We seriously need to expand to every safe blue congressional and senate seat. Local government and everything in between.
We should first take over these safe blue seats before expanding against Republicans.
There's quite a few people in our ranks who get angry at our two most prominent and popular elected officials for not endorsing every single DSA candidate but I take a different approach.
AOC built her own popular and influence. So did Bernie and Mamdani. We can't just have influential New York Dems and Bernie handpick candidates elsewhere to prop up.
We need to replicate them elsewhere semi-independently.
Melat Kiros is a good example of a future AOC. She's young, a good speaker and has a promising future in politics and she did this vastly on her own.
Mamdani only does endorsements in New York and AOC is very selectively. She campaigned with Abdul in Michigan.
Bernie is a lot more open to endorsing and he is in a position to do that. He will be leaving politics one day and he recognizes his role in the progressive cause.
That said because of how popular Mamdani, anybody he endorses in New York will most likely win. So who do you think in 2028 will he endorse?
This Michigan Senate Primary was intense. Haley only got so far because of the countless Ads payed for by AIPAC slandering Abdul. Her parading around a fake Obama endorsement siphoned the Black vote away which is usually progressive.
It is clear we need money and lots of it. We have to counter out the defamatory ads they use against us and even the playing fields.
Also we might need to narrow our ambitions and be more selectively when challenging the Democratic establishment. Having more targeted campaigns instead of like 500 would better our chances.
And finally every single 'safe' blue district needs to be DSA. No more centrist dems in safe blue areas.
It's often said that America is Saudi Arabia primary defense and security guarantor but who is America is protecting Saudi Arabia from???
People will say Iran but Saudi Arabia can protect itself from Iran and can also offer this protection to the smaller gulf states.
Is Saudi Arabia dumb for even keeping this charade going? In this conflict who's getting hit... Israel or the Gulf States...
Turkmenistan isn't, Azerbaijan isn't. Nor is Turkey.
At this point the Gulf States need to realize America only has Israel's interest and to move away and be there own security guarantors.
If the American bases are gone, Iran has less of a narrative of being opposed to this and nor their states. To deal with Iranian proxies just have a better understanding and crush any potential one that may try to arise in any of their states.
I was reading that Saudi Arabia has been asking America for permission for a while to build nuclear energy for civilian use...
Is Saudi Arabia serious? This is so embarrassing, you are strong and rich enough to not be anybody's bitch.
Iran has nuclear energy for civilian use already and so do other states around the world. America really treats Saudi Arabia with so much dissent.
Saudi Arabia needs to become more like Oman. Neutral and relations with all major powers.
What I mean by this is that is their such a thing as the "Pieds-noir vote", kinda like how in America the term the "black vote" or "latino vote" exist to describe how demographics vote and the policies and political parties they are sympathetic towards.
I was reading that the French law on colonialism in 2005 was championed and lobbied by Pieds-noir and Harkis in France so it got me wondering, is this something Pieds-noir regularly do? This law was quite controversial and tried to suggest there was good things about French colonialism (obviously they were in Algeria during French control so they must hate anti-colonial sentiment).
Is there even still a demographic in France that maintains the Pieds-noir identity? Since most of them are Francophiles I wouldn't understand how such an identity could remain. They never saw themselves as Algerians but rather as French. So do the descendants of the returnees consider themselves as pieds-noirs? Are their millions of pieds-noirs??? How many exist?
I think I gathered a understanding that Pieds-noirs seem to hold grievances towards Algerians (and maybe Arabs as a whole) and The Left doesn't like them obviously so my question is are they a particularly conservative demographic?
I pose this question to radical feminist because to me many radical feminist just seem like teenage girls on twitter who were once liberal feminist who suddenly started hating trans people and pornography.
It seems like any mention of economic systems or the working class is non existent among radical feminist.
Do radical feminist believe the liberation of women as a class can happen under capitalism?
I feel like most radical feminist would just be liberal feminist if mainstream feminism was anti trans. It seems like radical feminist as a political group also don't exist. I feel like most self-proclaimed radical feminist probably even vote right wing parties.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is corned and hasn't built any lasting friendships with major regional powers that could help them.
