GarbageShoot

Projection is a played-out accusation, but where the fuck do Democrats get off accusing leftists of being grandstanding and sanctimonious?

Not trying to tell you how you should identify though. None of my business.

No worries, I appreciate you sharing too

I've got a buddy who went as far as going on hormones for a time because he hated "masculinity" [in the sense of behavior and patriarchy, not presentation] and wanted to do whatever he could to get away from it. Ultimately, he decided that it made sense to keep identifying as male but support on all avenues the destruction of patriarchy. I never took hormones, but he and I have some feelings in common (though I seem to have more "dysphoria"* than he does) and my conclusion is very similar to his. I usually stay out of threads on this comm because I'm cis, but in this case I thought it was worth saying something because it reminded me a lot of cases I know well. I feel like for a lot of progressive AMABs, whether they become NB or not is basically a question of how deeply ingrained certain perspectives on "what a man is" are for them.

*in scare quotes to indicate the shakiness of my case, not the concept itself

Tibet was de facto independent for a while, but it re-joined China voluntarily circa 1950. About 10 years later, with some help from western agitation and assets, the theocratic ruling class felt too threatened by development empowering their serf population and sought to secede in order to maintain their fiefdom. Mao sent in the PLA and crushed the secessionist revolt.

You really can't "no u" this one because of Imperial China, the PRC's claim to Tibet is completely valid. You'd probably have more luck trying with Xinjiang, though evidently that is viewed as slightly played-out now.

Sure you can eject them, just like you can import them, and there are plenty of places (see Siberia or the American Midwest) with lots of unused space to put the ones who don't have homes to go back to already (because many actually would). As the kids say, "decolonization is not a metaphor".

Hamas, the Houthis, etc. crush the IDF, then make arrangements with the west (or possibly Russia if necessary) to eject the settler population. All of what is now Israel is returned to Palestine and Israelis live in the west or Siberian Israel or whatever. Israeli citizens who were actually native to the region (and not war criminals) can stay and must have full protection from hate crimes, etc.

I don't think this is true, but it makes me imagine that they are going through a process in their head of a "We're Resisting fascism as effectively as possible; What do fascists do to their most effective Resisters?" type logic to act like they are on the front lines of a historic struggle for doing such acts of heroism as having a monthly subscription to ActBlue or whatever.

There are lots of Euro Israelis too

even as Biden at least puts in a word about genocide.

This is a joke, it's pure kayfabe to mitigate the PR issue of supporting something so unpopular. He's not actually doing anything substantial and has, time and again, also voiced "unrelenting support", as someone who was a staunch Zionist before most users on this board were born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Nrv5izaTs

So I can understand the Communist Party's position to not repeat the same mistake they made in the 1980s with allowing Reagan to win.

It was wrong of us to run in Presidential elections and not try to help block Reagan.

You are revisionists, pure and simple. You are pursuing socdem goals at the expense of building a revolutionary movement, giving unconditional concessions to neoliberal ghouls instead of even attempting to extract concessions.

Our politics must be working-class politics. The workers' party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have its goal and its own policy.

• Karl Marx, “Apropos Of Working-Class Political Action”

No matter whatever disingenuous weaseling you try to do about not "supporting" Biden, your organization is one of massively tailist revisionism in the interest of maintaining neoliberal institutions.

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

• Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Address of the Central Comittee to the Communist League, 1850

The Democrats are facilitators of the regular "most important election of our lifetime" crises, not a mitigating element. If they were a mitigating element they would not, at every moment, being laying further groundwork for rightward lurching and the destruction of civil liberties.

I don't care how diverse his dogshit writers are or aren't when they are still stooges to imperialism, which JO consistently is whenever they start discussing foreign policy. He doesn't "speak truth to power", he just kind of complains in circles while failing to produce the one thing that might actually constitute speaking truth to power: a real, systemic critique.

No he doesn't, he just does his dogshit pseudo-journalism and then goes on some tangent about how fuckable an animal is or yelling about how bad spirit airlines is before returning to the "substantial" part.

Probably the greatest piece of evidence for the more liberal conceptions of propaganda is the way that they just heap lie upon lie about the DPRK until the ethos the lies collectively create is the main thing legitimizing any individual lie.