[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

I'm not in the US, but I'm already militant in such organizations in my home country.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

Ineffective: "please leave"

Also ineffective: "I call for X"

Effective: "I will be funding and giving media access to local self-defense groups, worker organizing, and mutual aid orgs. The threat comes from the state apparatus and the only way it can be defeated is by grassroots organizing"

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

Lmfao. Macron literally used constitutional powers to skip the congress and raise retirement age like two years ago, and protests achieved nothing. French people also elected a center-left government opposed to neoliberal austerity and the president is not allowing for a prime minister of LFI to be chosen, literally blocking the left while the far right threatens to take rule.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Historically, almost all social progress has come from stopping before you kill your oppressor

The Soviets murdered the Romanov family, and afterwards rose life expectancy from 28 to 65, had the fastest industrialization in human history, defeated Nazism, gained universal healthcare and free education to the highest level, eliminated homelessness and abolished unemployment. Europe mostly half-ass copied some of those policies because the capitalists were afraid of a revolution and have to give many concessions to the organized workers of Europe, hence why this progress did not happen simultaneously in the USA, far from Soviet influence.

This is because killing your oppressor while creating worker councils who decide democratically how society should progress is a valid strategy for emancipation. No power vacuum if people take that power.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

How many times exactly has that happened in history? Revolutions are famously not peaceful. Not that they shouldn't happen, they absolutely should, but the people in power don't just go "oh shucks, guess I'll give it all up!"

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I clearly won't convince you and I don't think you'll convince me either, so let's each guess based on their own ideas:

A) Trump destroys NATO through whatever form of invasion of Greenland

B) The US gains greater control over Greenland above what they have now (whatever form it may take) and EU keeps bootlicking the US

I'm betting on B), as a tankie. I wish it were A) because NATO is close as it gets to literally Satan, but I don't believe the powers in the US are going to waste the EU influence in its most subservient moment in decades.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

You are correct in that why would the US destroy NATO. The entire point is that the people in power in the US have decided that EU is now subservient enough to the US (and since the blowup of Nordstream 2 energetically dependent too) that they will simply do nothing when the US takes Greenland in whatever form that takes.

Greenland becomes strategically important when arctic ice melts and new shipping routes open between China and Europe, and the US plans to control this more directly than it does now.

Trump does not have the power to decide geopolitical policy of the US, if he went against US interests he would quickly be removed. This is not Trump's personal designs (maybe the messaging is but not the core events), this is the US betraying yet again its allies as it has always done.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

What's my game? I made my account today, what are you talking about?

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago

Domestic genocide? You may not like the policy in North Korea, but genocide? Really?

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com -1 points 1 week ago

Could you please source that claim?

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