NATO was specifically designed to protect against the United Soviet Socialist Republic, which was illegally dissolved by the RSFSR. There is no relationship between the USSR and modern Russia.

Hell yeah, nice work. If you’d like, I have advice on forming tenant unions so it gets fixed even quicker next time

Remember folks, in many areas if something major is broken then you can go on a rent strike until it’s fixed by the landlord by putting the rent into escrow. Local laws are too diverse for me to get into more detail, so make sure you know what you’re doing before you do it. Find a tenants rights group in your area and ask for help.

what are you talking about?

What exactly did I make up? You don’t have to say that you support the status quo to argue in favor of the status quo. I’m asking basic questions to understand where you’re coming from, because I refuse to assume things about your position. China greatly prefers soft power over military power (not that they don’t act in a jingoist manner), and will not align themselves with Russia in fear of US secondary sanctions hurting their soft power. India is courting all sides of the geopolitical game in the hopes of gaining power overall, not in any specific direction. North Korea has weapons manufacturing capabilities lacking in Russia, but the DPRK is doing it to hurt the West without incurring worse sanctions. BRICS is an economic alliance comparable to the WTO and it definitely has nowhere near the weight of WTO or the will to become a military alliance. The African Union and ECOWAS are aligned with the imperial core. I’m not denying that there are other bad actors out there, I’m saying that none of the bad actors are anywhere close to organized, so fearmongering about “something worse than NATO” is nothing more than that.

I wouldn’t call “hating NATO” irrational. I’d say it’s a difference in priorities. I don’t believe that the suffering imposed on the global south by NATO is outweighed by the mild stability they’re bringing to the global north currently. I hate the pain and suffering that NATO enables in the majority of the world. However out of pragmatism, I see that the lack of NATO in the present would be worse for people overall. The best time to have dismantled NATO would have been at any point from 1992 to 2010. The next best time will come in the near future when NATO is no longer holding the West together against bad actors. However rather than dismantle it, I want to see it transformed into something that helps people in crisis, rather than the purposes of war. To do that, the US (NATO’s largest funder) will need to have a socialist economy to prevent them pulling out ASAP, and a majority of other members will need to be socialist as well due to the democratic structure of the organization. It’s a Herculean task, but I believe that it can be done. Perhaps you should avoid assuming things about my position as well.

I feel like you’re the same type of person that would refuse to help organize a union or even sign a membership card because the organizing committee isn’t doing things ‘your way’. I know your type, because I organized a union without the help of your type. Running around accusing people disagreeing with you as “disingenuous” doesn’t help gain understanding or class solidarity with your fellow workers.

abolishing the mutual defense pact of all those different nations it will simply Empower a different group of people.

ah yes, the “we must defend the status quo at ALL COSTS because the unknown is scary” position. Which alliance exists currently that is a rival to NATO? Which existing political alliances are being suppressed that will immediately crop up into a military alliance in it’s absence? Since it’s purely an accelerationist position, will you point out the other accelerationist positions on Dr. West’s Policy Pillars?

Are you seriously insisting …

I hate NATO. I understand why people want it dismantled. I disagree with that assessment. How much more explicit do I have to be? No, I am not insisting any of that.

NATO will never exist in that manner until a majority of member nations and the US are socialist. Even though I disagree with it, I understand the desire to want it just dismantled instead because getting to that point is tantamount to moving mountains. It’s not just an accelerationist position.

Opposition to NATO is a pretty milquetoast opinion on the socialist left due to its’ part in the continued exploitation and neo-imperialism of the global south. I’m also opposed to NATO, but I don’t think it should be dismantled. Rather it should be turned into an international climate change relief agency.

Steve should unionize the afford the really nice pebbles

Can we add a the option “I want to return from the internet”?

As an official act, dissolve the current supreme court and reverse every terrible decision they made.

If that’s the case, then my bad. I may have read into your comment too much.

That’s kind of my point. The US is the problem with our political system. Russia is a factor, but they exacerbated division that was already present. It’s actually ridiculous to try and frame it as a problem that wouldn’t have appeared if Russia stayed out of our business.

That’s right, there were no flaws in the political system invented 250 years ago and only outside actors in the last 20 years led to a conservative party vs a fascist party.

Must be day 3 on a new diet

If Biden stepped down and Joe Schmoe from Fucking, Indiana was elevated to presidential candidate for the Democratic party, they’d be known by 80% of the country in 24 hours. The “too late” narrative continued to be pushed multiple times until it was actually too late. I think this the 4th “too late” segment in his campaign.

That’s generally a fair criticism, but the context from the rest of this particular thread is clearly US based

What options does the community have? Was there no RFC by the park board?

Yea that was part of the decision. I wasn’t prepared enough to confront them out of the blue, but I was raised Catholic. I have an idea of how deep their “care” for us really is

Not cuddling the cat when they’re being that cute is just cruel. Give the kitty some love!