That’s an interesting idea. I wonder if that’s the case. It would be pretty easy to implement. Let me roll it around in my head for a bit. I might make a thread to get users opinion on the idea too.

Is it that “new math” everyone keeps telling me about?

Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve updated the story with the body text from the site.

lol, ok. I’m not interested in people who are not interested in learning, or listening. So peace out.

Blaming “protest‑non‑voters” for ICE brutality misses why Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election, and why Democrats keep failing vulnerable communities.

Yes, Gaza cost Harris votes: about 422,000 Democratic‑leaning voters stayed home or voted third‑party, with roughly 122,380 directly linked to protest (Al‑Shabaka). But protest voters were a smaller factor compared to the 6.8 million former Biden voters who switched sides or stayed home due to broader campaign failures (Common Dreams).

The Democratic Party’s own autopsy points to larger failures: voter disenchantment as millions switched sides or stayed home, a chaotic primary process, abandoning the working class to court Republicans and donors, alienating young and minority voters over Gaza and the economy, and losing Black and Latino voters who shifted toward Trump (NPR).

ICE brutality isn’t a Trump‑only problem. Obama deported a record 2.7 million people (Migration Policy Institute). Biden’s Title 42 expulsions removed over 2.5 million migrants without asylum hearings (PBS NewsHour). The agency’s culture of violence was built by successive administrations.

When we blame individuals who refused to vote for a candidate supporting genocide, we ignore why Democrats offered such a candidate. The answer isn’t that voters failed the party, it’s that the party failed voters. A political machine funded by corporate donors cannot deliver protection for vulnerable people.

If we want to stop ICE brutality, we need to confront the system that produces both Republican and Democratic presidents who expand its powers. Focusing on “protest‑non‑voters” lets that system off the hook.

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Curious if any of you could do a better job of explaining this persons position here.

Agreed.

Yeah, it’s not about mining at all. Somalia doesn’t have major US mining ops, but it’s strategically crucial for three big reasons:

1. Somalia controls the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, where 10% of global trade passes (Al Jazeera, Feb 2026). Keeping that sea lane open (and under US influence) is a top priority for the Pentagon.

2. Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti is the only permanent US military base in Africa (Manara Magazine, July 2025). Having an unstable Somalia next door justifies keeping that base open and lets the US monitor rivals like China (which has its own base in Djibouti) and Turkey (which just built a naval base in Mogadishu) (ISSF, Nov 2025).

3. Turkey discovered about 20 billion barrels of oil there last year (Somali Guardian, May 2025). The US wants to make sure rivals don’t lock down those resources and that any future development happens under a US‑friendly security umbrella.

The “counterterrorism” justification (al‑Shabaab/ISIS) is the public face, they’ve already hit Somalia 47 times this year, on track to break last year’s record of 124 strikes per the above article. The administration now frames the groups as a potential “homeland threat” to justify the escalation (CTC Sentinel, July 2025). But the real drivers are securing that vital choke point, maintaining the base, and checking China/Turkey/UAE influence in the Horn.

Sudan’s different because the RSF is backed by UAE/Saudi, who are US allies. The US isn’t going to bomb its partners’ proxies. Religion isn’t the deciding factor; it’s who’s aligned with whom in the regional power game.

Hezbollah’s been hitting back with a mix of rockets, drones, and artillery, mostly targeting northern Israeli communities and troops. Here are some specifics from the last few days:

• Rocket attacks: On March 22, Hezbollah fired a rocket barrage at the northern Israeli community of Misgav Am, killing one person (Al Jazeera). That same day, they launched 85 attack waves, the highest single-day total since the conflict began, with the majority being rockets/missiles (Alma Research).

• Drone (UAV) strikes: In those same 85 waves, 18 were carried out with offensive drones. They’ve also used anti-aircraft missiles against Israeli drones (Alma Research).

• Targets and tactics: Their operations are focused on Israeli military gatherings, armored vehicles, and bases along the border, as well as towns in the Galilee. On the ground, they’re using anti-tank guided munitions and artillery to resist Israeli advances into southern Lebanon (The Guardian).

• Scale: Since the latest round of fighting began on March 2, over 865 attack waves have been recorded, showing they’re prepared for a sustained conflict (Alma Research).

