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Can't do local organizing wins for opsec reasons but they do exist!
There's good news internationally despite the ethnic cleansing. We are seeing the birthing pains of the downfall of empire. Countries increasingly feel comfortable rejecting the US' projects, SocDems are doing okay in LatAm again, Burkina Faso and its neighbors are giving France the boot, China is pushing ahead relentlessly, Russia is not just surviving, but is actually doing better under a sanctions regime...
Despite the fact that we are still a small minority, there are more cool lefties in the US than there have been in 50 years. More cool ancoms, more cool communists, even the occasional cool DemSoc. Previously this space was dominated by NATO leftists that told you the best way to be communist was too shout, "neither Washington nor Moscow", hand out incomprehensible zines, and be extremely condescending while also wrong about most things. We have a real foundation to build from now and a population of younger people that we can radicalize when we put in the effort and let them call us libs so they can do their own cool projects.