This is exactly the kind of aggrievement that suffering-as-accomplishment generates. Going out and flaggelating yourself won’t stop the raids. It’s wasting people’s energy on non-solutions, that’s a negative. It’s tiring inaction.

These protests are primarily against the prospect of violent resistance to Trump. Go look at their slogans and quit living in fantasy land.

Bible-thumping Christianity is a huge obstacle to any solution, that’s true. But because I know MAGA is not popular on here, but rather the kind of liberal Christian sensibility that was forgiving to slaveowners despite posturing as abolitionist (if you read Liberalism: A Counter-History you would be shocked how little has changed ideologically), my criticism is aimed towards, unfortunately as much as I used to like his stuff, that kind of Gen X George Carlin snarkiness about Bush and now Trump, which is well past its expiration date. For sure there is tremendous ignorance, but half-measures against ignorance aren’t solutions.

Picket line is the best place to educate. I don’t think most US workers in the most strategic positions are interested in the kind of action I am talking about, even compared to Euro libs sometimes. For instance the longshoremen make accomodations for weapons shipments to Israel and their only collective action is for maintaining the salaries of their practically hereditary membership. So-called worker action in the US is invariably isolated and has no relationship to declassed workers who cannot get employment or sufficient hours or are prison slaves. Here its marooning of uncitizen immigrant workers from the movement is starker than ever. “We promise not to do anything about your fascism, so please stop!”

As a fellow Wikipedia editor I have confirmed that you are in fact the intern who kept making edits directly from the Capitol without even using a VPN.

My intention is not to bring people down. That sinking feeling could be the realization of how much time has been wasted on ineffectual tactics, when the bare minimum would be blocking & striking like I said, which requires a lot of discipline and motivation. These protests are explicitly condemning violent resistance and their intended effect is “exposing hypocrisy” of people who are visibly aroused by people calling them Nazis. This is a serious obstacle to collective resistance, people who are just as likely to hand you over to the cops as simply bowing down in front of them. Literally bowinf down; remember the liberal-organized parts of George Floyd protesting? Yeah, this is why I say it is a counterrevolutionary tactic the democratic party selfishly uses to try to sap some political energy for itself.

Being anti-Trump is absolutely not a minority view it’s that MAGA is supported by the petit boug, highly-paid salaried workers, police forces (more powerful than municipal/state govts or the federal judiciary depending on their level, with a hierarchy leading up to military intelligence via fusion centers and Silicon Valley tools), and the bourgeoisie including the private banks and zillionaires that fund both parties. These are the tactics of class warfare, primarily through ideological blinders. It’s totally palatable for everyone to go out and demand New Deal style benefits to them, because nothing will ever come of it, they don’t need to make those concessions since the 90s, and now they need to put the squeeze on everyone with insurance and other unavoidable ripoffs that are required to live in the core countries. The middle classes were artificial anyways, they have no means to resist their destruction by their creators without becoming class traitors.

Here in Saint Petersburg we do much to make the Orange Chimpanzee suffer. Speak not of this ingratitude to me.

I guess you will be there. 😉 Japes aside, this is complete bullshit, people won’t even cover their faces or leave their phones behind for this.

This is like people saying Sanders rallies were great sites of political organization, or protests in Free Speech Zones stopped the Iraq War. At Sanders rallies nobody spoke to each other and they went home with renewed passion to vote blue, just like this rally will result in. It’s easy to make shit up on the internet.

RT is easily the most libbed-up part of the Russian state media, which is why brightly-glowing individuals such as Caleb Maupin and Abby Martin have been able to use it to farm reputation.

However, I will admit it is funny to see them sow dissension by hijacking the Fox News side of the narrative. Does it serve any useful purpose, or does it amplify US cognitive warfare? Has US cognitive warfare investment passed the point of diminishing returns anyways? Just some thoughts.

You should read Grover Furr’s book on Trotskty’s collaboration with the Nazis.

At this point, the MoD is taken a lot more seriously relative to the neoliberal central bank when it comes to determining economic policy. The MoD has a separate academic world from the highly westernized economics departments. This is the main influence apart from the PRC when it comes to balancing out the neoliberal comprador tendencies of the Kremlin.

Putin makes decisions based on a kind of mnemonic policy sentimentalism, if you get what I mean by that. He sees a serious comparison between Israel’s colonial predations and the Chechnya War, in that both are “struggles against terrorism”. However he also sees that China’s foreign policy of mutualistic development & building up the economy of other “developing countries” (overexploited countries, as Parenti would clarify) is the only way out of this global trap. What’s pushed the Kremlin and all of the industrial capitalists in Russia towards China is - ironically - the US becoming convinced that Russia is too large to not be brought to heel, for fear of its fully redeveloped industry and heavy petroleum resources and vast land reserves imbalancing the precarious dominance of the empire. Russian politics were oriented towards becoming a subimperialist ally of Europe for a long time. Now that it has totally foreclosed on that possibility, we see frantic “good cop, bad cop” ploys from Trump to reel them back in. The damage is done, though.

The oligarchy is done. Its power was predicated on access to US-controlled capital concentrations. The US severed this link itself.

Don’t think you will like that one 😅

Batman is there too, carrying a sign that says Restore Society. Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel is helping recruit people to stop ICE. This just in 🥳 he told his audience to start calling “North America” Turtle Island.

I don’t care what that is, you post too much on here. I’m blocking and supplanting you.

Yes, like German citizens during the holocaust allowed it. Like you just sat on your ass throughout Israel’s genocidal campaign and continued to reproduce the political system and lifestyle that enables neocolonialism. I would estimate 80% of the US public is totally complicit. This is obvious.

You’re still salty from your other thread, I see. That’s a mute.

Can you explain what fascism is to me?

Epic clapbacks won’t stop the raids. You guys already tried that.

Nope, I just don’t keep track of governor’s names at all. Not sure if it is Newsome or Newsom for instance. We can pretend that was what I meant, though, I like it.

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Be more realistic with your expectations. There are many washing machines here in Moscow. https://www.amerikanets.com/p/tit-for-tat