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“Ceasefire now” was a milquetoast and easily appropriated demand and I pushed local groups (somewhat successfully) to demand something more clearly material and agitational, like ending weapons and money for “Israel”. It coalesced wuickly due to liberals embracing their default anti-warism, which they inevitably abandon and fight for with tactics that do nothing.

While the US would also balk at demands like no weapons or money, they raise facts that liberals like to ignore. About their neighbors, about themselves, about their country. “Ceasefire now” allows placement of focus on someone like Netanyahu, to scapegoat him, and for Biden to pretend he was fighting for a ceasefire while sending unlimited weapons and money to “Israel”. Demanding an end to weapons and money confronts one’s own role and also makes unions pick sides - many imperial core unions are “defense” contractors and many other unions try to have uncritical “solidarity” with those contractor unions.

Keep in mind that I’m emphasizing the impact this has in the imperial core, not on Palestine. That’s the main impact of any of this, as we are still far behind in capacity to coerce demands. But just think about how many liberals believed, wanted to believe, and still believe Biden et al wanted a ceasefire. How many are only expressing sympathy for Palestinians now that Trump is president. How they are manipulated by manufactured and misleading headlines like, “Hanas rejects ceasefire deal”. Liberals thrive on moving the goalposts away from the material when they want to get away with something. The idea that “Israel” should be cut off never enters their minds.

The only part that matters re: leftism is to think about how you want to handle crackdowns, which is less about which bank you choose and more about infosec. For example, don’t use your personal bank account for spicy business. Use cash if you can and some third party (even a company or non-profit) to shield your personal financea from governments freezing accounts. And if you develop savings, consider having an emergency fund with a different bank in a country that is unlikely to cooperate with freezing your assets.

I always get these guys confused with panic at the disco. Can’t even make my bad Buttigieg joke

Making shit up instead of accepting criticism and dealing with it head on is perfectly on brand.

lmao holy shit chat is this real he was a Maoist Third Worldist?

With what army?

“But it was a definite attack on them [Ukrainians] as they were discriminated against as far as death went.” This phrase directly conveys the intent to destroy a group, which is the core of the genocide definition.

No it doesn’t.

Stop trying to let LLMs think for you. They are regurgitation and pattern machines, not thinking ones. In this quote, Conquest is implying a larger proportion of Ukrainians died than Russian. That’s it. That he explicitly rejects using the word genocide when he embraced it before shows his distancing himself from his prior exaggerative claims.

If you can’t engage in good faith, you should leave and ask yourself what you’re so afraid of that you can’t even think or discuss these topics.

Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010. (Snyder builds upon Conquest’s work and largely affirms the genocidal intent).

Snyder us, to put it mildly, a dumbass. This is the guy parading around liberal circles about leaving the country because he is a self-labeled expert on “authoritarianism” and he thinks he, a privileged old white professor, is somehow at risk. His mind is deeply confused about the most trivial aspects of the topic about which he is supposesly an expert. Regarding the “holodomor”, he famously avoided critically engaging with literally anything in the Soviet Archives, Wheatcroft & Davies main thrusts, or Mark Tauger. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an academically dishonest ideologue, something you will become very familiar with if you ever try to actually learn this topic rather than trusting an LLM to regurgitare bullshit for you to swallow like a helpless baby bird.

Suffice it to say, Snyder is lazy and incorrect in his guesswork on intent.

Applebaum, Anne. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Doubleday, 2017. (Applebaum extensively cites and acknowledges Conquest’s pioneering role, and her own work comes to a similar conclusion regarding genocide).

Applebaum is a hack and nobody respects her work except the ignorant and/or ideological and dishonest. Her book was written for a pop audience to push a message and is not a scholarlt work. The sources she cites frequently say the exact opposite of what she claims they do in the citation. Applebaum is an ideologue who is also part of the council on foreign relations and who lied about an pushed for the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, an act that killed roughly a million people directly and through destruction of infrastructures. She does not care about mass murder. She is the poster child of ghoulish liberals and, again, in no way a historian.

Sysyn, Frank E. “Thirty Years of Research on the Holodomor: A Balance Sheet.” East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. (how Conquest’s work held up to new evidence and his continued stance).

Is that so?

Come on, we all know you haven’t actually read any of these citations. Be honest.

Israeli spokespeople were calling it antisemitic before anyone had heard of a manifesto. It’s a knee-jerk hasbara.

Hexbear lionization of adventurism isn’t allowed until we have sufficiently pathologically sexualized him.

This is entirely expected but I would guess that this kind of confirmation is valuable for pushing forward any bureaucracy that could respond.

Remember when “the adults in the room” actively denied that SARS-CoV-2 could be spread by aerosol and they were telling you to not buy masks and to instead disinfect your produce?

The negative effects of this are the axe constantly held over those countries via US “aid”. All it takes is the stroke of a pen to starve large populations. Better not step out of line.

If there is any silver lining I hope that countries can become morr food sovereign from this. I hope that they will receive multipolar aid to bridge them to food sovereignty.

He is probably just lying using PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can’t track a person for X consecutive nights they won’t be included in the statistica.

lmao

Issuing debt is an important part of MMT but it needs a way to keep creating it / printing money to service old debt / create new debt. Municipalities don’t control their own money supply so I imagine the only way they could pay up on bonds is by basically doing a Ponzi scheme. Either that or raising taxes to compensate, which will still be a zero-sum game (it’s how municipalities already fund big projects and they end up passing quite a lot of losn interest downstream).

The key to MMT is that the state needs to be “good for it” via printing money and similar tools.

MMT is more for national policy as it depends on being able to print money. If by urban you mean municipalities, they usually can’t do that.