look, the important thing is that they are figuring it out. we are all behind the curve in one way or another.

this may 1st is looking to be a huge organizing event, with large coalitions that will certainly include whatever local communist groups that are worth joining, so if you can find one of those that may be a good place to start. and if you’d like help finding the closest PSL branch, feel free to dm me.

you are making a very valid art criticism of games. some people won’t agree with it, and that’s fine. there has always been a tension between using all of the latest tech and actually making good artistic choices for a game, and a very consistent trend in the game industry is to shove whatever fancy new advertising buzzword technology into every new game regardless of whether it makes artistic sense.

this was a very logical move by her. the sanctions were still very new (started by Obama in 2015-16), and Trump seemed very bribe-able right then. it would have been a dereliction of her duty to the people of Venezuela to not give it a shot. if it had worked, it would have prevented a lot of pain for Venezuelans, and likely much less of the social instability that Maduro is getting blamed for.

also, archive link

I also really understand why communists (and even a lot of non-ML leftists) say things like that. We are up against an empire that regularly imprisons and tortures whoever stands up against it, even (and sometimes especially) people who are US citizens. The desire to have an outside force save you from the hard fight ahead is very human and none of us should feel bad for having it sometimes.

But the reality of the situation we are in is that no one is coming to help us anytime soon. Whether or not it would be prudent or justified for China to directly intervene in the domestic US struggle, they have clearly chosen not to, and there isn’t another power that realistically could intervene. We have to plan to do this ourselves. The good thing is that we, as the proletariat, have the power to win if we can organize effectively.

That said, I very much understand people who feel they need to leave. At the end of everything, we each have only one life, and you need to live it the best way that you can. Many of my friends are trans (as am I), and many of them have talked about moving out of the US. If that’s what it takes to have a life worth living, I wish them the very best. And I know they will be doing the work where ever they end up. Just because it isn’t here, doesn’t mean they are giving up on their politics.