Not only that. Companies are now charging people extra for using cards, passing on their processing fees to consumers.

Trots have a history of transitioning into neocons. Christopher Hitchens was a Trot. In fact the “father of neoconservatism” actually started out as a Trot.

The protests for Palestine have also persisted for over two months now, similar to the 2020 George Floyd protests. They may be slowing some, but they are still happening. If anything, people are likely being recruited into actual organizational and educational work and finding sustainable levels of involvement, which while less sexy, is on the whole more crucial than chanting in the street.

Developing a happy outlook isn’t easy. It’s a skill that you need to practice and cultivate over time. Recognize that rage-bait and fascist content is stirring up unproductive emotions in you and that you do have some agency over which thoughts you choose to identify with and give attention to.

Read a little bit about stoicism if you’re unfamiliar with it.

I never said he is?

But we gotta acknowledge that Holocaust denial coming from an Arab leader – one that Marxists generally support – doesn’t exactly help in a time while activists and Arabs are being censored en masse for “antisemitism”

No it’s not. He’s willfully ignoring the mountains of evidence that the Nazis did indeed deliberately target European Jewish people and almost wiped their population out. They targeted other groups, sure. But antisemitic conspiracies were an explicit part of their entire ideology. Yeah, the legacy of the Holocaust is distorted and weaponized by the West, but his statement is one of Holocaust denial.

This is an L. And his take doesn’t help the struggle against Israel or the global reputation of Arabs.

I agree. Defeating Russia was their Nat 20.

It seems like destroying Russia was a really ambitious goal. I doubt the empire managers of the US sincerely thought that would happen.

But by instigating a proxy war with Ukrainian bodies they were able to increase domination over their European vassal states, boost the profits of weapon manufacturers, and establish new narrative control mechanisms on the American populace. These were the actual short-sided victories that the US were aiming for, even though in the long-term this will contribute further to the downfall of the empire. But, you know, it’s all about those marginal gainz baby.

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And after decades of failed adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and now witnessing the US response to Israel’s genocide, hardly anyone here of proper age is gonna be willing to fight and die for the ruling class’s profits. The resistance to a US draft now would be enormous, bigger than with Vietnam. Cities would shut down and burn from riots. The US isn’t going to be winning any major overseas land invasion while also having to go to war with its populace at home all across the country. A draft here would be very very difficult for the ruling class to pull off without a seriously successful propaganda campaign, which is becoming rapidly inconceivable as the citizens continue to wake up.

Just about the only thing that I can see possibly working out in the US’s favor for a draft is if they can pull off a false flag attack of enormous damage.

Trump’s election may have seemed suitable or fitting given the reputation of the average American, but I’d strongly hesitate to call any part of it “democratic.” Maybe within the bounds of the Republican primary, sure, populism succeeded. But he literally did not win the popular vote, while all sorts of media manipulation and voter suppression fuckery and was going on within the Democratic establishment and among minority districts.

I agree with the sentiment though. Trump is a perfect symbolic stand-in for the absolute worst elements of America’s culture.

That analysis seems like a bit of a gamble still. Trump went off empire’s script a few times, but he still escalated the situation in Ukraine, escalated American aggression in Asia, escalated the situation in Palestine, and escalated tensions with Iran. You could be right, but there’s just as likely a chance that he does oversee a further escalation of Amerikkka’s global violence. He’s just still a very suitable scapegoat for the US imperialism’s rapidly waning competence.

For all we know, he may actually be successful at priming the country for a second US war against Mexico now that it’s been officially introduced by other Republicans. We could possibly see the glimpses of what’s currently happening in Gaza on the US’s southern border. God knows, we already have the concentration camps here

Biden and Israel have already dropped enough explosives on Gaza to equal two atomic bombs, and they haven’t stopped.

Reminds me of that photo of all the Japanese politicians physically wrestling for a single pen.

How to edit jargon to make an article suitable for a Western audience:

Change “term” to “reign”

Change “administration” to “regime”

Change “ad campaign” to “propaganda”

And so on.

True. It’ll be interesting to see what revolutionary organization in the US will look like going forward.

Recently there was an Anarchist Spiderman in the latest Spiderverse movie, the Fireflies in Last of Us (while technically “antagonists” they were still very much portrayed as the heroes of the story), Green Arrow, V from V for Vendetta come to mind off the top of my head.

If a self-proclaimed Marxist can only quote European or Western Marxists, they are severely limited in their analyses.

As a USian I’m here for it too.

Yes, it’s going to suck. But it was going to suck hard anyway. At least now the Democrats will be out of the way and unable to siphon anymore revolutionary energy from the masses. It’ll be final boss time from here on out.

Noam Chomsky, George W Bush and Hilary Clinton all have episodes in the same “Masterclass” series