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7 months

The implications of this article are pretty grim. It sounds like biden is going to use title vii to pull funding from colleges who don't stop pro Palestinian protests which means colleges will Crack down on protesters and ask cops to cracks down as well

Biden administration unveils new actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses

Among other actions, the federal government will partner with campus law enforcement agencies to track hate-related threats.

www.nbcnews.com

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In classic neoliberal fashion, biden doesn't seem to want the fed to do the thing he wants done but to cynically use funding and bureaucratic mechanisms to force local and state governments to do it - it is how he forced open schools during the covid waves under his presidency 2

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@projectethos5 @WomenPostingLs The moment she realized her ancestors were raped by the people who kept them in slavery*

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Title VI* Also, don't let the imperialists deter you from fighting back!

JOIN - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO

Freedom Road Socialist Organization has two levels of membership: General Membership and Cadre Membership, with different levels of commitment, rights, and

frso.org

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Internet maoists would've called sankara a chinese compredore... I'm sure they already call him a bunch of names but they would call him this if he was still alive

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@AresRound3 @doodlesdan Then stop crying about people refusing to vote for someone committing a genocide. If you can win without everyone opposed to genocide than do it and shut up

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10 months

How will china recover from having an affordable housing market

Rebecca Choong Wilkins 钟碧琪

@RChoongWilkins

10 months

China’s housing slump is much worse than official data shows. - Government figures = prices for existing homes dropped 6% since August 2021 - Property agents and private data providers = at least 15% drop in prime neighborhoods of cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen

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@SwampCommunist The last time I got polled on my cell phone I laughed and said "I'm a marxist leninist" and the lady said "ok? Um... I'll put you down as very liberal" 🤷

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7 months

Also also watch this amazing interview from last week with the national chair of @uspcn who have been organizing huge and amazing protests in support of the liberation of Palestine!

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11 months

@eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Dude who defends white supremacy has a profile picture of a white supremecist 🤣🤣🤣 tooooo funny!

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4 months

@yesokyeahsure @tshugart3 "The 1 easy trick to save on travel insurance that the US doesn't want you know"

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6 months

Someone on Facebook just accused the "houthis" of committing genocide against the "tutsi" and I don't think I've seen a better representation of how bad the US media has failed at informing people about what is happening re Yemen generally

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1 year

"Marxists shouldn't join any organization because they are all revisionist, manipulative, and just trying to get your money - also dont forget to like and subscribe and consider signing up for patrion page so we can win the revolution one youtube click at a time" 💀

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@Lisasmi03470723 @Pointeh @hrjm69 @freddiesayers @AllisonPearson @BBCNews They'll bomb that too in short order and claim it was a valid target. They've been doing it over and over again.

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8 months

@PolybiusChamp @shane_bauer @lwoodhouse There would be multiple explosions of distinct size. There were no secondary explosions

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7 months

@mageta649 @codet_t It so bizzar that this is true. I had a zionist student tell me that "israelis" view European jews as weak for "allowing the Holocaust to happen to them" once and I was so flabbergasted, I was speechless

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@HenMazzig Because they didn't drug them and that is obvious to anyone not paid to pretend otherwise

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7 months

@crystal4obama @CommunityNotes Yeah and if protesting in support of Palestine is considered anti Semitic and can be used to file a complaint under title VI then it can be used as pretext to pull funding forcing the school to stop protests against genocide. Read what u just wrote in context Hence "implication"

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@N_inaB @TNGoldenBoy @jaysullivancool They pretend to be the victims otherwise. That's the point and exactly how the occupation functions as well.

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@AlexRobotic1 @aseitzwald @shaqbrewster @kailanikm So either support someone who is waging a holocaust against Palestinians or one who supports Muslim bans? Is this really the choice you are laying out there?

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@32digits @eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Measuring a racial groups worthiness to have rights based on how respectfully they struggle for it white supremacy. Glad i could clear that up for you

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@Pretefunkera @What46HasDone

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@NobleQAli You're wrong on this one. It is so completely out of the ordinary that it is itself a feat of note. If he drops 1 more he arguably has an LP dropped in a week

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1 month

More Jewish civilians were kidnapped by the cops last night than by hamas on October 7th.

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6 months

Thinking "israel owns the US government" is not only wrong and based on an anti semetic trope but it also is apologia for the US imperialists and counter revolutionary in where it places the main ire of our fight.

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6 months

@elizabeta_film @Bryainiac @saturns_hyades @blakeflayton He was also indigenous to the region and not a colonialist from Europe or the US. While we are denoting things about him.

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@555_Puddin I see only wrong people have commented so far. To be the first not ridiculous person to comment: China, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, and the DPRK are curerently existing socialist countries.

