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Bruh porky might overtake sánchez

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oh no, our is losing!!

I’m curious on what would that look like

the entire document is a bit weird:

(61) The term ‘Islamic fundamentalist party’ includes— (A) the Muslim Brotherhood (B) the Islamic State © the Al-Nour Party (D) Hamas (E) Hezbollah (F) Hizb ut Tahrir (G) Boko Haram (H) Al-Shabaab […]

Ah yes, these resistance movements (Hamas, Hezbollah) are totally the same as Daesh (Islamic State), I’m surprised Ansarallah of Yemen wasn’t included…

(F) institute or advocate the economic, international, or governmental doctrines of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Xi Jinping, or any member, official, or revolutionary leader in a Chinese communist party.

I hate them using CCP for this law, but apparently they differentiate ‘chinese communism’ from just… communism, and marxism? It’s funny how they don’t acknowledge anarchists but:

(E) institute or advocate the economic, international, or governmental doctrines of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, or any member, official, or revolutionary leader in a socialist, communist, or Chinese communist party

They differentiate in their definition of Marxism between communist parties and the “chinese communist party”.

(55) The term ‘Chinese communism’ means a movement, revolutionary plan, or societal structure, either beholden to the Chinese government or possessing Chinese communist characteristics where political power is sought or used, through violent or other means, by a collective class or group to— […]

So, if you like Mao or Deng’s theory and wish to use it in the USA, woops, apparently you are the same as someone wanting to give everything to the CPC.

(60) The term ‘Chinese communist party’ includes— (A) the Communist Party of China (B) the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang © the China Democratic League (D) the China National Democratic Construction Association (E) the China Association for Promoting Democracy

[…]

Guess I’m wrong in that it also includes the other parties with the CPC, but why does it matter for a USA Law? I guess it’s good they acknowledge there’s other parties while coping that the CPC is still ‘totalitarian’. They use the term ‘totalitarian’ as the inclusion of anything not covered by communism, socialism or islamic fundamentalism. Though, their definition of socialism and communism is the marxist definition, so anarchists out there… I guess you’re good?

(58) The term ‘communist party’ includes— (A) the Communist Party of the United States, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of such party; (B) the Communist Political Association, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of such association; © the Communist Party of any State, foreign state, or political or geographical subdivision of such foreign state, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of any such party;

[…]

(59) The term ‘socialist party’ includes— (A) the Socialist Party of the United States, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of such party; (B) the Democratic Socialists of America, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of such organization; ‘© the Socialist Party of any State, for eign state, or political or geographical subdivision of such foreign state, or any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of any such party;

[…]

So, the electoralists in the DSA are included, probably because of the Mamdani in the room, but the PSL aren’t named! Though, they are included due to their socialism in the name anyway…

(B) by striking with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, and inserting with— (I) a Chinese communist party, (II) a communist party, (III) a socialist party, (IV) an Islamic fundamentalist party, or (V) or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign,

this is where the ‘totalitarian’ term is used, and yeah that’s all I could find in the document I cared about.

we will our way to victory!

Marcos Jr. is pragmatic in that regard, especially since a lot of Filipinos as well as other imports come from the Middle East, and since US-Israel initiated, it’d be best in the country’s interest to remain silent to not provoke the US, but also start to shift on China to see what the US would do (and get some energy relief as a bonus!) The South China Sea issue has been dragged out for so long, if Marcos Jr. decided to actually negotiate with China, I’d be curious on what would happen, or on how the Filipino populace takes it (anti-US sentiment is rising slowly, but anti-China sentiment is still a bit of the mainstream opinion, but we’ll see)

as always.

more of

whoever maintains hexreplybot NEEDS to update it so it doesn’t use static invidious instances and gets it from a constantly updating source… Elara is apparently the one but she’s been inactive in a while… can someone ask her?

Yeah! Fortunately, anti-Western sentiment is rising here through BAYAN and others’ efforts. I saw a clip of some lib outlet on the ground as a student protester was shouting at the police ‘AMERIKANO BA KAYO HAH? BAKIT HINAHARANGAN NINYO KAMI?!’ which roughly translates to ‘Are you all americans, huh?! Why are you all blocking us?!’ in referring to the US embassy as there was a standoff. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the clip anymore, but it’s the same lib outlet below.

