They have copper 3D printers producing rocket engines and adaptive robotics manufacturing lines, so once those technologies are truly ready for export I’ll say they’ve really won the CEM & contact-rich manipulation model race.

Rather than waiting for some kind of benchmark look at how it changes conditions. Is the west even running? Not the moon, more important, the “developing” economies

One of their merits for sure, I am lucky to not have anyone in the world who could bust my door down these days. Well, not quite, but in that case I would actually deserve it

PressTV never even posted this, now all of these credulous followers might think they are unreliable. Got to love DropSiteNews adjacent people.

i’m sure you know Ryan Grim’s infamous Hamas condemning tweets and gleefully posting aboht the shitcanning of his colleagues but did you know he has done Tim Dillon’s show? Because of course he has. There are only like ten thousand of them, and this is the niche. This is the blender baby

China is winning multiple AI races that matter far more than LLMs

Nah this guy

🚨Notice : I am not the one writing the messages. This is the live feed from my Palestinian sources

24/7 News reporting live from Palestine.

Everything posted on the channel is not my own, these are the words of my sources. https://t.me/me_observer_TG

MES got weirdly reactionary & insistently wrong about stuff at various points

Since this the Telegram chat, does anyone know if Middle East Observer has lore?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_Apperception_Test

I make it try to be really mean and critical and then argue with it but it keeps trying to affirm you. They need to make DeepSeek way harsher. Enough neoliberal claptrap as well.

@v_pp

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Oh there are some people in this thread who even take the SRA quite seriously. Don’t worry about that right now though!

That’s fine. I would hope people are more alarmed by veteran activism at this point, but let’s come back to it later. I have someone else going full Youtube comments on me and accusing me of supporting rape. Just thought that the thread could use a bit more than a dozen people saying the organization is secretly awesome and has transformative potential not already demonstrated.

Folks who have been part of the same imperialist forces that dropped Rainbow Pesticides all over SEA & forbid troops from referring to Vietnamese people as human beings don’t benefit from being told that they are special sparkling stars. Their place in a working class movement needs to be strictly clarified.

Ah yes, “the episode” of the show. Well if they say the same thing in every one, it must be a great use of our time. I should not even be responding to personal attacks which treat what I am saying as condemnation of everything either of them have ever said, you’re being completely disingenuous. Whatever you think of veteran activism portraying troops as victims in imperialist wars is none of my business. I’m here to discuss the party form of socialism, not student activist-tier naievete with added bickering. Maybe you ought to consider who started making personal attacks over a Youtube video before deciding who is acting like a “jackass” here, no?

Are you aware the democrats also namedrop sexual assault in their ranks & in the military? Do we take people’s statements of intent at face value or do we examine their actions? How do you think Prysner intends to do something about the US military? This whole project’s claims of usefulness has an expiration date, and with the looks of things in West Asia we may be closing in on it sooner than expected.

This isn’t about discrediting the entirety of the ideology they use for recruitment. Anyone can point out the obvious about how fucked up the USA is and we can nod our heads and tune in for the next episode, nothing happens. It’s primarily about what drives the organization (where their limitations come from) and how they plan to achieve what are ostensibly their goals.

Okay, then maybe we can have a separate discussion another time on if we think tricking people into doing fake revolutionary activity is good or bad. I usually post on my phone when I shouldn’t post at all, so I’ll definitely get back to you after sorting out my bookmarks. Thought that someone else might find the experience of listening to Becker and Prysner shoot the shit a bit jarring after interacting with PSL accounts.

My contention is this isn’t the party form, it’s one of many ideological nodes in a wider alternative media and NGO fundraising network that developed out of a preexisting network of money laundering and capture that was exposed during the McCarthy era (I’m not basing this on their opinions and current tactics alone). One that actually crosses over seamlessly into Scott Ritter/ACP territory. Not to mention Margaret Kimberly, RT, and PressTV (personally I do not think that black Americans and foreign state media should spare resources on distractions in a battle for life and death). If I were trying to sort people into good and bad buckets I wouldn’t even notice this stuff.

The prison activism stuff is particularly heartbreaking once you realize how this kind of thing is used to stall people out and ruin their lives, just long enough to avoid prison riots. Have you read Blood In My Eye by George Jackson? https://annas-archive.pk/md5/20f816158d230048174c52c634c6eb2e

(Apologies if this is not the best file on offer from Anna’s, I’m trying to keep better track of it these days but mostly going off files on the ereader and searching.)

Actually I have one more thought about the saviour/villain thing. This is much more serious than that. It’s about distilling what we focus on down to what’s important so we can spend more time with family and friends. Isn’t that important to you? Isn’t the political energy expended on protests valuable and finite? The time spent reading articles by Ryan Grim instead of reading Leila Khaled’s story or finding comrades internationally?

I need to emphasize if the PSL changes its form of organizing that it will lose a large part of its fundraising network and collaborations. Internally, maintaining these ties is justified as “coalition building” when it is in fact limiting tailism. (You can be a tailist strategically and run your own candidates sporadically, see progressives/US greens.)

Because he intends to achieve antiimperialism via electoralism and marches. Picture a guy installing fake airbags in your car and saying he just wanted to make you feel better when it kills a passenger. Do we credit ACP for their inconsistent ideological support of AES countries (depending on how public the group/voice chat is 👀)? They are building influencers and a settler labor movement in the fashion of the CPUSA and DSA. Their existence is dependent on large donors, their fundraising network is synonymous with progressivism (I realize this is a structural claiming requiring extensive citations, I’d like to cover every one but each day a new person like that Abugazelah lady pops up and adds 6 more to the graph).

The USA crushes people who support militancy or build the party form of socialism. The PSL is training influencers that, if you go to your local protest, have built a relationship with the police in order to make things peaceful and orderly. Unless they have radically shifted in the past 2 years since I left the country. Following them online, it seems to be the same.

This is all assuming that you can even join the party. They often tell people to bugger off because they’re full and want to balance their demographics for optics, because again they are not a mass movement. Notice how people here are not saying they are actually in the PSL, only what they have heard about it.

Is this making any sense, or should I save this all for something long-form to avoid agitating and confusing others? I would like to cover the history of the FRSO as well. Avakian is fun too but he’s too blatantly kooky.

No seriously, go watch Brian Becker’s own show and come back and tell me I’m wrong. You are looking at a democrat who barely even hides it.

Yes, but anarchism is also right-wing, so it has no meat. The actual left wing criticism ought to be historical, based in the evolution of these groups from stuff like the Worker’s World Party.