variety of visas, including those for students, professors, tourists, businesspeople and those seeking medical treatment. >>2456038Yeah you are right Richard was pretty much a poltard for a long time and had many reprehensible views. What he is saying now would apply to how he would talk before. With that said though about 2 years ago he did a long article about how his views changed over time to becoming more of a liberal and I believe it is sincere as I follow his content a lot
https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-i-used-to-suck-and-hopefullyHe definitely still believes in some racism things and has reactionary views but it's far less so and since he has been those people he has a unique way to approach it + write about the topics as he has lived it. A lot of times he is trolling, baiting or even still doing racist stuff sometimes but he legit post original ideas and takes which is rare today online where everyone just wants to fit in.
>>2456033gavin is soooo overrated. we still have 4 years and he has to do battle against like over 9000 other democrats. plus people in his own state hate him.
He really wants this to be like bill clinton 2.0 or something.
all his opponent has to do is be slightly to the left of him, maybe on the trans issue or being anti israel
>>2456045>gavin is soooo overrated. we still have 4 years and he has to do battle against like over 9000 other democrats.That's not how the Democrats work. We knew who would be the nominee for the Dems in every election since 2008, and the Dems actually tried to destroy Bernie Sanders for suggesting maybe the voters should have a choice.
By this point Gavin is 100% the nominee and no one will challenge him unless Zohran somehow has an Obama moment.
>>2456071nope. when i was a kid the talking heads said in 2008 the front runners would be Hillary and Rudy Giuliani, ended up being Obama and McCain.
The people can be swayed against the party
as i said, all an opponent would have to do is be slightly to the left on a wedge issue and he would activte the far left, something like trans rights or being anti israel
>>2456076>nope. when i was a kid the talking heads said in 2008 the front runners would be Hillary and Rudy Giuliani, ended up being Obama and McCain.>The people can be swayed against the party That was 20 years ago. And keep in mind the party was STILL bitter towards Obama for not letting Hillary have Her Turn. I wasn't a kid in 2008, I was 16. I remember how much the party insiders shat on Obama for being "inexperienced" and "a community organizer". Sure, he won the primary, but that animosity didn't go away and stuck with his entire first term. If a Dem DOES beat Newsom in the primary I expect the same to happen. And it's not like Obama was a leftist or even a progressive, he was a total centrist pretty much identical to Hillary, yet the fact he challenged her was enough for the Dems to hold a grudge. An actual progressive like Zohran winning the primary would probably result in Newsom running 3rd party just to spite him like what's going on in NYC.
(To be clear though Zohran can't run because he was born in Uganda)
>>2456079lol, the old guard has less control today more than ever because of the internet, saw people on bluesky (member bluesky) shitting on newsome and upping jb prizker because he has a trans cousin
thinking this shit will be a walk in the park is the same mistake hilldawg made and then she got obamaed!
Man, again?
https://apnews.com/article/doorbell-prank-child-shot-houston-44fa27d558124837dac2cdeb14317b3d11-year-old boy fatally shot in Houston after ‘ding dong ditch’ doorbell-ringing prank, police sayAn 11-year-old boy was fatally shot in Houston after a prank in which he rang the doorbell of a home and ran away, police said Sunday.
The boy had been ringing doorbells as a prank late Saturday evening, the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Commonly referred to as “ding dong ditching,” the prank involves fleeing before someone inside the home opens the door.
The boy, who has not yet been identified, died of his wounds Sunday, police said.
Police spokesperson Shay Awosiyan said that officers were still investigating and had not arrested anybody in connection with the boy’s death as of Sunday evening.
Other “ding dong ditch” pranks have turned deadly in the past. In 2023, a Southern California man was convicted on three counts of first-degree murder for killing three teenage boys by intentionally ramming their car after they rang his doorbell as a prank.
And in May, a Virginia man was charged with second-degree murder for fatally shooting an 18-year-old who had rung his doorbell while a filming a TikTok video of the prank, the New York Times reported.
>>2456094Rightists will freak the fuck out over pointless shit like this then call people "hysterical" if they think Trump is perhaps a bit extreme.
Why are Americans so cucked?
>>2456097I think that's just a fan theory.
>>2456123>>2456124Broke: Atomic bombings good because might makes right
Woke: Atomic bombings bad because innocent civilians
Bespoke: The Atomic bombings were good because America was about to starve them all to death otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Starvation>Food supplies were so meager that the average Japanese citizen was living at or near starvation level. Average civilian caloric intake in 1945 was 78 percent of the minimum needed for health and physical performance. By the end of June the civilian population began to show signs of panic. Experts predicted deaths by starvation would exceed seven million were Japan to somehow muster the will and resources to wage war through 1946.https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-strategic-options-against-japan-1945>Planners had proposed to destroy the Japanese rice crop with a chemical (TN8), though this might not be feasible before 1946. Since rice was the staple food of the Japanese diet, such a measure could kill Japanese indiscriminately by the millions. This was challenged on the basis that it would be too late to assist the current invasion strategy starting in November 1945, and because “indigenous food supplies may be very important to the commander charged with the occupation.” If the war dragged on, this option was already on the table for a return visit.
>Because it was still in progress, Americans had not yet learned that Japan’s 1945 rice crop was collapsing. About half the population of Japan lived in a dire food deficit area south and west of Tokyo on Honshu. The coastal shipping that normally provided the backbone of Japanese internal transportation had been destroyed. The only alternative to movement of large quantities of rice from surplus to deficit areas was by the limited rail system. If the US knocked out the rail system, Japan would be locked on a course for famine involving about half the 72 million population.
