i can think of a word that we shouldn’t use: “mercy”.

The giant rabbit actually got pushed back to quite a significant degree, didn’t it? A fairly effective counter-attack in that case (not hugely surprising since the Russians haven’t shown any capacity to advance quickly since the very start of the war, even if they had anything more than infantry in that attack). The duck is interesting and Suriyakmaps was speculating that the rate of advance in other areas may pick up with the best Ukrainian troops being redeployed, so this would make sense.

pretty sure India and Pakistan basically agreed to peace themselves and the US role was minimal, neither country wanted to endure the cost of escalating the conflict and both had made their point

Trump is just looking for new ppl to hang out with bc his old pal Joe isn’t coming out of the home anymore. I think this was a success for him. He got to show off his jets and his beautiful military men to Putin, and the nasty press didn’t manage to ruin the vibes. Even floated the idea of hanging out in Moscow soon, I bet Putin would show him some cool tanks and gorgeous Russian military men.

have to disagree here. they are people, the more of them we kill the better

let’s not milk him and be reasonable

obviously not your fault that he’s being a worthless parasite scumfuck but in future you should make sure and milk people like this whenever you can

circled the relevant part in red for u

https://hexbear.net/comment/6389886 this thread specifically is where I was called an ultra and also told to join the ACP for criticising Mamdani

This is… Needlessly rude and divisive? Highly uncomradely?

if you can’t even be intransigiently argumentative on the offshoot forum for the chapotraphouse subreddit these days then the internet really is a waste of time

https://hexbear.net/comment/6389886 here, where I was called both in the same comment thread by different people because I was making these arguments.

literally the right wing of the DSA and a large part of the membership is what i’m describing

It’s possible to engage with that energy to productive ends, even without believing that his tactics are ultimately going to be successful.

yeah and my point is that this phase of his career is now over. now the game is to point out his issues, point out the deficiencies in the “democratic” structure that make it impossible for him to actually be the figure people wanted him to be. push further left and push for strengthening independent socialist organisations rather than subjugating them to the Democratic apparatus. people who want to keep backing him at this point will end up in the same dustbin as those who still back Bernie and AOC.

it encourages them by giving them a successful template that can defeat DNC fuckery

what, by running popular candidates within the Democratic party? handing them our best political figures while having no ability to actually manage or restrain them according to the democratic will of an independent socialist organisation? how does that defeat the DNC?

he is normalizing pro-Palestinian sentiment

millions of people going into the streets and voicing these sentiments for years normalised it, not a single politician. you have it backwards and this is a liberal mode of thinking.

he’s a newly divergent tributary that can one day transform into its own river

Bernie and a number of other candidates were already this and they’ve since proved their ultimate worthlessness, the phase of struggle in which these candidates are useful to the left is over.

That they’re trying to do the cooption now doesnt change what happened.

yes, but it means something, doesn’t it? are you being dense on purpose?

of course he’s not nearly as bad as Biden on zionism, which isn’t what I said. what I said was that using “the zionazis went crazy over this guy!” as an argument doesn’t make sense bc they’re deranged nazi who scream and shit about literally any candidate that isnt Donald Trump, and were blaming Joe Biden for the campus uprisings. The fact is however that while he’s not pro-israel he’s also not good enough on Palestine that we can just disengage our brains and stop criticising him from the left, which a lot of people seem to want to do.

what hasnt happened and isn’t going to happen, the scolding? the scolding that’s happening right now?

it’s pissing off libs

is it though, are you sure they’re still pissed off, do you not think that getting a call from Obama might be a sign that they’re getting a little smarter about him

israeli organisations also denounced Joe Biden btw that’s not a good argument

OP you’re about to get brow-beaten by the half of this website that still believes running candidates under the Democratic banner is a productive use of socialist time and energy, in the year 2025. You’re going to get called an ultra and a patsoc all at once by these people who apparently learned nothing from the past several election cycles in America.

those “falling for it” = the large number of (well-intentioned) socialists who are now saying “wow we need to do Mamdani style campaigns everywhere!” and insisting that organisations that could be doing better work with their manpower throw themselves into stupid electoralism because of this

and of course we can’t ignore that his politics might breathe new life into a Democratic party that was looking to be on its last legs

basically it’s not particularly good to have socialist organising be redirected towards electoralism as the primary field of political struggle, and the hyper-focus on Mamdani and candidates like him achieves that. if he was a candidate running under the name of an actual independent party which could hold him to certain lines and not just have him end up being a new flavour of Democrat, that would be different.

makes sense to go big or go home in that case. show them a real felony assault.

ultimately, we are all just waiting for the American “ancien regime is bankrupt” moment

holy shit, the Russians took Tors’ke