Harris didn’t run as a Republican and you know it.

She touted an endorsement from Dick Cheney, said she'd put a Republican in her cabinet, and said she'd pass Trump's immigration bill.

The people violently resisting a genocide are also good guys.

If someone is trying to kill you and everyone who looks like you, shooting back is good.

Sometimes the law is wrong, and following it is wrong

Dying for nothing in a lost war is one of those times

The Japanese were already negotiating to end the war. The sticking point was over the U.S. demand for unconditional surrender vs. the Japanese insistence on preserving their emperor in some form. The eventual surrender did keep the emperor, so the atomic bombs didn't impact that issue.

This is so gutless. "Well sure I'd prefer unicorns and rainbows but KILL KILL KILL"... just say what you really mean and stand by it.

It's like some sort of big cat, but made of something more fragile than flesh and blood

Polling conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations in January in 12 countries suggested that only 10 per cent of voters think Ukraine can win. Some 37 per cent thought that a compromise was most likely and 19.5 per cent thought that Russia would win in the end.

I always come back to two things on leftist infighting:

1. We all want to get to more or less the same place. It's like we're planning a road trip from New York to Los Angeles, and leftist infighting at this stage is like punching out your road trip friend before you even get in the car because you disagree about the route you take after you cross the Mississippi.
2. In the imperial core we're so far away from the material conditions that were present at the start of any AES state that no one can be certain about how we will get from here to a classless society. We all have our educated guesses, but we should also have some level of open-mindedness and humility because we're in such a radically different environment than anything that came before.

This seems futile, but it's a decent point to hammer on. Libs who believe international law means something get put in the uncomfortable position of rethinking that, it's more grounded than "I disagree with this as a matter of policy," and you'll smoke out plenty of people who will show their asses with "that shit doesn't apply to us" takes.

Plus pro-Palestine sentiment is decently common among libs, and while the military skews right there are plenty of lib idealists who join.

I think it is very optimistic to think this (taking it as read, and assiming it's an issue throughout the military) would seriously impact U.S. involvement, no matter the cause.

The people in the military self-selected there, largely while the U.S. was fighting simmering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That means they do not have even a basic understanding of U.S. imperialism and don't have the mental outs draftees have. Shovel them some propaganda about duty and commitment and the vast majority will fall in line. A few will quietly go AWOL before deployment, but that'll be it.

Tells their users to follow the rules = it's a ruse, they're trolls

Tells their users to troll = see, they're trolls!

Says nothing = they aren't even trying to stop their users from trolling

This is what we call an unfalsifiable orthodoxy.