Oh, the US for sure is involved. I don’t remember the exact year but they literally backed a leader that was pro US like 12 years ago. That directly affected trade with Russia.

And this area of land we are talking about is pretty much Ukraines economy. The majority of manufacturing happens there. Convenient that Russia has loyalists there.

But let’s not get into the weeds, my position is still what it is and it’s been in my bio for a while now:

Russias imperialist, Ukraine is full of Nazis, and the US started it. Stop the war.

Ukraine is the victim in the US and Russias imperialist dick measuring contest.

Neither the US nor Russia is telling the full story.

Just pick one, if she doesn’t like it try the other, and if she does like it and gets proficient at it, maybe she can try the other later on. Really can’t go wrong here. I knew plenty of kids when I was in school who had done multiple combat sports and martial arts over the years.

You can become black belt in most martial arts as young as 15-16 (assuming you have the skills required). I can imagine that kinda achievement being a core childhood memory. 10 years of hardwork being rewarded!

As long as it looks good, whatever.

You have total free will. You can choose to follow or break the laws, you can go do drugs or be a hobo somewhere if that’s the life you want to live.

Life is just your will to do something. And if you lose the freedom and will to do anything, you’re, in my mind, already dead.

The best thing you can do is just never center white people. 99.999% of the time that’s the wrong way to frame your argument.

I fully understood what you were trying to say, but I can’t say the responses you got are at all that surprising either.

In the extremely unlikely event that indigenous people got direct executive control over what happens in the continental united states, I don’t think they’d even want the mass exodus of all white people. Nor do I think they’d want full cultural assimilation. My entire life, the prevailing narrative has always just been the end of systemic oppression. Very frequently I’ve heard indigenous rights activists demand the free use of/free travel across land for things like hunting, which is a pretty small ask. Just because this or that action would be justified, doesn’t mean it’s the action people want. IMO the second minority ethnic groups feel safe and represented these kinds of mass exodus narratives will fade away. Doubly so if there was a transition to socialism that went with it, and some thought went into identifying the different national identities (so something akin to a soviet of nationalities could be formed).

Yeah after a good bit of my own investigation, they just seem on par with any other poor country. Not something I’m going to worship, but not something I’m going to spend time complaining about either.

Hi, one of the former members of Red Spectre here.

There was a roughly 50/50 split over some interpersonal drama in the group that led to the creation of CLO, which lasted for all of 2 seconds before also dissolving. (We did keep control of all the social media accounts and Revolupedia though) In the short time we did exist as CLO, we revisited several topics, including the topic of Hoxha, and overall came to the conclusion that we had taken an ultraleft position and were attempting to correct it. Wenger then, was acting on behalf of CLO, not independently when the changes to the page on Hoxha were made. Most of the bans were people who were on the other half of the split. Nothing anymore complicated than that. As far as Statesian Bolshevik being banned, I’m sorry that it happened.

RS/CLO membership was very young, most of the membership was 17 or 18 when I joined the discord last year (some were even younger than that). They had next to no actual organizing experience. Despite this, they all wanted to try and create something around an ideology that they felt was right, and I thought some of their writing was impressive all things considered, so I stuck around and tried to help the best I could. Ultimately I think given the age of membership, a bit of “ideology shopping” as you put it is to be expected.

Wenger has always been the #1 contributor to Revolupedia, and so when CLO dissolved we voted and unanimously thought he should have it. As for the recent shift to a more Maoist perspective, well, I’m not entirely sure about it myself. It did feel somewhat sudden, but all the power to him and the rest of the site if they feel that is the best theoretical line to hold.

I won’t sit here and say that I think Revolupedia is mature, consistent, or even all that reliable of a project in its current state, but I do think it has all the potential in the world to grow into one over the next several years as its editors find their footing. There are already many parts of it that show the potential, it just needs time in the oven and more contributors.

Also yes this account is somewhat new, I’m in the progress of migrating from a lemm.ee account under the same name.