Liam was on a different boat of the flotilla but not the lead one that got boarded
Drewfro66
joined 3 years ago
In other words, "Give up or die".
As long as it's the first Cars I think I could live with it
This is super late but I've been running through my replies today
The difference between the PSL and an org like the DSA or Greens is that we have an explicit ideology. In order to be a full member, you have to take candidacy classes biweekly for almost a year.
Other parties find candidates by some egocentric grifter going up to them and saying "Hey I'm running for [X] I'd love to have your endorsement, yeah sure I'm a Socialist." The PSL has higher standards. If we're going to be fielding candidates, they need to be members, and they need to follow the party program and submit to the Party's authority.
Put these two things together, and it means that while your local PSL Branch may have a large periphery and is very active, it might only have a dozen or fewer full members. And only a very small percentage of those full members are going to be "electable".
What makes a person electable? For many positions, there are age prerequisites, and people prefer candidates at least in their 30's. It's bad optics to run a white Socialist against a Black Democrat in most cases. Some people are too ugly, they're poor public speakers, they are imminently "cancle-able" due to posting behavior or problematic romantic relationships.
So leftist orgs have tons of GenZ autistic transbians and neckbearded schlubs but not a lot of people fit for political office - GenX/elder millennial, attractive and well-spoken, has credentials, no embarrassing posting/romantic history, stable independent household. These are just not the sort of people who are joining the PSL in droves.
As the PSL is building it's membership base, I think the most likely path will just be maintaining legitimacy until our current members who are in their 20s get into their 30s and start to "settle down". At the moment, there are very few "electable" people in my own branch and, out of those few, even fewer actually want to go through it. But we do have a few, where we would have hardly any as of even 5 years ago. Given time, we'll find and build more.
I agree that I think it's silly to draw everything back to "Orientalism".
I would just say that North Korea and Enver Hoxha were/are based and good, actually.
Israel would claim that the flotilla was providing material assistance to a military enemy, and were a legitimate target
"You said you would land on Mars by 2025. You were correct."
I've met up with the RCA guys in my area a few times. They're mostly alright but are exactly what you'd expect
I was going to answer "in the Internet Hole", which was also my college nickname
There is a law in Ohio that states that the government cannot contract with a company that boycotts or divests from Israel.
The first thing that bears being said is that even this much is unconstitutional, and has never been tested in a court of law. It's just a scare tactic.
And, being a scare tactic, both lawmakers (usually but not always Republicans) and Zionist lobby groups will threaten any group engaging in BDS with a lawsuit, even when this (already unconstitutional) law does not apply. And just that threat is enough to cow most local politicians, because the time, effort, and expenses related to such a lawsuit are just "not worth it" in their eyes.
In Summit County, what our County Council has done is just not renew the Israeli bonds when they come up, but has so far refused to sign any sort of binding resolution to stop investments.
Summit County is obviously one very small part of Israel's funding apparatus, but you would be surprised how much money there is in local municipalities taking on Israeli government bonds. Sure, it's only a few million in Summit; but it's a few more million in Cuyahoga, there's the other, like, 100 counties in the state, there's the other 49 states, and most State governments (including the state of Ohio) hold Israeli debt at the State level as well. If the County that contains Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio is accounting for millions of dollars, imagine the rest of the iceberg sitting under the water?
How did this happen? Zionist lobby groups going around to any government body with a Treasury worth caring about and pestering them for it with the aid of local Zionists claiming to represent the "Jewish Community", and it's very easy to say yes when it's all happening behind closed doors, it's 2004, you're a 60-y/o white Democrat county councilman who has never heard the word "Palestine" before in their life and just wants to people-please and stop getting bothered.
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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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.