immuredanchorite

how many HIMARS are left? I thought there were only a handful and it seems like they report one being destroyed regularly

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they fall from the sky?

although I largely agree, what I have found is that a large number of people just aren’t seeing the images coming out of Palestine and they act as though it is impossible that the media they consume wouldn’t have shown them. People experience media differently from each other in this day, and it leads to vastly different ideas about reality. Particularly if they believe that the media is anti-israel on some level, they think that “CNN and MSNBC would love to be showing that every night” They literally live inside of a fantasy football game where whatever they see is reality and there is no space outside of it. Essentially that whoever will see the images coming out of gaza have, but it simply wasn’t enough because the corporate controlled media either never showed it or used the algorithm to contain it. I think this is why the demonstrations and actual political work over this still has importance.

This of course is different from the young staffers and petty-bourgeois types at the DNC (and their supporters) who absolutely saw at least some of the violence, but either didn’t care at all or those who avoided it intentionally but continued to follow “the news.” Those types are objectively the worst and there are so many more than i would have imagined

I feel like this might be something to prevent infamy from being spread to someone with a similar name, but also because having three names can also make "naming" them feel more serious. Like when you are a kid and you are in trouble with your mom and they use your full name to establish how you are in a lot of trouble instead of just a little trouble.

Isn't National Congress relatively right-wing compared to every party previously in government?

isn't this the same group that went to Cuba and snubbed Diaz-Canal, met with "dissidents" and then wrote a lengthy article about how Cuba was bad and won't listen to other voices on "the left?"

why would AOC need critical support? she isn't on our side and her vision of "democracy" "economic rights" and "civil liberties" are as meaningless as when Biden or Blinken talk about "human rights" or "democracy." she called a white supremacist a white supremacist and that's cool and all, but she upholds the system that enables people like him

I remember when Biden won in 2020 a bunch of his sycophant politicos were essentially saying out loud that the lesson they had learned from 2016-2020 was that they can simply invent reality. They almost used those words. They looked at polling data about peoples perceptions of the economy before and after the 2016 elections, where people gave partisan answers (like republican affiliated people saying the economy was terrible and then the weeks after trumps inauguration they said that it was doing great-- but nothing had really changed) they saw that, and the capitulation of any Democratic Party left-wing (in both 2016 and 2020) and got completely absorbed in a sort of Hegelian idealism where they are able to dictate reality to whoever identifies with the democrats (or not with the republicans).

In a way, they were not wrong about how things had operated during the "end of history", more or less, except for the fact that there are moments where 1) material conditions can deteriorate and the moment the US electorate is subject to worsening conditions their narrative can fail 2) alternative media, like what can proliferate on social media, can expose the complete disconnect between words and actions and move consciousness.

You can see the hubris, when turbo-libs talk about how the real problem is people "not understanding" or "not knowing" all of Biden's "many accomplishments" or that these simple rubes don't know that the economy is actually doing "great." They have an incredibly powerful ability to control the way reality is presented for a ton of people, and that success was even on full display during the beginning of the SMO/Russia entering the Donbas & Ukraine. For a few weeks everyone had fucking Ukrainian flags out and everyone on tv was talking about Ukraine as a bastion of freedom and democracy, without knowing a fucking thing about Ukraine. I think back to 1999 to 2012 and I think a lot of the political class believed what they were saying about this policy or that policy. Because the window of debate was so narrow nearly at all times and nothing had a sense of urgency. Now they simply rage when the public adopts a belief that falls outside of what they are trying to construct. It was partly what they were seething about with the Facebook/russia-gate/fake news conspiracies that forced the tech bourgeoisie to adopt a more hard line on "acceptable" content and deployed state-sanctioned "debunkers" ... this is also was what paved the way to banning TikTok-- it wouldn't have been possible if the ruling class hadn't identified this as their primary challenge.

Yeah, the reputation of CPUSA being full of feds is also a reflection of the extent to which the US state has repressed the organization. There are things I disagree with about the CPUSA's politics and strategy, but state repression isn't something that CPUSA members chose and it is unfair to most of its members. Sadly, I do think that it has still had a very real negative effect on the party and the way it has developed and who has remained. It is sad because it is a reflection of the tremendous impact the party once had.

It is and it isn't. When you are in the work place, or for some other strategic/tactical/safety reasons, some members may not disclose their membership in some situations. But in general, when PSL organizers are organizing in the community or with other groups/community members we don't typically hide our membership. In general, there is a feeling that the time is right to openly show who we are and what we stand for, to present ourselves in a forthright way to the people, and to encourage the masses of people to be unafraid of organizing and participating in politics, particularly revolutionary politics and anything that would expand their understanding of democratic participation beyond bourgeois politics/voting.

it is known, the second hamas charter accepts the 1967 borders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Hamas_charter

pretty sure they can buy US weapons and tech through Israel that would otherwise be prohibited from getting. I also think that the whole support for a 2 state solution thing was an artifact of the six day war and a consensus of the UN mediated peace process that has been nearly every UN members "official" line (except for maybe Israel, Iran and a few others) since then, and is also the position held by Hamas