the theory that i have heard is that this is a result of a long intelligence community debate. there has been a marked shift away from field work and other direct interventions. instead they have promoted desk work and funding friendly foreign NGOs (i.e. "soft power"). this is them saying that those more recently emphasized efforts have been not performing as well and shifting back toward a more direct involvement in a smaller number if areas. this is a consolidation of the collapsing us empire by prioritizing areas with more direct involvement where they think they can beat back BRICS and other foreign power blocks by letting go of areas that they think they won't be able to compete in.

in a week he'll be talking about how the woke communists tried to kill him and we need to return the favor to them

i think this is the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/comments/1dii2hl/leftoid_ethnostate/

i have a hard time reading the conversation as anything but pro-colonial

i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don't like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.

a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide

fucking nazis

i don't consider anti-communist NATO "leftists" to be on the left. if you are palling around with Vaush, it's pretty clear what's up.

it takes 7 red lines to make an american flag. he's trying to be patriotic

you come onto the Posters Instance, and complain about people posting about one of the most postable topics in existence

If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American’s opinion/wants.

you are vastly overstating the accuracy of polling, and making a system with a hugely glaring way to game the system. if you thought the voter suppression in the us is bad now, wait until you see the stupid fucking political games being played with the sampling rules in your proposed system.

but you see, in china this is done by the evil government who is accountable to the entire citizenship. in america, this is decided by one of a small number of rich people who were divinely selected by The Market to guide our society.

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

listing a whole bunch of companies to boycott results in an uncoordinated response that has little if any impact. it's better to find the groups that have been working at this for a while like this one https://bdsmovement.net/