They’ve certainly exceeded my expectations so far, and i feel like it’s a really good sign of the changing times. I wish them all the best and hope they continue to become more and more revolutionary.

The capitalist class and the bourgeois state are always waging class war against the workers. Every time they increase your hours, cut your wages, cut your benefits, increase your rent, increase your cost of living, gut your social safety nets, fire you, evict you, outsource your job…that’s class war. What they want is for you to not fight back; they want you to just silently take it like an obedient wage slave.

They want you to remain atomized, alienated and asleep, fighting over scraps against your fellow worker, not congnizant of your shared class interest and disengaged from any form of collective struggle. Blame yourself, blame the poor, blame the immigrant, blame “the other” who is different, just don’t look up to see the real architects of your misery above you. Never question the system and never ask why so many have so little while so few have so much - “the rich are just like you, don’t you know?”.

Yet workers have no choice but to fight the class war because they are always under attack. There will always be class war as long as there is class society, because the interests of the exploited and exploiter classes are irreconcilable and diametrically opposed. There is only one way that the class war can end, and that’s when one class eliminates the other. And since capitalists cannot exist without workers whereas workers can exist just fine without capitalists, there is no question who will be left standing and who will go into the dustbin of history.

Typical socdem L

The US is absolutely cooked:

It’s sad that they were duped but hopefully this experience has taught them a lesson.

Who in Washington doesn’t?

I wish i could be as optimistic but i still think this will go well into next year. Would love to be wrong about this though.

“Steiner will come through any moment now.”

The US and EU did in 2 years what Putin not only couldn’t but didn’t ever really want to do in over 20 years, and Russia is better off for it.

I say vote but vote against the uniparty. Vote only for people who are not only not associated in any way with either side of the uniparty, but who are actively opposed to it.

The most delusional stance is not so much thinking that voting makes a difference (which it barely does, if at all), rather it’s thinking that anyone can ever “change things from the inside”. Once you are in the uniparty system it swallows you up and assimilates you like the Borg.

We’ve seen this over and over again. Even so-called “independents” more often than not end up in the ecosystem of one or the other part of the duopoly, and they justify it by telling themselves it’s only for fundraising purposes or whatever, but that’s just how you become part of the blob.

Have you seen the one where they think Putin taught Trump how to poison Biden before the debate?

All good points. Plus there is precedent, as there has already been a coup against a MAS party government in Bolivia once, so at first glance another coup happening seems very plausible. They (reactionaries, three letter agencies, etc.) have plenty of motive to do one.

I’m not going to take a position on this yet, as i feel like we don’t really have enough information to make an informed judgement.

Until we know more, which hopefully will happen once there is a proper investigation and trial, there are four main possibilities:

1. Evo Morales is correct and this was a political gambit by Arce to shore up his own position
2. He is half right in that it was planned but as a ploy to get traitors inside the military to expose themselves and give the government excuse to purge them (i rate this as unlikely - Arce doesn’t seem like the type for this kind of thing; no one in MAS does)
3. He is wrong but he was misinformed by forces either domestic or foreign trying to drive a further wedge in the party
4. He is wrong and is himself trying to politically maneuver against Arce to make a return as president and leader of the party

Whatever the case may be, this is not a good look to have a figure as respected as Morales make such accusations against a government of his own party. I have to question his strategic judgement on this.

And either way, those in the military who participated, at least at the officer level and above, need to be purged, along with serious prison time for the top brass involved. Because even if it was orchestrated by Arce it is unacceptable that they went along with it.

It’s not “significantly lower” but it is lower. It is correct that when the MoD writes “losses” they are referring to the combined number of sanitary (wounded) and irretrievable (dead) losses. But we know from a lot of reporting that for Ukraine that ratio is not good, they are having significant trouble getting medical help to their frontline troops in time and often they just leave them there. So if you just take half of that number from the MoD you already have a reasonable estimate.

You assume that they systematically over-report but the truth is you don’t know that, and for all we know there could be systematic under-reporting happening to an even greater degree. A lot of Russian commentators have suggested that the MoD really only reports what can be visually verified as a hit, but there is a lot that happens that can’t be directly observed. There are a lot of spotter drones, but not everywhere and seldom for strikes in the rear on logistics and such. And as you say, all of this is before you include losses from non-combat related causes.

So far the MoD numbers have tended to be very reliable, or at least composed according to the best information available to them. Insofar as they have reported on Russian losses they have also tended to agree with the estimates of pro-western organizations like BBC’s Mediazona which while biased at least try to have a somewhat decent methodology.

So yes, take any numbers that the MoD puts out with a grain of salt, but at least they are not the inverse opposite of reality like in the case of the nonsense that Ukraine claims.

My name is Inigo Montoya

Might as well be. Their goals have not changed. Now they are openly admitting it.

Leftists have this really weird tendency sometimes of accusing some of their best allies of being secret feds or cryptofascists. I understand where this paranoia comes from but it’s not healthy and it’s not helpful.

I usually try to keep file sizes of uploads under 1MB and then i have no issues.

There was a post recently also about how Pamphlets was being cringe and was saying some really weird things. I take the same view on them as i do on Redstream: yes they have some bad takes every now and then, and no they are not completely aligned with our views, but they are nonetheless useful as a source of agitprop content. We can take what’s good and discard/criticize the bad.