They’re all accelerationist, TBF. Not a single one seeks to change the issues inherent in the system, hell, they all make their living off of exacerbating it.

Trump being a perfect example of a vile human being, incredibly alienating to the rest of the western lackeys, and seeming to have a bit more self-preservation and less interest in plunging the world into WW3 goes a long way in being “less accelerationist,” that said (IMO). Not that anyone should support either.

Honestly, hell if I know who would have been more accelerationist (I’d have bet on it being Kamala). Whomever wins things would get worse for the empire either way (not saying it shouldn’t be fought or promoting defeatism- but the contradictions will continue to grow), but Kamala strikes me as the more neocon/hawkish of the two, with much more political baggage tagging along that is even worse, and as a more palatable (low bar) face with which the empire could absolutely wreak havoc on the rest of the world and even domestically on its own people with better PR/a more unified western imperialist order, etc.

If you want my opinion? In this context I’d bet it’s the former. This is her gig, her livelihood, she has some (probably) genuine opinions but I doubt this is it, and there are a billion other ways she could have parroted her opinion rather than flying over to Georgia for direct meddling.

Think about exactly what you’re saying again? The west is literally trying to Ukrainize Georgia. Participating in a foreign country’s electoral processes (foreign interference) to agitate for the country to effectively destroy itself for the US MIC/to maintain western hegemony is an utterly shit move no matter how one looks at it…

Where exactly is Russia not a “friend” of the left (outside of its domestic policies and social reactionaryism)?

In resisting the western dominated world order, by necessity Russia is one of the more actively anti-imperialist states out there, for starters.

Their championing the cause of de-dollarization (again, by necessity) and assisting in uplifting/working together with the global south to develop their material conditions (developing the nuclear power plant in Burkina Faso for instance) are also absolutely amazing.

There’s no excuse for their domestic reactionaryism, but in almost every aspect otherwise and outside their borders they are a friend- a circumstantial friend, perhaps, and one to be approached with some skepticism- but a friend all th same IMO.

Wow. Thanks for the (major) refresher on hope for society as well as usual, always helps to have it. I touch grass, chat and have good connections irl (in the imperial core tho) and my fam comes from/I’ve been outside of the core (still capitalist country tho…), but seeing things like these in particular are very heartwarming to see.

Someday I hope the same experience can be found as a given all around the world.

Funny thing is Isntreal is also far more than trilingual though (probably). Hebrew, English with a New Yorker accent, French, Russian, Polish, German, no doubt you can find it all there (wonder why)

Honestly it shows both how hypocritical the law in the imperial core always is, and how farcical and removed from any sense of human decency or public interest it is as well.

I still stand by that no one should support Trump nor Harris (and those who do are complicit in genocide) but he’s 100000% right on this one.

True, compared to his sniffing and fondling and nibbling of others I guess it’s where I thought it was lowkey… the bar really is in hell lol

While I’m neither a Muslim nor a scholar, I think it’s important to draw a line between fundamentalist, Wahhabi interpretations of Islam like those the west has backed (the US and then the UK with the house of Saud) and the overwhelming majority of Islamic history as well as the breadth of its countless living, breathing cultures, traditions, and interpretations/schools of thought nowadays.

And of course, we also have to look at the cultural context of reactionary Islam (or “”“Islam”“” the way it has been twisted by Daesh/ISIS as an example of particularly wretched strain which to my understanding the Muslim community doesn’t want to be associated with- akin to how any halfways sensible Christians, and certainly all the early Christians would have looked on in absolute horror at the “prosperity gospel” and other wretched takes from the west) came to be, and why it came to be so prominent- as said, I’m not a scholar on any of this, but the religious (not necessarily reactionary- but identity-based defense) resistance to literal, violent, dehumanizing colonialism was something found across the entire world, from the Shawnee prophet Tecumseh’s rebellion and short-lived state against the US, to the Boxer Rebellion with its “bulletproof” superstitions (probably exaggerated nowadays, but still) and the Taiping revolution, to Irish resistance to prior and ongoing colonialism by the Brits, and- in Islam’s case- while I won’t claim to know the most on the subject as always- through their own anti-imperialist movements and teachers like al-Afghani and the Muslim Brotherhood, etc (in regards to religious responses- of course secular ones also existed).

Look at the history of the Islamic world, and time after time, a predictable pattern shows up ever since the Cold War started, arguably even earlier with the Brits backing Wahhabis over pan-Arab and secularists.