>The Japanese rail system was, by US or European standards, both weak and extremely vulnerable. Combining the rail bombing, blockade and the failure of the 1945 rice crop promised to threaten death by starvation to a large swath of the Japanese population. Even though the war ended before the rail system was devastated, the extremely diminished rice supply available for the period through to November 1946, generated a massive depopulation of Japan’s urban centers.
>Tokyo’s inhabitants, for example, plunged from about 4.5 million at the end of 1944 to 2.5 million in mid-1946. Famine in 1946 was only forestalled by the infusion of massive amounts of US food that fed 18 million Japanese city dwellers in July, 20 million in August and 15 million in September 1946. Occupation authorities estimated this food saved 11 million Japanese lives. >TIANJIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping urged leaders at a regional summit to leverage their "mega-scale market" on Monday, while Russian President Vladimir Putin showed support for Xi's ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the United States.
>The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has set a model for a new type of international relations, Xi said in opening remarks addressing more than 20 world leaders at a two-day summit held in northern China's port city Tianjin.
<"We should advocate for equal and orderly multipolarisation of the world, inclusive economic globalisation and promote the construction of a more just and equitable global governance system," he said.
<"We must take advantage of the mega-scale market… to improve the level of trade and investment facilitation," said Xi, urging the bloc to boost cooperation in fields including energy, infrastructure, science and technology, and artificial intelligence.
>Putin said the grouping has revived "genuine multilateralism" with national currencies increasingly used in mutual settlements.
<"This, in turn, lays the political and socio-economic groundwork for the formation of a new system of stability and security in Eurasia," he said.
<"This security system, unlike Euro-centric and Euro-Atlantic models, would genuinely consider the interests of a broad range of countries, be truly balanced, and would not allow one country to ensure its own security at the expense of others.”
>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders from Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia attended the opening ceremony in a major show of Global South solidarity.
>The security-focused bloc, which began as a group of six Eurasian nations, has expanded to 10 permanent members and 16 dialogue and observer countries in recent years.
>Xi called on organisation partners to "oppose Cold War mentality and bloc confrontation" and to support multilateral trade systems. That was an apparent dig at U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war which has disproportionately affected developing economies such as India, whose exports were hit with a 50% levy last week.
>China will provide 2 billion yuan ($280 million) of free aid to member states this year and a further 10 billion yuan of loans to an SCO banking consortium, he added.
>Speaking on the sidelines of the meeting on Sunday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said China played a "fundamental" role in upholding global multilateralism.
>Beijing has also used the summit as an opportunity to mend ties with New Delhi.
>Modi, who is in China on his first visit in seven years, and Xi both agreed on Sunday their countries are development partners, not rivals, and discussed ways to improve trade ties amid the global tariff uncertainty.
Eurasianism rising. Bring back the Dugin flag.
>>2456170>So what are your thoughts on strategic bombing in general? It seems like all the posters in the Z posters think Cucktin is not doing enough of it. It's kinda impossible to do strategic bombing without directly or indirectly killing civilians.I think the reality is that you end up blowing up cities and killing lots of civilians yeah. Now as to the cold-blooded military logic of this sort of thing, there is a historical debate about it, and there are contrarians among (more liberal) U.S. "national security" types who assert that – aside from the ethical problems – the assumptions that drive strategic bombing are just wrong, and also have perverse effects on policy where politicians are tempted to enter into wars because they think they can just bomb their way to victory without committing substantial ground forces.
See Curtis LeMay for an example of a bomber enthusiast.
Then you also had the U.S. Air Force carve out an independent role for itself after World War II (it used to be part of the Army, basically it was the Army's air arm) and since the USAF wants to protect its own existence as a separate branch, that means it pushes hard for expensive investments in strategic bombers, because that's a more uniquely Air Force type of mission than aircraft supporting ground forces in some kind of way. If the role of the air force is to primarily support ground forces as they maneuver (like flying artillery), then it's harder to make the argument that there should be an entirely seperate branch for the air arm. It's wasteful, not as efficient, etc. It's not an argument against having bombers, it's more about the organizational structure of the military, like how the Marines technically report to the Department of the Navy (which controls its budget so the Marines ultimately support the Navy). And the USAF wrote a misleading history of the effectiveness of strategic bombing during World War II to make this case for itself.
>>2456176>So what about Dresden and all the other strategic bombing campaigns against Germany?The main thing that seems wrong about strategic bombing is the idea that you can demoralize the enemy population by bombing them. A good rule of thumb is that if your own population isn't demoralized by getting bombed (like during the Battle of Britain), it's unlikely that the enemy population is going to be demoralized by them, either. There's just not much (if any) evidence of this effect including World War II. There's a different argument though for bombing energy infrastructure like oil refineries because that drives up costs and affects all aspects of military movement. The Nazis complained constantly how that impacted everything.
>>2456205Indeed. But that's a separate argument. Civilians suffer either way, but attacking energy infrastructure has an effect on the enemy's military operations in a way that simply terrorizing the enemy civilian population doesn't.
Warfare is all about "maneuver" (military theorists use that term a lot and it literally means going from point A to point B) and trying to stop the enemy from doing the same. "Fire" (the shooting part) is done to enable maneuver by other elements, as it's being able to maneuver onto the enemy's flank that kills him. This is done on the small scale, but the same logic applies to large organizations that will try to cut off and destroy an enemy army. So instead of one Val Kilmer shooting at you as one Robert De Niro flanks you, you have thousands of Val Kilmers shooting at you while thousands of Robert De Niros move to cut off an escape route for thousands of your guys.