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4 months

@BadSocialisms @EdbieLigerSmith Most farmers are at least petit bourgeois in the US; the overwhelming majority of Americans are proletariat.

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8 months

As the revolution took shape stalin made the point that the more support the revolution has the less amount of violence will be needed to overthrow the state - he said marxists should avoid fetishizing violence.

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8 months

What's it going to be liberals, do you support Palestine or genocide? You can't pick both.

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23 days

@OfHomoSapiens @jerlevi It is literally legally battery and using physical force is legally self defense. Unwanted touching of your person or anything on your person is battery and you can use reasonable force to defend yourself against it.

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5 months

Reminder that we actively support the victory of one side. We don't oppose war as an abstract or support "peaceful" occupation, exploitation, and oppression. We understand that war can only be abolished through war.

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@OldManTankie101

7 months

Maybe don't support genocide? Good on those students for holding the person lecturing them accountable

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

7 months

The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.

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@Solidarity_Star It's a children's book written by a racist, homophobic, anti communist cop... It is Harry Potter for people who grew up before harry potter

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4 months

@NathanJRobinson They've thrown in the towel. I'm convinced at this point that they don't want or expect to win. The genocide of Palestinians is more important to their interests than winning and they know they need a republican to do it without outright ending their party.

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10 months

@MaryGao So y was poverty so drastically reduced in China while growing in the US and other places? Is ur argument that Chinese people r just more hardworking or ? Seems like an odd argument when the government's policies would appear to he specifically aimed at achieving the outcome

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6 months

@ChannaHelaZiyon @FuzzyPiano1 @bookdellector Like those 3 who were killed waving a white flag recently, right! Oh wait, that was the idf killing civilians like the person said above. 🤷‍♂️

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8 months

A major shout out to all of my mutuals who have organized, attended, or materially supported pro Palestine protesters over the last couple weeks. You're amazing; you're proletariat heroes and comrades; keep fighting! We have a world to win.

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2 months

What frustrates me about ultra leftists isn't that they represent some other path of struggle that I merely don't agree with. It is that they represent NO path forward because for all of their bluster in dismissing the actual work getting done they never DO anything but complain

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@32digits @eanicus @RefuseRaccoon @TheOmniLiberal Well black people still are treated as second class citizens and you are still arguing that their tactics are why just as white supremecists always have. Hence blah blah blah you know what you're doing

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2 months

@geofffhughes Cops are in both pictures - they're just not in uniform in one of them.

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7 months

"Israel isn't committing a genocide!" Then what are they doing? A month in & they've achieved nothing but murdering civilians and destroying civilian infustructure? Using modern guided weapons, they've done nothing but what someone would do if their goal was to commit a genocide

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8 months

Most countries r turning their back to the US in the UN, diplomats r saying relationships w the gs are irrevocablly destroyed, bidens own staff is asking 4 forgiveness 4 working w him. No one believes Israel didn't bomb that hospital

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1 month

@micahinATL I hope the flames are ok

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1 year

I'm looking for about 2500 friends. I'm that old man - tankie... my account got hacked and deleted.

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3 months

@VisionofT @briebriejoy Netanyahu is from Philadelphia. Isn't he American?

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@OldManTankie101

8 months

The idf doesn't believe over a million people can just get up and pack into a small area with already over a million people in it Their order is a sarcastic joke they came up with when some western countries told them to minimize civilian casualties

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@AlexRobotic1 @aseitzwald @shaqbrewster @kailanikm Lmao yikes. And you'll claim they voted against their best interests while admitting one side is COMMITTING A GENOCIDE.

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8 months

I'm sitting in class reading about a hospital being bombed, seeing over the shoulders of my classmates that they're playing video games, while my teacher talks about contract damages and I'm getting kind of freaked out at the juxtaposition of it all

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@elizabeta_film @Bryainiac @saturns_hyades @blakeflayton There are Jewish and Christian Palestinians and they are slaughtered by the occupation along with the Muslim Palestinians. Religion isn't the defining characteristic - colonization is.

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6 months

The only way to believe the "left" is full of purely online, unserious, people is to admit that your only exposure to ML is being online. There are active, principled, and militant ML revolutionaries all over the country doing more work than any1 could reasonably expect.

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1 year

I joined FRSO during the struggle for cpac right before the unity ordinance of ecps was won. Correct analysis and application of the Nat Q was a big part of this historic victory. I wanted to be a part of an org that sets material goals and wins - I've never felt disappointed

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@JoshLeopol38328 @AssalRad They are. This is the US saying they won't abide by it, just like the occupation is, in more acceptable language.

