ICE has been loosening requirements for new recruits, which means they perceive a shortage in manpower. The question is whether they’re trying to recruit more people in anticipation of greater resistance or if they’re being desperate because they can’t handle the resistance that’s already on the ground.

I see the unwillingness or inability to exert military power as a better indicator that they’re not willing to challenge the current hegemon than having poor grasps of MMT economics. Every single one of your economists can be Hudson-pilled, but if no one is willing to militarily stand up to the hegemon, then those Hudson-pilled economists will be quietly sidelined anyways since actually implementing those Hudson-pilled economic and fiscal policies will invite direct response from the hegemon. After all, the US is not going to passively stand there if they can no longer get their free lunch from the rest of the world.

Your average Gamefaqs guide from 2005 wouldn’t have ASCII titles this sloppy.

The pessimistic take I see here all the time is that India is an American stooge and that therefore BRICS is fake.

People forget that India tried to liquidate a bunch of Sikh separatists on US soil and actually did liquidate Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. So much for being a US puppet.

Another counterrevolutionary plot against the Bolivarian Revolution defeated:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/rising-anti-terrorism-operation/

The attack, as revealed by Venezuela’s Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, was scheduled for 11:32 a.m. on Sunday, a time of peak pedestrian and vehicular activity. The explosive device consisted of three kilograms of TNT (trinitrotoluene), a high-power explosive, placed inside a multicolored backpack designed to blend in.

What caught authorities’ attention was the technical sophistication of the detonation method: the device was set to be triggered remotely via an analog mobile phone, a system that avoids digital networks and reduces the risk of immediate tracking. This type of mechanism is typical of paramilitary or terrorist operations, indicating advanced technical planning.

When will vooters learn that voting is the least important part of democratic life?

The buffalo is Khamas, the buffalo is a seeseepee spy, the buffalo works for Putler, etc

Who?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater

The nukeless: We must abolish nukes because they’re WMDs and a threat to humanity.

The nuked-up: So anyways, we stopped a gas well fire by nuking it.

BynarsAreOk is a contrarian first and foremost. They would probably start whining about anarkiddies being Western chauvinists falling for CIA color revolutions if they were actually on Db0. The extent in which half of their comment history is about China is contrarianism because Hexbear is aggressively pro-China. If Hexbear was as aggressively pro-Russia as it were pro-China, BynarsAreOk’s comment history would be filled with whining about how Putin spits on the grave of Lenin or how the RF completely rides on the coattails of the SU instead of whining about Xi and the CPC. Notice that BynarsAreOk does whine about Putin spitting on the grave of Lenin and the RF completely riding on the coattails of the SU, but it’s not to the extent of their China whining since Hexbear isn’t really aggressively pro-Russia or really pro-Russia at all.

Look how they massacred my boy.

Yet another failed policy by the DPP.

The 21st century leftists cannot imagine a future without electoralism

One of the truly blessed things about the Chinese revolution is that electoralism and nonviolence have never taken up root whatsoever. Throughout the entirety of the Century of Humiliation, every single Chinese person or org of note understood that the only way to overthrow the old regime or kick out the imperialist was through violence. None of that voting or nonviolence bullshit that plagued every other liberatory movement in existence. There was no Bloody Sunday or no March of Return with Chinese characteristics because Chinese people weren’t stupid enough to think nonviolence would somehow work. Nor was there any serious attempt to solve problems by voting. Chinese people’s attempt at combating imperialism was forming ad hoc bands of dudes with primitive rifles and melee weapons. They did not succeed, but at least they actually tried something instead of voting or nonviolence. Even the May Fourth movement, characterized as an intellectual movement, was riotous where people burned down residences.

Just another BynarsAreOk post to make it be about China somehow.

I personally think most election posts aren’t meaningful because most elections aren’t meaningful in the grand scheme of things. I mostly skim over election posts unless they’re about countries I have little knowledge of. The only noteworthy one is how MAS split between Morales and Arce because the speed in which support of MAS collapsed overnight when Morales disassociated himself from the party is yet another indictment against electoralism. Morales is ultimately supported by a mass Indigenous movement while MAS went from being a vanguard party of sorts to yet another bourgeois party.

Everything else like the DPP floundering in lawfare or Corbyn starting a new party isn’t very meaningful in the grand scheme of things. To use my two examples, there isn’t a real path forward for Taiwanese separatism anyways and Corbyn’s party will most likely not succeed in the end nor be as impactful as Palestine Action. The recent French election where so many people here were hyping up the results amounted to a wet fart since Macron didn’t have to step down.

I would say that the original slogan was not even “abolish the police,” but “fuck the police.” The very original chant, the ones people who burned down that precinct were chanting and tagging, were “fuck the police” and “fuck 12.” “Abolish the police” is itself a more polite and sanitized version of “fuck the police.” Nobody was spraying “abolish the police” but there were plenty of F12 and FtP tags.

The 2020 George Floyd uprising showed everyone who was paying attention that most major cities are de facto controlled by the police. I remember there was one police force (NYPD?) who straight up kidnapped the mayor’s kid because the mayor wasn’t saying the police needed to crack skulls. There was another city (Chicago or LA?) where one councilmember wanted to investigate their police force, so the sheriff simply sicced his goons on them. The police used some court-ordered excuse to dump the councilmember’s shit all over the sidewalk and they kept on doing that over and over until the councilmember took the hint and resigned.

If Zohran isn’t serious about confronting and dismantling their cartel, then he’s going to get destroyed and dog walked

Let’s be frank. He will not embark on this political project for the very simple reason that he has no military behind him, not even some socialist paramilitary. Some genuine socialist being elected to mayor of the center of capital (pop quiz: what city is Wall Street located in) is always a pipe dream. The far more likely possibility is that he’s either an opportunist/sell-out/controlled op or he’ll do whatever the NYPD tells him to do after being threatened with his life. There’s basically zero political cost if the NYPD decides to simply kill him and dump his body in a shallow ditch.

All the PRC has to do is begin holding those naval drills as soon as components for nuclear weapons start arriving in Taiwan. Those naval drills are basically short naval blockades since fuel carriers can’t enter Taiwan while the drills are happening, and Taiwan is almost completely reliant on imported fossil fuels.

The latest attempt attempt at lawfare by the DPP failed miserably. Trump also snubbed Lai by refusing to allow Lai to stop at NYC. Perhaps those two are related to that.