Based on the “worst thing will always happen” theory of modern geopolitics, I anticipate that Syria will do nothing bc the Arab states are a useless bunch of compradors who are somehow continually surprised that a genocidal regime of maniacs does not act rationally and murders them at every opportunity. Happy to be proven wrong if the GCC/Turkey actually step in to challenge this aggression, but I expect nothing more than some lame statements of condemnation.
send them to the mines, nothing else to be done
The trotskyist sects (and the ML ones really) are largely vestigial organisations anyway and mostly end up following the lead of the most advanced edge of various social movements and their emergent leadership. It won’t be them defining any revolutionary moment, but new generations of leaders and organisations that have been coming through for a couple of decades now. Last summer was the closest thing to a revolutionary crisis I’ve seen in this country since I’ve been alive; I’ve never seen a crowd of hundreds of people gather in my city, cheer a speech calling openly for revolution, and march off to physically confront fascists in the streets, either before or since then. The police were completely unable to control the situation at that point and it was left to the masses to do so.
It wasn’t the Trots who organised any of that but the anarchists, unaffiliated Marxists, and less explicitly political social organisers - the trots were hapless and sluggish, and ended up following our lead. This was only possible because of the severity of the crisis at that moment and the need to act quickly, and it abated once the fascists were no longer terrorising people in the streets. When a more severe and longer-lasting crisis emerges, something that again threatens the immediate physical wellbeing of the masses, this dynamic will assert itself again and there will be very rapid developments that will open up space for a revolution. My money is on either a global famine or an imminent nuclear war triggering this eventually, but an outright fascist putsch following the collapse of the coming Reform government might also do it.
hate this shit tbh bc the “Corbyn party” doesn’t exist yet and it’s not clear whether Corbyn even wants to be involved in a leadership position. very premature, worried that a lot of people are gonna end up disappointed in this org, there’s a lot of enthusiasm rn that needs to be seized upon and they’re just not doing it.
Unfortunately, under neoliberal capitalism and the influence of its mass media, the average politically backwards worker becomes a mercenary, selfish scumbag, governed by fear of the outsider and the vagrant, aspiring towards becoming rich through any number of ridiculous schemes (penny stocks, crypto, influencer nonsense etc), and inclined to trust the bourgeois politician and businessman. These people are nothing more than slaves and need thorough political education to be cured.
on the other hand, yesterday I got ChatGPT to explain in detail how to pirate movies and TV shows, so there is at least one legit use.
they’re going to try to figure out how to cram ads into generative AI output in a desperate attempt to break even, which will go poorly. either that or alienate most of their users by removing the free tiers. it’s not looking good Mr Altman!
the famous checks and balances everyone
they’re saying nothing lmao i hate liberals so much
Al Quaeda fighting Jewish ISIS in Syria to decide who gets to genocide the country and in what specific way
cool stuff happening, happy for the people in organiser chats i’m in that scolded everyone who expressed any dismay at the fall of Assad last December. they are strangely quiet about it now!
fighting? people are fighting? i want to get in on the fighting?
a lot of it could probably already be automated but (largely marginalised, undocumented) human labour is cheaper than getting all of that set up, at least on a yearly basis
There have been clashes between HTS government forces and allied Bedouin militias, and Druze militias, in Suwayda and the surroundings, over the past day. Over 90 have been killed and the IOF claims to have struck HTS regime tanks.
https://apnews.com/article/syria-clashes-druze-bedouins-sweida-be7e45ae4adc631b758d2bebfb06e0a1
multiple successful resistance ambushes in the Gaza strip reported today, 7 killed apparently??
We’re reaching the mass “oh fuck this isn’t good” stage of this, which will be followed in a handful of years at most by the mass “oh fuck this is going to get worse and worse until we die” stage as the temperatures continue to rise, and that is where the wheels really will fly off. It’s now impossible to deny that the climate has changed, but the realisation that it’s going to keep changing at an accelerating rate still needs time to sink in. Then we’ll probably get some kind of Climate Stalin (in contrast to the Climate Hitlers who are already in charge), concurrent with migration and death on a scale nobody has ever seen.
that sounds really useful, thanks. looking into this!
tell me more about this seedbox - does it mean I won’t have to go to a sketchy website to find the magnet link anymore?
Putting together a home media server is also easier than ever. Plex is so simple and I never have to suffer the indignity of paying for multiple streaming services, which throttle video quality to save money and put ads in the middle of shows. Now I can watch whatever I want with no buffering, no ads, in the highest quality, and I don’t have to wade through a million dogshit shows and films either, it’s just what I want.
In a few years China will be unstoppable, so that means the logical time for war with them is ASAP.
Absolutely, and this is how the US military establishment sees it. US House Select Committee on the CCP article from earlier this year: “The Window to Deter War with China is Closing Fast”. This is not an empty threat, they are afraid.
He could have done literally anything to prevent any of the events that conspired to topple him and put Syria in this position tho. Israel was striking the country for years and they just let it happen, even when the Palestinian resistance showed the world what was possible in October '23 and Hezbollah proactively opened a northern front. He could have pushed for genuine reconciliation, could have implemented some kind of reforms that would have satisfied parts of the opposition, could even have stepped down when it became clear that he was very unpopular. All he did was let his state rot.