‘Storm clouds gathering' over Korean Peninsula, ‘you gotta be ready’ – Mattis to US troops
The authority of US foreign policy should be supported by the army’s readiness for war, now that “storm clouds” are gathering over the Koreas, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said on a two-day visit to the peninsula. rt.com/usa/414060-mattis-korea-storm-clouds/
Nikki Haley invited UN countries that didn't vote to condemn the US decision on Jerusalem to a 'friendship' party
Israel quits UNESCO over ‘attacks’ months after US withdrawal
Following in the footsteps of the US, Israel announced its exit from UNESCO, citing “attacks” by the organization. The move comes after 128 UN members voted to reject the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. rt.com/news/414038-israel-withdraw-unesco-jerusalem/
Philippines Tropical Storm Tembin kills more than 100 on Mindanao
More than 100 people are reported to have been killed as a tropical storm swept through the southern Philippines, with dozens more missing. bbc.com/news/world-asia-42464644
Mexico murders hit record high, dealing blow to president
The police assume literally everyone is armed, all the time, and waiting to kill them. Police militarization is kind of a misleading term in that police are never trained in the strict discipline the military is, and that's a pretty low bar.
Andrew Hernandez
I want this administration to fucking just take a god damn nap, jesus christ
Carson Lopez
That response is playing into Trump's game, but I do feel ya.
Robert Rodriguez
Are they seriously going to do this? This is insanity.
Tyler Jones
If America does manage to get the entire planet destroyed, who'll get to become a Daemon Prince as a result of this sacrifice?
Liam Kelly
TYBNewsAnon2.0
Wyatt Anderson
As of right now, NK. Especially with the rumors of "muh decapitation strike" Didn't some user make a giant spreadsheet about who were going to war with under Trump, with bets and everything?
The Pentagon is running the White House right now, and for all his faults Tillerson is reportedly the only one advising against hitting NK Ukraine is about to hit up big time too since Trump just signed off on providing them with a boatload of antitank missiles and advisors with rumors of a lot more to come
Elijah Richardson
This has been on the table since the partition though
Asher Scott
Felix Beiderman
Brody Murphy
What if we break Lenin out of the mausoleum and perform a sacrifice? It might just work
Henry Walker
Felix to become the immortal daemon chairman of the American Jamahiriya
Lincoln Martin
I live in Southern California, if War with North Korea happens, I will be reduced to ash. I want to just say how fun it's been breathing, eating, drinking, cumming, and living the past 24 years. Posting here has been fun too.
At least I won't feel it.
Anthony Price
The US ambassador to the United Nations has fallen victim to a phone prank perpetrated by a famous Russian duo, with whom she discussed the affairs of a fictional South China Sea island nation and the alleged harassment of the Ukrainian president by Kevin Spacey.
It's probably a better fate than what awaits the rest of us.
Jose Miller
Whatchu talking abou? Now's the time to start a Holla Forums insurgent militia, will it suceed? No, but the battle is always worth it
Eli Martin
Fuck off FBI
Carter Phillips
Fam
Ryan Miller
I take it back. If Haley is gone, Trump would probably fucking hire John Bolton
Isaiah Gomez
So far, it seems to be NK. I guess, Hillary would've went for Iran.
Of course. Maybe not this and not right now, but - yes. Why do you think I've been telling that we are going to have ML revolution within a decade or so?
Not really. We should have a few years before things get interesting.
I wouldn't be too sure. Unless something goes horribly wrong, most of those missiles end up being sold on the black market. Ukraine is simply in no condition to actually do anything, other than to continue their "war" on Donbass. So they aren't going to actually start anything big.
Joseph Cruz
US government spends untold billions on national security and global spy agencies but they still get tricked by a simple prank call. Personally I'm grateful our leaders are too retarded to look after themselves.
Lincoln Kelly
Because you're retarded and delusional?
Logan Ortiz
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Jason Ross
If I was disgustingly liberal I'd say "just move somewhere else", as that seems to be their solution to everything. I do still have some decency left within me, so I won't. You have my sympathies.
Ryder Rodriguez
I'm not exactly rich, and my family never was, I was born here and lived here all my life. There's a lot of poor people here, and there's a lot of bougie people here. The problem is the property value is so high, it attracts bougie people, but it also keeps poor people who moved here stuck like a flytrap because you can never get enough money to leave once you spend all your money just to keep afloat.
I'm stuck here, and I like it here actually. Even if it might be my early grave if we go to war with North Korea.
Moving was never an option for me.
Chase Diaz
Yes, of course. That must be it.
It's obvious that Fukuyama was right and the history ended in 1990s. There will be no new financial crisis, US will not keep behaving more and more unhinged, EU will stop falling apart, and all millennials will get a good job.
Oliver Young
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK NEWSANON
we live in geohell
Jaxson Howard
hmm
Gabriel Martinez
OP/ED
Social inequality is coded deep within the devices of Silicon Valley.
nope not a volunteer and I must've missed whatever happened lol
Samuel Collins
Philip K Dick's body of work wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.
