Of course I had Guatemala in mind writing this. Guatemala did it already, America and Peru are trying to achieve it themselves. America nearly has accomplished this. Peru is having a much harder time due to significantly higher class consciousness, and social awareness is higher as dictatorship has always loomed close, but they continue sliding
You and your family will be ok and return to your homeland within our lifetimes, inshallah.
I can not imagine a geopolitical situation arising within even the distant future that could possibly produce a more contemptible comprador state than Jordan. Frankly, I await its dissolution nearly as badly as I await that of the Zionist entity
The irony of this all is that this further exposes the U.S. car manufacturers to the risk of the Chinese EV market becoming totally globally dominant, possibly even domestically extremely competitive within the US.
If Tesla loses the subsidy that makes their cars significantly more appealing to US consumers compared to gas cars, they are having their largest and most reliable customer base (and therefore, income) slashed right out from underneath them.
Europe was already ditching Tesla in record time. They desperately needed American car buyers to hold their line and now they can kiss that goodbye.
Did the PRC not recognize it? I feel like I remember that happening almost immediately
Don’t worry, if more than a tent was necessary to eliminate millions of its inhabitants, I’m sure America could figure out how to move heaven and earth to make it happen
President Xi, release the butt plug protein
Don’t sweat it too much. Only a handful of canvassers were getting paid (less than 100 out of 50000 if I had to estimate) and it was mostly to have people on staff who were fluent in one or more of the rarer languages found around the city to reach enclaves of particular language speakers that were hard to find regular volunteers for.
If that does describe you though, keep your eyes on the site around the second half of this month. Some new positions like that should be opening up. It’s pretty much all assessment and drafting up strategy for the time being.
He literally doesn’t have to ban elections to effectively be a dictator. Maybe he will not personally be a dictator, but Republicans will be able to maintain ideological dictatorship after having waged unabashed and unhindered (thanks to the democrats) lawfare for the last several decades that has allowed them to manipulate local and national election outcomes by choosing where certain people vote, and finally they have achieved another goal of theirs by winning the ability to choose who is even able to be a citizen (and thus vote) in the first place.
Genuinely, it is better for the Republican agenda to NOT let Trump become a dictator. Americans may genuinely be interested in engaging in political and social uprising against an outright political situation like that. As long as democrats can nationally shepherd voters to an agenda the average dem voter calculates to be “resistance,” elections are far more useful to republicans than a dictator. Whether they realize or care about it, democrats have played directly into republicans’ hands by standing for nothing material in the past several elections beyond not being the other guys. Republicans are sending their thanks every single day that democrats have stood for nothing and are doing exactly no organizing or mobilizing around material issues that would easily win them elections.
Republicans have the votes to pass their bill that includes evils such as (but not limited to) kicking 15 million Americans off of their health insurance and giving ICE a budget more than half that of the PRC’s entire military (37x higher than the budget of the entire DPRK military for those keeping score at home.) Republicans expanded on the democrats idea of detention centers for undocumented people, constructed/opened a concentration camp in 8 days, and are now selling merch about it. It really makes you wonder: what exactly did the supposed “opposition” party spend the past month doing in preparation for this bill to be voted on?
They spent the entire time trying to create a national debate (surrounding a local election, mind you) intentionally smearing one of the most popular candidates for office their party has had in decades as an antisemite despite the fact he has never said one remotely disparaging thing about the Jewish people in his life. All of this because he is taking the moderate, NOW MAJORITY POSITION of Democratic constituents, of expressing more sympathy with the Palestinian people than Israelis.
A decades altering bill passed without an iota of organizing or warning their constituents against it, and without scoring the easiest political slam dunk of the past several decades by choosing not to blast anti-Republican propaganda about how the bill will negatively impact those living in majority republican areas. It’s so fucking sickening and deeply irredeemable that it sounds fake.
You can’t even call this controlled opposition. Literally the only thing we have ever seen it do effectively is mobilize its wealthy donors and wage bureaucratic lawfare in order to torpedo its own popular candidates who dare step a single toe out of line of complete compliance with the conservative political agenda of the national bourgeois.
Who up reopening they tunnel to they nuclear laboratory?