At any rate, large-scale military operations like that require a massive amount of fuel and food and ammunition so attacking energy infrastructure ripples throughout the enemy's entire "system" and slows it down.
>>2456079Ted Cruz had a presidential run and he was born in Canada
>>2456045in this political climate a californian democrat is literally unelectable
>>2456111based alert
he's gonna lead the revolution
>>2456175Could you enlighten me?
The seizure of Ukrainian land (from the Russian perspective) seems both strategically pragmatic and economically useful.
The donbas is rich in natural resources, crimea controls the gateway to the sea of azov.
It is not a defensive, preemptive invasion. It seems to me that it was imperialist expansionism to exploit people, resources and territory under the guise of denazification and NATO fear mongering.
Shouldn’t we condemn any imperialist action even if it destabilizes American hegemony?
>>2456337I really couldn’t care less what the opinion of Leftypol’s kosher anti-imperialists is, I’m just stating the truth based on actual history and ethnography. If you want to entertain the Ukraine as a legitimate nation state and in turn legitimize the Banderite regime that’s your problem
Also Lenin legitimizing the Ukraine’s existence as a nation was one of his few major mistakes, Luxembourg called him out on it
>>2456313 This is basically NATO taking advantage of post-soviet collapse by pitting two ex-soviet countries against each other. Russia/Ukraine were a single political entity called the USSR. Decay of social relations there and plundering by western capital set them apart and pit them against each other. The CIA funded and armed azovite hyper nationalists in Ukraine who wanted to ethnicaly cleans Roma and Russians in East Ukraine leading to a civil war. The CIA also couped yanukovych for being a "russian puppet" but his real crime was refusing an IMF loan. Under poroshenko the IMF loan yanukovych rejected was imposed. This IMF loan demanded privatization, deregulation, austerity, and union busting. CIA funded death squads attacked workers in a union hall in donbass in East Ukraine, burning them to death, accelerating the civil war 2014-2022. Looked at this way, you can see that NATO invaded first, and Russia rightfully viewed this crisis as one intended to destabilize the entire region. This is a war to counter NATO destabilization. The only reason for the so called "Territorial expansion" is because donbass and crimea were literally part of russia prior to USSR, and therefore the inhabitants always spoke russian and didn't consider themselves ukrainian. This didn't really matter in the soviet period, but as soon as Russia/Ukraine were no longer in the USSR together, it created ethnic tensions, which is why western ukrainians were puring the majority russian population in east ukraine, shelling cities, which is why there was a crisis of separatism as well. This is the real explanation and
>>2456329 is probably derailing my discussion with you.
Consider as well that the ukrainian population overhwelmingly opposes this "defensive" war and have been basically getting kidnapped off the street and forced to fight by these CIA backed neo nazi death squads that call themselves territorial defense units. You view Russia as doing "imperialist expansion" but this is a regional war against destabilization efforts caused directly by NATO and specifically the USA and its intelligence apparatus. This is why it should be viewed as a proxy war started by the most developed and rapacious imperialist entity on the planet: NATO, and not by some regional power like Russia.
If that's still not convincing to you just remember that the entire conflict wouldn't even be possible if the USSR still existed, and that the west both supported and accelerated the collapse of the USSR, as well as the acceleration of bourgeois rule in both Russia and Ukraine.
>>2456316What did Engels actually say about Free Trade vs. Protectionism?
>If a country nowadays accepts Free Trade, it will certainly not do so to please the socialists. It will do so because Free trade has become a necessity for the industrial capitalists. But if it should reject Free Trade and stick to Protection, in order to cheat the socialists out of the expected social catastrophe, that will not hurt the prospects of socialism in the least. Protection is a plan for artificially manufacturing manufacturers, and therefore also a plan for artificially manufacturing wage laborers. You cannot breed the one without breeding the other. […] Whether you try the Protectionist or the Free Trade will make no difference in the end, and hardly any in the length of the respite left to you until the day when that end will come. For long before that day will protection have become an unbearable shackle to any country aspiring, with a chance of success, to hold its own in the world market.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1888/free-trade/
>[…] protective tariffs are nothing but preparations for the ultimate general industrial war, which shall decide who has supremacy on the world-market. Thus every factor, which works against a repetition of the old crises, carries within itself the germ of a far more powerful future crisis. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch30.htm >>2456342Thank you for the in-depth response. You’ve given me a lot to consider and reread.
I am both posters you tagged.
I will have to find more about the history of the CIA’s involvement to really know more. Do you have any recommended reading?
>MELNICK, J.P.T.—A jury found Edward Martinez guilty of premeditated murder in the first degree, and the trial court sentenced him to 324 months of incarceration. Martinez appeals, claiming that the trial court erred by admitting his confession into evidence and that insufficient evidence existed to prove the element of premeditation. We affirm.
Haley Davis and Anthony Brines, a married couple, lived in Spokane, Washington. After a disagreement, Davis left for the Tri-Cities to be with family. While there, Davis downloaded a “dating app” and began communicating with Martinez. Less than one week later, Davis drove to Sacramento to reside with him.
Within a month, Davis and Martinez drove to Spokane to collect Davis’s belongings. She left them at her marital residence, which Brines still occupied. Brines knew about the relationship between his wife and Martinez, but he still welcomed them into the residence. Also, Martinez knew Davis and Brines had not dissolved their marriage. Because Davis and Martinez did not have enough money to go back to Sacramento, they lived with Brines for almost three months.
