The original purpose was to prevent the formation of an Arab Soviet Union (the infamous "mosaic of squabbling principalities" line from a 50s state department memorandum), while also undercutting rivial imperial European energy independence and prevent the actual Soviet Union from benefiting from the energy reserves of their southern neighbors

Of course all of that has long since become defunct and now it's coasting along on institutional inertia and racial/religious fanaticism, also there's definitely something to the blackmail angle by Israeli intelligence, who are dimly aware that their concrete usefulness is largely spent

Killing baby Hitler was aways too pedestrian

Now kidnapping baby Hitler and dropping him off at a Russian orphanage is far more poetic

I expected Iran to endure the onslaught, but I honestly didn't expect it to deliver such a spectacular defeat of the US empire

Holy shit if that's true, that would be the greatest mutiny since Port Chicago

What a coincidence AOC quips about woke 1.0 on ABC news and suddenly all the racist centrist zionist scum start penning op-eds about how "racism is cool actually, see even the left agrees now!"

She's their little canary in the coal mine huh, dry snitch supreme

Like all "definitions" of woke, it depends on who you're talking to, the most common but in no way the plurality of the meanings, it's become a stand-in for centrist cooption or 'radlib', Pelosi in the kente cloth being the most common example given

But thanks to AOC's garbage quip on ABC a few days ago it's now starting to morph into the general anti-woke definition that chuds and centrists have been using for years

Personally I'd like it to mean 'Progressive Except for Palestine', but that's cause I remember during 2019 the only time I ever got downvoted into the hundreds back on the old sub was when I defended a Palestinian women from accusations of racism because she told an Israeli gooner to fuck off on a dating app

That to me exemplifies everything wrong with "Woke 1.0"

Fades an inch too high my guy

Why do chuds even like Star Trek?

I don't think they will sacrifice the two party system, simply because there is no two party system to sacrifice. It's a one party system with two sides. They will simply become Republicans.

That's perfect! That's one way to blow up the two party system, whether they make participating illegal or third parties emerge, the results still end up with our numbers swelling and the radicalization of millions of Americans, DNC neolibs becoming Republicans is the best case scenario, they'd lose most of their base and it would destabilize the Republican party

And the necessary radical movement that could contest the powers of the US leading to a focus on internal politics simply doesn't exist and likely won't for decades; that's a question of pure military logistics, the left would need numbers that could sustain and absorb military casualties exceeding the levels of the Spanish Civil War at the least, that's requires a base of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands of dispersed online radicals

We are stuck in legalism because to do anything else will see an individual in the trunk of a burning car with bullet holes in it, the fates of the first BLM organizers should be in every leftists mind because those are the stakes and yes I will tolerate socdems getting elected if it means the left can grow to the point where those deaths come with a hefty price for the state

We have to think much more broadly, and much more long term.

I agree, this plan is merely the first step, going from zero to one, the emergence of an independent Worker's party with national reach doesn't imply anything about it's success or it's ability to actually contest power, the only benchmark now in 2026 is mere existence

NBC straight up just invented this person, I mean look at the last paragraph, how utterly convenient NBC happened to innocently come across the one "human being" who robotically spits out neolib talking points concerning electability, cause that's what normal people care about, who neolibs consider electable

"I am a risk-averse person", "I was really reading alot about like who has the chances to beat Tom Tiffany" who talks like that unless they're doing a bit

No strategy is airtight and defeat is always a hairsbreadth away and I don't disagree with your assessment about the relevance of orthodox Leninism in the modern era, I was being charitable and indulgent so the local lemmygards don't throw a fit

But I disagree with the strategy not being clear, I base my assessment on empirical results and ironclad conditions; the military power of the United States is overwhelming on the domestic end, socialists are hard locked into a legalist mode otherwise it's prison or death, third partyism is a solid dead end for the left and has been for 75 years, Kshama Sawant eating shit is another data point confirming that

The immediate goal of the American socialist left should be the destruction of the two party system, the thesis is simple; socdems win elections under the empty democratic banner which leads to the neolibs pushing the self-destruct button on the party, "The centrists will always scurry back to being fascists as soon as a Dem get elected"

This results in the mass disillusionment of millions of liberals and makes third party bids viable as the former democratic base will have to desperately search for an alternative, THAT IS the window of opportunity for an independent worker's party to emerge

For this strategy to work it requires socdems to win elections and remain popular afterward, Mamdani provided a useful template in that regard

And for both the socdems and neolibs to act according to their nature; socdems will remain naive and idealstic and never see the sucker punch coming, the neolibs will remain ideological fanatics who will not tolerate a return to Keynesianism and will sacrifice the two party system to gurentee it never happens

This isn't the Golden Path, but it's the best articulable roadmap I've yet seen accounting for current conditions, unless anyone else has an alternative plan?