the western left, especially the elected ones.
There are leftists in elected positions? Kshama Sawant left electoral politics to work on labor movement stuff.
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Hope the resistance is taking notes and learning from the oppressor how to ruin an air base....
If only rules not for-thee-not-me. SMDH.
The bits about war being essentially fundamental to human nature reeks of dumb liberal shit. But I think that's also really just flavor text, and the argument doesn't depend on it.
It seems to be true that the Empire won't offer Russia what is really needed to end the bloodshed. Why should they? The U.S. isn't losing anything by making Ukraine continue to throw people into the meat grinder. It's "losing" weapons, but that's not really a bad thing to it; the capitalists investors in the MIC are making fucking BANK. And short of some kind of existential threat to the Empire, that's what matters to the liberal system.
Yeah, I felt this a the original women's march. I was hopeful about it, and then it was like "Trump tiny penis"...haha funny, or whatever, but are you taking this seriously? And then, wouldn't you know it: march around the one block with signs for a couple hours and then go home, most never to be seen or heard from again.
I love when radical street theater is done well. And Juggalos are generally pretty cool. But I think with this other shit there's a point where the humor stops being subversive and starts kinda doing the opposite. Real humor was always designed to poke at the actual pain. Liberals might occasionally be "haha cute", but still aren't all that funny.
Workin' on it, though. 
(I kinda half have to wonder if the mountains of junk mail we get is an op to make us not care whether the Post Office is abolished, too.)
It's fucking hilarious to see liberals scream at the top of their lungs that Trump is Hitler and constitutes the gravest threat imaginable...and then be upset that he can't keep secrets in the next breath. Oh no: Hitler just told you all his evil plans. Can't have that!
I really, really hate to say it, but maybe these libs should like, read more comic books of something. 
Yeah, I bet a huge portion of knife crimes are committed with fucking katanas.
Why didn't they go for scimitars? Would've been a better match for the current flavor of racism and xenophobia.
Schrödinger's military "defense" compact.
Pretty good article. Especially the conclusion.
- Ken Klippenstein's "Iran War" by Evan Carroll
Spoiler: we're not at war with Iran, and the empire is doing nothing new... yet anyway
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I will focus on three articles as a body of work and argue that they create a false sensationalist narrative that can only exist in a vacuum devoid of context.
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What I see in the above three articles is a desire to conflate being at war, undergoing special preparations for war, and the Empire’s routine bellicose statecraft. This gives readers a near existential-threat which widens the window of acceptable non-war responses, and distracts from other material issues.
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The goal here isn’t to defend Trump. It’s to refocus liberals that I feel would otherwise run around pretending like they’re hippie pacifists, all while defending a genocide in Palestine. If you don’t want a War with Iran, and you want an explicit and principled anti-war peace ticket, you need to look at least as far left as the Green Party. Rest assured, the GOP’s rhetoric is always going to be threats and chest pounding. The Democratic rhetoric is always going to trail the GOP by a single hair.
This USA is in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia both of which view Iran as an existential threat. If The Empire continues to exist in its current form, war will never be off the table and there will always be well maintained plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. A strike which will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands with an invasion that will easily kill a million. At least until a Mullah figures out how to refine enough Uranium to secure the regime.
If you think Trump is the worst president ever, you’re wrong. George W. Bush ran circles around Trump. I remember George W. Bush. When we’re seriously considering a war with Iran, they’ll bring back Section 9528 of No Child Left Behind (2002) or some similar Obama-era nonsense with a nicer veneer. Then we will again have military recruiters at our high school lunch tables. I remember those days. Iran won’t be a cake walk. If and when we get serious, we’ll give high school kids invitations to the imperial meat grinder.
Good stuff on the rhetoric, nuclear doctrine, etc. in the elided sections. But this summarizes the essence of the message, I think.
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The state has never really cared about this. When there's a class message to be sent, it will find excuses to make examples of people. "Fault" is irrelevant, except in the propaganda.