One evening, after the three consumed alcohol and marijuana, at Martinez’s suggestion, Davis and Brines agreed to have group sex. They went to the master bedroom. Martinez had difficulty participating and left, saying he needed to use the bathroom. When he returned, Martinez watched Davis and Brines. Davis then stopped engaging with Brines and approached Martinez, wanting to get him involved. She thought something “seemed off,” and everything came to a halt after she heard “maniacal laughing” by Martinez.
Martinez then left the bedroom again. He returned and sat on the end of the bed while Davis and Brines were both lying diagonally across the middle of the bed. Martinez suggested Davis change positions so she would be facing toward the headboard on her hands and knees and Brines would be on his knees behind her, also facing the same direction. After rearranging them, Martinez remained sitting on the end of the bed. Shortly thereafter, Brines yelled, “ow, stop” and “[Martinez], stop, I have to go to the hospital.”
Initially, Davis thought Martinez punched Brines, but she soon realized that Martinez had repeatedly struck Brines with a knife. Martinez stabbed Brines in the back multiple times. When Brines turned over, ostensibly to face Martinez and defend himself, Martinez pushed Brines to the floor and stabbed him numerous times in the chest and abdomen. Davis immediately called 911. She then pushed her phone under the bed so Martinez could not disconnect the 911 call. Next, Martinez picked Davis up by her wrists and threw her on the bed. He told her to get her belongings because they were going to California. Martinez said, “you never loved me did you” and “I f***ing killed him.” When Davis refused to go with Martinez, he casually picked up his items, got dressed, and left.
At no time did Martinez attempt to help Brines or offer to call 911. The only weapons in the house were knives that were kept on the living room mantel above the fireplace.
Law enforcement arrested Martinez shortly after the stabbing. After being read his rights and waiving them, he confessed to murdering Brines with a knife. Martinez said that Davis came on to him and wanted to have sex with him in front of Brines. Because of his alcohol use, Martinez could not physically perform. He further said that he was uncomfortable with the situation, especially after Brines began to touch him. He began to feel “a deep anger” inside that kept “building and building.” Martinez left the room. Upon returning, he saw Brines engaged with Davis, and Brines told him to join in. Martinez admitted that it was at this moment, in the bedroom, that his “premeditation started” regarding the murder of Brines.
Martinez thought for a moment and then decided he needed to find a knife. He grabbed a knife from the living room and went back to the bedroom. He then had Davis and Brines turn around so that Brines’s back was facing him. Martinez then began stabbing Brines. Next, he pushed Brines off the bed and finished the attack by stabbing him in the chest.
Brines suffered a total of twenty separate stab wounds—fourteen to the chest and abdomen, five to the back, and one to the right arm. He sustained injuries to several organs, including both lungs, the liver, the spleen, and the large and small intestines.
In September 2020, the State charged Martinez with premeditated murder in the first degree.
>>2456350Ivan Katchanovski
Check his work. He is a Ukrainian Canadian scholar who exposes everything about the far right. He wrote extensively about snipers at maiden and all the craziness there. Great guy
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1321588 >>2456313>probably see it as the Russian equivalent of the US invading Iraq<"the UN's Oil for Food Programme's widespread corruption is cited as a form of neo-imperialism, where foreign powers and companies exploited Iraq's resources for financial gain while the civilian population remained impoverished. Russia, along with other nations like France, used its influence to secure massive contracts and preferential oil deals.">>2456313>It is not a defensive, preemptive invasionIf China overthrew Mexico's president and installed a puppet, everyone would consider that an act of war against the USA. The removal of hegemony of the "pro-Russia" (i.e opposed to making deals with IMF/World Bank finance imperialists) is undeniably an invasion, Joe Biden's crack addict son was literally given control over Ukraine's natural resources like he was an old timey British guy selling opium to control China lol
>Shouldn’t we condemn any imperialist action even if it destabilizes American hegemony?*BlackStone's finance imperialist hegemony. And much like Iraq, neoliberals justify their fascist privatization as "technically Iraqi people own the oil under their feet", "technically Ukrainians are merely enslaved by IMF finance debt and still own their land which they lease to megacorps like Cargill, ADM, Oaktree Capital Management and Bunge Limited"
https://tlio.org.uk/war-and-theft-the-hostile-takeover-of-ukraines-agricultural-land-private-equitys-21st-century-war-for-global-enclosure-and-slavery/ THE HAGUE, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars backed the resolution declaring: "Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
"This is a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide," the association's president, Melanie O'Brien, a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia who specialises in genocide, told Reuters.
Sergey Vasiliev, a professor of international law at the Open University in the Netherlands who is not a member of the association, told Reuters the resolution showed that "this legal assessment has become mainstream within academia, particularly in the field of genocide studies."
Several international rights groups and some Israeli NGOs have already accused Israel of committing genocide. Last week hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk wrote to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters.
https://archive.is/pqGnG>>2456161>>2456161Iran bombing the shit out of Tel Aviv was based and so your logic is dog shit.
Go sob about being a yankee somewhere else.
>>2456465Nothing good is gained from venturing into /leftypol/
t. siberian
>>2456449>complaining>>2456488>complaining>>2456446>complainingok so let's talk about something on topic.
We got so much stuff
>is trump dead>is rudy gonna make it>is america gonna invade venezuela>US-backed genocide in gaza and west bank>US-backed war in ukraine>tariff blowback>climate change555-come-on-now
>>2456499>is trump deadNo
>is rudy gonna make itYes
>is america gonna invade venezuelaNo
>US-backed genocide in gaza and west bankNo change
>US-backed war in ukraineNo change
>tariff blowbackAnything new?
