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So many people on ML specifically were convinced that Trump was going to solve the crisis.

That’s ridiculous—no they weren’t. Links or it didn’t happen.

it’s almost like the issues with the United States government run deeper than the President.

They do run deeper, and that is fundamental to Marxist historical materialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_materialism#%22Great_man%22_history

"Great man" history

Marx rejected the enlightenment view that ideas alone were the driving force in society or that the underlying cause of change was guided by the actions of leaders in government or religion. The "great man" and occasionally "great woman" view of historical change was popularized by the 19th-century Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) who wrote "the history of the world is nothing but the biography of great men". According to Marx, this conception of history amounted to nothing more than a collection of "high-sounding dramas of princes and states".

Today is a good day to be old. I don’t have to worry about conscription, only nuclear annihilation.

True. Nothing beats running your unit tests in the actual container image that will be run in production.

Relatedly, Silicon Valley wants to ban Chinese drones while ‘covering’ San Francisco in their own

It’s amazing how Russiagate malarkey and the Ukraine war has people thinking Putin is some cartoon evil mastermind. There is no greater “max evil potential” in the world than the US empire itself, of which Palantir & Clearview are constituent parts.

What the hell is the imperial core?

It’s the “always the same map” countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_countries

Feel free to educate me if you have more information than me but my understanding is Iran was a nice happy country then the U.S. and Britain helped overthrow their government to get a pro oil authoritarian, then the Islamic revolution happened and it turned into a theocracy which shortly after began doing things like treating women as second class citizens

The reason that the first things that come to your mind about Iran are authoritarianism and theocratic patriarchy is because our governments, think tanks, and corporate media have spent the last 35 years beating these thoughts into our heads. There’s certainly some truth to them, but they greatly exaggerate & incessantly repeat them. And they only do this to the countries they want to regime change. They don’t do it to allies or vassals who treat their citizens as badly or worse. And they want to regime change these countries not for any humanitarian reasons but because they’re not being sufficiently subservient. They don’t actually give a shit about the Iranian people’s or women’s freedoms, any more than they give a shit about Palestinians’ lives. They’re always working to manufacture consent for the various regime changes they want to prosecute.

Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Biden would also have done it if the opportunity presented itself. The US has wanted to do this since 1978, when its Iranian puppet regime was overthrown.

You just parroted the last 35 years of imperial core propaganda to a T 👍

Citations Needed podcast: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days

To be fair, it’s a winning strategy on Reddit and almost every other social media platform in the imperial core.

Probably because

1. The US mistakenly believed that China’s “reform and opening up” would lead to another neocolonial plundering, like with the former USSR.
2. Outsourcing to China was making US capitalists so much money that they didn’t want a war that would cut that off.

Holy fuck you don’t even know what a nation is lmfao

I do, actually, but since you were the one talking about nations’ flags, I assumed that you didn’t know the difference between a nation and a state. Israeli Zionists clearly do know the difference, and they want an ethnically-cleaned, “Greater Israel” nation-state. Because they’re settler-colonialists; they’re fascists.

Allies even stuck to day bombing to limit collateral damage.

No, they did it in order to hit their targets, which were often cities. The US also dropped two atomic bombs on city centers with no warning at all.

Isreal bombs a population center: bad. Iran bombs an Isreal population center: good.

Obviously neither one is “good.” You’re putting words in my mouth.

Here’s a fun fact, most Israelis—bourgeois and proletariat—approve of what the state of Israel is doing in Gaza.

These are fascists. If there’s anything to be learned from WWII, it’s that no one is more antifascist than communists.

If your empathy for the people crushed under the rubble of an apartment complex depends on the flag out front then just admit you’re a frothing nationalist and stop pretending.

Palestinians don’t have a nation. They’ve been under occupation by European settler-colonists for about 80 years.

Palestinians have the right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while the State of Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

As for Iran, it is an anti-imperialist state retaliating against an unprovoked attack by an imperialist state, which it has the right to do by UN law. Marxist-Leninists give Iran our critical support[^1] in the struggle against imperialist states, not to mention the struggle against genocide.

[^1]: Critical support is supporting something while also being critical of its flaws.

Are you serious right now? Communism isn’t based on solidarity with settler-colonists who are genociding the people they locked into the Gaza prison-ghetto for a generation, for the crime of being indigenous. October 7th was a prison break, a Warsaw ghetto uprising.

I highly doubt anything will ever bring it peace

The death of the imperialist Great and Little Satans would go a long way toward bringing peace.

Previously. Previously. Previously.

Oh good, it will be in the public domain.

OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.

When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.

“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.

it’s not like Iran isn’t known for authoritarianism and human rights abuses.

Iran certainly has its problems, but they don’t hold a candle to Israel’s (or the US’s) human rights abuses.

Meanwhile Iran has as much right to develop nukes as any country: precisely zero.

Okay? Iran isn’t even developing any, while Israel has had hundreds for decades, which they developed in secret as a rogue state.

they are responsible for the death of millions of innocent lives.

Take your bullshit to Reddit.