It is a general rule of thumb in warfare that to engage in an offensive that gains ground, you should outnumber your enemy by at least 3:1.

not to suggest that Ukraine is in any position to pull off a large scale offensive at this point but this is not true at all

should be arrested

how does one join this discord server

i just realised that it’s been ages since i heard her on chapo

remember her saying some shit abt the campus protestors being middle class or smth back in spring 2024 lol

Doesn’t the battery cancel out the positive environmental effects of being low-carbon? Batteries are pretty bad for the environment once disposed of, usually, IIRC.

I don’t think the state is seriously challenged by these protests yet anyway. They’re pretty much just waiting it out. Seems to be the pattern with these global south uprisings that you have a few days or weeks of street action, some buildings get burned, and if the popular unrest is extreme enough then you might see a resignation or a backing-down from an unpopular policy but nothing will fundamentally change. I wonder what’s preventing the burgeoning proletariat from getting organised for power instead of producing this cycle of chaos and disappointment; where are the Bolsheviks in all of this? The same pattern occurs in Nigeria, Kenya, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka (they did get a relatively left-leaning elected government eventually I guess), Indonesia, and so on… Is it just the strength of modern counter-revolutionary propaganda?

I don’t think you could find a single social movement in the world over the past century that hasn’t had some level of interference by international capital. It’s a bit silly to go all the way to comparing it to a “colour revolution” on that basis. I’m not sure what running defence for a right-wing anti-communist government whose pigs literally ran over and murdered people is supposed to achieve here, are we meant to defend Indonesia’s government for being part of BRICS? Does that also apply to the UAE?

Personally I’m on the side of the people standing up to a corrupt government that murdered over a million people, many of them communists, within living memory and still venerates the perpetrators. I’m not convinced that a “new Arab spring” would go like the last one either given that western states are in a way weaker position than they were in 2011 and there’s generally far more anti-American sentiment amongst the global south masses now.

this fucking loser again. can’t stand her

this is the sort of thing the state should be doing in general, and more vigorously

they’ll just beg for more subsidies and get them

he’s not just transphobic either, he’s also a landlord, homophobe, and opponent of abortion rights

hanging out with an outright social conservative and landlord who opposes LGBT+ rights and abortion for one (Adnan Hussain)

fools

imagine if americans had 1% of this energy about their govt violently oppressing the entire planet and disappearing people to death camps

Whiteness doesn’t actually exist, you know? It’s a malleable social concept and applies to different groups of people based on the time and place. I don’t care if Polish people are considered white in 21st century America. They aren’t in a lot of Europe which is what I’m talking about. And they weren’t even white in America until relatively recently. I mean millions of Polish people were slaughtered during the first Holocaust for god’s sake. You can apply the same hypothetical argument about “if there was a black person around…” to Arabs too, it doesn’t mean that there’s not a Holocaust going on against Palestinians right now.

Polish people are absolutely discriminated against in some countries, they were the main target of hostility towards migrants around a decade ago in the UK for instance. Not everywhere has an American understanding of whiteness

This when just a few days ago Putin was getting screeched and hooted at by a pack of American dogs and apes calling themselves journalists? Very rich.

Washington Seeks to Develop a New Strategy in the Sahel:

• In recent days, the US has re-engaged in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger under the motto “trade, not aid.”

• Senior American officials have paid successive visits to Bamako, Ouagadougou, and Niamey.

• This approach emphasizes providing logistical and operational support against militant groups, while also exploring access to mineral resources.

Unsurprising. The power struggle in West Africa is best understood as inter-imperialist competition between the French and the US, with other interests playing smaller roles (Russia and Algeria most prominently).

Fascism = political dictatorship over proletariat and capital in general, in favour of a particular clique of capitalists

i can think of a word that we shouldn’t use: “mercy”.