DSA or PSL or some org need to get it together and be a firm left of liberal voice that can drive a narrative (about Newsom) and drive their own candidate straight in through that electoral keyhole. America sorely needs a revolution but there’s not currently a path to success there. Class consciousness even at a socdem level in the US could do a lot to weaken the imperial core and give the global south a shot at making some cool shit happen.

Thanks for your insight comrade, informative as always. Are you aware of a faction within the party that is aligned with your perspective?

If you’re taking over for Xi Jinping, what’s the play here?

Of course you’ve been clear that a break from the IMF’s export led growth model is at the top of the agenda of the xhs administration, but what about on the domestic side?

He tends to be actually apolitical but once took the pro-trans position in a discussion with some chud streamer a while back.

What’s the context of this?

Idk if “sexual harassment” is a crime in NY, but I hope they can figure out something to charge with cause fuck this

(Obligatory, I don’t really have faith in the US justice system to rehabilitate the behavior etc etc)

The ideological conditions, on the other hand: https://hexbear.net/post/5916759

To put it one way (oversimplified): Lenin died sooner than anyone would have hoped. Both Trotsky and Stalin had a claim that they would be the successor to Lenin. Stalin ended up winning out.

Trotsky and Stalin had some political disagreements that were relevant to the development of the ussr in the 1920s/30s, but (imo) are hardly relevant outside of that scope. Their disagreement eventually ended up with Trotsky being exiled. Trotsky and his backers were critical of a lot of Stalin’s decisions as the leader of the ussr, generally claiming that Trotsky and co would have been more capable (and in some ways less “authortarian”).

From what I understand, most modern interpretations are something loke “if Trotsky were in charge instead of Stalin, it probably wouldn’t not have made as much of a difference as Trotskyists claim. They would have faced some tough decisions, and not everything was left up to the whims of Stalin all the time. Easy to be critical of power when you don’t have power, though”.

If you want to learn more about what Trotsky/Trotskyists thought on a more theoretical le el, I’d leave that up to someone else, but you can ask you’ll LLM of choice or read the wiki about “permanent revolution” to get some basic info on where they diverge.

CNN said the protests are asking the government to do more to release the 50 hostages. I don’t know any more, but I can certainly imagine bad things.

:its-happening:

Hexbear is correct in saying “trying to co-opt the Democratic Party is worse than a dead end project, never attempt it”

But also imagine if one of us were somehow the party leader somehow someway. Like, then what?

looking for leadership (myself included).

If you post here, that makes you the leader. Unfortunate that it doesn’t take more than that to be properly qualified, but such is the state of the left in most places. You might as well be president as far as I’m concerned

Appreciate the report comrade!

The oral history I heard was someone on Twitter mapping out the location of protestors and the police lines and landmarks and such and wrote in the “capitol hill autonomous zone” with a layer of irony and people (including people on the ground) kinda ran with it and set up a camp and stuff.

Now, yes, but previously it was Christianity with feudal/monarchist characteristics (thinking church of England and such), and before that it was Christianity with early enlightenment characteristics (Martin Luther).

Because there’s not a central authority it is now adaptable to the social structures around it. In the modern day it is predominantly [settler] colonial flavored.

Since it is prone to splintering you see denominations like the Quakers adapting to pacifism and and simple lifestyle/spiritual practice. You see black churches that have a liberationary message. Ofc they are in the minority.

It’s wild how easy and relatively cheap it would be to make everything super luxurious but subsidized just to “troll the crazy lefties” cause everyone who isn’t ideologically opposed to billionaires would be loving it. Such an easy opportunity to buy favor and it still gets fucked up.

Interesting resource, thanks!

@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net maybe?

I saw that it was just the tls cert

I don’t think he’s going to expose it if he is. As an official he is and will be a DemSoc and should be treated accordingly.