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Thank you for organizing this!

Like amateur radars?

It’s just a lot of sites so I’m curious how they compile the info. In terms of public knowledge, do you mean anyone in the area can of course just see the launches and people compile that info into maps or is this published directly by the RF?

If it’s crowdsourced that’s pretty impressive.

Come and take a seat young one and hear tell of the Great Struggle Session (Part 47).

Holy smokes. How do they track so much to put it on the map?

It could also be the opposite: making it so that Ukraine has more momentum and supplies so that Trump’s impact will be delayed.

Not seeing any explicit ties to Trots outside of the fact that Die Linke is lousy with them.

This is a longstanding formulaic Trotskyist agitation. Often this kind of thing is written and then only read by 20 people.

I’m gonna wager that the author is either Trotskyist or in a formerly Trotskyist organization. Gonna go read it and see if I was right.

They’ve had free rein on this particular issue since Russia invaded. Reddit, like liberaps everywhere, went Azov Slava Ukraini.

DOTA 2 is the People’s MOBA.

I have literally never seen a liberal care about what has been done to Yemen. I’ve been bringing it up in various spaces since 2016 and it is usually met with apathy. Once, someone got very angry with me for even mentioning it because it was getting in the way of their agenda. But never an empathetic response.

I think most liberals only have empathy for people overseas when their political masters have provided explicit permission.

I prioritize it enough to be healthy and have time for family, friends, and organizing, but will put up with a lot to improve my housing security.

In this case it’s not being unserious it’s just being a dishonest genocide supporter that needs to fool her constituents into thinking she isn’t one.

While appointing buffoons and neocons is compatible with saying, “look at the blatant incompetence and cruelty, this will degrade the state faster”, I think there is something to be said for the accelerationism of the Biden administration’s approach of career ghouls that know how to pull the levers of power and keep their constituencies docile.

While Dems and the GOP should be understood as two factions in the same team, I think the most accelerationist policies are to stay the course on neoliberalism and to foment a split between the imperialist bloc and one led by China etc. Trump offers incoherence on the former while Biden offers pure commitment to neoliberalism. Trump offers ham-fisted attempts for the latter, which strengthens any anti-US bloc and makes them more comfortable earlier while Biden seeks to implement the plans of State Department ghouls, trying to build the split along a material basis, e.g. using Ukraine to peel off Europe, hightening actual mechanisms for war and direct confrontation.

It is likely paper and cardboard thst has not gone through processes to remove smelly components. Likely some phenols or as the other commenter mentioned, butyrate. Cheap recycled paper and cardboard often has these smells, especially if it gets wet.

Mutual aid is about helping each other in solidarity, to share alike among ourselves. It can look a lot like charity if you widen yiur definition of “us” to be everyone not of the ruling class, especially if those organizing it are noticeably from another community than those receiving it.

Example: at lefty actions there are often mutual aid tents or carts. These tend to be paid for by the participants and the labor is donated by them. That’s more clearly a “by us for us” thing. On the other hand, I’ve seen lib white leftists start mutual aid groups that go to very poor black neighborhoods to provide food and clothes. It’s not a bad thing to get people what they need but it does have some odd vibes and it is edging towards a charity mindset.

I would recommend making connections anywhere you are working so that you either expand your org in a way that authentically embeds in community or to join efforts with any similar orgs already in that community, or both. If you are very lucky you might even be able to merge groups. Rather than become inward-facing with current membership, you can make the current recipient communities, whatever they might be, less separate.

All I’m saying is that I’ve never failed as Early Yugoslavia.

He even did a late October “Palestinians deserve this” speech in Michigan

That is probably true, yeah. Most people don’t intrinsically see the value in organizing because they don’t understand the oppositional attitude of the employer and/or they are afraid of retribution (and retribution will happen if they organize, that part is true).

You can agitate using those small actions I mentioned, though of course there are no guarantees. Asking some open-ended organizing questions (“if you could change something about this place, what would it be?”) over a few weeks’ time and taking notes might reveal that people are not hapoy about some things but just don’t think of them as things to complain about yet. If you take notes and some topics come up a lot, you can turn this into an (anonymous at first?) petition and watch it produce results. Also, try to make a list of who seems most receptive to this kind of discussion and allow the subject to change if a person doesn’t seem that interested. That list us a first draft for making an organizing committee and would identify those most likely to be agitated by the petition either working or failing.

Basically, you can carefully do a test balloon and make an initial list to get a better sense for where people are at. It’s important to ask the kind of question I suggested. If you ask a workplace of seemingly happy coworkers if there is anything about the workplace that is bothering them, most will say no. Ask them to name something they would change and most of the time they will suddenly they have tons of complaints and are willing to go off about them. And taking notes of responses will let you chart out the workplace to ask yourself questions about how to proceed.

Oh, and if you spread out the conversations and ask the question(s) casually from receptive-seeming people then they may not even know it is you who then compiles the survey. They may not even realize their own answers to your questions had anything to do with it! Also this is all much easier if you can identify one other person that would be ride-or-die by your side, as you can then distribute the tasks and therefore make them diffuse and harder to recognize.

This is the right idea!

In my opinion the best thing, if it is an option for you, is to join a local left organization and develop yourself and the organization in terms of your theoretical understanding and practical efficacy, which basically to say reading and gaining expertise at taking action. And to be clear, when I say left, I mean something socialist.

It can be difficult to recommend a specific org because I don’t know where you live and you shouldn’t tell me. But I can suggest some things to do to help guide you:

• Pick a socialist one.
• Pick it by attending an action that they organize and getting a sense for the people and their positions.
• You can discover events by looking for posters in hotbed areas (college campuses, downtown) and social media.
• A good rule of thumb is that if they are anti-imperialist and name the US as imperialism’s exemplification, their other positions will be better as well.
• Avoid Trotskyists and anything associated with Avakian.
• Once in an org, focus on building positive relationships with people, being dependable and active, and reading and then teaching once you feel confident enough.

If you use these tips you should end up in a good enough org and can help build it. It’s okay if you end up leaving your first org. They are often just a way to get a sense for what exists locally and where energy and good practice are centered.