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[–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like a massive portion of people are missing the point of this post and jump to the conclusion that OP is some Zionist uncle Sam loving conservative that hates anything slightly left of centre.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Nah, they didn't miss the point at all, they're just intentionally acting in bad faith.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

You joke but that's why Stalin supported the KMT. (European Imperialism)

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago

Imperlialism!

[–] febra@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah man shoot against tankies while your country is ruled by zionist pedophile warmongers.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

If you look hard enough around Caleb Maupin/patsoc circles, you might find examples of that.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

something something something ALAMO!

[–] AviAdi@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

In honor of labor day and all those who sacrificed for better working conditions I’ve been thinking of ways to make our voices heard. I think protesting at FAA air traffic facilities is a great option. If we keep controllers from accessing their jobs the air space shuts down. This would be a huge blow to Trump!

Let me explore how we organize these protests. The beauty is most of these employees are sick of going to work because they HATE TRUMP! They just need to see the public is on their side and we need to give them a reason to not show up for work! Air traffic controllers think their duty is to go to work and pretend everything is normal, if we protest right in front of them they will know the public wants them to act!

We will also not hurt the individual. The air traffic centers where there is a higher volume of controllers are paid very well. They also have great union benefits. Including leave pay called “weather leave”, which is usually time paid for absence from work due to adverse conditions. Well protests right outside their workplace is an adverse condition and the union will make sure the federal government pays the individual if they can’t make it to work!

So how do we organize this. I think we should target the air traffic centers “ARTCC”. These are large radar facilities where 100+ employees work every day. They have one gate access point. You can start off small, just on the sidewalk with signage expressing that serving Trump is shitting on the Constitution (this is a common debate between federal employees now) This can be as small as 1 person just out there on the sidewalk peacefully holding up a sign. Totally legal.

Now if we have enough numbers we can start “crossing the street” protests. Pedestrians legally are allowed to cross the street in front of the entrances to these centers and we can utilize slow walking speeds to delay entry to employees. Usually this should be done between 6-9am and 2-6pm as those are shift change hours.

Finally a lot of controllers may find other reasons to not show up to work. Emotional distress, lack of sleep, or fatigue are all Union protected reasons controllers could get PAID time off while we the people protest against the trump regime. Once the administration is deposed the worker individual can return to work normally with little impact to their financial situation!

So now the locations of the centers:

This is the issue, they are typically located outside city areas. So I don’t expect huge numbers of people showing up but like I said, 1 or 2 people protesting is still worth it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._Air_Route_Traffic_Control_Centers?wprov=sfla1

So this is my protest idea. It’s one way to affect Trump adversely, a lot of federal employees are sick of this shit, THEY JUST NEED A REASON SO LET’S SHOW THEM WE WANT THEM TO FUCK TRUMP OVER

So you read all this and you’re still thinking “oh well nothing near me and I can’t do much” Well you probably do have a FAA airport near you with a control tower, you can protest there, or many other agencies that are run by the federal government. Finally you can copy this and spread it. You can edit it if you need to but just spread this idea.

Life in the USA cannot continue to go on as if this is all normal, something has to break! It’s Labor day weekend as I write this, let’s demonstrate labor still has the fucking power!

[–] yogurt@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago

The military bases doing the imperialism are named after those guys and what the Confederacy wanted to do if they won the war was take over Cuba and Venezuela and rename the Gulf of Mexico the American Sea. America is what happens when you aren't a tankie and quit Reconstruction.

yellow Michael Parenti about critical support:

