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The entire article is very good and gives a solid reasoning (for baby leftists, not anyone here) of why we need to support Cuba. It also highlights the weakness of both the DSA and the DSA IC from within that allowed this to happen + the steps they need to take. Give it a read. (The more I read stuff like this plus the history of real movements I realize why things like DemCent and other hardline ML things are needed but that's not a discussion for here).

I'm highlighting just the parts relevant to the title.

Multiple delegates chose to skip out on parts of the programming, including declining to meet with the president of Cuba, who held a frank conversation with the delegates who did attend for more than two hours.

Throughout the trip, members of the delegation from the Reform & Revolution Caucus (R&R) and the Socialist Majority Caucus (SMC) criticized the Cuban government both to our Cuban hosts and other DSA members, and skipped out on multiple delegation events. Most shamefully, both Maria (representing R&R) and Renée (representing SMC, and a member of the current NPC) skipped out on meeting with President Díaz-Canel, who spent more than 2 hours in a frank discussion specifically addressing the critiques these very same DSA members brought up to their Cuban hosts earlier on the trip. This means that the Cuban hosts were listening thoughtfully to the critiques and relayed them back to the President. That our Cuban comrades would care this deeply and thoroughly about our critiques is a sign that they honor us as equals and truly want to make ties with U.S. socialists, as relatively powerless as we are.

Maria in particular met with anti-government opposition groups while on delegation, which when taken together with the fact of her skipping the meeting with the comrade President suggests a goal of undermining the Cuban socialist state, not defending it against U.S. imperialism. Furthermore, R&R declined to follow what few guidelines the International Committee offered around discussion of the trip after returning. Delegates were instructed to keep news of the conversation with President Díaz-Canel private until an official reportback; R&R decided instead to discuss this at their caucus panel, pre-empting the official reportback.

I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol

As a nine year old I thought the Death Eaters were meant to be like the Nazis, but I guess Rowling is so dumb she didn't make the connection until after she wrote them?

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Honestly its rude to be invited by a country to meet their president who decided to respond to your criticisms of their administration only to not show up and go meet the opposition.

Being invided and then no showing shows complete disregard to basic diplomatic Etiquette since it was a mission to show solidarity against the embargo

Bonus socdems being cringe part 4.5: about another member that didnt show up to the presidential meeting

Deeply unserious people

Can't believe I'm only finding about this now

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/05/us-air-force-contractor-death-stephanie-cosme

Is this the second American killed by an American drone?

https://twitter.com/johnkvallis/status/1779303075364442585

This video starts off with some decent history, but near the end quickly spirals into defending Japan's "one party rule but this time good!" system and spouting off nonsense about how great it is that Japan let all its war criminals back into politics because they were "stable". Feel free to enjoy the ok history and dunk in the comments.

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Bonus: they start malding about Russia/Ukraine later on

polycule linkedin where you send in a resume and CV to the polycule hiring manager and negotiate a polycule salary range (link fixed)

Sorry for posting something from last year but I just stumbled upon it and it's just too not to share, made me laugh multiple times.

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Lmao... all because of a legal technicality, the squatters actually have the right to kick anyone intruding out on the property, including the landlords...

That being said, the camden art cafe is there

Bonus: if you want a laugh, watch this normie chud {Ali Koca} 's take on it...

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Just beautiful.

same old shit, but it's still good for a laugh

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4287336

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There is only one conclusion possible: the war in Gaza is a war between two imperialist states.

Maybe it isn't about good/bad, maybe consider anti-imperialism?

(An anarchist account from Masto that has quite the following so posting here, but without links.)

Edit. Added a link to the thread because it keeps getting boosted to my timeline by Western "leftists" and I think it deserves to be dunked on.

The whole class was super suspect anyway because the discussion topic was “how would you debate morality with a religious fundamentalist terrorist” or something I don’t fully remember. And this guy is just like “yeah I’d say look, we have all these modern comforts like toasters and smartphones and stuff, we must be doing something right”. (This was in like 2009)

Anyway the ending of the story is that the dude became known in our class for being rejected by a girl and wanking into her dustbin like some kind of even more pathetic Louis CK. And later on for becoming a blood diamonds trader (serious). I don’t know if there was a moral to this tale but uh. Don’t be a chud I guess

The page also says Iranian attack failed because the damage wasn't significant. Like, they were talking on CNN about Iran warning everyone beforehand and not sending everything at once to limit damage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4272846

What kind of drugs it takes to come up with shit like this?