MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]

This is some anti-materialist bullshit. This is how one can interpret a few small parts of much larger movements, but is not at all how reality looks. Crucify me of this aligns with reality in 3 months but I don’t believe this for an instant

Oh I did not mean that he would push the socialism button, just that he will be willing to do some MMT stuff for Russia to stave off the capitalist crisis that’s coming which could hurt the war effort.

The real question is: will Putin ride to the occasion and do something anti-lib to maintain stability in such important times? Because Putin seems to me to be someone who, not out of the good of his heart but out of his interests in the Russian nation, will do some firing of libs and powerful monetary moves to get out of it unscathed.

How would this even look? Russia and China become enemies because they sell to countries which happen to be enemies? I don’t think either Russia or China would really care too much about that with each other. And both would choose each other over India or Pakistan, I think.

Nice! Thank you Iran

How do we know??? I haven’t seen this yet

Neutral Party here, you’re both talking past each other but I also don’t understand what either of you are trying to say hahahaha

Whoops ignore that, in my head I had written something about utilizing radioactive material in other weapons (like the US in Iraq) more generally. Removed the again, because I have no example of a dirty bomb definitively being used

Yeah dirty bombs are a different beast, and I hope nobody ever uses one because it’s absolutely useless and despicable warfare. Airburst nukes are astonishingly destructive and should also never be used, but at least the land is fine to use again within a short period of time

In good news, nuked areas realistically don’t see that much dangerous fallout for too long. This is not to downplay the destruction, but many have this view that it’s similar to nuclear meltdown areas, but that’s just not true at all. It’s like several orders of magnitude less drastic in terms of lasting radiation no matter how you measure.

Would prefer no nukes, of course, as any sane person. But if Israel causes themselves to get nuked through their actions, I’m not gonna be as upset as I’d be if Palestinian land experienced a nuclear meltdown and spread of the material which results from fission.

Entirely in agreement. Given the 2 options, and the complex relations, it’s the more strategically sound course. I hate that that’s true, because if it weren’t I could be more upset at a lack of action. But option 2 has a lower risk now and the more successful that strategy is (the longer they can maintain that course) the lower the risk of BOTH option 1 and option 2 in the future. The direct risk associated with option 1 is very high (war and destruction of China as a possibility) but they are accelerating ahead in a way which is constantly lowering that risk. Option 2, of course, has risks, but those are mostly risks associated with a loss of soft power in the Western Left. Global southern groups are generally more receptive to China’s help than they are to our pleas for China to take over the world order and destroy the US.

For sure! But it makes protecting good leadership easier, I hope. Just gotta think of cool names, like Wool or Bronzer

Going underground has been a successful tactic, where the structure and leadership are opaque but actions are still clear. We also just exist in a world of surveillance which has made the lessons from the Bolsheviks in this case almost irrelevant. Lenin sat on a train with someone hunting him and wasn’t caught. You gotta get 7 surgeries and wait 5 years to possibly pull that trick that he did by just not having known photographs spread far and wide.

The other people behind redsails (Nia, Alice, the Chinese guy who had a football player as his profile picture) are still active and not struggling like Roderic. Idk what that means for why redsails is paused but I’m sure it means something

Maybe it’s terrible advice, but I would say just to explain all that in an email or something (sans any direct attempt to get him back/sans saying anything about ‘love,’ according to circumstances like relationship status and how your mental health would be affected). I’m sure it would be something that, even years later, might be nice to know for himself and it might lift this burden a bit from you. You just need to be candid and explain that you processes the passing of your mother in a way which you regret and likely wasn’t best for you, and that he may have been hurt without this knowledge.

If you’re both single and he replies with something accepting/sympathetic, you can take it from there with asking if you could see each other to explain more or catch up. But there’s a chance he was also hurt and won’t be happy. Idk, it’s rough and I don’t want to sound like I know everything about it. I’ve just experienced multiple times now that telling people things, even an apology 10 years later, usually feels good and people take it well

So many camera transitions and such a long walk. The angle seems to be pointing elsewhere under the hospital, but the distance was obviously longer than expected for the emergency area.

They shot someone in a bedroom near a hospital is about all I can conclude. Such brave occupiers

quote theory??? When??

Has been my phone background before, I can laugh out loud alone (not just exhale, you know) repeating “Rollin Coal in my Barthole” to myself.

Perfect thanks!

Most recent link to the Louis Theroux documentary? Got a lib who needs to see it