Diva (she/her)

It remains unclear if there are any other replenishment ships like it immediately available in the Mideast. An AP survey of publicly released military images of similar replenishment ships run by the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command showed none in the Mideast in recent months. The command declined to comment.

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we’re trying to fucking do better and the people who maybe could do better for us are being ratfucked by hostile foreign governments who always suspiciously support Republicans.

there’s tons of democrats loading up on AIPAC money

“Hello I would like to mentally police myself for free so that people who want me dead might think I’m one of the good ones”

The supreme court makes a mockery of democracy (intentionally) and should be treated with scorn instead of reverence.

I really am getting tired of having to walk on eggshells around liberals about this extremely obvious issue.

Yet I will be talking to a lib and they will be like “but at least it’s killing a lot of Russians right?” 🫠

I find Stein a bit grating, but I always finds greens hard to pin down politically. I’d much rather this air time have gone to someone like Claudia de la Cruz with something interesting to say and some principles to back it up

Part of not being blind to your own jingoism is understanding how your actions affect others- I’m not saying that it’s OK to coup or attempt to undermine governments with media operations, I’m saying that if we’re going to act like this is suddenly some sort of mortal sin after decades of doing that ourselves, people aren’t going to take it seriously. It’s certainly not going to make outside observers think that we’re a reasonable actor who’s simply under attack by authoritarians. Purely for riling up the base.

They infiltrated the highest office of our country and attempted to overthrow the government. That’s war, right?

considering how many times we’ve actually overthrown peoples governments to our own ends, turnabout would just be fair play - least we better hope it’s not something people will go to war over because there’s a long list of potential enemies

I actually get made pretty uncomfortable by the xenophobia about ‘election meddling’ every couple years about ‘the russians’ like we’re some monolith, sometimes I post about it. But I guess that’s me the (#1) local influencer posting on the (#2) fake news outlet lemmy.ml, clearly trying to goad people (#3) with my (#4) flipping the script takes and unfunny bits (#5) 😕

WTF Putin why aren’t you paying me already, do you have any idea how much rent in America costs??

Saw this coming a mile away. Truly nothing will fundamentally change

I mean, personally I’m an anarchist, I run with different crowds but I have run into people from PSL at protests for quite some time- since Iraq- and they’re usually a different vibe. I find a lot of common ground in wanting less external imperial violence and more directing that money to helping people historically oppressed internally. At the end of the day the way I see it, we have a shared endgoal, some potential political disagreements along the way, but at least I can count on principled opposition to genocide.

Here’s a link to what their vision for a revolutionary government looks like.

Frankly the need for more than ‘just reform’ is also extremely relevant now more than ever with decades of failure to address climate change in a meaningful way- at some point if your goal is meaningful change it’s going to require fundamentally restructuring how the economy operates. Some people will call that ‘authoritarian’ but what’s also ‘authoritarian’ is when a handful of people use their amassed wealth to poison the planet without repercussions, and jeopardize entire future generations, while using the police to suppress dissent. Instead we get ‘nothing will fundamentally change except more hot wars’ from the Democrats, and genocidal ideation from the Republicans.

I mean, I’m planning on voting for PSL myself, cause they’re the most vocal/credible as an anti-war option from what’s presented

I was just being a smartass because there’s more to political organizing than just voting, and the people browbeating others to be obedient to their meta game in the process I find pretty silly

Was making a Mao reference re: abandoning the “only” political power we have

Every Communist must grasp the truth; “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Pikachu, his mouth agape

Don’t worry I still have all my guns

According to declassified documents from the CIA itself:

Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure.

Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain. However it does not appear that any of the present leaders will rise to the stature of Lenin and Stalin, so that it will be safer to assume that developments in Moscow will be along the lines of what is called collective leadership, unless Western policies force the soviets to streamline their power organization.

It is hard to draw any parallel between present events and those of the 1920’s when stalin was ascending to power. There is now no organized opposition iniside the Party, or in the Soviet Union in general. As the Communist rulers and evidently also the Soviet people see it, there is a grave outside menace.

Dictatorship does not mean autocracy. The point of a dictatorship of a proletariat is that unlike what we have now (a dictatorship of the bourgeoise) is that it’s reflecting the will of the majority of working people over the wants of our aristocracy.

By recent do you mean 1776?

Not unless you’re talking about the 3/5 compromise for their slaves?

Unless they work for Boeing.

I want a democracy where normal people are the demos getting represented, rather than rich shitheads, their kids, and their family business killing the planet.

It’s called a dictatorship of the proletariat when the wealthy minority do not be getting to enforce their will on the majority.

Democracy means some citizens get to vote, generally it’s the ones who aren’t slaves. In America they recently extended the vote to their nonwhite population, but the popular vote doesn’t do anything and the only parties allowed in national politics have no interest in representing anything other than their donors.