>climate changeGetting worse, but that is really no change
>>2456493burger bourgeoisie specifically made labor day to isolate the american working class from the international working class which celebrates on may day
but also it's part of a broader pattern of burger exceptionalism:
>we don't have to use the metric system>electoral college and first past the post>no paid family leave>mass shooting central>absurd college tuition for a developed country>absurd healthcare costs for a developed country>tipping culture instead of paying good wages>file your own taxes>political advertising >dark money campaign funding>no legal separation between standard banking and investment banking>ambulance fees>fewer public restrooms than similarly developed countries>underfunded public schools tied to local property taxes>no national holidays for elections >>2456514> LatAm is too close to home for middle east style hijinksbut monroe doctrine. but decades of CIA coups.
>No ISIS or whatever to scaremonger with and use for an excuse to go in.but they're using the cartels as an excuse as we speak (even though, just like ISIS, the empire created and exacerbated that problem on purpose)
>>2456451a platypus?
a black platypus?
PERRY THE BLACK PLATYPUS!
>>2456524>but monroe doctrine.Which is like ancient history. When has America put boots on the ground in LatAm beyond the Spanish American war? Like Grenada?
>but decades of CIA coups. I'm sure they've been behind the protests and coup attempts in Venezuela to date, but none of them went anywhere. I don't doubt they'll try again. Your question was about "invasion" thoever.
>but they're using the cartels as an excuse as we speak (even though, just like ISIS, the empire created and exacerbated that problem on purpose)And has any of that gone anywhere? Trump was talking some shit about unilateral action in Mexico and then he had a phonecall with Sheinbaum and they announced some increased law enforcement cooperation and that was the last time I remember any of them mentioning it. The federal government is not going to invade Mexico, or even do unilateral military operations, strikes, bombings, of any kind in Mexico just because Trump or some other Republican politician, pundit, or other fuckwit runs there mouth about it.
A lot of you are in the habit of the scaremongering of trying to find the most outlandish statements they make, then presenting them everywhere as if it is a likely outcome. Hell you guys will even spin words where they're not even spitballing some outlandish plan as evidence they're about to do it.
Let's not just be mirrors of Alex Jonesian FEMA camp hysterics.
>>2456564The Jedi were trafficking kids to the space version of little saint James
Any planet aiding a Jedi deserves it
>>2456573Out of all of these only Harry Potter was created in the last 50 years, and consequently has a fanbase that isn't predominantly 40-60 year old men.
The Youth are more into anime than any of this boomer slop.
>>2456576I'm baiting im ngl. I've played a few Star Wars games.
That said, Star Trek >>>>>>>> Star Wars
>>2456579Okay but to be fair Harry Potter is literally just the ramblings of a raggedy old aristocratic fascist on why slavery is actually gucci
>>2456580Exactly. The bourgeoisie would like nothing more than to suck whatever meagre amounts of joy we have out of our lives. Having real actual fun with comrades even if it involves watching "slop" is a small blow against the state
>>2456590>Shame he ended up doing 20 in Angola for selling crack (and smoking tht shit too)Every drug dealer is also a user.
>Don't get high on your own supplyThey all do lol. It is funny the popular perceptions of the "drug game."
>>2456598>it's in museums. there's totally hatred but geopolitical strategy is more important. and also they have historical beef with china as wlel.You are Viet in Vietnam? Do you have any evidence to support this? Everything I've seen is the general populace, even the older gens look at it as water under the bridge.
Anyways is there really a rhyme or reason to countries and their general opinion of other countries? Some of the countries we never did anything to have the lowest opinion of Anerica and some we bombed to the ground have the highest.
>>2456584>That said, Star Trek >>>>>>>> Star WarsAs someone that used to be a Star Wars fan, this. Though Trek fell off after Gene Roddenberry died. I think he would dispise what Nu-Trek has become.
>>2456591>This ain't like Japan or some shit.A lot of military museums and history books openly promote historical revisionism just as bad as anything you'd hear in Yasukuni Shrine. I remember reading a brochure stating that the Vietnam War started because the Democratic Republic of Vietnam attacked the USS Maddox when the "attack" turned out to be nothing but a hoax. Also, they can't cover up My Lai because it's too infamous. There were a lot more massacres that were covered up and forgotten.
>>2456601>yeah it's korea that's swept under the rug way more than vietnamTrue. And the whole story plays into a wider liberal narrative and there are American heroes to the story. The guy who disobeyed orders and saved a number of women and children from the massacre.
So in the end the story is,
>Sometimes American military, and commanders even, do warcrimes and command their troops to do it.>But disobeying orders is the moral and also legal choice when given an order to do a war crime>and the system worked and that dude disobeyed>and Lt. Calley was tried and punished by America for his crimes>The system works, liberalism effectively polices itself.<Except for the dastardly conservative Nixon letting him off with a slap on the wrist after his life sentence. >>2456600I've personally never experienced this but I also don't drink or have friends so I can take your word for it because it does sound fun to do in a group setting.
I kinda get annoyed by this though, because oftentimes people will use "so bad its good" to justify just having objectively bad taste in media. The number of women I know that "ironically" watch 90 day fiance is really concerning to me. Like, maybe it's one thing if that's just a small part of their media consumption but they're often the same people that refuse to watch anything that requires paying attention to the story, and ironically being ~cultured~ is actually a huge impediment to connecting with certain groups because their media consumption habits are just downright bad and boring and if you try to suggest something better you're seen as elitist or a killjoy. Particularly connecting with proles. Those artsy films are often seen as like, liberal bougie shit, so trying to connect with proles through them can be difficult.
>>2456594If they never made another super hero movie again, that would be amazing.
>but muh new superman, muh ando, it's really socialism in the media, hollywood is based!!we are all man children in this playground country aren't we?