Gavin Mitchell
it is seriously delusional to believe that the united states is not going to devolve into civil war or military dictatorship.
Nathan Young
Soon enough, that will be true. Or at least, I hope it will.
Angel Martinez
Come now.
Jackson Cooper
Were you absent form the class that covered "the negation of the negation?" You can't re-live the past.
Austin Ward
There's also this bullshit.
American foreign policy is a joke.
Easton Wilson
Is there transcript for this?
Carson Lee
Mattis is also on the "don't nuke Korea" side. This makes his comments especially dreadful, since it indicates that he isn't getting anywhere with Trump.
I never said anything about this revolution being successful. I'm moderately certain US is going to get some form of Fascism. That's how it looks like, at least.
Non-sequitur. Also, Communism is historically inevitable, so we will be forced to try and change status quo, until someone does it right.
Charles Moore
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Liam Nguyen
I have no doubts about future social unrest, the comment was about your ML nostalgia.
Blake Cruz
Could NK actually use nuclear weapons? I kind of don't believe it maybe it's just post-90s "end of history, nothing could ever happen" mentality.
Angel Lopez
I'd rather die in the fire of nuclear Juche anyway, if it means wiping out the US. I only hope porky doesn't make it to his bunker in time.
Ayden Ross
There is no ML nostalgia. Left simply doesn't have any other theory to handle state management.
If you take control over any large city, you'll have to embrace Evil Authoritarianism - otherwise you'll be unable to keep things in check for any extended period of time.
Lucas Reyes
you just know that's not how it works, don't be dumb.
Nolan Phillips
So, yeah, ML nostalgia lol
Justin Moore
I like to be optimistic
Christian Brown
Okay. Enlighten me: what other theory is there?
You had overthrown government, police is on the run, the cheering citizens had seized control over everything. At least for the moment. What do you do next? Does Bookchin explain anything?
Gabriel Phillips
Every era has its own revolutionary form that best corresponds to the material conditions. Saying that there will be a "ML revolution" is simply wishing back an era that is gone now, or in other words, nostalgia, regardless of how you view actual "ML revolutions."
Levi Ortiz
Obviously you would do what Marxist-Leninists would do, but in a more incompetent and destructive way and then blame Marxist-Leninists for your own failures.
Get with the times, good praxis is useless in the face of smugly asserting your own moral superiority. Actually being morally superior is of course a detriment because actually doing anything that has lasting impact leaves you open to criticism.
Benjamin Fisher
May your death be a painless and glorious one, Conrad. May the fortunes favor you and gift you a magnificent seat for your final sight and carry you on an torrent of resolved and unwavering calm to the peaceful rest that lies beyond. May the fire sweep clean both you and those whom you jointly care and mutually love, so that no tear shall be needed to be shed nor any suffering of sad sorrow be felt for lost kin or suffering friends.
Ian Rodriguez
Implying that there is some other - non-ML - form does not actually prove anything. We have no examples of such forms, we have no reason to think that there are (and - no; Catalonia is not an example of such form).
You are just hoping that there is an alternative to the bloody mess. And it is this that is the wishful thinking here.
You think having moral superiority is preferably to being the one with the gun?
Jason Jones
Nigger I agree with you. I'm being sarcastic.
Luke Bell
wait, is that supposed to be sarcastic? because I agree it's much harder to be morally right
Jack Evans
The wishful thinking is believing that the model you prefer in will be the form the social unrest will take, which is what you said in your original post. I'm not sure why you are making this about a discussion of what you believe to be effective, it's completely besides the point.
Jose Allen
Poe's law.
Do you think revolutions happen because ideologies demand it or because there is some problem people seek to resolve and then simply choose ideologies that are most appropriate to the desired solution?
Alexander Cruz
Yes, estimates are they have 60ish warheads ready to go and can produce an additional 10 to 11 warheads a year They're a nuclear nation
Jack Roberts
It's still pretty bad here. Worst part is how the most gentrified areas of the metropolitan cities have recovered and some people think eveything's back to normal. Malls are packed, money's wasted on bullshit. Meanwhile many still have to scrape by with whatever food and water they can get, having to carry jugs of water to their homes from nearby water sources of questionable quality. Disheartening shit.
Lincoln Young
They don't "choose" an ideology – like it's some commodity – they produce one based on previous experiences and their own situation. If they just buy into an ideology and try to follow through with it it inevitable leads to disaster.
Ryder Morgan
that doesn't say anything about using them has China said anything about that by the way? did they condemn their potential use of nukes? I think they would obviously never get away with it, and I think there's no way they don't know it
Ian Martin
In historical perspective. After all the revolutions.
What you see IRL is that majority of rebels gets radicalized relatively quickly, without "producing" anything personally. Additionally, general public observes the militant ideology and makes a choice - whether or not get radicalized in the opposite direction. So - yeah. That is the choice.
