Unless whatever group is in power has expressed that they wish to destroy those artifacts, I would prefer to work with whatever government there is to not only transfer the artifacts back, but help them setup whatever infrastructure is required to maintain them, including training of staff in their care.

Your bias is exactly the same on that led to those artifacts being stolen. It can be summed up as “these are savages, how can we trust them with their own things?” The West stole these artifacts and in many cases destroyed other artifacts or defaced historical sites to take them in the first place. It’s chauvinistic to continue this cycle. Give them back, try to make things right, and if things get destroyed, that’s just how it goes. It wasn’t the West’s to take in the first place. More progress is made by working with people than pearl-clutching. This is accepting the world as it is and trying to make it better all at once.

I know you just copied the headline of the article, but that headline is doing some serious heavy lifting in terms of saying the US has no control over its actions.

“Oh no, we bumbled our way into a war again! Couldn’t be helped, not our faults. Whatever are we to do?”

Much like the theft of historical artifacts by the UK et al, ISIS was the result of decades of imperialist meddling by the US. Maybe just leave things be and let the locals work out what they want to do with their land, their people, and the artifacts on it. Offering assistance without strings attached is good, interventions are bad.

It’s like offering to help your neighbor with their yard: it’s acceptable to offer to lend them your mower, but it’s not acceptable to dig up everything on their property, replace it with grass sod, and spray it regularly with herbicides because you didn’t like the look of their local fauna and are afraid the dandelions and clover would spread to your lawn after your first intervention.

Or a little squirt gun with bleach

They look like you could easily disable them by turning them upside down. Cathartic as it must be to destroy, I figure you could still disable them with less legal risk to yourself.

I don’t disagree and this is purely anecdotal, but I know comrades who were radicalized by this show and became very active in local orgs. Even if it’s just a treat, this type of media can open the door for real theory to sink in where the door would normally remain closed. We all have to start somewhere.

This sounds similar to the funnel in Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, but you actually get stronger.

5 self-referencing papers deeper, “oh, you actually did take the time to write the methods…10 years ago.”

In my experience, there’s always a way around parental controls on these devices and if there isn’t, there’s always a way that your child will subvert them in other ways.

Half the time it’s a well-intentioned and ignorant adult providing them the means.

Why burn the plantation when you can expropriate it and burn the scumlords profiting off your exploitation?

arXiv, not QrXiv.

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Now REPENT

They’re all in the lab working ridiculously long hours.

I once watched this nature documentary named “Princess Mononoke” and can confirm that wild pigs continue to live on even after physical death.

It is indeed compulsory.

I saw this in the comments somewhere recently. Frog.

Gotta have them treats too.

I’ve had the same experience. When it’s pitched as education, no one comes, but if you integrate it into other activities (think the Black Panther breakfast program), it’s easier to get people there and you can relate what you want to talk about to the other action you are taking.

Yeah, sorry. I’m notoriously bad about not fleshing out what I mean as much as I should the first time around in my comments. I agree that we are probably on the same page, I just don’t see the education aspect focused on as much as I think it should be it talks about organizing.

I don’t think they would fight a left militant movement until after the current rulers were toppled because I agree that it would be popular. It’s the moment after this where I see the most danger of a revolution being co-opted by reactionaries. It wouldn’t be hard for them to wrap the popular ideas you mentioned into their own platform that appeases the masses but doesn’t reject capitalism. Social democracy is far more popular in the US due to propaganda-based fears of authoritarianism. I’m not saying that a popular movement can’t support socialism and lead to a socialist revolution, just that people here are so lost when it comes to the subject of a revolution and where to go after that it would be relatively easy for them to lead back to liberalism unless there is some education along the way.

I don’t think direct action cannot take place or precede education to some extent, but if we don’t direct a portion of our efforts towards this simultaneously, we risk any mass movement outgrowing it’s own roots. People need to understand where a movement is going and why if you want them to support that movement through the reconstruction phase It doesn’t mean pushing theory reading onto the masses, but building education into our other programs, similar to how the Black Panthers did. The vanguard should read theory and history in order to pass this knowledge onto others, but that will mostly be by talking to them, in media meant to agitate, and in organizational meetings. It needs to be integrated into the movement early enough to head off the influence of reactionaries. You can’t teach away all reactionary culture before direct action, but you can’t have a revolution and then sit people down to explain why they can’t just go back to how things were a few years before it got bad for them.

When you say people need a reason to want to learn, I agree. I’m just saying we need that education to flow naturally to them through our organization efforts and we need to be deliberate about integrating education into our programs now if we don’t want a popular movement to be co-opted. Simultaneous efforts can be made to organize militant action, but if we ignore this problem now, we are going to run into major problems in the future.

The only place political violence in the US would lead to at this point is a right-wing coup. The left is not organized enough and the people in the US are neither class conscious, nor educated enough to even know what they should fight for and why.

Ask yourself how libs react to socialism in conversations and if that has improved enough that they wouldn’t oppose it violently? So what alternative will they pick if there is an uprising that is successful? It sure as hell won’t be socialism. They want a return to the status quo of a couple years ago. I have liberal (blue maga) friends who have started speaking up to me about when it’s time for a violent uprising and later in the same conversation saying we need to be more like Israel.

What the people in the US need more than anything right now is education. Education + organization. Without this base education and a shift in culture, we’ll just get USA 2.0 at best.