Same here… like what the fuck do you mean you’ve found a more qualified candidate?! Send Mr their goddamn Linkdin or some shkt because I don’t believe you.

According to all known laws of bourgeois ecology, comrade SlayGuevara should be not be able to save the environment.

Their tiny little balcony should be unable to house the necessary components to provide a home for the various wild life.

Comrade SlayGuevara saves the environment anyway, because Communists don’t care what the bourgeoisie think is impossible.

I hope you are correct. I just fear for my family’s safety. Without the nuclear option, I see the complete retreat of imperialism from West Asia, which I truly hope to see.

How is this any different than if they use conventional weapons?

My fear is that if the US runs out of conventional weapons or if they want to keep some stockpiled for a future altercation with China, a nuclear weapon would be the “solution” to that problem.

They do in a nuclear war. This is the whole concept of M.A.D.

Russia, and China have the capacity to bring about mad, the rest of the Global south has no defense against an atomically reckless US.

Like yes it would be horrible but only as horrible as what they already have done to Gaza.

I don’t want my family members to have to go through what Gaza has, nor do I want anywhere to be like Gaza again.

Trump recently said that the Iranian people are evil. To me that sounds like a departure from the regime change line that was being used up until now.

It would kill millions of Iranians and irreversibly effect Iran on a ecological, societal, and economic level.

The rest of the world doesn’t yet have the capacity to destroy the US, so what exactly would they do in fear of a US weilding nuclear weapons?

Honestly I think I might develop a genuine irreconcilable hatred of the white race if the US nukes Iran. I don’t mean meme “unlimited genocide on the first world” I mean I will refuse to interact with white people at every opportunity and cuss them out if they try to be cordial.

I’m fucking terrified for my family’s life in the events of a nuclear strike.

I’m not sure they would risk the end of the world for Iran…

I’m just paranoid about the nuclear option and how unhinged the empire is going to be in this dying war.

I’m genuinely beginning to fear that the US and Israel choose the nuclear option to maintain their empire. I can’t think of anything rgat would stop them besides fear of Russian retaliation sparked from fear.

I really fukcing wish Iran developed a nuclear weapon like the DPRK, because I’m sick to my stomach worried about this.

To be fair, they aren’t uniquely evil. I’m sure if you polled US white frontier settlers at the times if expansion, you’d see a similiar overwhelming support for the wars on Mexico.

Similarly you’d probably see German settlers in Poland and Eastern Europe demonstrate this trend aa well.

Settlers in the process of expanding their settler colony are most likely all distinctly despicable.

No, the Iranian missile that lobotomized monarchists are claiming caused it was going in the opposite direction of the school.

It’s complete bullshit made up by diaspora lunatics who’ve lost touch with reality. You know the Parenti anti-communism quote? Replace communist with Islamic Republic and anticommunist with anti-regime, a d you basically get the average diaspora view of Iran.

Fuck it I’ll do it right now:

During the cold war war on terror, the anticommunist anti-regime ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist Iranian society into hostile evidence. If the Soviets Islamic Republic refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches mosques in the USSR Islamic Republic were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed dying; but if the churches mosques were full, this meant the people were rejecting being forced to accept the regime’s atheistic ideology theocratic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist Iranian system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists Iranians in the United States West Asia played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others indigenous resistance groups, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

I think it depends on the movement, the class basis of the ones supporting it, a d the practical advantages/capabilities that a secession movement has afforded to it.

For example, Hawaii should unquestionably push for independence due to the damage the US tourism industry continues to do to the indigenous Hawaiian community.

I’ll speak more thoroughly on California, as it’s my home state:

I think it’s too early to tell here, and through struggle we will be able to see whether or not independence is preferable. The biggest issues we face that would need to be solved in order to obtain independence is firstly the issue of water. We’d need to build desalination plants along with taking control over our agriculture industry and restructuring in for sustainable development and water usage. It would also help to convince other states to come along with us, like Oregon, Washington, and Nevada, so if those states are staunchly against separation then our own independence is less feasible.

The other issue would he power generation. We recieve a substantial amount of power from.the Hoover Dam in Nevada, so again we’d need to need to massively build up our energy sector. This issue is frankly less troublesome than the water, as California is a prime location for Solar, and Berkeley is one if the best Nuclear Science institutions in the world (even if our nuclear sector is Germanh levels of delusional). There’s also a lot of opportunity for wind turbines.

Next up would probably be the Californian economy. It’s no secret that Silicon Valley, the financial sector, and residential speculation dominate our politics however, our agriculture and manufacturing aren’t irrelevant by any means. California is also famous for our engineers for obvious reason, as our UC, Calstate, and Community College systems are generally quite good compared to other states. Our infrastructure is entirely too car dependent, but a lot of people want better public transit, which we have the capacity to provide if the state wanted. Economically speaking, California is capable of being self sufficient if we seized control of the bloated non-real economic drivers, and then directed production of our actually productive sectors.

Demographically, California has a Hispanic plurality, followed by whites, which makes up three quarters of our population. Next is East Asian people at 15% and Black people at a 20th, and from there it splinters further. To put it another way, the whites have been genocided (based). On a serious note, this ethnic diversity definitely positions a lot of us against the white hedgomonic culture that the larger US tends to have. This doesn’t mention the large undocumented population we have, who are the backbone of our construction and agriculture industry. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the majority of Californians know, or have known, an undocumented person whether through their work, community organization, school, etc. It would also not be an exaggeration to say that most Californians, particularly in cities at least, see these people as core members in our community, and hostility to them is akin to hostility to the community as a whole.

