People on this website are so fucking negative. Nothing is going to happen until 8 PM so go outside, touch grass, and stop stewing in negativity. Think about how we, as the very small organized left can best counter this. No, ANSWER and PSL are not a psyop. No, protesting tomorrow is not a waste of time — we need to build the anti war movement in the US. Yes, Americans are brain dead and initial protests against the war against Iran fizzled out. Yes, as revolutionaries, as cadre, as leftists we need to meet people where they are and shove them left. Grow the fuck up and take action. You people are the reason that high school students are leading the leftist movement in many cities, bitterness, doomerism and perfectionism gets us nowhere. Go outside and organize, I don’t care how, I don’t care if it’s with the national call to action but do anything other than splitscreening Telegram and Hexbear for hours at a time
Upon rereading this post I conclude that that was an unhinged rant. I stand by what I said though
Yeah stand by it, because you aren’t wrong at all. I misfired a comment about it being a psyop and realized how shortsighted it was when some other commenters pointed out the specific organizations involved. I should do better.
I appreciate the levelheaded perspective even in rant form.
Best post on this site
nomination for new tagline
Thank you. There were a couple of responses I almost crashed out on with this post.
Cool cool cool schedule the protest for the day after the “tonight” in the “civilization will die tonight”
How much do the commemorative buttons cost, can I get a beer cozy too?
Realistically no amount of protests or even outright violent riots that pop up on short notice in response to a tweet are likely to dissuade Trump’s course of action in the short time remaining. He’s living in an info bubble for one so most likely he’d just see limited amount of violence on Fox called “Iranian agents cause chaos in last ditch attempt to stop Trump” without understanding anything of the scale or breadth of it. For another short notice protests are smaller than bigger ones. An emergency protest attended by all American cadres and a handful of liberals will do even less of a nothing than a big set-up protest that has time to gather a greater participation rate. Feeling good about yourself by setting up an immediate protest is not important. It’s not that Trump will see it and reconsider, that won’t happen, so it’s about materially getting as many people together as you can on a short notice and unfortunately Trump was not kind enough to tell us he’d do this days ago so he and the empire have the element of timing on their side.
So no matter what we were looking at a post-event protest which is bad but let’s be honest Americans are a lost cause who care mainly about themselves and if Trump were to nuke Iran and gas prices dropped in two weeks most Americans would shrug indifferently, say they disagree with the methods but like the result and life would continue on in the empire. Fact is Americans should have been mobilizing en mass since the start of the war on Iran but they haven’t. Trump lives in an info bubble and doesn’t know, doesn’t care anything not fed to him by his advisors and sees things only through that lens. Nixon at least saw the protestors and knew what they were upset about and who they were (not foreign agents, not smuggled in commies but angry Americans), Trump doesn’t even know that, I think he really believes his advisors when they tell him they’re all paid undocumented immigrants sent by Soros and China.
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The negativity in this thread is wild
Yeah I don’t get it. Grass touching is good. This is a good reason to touch grass.
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Yeah but Americans are incredibly stunted politically. Its like putting cheese around the deworming pill, its the only way the old dog is going to eat it.
I think using domestic issues to convince liberals that war and genocide are bad is fine. You have to reach people where they’re at.
I thought you were talking about this website for a hot minute
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That’s a lie. If anybody believes this, you should go look at the website:
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the posters on the website are all only how this negatively affects americans
Huh huh huh
Were the 168 school girls American (underlined for focus) or were they not negatively affected?
Or is it your belief that you actually should never mention that imperialism also has negative effects at home? That’s not even left liberal, that’s right liberal.
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I called you a liar because you lied and used that lie to call for violence against literally the only people organizing against the war in the US.
But is it not pathetic that all sorry- most domestic “leftist” political campaigns have to lead with “how imperialism also has negative effects at home”?
Do you have one single example of a revolution that wasn’t primarily concerned about what was happening at home? Call it pathetic, but there has never in human history been a revolution just because of what was happening ‘over there’.
A significant amount of the posters on that site emphasize that this war only benefits the wealthy, as if it’d somehow be more just should the average U.S citizen enjoy the spoils instead.
Or just an extremely straightforward explanation of the Leninist understanding of imperialism. When he said monopoly capital caused the war for their own gain, was it because he wanted three Russian workers and peasants to get the spoils?
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But is it not pathetic that
allsorry- most domestic “leftist” political campaigns have to lead with “how imperialism also has negative effects at home”?When agitating amongst a population you have to speak to their material interests
our tax dollars
oh goodie I was worried the protest wouldn’t try to imply America is a democracy and reformable
The site doesn’t load for me.
Strange. You on a VPN? Working for me on Mullvad.
So with the ceasefire, does anyone know of this is still planned to happen?
Yes, to keep pressure on the US not to break the ceasefire because of westoid perfidy
That’s a very good point
I would assume so.
Yeah it’s still up on my local PSL instaso I think it must be, feels a bit neutered now though ngl
Psyop ass website
EDIT: Didn’t realize the associations involved when I hip fired this comment off. Thanks for checking me on my cynicism posting. <3
I guess the PSL is a psyop then. Answer Coalition’s national director is the Co-Founder of the PSL.
No, definitely not what I was intending to say. I didn’t know that, so thanks for putting me in check.
Its all good. Thanks for listening!
the ANSWER Coalition is PSL’s protest umbrella group
Fair enough, I didn’t realize that.