>>2456584star trek is fucking boring, the only time star trek was good was TOS when it was basically just a bunch of creepypastas where they encounter something weird in deep space. anytime they try to worldbuild or create a wider universe it fucking sucks
>sir the Federation (based freedom and America society) needs to negotiate a treaty between the Ferengi (greedy money grubbing race) and the Klingons (bloodlusted violence and slaughter race)*extremely loud snoring noises*
>>2456638Wait, X-Men(2000) came before Speederman (2002) I guess I got them confused because it was really Speederman that was the runaway success that ignited the superhero genre even though X-Men came first and was much better.
The very first scene in the movie is set in Aushwitz, to let you know this is a very serious business comic book superhero film.
>>2456656>Not really my problem you didn't watch it and have a short attention span.I love it when you guys try to pull the:
>Akshually, the Disney channel show made for smart teenagers was over your headthing.
Ooof. This kinda gets to the heart of the discussion, about "thinking mans slop." If you didn't like the film or you point out flaws, it was just too big brain for you. I think the absolute king of this type are Nolan films.
>>2456655Yeah the first three episodes of both seasons are pretty slow and largely full of buildups that pay off later on. Lots of cryptic conversations, overlapping plots, intrigue and the like. It definitely picks up though, and unlike other Star Wars stuff it's pretty grounded in realism (except for the objectively hideous wardrobes but that's another topic) it's pretty easy to forget that is is set in the same universe that has magic powers and lightsabers and the government they're either working for or plotting against is ultimately being run by a space wizard that shoots lightning out of his hands while cackling like a maniac. All in all though it's a good time.
inb4 Fedlix charges into the thread and tells us that Star Wars is objectively the same as Mein Kampf or the Turner Diaries
>>2456655>I watched like 3 or 4 episodes and nothing was happening for most of it. i don't even really care about whatever show you guys are talking about but I've noticed something about TV shows:
If you don't do pic related every single episode, people get bored because there's no "climax." Basically a TV show episode should tell a tight story where an entire plot arc happens in miniature, even if there's a "larger" plot you're building up. If you have an entire episode that's just exposition people will say "I got bored and stopped paying attention."
I'm surprised writers haven't figured this out yet. Maybe they have. idk. not a writer.
>>2456683Empire is based space zigga acp trad orthodox christian confucian dengist communism
rebels are soyboy beta male fake socialist bernie bros.
big truth nuke. thank you caveman anon
>>2456697That's why movies start with an "opening image" (or a non-fiction book would start with an intro.)
You start with a short very exciting scene that may or may not have much relevance to the plot as a whole:
>>2456644Like baby Magneto in the concentration camp.
Then you can move on to the real first act and the slow buildup of Rogue running away from home.
>>2456705>That's why movies start with an "opening image" (or a non-fiction book would start with an intro.)I could give you a million billion examples, but how about the Matrix, starts with a dramatic chase with Trinity and the cops. Establishes the kung fu superpowers, the general aesthetic of the film, the evil agents that rule over the police and can take over their bodies at any point, the escaping through a telephone. It basically lays out like all the elements of the film in that one scene, but it's still mysterious to you at that point, and you are intrigued to no more.
Or speaking of Nazis, how about Inglorious Bastards and Hans Landa killing those random Jews? One of the most memorable scenes in the film, but it has no relevance plot wise, except to wet your appetite and to let you get to know the villain. This is also typical where none of the heroes are even in the opening image, like X-Men.
>>2456713I hear more about Nick Fuentes and other nazi people here than I do anywhere else, and that tells me something about this site is off.
Do better. Stop posting this shit.
>>2456715<YOU BUILT YOUR WHOLE IDENTITY AROUND SLOPdon't even watch slop
<YOU SHOULD BUILD YOU WHOLE IDENTITY AROUND OPPOSING IT LIKE MEthis is real sad shit bozo
>>2456720>don't even watch slop I said shlock. Why are you so emotionally invested in this discussion then?
>this is real sad shit bozoYou're making up strawmen. I just said I gave the shlock a chance and I thought it wasn't even very good as far as shlock goes.
It's like that 10,000 hour principle. Once you've watched like 10,000 hours of shlock, you become a master of shlock, a shlock expert. And new shlock has a much harder time of having any impact at all on you. I'm sorry, but god willing, you will become a geezer too one day and then you might reach your 10,000th hour of watching and you will tire of it too.
>>2456726tbf i don't think that anon was commenting on you specifically but the entire conversation
>slop<schlockthese aren't synonyms?
>>2456732schlock is more defined by the low quality of the thing, more a function of incompetence.
slop is more defined by the (assumed) low standards of the target audience, more a function of intentional laziness.
“El Común”: Zapatistas launch new phase of autonomy
From August 3 to 17, the Zapatista Semillero Comandanta Ramona (Seedbed Comandanta Ramona) in Morelia, Altamirano, hosted the event “Gathering of Resistances and Rebellions: Some Parts of the Whole.”
The Zapatistas had issued a worldwide call for two weeks of exchange and discussion. Around 2,000 Zapatistas and about 800 people from 37 countries attended. In Germany, preparations had begun months in advance, encouraged by the Network of Rebellion, and eventually a 30-person delegation from various groups and initiatives traveled to Chiapas.
A large part of the gathering consisted of presentations and reports on the work and realities of the participating collectives and organizations, as well as exchanges with the Zapatista support bases. One Zapatista explained:
“Many of us cannot read or write and do not study political theory books. But we are able to see and feel injustice. This empathy turns into dignified rage, which we carry forward from generation to generation. We have now also heard your pain and will pass it on among ourselves.”