Idealism. Do we have a single revolution that did not end in disaster - at least, for someone? Do we have a single revolution with rank-and-file members actually contributing to the theory?
Carter Morris
It's practically certain that they can nuke South Korea and Japan. They had already tested rockets that flew over Japan.
California is a bit of a stretch, AFAIK.
Charles Clark
sure.
Justin Cooper
So if the US loses a war with NK or Iran, do you think this will increasing the chances of socialism?
Evan Smith
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Thomas Reed
No, it'll be another instance of shock therapy so more liberal reforms can be passed. After Social Security is privatized, they'll probably sell off and enclose all the national parks.
Jayden Wood
Rosa wasn't destined to fail
William Gray
so basically everyone stays class-cucked? I mean leftism does typically prosper in times of economic disparity.
We'rent commies and fascists literally fighting it out, though? Not only that, but there was also the Spartacus league.
Alexander Torres
Read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, politicians and ideologists can beat people down in a crisis then convince them the injustice was inevitable and necessary
Ayden Long
Yes. But the prevailing attitudes prevailed. Nationalism, jingoism, militarism and anti-semitism were normal. NSDAP wasn't unique in its policy.
Easton Bennett
Anti-semitism and jingoism were also massive parts of imperial Russian society
Brandon Miller
Maybe the upper class society. 80% of Russians were peasants and serfs. Rural don't give a shit, they probably barely know what's going on. It's urban that reads newspapers and participates in politics.
Christopher Nelson
The HS-15 can hit anywhere in the US
If NK thinks their nation is under existential crisis, which any US attempt to overthrow them would be, They'd use them. You have to remember they're in many way scared shitless of the US, during the last war the US carried out near genocide on the NK civilian population using both biological and chemical weapons
Jacob Mitchell
Peasants both carried out pogroms by themselves and ripped up communist pamphlets in public before the war, there's nothing inherently progressive about the Russian peasant in contrast to the German proletarian.
Tyler Sanchez
I ain't touching that shit. I can already tell it's about "da ebul straight white cis male shitlords".
William Richardson
Just die
Ethan Cox
Go back to reddit. If it's actually economic instead of socio-cultural, link an archived version.
Jeremiah Reed
And how do you exactly know this. What qualifies as an "idpol sjw" to you. I'm fascinated by your ability to discern what's stupid, when you seem very stupid already.
Gavin Richardson
Kill yourself for encouraging this cancer within the left.
Brandon Ross
If you think the modern racial and cultural norms arent a product of capital that need to be addressed, you're even more delusional than 2014 Laci Green thinking women can be liberated under capital
Aaron Howard
Focusing on such issues instead of economics inevitably leads to what the awful state the left is in right now. And the whole racism is caused by capital idea is some of the worst bullshit from you tumblrite idiots. If it really is caused by capital, you should focus on capital, the alleged root cause, instead of the emergent issues from it.
Brayden Watson
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Jaxson Hughes
Bigotry exists with or without capitalism, to say otherwise is psychotic. We are selves are bigoted against the right-wing, with good reason of course.
Brayden Nguyen
Mao, the ☭TANKIE☭st of all ☭TANKIE☭s, understood that capital produces and reproduces itself in culture, and these tidbits and remnants of capital do not go away by themselves even after the revolution. If you aren't attacking both the base and superstructure you've already lpst.
Easton Edwards
I'm disputing that capital causes it, which it doesn't.
Noah Lee
Like bigotry isnt another tool in the box of porkie
Xavier Smith
This is like that awkward rich kid whose parents made an elaborate party that only classmates that pitied him attended to
Juan Fisher
Yeah, doesn't mean capitalism caused it.
Julian Nelson
Racism isn't just bigotry or prejudice. You sound like a recently converted liberal.
Elijah Butler
Even if bigotry isnt caused by the social conditions of capital specifically, they do reinforce each other, and its not as if theres a small number of Russian babies born with hatred for Germans inscribed in their DNA. Stop being essentialist.
Lincoln Russell
Ah, the classic "either we have a revolution, or we'll all be dead anyway" gambit. I'll start believing it at this rate. Though I wouldn't rule out global genocide quite yet.
Jordan Wright
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Anthony Watson
Racism is a belief in the superiority of certain races over others. How are you defining it?
If I were a converted liberal I would still be clamoring for racial activism like the sageing moron.
That doesn't mean capitalism causes it, even if certain politicians use it as a tool. I don't believe abolishing capitalism would end racism, but the point I'm making is that if racism and bigotry aren't caused by capitalism, which they aren't, then racial and sexual activism is irrelevant to leftism. It is a wholly unrelated issue to be dealt desperately from leftism. Make no mistake was at its most focused during the 19th and early 20th century in part because of, not despite, the rejection of feminism and race activists and their ideas from defining the movement's aims.
Hunter Baker
It does not.
Andrew Mitchell
user I love you.
Tyler Walker
This is going to be the biggest orgy with underage prostitutes since Elagabalus' time.
The shit that Big Pharma pulls is enough to warrant its own Das Kapital, really.