Calling it coping implies people are in denial about the realities of what’s occurring and are reaching for whatever they can to cling to hope that it’s not happening the way it is actually happening.

That’s not what is occurring here. When Assad fell and Jolani took over, were MLs going, “Jolani is just playing the long game to liberate Syria”? No. The reason for ongoing back and forth about Venezuela is precisely because the situation isn’t simple. It can’t fairly be called straightforward coup/comrador and it also can’t fairly be called straightforward resistance against imperialism. It is murkier than that and so it requires analysis beyond “our person good, their person bad; our movement losing, their movement winning.” Depth of analysis has always been important for Marxists to conduct and we need to practice it the best we can. If anything, I’d argue situations with this degree of complexity and controversy are going to become more common as unipolarity dies. Already, some struggle with the idea of China as anti-imperialist yet not global military liberator and doing trade with imperial states. Binary thinking with marxist-leninist characteristics is not itself scientific socialism. We have to work through the complexity or we will be reduced to coping in the form of labeling something as good/bad and calling it a day, which is not a flattering trait to share with liberals. I don’t say this to be sanctimonious at all. I know well the urge to label something and move on. But labeling and moving on is for spectators, not for people who are trying to change the world.

So basically, you’re ignoring the facts to push a specific narrative because you have a personal vendetta against Delcy?

Why do you keep posting misinformation about Venezuela. This is a pattern with you and I want to know why.

Not sure of which font would be closest cause it’s AI gen so here’s a version with the text changed to that.

The face and gear of a “soldier” who has only ever known bullying and terrorizing those who are militarily weaker.

It is very bullshitty. Best I can gather is this amounts to them signaling a desire to handle the matter outside of the US’s purview. But since they are still rabidly NATO and they keep trying to play it off like Ukraine isn’t a NATO proxy, it looks kind of nonsensical.

Something like:

“Come to the table with us and deal!”

“On what terms?”

“The terms that benefit NATO!”

“Why the fuck would we do that.”

“I don’t know, we just want to be at the table.”

War profiteer and zionist. How easily they go together.

Yes and no. It’s definitely not the first time I’ve seen colonizer rhetoric. But the low effort nature of it in this case stands out to me. Like what is there to even unpack/debunk here. All they really said is “we own this because we say so and waves hands this is religious decree somehow.”

Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior has issued a religious ruling permitting Israeli settlers to take olives from Palestinian-owned land across the occupied West Bank, claiming that harvesting the crop demonstrates Jewish ownership of the land, according to Israeli Channel 13.

Lior argued that Palestinians had never legally purchased the land from Jews and therefore had no legitimate ownership rights over either the land or its produce.

He also claimed that Palestinians had already been compensated for planting olive trees through years of consuming their fruit, extending his ruling to groves located far from Israeli settlements.

From the way it reads, not only is it an incredibly shitty argument to validate doing it, it doesn’t even try to invoke religious teaching to do it yet claims religiosity anyway. The argumentation of it just reads like colonizer+capitalist: something something private property something something brutal entitlement.

I’m convinced at this point that the Saudis purposefully kept their air sirens off in order to maximize civilian casualties. Very Israeli of them I must say.

I was wondering the same. It reeks of the same bullshit as October 7th.

Zelensky:

Precisely at this moment, when we are talking about peace, America is giving Russia the opportunity to export diesel. This is… I don’t know.

I believe our team is simply being used as a cover. And this is definitely unfair.

This is definitely un-partner-like.

You were never partners, Zelensky. You were always a pawn. The empire doesn’t have partners. It has a hub where the emperor lives (currently, the US) and all others are positioned as either subjects or slaves, to the extent that the empire can successfully subjugate them. Russian oligarchs had to learn this the hard way, via dealing with NATO-Ukrainian bullshit. But when access to critical resources is in crisis, that’s the real trump card, not a man with the same name.

I don’t know why I chose to write this like I’m speaking to him when he’s obviously not here, but it felt right somehow. I wish someone could yell this kind of thing into the ears of compradors the world over, but I’m not sure it would move them even a little bit. It’s just wild to me that the quote reads like he is sincerely confused as to what’s going on. Like does he really not get how little he matters to the imperialists or is he playing it up for the media.

“We have the most superintelligent intelligence, believe me. I told it to make me a sandwich and it listed all of the ingredients for a Big Mac perfectly, it even included a special one I’ve never heard of called arsenic. People tell me, oh it’s not intelligent, I say have you seen it, it’s very intelligent. The most intelligent you’ll find anywhere in the world, made right here in America. I’m going to have this intelligence, which they say they’ve given a body, an incredible body, best body you’ve ever seen, make me a Big Mac right now, using the recipe, an intelligence that you will not find anywhere, ever, other than here.”

later

dies from eating it, goes to hell

Hitler: “So you finally joined us, hm?”

Trump: “It’s very hot down here, the hottest I’ve ever seen. Nowhere else has ever been hotter than here.”

Churchhill: “Yes, that’s bloody obvious, isn’t it. How’d you die?”

Trump: “I had our amazing American superintelligence make me a Big Mac and then I ate it, but the combination of our intelligences together was too much. Too much, folks. So I died.”

George Washington: “This is what the legacy of the United States amounted to? After all the natives I killed! After all the people I had enslaved! A president dying to a botched Big Mac! This truly is hell…”

Satan: “That’s what you think hell is? Being slightly humiliated? You orchestrated genocide. God damn you all over again, this is going to take longer than I thought. Put George here back in the Native Perspective Simulator.”

Oh wow. Thanks for the context on it. I admit I had no idea of how complicated Brazil’s history is in that way.

Now I get it completely, thanks. Perfect image for what we were talking about.

“Yankee go to Hell. Go directly to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.”

Ohh okay, thank you!

What’s the context of this picture? Now I am curious. I don’t recognize the person, but I assume it’s somebody well known.

I would say “Yankee go home” but what home is there for murderous occupiers like this, whose “home” is also land that they occupy as settlers?

It’s straight up delusion at this point, that they act like the US is in a position to demand how the war ends. We’ve seen how the empire acts, now and in the past. If it was in a position to demand, it would be doing it through a comprador regime, not through posturing to its own media while its forces get methodically pushed out of the Middle East, some of them in body bags.

So does this mean it’s likely that the person saying this awful stuff is a descendant of colonizers?