The opening on August 3 featured a march by the EZLN, each carrying a Palestinian flag on their back. As a sign of solidarity, Subcomandante Moisés, spokesperson of the EZLN, declared:
“Today, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in one part of this earth. We cannot forget this, we cannot set it aside. We are all Palestinian children. Today it is the people in Gaza, tomorrow it will be us.”
Solidarity with the people of Gaza remained a recurring theme throughout the event.
The Zapatistas presented their contributions in the form of multi-day theater performances, rehearsed over months by hundreds of young participants.
They also engaged in self-criticism, highlighting shortcomings within their civilian structures: over the past decades, pyramids of oppression and inequality typical of the capitalist system had, in part, been reproduced in their own autonomous governments. Examples included corruption, breaches of their own rules, theft, abuse of power, and dependency of the grassroots on small council groups.
At the same time, another theater piece recalled the positive aspects of the Good Government Councils and autonomous communities. They had not only faced problems, but had also served as schools of autonomy:
“We have learned a great deal – to govern ourselves, and we have made significant progress in education, health, and justice. We put the Revolutionary Women’s Laws of 1993 into practice. We have learned to work collectively.”
In yet another play, “the living of the future” – portrayed as eggs and sperm – described strategies to resist the pyramid. Much emphasis was placed on reviving ancestral practices and passing on traditional knowledge. The future was invited to continue the rebellion and to respect and protect Mother Earth.
Remarkable in this process of self-criticism was both the transparency and the determination to act upon it: the Zapatistas announced a complete organizational restructuring of their civilian structures to ensure that decisions originate from the grassroots, are articulated horizontally, and prevent the concentration of power. In one performance, a wooden pyramid was set on fire and toppled – a symbolic representation of dismantling hierarchies and mechanisms of domination.
They call their new phase El Común – “the Communal,” the essence of life – explicitly referring to the ways of their ancestors. “Only if we are organized do we stand a chance when the storm comes.” They added: “We share with you our proposal, what we have discovered and found useful. Whether it works for you, you must try in your own geographies. We have no recipe. With time, we will see.”
Education emerged as a central theme: the grassroots must be able to analyze their own problems and find solutions. In the future, all decisions are to be made within the base communities themselves. Another key step in this new phase is the opening to non-Zapatistas. Joint projects are planned above all in the areas of health, education, and collective agriculture. Already now, “brothers and sisters” (those living in the region but not part of the Zapatista movement) are allowed to cultivate Zapatista land free of charge in order to provide for themselves.
A concrete example of such joint collective work is the construction of a hospital in Caracol Dolores Hidalgo, where Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas are working side by side.
In his closing speech, Subcomandante Moisés emphasized that we must all recognize and topple the “pyramids of oppression and capitalism” within our own contexts and geographies. “We must understand that within this pyramid no real change is possible.”
The gathering was also a call to take action and to learn through mistakes. Or, as one elder Comandanta put it:
“We are lighting a small revolutionary flame. If everyone everywhere in the world lights small flames, something greater can grow out of it.”
“Solidarity greetings from the Lacandon Jungle from the Encuentro rebeldias y Resostencias.” –
Internationalists from Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Denmark jointly demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan.
>>2456776We have a name filter for Agent Kochinski but let rightoids shill Fuentes all day.
Cope harder faggot
>>2456798Bro just rob a gun store and form an army even though we have no popular support and never will because Americans are ontologically evil bro it's easy bro bro bro
>>2456803You aint slick rick
>>2456770>>2456769You know, there is nothing wrong with the "low brow" audience wanting to be titillated either. There is nothing wrong with wanting some spectacle. One interview I watched probably, last time years ago, Michal Jackson with Brett Ratnet, and MJ was explaining the core thesis of his work: he said he wants to provide some "escapism" for his downtrodden audience. He comes from that background, and that's the value he sees in his work. It's fantasy, and he provides it to them to escape from their reality, and there is nothing wrong with that.
It stuck with me because "escapism" is usually considered a pejorative, and how proudly MJ describes his body of work as such.
>>2456790yeah but we aren't an AES country we're an anonymous imageboard and in practice everyone who gets banned just changes their OP and comes back or posts on the tor node. the entire ethos of imageboards is inherently antithetical to what you're proposing. it would make more sense on a website with accounts that require you to state your views before joining (some sites do this).
But imageboards are basically built around "muh freeze speech" and "muh anonymity" which means moderation of speech is nearly impossible , especially when moderation is understaffed, unpaid, unmotivated.
It's not that "repressing nazis makes them stronger" it's that when you ban them on imageboards (which have this unique problem) they just come back and shit the place up with their discord buddies and screech that they've been censored by the "jews" over at leftypol.
make sense? If you want something better the first step is transcending the medium of the anonymous imageboard, which is the entire foundation of this rot. but people aren't ready for that conversation.
>>2456683>>2456639Star wars in general is amerikkkan propaganda not different from Dallas and other soap operas, just in space.
George Lucas in his search for millions (that to be fair, he adquired and mulitplied like Jesus did to the fishes) got inspired by the vietnamese and rode the counterculture succesfully
>>2456847Yeah he's a certified Scrappy Doo I'll tell you hwat.
>>2456849Guys guys guys, did you hear? A Jewish person said something stupid on Reddit! Somebody stop the fucking presses! This is the most important issue of our era that needs our maximal attention!
>>2456864>>2456866I dislike this guy but its pretty funny that all it takes to tank a Leftist's reputation is saying something even remotely critical of transgenderism lol.
He didn't even say all transgenders are evil, or that being transgender is wrong, or even deny the validity of it, but just that a lot of white people exploit gender identity as a way to benefit themselves.
