Weird, I didn’t know the US was China’s neighbor. I must be too busy circlejerking to recognize that all land on earth belongs to white people, and “colonialism” is when the dirty orientals try to live on it without paying rent.

Fortunately Ukraine is a free democracy that will act in the best interests of its foreign shareholders and not an authoritarian dictatorship enslaved to the will of the peasants who live there.

He doesn’t need to convince “the Ukrainian people”: they don’t have a say in their government or their participation in the war. He’d need to convince the Nazis running the military, and the imperial oligarchs who just bought up the country’s assets. Both would sooner see him hanged in the street than allow peaceful coexistence.

In her interview with that zionist, she had a lot of opportunity to absolutely shred that bullshit

Sure she could’ve, but I’m sure the logic going on in her head was: “If I lose my cool and come off too aggressive, they’ll just fire me and replace me with someone more explicitly Zionist. If I stay calm and professional I can ask questions that prompt the settler to expose her own bigotry to the audience without looking like I’m trying to do a debate instead of an interview. I’ll get to keep using this platform to reach people and ask questions that others wouldn’t.” The joke is that it didn’t matter at all because in the end they just fired her anyway because they didn’t like a black woman’s face while she was being slandered by a bigot.

Maybe I keep wanting to see a new generation of black panthers, instead of someone who doesn’t want to cross the invisible line. Going against the imperial narrative in US media is hazardous to your career, for sure. There’s room for her if she wants to move left, but the forces of capital won’t let her use their media monopoly to undermine their interests.

There’s ideological room for her on “the left” (the limits there being her own class interest and political education), but lets not pretend there’s room for her to have a career “on the left”. The Panthers didn’t organize a 501c4 to pad their resumes. People like BJG desperately want to believe they can turn meaningfully positive political action into a job that pays the bills, and it always ends up like this. To ideologically move beyond the limits of professional reformism, she’d need to accept that it’s almost never going to come with a financially successful career. You can make a living, and you can be a revolutionary, but you can’t make a living being a revolutionary in a capitalist framework. The contradictions will always make you choose one over the other, and a person’s material conditions will usually end up being the deciding factor.

She’s not especially impressive, I just can’t help but pity her being continually hung out to dry in increasingly degrading ways by the systems she keeps trying to work within. A person in her position could live an easy and comfortable life like any other DC suit passively toeing the liberal line. She burns all her bridges with the DNC to be Sanders’ press secretary after they’ve already fucked over Sanders once before, and Sanders turns around and disowns her when she doesn’t endorse Biden. She can’t get work in DC, so she uses some of her only remaining relationships to try to make a living as a podcaster by attaching herself to a Chapo host at the height of their success. The Chapo host gets outed as an alleged sex pest and ghosts her, with the scandal sinking the podcast. She gets a job as a talking head on a DC tabloid rag’s pivot-to-video internet talkshow where they make her interview a settler colonist promoting an ongoing genocide. Gray stays professional throughout the interview, and they fire her anyway, not for anything she said, but because they didn’t like her alleged facial expression after the settler accused her of being a rape apologist.

Obviously she’s a privileged imperial reformist whose politics are nothing special, there’s just something surreal about how disproportionately her career seems to keep getting worse every time she fails to seig heil with enough enthusiasm. If anything, she’s a living morality play for every DSA-adjascent professional “progressive” reformist: you can do everything “the right way” and this is still the best you can expect.

The United States government is admitting to deliberately promoting the spread of COVID-19.

Seems like this woman’s career has just been getting continuously fucked over ever since she decided to work for Bernie Sanders.

Joe Biden correctly believes that US involvement in the western front was about directly securing future Nazi control of Germany from the Soviet Union once it became clear that no amount of private sector US funding and resources would keep the Nazi leadership in power. Joe Biden again wants to secure a weakened, dependent Nazi state in Ukraine from being liberated by Russia.

I’m sure there were Palestinian civilians that participated in “horrific events” on October 7 like breaking their illegal containment and taking valid prisoners of war from the illegally occupying military and settler militia, and those civilians are heroes who should be internationally celebrated for their restraint.

Disgusting that Georgia’s democratically elected parliament took such antidemocratic action by overruling the French comprador president’s veto. Can’t believe they would restrict free speech and compromise election integrity by requiring financial transparency to uncover foreign election interference. The day a few million Georgians voters have a greater say in Georgian politics than a single American capitalist is the day that democracy in Georgia is truly dead!

France spends every day lamenting their liberation from Hitler.

Let me guess, he’s talking about white birthrates?

Capitalism has been around for a much shorter time than feudalism, and feudalism took hundreds of years to be fully overtaken. Imagine being a 14th century peasant saying “man, it looked like feudalism was declining for a bit there, but I’ve spent my entire life (30 years) waiting for it to collapse and it’s still here, so I guess it must be the natural order after all.”

Putin winning several multiparty popular elections is evidence of totalitarianism. Zelensky criminalizing opposition parties and indefinitely cancelling elections is evidence of democracy.

The United States must protect this cherished free expression from Chinese totalitarianism

Are they not still sending combat troops to Ukraine?

Are people still falling for this lie that all Jews are Zionists? It’s getting really boring.

It’s the official position of the US government. It may soon be considered a hate crime in the US to say that Judaism isn’t Zionism.

I figure that at least some of the U.S. government/bourgeoisie would surrender, at least enough to spare their own lives

Amerikkkan imperialists must have a degree of self-preservation to not want to risk the entire globe when they could scatter away and fight later

There’s no excuse for this level of wishful thinking about global nuclear war. The United States is not going to launch a limited nuclear strike against another nuclear power and then surrender in the hopes that its leadership will be left alive. Nobody on earth would accept a surrender that left those people alive after a nuclear first strike. If the US launches on another nuclear power, the US only survives by completely obliterating every other non-occupied nuclear power before they have a chance to respond. If the US does a nuclear first strike without completely disabling any potential response, every other non-occupied nuclear power in the world would be obligated to immediately unload everything they have on the US. To do anything less would leave a country with no credible deterrent to US attack, and the US would be obligated to exploit that vulnerability to eliminate the threat to its hegemony. A nuclear exchange will either end in the total destruction of the United States, or total US world domination. Either option means uncountable dead and complete global economic and environmental collapse no matter who rules the wasteland. For average people that amounts to quick death or slow death. An improvement in anybody’s current living conditions would not be in the cards.

The personal sense of self-preservation in individual members of the national bourgeoisie or congressional middle men doesn’t matter at all if one senile dipshit with one foot in the grave pushes the button. It doesn’t even matter what a majority of the US ruling class thinks if a few true believers in the right positions with enough hubris and self-delusion decide to gamble that the benefits of winning outweigh the likelihood of retaliation. It’s all or nothing once the first nuke flies. There can be no reconsideration or negotiation after that threshold is crossed. It’s either live by killing the enemy completely, or die taking them with you.

I can’t speak for the Global North, but I find it hard to believe that those launching nuclear weapons would just shoot them everywhere all over the place at civilians, that would be ridiculously stupid, even in an extreme scenario, all but signing the death warrant of the human species, and targeting civilian and food storehouses and infrastructure would be worse than pointless, it would be stupid.

I don’t know what about the history of the United States government would lead you to believe that they wouldn’t prefer total nuclear planetary annihilation to military defeat. “We’re taking it all with us when we go” has been the underlying premise of US policy on climate, economy, and geopolitics for my entire life. The US is not going to discover restraint after they’ve started firing nukes.