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  • they perfected it.

    Arguably well before Hitler did, I might add.

  • But when you have an actual SS veteran address parliament, well, that's just a mistake.

  • "Why do videos on Russia always have terrible AI-generated art for their thumbnails" is perhaps the more pressing question.

  • Get me out of this weird, weird world

  • One man's CIA's freedom fighter is another man's everybody else's terrorist

  • "Mistake"

  • For real. I think Haz has been threatening to start his organization (the based and MAGA-pilled version of CPI or something) "next month" since January. So far all he's done is print a bunch of Infrared Gorilla Gang hats and get in arguments with random Australians about white nationalism.

    But if your original strategy was "tweet and get fellow Khmer Rouge fans to infiltrate the CPUSA with the goal of taking it over next election cycle," it's hard to see how Plan B could be much of an improvement. (Everybody, including Maupin and Jason Unruhe (!), said this kind of lazy infiltration doesn't work; if it did, Bernie bros would be in charge of the Democratic Party by now. But what can you do -- the real, non-internet world has a way of messing with the plans of would-be materialists).

  • That just shows how loving and accepting he is

  • Canada can't be Nazi, they literally had a black prime minister. True, it was just for a night and only because he used shoe polish, but still.

  • I think this is correct -- the US won't be the hegemon anymore, but it will likely be a great power among great powers. The danger is that the US politicians, most of whom came of age in an era when America was the sole hyperpower, will be unable to accept being on an equal standing with other countries, and to compensate will embark on ever-more dangerous adventurist wars.

    The wild card is Washington doing something extremely stupid which destroys the country, or America having a communist revolution (unlikely, but not entirely impossible).

  • Yep, that's it! May watch again with my brother tonight.

  • Agree, but I think there's a demonstrable difference between now and, say, the 1960s. For the first time, the socialist bloc is on an equal economic footing with the west, and the west depends on the socialist bloc to stay afloat. Once upon a time, the IMF was giving loans to Yugoslavia; now China is buying American debt. The same people who used to mock Soviet cars and "backward" Soviet computer technology are now freaking out over Huawei and Chinese electric cars. Even western military dominance is no longer what it once was. America and Europe are both utterly unable to match Russian production (a fact which makes the whole lend-lease argument that libs like to deploy sound increasingly like the whining of a bitter ex), and north Korea, a country that has been sanctioned to hell and back, is still able to field more advanced missiles than the US military. The US is having unprecedented economic problems. People compare it to the Depression, but there's an important difference: during the 1930s, the US still had the most advanced industrial base in the world. Now, it has almost nothing, and American wealth is based solely on financial speculation.

    Not to peddle hopium here, but I think we do need to recognize that we are living in an objectively different world than that which existed at any time during the Cold War and the Clinton-Bush II years.

  • So, embarassing confession time: I was kind of holding onto (hope I'm not the only one) an irrational hope that the patsoc crowd would someday get past their rightist nonsense and turn into genuine Marxist-Leninists. With the latest split between Maupin and Haz+Jackson Hinkle, I've finally seen what everybody else probably saw a long time ago: not gonna happen.

    The thing is, the whole phenomena is just as media and personality-driven as the radlibs they criticize. Maupin is a TV reporter; Haz and Jackson Hinkle are "influencers;" Sameera Khan, who seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, is a model. And they're all jealous of each other's media presence. Maupin seems upset that Jackson have a bigger internet presence than he does. Haz and Jackson Hinkle are jealous that Maupin, as an RT reporter, plays in the media "big leagues;" going to Kremlin press conferences, interviewing the president of Iran, etc. Compared to him, they're small-time operators, and they know it. Hence the attempt to glom onto Andrew Tate -- very weird, because whatever Maupin did back in August last year, Tate did, and worse. Just a bunch of weird opportunists who mistake personal drama for advancing the revolution.

  • I first saw one in a 70s Soviet movie -- can't remember the name -- about a Georgian bush pilot who dreams of flying a Tu-144. After knocking around Moscow for a while with an Armenian friend, he gets his dream, but decides he misses home and so goes back to his old job. Just a good heartwarming movie.

    Anyway, it's an absolutely beautiful aircraft. Seeing it on the ground almost makes you do a double-take, because it looks like something whose native habitat is the air.

  • Today I went on r/genzedong for the first time in about a year, and it's sad how that place has degenerated. For instance, this bit of libbery:

    I remember when it was not so, and anybody defending porn and/or prostitution would be roundly dunked on.

  • Sounds like NPR (National Public Radio) here in the states. They're not allowed to run ads, so instead they basically have infomercials about the all the wonderful philanthropic things their sponsors do, since in American even publically-owned media outlets still somehow have big coporate backers. Which somehow manages to be the the least obnoxious part of their programming, since at least it provides a break from the continual libbery, shitting on the working class, and unabashed pro-Israel propaganda.

  • We all know his secret masterplan:

  • Not enough enemies, and (given losses suffered during the ongoing Grand Counteroffensive) never enough casualties.

  • "It's interesting that you criticize communism, yet everything you own is made in China (often by a subsidiary of some state-owned corporation). If you like capitalism so much, who don't you buy US-made only? -- or if you can't, start your own company in your wonderful free market?"

    That line has lost me at least one friendship.