Erdoğan is a 🐍. He’s just afraid Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are winning the Muslim world to their side.

I mean, the U.S. invaded Iraq and Afghanistan with effectively zero pushback or consequences. I think Israel, backed by the U.S., is in the process of creating such a paradigm shift for itself.

My thoughts on Israel’s plan. Given their complete collapse into genocidal fascism:

• Humiliate Muslim nations. If Muslim nations don’t respond Israel will have set a new paradigm where they know they can do anything they like and there’s no precedent for intervention. Then, use that to expand into the Sinai and Jordan, possibly more.

• If there is intervention: go nuclear. The US might think it will benefit from a contained nuclear conflict by testing out strategies of containing a nuclear conflict. Israel may think it will benefit by restoring the possibility of nuclear war and use that to expand into the Sinai and Jordan, possibly more.

I really think it’s a mistake to not do an oil blockade. The surrounding Arab nations are sealing their fate and will come to regret acting in self interest today.

Non-Zionist search engines?

I started noticing it’s increasingly difficult to find anti-Zionist resources using any search engine, Bing, Duckduck, Google, Qwant, Freespoke, etc.

My key search term was “sea to river,” which is the Zionist antithesis of “River to the sea.” Even with quotes, mainstream search engines results would either be empty or flooded with River-to-sea results. It wasn’t like that a few days ago. Pretty clear there’s a concerted effort effort to control the narrative by making it impossible to know the real history and intentions of Zionism.

I found Yandex to be fairly unbiased and was able to return ample results.

What is Greater Israel and the Yinon Plan? This is why Muslim nations need to take the current operation in Palestine very seriously. Being two faced and publicly criticizing Israel while doing nothing to help Palestinians will eventually blow up in their faces:

https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/amp/what-is-greater-israel-why-is-the-idea-not-acceptable-to-the-muslim-community-1621507466-1

Personally, I try to avoid bringing politics up with friends, even though it’s temping and every aspect of personal life is touched by the base of capitalism.

Instead, I just insert criticisms about everyday things and how it could be better. Within limits, of course. But, for example, I think it really helps people wake up to realize both major political parties in the US do the same things, but use different words.

Slowly, slowly your friends will wake up and one day you’ll find them ranting about the illegal and unjust land theft in Palestine.

Personally, I think we should want anyone and everyone who supports a transition to socialism. Even in the extreme bILLIonAres so long as they understand their role to play shouldn’t be in any form of leadership. Ideological purity should be melted away in the light of materialist reality. Western communists have been tricked into publicly outing themselves and fighting with one hand and two feet bound together by “praxis.”

I think you’re being very ideological. Organizations have a bias towards growing membership. I used to be a devout Christian and EVERY church I went to had a reason why they were the correct church and how church membership was critical and you weren’t a real Christian if you weren’t a member of the right church. I see the same thing emerge with communists.

I’m not part of the vanguard. I’m not the next Fidel Castro. I’m not going to die for the cause. I have something to lose and I don’t want to be a martyr. I want to personally enjoy socialism in my lifetime. I have no ambitions of being a career communist.

What I’ll do is educate myself and others, and wait watchfully to understand the moment. In the right moment, when a non-grifter party emerges that doesn’t seem to be a 3-letter honeypot, I’ll lend my backing.

Until there is such a moment(there may never be in my lifetime in the US), I personally think the best thing a US resident we can do is oppose US imperialism and hegemony. It’s unsatisfying and makes you unpopular in both liberal and conservative spaces. Opposing the US war/finance machine from within the empire helps create room outside the empire. I don’t have to dive headlong into some revolutionary fantasy that ruins my life to make a difference.

In fact, I think gatekeeping communism, engaging in commie core aesthetics, judging people over what job they do to survive, fantasizing about violent revolution or generally engaging in talk about violence is counterproductive and turns people away and ultimately diminishes the momentum.

Ask yourself; would you rather have a tiny ideologically pure, but poor/dead/imprisoned vanguard or a large, educated, financially strong proletariat?

I think this too.

My evidence is that in August 2019 the US completed a clinical trial for a MERS vaccine that provides the technological breakthrough that allowed all the top tier Covid vaccines to work. Also, there’s the thing where US intelligence agencies warned Israeli intelligence agencies about an outbreak in China, before China knew or could know there was an outbreak.

The coincidence of the US just having developed a vaccine that took nearly a decade to get a breakthrough and then the outbreak in China happening a couple of months later is just too perfect. Had they waited longer, China would have preemptively started developing a vaccine based off that research. US intelligence agencies probably misjudged just how long it would take to ramp up production of the vaccine, likely mislead by industry insiders excited to gobble up billions of dollars.

I also don’t know why no one is talking about the MERS vaccine and how US pharma pretended to discover effective vaccines at “Warp Speed.”

In the United States? Right now, that’s how you end up on a list and secretly blackballed from gainful employment.

I just don’t know if it’s possible to “be a communist” in any effective way, according to your definition, in the US.

There is value in learning and having conversations with people. You don’t need to formally organize with and donate to some FBI honey pot to be the real deal.