criminal regimes like Venezuela, Iran, and the DPRK, which are countries that haven’t invaded anyone, have zero overseas military bases, have zero vassal nations, and all three of which maintain no diplomacy with the Zionist entity

if that’s your criteria for being a garbage criminal regime, what does that make something like the USA or UK? Literal demons? Evil itself?

Janeway is a perpetrator of imperialist genocide and furthermore needlessly executed a beloved crewmember (Tuvix). I won’t abide her inclusion next to the esteemed Sisko and Picard, who are both champions of diplomacy and space stuff.

I’d want a supplemental study on the reading level of ESL folk in their first language. Furthermore the gauge of literacy isn’t simply knowing how to pronounce words or the alphabet or whatever, it’s a measure of broader skills like the ability to retain and parse information. Reading a graph is also part of general literacy. Someone who could read every word of the first page of a book out loud, but then they’re unable to summarize it, or unable to answer questions or make a response would be someone functionally illiterate.

Someone who’s ESL and has a hard time parsing English, but still able to retain information they read in English, is far more literate than a native English speaking American who reads like a 10 year old child.

The average American barely has any idea there’s a war even happening or who the president is. Half the people I know think Biden is still president. Even people who do know there’s a war wouldn’t be able to find Iran on a map. Everything about our government and everything it does might as well be a TV show to my fellow Americans. They see it as fiction that doesn’t impact our lives and most people think it’s extremely boring so they tune it out.

People are crashing out but for different but associated reasons. Everyone’s broke, no one can afford healthcare, there’s a mass shooting every 3 days. Everyone’s tired and the alienation is so thick that people are all pointing in different directions to where they think the problem is. People are getting more conspiracy brained and twitchy.

Do different blood types taste different? Since you’re a bloodsucker you might know

Just now? Am I somehow posting in the 1960s?

This is incredibly charming

Looking back at it I find the whole “fight” between anarchism and marxism-leninism to be very silly, but since I think that China and Hamas are actually doing useful work, this automatically makes me incompatible with many anarchists.

Yeah thus should be the main crux of things. There haven’t been real conflicts between anarchists and ML organizations outside of internet posting for decades now. The closest thing I can thing is during the Burkina-Faso revolution, some of the trade unions that called themselves anarcho-syndicalists were also allying themselves with the French government.

There’s just no real conflict otherwise. I’ve done organizations in both anarchist and ML orgs and it’s 99% identical. Maybe ML groups are more willing to endorse someone in an electoral race, maybe an anarchist group will be more willing to do something like petty theft from a grocery store or squatting. That’s been the only real difference I’ve noticed in tactics is that an ML group will usually try to stay above board and anarchist groups will commit crimes if necessary.

Otherwise there was never any real conflict. The people who comprised these movements came from largely identical political interests.

I became a Marxist in like 2003. I wish there had been podcasts and stuff back then. The best we had were just IRC channels full of very elderly Trots calling one another revisionists.

Visibly trans means I don’t pass as cis. Anyone who looks at me knows that I’m trans. That’s OK with me though since I’m non-binary and don’t wish to pass as any particular gender. But it does mean that I’m occasionally in situations where a bigot wants to give me dirty looks, or try to call me a slur, stuff like that.

Personally I’m doing great and know exactly what my style is and who I am. I’m at peace with myself and I have a bunch of interests and artistic pursuits. Which I believe is a big reason for why I know who I regard as hostile. Anyone identifying as an open republican, conservative, right wing, etc. They’re all either an idiot or someone who should get lined up against a wall and shot. If they’re simply an idiot then yeah, put them in re-education and scrub their brain clean of everything rotting it. I do not have sympathy for adults openly identifying themselves as fascists or transphobes or whatever. They’re utter scum who shouldn’t feel the confidence to air their vile hatred in public. They should feel a permanent fear of public consequences.

This is why I own guns by the way. I do not feel comfortable sharing a country with this scum. I don’t feel safe existing in a country where any random person could be a reactionary bigot who also has easy access to firearms. So I simply don’t have sympathy for people who I might potentially have to shoot in self-defense because they thought I look too gay or whatever. I don’t have sympathy for people who don’t believe I should exist.