And those who demand instant perfection, the day after the revolution, they get up and say "Are there civil liberties for the fascists? Are they going to be allowed to have their newspapers, and their radio programme? Are they going to be able to keep all their farms?" The passion that some of our liberals feel the day after the revolution, the passion and concern they feel for the fascists—the civil rights and civil liberties of those fascists who were dumping and destroying and murdering people before—now the revolution has got to be perfect! It's got to be flawless! Well, that isn't my criteria! My criteria is, what happens to those people who couldn't read? What happens to those babies who couldn't eat—that died of hunger? And there, that's why I support revolution. The revolution that feeds the children gets my support! Not blindly, not unqualified. And the Reaganite government that tries to stop that kind of process, that tries to keep those people in poverty and illiteracy and hunger—that gets my undiluted animosity and opposition.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

ITT: It's better if USA balkanized

Gee, I wonder who are trying to advocate for this? Surely Russia and China who are attacking Ukraine and encroaching an entire body of ocean, respectively, aren't the ones with an army of online trolls who are promoting this.

[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"Everyone I don't agree with is a Russian bot" 🤡

You and this platform aren't as important as you think.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

*paid Russian shills and useful idiots want US to collapse to promote Russia and China own imperialism.

Happy?

You and this platform aren't as important as you think.

Who cares about the platform? Unless you have superiority complex because you are speaking from well funded St Petersburg Research Institute, comrade?

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately USA works hard on the collapse on their own. 130% debt to GDP? WTF is this, Greek development strategy? On top of stupid trade wars and neglecting renewable energy sector...

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yes Americans are doing it on their own, but the usual suspects are accelerating it through hybrid warfare for obvious reasons. The Far East will become vulnerable to Chinese domination and Europe will become more vulnerable to Russian aggression (although I think even after the conflict in Ukraine, Russia will become second to China).

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Europe will become more vulnerable to Russian aggression

Russian economy is fucked, they burned trade bridges left and right, sent their youth to die in meaningless war in Ukraine got trade sanctioned by most of civilized world, meanwhile China develops renewables and nuclear to reduce dependence on Russian oil exports. Russia is never going to recover.

China is growing to be the next leading global superpower whether we want it or not

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, China will dominate. Democratic middle powers should prepare for a new world.

[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"Oh no, China gonna kill all if American hegemony over" 😂

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

No but ask Philippines, India, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea what could happen to them should communist China dominates. Even ask Vietnam, a country who should in theory align with China.

Keep simping for your team, comrade simperialist.

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

....They said 'communist China'

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCf1obSZ334&pp=ygUPYnVyeWluZyBkZW5naXNt.

Thats how you know they have a negative IQ!

[–] dreamy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

You tell us what could happen to them.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 19 hours ago

They're technically correct. The British never stopped calling the American Revolution a rebellion; the difference is completely subjective. That said, fuck the Confederates, those bitches lost, so the leftovers need to suck it up and move on.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What liberals think tankies think:

The Confederacy fought the US, so that means I like them

What tankies actually think:

The US is the Confederacy and that's why I hate it

[–] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

The OP is definitely sarcastic. It’s very clearly mocking people who simp for countries like Russia simply because of their adversarial relationship with the United States. I have never once seen a liberal sincerely assert that tankies like The Confederacy.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

What tankies actually think:

Wait, why the fuck should anyone care what tankies think?

[–] late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

OBVIOUSLY we should care because it's the internet and loud minorities dominate here, skewing our perception of reality and what political opinions are worth debating today, despite being fringe and unfeasible IRL /s

[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Don't forget how they will also criticize western leftists and progressives endlessly for not being perfect and not even mention the right wing or non-western dictators. Bernie Sanders and AOC are apparently basically Nazis but Stalin was fiiiiine and who even cares about keeping fascists out of power.

[–] stepan@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obligatory fuck the USSR, rest in piss

[–] UnequalExchange@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

ok... but why fuck the USSR?

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[–] Carmakazi@piefed.social 57 points 1 day ago (22 children)

It's consistent. Their goal isn't to uplift the West to leftist values, it's to destroy the West for the sake of Chinese or Russian realpolitik or just plain anti-colonial revenge. A deeply Balkanized US that kills itself and diminishes its own power is one of the best things they could hope for.

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