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- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 week ago:
Yeah it turns out cozying up to evil powerful people can advance your personal position more than fighting against them, who knew?
Say what you will about Luke and accidental incest, but he’s not in the files, I’ll tell you that.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
The number of Chinese Marxist-Leninists alone vastly outnumbers us Western tankies. The vast majority of “tankies” live in various countries outside of the imperial core.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Yes, I would. Or if he was to be removed, that should be up to the Libyans, without foreign interference.
Gaddafi was removed not because of any humanitarian reason but because he stood in the way of foreign interests. Gaddafi asserted Libyan control over Libyan oil and redirected at least some of that money towards the Libyan people (the per capita income in Libya under Gaddafi was 5th highest in Africa), and that was fundamentally unacceptable to the US and its allies, just as it has been in for nearly every country in the region. What they want are states like Saudi Arabia, where the ruling class can be bought off on a personal level to keep the oil flowing while repressing the people.
US/NATO led regime change never produces good outcomes for anyone but oil companies and war profiteers, and that’s by design. If they can’t control it, they can at least deny the resources to others and set an example for any other country that attempts to assert control over their own resources. NATO opened a pandora’s box of chaos and there’s no telling if or when it will end, just as US-led forces did in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
I’d say that you refuse to learn from history and seem dead-set on repeating the mistakes of the past, but again, they were never mistakes. The people making the decisions got exactly what they wanted, it’s only a mistake from the absolutely delusional perspective that intervention in places like Libya, Afghanistan, now Iran, were ever driven by any thought of helping ordinary people.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
I don’t recall the UN resolution telling them to assassinate Gaddafi and destabilize the country.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
Was Libya also populated by Chinese bots?
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 2 weeks ago:
We already have perfectly fine meat substitutes. Have you actually tried them? They’ve come a long way.
And lab grown meat will probably never be able to replace meat if people keep eating it at the same rate. Besides, there’s nothing I, as an individual, can do to advance the progress lab grown meat. I can help advance the progress of meat substitutes by… buying them instead of meat.
Cutting meat out of my life saves the lives of countless animals. That is a lot more practical than wishing upon a star that lab grown meat was more developed or economically viable.
- Comment on Saved you a click: a 1911 2 weeks ago:
1911
Actually, he’d carry a 0.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
Biden only won because of Covid, and the economic conditions made it harder for Kamala. 2024 was always going to be an uphill battle because of inflation, I have no doubts Biden would’ve lost even without the cognitive decline.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean that approach worked so well in 2016 and 2024, why not give it another shot?
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
There will ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS be conflict going on over the Middle-East with everyone there. It is NEVER-ENDING. We’ve wasted nearly 20 years dicking around with Afghanistan and Iraq. All for what? So the Taliban can take over territory in less than a week after all that effort? What a waste!
Sorry, I’m having a lot of trouble trying to connect the dots between the US waging decades long wars of aggression in the Middle East and accomplished nothing with the idea that it’s acceptable to keep sending weapons and fueling conflict through a proxy.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
The fact that they’ve been memeing about Trump having a third term tells you how excited they are about their actual prospects.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 3 weeks ago:
Three female senators won in swing states Kamala lost (Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan), a Hispanic man won a fourth (Arizona), while white men lost in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Biden also was polling poorly when he dropped out.
I don’t know why I bother making that point because the response is invariably “Well people are just sexist/racist about the position of president” limiting the data set to one single point (two if you include Clinton, though probably not three because Obama doesn’t count). In this way, all conflicting evidence is shut out.
It’s just a way to avoid any actually useful critique of the Democrats’ platform, to shift blame to the voters rather than looking at what could actually be improved upon, because that might make somebody look bad. Which is ironic, because I seem to recall that one reason Harris refused to distance herself from Biden in any way (which contributed to her loss) was wanting to protect his “legacy.”