They spend the what? Last two decades burning bridges with Arab states. Turkey would rather hold hands with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for partnership (Iran quite literally touches Turkey and Pakistan doesn't which makes it funny).
They could keep their sovereignty and regime intact but it would require a major change to how they ally with. They can't just fund a proxy on the border with Saudi Arabia and expect allyship.
There proxies are severely weak and with a President like Trump who doesn't care, he would just rain bombs on them without care.
I don't understand why they can't properly ally with states unless they do a coup with some shia militia.
Otherwise they might actually capitulate. This would be insane because so many people are tied to that regime. What would we have? Numerberg 2.0?
Theres an actual crisis happening in muslim majority countries whether in Turkey, Saudi Arabia or Iraq of historic structures being incorrectly restored or worse demolished and rebuilt in a modern style.
Obviously this happened mostly during the late colonial- early independence days of many of our countries like the Sheikh Ma'ruf Mosque in Baghdad.
>The Sheikh Ma'ruf Mosque was built around the grave of the renowned ascetic Ma'ruf al-Karkhi between the years 1215 to 1216.^([2])^([3])^([4]) In 1225, the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir renovated the mosque.^([1])^([5])^([4]) In the Ottoman era, the mosque was restored and refurbished twice, first by the governor Ahmed Pasha and later on Ahmed Pasha.^([4]) In 2001, the mosque was fully reconstructed in a modern, futurist style, which also doubled the area of the mosque and replaced the old minaret with a new one.^([5])^([4])
In Istanbul Turkey the Mesnevihane Mosque is what inspired me to make the post. Its honestly funny because what kind of restoration is this.
So yeah its rough. On the bright side is that countries that went through turmoil like Germany in WWII and China and Russia under Stalin and Mao which saw there heritage sites demolished often rebuilt them faihtfully after opening up.
One day these sites need to be restored.
عدنا مناطق كاملة ببغداد تكدر تصير مثل مدن أوروبا من ورا جمالها. بس المشكلة عدنا بيوت قديمة ومساجد وحمامات كلها صايرة خرابة. لازم نرممها بشكل دقيق حتى يرجع العراق ينذكر كمهد للحضارة والعلم
This is a random question but I believe at one point most Algerians in Paris were Kabyle although with the continued immigration from Algeria to France is this still the case today?
Also was the trend of Kabyle going to France motivated by a political opposition to Algeria. Do some Kabyles view France in a more positive light than Algeria even though being colonized by them?
Is the plan of action to just keep challenging every democratic representative or candidate who is funded by AIPAC out? Any safe blue seat should not be held by someone who is going on Israel brand trips and is declaring there allegiance like its some blood oath. Hakeem Jeffries is another person who should be challenged.
Do we keep doing this until they realize how serious we are about Gaza and Palestine? This issue will not go away.
Now that Egypt is eliminated you are the only African and Muslim team left. I was hoping the racist Argentines would be eliminated but they're still here. Argentina cannot win. Yall cant lose to France.
I am only now starting to get the hang of minesweeper. I used to just aimlessly pick any title never playing the game seriously.
It was only until I realised that the numbers on the board corresponded to how many mines it touches. It was like a Eureka moment.
I am proud of this play even If some might find it easy
It was the blue mine in the bottom right corner that messed me up.
Anonymously posting this and my situation is very unique to myself but I started University in 2024 and my mental health problems which can be quite severe meant my first semester was basically a fail. Second semester I basically did not do any class.
2 year I did one class and I did pass that. Second semester did nothing again.
Now its my 3 year and I did 4 classes and I believe I passed at least 3 out of my 4.
I'm in a much better headspace now compared to when I did not want to do anything.
Anybody else in a similar position?
STOP allowing the erasure of Arab heritage in the Levant and Mesopotamia. Arabic and Arabs originate in the Syrian steppe and the Southern Levant (Jordan/Palestine) and the most northern part of the Arabian peninsular in modern day Saudi Arabia (Tabuk).
This is where proto-arabic originated from and where the oldest arabic inscriptions in Safaitic, Hismaic and Nabatean Aramaic (which gave rise to the Arabic script) can be found.
