MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]

I for sure don’t want to claim they do the exact thing. But the strategy of making yourself useful but on your own terms is possible in some way. That’s essentially what China managed, and Venezuela may be able to leverage something of theirs in a similar way. But I know little about oil so no idea what they could do specifically. Other than this, idk what they could do except go into guerilla warfare and stagnate as an economy.

Damn hexbear internal video playing. I can’t turn off mute in my browser on my phone

I have no idea. I think they should likely try to follow an accelerated version of China’s path, starting with a revolutionary purge to have a party in power and then allowing US investment but with ultimate ownership within the state. But idk how the US will react considering the difference of distance between the two. But this is just speculation, I’m no VZ expert

This is stating nothing that Maduro hadn’t been saying for well over a year + discussing consequences (not sure what this part will mean). This is not an indication of a coup.

I’d prefer the reality where they can just say “shove it up your ass, USA” but that’s not the world we’re in. This is a government buying itself time, maybe to its detriment, but not out of willing overthrow of their revolution

Oh Nia Frome said what I was thinking much better actually and I just saw it a second ago: https://x.com/i/status/2009651161289162838

Agreed that this commentary (which I haven’t heard, but the sentiment is more common) is entirely useless. But there is a real fear that the big burly dudes doing the most radical thing are feds (burning a flag isn’t radical, but is more radical than chanting or marching). It’s good to discuss this in a way much more understandable and useful though. I doubt Hasan (idk about the other person) means that leftists shouldn’t burn a flag at a protest, but that you should be weary if someone else does who shows other signs of being a fed.

Now I think this is wrong, too, but not simply because we don’t know if the person is a fed or not (and I doubt this one was tbh, but that’s irrelevant). I think that, regardless of the identity of the person, a movement should do the actions set out to do and allow those to be done by whoever is around. If a fed burns a flag, let it incite others to do it too, it’s fine and good. If the major or says that flag burning is undesired, I find it weak, but it totally changes that. If a fed starts beating up passersby who have no relation to the protest, they should be stopped and called out. This is an argument of discipline instead of intent

But the Pentagon budget can just be reallocated without anyone with power caring. They’ll say it’s to fight China and Russia, vote for it, then the executive will just make a Gestapo out of it .