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Rachel's avatar

I live an hour (or three in rush hour) from Cop City. I consider myself rural even though it's probably more suburban than rural. When I visit my mom in coastal SC, I drive through some of the most rural areas in the south.

I know my neighbors would be on board with fighting ... if we had a plan.

I want to talk to my neighbors more. They see me outside every day farming. I know they'd listen, because rural people as a whole respect other people.

They are the real revolutionaries. I just don't know what to say. We could bitch all day long. But I need a plan to direct the energy.

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J Hagler's avatar

Love and solidarity… from so called Idaho

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Him Bro Man's avatar

Why the insistence on pro-Russia? I don’t have love for Russia or Ukraine

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J Hagler's avatar

It’s not about being “pro Russia” but an understanding that the primary contradiction, and threat to humanities’ existence, is US imperialism. Any and all forces worldwide standing up to US imperialism should, at the very least, have solidarity and critical support from those of us in the imperial core. The only way the US maintains its hegemony and status as the worlds reserve currency (which only really benefits the ruling class not those of us working class folks actually living here) is with 1,000 military bases around the globe. Access to global markets and natural resources is what gives the ruling class its money and power. Take away US imperialism and the rest will collapse like the house of cards that it is. The ruling class is most scared of us communists showing international solidarity with those in Russia, China, Iran and every other country labeled as “the enemy “. We want peace with those countries and those countries want peace with us; the ruling class wants war do NOT give them what they want!

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Rachel's avatar

In the Ukraine conflict, if you're on the side of humanity, you are "pro-Russia". Americans' mindless support for Ukraine has cost over 400,000 Ukrainians their lives. Pro humanity, pro-goodness, is defeating Ukraine and the oligarchy that engineered the disaster. The people fighting the bad guys are Russian. The bad guys are Ukrainian. Of course I'm sure there's hundreds of thousand of good guys in Ukraine. But they're fighting on behalf of the most evil empire that has ever existed.

I'm not saying anybody should blindly support any nationality. I'm saying right now the US media narrative about the Russian/Ukrainian conflict hides the reasons why Russia invaded. And the purpose of that is to make you assume that Russia is the bad guy. They're not.

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Him Bro Man's avatar

Mind giving me a refresher on the reasons why Russia invaded? I just assume it’s to clean up their backyard, so to speak. Ukraine has gotten too cozy with NATO and Russia is preparing for the century of conflict to come during the ecological breakdown

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