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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

  • Israel launches attack on Iran

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  • There's nothing revolutionary about acting on behalf of Israel and the US.

  • Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency across country

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  • Yeah, I'm sure Iran attacked it's own fucking hospitals just so it could blame Israel. 🙄

    Or, more likely: Israel attacked hospitals, because they fucking love attacking hospitals.

  • China has sent attack drones to Iran, as it discusses ballistic missile sales

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  • The Americas span two continents.

  • Israel launches attack on Iran

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  • Over 100 officers were also killed by these so-called "protesters" during the riots, doesn't that strike you as odd?

    The "protesters" attacked police and military targets, armed by Mossad and the CIA. In the chaos many innocent people who got drawn into the riots were also killed, and that's terrible, but the fault lays firmly at the feet of Israel and the US. They tried to instigate a color revolution, and when that failed they used it as justification for war.

    And you fell for it like you always do, because you’ll just believe anything they tell you.

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  • They fed you propaganda for a few weeks to soften you up for the war that they were always planning. It's so fucking obvious that the "protests" were just a prelude to these strikes, and you just eat it up because you’ll just believe anything they tell you.

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  • You'll just believe anything they tell you, huh?

  • Israeli official organizes 'prison tour' for Jewish settlers to observe torture of Palestinians

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  • I'm reminded of that quote from Black Jacobins about the Haitian revolutionaries:

    "When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity."

  • Israel launches strike against Iran, declares state of emergency across country

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  • I'm going with alignment. Now Trump doesn't have to be the one to start the war, he can just be "dragged into it" by Israel.

  • US ambassador tells embassy staffers: If you want to leave Israel, ‘do so TODAY’

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  • Supposedly they were somewhat annoyed about that emergency all-hands meeting where Pete Hegseth called them fat.

  • China has sent attack drones to Iran, as it discusses ballistic missile sales

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  • I think you mean amerikkka.

  • US ambassador tells embassy staffers: If you want to leave Israel, ‘do so TODAY’

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  • The armed forces aren't going to like being jerked around like that.

  • Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠

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  • You aren't asking a big enough question to actually grasp what the lesser evil even is.

    The first question you really want to ask is "what is the primary contradiction?" We can discuss what that might be, US hegemony or Western imperialism or neocolonialism, but this will inform our understanding of how we should vote. Only once we identify the primary contradiction should we cast our votes in whatever way will advance the struggle against it.

    Let's say we identify US hegemony as the primary contradiction. Does voting for Harris help advance the struggle against US hegemony? No! She would have been a fine steward of the empire, if she was president the hegemon would be in better shape than it is under Trump and the struggle against it would be even harder.

    Trump is wrecking the empire, and in light of this, Trump winning is actually a lesser evil. What we see under Trump is the US pulling back from all of its soft-power while threatening its own allies. Yes, it has become more violent, but the violence isn't a sign of strength. The US is in a weaker position than it has ever been in my life. All is chaos under heaven, the situation is excellent.

    But, if Trump winning was the lesser evil, does that mean we vote for Trump? Also no! It's important for him to not actually ever be popular within the US, because that also erodes his own legitimacy among the US population and makes the US itself harder to govern. The fact that he "won" with 49.9% of the vote isn't the best outcome, better would be losing the popular vote again, but it's still good because forcing USAmericans to confront the weakness of their elections also weakens its position as the hegemon. They look at their own elections, look at Trump winning twice without ever getting a majority, and ask "do we live in a democracy?"

    (The answer is no by the way.)

    His unpopularity is why there was an uprising against ICE in Minnesota. There wouldn't even be protests against ICE if Harris was president, and there weren't under Biden despite him deporting more than Trump in his first term, but under Trump people can easily see what they have always been: colonial occupation troops. Under Democrats the streets are empty, under Trump the people fight back. The BLM uprisings happened under Trump, but it was Bill Clinton that gave us the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to fill the prisons with Black people. This has to be factored in when we ask what the lesser evil is.

    They're both great evils, so identifying the primary contradiction is the only way we can identify what is to be done.

    Notably, this is not accelerationism. The goal here isn't to make things worse so they get better. The goal is to make the US empire weaker, because we have identified US hegemony as the primary contradiction and that's what we are struggling against. Revolutionary defeatism, in other words.

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • I made more tortillas, and this time I think they're good enough to share!

    Those range from 8-9 inches, 10 inches was a little hard to cook at my skill level. This stack should last me till Sunday. Maybe.

  • Whenever a Cuban exile downtalks Cuba and its revolution, always ask why!

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  • You mean ss opposed to English media, which is fair and balanced.

  • Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday

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  • Someone is almost certainly going to be killed because some vigilante saw the "wrong" person using the restroom.

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  • The 'ha's are the point of tickling actually!

  • Take a break from here, if you can. We're all tense as fuck. I will be taking a week-long break from here. It'll be good for us.

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  • Who's that standing outside telling me to log off??

    I will NEVER log off!!

    (but actually though I need to sew some patches in my jeans so I think I'll do that)

  • 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

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  • Jim no longer has a job at this employer. Jim can choose where he works next.

    He has to beg employers for a job, the employers get to choose where he works next.

  • Things are not going well in Mexico...

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  • This isn't really against Trump's interests as long as the blame lands on Sheinbaum and her government.

    I won't go as far as to say that the plan is a strategy of tension to undermine her government, but...