So, beyond the general statement in the article, the retaliation has involved specific, daily attacks with a variety of weapons, causing casualties and keeping pressure on Israel’s northern border.

Barbarism.

This man is a demon, it is true, but you can do better than using a misogynistic slur, come on now.

Just in time for war.

Maybe Kamala Harris should have read the fucking room.

Any time!

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These student walk outs have been great to see. The kids are all right.

“National attention on Minnesota has waned with the departure of Bovino and rhetoric by Homan that things are de-escalating,” the group noted, but recent data and reports from commuters in the field did not support those conclusions. Despite orders to the contrary, the group continued, “Agents continue to draw their weapons and deploy chemical agents against observers.”

This is how things usually go, isn’t it? Some kind of false “change” is made, one that functionally changes nothing, like the Gaza “ceasefire” or in this case the departure of Bovino, and it acts as a kind of signal to the wider media that this “conflict” has ended. The media shifts focus, attention is moved elsewhere, and the events actually escalate.

This is pretty fair. The US banned the use of Kaspersky in 2024. If I was the CPC I wouldn’t trust CrowdStrike either.

Probably more likely talking around each other. The agreement is that Nazism needs to be scrubbed out everywhere. I disagree that “These aren’t US forces as long a the nazis are in control.” Unless you also agree that Nazis have always been in control of US forces. To put it another way, when I read your comment it read similar to “This isn’t what American is about!” which, it is what America is about, and has always been about. To put it one other way, Donald Trump didn’t suddenly make America a Nazi state, he just removed its mask. That’s all. From our genocidal expansion westward, to our system of slavery and then apartheid after, dropping two atomic weapons on civilian populations, to our genocide in Korea in the 40s, to our imperialist wars through the 90s and 2010s, to our proxy genocide in Palestine. This is just another footprint in our path as we tread across the earth.

If you have a similar assessment, then we’re on the same page. If not, then we’re not on the same page.

I’m going to ask you to put a sarcasm tag on this one.

To quote someone involved in the organizing happening in MN regarding this article:

Pretty good but, of course, I found these points annoying:

6. With a revolutionary leadership, the movement could have gone significantly further. The mood and potential for an all-out general strike were 100% present. This could have shut down not only small businesses, schools, and cultural institutions, but the major levers of the economy: transportation, energy, communications, logistics, manufacturing, etc. After Alex Pretti’s murder, this could have spread across the country. The trade union bureaucrats did everything in their power to direct the energy of the masses into safe channels. Pressure from below had forced them to set a date for a “day of action,” but they conspicuously avoided doing anything more. What was required was to widen and spread the neighborhood committees into the workplaces, and above all to link them through elected representatives into a citywide body accountable to the mass assemblies and capable of coordinating the movement. Armed with this program, a Marxist cadre organization of even just 500 or 1,000 members rooted in workplaces across key industries in Minneapolis-St. Paul could have made all the difference.

9. The only real weakness of the US working class is its lack of a revolutionary party. The roughly 160 million wage and salary workers in America constitute a potentially unstoppable power, but this potential cannot be fully realized unless and until it has a leadership worthy of the name. In Minnesota, we saw the immense creativity of the working class when it is pushed into action, but also the clear limits of spontaneity on its own. To go further, and to eventually win political and economic power, the working class needs a Marxist leadership. A mass revolutionary party could harness the power of the working class to transform society on socialist lines.

The organizing of the two strikes - both city specific on 1/23 and nationwide on 1/30 - were led on the ground by a Marxist vanguard party: . It was PSL that dedicated over a hundred cadre on the ground to full-time outreach in Minneapolis in the week leading up to 1/23. Then cadre deployed their skills across the country to push for a national day on 1/30 which was hugely successful. It was PSL that made the call to push for 1/30 (at the behest of the Somali student groups who called for it in Minneapolis) and did all the initial work in cities across the country. It was the Marxist leadership and dedicated party cadre of PSL that made this happen. They did it while FRSO in the Twin Cities actively opposed it, abdicating and potential for their leadership of the movement, and while RCA was nowhere to be found.

Marxist.com is unfortunately a Trotskyist international organization and as such is pretty sectarian at times. There is mass organizing happening in MN, and there is a Marxist party doing their fair share of that organizing. Their other points remain well stated, but their comments on the actual organizing on the ground are strictly not based in reality.