Idealists always say that there’s no reasonable path to destroying Israel through mass struggle and then in the same breath say the reasonable goal is actually transforming the genocidal colonial ethnostate into a pluralistic democracy as if that’s more attainable.
Inevitably they always feel the same way about the dictatorship of the proletariat too.
Revisionists in shambles rn
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I don’t mean to imply this isn’t bad, but hasn’t the legal precedent for over a decade been that the president can order anyone killed in the interest of national security without any sort of judicial review? If they can just kill citizens with drone strikes then “citizenship” doesn’t really mean that much.
I mean it would be bad if they deported him to South Africa. I wouldn’t want to inflict him on them. They should deport him to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean instead.
Peaceful politics only work if they’re backed up with the threat of extreme violence and/or economic harm. Idk why anyone would think otherwise.
If the DSA was actually like this I might rejoin
His municipal grocery stores should actually be armories for the revolutionary guard
Yeah huge numbers of the worst off workers already don’t get shit for holidays and have to deal with everyone else’s privilege on those days. The rational part of my brain doesn’t want any working person to lose that benefit but part of me really couldn’t give a shit. Especially so because any time I say “maybe everything should be closed on holidays, not just your job” to a white collar worker they act like I said we should ritually sacrifice their dog.
This is a threat to Iran but more importantly it’s a threat to the US. Israel cannot sustain a prolonged conventional war with Iran. I’m not sure they could even win it if it went nuclear but I don’t know enough about their arsenal or what the political reaction would be to say that. Only with direct US intervention could they win. The US doesn’t want to get involved though because the US military is also not really capable of winning without sustaining casualties it doesn’t want to.
In the long term, Israel nuking Iran would likely be much worse for the US than direct US intervention though. Firstly Iran would respond by destroying all of the oil infrastructure in West-aligned countries, significantly harming the global economy. Secondly the US Dollar would totally lose its supremacy in international politics to the nuclear umbrella. Thirdly Pakistan might start flinging nukes too and who knows how India, China, and Russia will respond to that.
Right now the US isn’t figuring out how to attack Iran. They’ve been doing that for decades. They’re trying to guess whether they should cave to Israel’s threat or not.
It’s their only play. Without US intervention, in a matter of weeks Tel Aviv would look like Gaza. They either nuke Iran to save themselves, destroying the international US led status quo since 1945 or the US keeps it conventional by bearing as much of the war as Israel wants it to.
Edit: and if Israel drops nukes I think the chances of Pakistan getting involved and possibly responding in kind skyrockets.
Maybe a little more intense than simple sabotage but: TM 31-210-Improvised Munitions and Ecodefense, a Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. FM 19-15-Civil Disturbances might be useful too.
They’re meant to be shot from some distance at the limbs of people who are going to be taken into custody and provided proper medical care after. They’re basically meant to break arms or legs. Firing them at close range or at heads or center mass is a gross misuse of them and that is how they kill people.
It varies a little bit between munitions but usually police are only supposed to aim at limbs with them from more than a few meters away. They’re intended to be shot at people’s extremeties to force them to drop a weapon so that they can be subdued (and provided with neccessary medical care shortly after) without hurting themselves or someone else. For instance if someone is threatening officers with a knife, police could shoot them in the arm, likely breaking the bone, and forcing the person to drop the knife.
Getting hit in the head or center mass with them often leads to life threatening injuries because they break bones (like the skull or ribs), cause internal bleeding, and bruise or rupture organs. If they’re being used for crowd control they should only be getting shot at legs or feet from a substantial distance and even that is extreme.
Because the worst crime a politician can do in the US is to look bad on television. It’s the only thing anyone actually cares about.
Wdym the “real history” takes place after 1893? Half a million workers, nearly ten percent of the US population at the time, went on strike in 1886 demanding the eight hour workday. Some estimates say the Knights of Labor alone counted 20% of blue collar workers as their members. The late nineteenth century labor movement is only rivaled by the peak of the twentieth century labor movement. There’s a substantial history of industrial struggle and worker organizing dating back centuries in the US. It’s not as well documented or state sanctioned as twentieth century union activity, but it most certainly happened.
If you wanted to write an interesting paper, exploring why people think labor history started in the twentieth century and the effects of that would be interesting but maybe too broad. There are plenty of individual events, people, struggles, and perspectives in pre-1893 labor history you could focus on though.
Israel and Iran have traded blows once or twice a year for the past few years now. It is worrying how it seems to be escalating year over year but imo it won’t evolve into a full scale conflict this time. Iran is desperately toeing a fine line between looking weak demanding diplomacy and responding with a commensurate military action but they genuinely do not want an all out war with Israel.
For the Israelis these regular attacks are partly to destabilize Iran but primarily to shore up support at home.
It would not surprise me if the Trump regime actually played a role in making this happen to distract from what’s going on here in the states but maybe I’m giving them too much credit.
You might be able to staple it. Super glue might also work.
Since at least the founding of Israel (if not before) to be Anti-Zionist is to be anti-genocide. Zionism has manifested itself as a project of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Palestinian people. A person cannot be Zionist and anti-genocide. It’s really quite simple.