Just curious, what do you think about Ilhan Omar? She seems to be most radical mainstream politician in the US right now, and she really rustles some jimmies.
I know the IdPol that she adheres to and the fact she's still a Democrap but she seriously started to grow me after she got dogpiled with bullshit accusations of antisemitism for her criticism of the AIPAC (the whole "it's all about the Benjamins" Tweet really hit the spot) and yesterday she made Elliot Abrams loose his shit as she basically told him to shut up and quoted his record and called his actions in Latin America genocide. Compared to all the lukewarm shit Bernie, AOC and Gabbard are pushing she really feels like a breath of fresh air.
She’s based. The media and many parts of the US government are coming down on her hard for calling out AIPAC and the Zionists. I hate it when Zionists use their Jewishness to shield their nationalism
Luis Miller
She is a low Autism Level Somalian ape, that is all anyone needs to know. Move on. I for one am fucking sick of looking at the little rat. You sir are a shill of the worst kind.
She seems pretty good. She’s not a Communist of course, but she is a consistent anti-imperialist with the balls to call out Israel. Considering how insane the discourse is on Israel in this country, it’s really impressive for anyone to speak out.
Sebastian Russell
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Owen Campbell
do you expect anymore more from the democraps?
Logan Flores
Absolute bae that blows both AOC and Bernie out of the water.
Juan Brooks
Wow, I wonder why American politicians have such a vested interest not only in supporting Israel, but accusing anyone who criticizes it in any way as anti-semitic… really piques your pecans!
Yeah it’s almost like Israel is of critical importance to US imperialist interests and geopolitical strategy.
Xavier Thomas
israel is of critical importance to all of the fabulously wealthy jews who own every single politician in the united States on both sides of the aisle
Austin Moore
Saudi Arabia is also extremely important to US imperial interests but if you criticize Saudi Arabia on tv no one will say you're an islamophobe. What do you think the difference is?
Ian Roberts
You say that but I've been called Islamophobic for calling out the Sauds by radlibs plenty of times. Conservatives, in classic fashion, just pretend they don't get literal billions from Saudi Arabia in exchange for MIC support, which the MIC then also pays them out for. It's the actual Islamaphobe's dirty little secret.
Jackson Brown
Because other Islamic nations are enemies of US imperial interests, so making all criticism "islamophobia" would be counter to that. I imagine things would be different if there was another Israel that was aligned with Iran.
Connor Gray
The U.S. would be in the MENA region regardless of Israel
Liam Richardson
She's just another Bernie/AOC. She's all hype but won't do much.
Jason Price
It's all about maintaining influence in the Middle East.
You're confused. Those wealthy Jews are just sycophants to power, and right now it serves the general interest of the rest of bourgeoisie to maintain influence in that region.
It's about moral pretense. We saved the Jews in WW2 and helped them set up their state, so it looks bad for us if they're criticized. It feeds into the political theater that the U.S. is always the great defender. The Saudis don't have that history.
Mason Torres
Imagine my shock.
Justin Richardson
You can't turn it around because they don't actually care. They're just pretending so they can feel like the good guys despite supporting the outright oppression of 75% of the population.
Levi King
To be honest when you're being attacked by republicans AND Democrats it's kind of impossible to do anything as a single politician in the political system.
Jackson Bailey
TBH she's the first principled anti-imperialist congress has had in decades. Bernie votes against (most) wars but tends to cover it in "no more dead soldiers" rhetoric rather than something more radical. I'm actually writing to congress (lol) to her to try and radicalize her on nuclear weapons, specifically America's long history of first use threats and the need to adopt a No First Use policy (along with disarming first strike weapons to make it credible).
Ayden Nelson
A disgraceful woman spitting in the face of Islam. Where is her Husband and why hasn't he slapped the absolute shit of her? "A strong hand must be used against the foolish and recalcitrant woman." I do not approve of this and neither would any others who understand and 'Look upon The Moon.'
Joseph Russell
want to kiss her so bad
Caleb Price
Their is no reason why America would do that. Even if American Imperialism stopped, no intelligent country would disarm their nuclear weapons. Russia didn’t.
Wyatt Stewart
This. She may not be /oneofus/ but the most important thing for a US politician to do is actually oppose imperialism. Domestic healthcare, reforms, etc. are all ultimately secondary because if imperialism isnt primarily addressed those reforms are just going to shore up American society to continue the imperial project and be much worse in the long term. I'm not one of these "fuck Amerikkka" types around here either that think the US and Americans "deserve" suffering and punishment, this is just a real matter of strategic priority. I was incredibly surprised at how principled she was on this point, I hope she doesnt cave under pressure anymore than she already has because this is the kind of political spectacle that could actually be productive.
