I’m interested to see how the Niger and Mali feel in regards to this decision and if they’re planning to something similar at some point.

I despise liberals for their racism more then anything. I know where I stand with a Trump Supporter or your average European Nazi. They hate Muslims and make it known. They don’t pester about us hating them back, they get that it’s a mutual understanding.

But liberals… they will aay the most fascist shit to you either through dogwhistles or with the mask off, yet get infuriatingly whiney about being confronted. They will support the same shit as the far right or at least refuse to address a core concern which essentially does the same thing, but if I call them bigots they become insufferable.

The smug self importance is significantly more insulting then the far right’s staunch anti-intellucrualism. The person who believes reading a book will turn him gay isn’t exactly boasting about his intellectual superiority. The college educated man-child whose never critically engaged with a piece of political theory beyond an ideologues biography, somehow believes himself to be a the resurrection of Socrates, and that delusion is unacceptably grating.

I’m studying Nuclear Engineering, and it’s a field that is both lovely in its opportunity yet utterly demoralizing to be around people who hold passion for it. My mood can swing quite rapidly depending on the information available to me and I generally dislike holding on for optimistic outcomes, it feels self-important to believe that things can work out without strife, so I generally just attempt to do my best and hope that results in getting through whatever struggle is put before me.

It’s worked so far. Though I still do ponder what needs to be done in my portion if the empire to savatoge its capability at destroying the world. I’m better about methodical action over innovative new forms of struggle, but I’m trying to improve the latter.

But I thought…

This goes harder than it should

I had an 8th grade history teacher who called me captain cr*pple the first day of class when I walked in on crutches…

Ironically I actually quite enjoyed his class and still have a deep live for learning history. If I wasn’t concerned with financial viability and helping my parents after I finish my studies I’d probably be a history major.

The trajectory of life really is quite a funny thing when you look back on it.

I’ve yet to see a reason to not just support magneto over the Professor X. Perhaps I’m just ignorant of comics, but Matneto seems to have a point that the threat to mutantkind is humanity, and mutants have a right to self defense.

Thank you for pointing out my excessive pessimism. I often forget the whole “optimism of the soul” portion of the quote which is ever so important. I think my proximity to my field of study has definitely shaped my perception of Nuclear Armageddon as an ever increasing likelihood, when I ought to hold a bit more trust in its avoidance.

I should also mention that these bouts of frustration don’t deter my support for the PRC, or diminish my thoughts on the eventual victory of the people, but they are still concerns I voice from time to time due to fear of nuclear war. I’ve been particularly unenthused since the fall of Syria and am still yet to process all my greif on the matter. Though ironically enough I think it’s been improved slightly by a well-formatted scientific article concerning the core mechanics of a Pebble Bed Reactor designed at Tsinghua University I read about a week ago. It was published a couple years ago, but I was impressed by it and it’s somewhat made me feel more firm in the People’s Republic’s capabilities.

Apologies if that seems odd, or if my pessimism crossed the threshold that is acceptable.

I fear we are going to see the limits that China’s non-intrusive strategy can be stretched to. I don’t see the west retreating unless forced back, they can’t be coerced or convinced, not while they can lash out without consequence.

At some point responsible and principled non-intervention becomes irresponsible and demoralizing passivity. If the US ramps up their unhinged brutality on the third world, more than they currently at least, and China does nothing but sit back, whom is the global south and their revolutionaries supposed to turn to for security?

China is not the USSR, I understand that. I also understand that the USSR’s foreign expenditures could be argued as one if the primary reasons for decline. However, it is also through those efforts that countries like Vietnam have survived to this day to thrive. It was the CPC and Mao’s heroism in Korea that halted complete imperialist control over the Korean peninsula.

I don’t want the 2nd cold war lost in a nuclear firestorm because the premier socialist power didn’t put its foot down against the world’s imperialist hedgemon until it’s too late.

I trust the CPC but I must admit I find it frustrating.

Just went on a mini study tour and had no idea that the first nuclear plant was built in the USSR. Of course my nuclear engineering education failed to mention that, only discussing the atom bomb and the EBR-1.

The Soveits get mocked at any mention and it grates me endlessly because I’ve not had the time to dive into how my field was used in the USSR. If anyone had resources for me to start I’d appreciate it. Research articles are welcome, I’d like to see if there’s any unique designs I’ve yet to see.

I hope that the AES can be a bastion of anti-imperialism and prosperity on the African continent, and that it eventually grows into a United African Federation.

Sankara was extremely accomplished for the relatively short time he had in power, his biggest mistake was underestimating the imperialists, which it seems Traoré has learned from.

I personally believe that the Sahel states will become a much larger player within the anti-imperialist movement then anyone expects. Within a decade I believe people in the west will be blindsided by their rise, similar to China the last two decades.

