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100% blacked out tank top and JNCOs.

Technically 0 is fewer than 10

“Tankie” is anti-discourse. It is a thought-terminating cliche that is trotted out because a liberal saw a left critical analysis of geopolitics that challenges their chauvinism and they would like to end the cognitive dissonance.

If you continue to press them, they will usually start using new insults, usually racist ones. They have given up any pretense of having a discussion, now it is just their petty and raw ego lashing out at the person that hurt it. They reach for their tools that help them feel superior.

Jsson Hickel defines it as basically climate justice but for reducing energy use and resource use in production. Ways to reduce energy use include making fewer things or not making unnecessary things, which goes against capitalist growth tendencies, so the name kind of fits. Confusingly, GDP could go up under a “degrowth” of this type.

In my opinion the countries with the political capacity to reduce energy and resource use would fail to actually do do if they basically crashed their economies via lower GDPs that only they take on. It might look good for the world for a few months or years but eventually they’d need to reverse course either due to political pressure or because it becomes a failed state. Realistically, countries will need GDP growth to coincidd with reduced energy use. China is going in the right direction for this by developing production for things like solar and wind and addressing energy efficiency and pollution at its factories. Both are massive challenges that have not been fully overcome by a long shot, but they show how degrowth depends on improvements in production and its forces to be vianle.

The USSR was in the midst of preparing for the invasion that happened. It was the Nazis, not the Soviets, who were surprised in the Eastern Front. At the highest levels of Nazi leadership they thought they would Blitzkrieg and win in 1-2 months. A few weeks in and they began writing letters in awe of Russian production, strategy, and tactics.

The Nazis blitzed across Ukraine with the aid of the landscape and a Red Army that was more than willing to give ground in order to secure better positions rather than get routed by the Blitzkrieg itself, which depended on pushing deep and placing enemy troops in a position to be completely flanked and destroyed or just ignored and useless.

It was this prepared and careful Red Army that defeated the Nazis.

The idea that the USSR was unprepared is a holdover from Kruschev’s bullshitting against Stalin such as his “Secret Speech”.

PS if the USSR had managed to invade Germany despite the countries between them, you would have seen a WWII with the liberal states joining the fascists to destroy the USSR. The liberal states had been hemming and hawing about Nazi expansion because they were moving East, after all, and might take care of the Red Menace for them. They did not expect the Western front.

I watched a YouTube breakdown once that said the real reason you couldn’t make it today is because it parodied Westerns so thoroughly it killed the genre. Audiences don’t even notice some of the jokes anymore and it just doesn’t hit as strongly when there aren’t 9 popular versions of the shows and movies it is parodying at any given moment.

That all sounds awesome.

The most popular college food is always basically fast food dishes popular with kids. Burgers, sub sandwiches, pizza, Americanized Chinese food, that kind of thing. Vegan pizza is usually very different from non-vegan so that is a risky one. But for the others I would wonder if they would be popular if they were jazzed-up with a crowd pleaser.

• The Burger has an onion ring in it.

• It’s a nice Italian sub, I.e. the most popular kind, and there is no non-vegan option.

• The deep-fried chicken option is vegan and comes with a boatload of crispy garlic and onions.

• The egg fried rice uses black salted tofu instead of egg and comes with some egg rolls (college kids lose their shit over egg rolls).

Two more ideas.

You could make some dishes that are “accidentally” vegan. Then you don’t have to put vegan in the name itself at any point. It’s a pomodoro pasta. It’s dal makhani. It’s a nice falafel plate. It’s kimbap. It’s a Thai curry whose protein just happens to be fried tofu.

Finally you could strategically deploy the “plant-based” label because it is less scary to food cowards.

I was going to say the guy can’t get a break but I guess this is actually good news!

Lay on your stomach and relsx all your muscles while taking deep breaths. If anything is sore or painful (and is muscle), massage it.

This can help open up your sinuses.

Other ideas:

• Take a shower. Steam helps.

• As a last resort, one of those sterile netty pot things.

The US has starved hundreds of thousands of kids in Yemen for a decade. The common pattern is not valuing Yemeni lives, even children. Perhaps it was on purpose, perhaps “bad Intel”, it doesn’t really matter because the US doesn’t care in the first place. Common Americans don’t even know Yemen exists.

This is the kind of China callout I can get behind

I believe her but only because the resistance is constantly surprising the IOF. If it were just her statements in isolation it could just be interrogaters lying for their own purposes.

Trade unionism has a rich imperialist history. This is an obstacle we must overcome.

Yes! I think FRSO has the right idea on embedding with UPS workers to make them more militant. It also creates a real grass-touching consciousness among the org members. Logistics workers should be able to flex their muscles, as you mention. At the same time, they lack class consciousness. Getting experience trying to organize and educate such people is the best instruction any communist can get, as it will not go well most of the time and you can use it to build patience, discover more effective approaches, and get a better read on where US workers are at, politically.

The status quo is the liberal solution

Say what you will about Teamsters, they fought this shot at UPS

Critical support to capitalism’s contradictions in the imperial core.

Ah, I had been avoiding that one due to the grsphic content, but I can give it another chance if they use NSFW tsgs. Thanks!

Rabbits eat their own feces as part of a double-digestion process. They don’t eat other animals’ poo.

The primary issue where religiom becomes an issue is when it acts as an agent of state interests against the interests of revolution. It was part of the old guard against liberalism and in favor of colonialism and feudalism and has a many-faced character nowadays, Being leverageable both for recolutiin and against revlolution.

Abstractly, it is not an issue re: revolution. It only becomes relevant in terms of real world on-the-ground impacts that are best resolved by local revolutionaries that ask the right questions and do the right work.