MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]

Nice! Thank you Iran

How do we know??? I haven’t seen this yet

Neutral Party here, you’re both talking past each other but I also don’t understand what either of you are trying to say hahahaha

Whoops ignore that, in my head I had written something about utilizing radioactive material in other weapons (like the US in Iraq) more generally. Removed the again, because I have no example of a dirty bomb definitively being used

Yeah dirty bombs are a different beast, and I hope nobody ever uses one because it’s absolutely useless and despicable warfare. Airburst nukes are astonishingly destructive and should also never be used, but at least the land is fine to use again within a short period of time

In good news, nuked areas realistically don’t see that much dangerous fallout for too long. This is not to downplay the destruction, but many have this view that it’s similar to nuclear meltdown areas, but that’s just not true at all. It’s like several orders of magnitude less drastic in terms of lasting radiation no matter how you measure.

Would prefer no nukes, of course, as any sane person. But if Israel causes themselves to get nuked through their actions, I’m not gonna be as upset as I’d be if Palestinian land experienced a nuclear meltdown and spread of the material which results from fission.

Entirely in agreement. Given the 2 options, and the complex relations, it’s the more strategically sound course. I hate that that’s true, because if it weren’t I could be more upset at a lack of action. But option 2 has a lower risk now and the more successful that strategy is (the longer they can maintain that course) the lower the risk of BOTH option 1 and option 2 in the future. The direct risk associated with option 1 is very high (war and destruction of China as a possibility) but they are accelerating ahead in a way which is constantly lowering that risk. Option 2, of course, has risks, but those are mostly risks associated with a loss of soft power in the Western Left. Global southern groups are generally more receptive to China’s help than they are to our pleas for China to take over the world order and destroy the US.

For sure! But it makes protecting good leadership easier, I hope. Just gotta think of cool names, like Wool or Bronzer

Going underground has been a successful tactic, where the structure and leadership are opaque but actions are still clear. We also just exist in a world of surveillance which has made the lessons from the Bolsheviks in this case almost irrelevant. Lenin sat on a train with someone hunting him and wasn’t caught. You gotta get 7 surgeries and wait 5 years to possibly pull that trick that he did by just not having known photographs spread far and wide.

The other people behind redsails (Nia, Alice, the Chinese guy who had a football player as his profile picture) are still active and not struggling like Roderic. Idk what that means for why redsails is paused but I’m sure it means something

Maybe it’s terrible advice, but I would say just to explain all that in an email or something (sans any direct attempt to get him back/sans saying anything about ‘love,’ according to circumstances like relationship status and how your mental health would be affected). I’m sure it would be something that, even years later, might be nice to know for himself and it might lift this burden a bit from you. You just need to be candid and explain that you processes the passing of your mother in a way which you regret and likely wasn’t best for you, and that he may have been hurt without this knowledge.

If you’re both single and he replies with something accepting/sympathetic, you can take it from there with asking if you could see each other to explain more or catch up. But there’s a chance he was also hurt and won’t be happy. Idk, it’s rough and I don’t want to sound like I know everything about it. I’ve just experienced multiple times now that telling people things, even an apology 10 years later, usually feels good and people take it well

So many camera transitions and such a long walk. The angle seems to be pointing elsewhere under the hospital, but the distance was obviously longer than expected for the emergency area.

They shot someone in a bedroom near a hospital is about all I can conclude. Such brave occupiers

I think we almost completely agree, I’m just playing with the idea that the person above stated about the Sino-Soviet style split. I think it’s not the most likely for reasons you stated, but its still possible given the current contradictions.

I think I agree with all of this? I am also a huge fan of Laussen and think we should more highly regard his analyses. But does this disagree with me in some way for me to reflect? Like, does the this inform how European Bourgeois element will react to the crises arising from the developments around neoliberalism vs sovereignty (this is the term that I prefer, but i get the usage of nationalism)?

I think that the easiest reaction for the Bourgeoisie in Europe is to move Capital investment eastward while shifting ownership westward until the entire system collapses and is subsumed in China and the Global South’s “sovereignty” dynamic. Europe, during that shift, will either join the US in failing or just easily slide over into more equal footing with the rest of the world.

The other option, that the comrade above is highlighting, is that (some other, maybe?) contradictions will lead to a large split between Europe and the US before the total collapse. I think this is enticing, and could fit Laussen’s contradiction because Europeans are pretty self-righteous and maybe unwilling to fully subsumed themselves to US interests when against their own. I tend to think European leaders too weak to possibly do that, but I hope to be proven wrong.

Well of course, it’s just the form that it will take that we’re discussing! A sino-soviet style split is an interesting version which I could see though, and hope you’re right. I think more likely, unfortunately, is a slow subsumption to US interests with no real resistance except outwardly aimed expropriation (fascism) towards the eastern block countries. We will see how the Bourgeoisie begins to shift in Europe, either towards US capital or exporting to Poland/Czechia

This is immensely optimistic but I agree that these contradictions are growing. We will see how the reaction looks.

Waiting on Trump to endorse the genocide of the boers in retaliation

Red sails will stay relevant as it is for at least the next 50 years. Inshallah it will eventually be less relevant soon through progress but that seems naive to hope

o7

Keep up the good fight

Good to see a lemme.ee with agreeable takes. You gonna join hexbear or stay a secret agent?