ℝ𝔼𝔻 ℂ𝕆𝕃𝕆𝕊𝕊𝕌𝕊 @ RedColossus @lemmygrad.ml

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I’m paraphrasing but Angela Merkel was asked why she supports sanctions on Russia for “invading” Crimea even though the US does it all the time… and she responded something like, “We know the Americans are bad but they never do anything to us.”

They’ve been brainwashed into thinking the Democratic Party is as far left as humanly possible and anyone who disagrees is a lowkey Republican.

Start where you desire.

It might unironically be Hasan’s burner account.

Fucking liberals… they’re getting desperate.

Maybe the whole “segregate higher education behind an increasingly insurmountable paywall” wasn’t that smart an idea when you need scientists, engineers and medical professionals if you want to dominate in the sciences.

But sure, I guess we have a lot more crypto techbros and social media “influencers” than China. Don’t complain when the easily foreseeable results reflect your decisions.

Capitalism is so efficient that there’s a recession every 10 years and a worldwide catastrophe every 50. Whereas ineffective managed economies have its ebbs and flows but never actually crash. How are the wealthy vultures supposed to clean the bones of the poor during the downcycles?

WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE VULTURES???!!!

Even from beyond the grave Mao keeps throwing capitalists to their knees.

To think there was a time Labour was pretty respectable given its place in the Lion’s Den of capitalism. It even had a mini-revival under social democratic Jeremy Corbin.

It's basically the "chronically online effect" but for boomers/bored suburban moms. I'm old enough to remember seeing some neighborhood moms in our ultra-guarded neighborhood make up these bizarre theories about how Silly Bandz was this bizarre underworld reward system for "deviant" sexual acts with children. I call it the "colonizer effect" where those who have taken over an area by force are constantly on guard from attacks by "blacks, Mexicans, Jews, etc" and if there isn't anything ACTUALLY happening, they need to make shit up to justify their guardedness.

What I do with my body and personal property is none of your business, comrade.

The most used answer in a political scientist's toolbox is "it depends". Stalin's decision to not antagonize the US after WW2 was intelligent given that the USSR was fried after the Revolution, Civil War, invasions by the West, and obviously WW2. They were simply not capable of fighting and needed years of peace to build up, even if that meant being unable to help in the revolution in Greece and the Civil War in Korea (at least not sending troops). Khrushchev's decision to put the barrel of the nuclear gun pointed at America's dick in the September Crisis (aka Cuban Missile Crisis in the West) was boneheaded and an unnecessary escalation. Every nation, no matter how repugnant has the right to self-defense from foreign nations. But Russia pushing back on NATO is totally valid, even if invading Ukraine isn't good, I don't know what other realistic options they had.

Right now the US is caught flat-footed after the disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan, with two neo-military base puppet nations (Israel and Saudi Arabia) being rebellious and not following the US's commands exactly, a string of very unpopular US leaders, their government showing cracks in its stability, an economy that is languishing from a recession they cannot recover from. So it is the most opportune time to press hard on them. Not to mention, the PRC continues to grow and is even mending bridges with Vietnam (a potential ally the US has been courting heavily for decades now), as BRICS+ expands in size and importance.