DSA is almost entirely based on your local chapter and trying to ascribe a somewhat cohesive understanding of them from a national level is, in my opinion, not going to yeild accurate or useful results.

There are some chapters where the leadership of DSA is extremely socdem and liberal while the membership are commited Marxists, or at least anti-imperialist and nominally pro-AES. There are other chapters where it’s the reverse, and the leadership is a bunch of commited anti-imperialists whom are trying their damnest to sheperad baby leftists socdems into actual revolutionary politics but are constrained by the majority white leftist community. There’s also chapters where the leadership and membership are quite consistent in their views, be it socdem liberalism or commited Marxists who just needed an organization structure to begin doing actions and found it through the DSA.

This doesn’t take into account the conflicts between DSA and YDSA which is its own category of discussion.

I will say that according to a Comrade of mine who I know is within my local DSA, there’s currently a power struggle within the organization itself happening mainly through the local branches. The struggle is between the anti-imperialist faction who often find themselves amiable towards MLs and other Marxists due to the shared internationalist line, and the socdem liberal faction who focuses more of their attention on electoralism.

Right now, the latter faction seems to have institutional power of a certain degree, boasting socdem representatives within the US government, but they are increasingly at odds with the organization itself which seems to be becomimg more and more influenced by the former faction. I personally think that the socdems will eventually be overwhelmed and break into various splits while the DSA eventually comes under the control of the anti-imperialist faction.

This is also something I would suggest you don’t just take my word for it, as I mentioned prior, local chapters are the most important factor for determining how the DSA operates at a level that matters.

I usually make the joke that Arizona is just unclaimed California territory.

I make California independence jokes a lot as a meme in my community and with my family but if I was being entirely serious, I think it’s an entirely impossible endeavor, especially at the moment.

The primary concern is water before anything else, and I’d say hat unless a Calexit platform aggressively and thoughtfully proposed a solution for the water issue, the concept is dead on arrival.

I’d also argue that it’s still settler colonial in nature, and without a commited anti-colonial and anti-imperialist line/faction within the movement it won’t really differ much from how the US operates.

Perhaps if the water issue was addressed along with strong west coast unity it would lead somewhere but I regard the concept as pretty silly at the moment.

Studying nuclear science, and this is genuinely my biggest fear the world. I can say at least my crop of peers (even if I’m not always fond if their opinions) are pretty staunchly on the “Nuclear war is the worst thing that could ever occur and we must do everything in our power to halt it from occurring.”

My mother is optimistic about my generation, perhaps being born in the core has given me a pessimism she doesn’t share, but I see the reality where our world is wiped out in a nuclear hellfire to be scarily more possible every day.

All it takes is the truama from collapsing empire to delude US citizens enough into taking the literal nuclear option. I guess it’s a race of whatever snaps first, an unmanageable portion of the American psyches or the faith in capitalism.

I’m able to respect S4A for the fact that the audiobook library he’s cultivated is absurdly useful for myself and any new Marxist who prefers the audio format. However he’s easily one if the most baffling and insufferable individuals when purely discussing his opinions.

I’ll definitely say that it’s generational. I organize with Sunnis pretty often in regards to Palestine at our university, and we have no conflicts. In fact that’s the main reason I’m still hopeful for the future, because I’ve met some of the best people in my life during this organizing period.

It’s pretty commonly used against Shia, so we’ve made quite the joke out of the phrase. The fall of Syria has undeniably hardened my heart against a few of my “brothers” in faith. Many of whom charecterize Iran as on par with or worse than Israel or the US.

I truly hate Sectarianism, and do my best to drown it with optimism, however at some point I must admit, that it would be a denial of reality to not recognize that many Sunnis will never reconize a Shia as an ally no matter what cause we champion or movement we help build.

Who is it that is most substantial in their defense of Palestine, it’s the Zaydi Shia Houthis along with the Ithna Ashari Hezboallah and Iran. Yet many Sunnis still see Shiite as conniving or warn other Arabs of dangerous Iranian influence.

It’s tiring. I try not to focus on it, but it’s very difficult after noticing it my whole life, and being told it’s always been this way during my parents life. I know that many of these things have their roots in imperialist intervention but that doesn’t make the Chauvinism leveled against us any less real.

Translation: Fuck over the desperate by removing any remaining welfare policies and exterminate Shiites because those dirty mushrik are a more dangerous and nefarious threat then Zionists.

Shia, Twelver, that’s why I’m particularly worried. They’ve said so far that nothing has happened so far and that they are safe, but they’re in Damascus which I’d assume the new government doesn’t want to create instability in. Still I can unfortunately see things going south years down the line if HTS manages to completely dismantle the remaining Baathist resistance or Kurdish controlled territory.