Ray ☭

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Somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula.

Atheist, Marxist, explorer, Southern expat.

Decriminalize everything.

Solidarity forever.



No war but class war. 



He/Him 🏳️‍🌈

tests are showing wokeness levels at 35%

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Thursday. What a concept.
Electoralism is bogus for any number of reasons, but I do feel bad for any 18-22 year olds for whom this was their first. Everyone deserves to have the illusion of American politics shattered but this was a particularly pathetic and unfun way for it to happen

"If Democrats lose, they'll move right!"

Democrats move right if they win.

Democrats move right if they lose.

It seems to me they want to move right no matter what. This is all just hostage taking: "If we lose, not only will Trump be worse but so will we!"

No shit. Same as it ever was. These people never take responsibility for losing elections. It's always the voters' fault.

Conservative Democrats should move back to the GOP where they want to be and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

@chiamaluca @Radical_EgoCom This " #communism is actually #fascism" ancient #disinformation line is famous for being a well-known classic Fascist smoke screen/red herring strategy to get the attention off of themselves and project their own corrupt actions and natures onto their opposition with the goal of obscuring their own, entirely unacceptable, existence as fascists who espouse delusional beliefs, motivations, and goals which are a fundamental existential threat to all living beings.

The fascist move is to tamper with labels and definitions with the intent of eroding the significance of language (words mean things), thereby aiming to evade accountability by simply pointing fingers and crying wolf (fascists are extremely sensitive emotionally and highly delicate mentally) with the hopes of confusing people in order to pivot the narrative against their opposition by manipulating public opinion through simply lying to people.

If you were really Italian — and actually knew what you pretended to know — you would have already known that.

If you already did know, and are simply pretending to be oblivious for the purposes of making this statement, well then I think the goal of this post has been sufficiently explained in paragraph one, since it served no other purpose than an attempt at misdirection, muddying waters, and crying wolf at specters ("communist" countries can be counted on one hand, meanwhile being fascist — or at the very minimum, ethnic nationalist — never fell out of vogue).

Or is the "fascist communism" somewhere in the room with us right now? I need a laugh react button because that level of perception is a joke.

Good news kids; the guys in charge are working hard on giving those of you who weren't old enough to experience the daily insanity phase of the War on Terror your very own MENA forever war with unclear objectives and no solutions on offer.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-troops-to-israel

"Journalist Séamus Malekafzali argued the U.S. deployment of troops and the THAAD system shows that "the Israelis are clearly planning something for Iran that is going to cause a retaliation they know their own systems are unable to take."

"U.S. troops being deployed to Israel in this matter is seismic," Malekafzali added. "The U.S. military is now inextricably involved in this war, directly, without any illusions of barriers. Netanyahu is as close as he has ever been to his ultimate wish: making the U.S. fight Iran on Israel's behalf."

Up until this point, I've largely shied away from the idea that we were looking at the opening phases of a region-wide MENA war that could metastasize into a full blown global conflict primarily because while the US is happily funding a genocide, it hasn't (openly) committed American troops to the conflict and no matter how aggressively Netanyahu has been lobbying the Biden administration to start a war with Iran on Israel's behalf, the IDF simply isn't capable of fighting that war on its own even with American weapons. This, right here, changes that calculus in a way that does not feel like an accident. By committing US personnel to Israeli defense at the exact same time Israel is gearing up to attack Iran (in retaliation or otherwise) we've now crossed a threshold where a US-led forever war in the Middle East is a very real possibility. I can't predict the future, but assuming we live long enough to write history books about this era of global meltdown, rising fascism, climate crisis, and resource wars, there is a very good chance you could be reading about this as the moment the die for World War III was cast. This is an absolutely bonkers idea and I emphatically reject the proposition that Biden is being led on a leash by Netanyahu and doesn't know what he's doing here; the Pentagon is fully aware of what happens if US troops get killed in an Iranian strike in the middle of a conflict Israel is dead set on prosecuting. It seems after forty plus years of manufacturing consent, our leaders and warpigs are finally ready to touch off the war with Iran they've wanted every single day since the revolution in 1979. And that's terrible news for Americans, and the world at large.

#Imperialism #Oil #Colonialism #Israel #Iran #ForeverWars #Biden #ArmsSales #MENA

Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel | Common Dreams

"Netanyahu is as close as he has ever been to his ultimate wish: making the U.S. fight Iran on Israel's behalf," wrote one journalist.

Common Dreams

A violent, bloody, anti-democratic coup?

Sponsored by the United States of America?!

IN THIS ECONOMY?!?

Looks like regime change is back on the menu, boys.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/lebanon-government-us-hezbollah-sideline-ab73290d

I hope this email finds you unprepared in your house, feel free to use the baseball bat in the closet instead of waiting for the perfect tool to fight back.

@Elleaster In every study since the late 1950s, between 65 to 70 percent of Americans who identify as white also deny the US has a racial class system promoted by law, custom, and commercial interests.

We can't fix a problem a majority deny exists.

– Kuwasi Balagoon, anarchist, member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and proud bisexual.