It’s funny going on a week hiatus and just checking messages to be called terminally online. What projected, sad irony. Good job on completely missing the point and going on a full “ML” remark.

You need better practice at this.

Oh cool, you also gargle propaganda from an evangelical nutjob Adrian Zens and from the U.S State Department on it’s number-one global rival. Very analytical and socialist of you.

There is no “plight”, the U.N found nothing and reported nothing. Again and again, people like you do the work of the feds back in the 50s-60s.

You’re a delusional, rabid shitlib that is actively towing the line for a invasion of Venezuela by a hegemonic power that has over 200 military bases in the world while playing down the actual efforts of a socialist nation that has succeeded in nearly eliminating homelessness with a higher literacy rate, higher home-ownership rate and higher protein consumed per capita as demonstrable effects of socialist policy meant to assist and uplift the working class of the nation.

A large majority of those in China is a PART of the Communist Party of China and it has one of the highest government satisfaction rates in the entire world, despite the criticisms people can level at it rightfully or not. You tow the line for imperialism, deny the accomplishments of one of the most successful socialist experiments and have the right to call anything “delusional?”

Back to Reddit!

Sometimes, you do. Sometimes, you don’t. It isn’t always black and white like that, unfortunately. Even if I fully agree with you.

I’m glad you have close friends and family that are reliable, hopefully you and your beloved Rosa will be reunited soon.

All I needed these years, after all.

decent work for anyone who wants it without sacrificing body and mind

I’m reminded of someone posting “who will clean the toilets under communism”. Fuckin’ me. I’ll gladly clean toilets, clean floors, clean buildings and maintain them. I can get paid a living wage and have somewhere to live by just doing that? Holy fuck! A trade I actually enjoy and love that I can get paid decently for?

Everyone here gets it. When others hear that they’re just like “join the military and kill some kids.”

got your original point, but physical needs are still real. As far as soul fam, i’m looking too. I don’t know how far I can go within my current means, but I’m thinking nearer an arts district may be beneficial.

I lived near two for a while, depending on how old you are it can be isolating or you can meet a lot of new people. I met my current partner near one. The cost of living is high though, which is why I eventually moved away. As for my physical needs, I do have a close-knit group of friends and my partner, but I have a lot of things I miss doing when I had a bit more disposable income. I can’t wait to get back my old acoustic that I had to leave behind for a while, a beautiful rosewood guitar I named Rosa. As for other needs, I make do with what I got and what I can grow/make with my own hands.

Travel is expensive though. So many things in this country could be cheaper.

I work IWW as of recently, used to do more WFP. Had a red card for years and been working with them for a while. I switched over to Working Families for a bit because they had some more direct action (feedings/mutual aid, donation/charity runs) but ended up switching back over to IWW when I got my new job as I had to start being able to afford food instead of garbage-pickin. Other than those two, there isn’t quite any other leftist organizations where I live. Some anarchist cells which some are cool some are not.

I did work for a church for years though doing some really easy, nice-paying part-time work. Then they ended up going belly-up because priests love children. Might end up doing another one before Christmas (mutual aid).

I think my original point was more so having people you knew really closely, either it be friends or family, suddenly stripping down to an uber-hitler. It’s fucking insane how remigration is actually becoming something people are talking about.

sometimes it’s exhausting. just begging people to have empathy. not saying that is your situation but I’ve been in the same boat as of recently.

Precious metals are looking better and better these days. Palladium is a good speculative one in these times, check it’s price over just ten years and during COVID. Stack that and rhodium and wait till the AI bubble to burst to offload and try to get some more precious metals.

No, I’m not a dragon.

I accept desertion as well. Randy Orton comes to mind, heh.

However, Marxist theory is not about workers being the most pure hearted and good people

Agreed up until this point. It has nothing to do with “morality/vibe checks”. It has everything to do with recognizing the threats and security issues that someone who has had service in the military. I also have to disagree with the comparison between soldiers in the periphery vs the Core.

