Incredible. Thank you for your work on this. This is now my first entry in “xiaohongshu” offline word doc. Suggestion to @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net that this text be the content of next week’s news mega post so it gets more visibility.
It looks like the clouds are pooping out fireballs.
All the worst people in the world are very, VERY mad about the ICC warrants, thus the warrants are incredibly based and cool.
My friend still drives his ‘96 Camry to this day: I have offered him money for it and he refuses to sell it under any circumstances.
Ukrainian air defences were unable to stop the ICBM.
Is there anything that can stop an ICBM?
Incredibly rare secret son of Fidel W.
It mirrors Iran’s response to Israel, which I also thought was smart.
which the US withdrew from in 2018 and 2019
The sweet, sweet irony…
Is there a good summary any of you all have regarding how badly Javier Milei and his government have fucked things up in Argentina (so far)?
This is an unqualified good thing. I know some will not incorrectly point out that neither will ever see The Hague. But in the long run, optics and narratives matter. Western politicans will be calling for ICC blood and the hypocrisy will be laid out there for the rest of the world to see. And yes, I get most people don’t care about “hypocrisy”, but the point is to erode the legitimacy of the “Israel” and western hegemony, and I think this works for that.
I remember when I finally “got” Amb3r. She was talking about Kim Klassic (a young conservative woman) and she was practically writing a love letter to her. It was weird. I then thought back to whenever she would talk about a reactionary, and she would ALWAYS make some excuse for them or find something positive to say about them. She always makes excuses for reactionaries. I stopped listening after that.
Sometimes I feel like folks who criticize Hasan don’t have a lot of experience working with comrades IRL. A lot more diversity out there than there is here. He has a reformist streak and sees value in people like AOC but other than that he’s in line with any other commie views.
This feels like a page from the “Chinese spy balloon” handbook. Crank up the propaganda and fear-mongering to max at the start, and then slowly ratchet down after everyone’s already lost interest and the damage has been done. Six months from now I wouldn’t be surprised if a report from the Dutch government was quietly released that actually spoke the truth about what happened.
Was that the old woman who threw the coffee? I saw the video on Telegram.
Edit: yes it was
I’m sure the ADL is gonna swoop in an try to make her seem like the victim, somehow. And the media will buy it.
DID THEY GET HIS SPERM IN TIME?!
I have actually found the “tankie” moniker to be useful IRL:
Tell someone you’re a Marxist-Leninist and you just get a blank stare.
Tell someone you’re a socialist and they think you mean you’re simpatico with AOC and Bernie.
Tell someone you’re a communist and they will just shut down and not hear anything else you say.
But “tankie” seems to convey enough truth - that you support past and current efforts from AES states to build socialism - to be useful.
Top Gear used to be my favorite show but I can’t even watch their old episodes anymore because Clarkson has become such an insufferable bell end.
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think Russia should (and probably will) see it more as a red guideline or at the very least not respond in an equivalent way, just enough to express displeasure.
It’s the right move too IMO because Russia is winning and winning at a pace not yet seen before. To use a sports analogy, what NATO is doing now is the thing where you’re down 2-0 and time is running out; so you start chirping at the other team and playing dirty to get them off their game and maybe get them to draw a foul. Of course the right thing for the team in the lead is to swallow your pride and ignore it; stay on your game because if you do, you win. The only way Russia can lose right now is if NATO gets significantly more involved, and they can’t do that without some sort of fig leaf casus belli. That’s what NATO is trying to do with the DPRK troops thing, but rightly no one is buying it. Russia cannot give NATO anything they can use as a reason to get involved.
Libs cannot imagine that the Cuban people support the revolution.
I just finished reading Helen Yaffe’s Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution, which documents Che’s time as head of MININD in Cuba as well as his economic ideas. One thing that is clear is that Che thought you need to develop that revolutionary consciousness in the people even in the earliest stages of the transition to socialism. I was a bit skeptical - not because that’s not important, but because it seems like idealism to me to think you can change hearts and minds (the superstructure) while development of the socialist base is just starting the transition away from capitalism.
But then again, the people of Cuba do seem to fully back the revolution, and to this day Cuba is communist. Meanwhile, folks in the Eastern Bloc were envious of westerners who had rock music and blue jeans, and they have capitulated to capitalism (I know the abandonment of communism in the Eastern Bloc is more complicated than that, but I do think there certainly was a lack of revolutionary spirit was a contributing factor even if it wasn’t the main factor). So clearly I think Che was on to something.