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Andrew Evans
she is lowkey qt
Tyler Davis
First strike weapons, not complete unilateral disarmament. The goal of U.S. nuclear policy is to be able to threaten a massive counterforce first strike, knocking out all of Russia / China's command and control bunkers and ICBM missile silos in one surprise attack. The credible threat of this allows U.S. imperialism to reserve the right to use tactical nuclear weapons and generally get its way in great power confrontations - like pointing a gun at someone's head, the nuclear arsenal is used, even if it's not fired. Read "A Call to Mutiny" by former nuclear strategist Daniel Ellsberg for a more detailed rundown on how nuclear blackmail is used: ellsberg.net/call-to-mutiny/
The drive for strategic nuclear supremacy is why you see the U.S. again pursuing new first strike weapons. The I.N.F. withdrawal is the major one, reducing the flight time of a first strike and allowing the U.S. to threaten Russia or China separately without flying ICBMs over the others' radar. Or the new initiatives in missile defense - there's no way in hell that missile defense could defend against an enemy first strike, but it could plausibly defend against the "ragged retaliation" left over after a U.S. first strike. All these first strike preparations also increase the chances of an accidental nuclear war. The best way to "survive" a nuclear exchange is to launch a preemptive first strike to destroy their weapons first. When something funny shows up on early warning radar, there's all the more reason to believe it's real, especially when INF range missiles reduce the time possible to make a decision down to 2-3 minutes (including the time to wake the generals up).
The solution here is stop threatening nuclear first use, adopting a No First Use policy. To make this policy credible (the Soviets adopted NFU in the 80s but it was ignored) we'll also have to unilaterally disarm weapons accurate enough to make a first strike: shut down all ICBM and IRBM programs and rely on nuclear submarines and a small fleet of bombers.
What this ultimately means is that without the threat of unleashing thermonuclear armageddon, the U.S. will either have to cede some of its imperialist ambitions (unacceptable to porky) or dramatically increase its military spending even further to deter rivals with conventional force. Generation after generation of cold warriors, Kennan, Kissinger, Schultz, etc. recognize how close they came to nuclear war and actually support this policy, but porky is resistant because he'd rather spend his money on yachts than aircraft carriers. This will expose the true scale and consequences of American imperialism, and how porky has routinely gambled the lives of hundreds of millions of people in pursuit of cheap oil and labor. It's better than letting things continue as normal, only to meet the real, thermonuclear End of History after an error of judgement.
Reminder that overly interpretive shit like this is characteristic of schizophrenia.
Dylan Phillips
But I have absolutely been called islamophobic and held in suspicion for criticizing Saudi Arabia and mentioning that Saudi Arabian exchange students werent just sweet innocent PoC but literal royalty
William Rodriguez
Just because she hates Israel? Don't be retarded. Bernie or even AOC are wayy further left than her.
"Further left" in this case means fucking nothing, stop thinking in terms of stupid ideology charts and shit and start thinking strategically. See
Xavier Wilson
you have to go back
Daniel Gomez
"Strategically"? What "strategic" interest does she offer us? Her support of milquetoast democrap slaykweenz like Harris over actual demsocs like Bernie? The literal only good thing about her is that she opposes Israel and the reason why is obvious to anyone who's seen a picture of her.
Asher Cox
another backstabbing socdem.
She literally asked him if he could guarantee he wouldn't genocide Venezuelans WHILE INVADING. Go watch it again. She was arguing for """humanitarian intervention.""" She also didn't refute his lies about Maduro being a dictator or Duarte being elected.
Bringing US backed genocides to national news in relation to coup attempts against Venezuela has no strategic relevance for leftists? Is the potential, totally non-guarunteed prospect of the US getting half decent west european style healthcare after a Bernie presidency of compromise and disappointment more radical than trying to drive real wedges into the imperial narratives that allow actual socialist and independence projects in the 3rd world to be overthrown? I'm an American, I have shit healthcare and work a shit job and socdem countries look like fucking heaven compared to our bullshit, but the idea that the US will be able to implement some kind of Swedish social security system is very, very questionable to begin with, and even in the overly optimistic scenario in which it's possible to any extent, it would require the continued subjugation of most of the world, and eventually the erosion of even those hard won socdem reforms. The best hope of poor Americans is the death of American imperialism. Our future is tied up more in Maduro than Sanders.
American Disarmament of first strike weapons won’t happen because it isn’t in America’s self interest. This is especially true as American Imperialism falls apart, America will rely more and more on these weapons because It’ll prevent China from doing to them, what they did to the world. And at the end of the day people act in their self interest, and first strike weapons are incredibly useful, to useful to give up because of some moral principle. The only way America would disarm it’s self of first strike weapons is if it was forced to from the outside, and at that point is when they are used.
Because of MAD, America would only use these weapons for real if America first lost it’s position as an Imperial power, second it’s self-determination was threatened, and third was given an ultimatum to give up these weapons.
Logan Hall
apt metaphor tbh
Christian Phillips
she shouldn't support Bernie, Bernie is an absolute hack shill senile piece of double speaking bitch
