znonymous [comrade/them, love/loves]

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  • Every single time I get the rare chance to witness someone trying to organize more than ten people to do anything vaguely political, like talk about taking concrete steps to stop our government from unaliving children in other countries, it is plain how incredibly difficult the resulting onslaught of naysayers and argumentative donothings is.

    I wish I knew what to say. I wish I could do what you are doing. But I have some truly insane circumstances that make fulfilling my responsibilities to my family feel truly overwhelming. So I can't even begin to consider working on an organizational project.







  • Well, to be fair -- every tiny little thing that anybody ever assembled that did something as advertised even a little bit at demo time was raved about by the sycophant theater in every company I've ever worked. When the thing was eventually deployed and nobody used it because it had some fatal flaw, it was still praised by management as an epic success, and then forgotten about by everyone, because so long as a thing that functions at all is around to point at, then that's a notch on the belt for any mid level manager at review time. Gotta climb that ladder.



  • The right fails to understand that people with Jewish heritage and lineage have just as diverse politics as anyone else. There are just as many supremacists and Capitalists as there are staunch humanists and Communists to be found among people of any ethnic backgrounds.

    The only difference is how societies decide to deal those who internalize ideologies that have anti-human and anti-social conclusions.


  • Yes, the blockade has been preventing shipments recently.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/clock-ticks-cuba-trump-cuts-off-venezuelan-oil-2026-01-13/

    I think the interim administration is now cooperating with US demands to cease shipments in the future also. I presume this is because the US doesn't want to have to continue interception operations with its military.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/5/venezuelan-interim-leader-tones-down-criticism-ready-to-work-with-the-us

    I am trying to figure out if my understanding on this situation is accurate.

    If my understanding is accurate, then I wonder if this article might be somehow mistaken -- it seems to be suggesting that the kidnapping of Maduro has not made a significant difference in Venezuelan policies or in its opposition to imperialism.

    Edit: Nevermind, I see now that the article is not saying that there have not been policy shifts, but rather that those shifts are simply the bare minimum ground yielded in order to fight another day. Still, this seems dire for Cuba. An extremely disappointing situation.