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Cake day: 2022年4月8日

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  • That PSL is authoritarian

    They’re ML.

    backed by a Chinese Maoist billionaire

    Brian Becker is neither Chinese, Maoist, nor a billionaire.

    PSL is riddled with sex abuse scandals

    This is endemic to any dem-cent organization in the US. Idk how bad it has been at PSL but its not like a sex cult.

    The main issue with the PSL is mostly around tactics. They do protests, they do protests well and I haven’t really seen them do much other than protests. They do engage in local political issues but its usually in the form of protests.

    The PSL also hasn’t been very adept at appealing to the working class in the US. While they are leagues better than most on foreign policy, their rhetoric on domestic issues is severely lacking. Issues like student loans, housing, or medical expenses are rare in their literature. Without a concrete domestic program the PSL is an organization set to be on the right side of history but incapable of influencing that history.






  • As this is Yankee excuse hour I’ll chime in with my analysis of why there isn’t much of an antiwar movement (yet):

    1. This was fairly sudden.
    2. The left is maxed out on capacity.

    People contrast the absence of antiwar movement now to the much more mobilized anti-war movement in 2003. People also will contrast the absence of any top-down PR campaign to sell the war in Iran to all the stunts the Bush admin did to justify the 2003 Iraq war. My thesis is those are cause and effect. All that campaigning in 2003 essentially gave anti-war movement enough warning to mobilize in response. If the war drags on an anti-war movement should develop. As usual, the more Americans that return in boxes the faster it will develop.

    I can’t speak for the entirety of the US but in my corner of the US left wing, we just grew rapidly in response to those ICE murders and theres still BDS movements and electoralists planning the next Zorhan. “Caught us in a growth spurt” isn’t much of an excuse but there is existing momentum.

    To top that off, the anti Iraq war movement did diddly shit to stop the war. You can’t publically organize around norfolk electrical substation







  • Trump’s decision to attack Iran are pressure from Saudi Arabia and Israel, and because Trump wants the US to be actively at war so he can suspend the US midterm elections.

    Israeli pressure is a fact. Saudi attitudes have been “let’s not fuck with Iran” for a while now. Pretty sure even UAE and the other gulf states were in the same boat.

    Midterm suspension is on the lesser end liberal fear mongering. That’s a sort of plan Heggeseth would think is clever, but theres no said that’d ever work. We had midterms during the Civil War. The Republicans would balk at that harder than the dems would.

    For example, they bought into the narrative that Venezuela was selling oil to Israel.

    As in before Maduro was arrested?