You are harming the narrative that Canada is categorically friendly and peaceful.

One redeeming feature of the history is that refugees of slavery in the US were able to find protection in Canada, though it was often quite difficult for them to reach.

I know, but the context is a pretense that liberal politicians are benevolent.

Your attitude is exactly the one that has brought us to the rise of Mein Orangutan, of demanding no more than whatever seems slightly more favorable than the worst case possible.

Advancing conditions for the base of the population would depend on much more than simply voting in national elections for the Democratic Party. In fact, it requires looking beyond the two-party machine, by organizing local campaigns, worker unions, and direct action.

The Democratic Party is not coming to save us.

No one is coming to save us.

We can be saved only by doing the work to take care of each other, to protect each other, and to relate to each other as members of community.

Imperialist atrocities are excusable when they are ordered by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

Licking boots is fun when they are worn by someone claiming to be queer friendly.

Trump does nothing himself. Sham justice carries the support of the entire political establishment.

It was never much more than a tool to repress the poor and marginalized.

You should expect that a kangeroo court has already been arranged.

The relationship of Latin states with the US has never been of negotiation between equal peers. South and Central America are subjugated under the colonialism of the US. They are kept poor because their economies are structured to be dependent on trade with the US.

The true effect will be to affirm the urgency for such states to develop deeper integration with the Russia-China power axis.

Strikes require unity across a workforce.

If some workers in a local context work instead of participating in a strike, then the business is not pressured to acquiesce, and the sacrifice is in vain.

Striking in any case results in lost pay, which promotes fear and threatens survival. Solidarity improves morale and saves lives.

Fostering unity and solidarity is among the essential functions of a union.

Do you know of any strong central leaders?

They rarely speak for everyone.

A general strike is not for negotiations, but for pressuring the political establishment to acquiesce to particular demands.

All we can do is rebuild.

Strikes are organized through unions not hashtags.

Taiwan is a colony.

The overall dynamics are fundamentally comparable.

Framing Iraq and Saddam as stockpiling weapons and being linked to Al Queda is exactly analogous to framing Venezuela and Maduro as linked to Americans struggling with drug addiction. Further, both invasions are blood for oil. The mechanics of imperialism remains broadly consistent.

I naturally agree with the basic premise that the issue is oil not drugs.

I question that deficit spending is either threatening or threatened within the US. Further, I find it a tenuous case that US companies are not eager to restore the control of Venezuelan oil that they maintained preceding nationalization, such eagerness being more than sufficient to account for the motives of US action against Venezuela.

Understanding the past developments with clarity opens a chance to achieve effective solutions for the most serious problems.

Society will not return to the past.

The consensus of uneasy contentment with the status quo has been shattered, and the pressures toward change are immense.

The way forward, whether it develops favorably or unfavorably, will be new and different.

At minimum, it would be necessary to dismantle settler-colonialism in Palestine, meaning an end to the “Jewish state”.