Those in the periphery advance in class when they join the enforcer class; becoming closer with the colonial institutions that exploit their nation. In the core, 80 percent of those who join the military come from higher income brackets. They are actively giving up privilege, power and wealth to become a member of a core’s murderous enforcer class with global prestige. That does have relation to Marxist theory, in that I am objectively observing their class characteristics and how those are imposed over their material conditions and how to organize/recruit them. I mentioned why those reasons are important.

and no underground militia would ever be able to match professional soldiers if confrontation was needed.

Calling American soldiers “Professional” for shitting their diapers in Iraq and Afghanistan is a stretch. Underground militas blew the American soldiers out of the water multiple times.

We should stop the ultra leftism of condemning individuals for the role of the corporation

So to actually tackle this instead of taking an “emotional” perspective

It’s not “ultra-leftism” to want the ghouls of the American empire to be tried and to not repeat the historical mistakes of America trying officials of Nazi Germany. Despite my hardline stance, I’ve had one combat-experienced veteran and another veteran actually show appeals to leftist ideologue. The thing is, they’re retired. If you want to be “a good veteran” then the correct stance to take is to immediately do whatever is in your immediate possibility to minimize the damage already done while you’re in service. Otherwise, most soldiers in service already have a sense of camaraderie and generally have the issues of alienation causes by capitalism alleviated only by a slight degree of collective service. You’re appealing to someone who took an oath, is junked up on propaganda and has likely had or serviced the “machine” that acted in violence towards people like us, foreign-born comrades and women/children. My experience is absolutely anecdotal, but what I said about who you’re appealing to isn’t.

Further more, there are plenty of us who have had horrible, abusive relationships with soldiers in family, etc. Beyond that, there are those of us on here who are direct victims of America and Isn’treals genocide? It is ultra-leftism and emotional to question recruiting the wolves to the flock? To question why we target these people in the first place when there’s way more valuable targets? To understand why some have a hesitancy or a disgust to the very idea?

the bestest economy, simply the best.

What’s crazy to me is that they’re refusing to use funds that were already set aside for situations like this. I think a good few of the voters for the Republicans will buy up the Democrat line, but I don’t think the majority will buy that. I’m not expecting any awakening or such but I think it’s reasonable to say most will blame the current administration.

Freezing food stamps and the contingency funds associated with it is foreboding.

Just seems like Ultra rhetoric is all that’s here in the online left

Plenty of people here who organize and do work in real life. I literally was just talking about my experiences up and down the coast with a comrade despairing against the average American in their efforts.

Politicians who do lip-service while marking themselves as “Democratic” will go as far as the DSA did with an immediate capitulation following. Not sure why you haven’t learned this by now via the numerous examples of Bernie, AOC, Mamdani as of most recent but I guess you can keep doing the Charlie Brown football over and over again. If anything, if you’ve organized you should know exactly why some of us get so frustrated at it.

Honestly, if this guy somehow ends up being a Che Guevara, sure. But from the past and history of “American progressive candidates” why the fuck should I expect anything? Especially from a baby-killing private soldier who has a non-zero chance of doing work for Blackwater of killing leftists/organizers across the globe?

By the ruling capital of America who had a significant role as well as mainly England in creating it. Don’t forget the vast, white christian support too! Nazis helped them out a bit in the Haavara agreement as well.

My honest reply to it all is “Yeah, I wanna see them released too. Watch when it literally doesn’t do it anything.”

because I’m literally down to bet, even the most shitty down-votey lib on here, (50 dollars max, DM me about it, must be a liberal) that once the Epstein files come out during Trump’s administration that it will literally be a media circus for a month and then NOTHING. Just like how when literal flight logs of the LOLITA EXPRESS got released nothing fucking happened. Nothing ever happens usually wins when it comes to justice on these ghouls. Almost like voting doesn’t do anything about your parties flying off to Mossad and Epstein’s island for child predation parties, like another user said, just like how downvoting these comments because your a shit-pants liberal doesn’t do anything. That’s how much your political vote is worth!

…Goddamn single topic motherfuckers… Where are those Epstein files?

Yes. The single topic of genocide. GENOCIDE, MOTHERFUCKER. If you can’t see that, you’re no better than a rabid dog. Voting doesn’t do fucking anything. Also, the irony of lamenting single-topic bullshit while parroting the Epstein files line from Reddit.

Seen it first hand. A few cents added onto every product, some “inventory corrections” here and there. It’s coming again!