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10 months

A few weeks ago there was discourse about the need to put theory into practice because devoid of practice theory can lead to a blind allies that hinder practical work - the last week I've seen people use theory to make excuses for why they cannot take part in practical work

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7 months

For those who don't get it - the hostage trade is a huge victory for the resistance. It is the deal they demanded weeks ago. It is the product of "israel" achieving nothing in the way of military objectives because of the resilience of the Palestinian people.

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7 months

Statement from the Palestinian leadership of the Alliance in support of Frank Chapman's statement

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8 months

@DanteAtkins @lucehoneychurch But he isn't. That's the point. You just said exactly the point under a post where you pretend you don't

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"🤔I'm starting to think these college kids didn't just go grab the camping gear they had in their garage. What is this, some kind of planned protest tactic and not a spontaneous camping trip?! 😡" - this clown

MiamiBruce🇺🇸🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈

@BruceInMiami

2 months

Something odd about those campus tent encampments. Almost all the tents are identical - same design, same size, same fresh-out-of-the-box appearance. Which suggests that rather than an organic process, some organization has supplied them and organized the event.

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@LakeDaniel11 @NathanJRobinson How does it not?

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I'm considering restarting my youtube channel but then I see any other ML streamer and really don't want to be anywhere near to being in that company.

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8 months

Or if hamas had done nothing. Or if hamas didn't exist. Or if hamas was made up of nothing but clones of Gandhi, mlk, and Mandela. Etc etc etc Complete genocide and ethnic cleansing is and has been the goal of zionism since its inception

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@gobloid3

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israel still would've flattened gaza even if hamas had only killed soldiers

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Since, "what even is class?" Discourse is happening. Here is how the frso program goes over it which i find very helpful. Monopoly capitalists:

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7 months

The Palestinian resistance achieved more military goals in 12 hours on 10/7 using guns you can buy at walmart in texas and gluiders than "israel" has in 5 weeks using the most sophisticated military tech the west has to offer.

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7 months

@ellethescorpio @nypost Wants to press charges because Karen had a bad day dream about someone pulling a knife which never happened 🙄

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2 months

So I guess biden isn't addressing the US tonight. Iran left him speechless

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5 months

@HashashinTag @fatimazsaid By doing any research on it. It is literally not a genocide.

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3 months

@VisionofT @briebriejoy I was born on a cruise ship. Am I from the ocean? You're from the country your parents left to occupy Palestine, clown.

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Call me cynical but it feels like "progressive" politicians are throwing every progressive talking point against the wall all at once because they're all (mostly at least) about to vote for the war funding

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There are no shortcuts to winning over the masses. u can call for a general strike until u're blue in the face, if the workers don't trust u it doesn't matter. u can proclaim urself the king of any kind of struggle you want, but if the masses don't trust you, it doesn't matter

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Anyone telling you to not organize is an agent of reaction; if they're trying to get paid for telling you that, they're at best an opportunist. Join frso and actively struggle along side the masses in a mass org as well.

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@MusaExe @SHAYinsights @spectatorindex They won't. They have a planned economy. This same goofy ass discussion happens every couple years.

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5 months

A contradiction that comes up periodically is the more organized by the masses are behind ML leadership the more disgruntled petit bourgeois "anti authoritarian" elements get with the movement.

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The last and only time a real vanguard situation existed in the US the party fell to white chauvanism and revisionism. Since then, there hasn't a single organization that managed to fuse the struggles under 1 party and very few orgs have really even made that their goal

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@CommunistPolls Workplace democracy. Organized education. A state apparatus run under the dictatorship of the proletariat. You know... all the things anarchists scream they want to abolish. That's the point.

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@ribeachguru @HCTrudo I dont believe you are a real person

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3 months

There is no contradiction between organizers and theorists no matter how hard certain people online which to create that. The best theory is written by people ACTUALLY USING THE THEORY and that really isn't a hard concept to understand.

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The "megaphone" crowd constantly crybullies the "writer" crowd, then acts indignant upon reply, because America, like Israel, is grossly anti-intellectual. That said, most intellectuals, terrified of being called nerds, are too cowardly to push back, so they kinda deserve it.

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You're not more revolutionary than the advanced masses who are in the struggle fighting for their, and all of our, interests just because you've read some books and have a poster of lenin on your wall. Grow a sense of self awareness

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Middle of the road liberals in my family are not pushing back at me at all when I say Biden needs to resign in disgrace which is saying a whole lot about where intermediate liberal voters are

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I lied to a professor about having the flu a few weeks ago to do some organizing stuff and now I think I actually have the flu and need to come up with a different illness to avoid sounding like a liar. Oh the twisted webs we weave

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Irony aside, this is one of the bad faith critiques I've talked about before. Critiques like this aren't worth considering and those who make it should be alienated from the intermediate as the reactionaries they are.

