Waymo has already been operating driverless cabs in San Francisco for months

Erika was just doing a fundraiser for Kamala, definitely not a leftist. I'm a fan of the content a lot of the people in that scene make but most of them are radlibs at best.

yep exactly. as just people to run into at a bar or something most of them are fine, even charming and fun, but for any revolutionary activity I think working with them is an opsec nightmare which will absolutely lead to people like us being thrown under the bus.

When I say doxing I mean things like taking pictures of people, sending them to group chats, cop jacketing, spreading rumors or talking shit about them to other people in these coalitions and orgs, inoculating people against them, posting about them on social media and so on. Using the term as a catch all for wrecker behavior targeted particularly at marxists because they are marxists

I disagree. I'm not online in spaces to deal with keyboard commando anarchists, all my experience is from anarchists on the ground involved with organizing in my community. They will dox a tankie before they do anything to actually challenge capitalism and no exposure to differing perspectives is going to change their minds. They are, like soc dems, volunteer sheep dogs of liberalism who exist to lead newly developing leftists away from Marxism. Anarchists will often suppress materialist thought in organizing spaces and police these spaces in a way to divert energy into useless BS until the momentum dies down and nothing happens. I know quite a few anarchists who became Marxists and the common denominator is that they didn't identity as anarchists for more than a year or two before the reality of organizing in anarchist spaces made it obvious that they needed to look further for answers. Anyone who is an anarchist after their baby leftist phase is basically a volunteer cop in my eyes. I used to be more big tent about it but I have seen anarchists wreck a dozen different organizing arenas in my community, almost all of which were white people fucking up a movement that had the biggest impact on colonized communities. I have seen white anarchists enable fascists and cops, try to dox Muslim organizers, push out Black organizers and more. I have a lot of criticisms of Marxists too but I've never seen them do the type of stuff that I've seen anarchists do to comrades and movements.

Anarchists naively telling on themselves is good for us on an intel level but it doesn't make said anarchists hopeful candidates to develop politically in a better direction, and while make anarchists do make that step forward, most do not.

Sure they use the proxy's name and pretend they aren't led by the CIA but and it is ostensibly the same.

after years of organizing with anarchists on the ground, I don't doubt it at all.

FRSO in my area is backing a neoliberal political candidate because they are "progressive" Unfortunately PSL is probably the best bet but the way they have handled SA and other issues saw my local chapter lose dozens of comrades in a short period which kept me from joining. I know several comrades across the country who left their chapters for being transphobic or handling SA badly, so it unfortunately isn't a local issue to this chapter but an issue across the org.

I ended up joining a group that is only local and I would recommend that above all else - find a group of people who live in your area and will prioritize local struggle before joining something just because it has chapters around the country. What matters the most at this stage is having authentic relationships within your community, so that when things go bad regular people around you know that you and your comrades can be trusted. You and your local comrades can host educational sessions, make decolonization programs, etc etc on your own without having to fold into another org. Once the conditions in the US get to the point where having a national organizing body is relevant, things will be much different than they are now

NATO military production is actually much less than the rate they have been losing in Ukraine alone and they have also been using up reserves meant for the NATO nations. Due to the bloat of their system, they won't be able to build and equip enough factories to get their production to a point to keep up with their losses or rebuild reserves for 5 years at least and I give Ukraine another year at best.

You're right about zelensky, same situation as netanyahu, but the way that ends is that someone internally will coup them and if they can escape they get to retire in Florida.

Radical activist Erika Ishii who just checks notes did a fundraiser for top cop Kamala Harris

Do you know if the Kurdish groups outside of Rojava follow Ocalan's teachings? I was under the impression they do not.