Thanks! I’ll give those 2 a read, welcome

Okay, well to go back over this, I think you have something backwards about how to attack reactionary thought. Imperial financial system’s not simply an ideological project that people uphold due to bigotry. It’s more like short-sighted gambling addiction + self-interest. Attacking the ideology by showing people the harm they cause won’t cure them. White supremacy is malleable, it comes in many forms, & similar structures are created wherever capital needs to make minor concessions to minority groups to keep Eurocentrism intact as a mosaic, e.g. Ukrainian supremacy, Jewish supremacy, Japanese + Taiwanese + R.o.K. nationalism, Indonesia’s Islamic conservatives, ISIS + Gulf state monarchies’ fundamentalism fused with libertarianism.

This is why I see generalizations made to western workers about how “communism can improve living conditions [for them]” as potentially harmful. They read this backwards to mean “communism = welfare policies for me before global economic restructuring”—the climate is collapsing bruh. Don’t lie to these people, their lifestyle, chiefly its attachment to a parasitic economic system (not just their behaviors & consumption habits, the waste underlying it) needs to change before they can get the goods.

Brian and Charlie?? Explain and I’ll get thru rest

That would be the economic system that allows western workers to live entirely off an elevated position in the global economy that doesn’t line up with the minimal production they physically control, it’s all financialized and the workers arw as much cushioning as the asset market itself, lending their consumer demand to the pressure on global south countries, it’s like a magnet that keeps them in the dollar system.

This means that demands for healthcare, welfare, better working conditions, minimum wage etc. it all stabilizes the system of extraction US workers are a part of. Pointing the finger at their leaders’ corruption helps them ignore what a “successful + smooth” administration actually means & why Bernie SSandlers etcetera fundamentally have the same economic plan as Trump/Bush/Reagan etc

Note that this isn’t a moral framing saying that American workers don’t deserve this stuff, I’m not even getting into that. What I’m saying is that if Americans think that they can keep asking for it from their leadership, they’re ignoring that what they have to offer is not even something with the great deal of longevity in this world. It’s not just that the USSR scared them enough to start applying welfare policies and stuff like that. It’s that the elevated cost of living literally makes competitive industry in the United States and the rest of the first world impossible without the assistance of these private banks who manage the global trade system (quite violently)

None of those gains have been appreciable for like 35 years this sounds like Obama talk to me. Gains achieved via concessions from the forces securing more extraction are FDR-slop & easily rolled back

They stated it explicitly, anime profile picture, whenever people ask this stuff I wonder if they check what the Iranians say at all: US military presence out of the region, reparations (imagine the court battle over this considering the unbelievable economic damage to Iran), removal of sanctions, Hezbollah’s demands included, & more. This is not a joke, they can launch missiles as far as Romania if needed. Especially relative to the size of their economy & the expense, their military infrastructure is domestic, decentralized, dense/high-impact, often impossible to target until in action. None of that can stop the US from inflicting incredibly self-destructive countervalue strikes on generally important infrastructure & social capital. Huge ass poor country. Why would you waste an interceptor slot in a boat on a tomahawk to blow up a school, if you weren’t following Wehrmacht delusions? They can only reload at port. Get real, CENTCOM.

Might be the US game but it’s the IRGC’s war to end now, not Araghchi, & even he’s been posting real #different too. They haven’t even closed the Gate of Tears. Phase Three 👀

What are some of the organizations helping, just out of curiosity?

Logseq. It works with Markdown or Org. Joplin is fine but I’ve moved away from it for Orgzly Revived + Logseq mobile/Emacs Orgmode + Logseq desktop all integrated with each other to do some stuff Logseq and Orgzly cannot do alone.

You will not find a better option honestly I love my tools. Tried a lot of things and this is one that will grow with you and never overwhelm you if you respect it.

Particularly nice to be able to smoothly turn Logseq/Orgmode stuff into LaTeX stuff and use Emacs Zotero integrations. I can publish professional-level papers and articles of pretty much any kind, from the same system where I work on Minecraft mods and remind myself to do house chores so my wife thinks I am a genius (because I am). I could write an entire textbook with it. It feels like being forced to use a revolver for years, and then switching to an AR platform.

Executing child molestors with missiles is cool and good.

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@[email protected] link is identical aside from new domain 👍