RedWizard

If you are not uploading a picture of poop in the pants to that report, you're only doing half damage.

I think if were doing the whole solidary thing, we should remove the emoji. Continuing to use the emoji after they have changed is a good way to alienate them, us, or both. One of the tags you can use to search it is 'fascist'.

I say that not because I ever think they'll find this site and discover we have an emoji of their face, but to establish a kind of protocol to ensure we don't repeat offend. I don't know. It just seems like the right move.

And I haven't looked them up to confirm their stance, but I'll take it on faith for now.

Huh, I did not know that. We should make a thread in !emoji@hexbear.net. Do you happen to have links to their socials?

Yeah, narcissists are villains, and definitely not people suffering from some form of illness who need support and care to cope with that illness. /s

And we should totally use this as a thought terminating cliché, so we can slurp more slop. Instead of reading or thinking.

Yeah, I don't think they literally had a meeting. The ideological pool they all wade in is so shallow that the only thing they know how to do is parrot. No analysis, just pure reaction. Also, they love wrapping this stuff up in this therapy, abuse language for some reason. Donald Trump has more material motivation then narcissistic motivations. TikTok was banned under a Democratic administration, and courted the incoming Republican administration to keep their shareholders happy. That's just capitalism.

Square brackets and everything. Its wild.

Because politics in the USA operates on the Pro Wrestling Face/Heel formula. This was supposed to be the Face year, but it became clear as the year went on that this Face couldn't keep up the act and was turning heel. Now that the true heel is coming into office expect the news media to follow suit and report on his actions accordingly.

There are at times inter personal grudges that bleed into the performance, but all this does is enhance the show. Lesser Faces will come out of retirement to flaunt their virtues and ideals, to taunt and gesture to the crowd as the Heel enters the ring.

The Face, The Heel, and the Media (Announcers) work together to put on a lively and thrilling show, and when they get back stage, they high five and get changed in the same locker room. Their collective goal to profit off your attention. From our perspective, were the annoying friends, cousins, brothers, and sisters telling people we know that wrestling's fake.

This is not serious analysis. Please don't take it seriously.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o.amp

20 December 2024 US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term in office.

More than 271,000 immigrants were deported from the US over the last fiscal year, according to a report released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on Thursday.

The ICE report comes just weeks before President-elect Trump, who plans to make mass deportation a cornerstone of his incoming administration, takes office.

President Joe Biden in 2021 had pledged to pause deportations, but his administration ended up expanding it following a surge in border crossings

I don't doubt that these deportations will be bad. However, what I feel the need to point out, is that the media was not reporting on Bides deportations in the same way they are now reporting on Trumps.

Trump is not to be out done, but there is a likelihood these raids will be no different then Biden's, but the reporting on them will be wildly different.

Stay vigilant as always, don't be fooled into thinking it was better under Biden.

Shamelessly taken from: https://www.reddit.com/r/blowback/comments/1i4sqs3/us_tiktok_is_being_used_to_harvest_data_for_the/

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AJ+ video: https://youtu.be/g4OotxZLnXU

Blockade Laws

Cuba’s Report under United Nations General Assembly resolution 78/7 entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial andfinancial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.” July, 2024: https://cubaminrex.cu/en/cubas-report-under-united-nations-general-assembly-resolution-787

National Security Archive: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2022-02-02/cuba-embargoed-us-trade-sanctions-turn-sixty

Trading with the enemy act: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=%2Fprelim%40title50%2Fchapter53&edition=prelim

Foreign Assistance Act (1961)

• https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2024-10-14/the-foreign-assistance-act-a-powerful-chain-against-cuba
• https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf

Presidential Proclamation 3447: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-76/pdf/STATUTE-76-Pg1446.pdf

Cuban Assets Control Regulations of the Department of the Treasury (1963): https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/09/2019-19411/cuban-assets-control-regulations

Export Administration Act (1979): https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/senate-bill/737/text

Export Administration Regulations (EAR, 1979): https://www.bis.gov/regulations

Cuban Democracy Act or Torricelli Act (1992): https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/5323

Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act or Helms-Burton Act (1996): https://www.congress.gov/bill/104th-congress/house-bill/927

Section 211 of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for fiscal year 1999: https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/4328

Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act (2000): https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-31/subtitle-B/chapter-V/part-515/subpart-E/section-515.560

The U.S. and Israel has voted against the UN resolution to lift the blockade on Cuba since 1992 (Voting Data): https://digitallibrary.un.org/search?ln=en&cc=Voting+Data&p=Necessity+of+ending+the+economic%2C+commercial+and+financial+embargo+imposed+by+the+United+States+of+America+against+Cuba&f=&rm=&sf=&so=d&rg=50&c=Voting+Data&c=&of=hb&fti=0&fti=0

”Throughout the trip, members of the delegation from the Reform & Revolution Caucus (R&R) and the Socialist Majority Caucus (SMC) criticized the Cuban government both to our Cuban hosts and other DSA members, and skipped out on multiple delegation events. Most shamefully, both Maria (representing R&R) and Renée (representing SMC, and a member of the current NPC) skipped out on meeting with President Díaz-Canel, who spent more than 2 hours in a frank discussion specifically addressing the critiques these very same DSA members brought up to their Cuban hosts earlier on the trip.”

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”Maria in particular met with anti-government opposition groups while on delegation, which when taken together with the fact of her skipping the meeting with the comrade President suggests a goal of undermining the Cuban socialist state, not defending it against U.S. imperialism.”

Cuban Links: No Tolerance For Disorganizing Chauvinism: https://redstarcaucus.org/cuban-links/

”One of the most eyebrow-raising panels at the 2019 Socialism Conference is entitled “China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry or Class Struggle and Solidarity?” The panel portrays the US and China as equally malicious imperialist powers, downplaying and whitewashing the uniquely destructive nature of Washington’s foreign wars and corporate domination.”

”The panel features three speakers, two of whom work for anti-China groups that are funded by the US government’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy. The third speaker is Ashley Smith, a former leader of the ISO who has spent the past eight years romanticizing foreign-backed, far-right sectarian Islamist “moderate rebels” in Syria.”

”The first speaker listed on the panel is Elaine Lu, the program officer at China Labor Watch. This group is described by the Socialism conference website simply as “a New York-based NGO advocating for workers’ rights in China.”

”What Socialism Conference sponsors DSA, Jacobin, and Haymarket did not disclose is that its speaker’s employer is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.“

”The NED states without qualification that its goals include supporting “free markets” abroad. At the top of the about page on its website is a video of right-wing cold warrior Ronald Reagan inaugurating the US government-funded body.“

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

Benjamin Norton discusses how the CIA has spent decades supporting pro-imperialist factions of the Western left, which it calls the “compatible left” or “non-communist left,” in order to advance US foreign-policy interests: https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/1gecyk2/the_us_embassy_in_france_is_funding_a_feminist/

Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China’s gov’t, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion: https://youtu.be/Q3RMl33SqNE

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