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No I'm actually willing to help you if you actually take the first step and have any interest in investigation. It's really up to you to decide whether you care about learning about sourcing, or this topic.

My offer is to help you if you have trouble verifying anything. To me there is more than enough information to double check anything you would want to and I already knew much of the content just by being aware of things like the George Floyd protests.

Let me know what points you've looked into and had trouble verifying.

The author is obviously the political campaign that the URLs go to.

It's unclear to me what citations anyone needs. These are easily verifiable facts. I already knew 2 of them and I don't even live in Minnesota. But if you have any trouble verifying any of the things for which you think there should be a citation, I would be happy to show you how to do so.

But feel free to transcribe the image to help blind people.

If you are sighted, feel free to write up a transcription.

Can you let me know which ones you've looked into and had trouble verifying?

The PSL does not expect to win the presidential election. They expect to agitate for socialist positions and use electoralism as a vehicle for other organizing.

Every statement in this poster is true. If they are tankies, what does that say to you?

Build dual power.

Dual Power cannot be built. It was a Bolshevik term for their analysis of the situation in the Russian Empire where the Russian government was so weak and delegitimized and soviets had built up enough of their own power that they believed revolution could be seized at that particular moment.

The state will persist until capitalism inevitably destroys itself and the state that props it up.

Capitalism destroys itself only through its contradictions, of making a system that produces a class conscious working class. This is only inevitable over a long time frame and it can be sped up through socialist political education and organizing.

In the meantime, it's easier to have a liberal squishy government in power than a fascist one.

The liberal government has many properties of the fascist one and has traditionally led to fascism, which is used as a tool of capital to crush an ascendant left. The fascists were inspired by American settler-colonialism and liberalism and the US government supported them up until the start of WWII, including in collaboration with American companies there. They then saved a bunch of Nazis, keeping them in positions of power in West Germany and using them to fight left wing movements in Latin Ampa.

The liberal government is just where capital is in full control and not worried about the left. You see them drop their mask when they feel any threat from the left. For example, the Democratic political class controls the major cities and many states and there they fund the cops, hire the cops, and use their violence to fight us. Walz infamously sent the National Guard in to suppress the original George Floyd protests. If they get worried enough they will gladly let fascists deal with the problem of socialists, as they always have.

The libs will attempt to placate and pander to us with little concessions here and there.

Liberal pandering to the left is false promises and cynical manipulations. There is a fundamental opposition between us, they cannot actually oppose caoital, they are a capitalist political entity.

Both parties are statist and against any true vision of socialist structures

The idea of dual power came from statists and is unique to statists. Marxist organizing is premised on the maintenance of the state post-revolution.

but don't pretend the republicans and dems are equally bad.

They are part of the same continuum that delivers one-two punches for capital. They agree with one another far more than they disagree. They are also both liberal parties, one is just more conservative. We do not actually have many proper fascists in the US. Instead, we have reactionaries that are part of the exact systems the US has had in place under liberalism. A given white supremacist organization is not a new fascist reaction, it is a harkening back to tge liberal status quo 50-70 years ago, to Jim Crow, and beyond.

You'll find that the current Dem administration is doing a genocide. How are liberals reacting to this? Have they made any real demands? Threatened to withhold their votes? Of course not. The role they are taught, by your logic, is a tailing lesser-evilism where their idea of political action is hand-wringing before inevitably voting as an individual and never thinking beyond the current election.

Dems are bad, but the right-wingers are Satan. I'd much rather fight the mini-boss than the main boss if I had the choice.

Dems are right wing.

Is it? These are not difficult facts to verify. For example, Walz is infamous for sending the National Guard in to stop the George Floyd protests, for example. As in, in the place he was killed, the original protests.

I'd be happy to provide information if you're having trouble verifying anything, though.

The links are to the PSL presidential campaign, which shouldn't be too surprising from a domain called votesocialist2024. The poster is meant to be agitational, to make you think critically.

These claims are all either sourced in the poster or easily verifiable public record. Walz famously cracked down on the George Floyd protests. As in, in the city(ies) where Chauvin killed him. His record includes those vetoes. And it should really be no surprise to anyone that the Democratic ticket is Zionist, the party line is support for Israel and its genocide. The only national-level Dem that consistently voices opposition is Tlaib.

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can't pay them to default to their search engine. That's a large chunk of their funding.

Such an amazing turnout

And there are like 8 software projects dedicated to making pandas wrappers that work with large datasets because this is somehow better than engineers and statisticians learning SQL or some kind of distributed calculations strategy.

The company you work for is not your friend. If it is their body can they will use it to their benefit. Any benefit you receive will be incidental or simply part if their propaganda to get you to wear it for them.

It will be used, primarily, to surveil employees. They will track your habits and ensure you are aware that every single thing you do for your shift is something your boss or their boss or their boss can come back to you with and reprimand you for. They will try to set performance targets that can be compared to your videos so they can tell you what an algorithm or a petty middle manager says you are doing wrong. Too much time helping a customer. You're not folding clothes fast enough. Walk faster. No sitting. They will set keywords. Union. Break. Curse words. Your bosses' names. They might not even review these things. The intimidation is enough. Maybe you'll get new policies. See that black guy? Follow him. Get video. The algorithm said to do it so it can't be racist. We'll pass it along to the cops.

Companies wouldn't pay for it if they didn't see a business angle and the obvious ones are control over employees and being able to use more video for "liability" defense.

If you have mind control smells and that billionaire, why kill him? Make him into a class traitor.

GrapheneOS has an approach that always prioritizes security at a technical level over privacy over promoting FLOSS. I think the first two are difficult to balance as they are interrelated but sometimes come at the cost of one another. I think the second is reasonable to have below the first two given the state of app ecosystems in general.

F-Droid does need to improve its approach to security. I can see why projects don't promote it as a default.

Al-Jazeera also posts bullshit. They're useful for specific issues in the Middle East because they aren't totally bought off against Palestine or Iran. They still suffer from the core fallacies of corporate journalism.

Ask certain NGOs and governments for takes, reoeat them uncritically or have some criticise others. Easy way to create or support a nonsense narrative.

A ton of countries send delegations to Venezuela to monitor elections and they always report boring results or are vague (from oppositional countries).

The AP is happy to reprint nonsense, especially if it is coming from a government or NGO.

Such as?

What in Marxism needs to be upgraded, specifically?

What in Marxism do you think needs upgrades?