Jon Sneyers 🟣

@jonsneyers

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@LeneenEnjoyer @CommunistPolls I'm not dwelling on the past, I am looking at the present. PSL and FRSO today repeat mistakes of the past, e.g. in the Israel-Palestine conflict they don't make an internationalist class analysis, but have a nationalist pro-Palestine position, ignoring the Israeli working class.

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Actual interaction I had today in a family group chat My lib family member: it is unrealistic to think "israel" will just stop if we stop sending bombs Me: it is more unrealistic to think bombs grow on trees. Long silence* Family member removed themself from the chat*

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@Drkingsbruh I've been thinking this as well. That in and of itself would have been news if they weren't actively trying to paint a "we have all of this under control" narrative.

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7 months

How anyone was able to answer this question is beyond me. Like asking: "Would you trust your hand more in a wood chipper or a blender?" If these are the electorial choices than there is no option but revolution

The Hill

@thehill

7 months

NEW POLL: Voters trust former President Trump over President Biden on Ukraine, Israel, and China

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@Statist_sam @Solidarity_Star @YWNReporter The one party in China is more responsive to the working class of China and more diverse in ideas than both "parties" in the US.

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@elizabeta_film @Bryainiac @saturns_hyades @blakeflayton Again, the jews that were there for thousands of years are the Palestinian jews being bombed along with the Muslim ones. The European and US jews doing the bombing are Europeans and are by defintion settler colonialists

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@OldManTankie101

7 months

The masses won't automatically "catch up" to you. Believing things getting worse in and of itself leads to revolution is romantic liberal hogwash. Marxists believe in purposeful intervention - not spontaneous awakenings

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11 months

@voxdotcom Why would UPS risk doing all this damage to the economy? How selfish can they be? Give the workers what they demand and deserve!

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@OldManTankie101

4 months

I feel like a lot of so called "leftists" would do well to play a single team sport or do just one team activity or have just 1 friend group just once in their lives. The amount of individualism, main character syndrom, that is on the social media left is absurd.

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However, what he didn't do is work to build a toothless organization so afraid of the word violence than they refused to even say it. Trying to limit violence when you're leading an army isn't the same as refusing to build one in some liberal fear of winning the wrong way

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8 months

@UnwokeNation @Lowkey0nline Hughkey Israel released a statement about it today

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@OldManTankie101

7 months

For those in the back: nothing Israel is doing is a response to the October 7th resistance operation. It is a long standing plan to conduct a second nakba by terrorizing Palestinians into leaving the country

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@OldManTankie101

7 months

If a comrade posted exactly this caption with even a losely similarly picture, I'd expect them to get a knock on the door by the feds.

Markwayne Mullin

@SenMullin

7 months

Let’s do it. Anyplace, anytime. @ComfortablySmug

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@FSazanavets @ISLRevenant @2Russophobic4u Then the US, UK, and almost all of Europe were "allied with the nazis" the US had a "mutually beneficial relationship" with the nazis until well into the war. The ussr was one of the only countries to try to build a bloc to combat the nazis and the west unilaterally rejected it

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Idc if biden gets up and punches a picture of Netanyahu before shitting in a toilet made to look like his face. As long as he sends him bombs, gives him intelligence, and gives him political and military cover to murder Palestinians there is no difference between them

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1 year

The opportunists are using an opportunist line to call out opportunists whiling being opportunists and in other news there is a massive irony shortage spreading across the internet

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@OldManTankie101

10 months

The amount of people in the comments of this saying the US response was the best on earth because of ppp loans I extremely telling... Knowing someone who got a ppp loan is like writing "i am AT LEAST petit bourgeois" on your head.

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Last thing I'll say about this before getting back to work: the fact a black led, left led org created to combat racist and political repression that has successfully struggled for and won actual legislation to put power in the hands of the nationally oppressed over the cops...

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@OldManTankie101

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The mass line isn't about dictating demands to the masses - if that were the case the mass line would only be lecturing the masses how we need socialism & rev (which is a really popular and unproductive trot tactic) FROM THE MASSES means starting with the demands of the masses

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If u tremble in righteous anger at the cops & reactionaries arresting, beating, and killing us at every turn then God damnit go out & organize w the masses. Bring that anger and bring ur desire 2 win. Don't let ur rage be made impotent by ultra left or rightist copes. ORGANIZE!

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@OldManTankie101

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@chenweihua @NikkiHaley Israel hasn't proven any of these things. The names they put out and their confirmed casualties are almost entirely military personnel

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