Comrade DeBlasio states that he would bravely act as a human shield to protect Chairman Mamdani from the fascistic forces that wish to crush our people’s revolution.
All jokes aside, pretty cool to see DeBlasio stepping up to support Zohran the way he has, even if it’s mostly due to the DeBlasio-Cuomo blood feud. Most based thing DeBlasio has done since supporting the Sandinistas
Presumptively assuming Lenin will be wrong usually doesn’t end well
”Give him a follow, he’s going to go far.”
An openly Democratic Socialist Candidate in the United States of America is now within striking distance of winning mayorship of the city that is the beating heart of American capitalism. In only 8 1/2 months of campaigning we have gone from 1% in the polls to now being the electoral favorite.
This is perhaps a long shot, but if you are reading this, we are still looking for people to work the phones for Zohran today and tomorrow! No requirement to live in NYC, just to have a US phone number. We have 9 different phonebanking times today and offer 27 second language options! We need all of the help we can get to win this, and every little bit helps. Please consider signing up for a shift here even if you can only make a few calls.
As somebody working for the campaign, I’m not really supposed to say this, but if you don’t feel comfortable using personally identifiable information, you can use a fake name, burner email, and Google voice number. I don’t really care. We need people working the phones. Zohran is not even above 90% name recognition yet among potential voters, and 4% of voters are still undecided. If even one of you signs up, please let me know so I can recognize you for your efforts to the community here.
JERUSALEM — Since Friday, the same dramatic exchange has played out more than a half-dozen times over the skies of Israel: A barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles come streaking in. A flurry of Israeli defensive interceptors rise to knock out most, but not all, of the incoming volley.
One key question is how long each side can keep up. The answer may affect how long the conflict could last.
Israeli intelligence officials estimated that Iran had about 2,000 missiles capable of traveling 1,200 miles to hit Israel, but a significant fraction was destroyed the moment Israel’s covert operatives in Iran and its fighter jets launched a surprise attack early Friday, kicking off the conflict.
Since then, Israeli military officials say that Iran has launched roughly 400 missiles from its remaining stockpile and Israeli strikes have eliminated 120, or one-third, of Iran’s missile launchers. Moreover, Israeli officials announced Monday that they had attained air superiority over Tehran ahead of schedule, meaning they could further limit the Iranian forces’ ability to carry out launches.
Already, the intensity of Iran’s barrages appear to be sharply dropping. After firing more than 150 missiles on the first night of the conflict, Friday, Iran fired a barrage of just 10 on Tuesday afternoon.
“Iran has to make a very, very difficult calculation, because they have a limited amount of missiles, and considering the rate of fire, they cannot replenish in real time,” said Fabian Hinz, a military analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Hinz noted that even the 150 missiles fired Friday night were less than the 200 Iran fired at Israel in October in retaliation for Israel’s assassination of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders.
Even so, Israeli analysts caution that more than half of Iran’s arsenal remains intact, and an unknown quantity of missiles may be hidden in underground depots.
And while Israel has significantly degraded Iran’s attack capabilities, mounting a defense has been costly for Israel. The Marker, a leading Israeli financial newspaper, reported that missile defense costs Israel as much as 1 billion shekels, or roughly $285 million, a night.
As a result, observers say, a long war of attrition between Israel and Iran may not be possible — at least at the current intensity.
Without resupplies from the United States or greater involvement by U.S. forces, some assessments project Israel can maintain its missile defense for 10 or 12 more days if Iran maintains a steady tempo of attacks, said an individual briefed on U.S. and Israeli intelligence assessments, adding that as early as later this week, Israel’s systems may only be able to intercept a smaller proportion of missiles because of a need to ration defensive munitions. “They will need to select what they want to intercept,” said the individual, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. “The system is already overwhelmed.”
Tal Inbar, an Israeli missile expert affiliated with the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance in Virginia, noted that in 2014, Israel sought a ceasefire with Hamas days before it ran out of air defense interceptors. The level of interceptor stocks is a highly sensitive subject in Israel, but “it could be a factor in a ceasefire” this time as well, Inbar said.
Israel employs a multilayered air defense system, consisting of its famous Iron Dome, which intercepts lower-altitude rockets; the David’s Sling and Arrow systems; and expensive Patriot and THAAD missile defense systems delivered from the United States.