I’m visibly trans so like I wouldn’t feel comfortable or safe sharing a room with these people unless I were armed. You can talk with them all you like but nothing would be lost if these reactionaries were tossed down a mineshaft. They’re slime to me. I don’t blame them for anything, they’re not at the levers of government power or the machinations of capital. I also don’t care who they vote for since America is operated by the whims of imperialism rather than public input. That doesn’t change my personal feelings in thinking every single person there should be ripped apart by wild dogs.

Every single person in this article is a complete fool or a deranged maniac who should be thrown in a big hole. None of them have opinions worth considering for more than a second.

Kim Kitsuragi

I also want to point out that US English used by Latinos (i.e. Spanglish and Chicano English) is completely separated from Spanish terms used by people who aren’t Latino

Maybe? I’m a little more cynical and think it might have to do more with how Spanish is associated with cowboys and western movies in broader American culture, rather than any sort of perception of Latinos as a whole, or any sort of genuine consideration of Latinos. Like if a white American is saying words like hombre or amigo, they’re gonna seem like they’re affecting a sort of light-hearted cowboy character. They’re gonna sound like Matthew McConaughey or something lol. I haven’t done much research into this topic and can only say what my anecdotal experiences are.

You could be right though but there are a lot of different stereotypes regarding Latinos in American culture. There’s some that regard Latinos as very genial and friendly, prone to big parties and celebrations but then there are other stereotypes that regard Latinos as very stern and focused on work and religion. I should also mention that in America stereotypes about Latinos are mostly stereotypes about Mexicans specifically that get transferred over to Latinos as a whole because a lot of Americans don’t even bother to know the distinction

“Mi casa es su casa” is pretty common, along with words associated with food. People will also commonly say stuff like no problemo. Spanish phrases used in English outside of normal interaction between Latinos is usually something that makes the situation whimsical. I don’t know why Spanish has that reputation, but that’s how it’s used. People say Spanish words to sound silly or come off as lighthearted. Like rather than “see ya later” someone might say “adiós amigo” to seem playful. Spanish might have this reputation because of things like cowboy movies?

There are also loan words from Spanish that maybe most Americans don’t even realize are loan words. Like buckaroo (vaquero), macho, guerilla, embargo, rodeo, armada, canyon, etc.

I still think the strategy is the same regardless of who it is. Ask them what is to be done? Do they want police kicking in the doors of apartment buildings searching for immigrants? Make them confront the reality of what they want.

If any of my family members said something heinous and racist my fist response would probably be “shut the fuck up.” So I have to commend the fact you at least have patience with your family.

It’s not really productive to talk with reactionaries who are clearly just racist dipshits and arguing in bad faith. I try to always remember the Trotsky quote

The tactical, or if you will, “technical,” task was quite simple — grab every fascist or every isolated group of fascists by their collars, acquaint them with the pavement a few times, strip them of their fascist insignia and documents, and without carrying things any further, leave them with their fright and a few good black and blue marks.

But if you have to talk with them I’ve found the best way isn’t to talk with them on equal terms, but rather, aggressively ask what they truly want. So they don’t want Muslims or immigrants? Ask them what they’re prepared to do about it. What’s the solution then? You want to make Islam illegal? Send police to Muslim households to kick in the door? Ripping the hijabs off children?

Make reactionaries confront reality instead of retreating to abstract grievances. Much of their rhetorical power comes from their knowledge of where the socially acceptable line is and how to avoid going too far. Except they’re always thinking about what they want, they know they can’t outright say they want to exterminate immigrants or trans people or whatever. So they hide behind rhetoric until they’ve gained power.

I say this because the only rhetorical tactic I’ve ever observed that works to change a reactionary’s mind or at least makes them shup up for a while is insult, embarrassment, and making them say heinous things they themselves may not even realize they believe in. Because of my earlier point, reactionaries know where the line of social acceptability is. Individually though maybe they haven’t decided to cross that line yet, so I say drag them over. Like if I ever heard them say the thing about Muslim kids wearing a hijab the only answer to that is asking if they want police to rip a hijab off a child’s head. Make a reactionary actually explain what they want.

The genocide is not over until every Palestinian lives free and the Zionists have failed إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ

I’ll continue donating as I’m able. I’ll feel so much shame for being American until the day I die. I’m very sorry for what my evil country has done to the people of Palestine

Hey hey this is innacurate to link us to Stalin

we work for George Soros too