Ok with the context it makes more sense [well, besides these two clowns being in any form of power at all] but it’s pretty funny nonetheless

I know Limemint from reddit, I’m honestly shocked it took him this long to do a rule 3 violation tbh

That has a whole different connotation

I just didn’t have a better term off the top of my head. Conservative socialism isn’t exactly a helpful descriptor but I didn’t want to say like Tailism either or anything.

I don’t have the time [or honestly the knowledge] to go super in depth, but basically a lot of the old guard who currently runs the party are more in line with “Patriotic socialism.” [As in, socialism that supports the current state.] Meanwhile the younger generation who gave joined the party more recently are more principled.

The SMO makes things complicated since, to my knowledge, the CPRF was on board with it before even United Russia/Putin was on board with it.

Congrats to the tumor for being removed from netanahyu. No one deserve to be infected by him

Dammit, there’s a video I watched a while ago from a liberal who said something along the lines of “and America destroyed their chemical weapins” and then gave a very smarmy and smug “rebuttal” to people who asserted that wasn’t true. I wish i could shove this in their face but I dont feel like looking for it tbh

That’s not very good evidence. Many things can seem like other things without actually being the same.

The warring states during the first world War had very harsh media censorship because of…well the whole war thing. Ergo when Spanish coverage started popping up due to the lack of censorship there, people assumed it originated from Spain. To this day we don’t actually know where the flu came from specifically. Covid is harder to track, due to the long incubation period.

Not saying there can’t be discussion on the matter, it just requires more evidence to be considered is all.

This is something that vexxes me about a possible ground invasion. You need to launch even more bombs at Iran to actually do that. And more as you push inward, and that’s assuming this doesn’t end up as just another Gallipoli

Honestly can’t believe the EU has tied themselves to the US this badly. It has a population of 450 million, could probably secure its own soil well enough, and hell I’d wager that cutting with the US is a popular policy and places like the gulf states would love a different security guaranteer right now. But noooo

That’s one thing, but also…like, there really hasn’t been a massive campaign to garner support for this. Yknow…how it usually goes. It took years to garner support for Vietnam, and even then it was unpopular for obvious reasons. The gulf war had a much more concerted effort and at least bothered to have a figure head whiner to justify the war, and Iraq had months upon months of build up and…idk somehing happened a couple years before that made Americans extra jingoistic…idk, probably wasn’t important.

It doesn’t help that America is, yknow, losing. The US won the intial conventional conflict in Iraq so being against it didn’t have a material backing. When gas prices are squeezing people into poverty…now they have to take interest.

But yeah, the fact that there are so many alternative news sources rather than just the cable outlets really helps. Honestly I’m surprised the government hasn’t pulled an africastream/reddot again. Just say xyz are funded by China or Russia or Iran and Google can take care of the rest

I know they just fired a bunch of generals, but genuinely what happens if Trump just…can’t accept a loss?

I think Mao gets a bad rap for stuff that happened during his later years.

I’ve seen a lot of people who kinda just melancholically say he would’ve been remembered better had he not led China through the 50s and 60s. I guess I get it, but is that what we care about? Legacy? Everyone should just hang up their hats when they make a bad decision?

Additionally, i think in any case, it’s hard to blame Mao and Mao Zedong Thought for the problems that occurred specifically during the era. Establishing a new proletarian state us hard, establishing one of the first ones ever is even harder, establishing one in China was a miracle. The economy grew at similar rates before before reform and opening up as it did after, and without that initial foundation of independence there could never have been an independent reform and opening up. I also think the red book is one of the most important texts for beginners and should be one of the first reccomended.

Additionally, like I’ve said in other threads, I’m not one for discussions on morality. I think i got empathy overload [edit: more like empathy burnout] at some point and have just accepted bad things are going to happen no matter what when things get violent. If you just boil it down to “is hurting x necessary to establish socialism? Yes? Then it’s moral. If not then it’s immoral” then life becomes much simpler. I’d kill the entire Romanov family 20 times over personally if that was the decision that needed to be made to save the USSR. I would lie, cheat, and consort with the worst to establish socialism, and that’s the attitude that’s needed to do so. I will argue at length about what is necessary–materially–to establish socialism [I don’t think the atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki were necessary, so they were immoral] but individual sob stories are pointless and I’m glad I’m becoming numb to them. Maybe your grandpa wasn’t a counter revolutionary, but the wider purge was necessary to save the people from the blackest era of reaction. So it was moral. Life is very much a play of averages and odds. Unfortunately it will be that way until the last capitalist is dissolved. Edit: However this also applies the other way. I don’t really care about justice if its unnecessary. It’s not about what people deserve, it’s about living, about science, and about the natural coarse of human events

Lastly, the Jacobins are more than just Bourgeois revolutionaries. I wouldn’t go as far as to describe them as proto-socialist or anything, but there was a difference between them, the Girondins, thermadorians, etc. The jacobins were the Bourgeoisie who aligned themselves with the journeyman proto-proletariat and the peasantry. This is opposed to people like Cromwell in Britain who aligned themselves with the lower landowners against the peasants. It’s why we appreciate Sun Yat-sen more than Chiang Kai-Shek, or Thomas Paine than George Washington, etc.

Theres irony in whatever happens to the Eisenhower in this conflict, given how its namesake treated Iran

Quick update: Newsweek and other sources have retracted parts of their articles citing Domg Jun saying “Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and it is open for us” and other such things. In regards to China’s position, they have released statements through the foreign ministry encouraging deescalation

That’s the point, I think. Idk I’m tired.

The point from what I understand is that you dont want to teach kids those things because that would be wierd, gross, and probably not that productive anyway. Teaching children about proper body autonomy will help without having to explicitly describe sex and sexually abusive acts

I get what you’re saying I think. For me it’s hard to compare because I’m always unsure what’s natural and what’s instigated by my thoughts.

It’s like observing a quantum system. If I actively try to recognize my thoughts with XYZ behavior, often it’s hard to tell if they’re caused by a problem or by the act of thinking about them. [I.e, I can’t force intrusive thoughts with my OCD since they wouldn’t be intrusive anymore]. Unfortunately letting things happen and examining them afterwards usually hurts ):

“It doesn’t seem like there’s a coherent plan” is the slogan of the Trump administration.

Can someone answer what the actual…term for what the US is doing right now? Obviously interdiction vessels trading with Iran is a blockade, but vessels that are trading with Iran who pay a toll to Iran is…what exactly? Is it literally legally piracy? Is it something else? Did no one think that this was a possibility because this is imbecilic?

Edit: or is the US not actually doing that because when should we expect the checks notes commander in chief of the armed forces to be saying the same thing as the armed forces?

But no seriously what happens when the US seizes Chinese and European vessels? I have no clue how maritime law works so I’m a little comfused