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1) Americans who say "Russia is my enemy". An exercise in logic.
- what is the Russia you hate? Define in two words
- what do you reply to Latin Americans and Asians who claim that the "USA is my enemy because it installed dictatorships here"
- who is the USA?
- are you the USA?
2) In some time, the anti-fascist and pro-democracy Russian people, who presently die when they demonstrate, may want your support. Are you ready to tweet "all support to the Russian people"?
3) I was born in Brazil. I fought a RW dictatorship there. The fascist dictatorship was my enemy and I was prepared to die fighting it before adulthood. Now the country is ruled by a fascist mob again:
- Bolsonaro's fascist mob is my enemy
- the Brazilian people deserve my suport
4) ... just like the American people fighting fascism, the Bolivian people that will take their country back from white evangelicals supported by the USA government, the Russian people who try again and again to fight against oppression, the Iranian, Iraqui (everybody)...
5) ... people fighting against oppression. Your nation-country is a recent invention. An abstraction used to indoctrinate you to see yourselves separated from the rest of the world.
6) There are just two kinds of people: those in favor of oppression and barbarianism and those fighting against it. The FASCISTS/BARBARIANS and us, the ANTIFASCISTS.
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1. Check out July 8, October 7 and now. My point: if you are not a quantitatively trained political scientist (and not just a "pollster"), you have no idea about the electoral outcomes until a few days before the election. Sometimes, two days before.

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1. Today is the day when it's impossible to ignore the fact that Sanders doesn't embrace the concept of "democratic coalition", "front" or that we are fighting fascism (which requires broad alliances to defeat). And he's not a radical so.... what is he?
2. I know radical. I'm a 56 yr old Latin American social scientist who, at 15, had to accept she would never reach adulthood because I would die fighting fascism. All our countries were under fascist dictatorships.
3. I've seen radical. Radicals were just wrong in their political analysis: they believed we were already at a revolutionary stage and therefore should pick up arms and hit the streets (or the fields).
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Marilia Coutinho, Ph.D. , Shithole Country Snake
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1) What does an anti-fascist front look like in practice:

=> identify fascism. It should be easy.
=> everything that is NOT fascist should organize into a "front" or "coalition" with only ONE objective: to defeat fascism
2)
 => you won't like most of the members. I was raped and tortured in one organization in Brazil that, in thesis, should be part of the anti-fascist front (PSTU). Would I sit with them on the same table? ABSOLUTELY. Until we defeat fascism.
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=> the following day, they are my enemies again. My rape was not an "isolated case". They are so authoritarian that they actually helped empower fascism in Brazil by rejecting any alliance. But should they do it, YES, I would sit with them.
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