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You got any resources? I’m curious to read more about this

I believe Hesbollah and Ansarallah both said they’ll back Iran, so I would expect that there will certainly be at least some back and forth in both Yemen and Lebanon.

What’s the state of left forces in Peru? It feels like they’re headed towards a revolutionary moment but are not quite ready to seize the opportunity.

So last pieces are EC-130H’s or EA-37B’s potentially, and then that’ll basically be the signal right? I’m getting a hole in my stomach watching this build up.

China’s ecological initiatives are really under-appreciated. There’s lots of talk about renewables but the regenerative ecology efforts, sponge cities, and agro-ecology initiatives have all gone under the radar even though they have major implications worldwide

Damn if I were a three letter agency person, I’d be putting that one in the playbook for sure.

The Donroe doctrine is all about power projection and dominance in the western hemisphere, and the 2 biggest opponents to that are Cuba and Venezuela. Rubio’s guys probably saw striking Venezuela for resources and subsequently sieging Cuba as a “2 birds 1 stone” thing.

I have a nascent suspicion that people who pursue competitions to to that degree are a little tweaked either: A) as a predisposition that’s led to the pursuit, or B) as a result of the pursuit, and that’s why they’re driven to turn their penis into an abomination to soar a few extra millimeters, etc.

Yep, the Mallory Memorandum (1960) :

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499

Also I really hope China leaps on this. They’re already rolling out renewable energy independence at a break-neck pace domestically, and it would be incredible propaganda if they helped cubans survive and maintain sovereignty by providing it to them. It is totally peaceful, can’t be reframed as hostile to the US, and in line with their objective of becoming the peaceful “win-win” alternative to the US.

Cuban Missile Crisis 2: Xi-loaded

The important part is the action and reflection - to try and to learn - to put theory to practice and synthesize new tactics and strategies in tandem with the masses in active struggle.

We could spend the next year online arguing about the correct approach having read this or that text (some have already done so), but unless someone actually tries in the real world, we’ll end up with a bookshelf of lofty ideas and nothing else to show.

I would assume the strategy in twin cities was taken because rapid response wasn’t seen as a gap the party was needed for. Maybe it was growing organically and sufficiently, or the space was already fairly saturated with existing organizations. Maybe they might already work with some and not want to create division by working in parallel.

Conversely they probably saw the party in this instance better suited to push consciousness and push the struggle beyond rapid response, to intensify broader political organizing and coalitions. After all as anyone organizing on the ground knows, rapid response alone will not be enough to win. (This is just my spitballing on how the decision may have been made, take it with a grain of salt).

Yeah it wasn’t meant to be a hole-in-one. Historically general strikes are built up over consecutive actions culminating toward the big one. In this case PSL amplified the organic calls from black and Somali student orgs to expand the strike and then mobilized 300 cities with varying degrees of success in developing coordination with unions, churches, civil groups and small businesses for large protests and shutdowns.

The snowball is just beginning it’s long roll toward mayday, and a nationwide general strike is now closer and more popular than it’s ever been in the past 8 decades or so.

Damn, during BHM is insane. I hope this goes viral and pulls more folks into action.

My buddy in highschool was using Bitcoin to buy various illicit substances on silk road (the dark web). Being a curious computer wiz literally turned him into a drug dealer for a short stint in highschool. He probably has at least tens of thousands in USD just from the spare change on his transsctions, but he forgot his password and has been on his last “attempt” for years - just hoping it comes to him. It’s an insane sequence of events that I think about every time I see bitcoin.

I have the “next spaceflight” app to warn me of launches since the sonic booms shake my home and scare the shit out of me all the time. The app mentions payloads and they carry tons of classified payloads as well.

It sucks that China is still at least half a decade behind on reusable rockets and starlink competitors. They have a lot of catching up to do but at least they have a good record of beating expectations with this kind of stuff.

He’s probably reading hexbear too

I bet he posts too

Reframing this concession as a surrender is the kind of unserious, reductionist analysis that comes from the online left. The revolution is not surrendered, point blank. Decontextualized comparisons to Korea or Vietnam are a special kind of negligence but lets go down that route: the asymmetry in military capabilities today is wider than it ever was during those wars; they both bordered china which gave them easy access to material support from China and Russia via rail, they could not be blockaded; they both evolved from existing national liberation struggles given the ultimatum of surrendering state power or engaging in war; I could go on and on.

The point is: it is dogmatic to say with these conditions that you know better than the Venezuelan leadership, and they should enter conflict and destroy the lives of millions of people like pawns in a strategy PC game.

To quote Amilcar Cabral:

Always remember that the people are not fighting for ideas, nor for what is in men’s minds. The people fight and accept the sacrifices demanded by the struggle in order to gain material advantages, to live better and in peace, to benefit from progress, and for the better future of their children. National liberation, the struggle against colonialism, the construction of peace, progress and independence are hollow words devoid of any significance unless they can be translated into a real improvement of living conditions.

I think there’s a lot of analysis in this vein stemming from a sort of “never retreat, never concede” additude. If someone points a gun to your head and says gimme your wallet, and you decide “I can find a way to make money, but I can’t get a second life” and hand over the wallet, that means you would survive, it doesn’t mean you betrayed yourself.

Was the the Molotov Rinbentrop pact a great betrayal to the Bolshevik revolution signalling the end? No, they made concessions in order to survive, and bide their time. I think it’s a bit dogmatic to say the Venezuelan leadership are betraying the revolution when they’re still in power and perfectly intact.

Wow I’ve seen a c-130 in person and that was crazy, it felt surreal to see it leave the ground. I can’t even imagine how much bigger the c-5 is, it’s insane.