Does anybody know of a good leftist analysis video on the PKK? I just don’t have the energy to explain it to a friend at the moment but want to make sure they’re getting it from a good source

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Of course I had Guatemala in mind writing this. Guatemala did it already, America and Peru are trying to achieve it themselves. America nearly has accomplished this. Peru is having a much harder time due to significantly higher class consciousness, and social awareness is higher as dictatorship has always loomed close, but they continue sliding

You and your family will be ok and return to your homeland within our lifetimes, inshallah.

I can not imagine a geopolitical situation arising within even the distant future that could possibly produce a more contemptible comprador state than Jordan. Frankly, I await its dissolution nearly as badly as I await that of the Zionist entity

The irony of this all is that this further exposes the U.S. car manufacturers to the risk of the Chinese EV market becoming totally globally dominant, possibly even domestically extremely competitive within the US.

If Tesla loses the subsidy that makes their cars significantly more appealing to US consumers compared to gas cars, they are having their largest and most reliable customer base (and therefore, income) slashed right out from underneath them.

Europe was already ditching Tesla in record time. They desperately needed American car buyers to hold their line and now they can kiss that goodbye.

Did the PRC not recognize it? I feel like I remember that happening almost immediately

Don’t worry, if more than a tent was necessary to eliminate millions of its inhabitants, I’m sure America could figure out how to move heaven and earth to make it happen

President Xi, release the butt plug protein

He literally doesn’t have to ban elections to effectively be a dictator. Maybe he will not personally be a dictator, but Republicans will be able to maintain ideological dictatorship after having waged unabashed and unhindered (thanks to the democrats) lawfare for the last several decades that has allowed them to manipulate local and national election outcomes by choosing where certain people vote, and finally they have achieved another goal of theirs by winning the ability to choose who is even able to be a citizen (and thus vote) in the first place.

Genuinely, it is better for the Republican agenda to NOT let Trump become a dictator. Americans may genuinely be interested in engaging in political and social uprising against an outright political situation like that. As long as democrats can nationally shepherd voters to an agenda the average dem voter calculates to be “resistance,” elections are far more useful to republicans than a dictator. Whether they realize or care about it, democrats have played directly into republicans’ hands by standing for nothing material in the past several elections beyond not being the other guys. Republicans are sending their thanks every single day that democrats have stood for nothing and are doing exactly no organizing or mobilizing around material issues that would easily win them elections.

Republicans have the votes to pass their bill that includes evils such as (but not limited to) kicking 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and giving ICE a budget more than half that of the PRC’s entire military (37x higher than the budget of the entire DPRK military for those keeping score at home.) Republicans expanded on the democrats idea of detention centers for undocumented people, constructed/opened a concentration camp in 8 days, and are now selling merch about it. It really makes you wonder: what exactly did the supposed “opposition” party spend the past month doing in preparation for this bill to be voted on?

They spent the entire time trying to create a national debate (surrounding a local election, mind you) intentionally smearing one of the most popular candidates for office their party has had in decades as an antisemite despite the fact he has never said one remotely disparaging thing about the Jewish people in his life. All of this because he is taking the moderate, NOW MAJORITY POSITION of Democratic constituents, of expressing more sympathy with the Palestinian people than Israelis.

A decades altering bill passed without an iota of organizing or warning their constituents against it, and without scoring the easiest political slam dunk of the past several decades by choosing not to blast anti-Republican propaganda about how the bill will negatively impact those living in majority republican areas. It’s so fucking sickening and deeply irredeemable that it sounds fake.

You can’t even call this controlled opposition. Literally the only thing we have ever seen it do effectively is mobilize its wealthy donors and wage bureaucratic lawfare in order to torpedo its own popular candidates who dare step a single toe out of line of complete compliance with the conservative political agenda of the national bourgeois.

Who up reopening they tunnel to they nuclear laboratory?

Most hospitalized man perhaps ever

Crazy to call Zohran a Zionist when he so obviously isn’t. Aside from his history of pro-Palestinian organizing, he has proudly and openly said he’d arrest Netanyahu if he came to NYC. Where else are we hearing anti-Israel rhetoric anywhere in the U.S. that approaches that from somebody who holds a level of power similar to mayor of NYC?

As we all know, Obama would totally have arrested Netanyahu

That being said, I could totally see it just stumbling into it

The Qassam Brigades might be some of the bravest people in the world man. But fuck dude look what the Zionist entity did to Gaza. Down with the Zionist occupiers and full salute and victory to the liberation.

But the real question is whether or not you think this is good or bad

I had no idea he was in the caravan wow

Wait WHAT? I had no idea he got arrested holy shit that slipped under my radar

I 100% agree with everything you said, and in short what I said in a reply elsewhere is that reform is not the end game answer, but if I have the ability to put somebody in a position of power who is legitimately amicable to reform, I might as well do it to get the boot off the neck. No good is coming from a mayor actively collaborating with ICE, at least some good might come from a mayor who replaced cops with social workers and decreased the direct capacity of armed officers to do harm both socially and physically

Don’t get it wrong, I totally understand the punitive justice system is not how you deal with hate crime, but dispute mediation is actually a serious tangible improvement over the current solutions we currently have in hand like sending an armed cop. I don’t think the solution is the carceral system, but I think that it’s a hell of a lot easier to fundamentally change how the carceral system functions and what it’s goals are when the people we actually task at restorative justice projects aren’t literal cops and are trained in how to do restorative justice. I also think that a mayor who is at least a democratic socialist will be far more amicable to working to dismantle the worst parts of the carceral system than, I don’t know, literally any of the other options we have on the table. We do actually get to vote, whether or not the candidate is perfect, and there will be a mayor, whether or not they are perfect. I at least want a mayor that understand materialism and can normalize the idea of socialism while doing what is possible short of an actual proletarian revolution to take the boot off of the neck of the working class.

There are conditions I’d rather organize in, and it isn’t under literal mayor cop Eric Adams. To call what I’m doing “shilling” is funny because I’d rather “shill” to get a democratic socialist elected and give my community a nucleus to organize around than “shill” for ideological purity when there will be a mayor regardless. It might as well be a better mayor if it’s possible. I’d rather not sit tethered to a lead and not test the limits of how far I can push improving conditions short of the actual revolution.