thats nuts, if they lived in their own home 6k a month is like a full time nurse… 16k a month is like a full time nurse practitioner at home maybe even also a home health aid depending on the market you are in … I looked it up and Geriatricians (doctors specializing in the elderly make between 220k and 320k a year on average… 16k is just shy of the bottom end of that at 192k a year)
I agree with using the school and being a student as an excuse. Take advantage of it. Most colleges have a gym and a library which can give you time away from home and help you recharge. You can nap in library (a straight 45 minutes will do wonders if it is nearly every day, or even take a caffine nap (which is slamming a cup of coffee and sleeping for 20 to replenish adenosine)) or you can make some more friends who can help you out, even potentially give you a place to crash if things get worse and you become close enough. Just tell your mom you need to study and point to the fact that she is making you go to school so you are making it a priority. Typically a school gym wont let non-students or non-alumni in, so you get a space your mom can’t even get to you.
Isn’t China uniquely suited to preserve their oil and gas reserves by pumping out more green tech?
So, earlier Trump had said they were 4 weeks away from an oil crisis… but did the MoU buy time for them even? Is there a point where the US will struggle to maintain fuel for its military campaign?
I have a hard time believing there isn’t a broader US strategy at work that has some kind of terrible calculus, to be honest. and I am worried that USIS will get one of Iran’s other neighbors embroiled in conflict or the US will cow NATO into joining, but in other ways that seems far fetched. It could be they are counting on high oil prices to benefit them without regard to the rest of the economy, but that seems like a bad idea for their own domestic basis. I don’t really understand the calculus other than gross US incompetence. Like, they are so fervent in their belief of an alternative reality that it really seems like that can’t be the case. Why decide to do all of this now, regardless?
He is omitting that the congress elected to create the bylaw committee, that he was a part of it, and that he participated but refused to put forward his real position and refused to offer open criticism. (ostensibly because he would be marginalized, which seems moot now that he marginalized himself)
edit: it also wasn’t to preclude discussion, or his opinions. it was because the bylaw process was getting unwieldy as the party grew, as any member can put forward a change in language
The criticisms of the lack of national education are overblown imo. On top of being a stretch (its fair that a lot less has come through the pipeline in the past year, but there has also been a lot of calls to action that sideline stuff like that) it contradicts the other criticism of base building. A lot of the membership have participated in and utilized the TPF classes and education programs- but this also means that a lot of national education for cadre is accessible to people outside of the party. This contributes to base building and building socialist consciousness for party-adjacent spaces. It also brings perspectives from the movement outside the party- like hosting Gerald Horne. Some classes even have had outside groups independently (or in coordination with party branches) host watch parties and discussion groups around those materials. On top of TPF educational stuff, they literally completely revamped the cadre only internal education programs (like 18 classes) only a few years ago-
Outside of that, I know from experience that branch formations can and do build their own education committees with their own materials. It is just that that can also be a lot of work for smaller branches that ends up getting sidelined by practical work and local organizing… but too much emphasis on education work can make your branch into a book club… It makes a to. of sense to rely on a level of centralization, like that is a strength of a communist party… A lot of the national educational material, directly through the party or put together by TPF, is a godsend to struggling branches that want to have more collective education on a consistent basis. The criticism Walter is giving is simply because the faction he was a part of was giving a secret set of classes that went against the party’s actual politics and are based on the work of Jane McAlvaney… because they have become jaded and inflicted with radical liberal politics that reject lenin and participation in the workers movement
if Russia was first able to capture Kupyansk, Lyman, Kostiantynivka, Siversk, Vovchansk, and Pokrovsk
which have they taken or are currently taking? I stopped following the maps a year or two ago because it wasn’t moving much
Other countries like African AES, Cuba, Venezuela, do not have the necessary choke point and/or ability to exercise control of it and/or ability to withstand strategic US air campaign AND impose a too high to be acceptable cost for a ground invasion.
I have been wondering about whether this holds true for Cuba. Cuba doesn’t appear to have the extensive underground network that Iran does, but even a very modest drone & missile program with a relatively short range could put a huge chunk of the US petrochemical industry and infrastructure (including a big portion of the strategic petroleum reserve) in its range, right? There is a large amount of that stuff in the gulf coast or the gulf area… I don’t think cuba has put the same level of investment in this kind of stuff so far, I don’t think they have had an interest in provoking a war or spending a large chunk of their limited resources on weapons- but honestly I don’t even know if that is true. I think they just might lack the natural resources to create an indefinite underground munitions/drone facility so an air campaign could do real damage… but they also have a lot of mountains and jungle that would make an invasion potentially disastrous as well- … if they were attacked to me it would seem like their best possible advantage would be to attack the oil and logistical infrastructure with relatively low tech stuff… in a place where the US might actually be vulnerable. That could have a much bigger effect on US gas prices and if the US provokes it, I could see huge political contradictions being revealed, even if the ruling class was united behind military action against cuba… maybe this is just copium
History will call this the Groundhog Day War
makes me wonder why iran wouldn’t ask for gold or immediately buy gold with the un-sanctioned money
historical nihilism