I think there’s been burning of an USian flag too! (Fair Warning: Facebook. I hate major news coming from a foreign platform, but… that’s the situation…) which is cool.

Sometimes I forget Hexbear has a mastodon… or that mastodon even exists… that’s on me, I guess lol.

the guy’s (Duterte) delaying the inevitable, I dunno if he’s actually facing consequences for it but he must be if they’re fighting this hard…?

yeah everyone there (at least I assume…) just forgot why ol’Shinzo Abe was assassinated? it’s weird, since they’re (moonies) also related to the guy who tried to do martial law in SK through the bribery between the moonies leader and the first lady…

is there a reason why they’re (JCP, Reiwa, etc.) performing bad? It it mostly due to suppression or bad organisation?

I hope and pray that some gun person with a real obsession with that second amendment of the USAmericans will do something to the ICE agents breaking down their door.

It will probably happen, because sooner or later these fascists will harass the wrong person and will be met with a barrel to their faces

Will it like, spark something? I dunno. I hope so though.

things are happening, everyone! calm down!

Hm, from some glance into the situation, it seems that there’s a schism between PCV that support and oppose Maduro, and it looks like the main account is controlled by the oppose Maduro side.

I’m wondering what’s happening and how it’s going and whether any side will either separate or win over the other?

they banned big boss?!

anyway, on a serious note, another day, another “israel” L

It’s definitely a bit vague, from what I have read (though I have not been theory-brained in a while, correct me if I am wrong), the electoralism of the NatDems there (Bayan and related) is an interesting case of how you can build ‘communist consciousness’ and organize while not being directly under the boot of NTF-ELCAC and other US-PH initiatives to wipe the CPP-NPA guerillas…

I personally think, that even from a basic understanding, you’d think the two groups (the ‘mass democratic legal orgs’ and the CPP-NPA ) are somewhat at least cooperative but keep it secret because of the mentioned issues, as the legal orgs instead fight through rallies (seen in Nov 30 and Sep 21 protests), news and generally what you can do as a movement while staying legal. Both have the same analyses anyway, but fight differently. Even from the ‘official’ page of the CPP-NPA, they commonly display news that is reported by Bayan, KMU, etc. that relates to workers’ struggles and other issues.

The current idea for the real anti-corruption movement (meaning not liberal nor dutertist/marcos supporter) is a people’s transition council that has been floated around, but for me, is kinda hopeful and a bit optimistic, considering the AFP and PNP probably won’t like a civilian government that can likely threaten corruption that seeps into all aspects, including those enforcement agencies, and unless I missed something, that’s what the current main publicized goals are.

Hopefully so, but ugh, the Philippines is likely to either follow suit or something and I hate it, probably 0.1% people here KNOW of any alternatives (linux, fediverse, etc.) and I’m less sure if the left here can even oppose that and run alternatives, since the whole SIM Registration Act was passed and the opposition was barely there (except for Bayan, of course), and nowadays, you have to register your entire identity to a SIM card… Hopefully the movement has grown since then, but I’m not holding out on anything.

I wonder if the Philippines can even fully participate in whatever Marcos Jr. wants to do with Japan and Taiwan, with the flood control scandal… I think that even though a lot of Filipinos are being propagandized against China (not just because of the South China Sea issue, some actually support the whole western aligned alliance against China) no one wants to fully to go to war, and nobody really trusts the government.

Whether you’re a liberal, leftist or even dutertist, because there are demands, protests and movements. But as long as the ‘anti-corruption movement’ is split between actual dedicated leftists with the goal of changing the government, liberals with vague transparency and accountability goals, and the supporters of duterte and marcos both opposing each other, it’ll be a precarious situation with damage control from the dynasties until something happens to spark more anger (because after the Sep. 21 and Nov. 30 Mega Protests, the movement has been in the ‘maintenance of the fire’ mode).