[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago

I agree. This is likely 100% fake news. I seem to recall from several mega threads back that the consensus here was that there was no evidence the Iranians had mined the strait.

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

US intelligence reports/people familiar with=

made-it-the-fuck-up

I hope this is true obviously

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago

Where are these claims coming from? Do you have a source?

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 28 points 3 days ago

I'm always morbidly curious what horrific string of idiotic phrases was fed into the burn the Amazon algorithm to create such slop. (Though never enough to investigate lol)

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

Can you link a source for this?

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Unlimited blue on blue fire onthe Yankee terrorists

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

Was initially quite confused by the highlights. The highlighted tailfin is from the 493 fighter squadron (it even says 493 FS) whereas the debris appears to be formerly of the 494 fighter squadron. Not sure why that image was included

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[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago

Slightly cryptic in an entertaining way but I know what he's saying. 5/10 black-mold-futures rating

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I first began seeing a small group of young people regularly showing up to actions together, and I was impressed by their degree of cohesion and esprit de corp. Months later, two of them came to a political education event hosted by my group. Conversations there led to a face to face meeting between some members of our group and of theirs.

As it turns out, a group of highschool students decided to form an explicitly maoist revolutionary study group based on their reading of Organization Means Commitment by Grace Lee Boggs and exchanges on both rednote and tictoc. They started out with a campus organizing against an abusive teacher and against Zionism, but they decided they need to focus on off campus issues and study as well. We talked about their study and I was genuinely impressed. While I was calling myself a communist, involved in organizing and even involved in street actions at their age, they are an order of magnitude more principled and disciplined in their work than I was as a teenager. This is what leads me to think this isn't just a passing phase of teenage rebellion. They are explicitly aware that their political line and strategy will develop through the course of their study.

It was a surreal experience though. Hearing communist theory intermingled with nearly incomprehensible meme speak (and I'm not even old lol. The meme speak has just evolved rapidly since I was in highschool), ableist slurs and jokes about school shootings or 9/11. The ableism was one of the most problematic things I heard and was significantly off-putting. I hope some of the teenage edgelord tendencies they will grow out of with time (school shooting jokes were in vogue when I was in highschool as well and I did play pumped up kicks on my phone during lockdowns when I was in highschool which I would now consider idiotic edgelord shit). It was a fascinating if strange experience, and pretty cool to see. I hope that they keep learning and keep on a positive path. It's refreshing to see in what can feel like a sea of extreme reaction.

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[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

I obviously don't know the true military situation in Iran, but based on what I do know, I don't think they should accept this deal, even if the us and Israel were open to it. There is no guarantees that the us will withdraw all assets from neighboring countries, nor a specific mechanism to ensure the Epstein forces won't simply ignore the ceasefire and attack again at some point in the future.

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

I think I'm one if the few people on this site in that age range (I'm 23), and I actively organize with many people in their early 20s. My experience is much less universally negative, though there are elements of it I see. Irony poisoning, apathy and disillusionment seem to be extremely widespread. On the one hand, certain reactionary viewpoints (esp misogyny) will be stated more openly by some, but finding a genuine supporter of any given reactionary politician is quite rare in my experience-- in fact even those who are vocally misogynistic tend to be equally vocally anti any reactionary politician they can name. No one has much hope for the future yet turning that disillusionment into action can be quite difficult.

In my workplace, "Epstein class" rhetoric is pretty much universal. sympathy with Iran and Palestine is commonplace (people post Iran Lego videos in the work group chat regularly, and people reply "death to Israel"), sympathy for the us army and the police is minimal. However this coexists with jokes about sexual assault, ZOG posting, and hustle grind brainworms, and even pro deportation comments. Oh and ableist language is all pervasive. But I'm openly queer and trans on a blue collar job in a rural area, and I have only ever had serious issues with that around coworkers over 40. I don't know if that would have been the case 10 years ago.

I think the overall trend is disillusionment and even pseudo radicalization becoming extremely normal, without any coherent ideological framework behind it. The tendency usually expresses itself in adventurism or inaction. I have yet to see it manifest in fascism (to most people my age, trump is the usa establishment) in the traditional sense, but neither is it progressive per se. It is discontent that seems to reject action, organization or ideological coherence.

[-] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

Yes, and they are unfortunately not surprising. he moved the ufw leadership to a compound in tehachapi (it was previously in Delano, a town with a lot of ufw rank and file members, esp grape workers whereas tehachapi was ranch country with very few) and ran it essentially as a cult. I recommend Frank Bardakes book on the subject if you want a vast amount of detail on the subject

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