The poll wasn’t for Democratic Party voters in the Miami area (although Miami isn’t that much further south). It was a poll for Democratic Party voters in Florida’s 23rd congressional district. The poll was commissioned because a Democratic Socialists of America candidate, Oliver Larkin, is running against the Zionist right-wing Democrat Jared Moskowitz that currently represents the district.

A non-exhaustive list of parts of FL-23 (most of which I got from Hasan’s recent interview with Oliver Larkin - https://youtube.com/watch?v=jocqegXzbHQ):

• Parts of Ft. Lauderdale, a city which has the highest proportion of the population that are LGBTQ households for a medium-size city in the country.
• Wilton Manors, a city of about 11k comprised of over 20% LGBTQ households. It’s the second city in the country and first ever in Florida to have its governing body be comprised entirely of LGBTQ people.
• Parkland, where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting happened.
• Much of Boca Raton, which is known for its large Jewish population.

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Medicaid covers medical care of a lot of poor kids, so if they’re using Medicaid records then they’re probably using kids’ medical care data to identify parents to disappear.

UpScrolled was founded by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian Australian technologist and CEO of the company behind the app, Recursive Methods Pty Ltd, based in Australia.

If it’s based in Australia I wonder what the implications might be regarding surveillance, since Australia is a member of the Five Eyes, as well as any state censorship in service of Zionism, etc.

Sorry to necro-post but I’ll just put it out there that I think we’d be seeing more criticism of AOC if she wasn’t a lib, but it would be because of a healthy deliberation over the details of what she’s doing rather than us going all the time.

It doesn’t hurt to be as accurate in our description as possible as information becomes available, because it shows to people who is being responsible and serious with their knowledge. But we shouldn’t expect anything from Chuds themselves except inventing a story to justify what happened regardless of the facts.

They’re working backwards from “The actions of ICE are good and correct” and they largely are deeply unserious in their replies when disagreeing with the facts of the matter. The narratives they spin are merely a front-facing excuse to justify their our-might-makes-right worldview. Just look at how some of them ran with an invented story about Pretti brandishing a gun at ICE.

The fascists want to assert racist and patriarchal violence upon the everyone (including in usually more subtle or unnoticed ways upon themselves, which keeps them in line) and anything they say is an excuse in service of this, so handle your interactions with them accordingly.

Since I’d prefer we keep criticism of AOC accurate and substantive, I think it’s worth noting that she said “Abolish ICE” is still her position a few days ago: https://xcancel.com/AOC/status/2011116393496813639

Thank you for the correction. I’m glad I shared where I got the information from so you could pass this along to them too.

Sorry for being late to reply. I don’t log in to this site too often but I thought I owed you a reply.

I wasn’t talking about China sending troops. I was responding to your question “What do you want from them?” I listed a myriad of non-military bad decisions and paths China chose not to take. Sending troops was never something I proposed in my exchange with you.

A comment on the thread today about news that the US is relocating dozens of fighters to West Asia: https://hexbear.net/post/7297419

From what I heard, they’re preparing a full-frontal assault to Iran.

Source: From one of my relatives in MİT—National Intelligence Organization, Türkiye’s intelligence agency.

Direct link to the comment: https://hexbear.net/post/7297419/6819222

Edit: There’s no evidence of a significant relocation of US fighters according to @MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net: https://hexbear.net/comment/6819297

I do not believe that continuing marketization of the Chinese economy nor keeping business relations with Israel are necessary or even beneficial towards the end of international socialism’s victory over capitalism.

Most of this thread was casting doubt on China “developing socialism” so I don’t think coming in here saying it was “without a doubt” doing that makes sense.

That’s part of the beautiful poetic irony of this image. Look at the mural behind the carboard cutout and flags. It’s celebrating the Chinese space program. That’s something that one could very easily interpet as celebrating the country’s advanced technology and industry.

Duplicate post

This image was already posted in this comm merely 12 hours ago and has had a very active comments section: https://hexbear.net/post/7138604

They could have vetoed the US “peace” plan at the security council.

They could have cut all business relations with the Zionist Entity.

Maybe they could have even twisted Putin’s arm and made him choose between Zionism and continued access to Chinese markets!

Who knows? Perhaps they could have even “ruined Christmas” for the western consumer economies by holding up exports and saying “The presents will stop until the genocide stops. If the people in Bethlehem and the rest of Palestine can’t celebrate Christmas in peace then no trinkets for you.”

There are lots of levers to pull when you are the world’s largest export economy!