The truth is that Kamala Harris was a bad candidate with bad political instincts running a bad strategy. She never would’ve even been the nominee if there’d been a real primary. She went all in on Dick Cheney of all people who virtually no one, right or left, actually likes, while she completely alienated anyone who was pro-Palestine when it would’ve cost her nothing to pretend to care and the hardcore Zionists weren’t going to vote for her anyway. She doubled down on Biden’s economic policy and ran on more of the same despite the fact that people’s groceries had gotten more expensive. All of those things played a bigger role in her loss than her race or gender, and until we acknowledge that, we’re just gonna keep getting shitty candidates who do the same and lose.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 3 weeks ago:
The biggest one for me is when I see people glazing Bush, like either you’re a teenager or you weren’t paying attention.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 4 weeks ago:
All the bourgeoisie see us as cattle, not all Jews do.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 4 weeks ago:
If you’re a socialist then you should understand that it’s more about class rather than race.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
WHICH I REFUTED ALREADY, JUST LIKE I REFUTED YOUR 3D PRINTER BULLSHIT AND EVERY OTHER STUPID BULLSHIT POINT YOU RAISED, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE.
Blocked.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Man, fuck off. Like you didn’t make shit up over an over, that whole “1776” line, get the fuck out. Just drop it. Reply again and I’ll block you.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
That’s stupid. If I went into sufficient depth to satisfy you (and only you, btw), nobody would read it because of the length.
I’ve addressed all your objections and each time you just invent some new bullshit to try to justify why you got all pissy in the first place. Just fuck off already.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
So I’m not allowed to tell anyone to do anything if that one thing doesn’t magically fix all the problems in the world?
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Blocked.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
“Buying a gun” is the tankie version of libs saying “go vote”. Solves nothing, they say it will fix everything.
Where did I say that it would “fix everything?” Weren’t you just complaining about “mischaracterizing arguments” (which I never did)?
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Honestly not even reading your comments anymore, don’t care.
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
And if you engaged with my actual arguments and points, you’d understand why.
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Yes, only in common use.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
I clearly went too far because I was satirizing your mischaracterization of other people’s arguments
Who’s arguments did I mischaracterize in the initial comment I made? The National Guard’s? What a load of horseshit, you came out of the gate attacking me for no reason.
Buying “a” gun won’t do anything meaningful in and of itself. We need some people to buy a lot of guns and ammo.
What does it matter if one person buys 10 guns to give to 10 people, or if 10 people buy their own guns? The end result is the same. You’re just putting ideological hangups before pragmatism.
We need lots of people thinking about each other. We need people thinking about things like food, water, waste, etc.
None of which is precluded by buying a gun.
Like the US government has never caved because somebody shot a bullet at them. They cave because airports get shutdown, because trash stops being collected.
Neither of these is correct. For example, the US government caved when the NVA shot a bunch of bullets at them. They also have the capability of suppressing strikes at gunpoint, if it comes to that. Just as they did the student demonstrators at Kent State. Strikes can be effective, but if you have no capability to fight back, then it’s not likely to be enough.
Like a bunch of military drones come through your door you won’t even have the opportunity to kill a single fascist. You’re just dead, killed by a guy essentially playing a video game. A missile is the same thing
Of course. I never disputed that. But they aren’t sending drones or launching missiles, they’re sending people.
There’s no heroic fantasy where just owning a gun lets people takedown a fascist.
That’s just obviously false. Are fascists impervious to bullets now? Is Charlie Kirk still alive, then?
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
where we all look at the guns on our mantles
Lmao! Too much of a clown for me to even satirize you.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s exactly the same as telling people to buy ovaltine. Ovaltine will definitely help you kill fascists just as much as a gun will.
Your position is so fucking stupid, and every angle you tried to defend it from has fallen apart under the tiniest bit of scrutiny.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
No, I didn’t. You just randomly decided to start attacking me based on a bunch of flimsy bullshit.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 weeks ago:
I downvote your comments because they’re pointless nitpicking, not because you say “that’s not enough.” If you had said, “Also, train, join an org, and read theory” I wouldn’t be downvoting you. Instead you said, “lol buying a gun won’t fix anything” and dismissed the suggestion as “individualist consumerism.” That’s not “going further.”
I’m sorry that the pithy ending to a comment that was primarily about the history of Kent State was not a detailed outline of every possible tactic that could be effective at resisting.
