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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • I tend to not really worry about the US deployment of nuclear weapons at our current stage. If they use them, in a way they lose their leveraging power. Which is why they have been threatened to be used in so many of the wars the US has created, but only deployed twice, when it was only the US who had access to them. I remember one article I read recently that pointed this out in the context of the invasion of Korea. Despite both Korea and China not having nuclear weapons, and the US feeling a strong desire to use them, it never happened, and the US lost anyway. There were strong considerations for using nuclear weapons in the invasion of Vietnam as well, with the same result. It is what Mao referred to when he described the imperialists as paper tigers. When actually pushed, their cowardice is shown. Isn’treal is demonstrating this now I think, given how immensely incompetent its response to the resistance has been, and the fact that it keeps hesitating to send a ground invasion. It is not in their interest to do all the things they threaten to do, I think. At least not yet? It could change if it was undeniable, even to the most deeply unhinged supporters of the settler colony that their own defeat is inevitable. Which, while it seems to us that it may be, to the settlers. there is still this notion that they have the right to what they have stolen, that it is god’s gift to them, etc. They cannot imagine a world without isn’treal just as the colonial occupiers of the various African colonies thought their reign was permanent. So their state of panic, I think, is not yet to the point of something as drastic as a nuclear attack.




  • I was a “socialist” the moment I knew it was a term that existed, but only became a marxist leninist when I saw endless amounts of police brutality and realised how necessary it is to have a structured political organisation to actually bring about change. Realising it is possible to have a concise course of action towards liberation, and that so many have done so in the past with dramatic improvements to life as a result has given me more hope than anything else I can think of. It is haunting to think of ever turning against the struggle as some people unfortunately have done with age. But I do not think it is because they became “wiser”, and I do not see myself becoming right wing any time soon. Especially as the brutality of the imperialists becomes more pronounced.