scrungus [comrade/them]

It seems like they’ve pulled every lever in their power just to kick the can down the road until after the midterms, and now they’re running out of moves. God knows what hardships winter will bring as this continues, let alone what next spring will be like if fertilizer can’t move through the Strait. I fear for whatever escalation the empire will resort to in a flailing attempt to avoid the consequences

I think I’d trust the democratic process behind choosing the next American Idol more than any presidential election

Oh damn, I hadn’t even considered the economic angle on this at all. And the totals are pretty staggering too

Like rabies, once the symptoms are showing it’s much too late to treat and the only option is

South Korean troops were so heavily involved in Vietnam.

I remember an anecdote (from a lecture in university maybe?) about a Vietnamese prisoner falling out of a us helicopter at low height as it was taking off and desperately trying to jump back in so he wouldn’t be left behind in the custody of South Korean troops. Iirc the SK troops were mostly volunteers (to be sent into combat in Vietnam, not necessarily volunteers into the armed forces in general) and had been some of the same units doing a ton of the unsavory anti-communist violence at home and jumped at the chance to do more violence with less scrutiny abroad.

Every aged 15 and up is encouraged to participate in that process, but now a specifically youth consultation is scheduled for next February.

This fucking rules! Imagine a political system that encourages and develops the youths instead of or siccing the police state on them

she described participation in the October exercise as extraordinary, linking the strong turnout to a broader effort to place public decision-making directly in the hands of organized communities rather than distant institutions.

you love to fucking see it

I am sure it will happen this time if you wish for it hard enough, libs. You gotta get one win on the board eventually, right? …right? After decades upon decades, surely this is the time!

“The pendulum will swing back! Any day now!”

Revenuers in shambles, good ol boys hooting and hollering

Thank you very much for this detailed response

Smh, can’t even do parallel construction right these days

Hopefully one day that will contribute heavily to their downfall

There will always be people who will see the atrocities and errors and want to do something about it. At some point, that little spark will hit dry tinder and go off.

Well put

The longer game is not training one class of students, but enabling African schools to train their own.

This reminds me of the quote

Those who really want to help us can give us ploughs, tractors, fertilizers, insecticides, watering cans, drills and dams. That is how we would define food aid.

Anyway let’s manifest some good news this week whatever that even looks like these days

Ansarallah has been kicking ass and taking names pretty consistently lately. That’s where I’m looking for good news, barring the unforeseen and unexpected

Have you considered that being smug and happy about spreading this doomerism might make it more correct? You never know until you try a thousand times

Thanks for doing it, I agree and it’s nice to see your (and others) well thought out responses pushing back on the uninformed dooming.

I only really have the information posted in the newsmega to go on, but consistently the doomers have less information and report their doom with glee. Even if they were all well informed and correct, their constant fucking tone of “I’m right and happy to be so” in the face of the suffering of the Venezuelan people pisses me off