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Is anyone actually surprised that Natalie Wynn is wrong and a lib? I feel like that was pretty obvious six or seven years ago.

Since at least the founding of Israel (if not before) to be Anti-Zionist is to be anti-genocide. Zionism has manifested itself as a project of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of the Palestinian people. A person cannot be Zionist and anti-genocide. It's really quite simple.

Idealists always say that there's no reasonable path to destroying Israel through mass struggle and then in the same breath say the reasonable goal is actually transforming the genocidal colonial ethnostate into a pluralistic democracy as if that's more attainable.

Inevitably they always feel the same way about the dictatorship of the proletariat too.

That title is bad because the US unions are only unique in their comprador status, not in the repression they've faced. Calling Shawn Fain a radical is cringeworthy too. Otherwise a pretty good article for Jacobin. It's entirely correct too. Most US unions today are basically just massive insurance/pension funds with extremely low risk tolerance.

Revisionists in shambles rn

Open war with Iran would be very bad for the US. It's not a country that can just be invaded the same way the US has dealt with its foes for the last 70 years. A causus belli is moot if there's going to be US fleets at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and a collapse in global oil production. No amount of "they attacked us" is going to justify that conflict to the Wall Street, the international community, or the US public.

For the US, invading Iran is a question of "is there a US government (President) willing to be remembered as the one that oversaw the collapse of the empire?"

Fun labor history tidbit - pre-apprenticeship training programs have their roots in programs created when the building trades in Philadelphia were getting targeted by a radical chapter of the NAACP who were stopping construction demanding black tradesmen be hired on public works projects. The trade unions collaborated with black charity organizations to market these pre-apprenticeship programs specifically to black workers looking to join the trades. Then they still allowed hardly any black workers to actually join the unions.

For real. I don't think electoral wins mean a lot in the grand scheme of things but even if they did it's still an uphill battle from here for Mamdani. Some of these people are acting like it's impossible for a Republican to win the office when only twenty years ago Bloomberg won with a supermajority and Adams is barely even a Democrat (and was a Republican at one point) and he won too.

DSA (and these people on the podcast in particular) are kind of good at winning Democratic primaries. After that everything falls apart though.

So much for changing the game

Buy a portable one

I have a MK. 1. It's fun little gun to shoot. It's extremely accurate.

I just cleaned out the inside of my window AC unit. It would occasionally decide to just start spewing water out the front so I decided to crack it open. Inside was about a centimeter of sludge, a small plant, and a mushroom about the size of a golf ball. It's probably the first time it's ever been cleaned.