communism made lemmy so where does that leave us
#Tradle #529 3/6
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Thought something similar, thought maybe one of the islands near Africa. But thought twice about Aluminum and started in Guyana, then went Nicaragua, then realized it had to be Caribbean.
Also to expand on this, the vast majority of people in the US who consider themselves progressive, who are likely the ones that could otherwise be convinced to join in to a labor movement, are exactly the ones who have been persuaded to believe the #1 priority for good people™ is to support Ukraine. They have also been persuaded to believe that anyone who says otherwise is a threat to freedom and democracy™. In short, the war propaganda has reset a lot of the progress we made during the Trump years where people started to see how broken and irreconcilable 
was, by giving them false consciousness.
IDK where I land between genuinely thinking a revolution will ever happen in the imperial core (at least in a meaningful amount of time before it all collapses due to climate change) but I think it's also possible to think, "We might never see a revolution here, but we can do our best to lay the groundwork for one and seed enough class consciousness as to prevent further US imperialist interventionism" which is different to defeatism IMO. Not that revolutionary defeatism doesn't also have its place.
They may have a lifetime of practice defending their revolution, but nothing compares to the horrors of the posting wars.
"being elevated to sapience by the USSR" 
Could it be because of historical connections between Saudi royalty and American politicians? All's good in the fam?
Who's Billy? Why is Finger going to Billy's?
Last night I had a dream that when I got home, there were a couple of guys grilling in my backyard. I went to check out what was going on and they were none other than Adam Friedland, Nick Mullen, and Stavros Halkias. I played it cool and pretended I didn't know who they were, I said oh yeah I think I've heard of you guys, etc etc. Eventually though I couldn't hold in the laughter and the jig was up. So Nick Mullen bodyslammed me into the ground in my own back yard.
Can you describe it? There's a small chance I know it.
Just laughed like an idiot for 2 minutes straight in the VC watching WKUK. This is literally perfect.
Could be a different manager.
The main thing I learned about the 20th century that made it all make sense, is that the leadership of the Western Allied countries all believe their countries fought on the wrong side of WW2. You don't need to look any further than their actions in Latin America to support that claim.
It's weird, right? I've met people in college, talked with them for months, then randomly the subject of politics comes up and as it turns out they've read way more Marxist theory than me. Completely random people, in STEM (which is definitely more full of chuds than comrades but still). Makes you wonder how many politicized people there are out there who just haven't gotten organized.
Those Bush quotes genuinely fill me with rage.
Last time I saw one here, a bunch of great comrades from the news megathread dogpiled them with walls of text, literally so much text I had to scroll for a considerable amount of time. I don't think that's ever getting old.
