RedWizard

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8179417

Leave it to Bibi?

Coincidental pizza index spike at Pentagon before Israels attack on Iranian nuclear scientists in their homes in Teheran.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf

Pizza Index:

The Pizza Index refers to the sudden, trackable increase of takeout food orders (not necessarily of pizza) made from government offices, particularly the Pentagon and the White House in the United States, before major international events unfold.

Government officials order food from nearby restaurants when they stay late at the office to monitor developing situations such as the possibility of war or coup, thereby signaling that they are expecting something big to happen. This index can be monitored through open resources such as Google Maps, which show when a business location is abnormally busy. Conversely, on-site locations around government buildings (such as bars or night clubs) that show less activity than usual also give an indication of the pizza index, as government employees that would normally go to these locations after work are instead still in the office.

The index can be used by those not employed by these agencies to get an idea of what a government, and particularly its intelligence agencies, is focusing on or expecting to happen in the next few hours or days. For example an increase in orders could be an indicator that the US expected war to break out between the two countries before any public confirmation was made in the media or on TV.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/41193715

New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has clearly learned from other effective communicators like Bernie Sanders how to use online media to spread popular left-wing ideas. Mamdani’s approach is a model for other insurgent candidates.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31589958

from https://www.nokings.org/

Complete abstention from political action is impossible. The abstentionist press participates in politics every day. It is only a question of how one does it, and of what politics one engages in. For the rest, to us abstention is impossible. The working-class party functions as a political party in most countries by now, and it is not for us to ruin it by preaching abstention. Living experience, the political oppression of the existing governments compels the workers to occupy themselves with politics whether they like it or not, be it for political or for social goals. To preach abstention to them is to throw them into the embrace of bourgeois politics. The morning after the Paris Commune, which has made proletarian political action an order of the day, abstention is entirely out of the question.

We want the abolition of classes. What is the means of achieving it? The only means is political domination of the proletariat. For all this, now that it is acknowledged by one and all, we are told not to meddle with politics. The abstentionists say they are revolutionaries, even revolutionaries par excellence. Yet revolution is a supreme political act and those who want revolution must also want the means of achieving it, that is, political action, which prepares the ground for revolution and provides the workers with the revolutionary training without which they are sure to become the dupes of the Favres and Pyats the morning after the battle. However, our politics must be working-class politics. The workers' party must never be the tagtail of any bourgeois party; it must be independent and have its goal and its own policy.

The political freedoms, the right of assembly and association, and the freedom of the press — those are our weapons. Are we to sit back and abstain while somebody tries to rob us of them? It is said that a political act on our part implies that we accept the exiting state of affairs. On the contrary, so long as this state of affairs offers us the means of protesting against it, our use of these means does not signify that we recognise the prevailing order.

— Karl Marx, Apropos Of Working-Class Political Action

I haven't tried this yet but I hope it's good. I've been wanting to find a way to sync saved posts and comments to a file and this could be a good way. If the API is good, you could pull saved comments and posts into org-roam cards, using communities, users, and instances as tags or other properties.