The second point is that we should not allow those that had direct support of this genocide to pretend that they were against it from the start.

I don’t think that’s the meaning of the quote… Kind of the opposite, really

It means the tides will shift, and suddenly it will be socially unacceptable to harass mixed race couples. The people who would have thrown rocks at them decades before will be inviting them over for dinner and cooing over pictures of their grandchildren

It’ll be a faux pas to bring up this change, even

There is no justice for a genocide. There’s no way to even the scales, and people are almost never punished for going along with the group consensus

At best, the killing will stop and a handful of leaders directly responsible will be held to account. Maybe some examples will be made of a few IDF soldiers. Maybe international peacekeepers will be installed in Gaza and the West Bank, there’s a small chance Palestine is granted statehood due to overwhelming international pressure

Maybe, maybe, there will be a congressional inquiry into the part arms manufacturers played here, but nothing will come of it. No one is going to go after Biden or Congress members over their role… They’ll just have always been against it secretly, and everyone will ignore their voting records

I wish we could use something other then discord, like societally

It’s a bad time to make a job switch generally

Flip a coin. If the answer is keeping your job, and you feel devastated, make the change

Otherwise, you’re probably better off holding off for another 6-12 months

That’s what I’ve been saying… There’s no 5d chess going on here. They left an aircraft carrier out for almost a year because they fucking forgot about it

The only plan in place is “how do I profit off destroying the government”. And they’re short sighted even on that simple plan

The purpose of organizing is to create educated, professional socialists that can then organize the rest of the working class, proliferate pro-socialist ideas, and explain core socialist theory, while struggling alongside the working classes in unionizing, protesting, and more.

You’re reading too much praxis. Organizing is the goal - political ambitions can be reliably achieved only by organizing.

Spreading education of socialist theory? Entirely optional. People don’t vote in their best interests even when the topics are clear cut… Why would you expect individuals to properly apply these principles and reach the same conclusions? That’s just not how people work

There’s power in numbers. Humans are driven by community and belonging. Most people need to be told who to vote for, and for that you need to build trust and connection

Organization isn’t a step, it’s the end goal. It’s the mechanism that allows you to change material conditions and resist the corruptive forces that will attempt to destroy what we build. Everything flows from organization

Your approach wasn’t hacky. You don’t control external services, you only control your own system

Accept what you can’t change and change what you can’t accept. Clearly that means you have to make your response handling more robust to handle retries gracefully and accept partial responses to be fleshed out later

Not really… Even if there was political will to hold him to account, he’s got the court giving him blanket immunity

If they had any balls, the Democrats should be promising $7500. At the point we are in politics, they need learn to play the game with the new rules

Or at the very least, they should promise to vote for $5k either way. That wouldn’t even be illegal

We’ve got time, and progressives are winning at all levels of government right now. We’ve got a huge midterm battle coming up too

That’s certainly what will happen if we don’t fight… But things move fast these days. We’ve got more than a year to make sure that doesn’t happen, and who can predict where we’ll be in a year?

Could not imagine a more clear basis for outrage from Americans everywhere than that.

Remember when he tore down part of the white house for essentially no reason? That was a way bigger insult to the nation

Who cares if he steals a little piece of metal? He does that all the time, he loves stealing tokens and trophies. No one with half a brain would ever be confused and believe that he somehow earned the FIFA trophy and congressional medal of Honor, and a purple heart and whatever else he wants to stick on a shelf

It’s embarrassing, for both him and the county, but it’s entirely meaningless. It’s just a piece of metal if you don’t earn it