If she runs in the Dem primary she’ll do about as well as she did in 2020.

The point about China is that even if you don’t believe they’re Real Communists, they at least all act the part, so a Real Communist could rise through the ranks more easily there than in most other places. Say you’re a Real Communist in France or Mexico, for example. If you openly talk about Lenin, or the dictatorship of the proletariat, or how labor creates all value, you’re going to have big chunks of the political sphere openly call for you to be exiled from political life, if not worse. A Real Communist will not get that pushback in China, because there everyone is at least pretending to endorse those ideas, so Real Communists have comparatively easy paths to power.

In the DSA, everyone is at least pretending to subscribe to socialism. It’s right there in the name! So while someone who really believes that might struggle in other parties, or in the broader U.S. political sphere, they’re going to get comparatively less attacks from the right in the DSA.

I don’t know anything about this lady. I’m saying that if there was a pretty cool politican out there, it would be easier to succeed rising through the DSA than anywhere else in the U.S.

Years ago I was reading some “is China really communist?” argument and ran across the following point:

Whatever you think about the current character of the Chinese government, everyone there openly says they’re communist, reads a bunch of communist literature, names their main party “communist,” etc. If they aren’t communist, it’s hard to imagine a better not-already-communist place for an actual communist to rise to power.

Something similar applies to the DSA.

“Thank god the military respects my bodily autonomy” I say to the doctor about to amputate my IED-mangled leg

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to do sick parkour flips

Arrogance, and/or intelligence community connections

I’m guessing:

1. $75 million is couch cushion money for Google, and
2. This is a bid to de-stigmatize the use of AI in reputable media.

permanently lose the majority of future storage

What do you mean by this?

I don’t think it’s near the point where the military would have to ration yet, but gas prices would probably jump and there might be some actual commercial shortages, too.

Hard to imagine the cops arresting her at 4:30 in the morning without getting special direction to do so.

Rod Stewart is almost certainly a piece of shit, but there’s a world of difference between an old man putting on a concert and an old man watching a game in a box.

I’m puttin this whole town in my rear view mirror

The thing that really blasts a hole in the neck of any conspiracy theory is that he was maybe a third-tier rodeo clown who had very little mainstream visibility

What’s the DSA angle here?

The white “working class” in the US have no revolutionary potential

I’ve read Settlers and don’t find it convincing. If you found it convincing, why quote someone from another imperial core proletarian movement?

Boiling it down to “Bernie killed Rosa” is not a good response to someone digging into the details of what she wrote.

And while there’s stuff worth considering here, we’re in a radically different situation than she was.

Sounds more like the new state (USSR) seized what was either property of the old state, or personal property of the Romanovs (the line may be fuzzy, I’m not a Russian lawyer). Then Stalin became its “guardian,” which sounds more like he was keeping the collection from being looted/sold off than personally owning it and treating it as his individual property. Him adding to it, it still being around today, and it being owned by the Georgian government all tracks with this.

Seems like a pet project more than anything. I could see an argument that he should have done something else with it, but it’s pretty small in the scheme of things, and I can also see keeping this around for diplomatic events or cultural reasons.

I’m investing in me

Arresting them would be called authoritarian.

There’s a parallel to joining a gang out of economic desperation. It’s also helpful to keep in mind that mitigation doesn’t have to be a get out of jail free card.