From the Kingdom of Edessa and the Arab Nabatean Kings starting with Abgarid, to the Kingdom of Hatra in Upper Mesopotamia, to the Nabatean Kingdom, Ghassanids and the Lakmids. Arabs did not emerge in these lands during the Islamic expansions. Rather Islam emerged here and the Arabs which were a disunited group of people, became one.
This rhetoric of "Arabs come from Yemen" is used by racist, genocide supporting people to deny us our history and heritage.
If you are Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, Iraqis and are seriously saying "well we're not real arabs, were arabised", you don't know history.
Here are some arabs you most likely do not know about, King Aretas was the greatest Nabatean King and was alive during Jesus's time.
Phillip the Arab was a Syrian Roman emperor. Phillip the Arab was one of the many Roman emperors who was of Arab origin. He saw the 1000 year celebration of Rome during his time.
Elagabalus, Phillip the II, Caracalla and more were also Arab roman emperors born from Julia Domna a Christian Arab woman born in Homs.
The Last Lakhmid King was a Nestorian christian who was killed by the Sassanian empire for his conversion.
If you see this misinformation, correct it. Do not believe lies.
Does anybody else think the biggest losers in this conflict are the UAE?
First and foremost the "Gulf States allies" do not exist. Saudi Arabia is obviously the top dog in the region and they do not follow line but rather do what they want. Oman is another country that is fiercely independent in this regard and Qatar has always been banging heads with the UAE. Bahrain and Kuwait are too irrelevant to add anything.
So just by my calculations Saudi Arabia + Oman + Qatar all seem to be in their own little grouping, excluding the UAE.
From the negative press they received from because of their involvement with the RSF committing genocide in Sudan to them losing influence and notability amongst Arab states. They were stamped outside of Yemen by Saudi Arabia pretty harshly and were kicked from Socotra. To Saudi Arabia ostracizing them and leaving them alone to deal with Iran.
Turkey pretty heavily getting involved in Libya and turning Haftar into his guy. They hold no power in Iraq and Syria is in Turkey and Saudi Arabia's orbit.
Egypt and Turkey and Saudi Arabia have now all built back relations after being sour for a while with rumored defense partnerships.
I feel like the UAE misplaced their bets and are now suffering the consequences of being seen as so pro-Israel.
These are tombs for Omani Imams. Imam Ahmad bin Saeed Al Busaidi is the first Omani Sultan from the current ruling dynasty and Imam Said bin Sultan Al Ya'arubi was from the previous dynasty that had just ended following a civil war.
They are both in Rustaq and they both may look alike, however they are not the same structures. I think you can notice the slight differences in the architecture.
Very disappointed in the state of this country. Shocked at Israel meddling in our affairs.
We need to fix ourselves. But democracy is a highly uneducated nation is not the way forward. Putting a highly tribalised people who value qabil will worsen the state of our nation. We need a china style democracy that forces us to become developed.
I feel like Al Shabaab exist because those who do reject qabil are not secular minded but rather are religious. Unfortunately they happen to be extremist and not moderate.
Because of how well-known UAE/Dubai is, some people seem to think they represent Arab architecture or worse think traditional Arab architecture is not alive in the Gulf.
Well I am here to remind you that states like UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain etc are TINY states that exist due to excessive oil wealth made by the British following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the historic centres in Arabia were in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Cities like Sanaa, Ibb, Diriyah, Jeddah, Taiz, Rustaq, Nizwa etc were the major urban centres and the smaller gulf states were apart of bigger states.
Kuwait was apart of Iraq. UAE was apart of Oman and Bahrain, Qatar etc were with culturally with Najd or Oman.
Common aspects of Omani architecture rely on earthen materials, elaborate archways, wooden ceilings and balconys, decorative stucco etc
Stumbled across a sleuth of anti-immigration posts made by Moroccans particularly complaining about Senegalese and other black African migrants in there country. These videos had hundreds and thousands of likes and comments.
Many people in the comments liked at the irony of Moroccans who make up a bulk of the immigrant population in Europe complaining about immigrants in Morocco.
Is this stance widespread and are Moroccans racist?