But “national development” takes priority over proletarian internationalism. No wonder internationalism is left to ideology grounded in the likes of Islam when the world’s largest “socialist” state continues to show every time it matters that they will do realpolitik for the sake of their capital rather than accept potential economic challenges. Making Chinese middle class incomes continue to grow so they can afford to become car-brained is more important.

I think its important to emphasis that Deng said “The Soviet Union […] is now stronger than the United States and Western Europe combined”, as in China really saw the USSR as a greater threat than the US. Outside of moral arguments, I still believe the decisions taken given incomplete information were the logically correct actions in China’s interests.

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Yeah, so that’s how the cookie crumbles, huh? Proletarian internationalism sacrificed on the altar of national “self-interest”. No wonder they continue to do business with the genocidal Zionist Entity today. It echoes this support of genociders in the past in service of “China’s interests”.

Stalin, despite at times having also done things that arguably made him one that was throwing stones in a glass house, really seems to have hit the nail on the head when in 1949 he said:

As far as I know in the CPC there is a thin layer of the proletariat and the nationalist sentiments are very strong and if you will not conduct genuinely Marxist-Leninist class policies and not conduct struggle against bourgeois nationalism, the nationalists will strangle you. Then not only will socialist construction be terminated, China may become a dangerous toy in the hands of American imperialists.

Source: https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv16n1/china.htm

[Vietnam] openly trampled underfoot all norms of international relations, flagrantly invaded Kampuchea and frantically intensified their anti-China campaign

Holy shit. Yeah that state in the middle of a genocide backed by China and the US really needed to be protected from Vietnam /sarcasm

Imagine trying to justify one of China’s biggest international L’s like that. I’ve seen a lot of stuff on this site but never someone defending Chinese support of Pol fucking Pot and arguing against Vietnam’s intervention. I had already logged off but when I saw this I did a double-take.

A quid pro quo arrangement with other sections of international capital.

Get down to business, all of you! You will have capitalists beside you, including foreign capitalists, concessionaires and leaseholders. They will squeeze profits out of you amounting to hundreds per cent; they will enrich themselves, operating alongside of you. Let them. Meanwhile you will learn from them the business of running the economy, and only when you do that will you be able to build up a communist republic. Since we must necessarily learn quickly, any slackness in this respect is a serious crime. And we must undergo this training, this severe, stern and sometimes even cruel training, because we have no other way out.

You must remember that our Soviet land is impoverished after many years of trial and suffering, and has no socialist France or socialist England as neighbours which could help us with their highly developed technology and their highly developed industry. Bear that in mind! We must remember that at present all their highly developed technology and their highly developed industry belong to the capitalists, who are fighting us.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/17.htm

China has highly developed technology and industry. The conditions for why the NEP was considered necessary are not applicable under these circumstances.

“…the best is about to come”

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Monday [17 November 2025] that endorses a peace plan for Gaza put forward by United States President Donald Trump and a temporary international force in the enclave following two years of war.

Resolution 2803 (2025) received 13 votes in favour, and none against, with permanent members China and Russia abstaining.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166391

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Part of it comes from the current mayor of the city, Eric Adams, having significantly played up his victory. Adams was a former cop in the city who then became a pro-cop politician, presenting himself during his run for mayor as a foil to the Black Lives Matter movement and as the opposition to an unpopular fringe left minority. Reality is more complicated of course, but the Democratic Party invented a reality about needing to go rightward with policies like giving police more funding and victories like Adams’s were used as justification.

Here’s how Adams spoke of his victory when he appeared to have won the Democratic party primary for mayor:

Look at me and you’re seeing the future of the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party fails to recognize what we did here in New York, they’re going to have a problem in the midterm elections and they’re going to have a problem in the presidential election.

We have allowed a group to hijack the term progressive. So what I’m saying to the Democratic Party — stop believing a numerical minority is what the numerical majority is.

New Yorkers and Americans want to be safe and they don’t want to exist on programs; they want to exist on possibilities and opportunities. I believe my message is going to cascade across the entire country.

Adams declares himself ‘future of the Democratic party’ ahead of final election results - Politico on June 24, 2021

He claimed this when his Democratic primary victory was much less decisive than Mamdani’s: 289,403 voters (30.7%) put him as their first round choice, there was a lower overall voter turnout, and ultimately when all ranked choices eliminations were completed he came out on top with merely 50.4% of non-exhausted ballots.

2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary - Wikipedia

By contrast, Mamdani garnered 43.51% of voters ranking him as their top choice and with much higher turnout he had 432,305 people put him as their top choice. We don’t have the final ranked choice numbers yet for this election, but his final vote tally is expected to also look much more decisive than Adams’s was.

2025 New York City Democratic mayoral primary - Wikipedia