Inbar said a problem for Israel is that it largely relies on the relatively expensive Arrow system, which fires missiles that cost $3 million each, to counter attacks from Iran. While inexpensive and mass-produced Iron Dome interceptors are useful against rudimentary rockets fired by Hamas, the Iron Dome is as ineffective as “shooting a 9-millimeter pistol” at heavy Iranian missiles that hurtle through the outer atmosphere at several times the speed of sound, Inbar said.
On Friday night, Israeli air defenses failed to stop Iranian missiles that narrowly missed the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces but slammed into central Tel Aviv. On Sunday night, an Iranian missile took a major oil refinery near Haifa offline.
And on Tuesday morning, videos filmed from nearby and posted on social media, which The Post verified, showed four impacts from Iranian missiles in the vicinity of Israel’s intelligence headquarters, north of Tel Aviv. None of the four appeared to strike Mossad headquarters, landing hundreds of meters away, but one impacted inside Camp Moshe Dayan, a nearby site that reportedly hosts Israel’s military intelligence headquarters and Unit 8200, the country’s premier signals intelligence unit.
Iran’s state media reported claims made by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that it successfully killed Israeli intelligence and military officials, but those claims could be confirmed. The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
As of Tuesday, the Israeli government said that only 35 out of 400 missiles fired by Iran made impact — an interception success rate of more than 90 percent. Twenty-four civilians have been killed, with more than 600 injured, the government said.
Iranian authorities said that 224 people had been killed by Israeli strikes as of Sunday, the most recent figures available. They did not differentiate between military and civilian casualties. In several cases, Israeli missiles and drones have struck densely packed apartment buildings to kill Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists in their homes. On Monday, Israel also struck the headquarters of Iran’s state broadcaster after Defense Minister Israel Katz pledged that “the mouthpiece of Iranian propaganda” would “disappear.” After the strike, the Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted an Iranian military “communication center” but did not offer evidence of a military presence at the location.
Jim Lamson, a former intelligence analyst focused on Iranian munitions and now a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said Iran’s missile capabilities will continue to decline because Israel is now targeting its production facilities.
“Assuming their regime doesn’t change, or assuming they don’t agree to give up their missiles as part of a ceasefire, they’re going to have a huge problem reconstituting their ballistic missile forces,” Lamson said. “That is going to be a big result of how much Israel is able to damage and destroy their production facilities for missiles.”
Read the article without a paywall here, (FUCK the New York Times)
This hit piece came out at the conclusion of the second day of early voting here in NYC, where totals for days 1 & 2 are nearly double those from our last mayoral election cycle in 2021, despite miserable rainy weather on both days. 
Additionally, some early voter demographics are in as well, 
and they bring some troubling news to the political establishment, who are deeply invested in seeing the failure of Zohran Mamdani’s openly democratic socialist campaign. When Mamdani launched his campaign in November of 2024, he was polling at a mere 1%, with only 12% name recognition. After a meteoric rise through a well communicated ad campaign across social media platforms, Zohran Mamdani has been able to reach all of the voters that traditional Democratic Party politics have been hemmorhaging recently: young people, Muslim voters, and white men, which has brought Mamdani’s campaign to a near tie (49%-51%) with disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo in the final round of ranked choice voting.
High voter turnout and enthusiasm are extremely important factors if Mamdani wants to win, and with two days of voting in the books, some trends have emerged. At many election precincts (including my own), the Mamdani campaign canvassers were the only ones present, handing out campaign material and ranked choice voting instructions in multiple languages tailored to the neighborhood each polling place is located.
Disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo has already committed to running an independent campaign for mayor in the general election if he loses the Democratic primary. Additionally, current (also disgraced) current mayor Eric Adams has committed to running an independent campaign for mayor in the general election. The Working Families Party, a minor party slightly to the left of Democrats here in New York, has stated that they are strongly considering running a Mamdani campaign in the general election should he lose the Democratic primary. Republicans will also field a candidate, meaning the upcoming general election will be contested by at least 4 major candidates.
I posted this to Hexbear 4 years ago. Zohran probably knows the grandpa egg monopoly meme. Please canvass for him if you can
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