It is lib shit, but at least it's "Liberals being Liberals" and not "Liberals scolding leftists for not being Liberals"
Drewfro66
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Al-Queda-led Syria and the Gulf Monarchies is not "Almost the entire Arab world". Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen did not support Israel, Bashar would not have. Algeria is too far away to matter but they did not.
This is the essence of "meeting people where they're at", though. You are not going to turn a significant percentage of the white middle class into disciplined Marxists. The material conditions don't exist for it.
It's like, I'm in the PSL and we organize a lot of protests. Our local Indivisible branch is pretty cool as far as Libs go - they're willing to work with us, they're willing to learn, they're pro-trans rights and lean towards Palestine (but Indivisible at the national level forbids local branches from doing Palestine stuff because they're full of Zionists). And they have thousands of members, in a relatively small city.
But recently they've been expressing anxiety to me about liability - that they haven't been able to get event insurance for their protests, that they're being told they need insurance to get permits, that they believe in going through "the proper channels" especially because we live in a Democrat city. They're worried about prosecution or lawsuits because they're professional-class boomers, they have qualifications (legal/medical/engineering/etc.) that can be taken away, they have houses they could lose in a lawsuit, they have kids and grandkids to take care of.
It comes down to material conditions. The more I work with them, the more empathetic I try to be - they're doing what can be expected of them wrt their class position in society. They're not Marxists but they're never going to be.
I've been doing a lot of work with 50501/Indivisible recently. Because my account is somewhat linked to my real identity I can't be too specific or critical. But here's my take:
"Kool Karyn" is almost definitely a member of Indivisible, a nationwide Liberal anti-Trump org whose membership is almost exclusively old, middle-class, white liberals.
In my (majority-black) city, a majority-black protest of 30 will get drones and snipers and tear gas. Indivisible got 2,500 (almost all older, white) people out at a public park protest and the only cops we saw were probably just on their regular patrols.
I'm gonna punch against the grain: Karen is giving perfectly reasonable advice for her contingent, for the kinds of protests that her organization is organizing. You can criticize their politics, their strategy, their class relations - but cops are not going to drive an AV through a crowd of kneeling white boomers. And the way her post is phrased, at least, does not imply that she is giving general advice to all protestors - just the people going to this particular protest, which will almost certainly be 90% old white libs who are in practically no danger of police violence.
And just like a bunch of black students were shot at Jackson State and no one cared but when a few white students were at Kent State it was suddenly a big deal, if the old white libs do come under fire, the public and media will care. And, for their politics and class position, that's actually somewhat brave - old white libs are never going to riot, but (and trust me, I don't mean this in a hateful way) the most useful things they can do at a protest that is within their temperament and ability is commit to nonviolence and have violence brought unto them by the state.
I love the idea of people in Scandinavia and the Netherlands holding a "No Kings" protest referencing Trump lmao
Trust me, we're not going anywhere
If there is a grain of truth to this story, I'd love to read into it more from a less biased source like Global Times or SCMP.
Liam was on a different boat of the flotilla but not the lead one that got boarded
In other words, "Give up or die".
As long as it's the first Cars I think I could live with it
Stovetop strip steak, roasted veggies and steak fries, mushroom and onion topping, and the best garlic bread I've had in my life.
Measuring is for nerds. I just vibe.
Marinade (24/hr):
Mostly soy sauce
Olive oil
Worcester sauce
Lemon juice
Red wine vinegar
Garlic powder
Dried rosemary
Steak:
New York Strip. Boneless, because I don't like the hassle (and the boneless was on sale for $7.99/lb!)
McCormick Montreal steak seasoning
Fried in butter. I put some more on it at some point. Butter.
After cooking, put some garlic spread on
4 min. on each side in the pan, 15 minutes in the oven
Let it rest!
Topping:
Half a sweet onion
Two 4 oz cans of mushrooms
Two jalapeno peppers
A garlic bulb (chopped)
A lil bit of sweet red wine
A spoonful of sugar, added near the end
Fried in olive oil, like 10 minutes? Until the wine is reduced.
Veggies:
The other half of the onion
Another garlic bulb (just thrown in there)
Another jalapeno pepper
A big ole' carrot
A bag of frozen steak fries, forgotten about and added 5 minutes after the other veggies
Cook for half an hour at 450 F.
Garlic Bread:
Two loaves of Italian bread
The majority of a tin of garlic spread
Seasoned salt
A whole lot of Parmesan cheese, freshly grated.
Italian seasoning
15 minutes at 450 F.
Here's the recipe:
3 sticks of celery
One large carrot
A bulb of garlic
2 Lbs. of chicken breast
8 cups of wide egg noodles
8 cups of chicken broth (+2 cups of water)
Fried the chicken in olive oil, then the carrot and celery in butter. Added the chopped garlic then the broth, brought to a boil then added the noodles. After about 15 minutes of cooking added the chicken back in. Haven't tasted it yet, but I burned my tongue on the broth lol.
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