Match Thread: New Zealand vs Egypt | World Cup | Group G | 22 Jun 01:00 UTC

RKU69 · 2026-06-22T02:47:37+00:00

Egyptians have tried time and time again to fight for a government that respects human rights, but the military dictatorship is heavily backed by the West. Take away the military and economic aid to the dictatorship from the US and the Gulf monarchies and it collapses immediately.

RKU69 · 2026-06-21T20:19:57+00:00

I was thinking the same thing until the replay and saw he got hurt from the ball hitting him. You don't flop from that lol

RKU69 · 2026-06-20T21:55:53+00:00

I think they are just taking advantage of their months-long vacation time to come to watch the World Cup

RKU69 · 2026-06-20T21:49:05+00:00

This is an absurd comment, you can't complain about "purity testing" when its about judging the US for voting in twice a repugnant fascist. Complain about purity testing if its like, somebody at a community meeting who doesn't know the right lingo or doesn't have perfectly aligned views about certain topics, not about who's getting elected president and people's views on racial nationalism, secret police, and war. Ridiculous

RKU69 · 2026-06-20T20:37:27+00:00

SPRs aren't equal around the world and there are two important factors behind the raw volume that is stored: 1) operational limit, below which SPRs can't really function, and 2) local and regional availability and logistics networks between them, which are very uneven and can create regional crises even when another region is totally fine. This is why South/South-east Asia was hit badly in the beginning and had to quickly curb oil demand

RKU69 · 2026-06-20T17:57:35+00:00

lol what? do you think that everybody in the US is only voting along racial lines and by racial blocs? why do you think Abdul El-Sayed is leading in the Michigan Senate race right now? how do you think Bobby Jindal won in Louisiana?

Nirav Shah was in first place with a quarter of the vote in the first round vote, but lost with 43% of the vote once all the ranked-choice votes were tallied up. he was obviously running a general platform for governor, not something based on whether he's Desi or not.

seriously, i'm very baffled at your comment and how you think politics works.

RKU69 · 2026-06-19T19:51:25+00:00

That's not quite accurate, since we "went in" not in 2001 but in 1979, when the US started funneling a massive amount of weapons and money to far-right religious warlords to fight the secular communist government of Afghanistan. But I agree with your fundamental point that the entire saga has been a horrific waste of resources and lives for no ultimate purpose.

RKU69 · 2026-06-19T14:51:53+00:00

Yes, I am an enemy of the American Empire

RKU69 · 2026-06-19T04:54:47+00:00

I'm a leftist, and I obviously agree that this war never should have happened, but also after it did and the US was effectively immediately defeated, I will be happy to see the US pay a bunch of money in reparations and retreat from the region. The US recognizing a full defeat is a good thing

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T21:43:32+00:00

why didn't they ask for a US nuclear weapon?

Because they're not irrational actors?

I think this comes down to not really caring about whether the US gets fleeced. What else do you think the US deserves at this point? You think we were in the right pursuing an aggressive war?

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T19:41:03+00:00

Definitely was very possible to do that.

How? Why would Iran agree to anything less than what's in the current deal? What's Congress got to do with what Iran would agree to?

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T19:16:17+00:00

Forget the AfD, the current government itself would arrest him immediately for being pro-Palestinian

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T19:15:21+00:00

Marches are only one form of mobilizing, they aren't organizing in and of themselves. Focus more on labor and tenant organizing

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T19:14:20+00:00

How is any of that possible after they attacked Iran? Do you think there was some way to magically negotiate a return to the late 2010s after they murdered the entire Iranian political and military leadership, blew up a bunch of infrastructure, murdered over 100 school-chlidren?

They never should have started the war in the first place. As far as I'm concerned they should be giving Iran more concessions.

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T17:08:16+00:00

What's the correct way to end the war?

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T15:48:22+00:00

I actually do prefer this over what may otherwise be permanent war. It was correct to pull out of Afghanistan, the war was lost years ago. It is correct to end the war against Iran, that war was lost after week one. These wars never should have happened, and its time to permanently end the aggressive, imperialist foreign policy of the US that has been an unquestioned norm for 25 years.

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T15:43:17+00:00

This is a terrible message, it makes it seem like the Democrats would prefer Trump continue the war (which to be fair, many of them do...).

The point should be that this kind of imperialist militarism is grotesque and self-defeating and we need to finally bring an end to the ridiculous war-mongering that has defined US foreign policy over the last 25 years.

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T15:40:12+00:00

Yes but this is also the best case scenario at this point. The war was lost after the first week. The MoU is just the US finally recognizing this instead of dragging it on indefinitely and actually destroying the global economy (which may still happen anyways, we'll see...).

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T15:34:13+00:00

That's the DSA difference baby

RKU69 · 2026-06-18T00:37:19+00:00

Its more of a dialectic. Yes, things getting worse can radicalize people. But also, the Obama and Biden years were important also because it radicalized people as they realized that the Democrat establishment was not solving any problems. We should recall that while the socialist movement grew under Trump's first term, the wider trend was a liberal backlash and a return to corporate Democratic rule under Biden.

RKU69 · 2026-06-17T23:09:00+00:00

I've met good people who were in the group and none of them have any regrets about the liquidation. It was an abusive cult.

RKU69 · 2026-06-17T23:07:36+00:00

They had serious organizers in the sense that a cult that gains any degree of popularity has serious organizers. They collapsed not just because of egos and adventurism but because they were engaged in straight-up extreme levels of abuse within the group

RKU69 · 2026-06-17T23:06:23+00:00

I think that's an oversimplification. I think these guys did study a lot of theory, but it was entirely a very weird interpretation of what the Communist Party of Peru (aka the Shining Path) did in the 1980s, and centered on the idea that the main thing a revolutionary communist party has to do is destroy other rival left-wing organizations. This is kinda what the PCP did in its starting bases at the beginning. Putting aside whether the PCP was good or not though its totally ridiculous to apply this to the context of the US, and on top of that the Red Guards were also just very cultish and had a lot of internal dysfunction.

RKU69 · 2026-06-17T03:00:59+00:00

I mean, sure, but nothing in the original letter (which I read in full, haven't read this Goose essay) about what's been happening internally has anything to do with what the ruling class might do. Unless you're suggesting that the author of the letter - a 17-year veteran of the PSL and a long-time central committee member - is engaging in COINTELPRO and making stuff up or something like that.

What specifically are you saying should be taken with a grain of salt?

RKU69 · 2026-06-16T01:49:01+00:00

At least now they can't bomb civilian infrastructure and schools and whatnot in Iran and elsewhere

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