>>2456802this is like the third time in this week that you've quit this site.
stop drama-posting under tripfagging.
>PragerU reveals full list of questions from Oklahoma's new 'America First' teacher test
>Oklahoma will now require teachers from California and New York to pass a newly unveiled 34-question “America First” certification test developed with PragerU.Cultural and identity-related content:
Why is freedom of religion important to America's identity? (It protects religious choice from government control)
"What is the fundamental biological distinction between males and females?" (Chromosomes and reproductive anatomy)
"Which chromosome pair determines biological sex in humans?” (XX/XY)
"How is a child's biological sex typically identified?" (Visual anatomical observation and chromosomes)
“Why is the distinction between male and female considered important in areas like sports and privacy?” (To preserve fairness, safety, and integrity for both sexes)
“What did the Supreme Court rule in the 2025 case Mahmoud v. Taylor?” (Public schools cannot require participation in LGBTQ-themed instruction without parental opt-out)
"What cause is Martin Luther King Jr. best known for?" (Advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion)
"What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?" (Ended slavery in the rebelling Confederate states)
"What right does the Second Amendment protect?" (The right to keep and bear arms)
"Which of the following are explicitly listed in the Bill of Rights?" (Freedom of speech and religion)
"According to the Supreme Court cases Meyer v. Nebraska (1923) and Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925), who has the ultimate right to direct a child's education? (The parents)
Civics and history basics:
“What are the first three words of the Constitution?” (We the People)
“How many U.S. Senators are there?” (100)
"Who were the first three U.S. presidents?" (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson)
“When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?” (July 4, 1776)
“Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence?” (Thomas Jefferson)
"Who was President during the Great Depression and WWII?" (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
"How did the Cold War end?" (The Soviet Union collapsed)
"What was Abraham Lincoln's primary reason for waging the Civil War?" (To preserve the Union)
"In the United States, which of the following is a responsibility reserved only for citizens?" (Serve on a jury)"
"What was the primary reason the colonists fought the British?" (To resist taxation without representation)
Government structure:
“What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?” (The Senate and the House of Representatives)
“Who signs bills into law?” (The president)
“What is the highest court in the United States?” (The Supreme Court)
"What is the primary responsibility of the president's Cabinet?" (Advise the president)
"Why do some states have more Representatives than others?" (Representation is allocated by population)"
“What is the supreme law of the United States?” (Answer: The Constitution)
Patriotic symbolism:
"Who is called the "Father of our Country"? (George Washington)
“What is the name of the national anthem?” (The Star-Spangled Banner)
“Why are there thirteen stripes on the American flag?” (To symbolize the original colonies)
“Which national holiday honors those who died while serving in the U.S. military?” (Memorial Day)
"Which of the following is a phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance?" (One Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all)
Foundational ideals:
“Why is freedom of religion important to America’s identity?” (It protects religious choice from government control)
“From whom does the United States government derive its power?” (The people)
Superintendent Ryan Walters has defended the requirement as a safeguard against what he describes as California and New York mandates teaching “27 genders” and erasing differences between men and women.
“You're gonna have to know what a woman is… You’re going to have to show that you understand the basics of American government and American history,” Walters said in an interview with News 9.
Walters says the initiative could serve as a model for other states, saying that officials elsewhere have already reached out with interest.
https://www.newson6.com/story/68b49a3e4c96f952caa73294/prageru-reveals-full-list-of-questions-answers-from-oklahoma-new-america-first-teacher-test-ryan-walters >>2456898>>2456901 (me)
(I am also secretly waiting for the American comrades to make a call to arms for the international comrades when they finally decide to take by force each of one of the institutional powers in the US and go there)
(it's not like I am going to die waiting)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-giuliani-medal-of-freedom-06457c051711f4a05dc23c2e1a26b123Trump says he's awarding former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Presidential medal of freedom
Who knew it was that easy to win you just gotta get hit by a car
>>2456900You have two options as a trans American, or actually as an American in general
>Vote Blue No Matter Who and continue down the same path America has been going down for 250 years that will inevitably result in Fascism regardless of which team is in the White House>Refuse to participate in a rigged system, acknowledge how rigged it is, and work outside the system to change things in the immediate short term instead of waiting for elections to solve your problems.Every time you think "boy I hope x wins the election 4 years from now so my group doesn't get genocided" you could be working to undermine the nazi state's ability to genocide you instead.
Electoralism is a pressure release valve for Fascism.
>>2457015Maduro: Trump if you want to have serious discussions about fighting drug trafficking Venezuela has the experience and results to show for it. How we are working with Colombia and if more in South American want to work together to stop drug trafficking we are right here ready to help with our police and military of the highest ethics and morals. If you actually want to fight this problem.
Now as how president Petro has said is the topic of drug consumption. The production, the trafficking, consumption and washing of money. Millions of dollars. Any of these topics you want to work together on we are here ready to do it in a Pacifist way and sovereign. This phone i saved this on that president xi jinping gifted to me
>>2457026>nothing, TV is fucking over and was killed by streaming, the nail in the coffin will be AI.AI TV shows can't be worse than the Deadliest Catch clones that have dominated TV for well over a decade.
>>2457032Why not? This thread's dying anyway.
>>2457024he knows the US is the largest cocaine launder machine.
they don't want to fight drug consumption, because that's the treat of the billionaires, and how they divide the poor.
but hey, let's see if all that soft talk gets into something meaningful. but I don't see
>>2457217I haven't heard of american tourists being subjected to violence in Vietnam.
Remarkably reasoned if true.
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