It was alright. Decent slop. Nothing to write home about, but modestly entertaining if you're interested in the broader story arc or the setting.

Also Utah. Scatter the Mormons.

Geoff isn't a social democrat, he's a crank. He won his primary as a fluke, and there's absolutely no chance he'll win the general. We don't have to worry about him being a traitor because he's never gonna get anywhere near a position of political power. He's just a weird protest candidate being fed increasingly radical propaganda by other weirdos on the internet.

And that's why I love him.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079700404/1-in-5-patriot-front-applicants-say-they-have-ties-to-the-military

But I do think that when fascism arrives in full, it won't be these clowns. This just shows how pitiful our troops really are.

It varies a lot depending on who you're talking to. Obviously AmeriKKKans' brains are very warped and propagandized, and most aren't going to react well to it, but that's far from universal. There was a poll a few years ago that said like 30-something percent of Millennials support communism, for example. And the most recent Pew poll of Zoomers that I read showed that a majority are both opposed to capitalism and support socialism. Now what that really constitutes is going to vary, but IME people tend to be more receptive than a lot of people here are assuming or have experienced themselves. Demographics are important; age, class, and marginalization are each factors that influence attitudes towards radical politics. I don't generally bother with white, well-off boomer petty bourg, for example, and so I get a lot more cynicism or apathy than hostility.

I try to suss out how receptive someone might be before I decide how/whether to address anything political. Although I almost always start with "socialism" and only say "communism" down the line when they're already partly on board.

:EZLN: had their revolution in 1994.

It's good to have a future to aspire towards.

In New Vegas, NCR.

Caesar's Legion is fascist, Mr. House is a technocratic autocrat with an unstoppable robot army, and an independent Vegas is just ancap bullshit. The NCR creates the best foundation for a proletarian revolution, since they would proletarianize so much of the population and best develop the productive forces necessary for the construction of socialism:

"Since the communists cannot enter upon the decisive struggle between themselves and the bourgeoisie until the bourgeoisie is in power, it follows that it is in the interest of the communists to help the bourgeoisie to power as soon as possible in order the sooner to be able to overthrow it."

Even China deals with the Saudis so who’s helping Yemen?

The DPRK.

Not sure exactly:

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202208/1272519.shtml

Of all of Latin America's left-wing leaders, he singled out Petro, who isn't even a Marxist.

Also China.

DPRK, China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, "Israel"

I don't think even Zenz made that claim. The "Uyghur genocide" myth has taken on a life of its own.

Famous tankie Pope Francis.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-157-how-the-culture-war-label-is-used-to-trivialize-life-and-death-economic-issues

Can you elaborate?

I don't think that's a universal reaction to sanctions. Seemed to be a different story in apartheid South Africa, for example. (Not that I'm trying to draw an equivalence here.)

I also just started watching Babylon 5, but based on the comments elsewhere on this site, I'm told it gets a lot better and more nuanced after the first season.

Me. This will help progress regenerative medicine research.