Calls for Californian independence wil be more likely to come about the more that our vulnerable communities are targeted, as if US federal policy is to brutalized our neighbors, then your average Californian will be radicalized against federal policy.

I’d say that calls for independence are going to get more common the more that ICE reigns terror on the US population.

However there’s another aspect of Californian identity that makes this less likely. Californians have a bit of a chip on their shoulder. Due to our large population and surface level economic prosperity, (it’s not uncommon to here the fact we are the “5th largest economy in the world” get thrown around) Californians often feel inbittered by our lackluster representation and influence over national politics. Californians, both in our advanced bourgeoisie (Silicon Valley techno-fascists) and our working class feel snubbed by the fact that federal US policy is set up in a way that disempowers us.

The Tech Cartel, as the new capitalists on the block, believe they deserve a much larger share of control in the dictatorship of capital compared to the legacy capitalists that still occupy a lot of that space. The working class, sees how, congress and the senate especially, are proportionally unbalanced against our favor. Us Californians generally think we are positioned to be a much larger guider of US federal policy, however are purposefully kept out of power.

From this perspective, independence becomes in some ways attractive as a kinda of "fine I’ll make my own country with black jack and population based electoral systems!’ But it’s not the only perspective, as others want to continue trying to use our leverage to seize more control over federal policy.

Personally I see the latter as a more effective strategy. The things that disempower California in the US electoral system disempower the margilized and socialists as a whole federally as well. Also California provides quite a bit economically, whether through agriculture, our ports, or our universities, to the rest of the US. As socialists we should be agitating towards seizing control of these economic organs already, and when we’re successful in this goal, it would allow is to pressure larger US policy without much issue.

What are the chances his party or Castillo’s win the next election in Peru if anyone familiar with the situation on the ground can comment?

As far as I’m aware, the Peruvian state is set up to be as impossible to govern after the departure of Fujimori.

It’s wonderful. My family is from Isfahan, and it’s probably one of my favorite places in the world. The architecture is beautiful, the food is delicious, and constant interaction with History is delightful.

I’ve never been to Tehran, but I’ve been to Qom and Mashad. The shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashad is beautiful, though if your not a Shia Muslim it might not hold the same ambiance.

To speak on the quality of local made clothing, as I sometimes request my relatives bring me something when they visit home, I personally like it quite a bit. Particularly, I like the longer shorts and I think they’re more comfortable that brands in the US. The overall quality is kinda hit or miss in some areas, as someplaces fall apart more easily, but that could be due to how worn they are for me.

That’s my experience with shorts at least which is what I ask for given the chance.

Also Iranian coke is way better then American coke. Like magnitudes better, it actually has a good cola flavor instead of feeling like the most overly processed sludge going down your throat.

I know Zahedan has a state of the art medical school and I’m pretty sure Chabahar has one of the countries most important ports. Otherwise I’m ignorant of the culture. All I know is that rural Balouchis are sometimes considered backward.

There’s like one I believe, Zahedan.

I’m not sure I’d say Mashad is the most conservative part of Iran. I’ve been multiple times to visit the Shrine of Imam Reza (AS) and although there’s definitely a religious identity, I think parts of Sistan-Balouchistan are more conservative if I’m to believe my mother’s account of them.

It’s extremely poor outside the major city, and those areas are mostly Wahabbi influenced Sunnis. I’ve heard stories of child brides still existing there because of how backward and impoverished the area is.

My mother has a friend with relatives in Afghanistan. Her friend has not said much on the topic for a while but one thing of note was that her relatives praised the Taliban for dealing with some of the famine conditions present during the US occupation.

Something about how the new government has stopped forcing fertile land to be used to grow opium and actually grow food. I’ve seen other brief reports that confirmed this over a year ago or more which is when we last asked about her relatives.

Otherwise I can’t say much unfortunately.

I can only hope that Iran is able to influence the new government into reversing a lot of their backward anti-woman stances on education. Afghanistan borders a nation with one of the most successful female literacy campaigns of the last 50 years. It’s a shame that the state of affairs is the way it is considering how much could be learned by just studying the programs just over the border.

Personally although I don’t hold an attachment to it, getting rid of it is more trouble then it’s worth.

Even if a revolution happens in the US, that doesn’t mean the people as a whole are commited ideological socialists. They will largely be politically unaware but supportive of the new revolutionary government, however that doesn’t mean they won’t have any affection for old symbols. Removing lady liberty doesn’t really help the new revolutionary leadership, and could end up Sparking unnecessary reaction in a likely turbulent time.

It’s not as if the Bolshevik’s defaced the famous cathedrals of Moscow and one of the CPCs critiques if the chinese cultural revolution is the destruction of historical artifacts important to Chinese identity.

Now, US memorabilia is different due to its settler colonial nature, however I’d imagine later generations would probably choose to recontexualize it or remove it. I’ve no issue either way, and personally I’d say it should be up to the indigenous communities that descended from the area.

I like this write up for how it disects thr varying anti-BRICS imperial leftists, however I do have a bone or two to pick.

For one it kinda just spits out an observation of these three groups, which although I agree are useful categories, I don’t think it sufficiently delves into the material factors that can lead an imperial leftist conforming to one if these.

Like obviously, we understand labor aristocracy and imperial plunder being used to pacify any leftist tradition in the core. However I think this could be more helpful if it dived into the backgrounds of a lot of the people purporting these ideas and if there’s a weak link to exploit for our own agitprop.

Anyways that’s all I have to say regarding this excellent write up. I just wanted to add a bit more of something that could be used, adding onto your observations. There’s probably more that other comrades could add but this is all I’ve got for now.