KiG V2 @ kig_v2 @lemmygrad.ml

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Well, thank you for assuming I'm bright 😅😅

I do try and find a link between the harder scientific materialistic indisputable core of Marxism Leninism and the softer amorphous woo-woo borderline-insane depths of spirituality, conspiracy, and pop-history narratives because I am deeply interested in "selling" Marxism Leninism to the types of people susceptible to this thinking and, to be honest, I have a little bit of it in myself; I would like to be a translator between the sensible people here and the half-baked delusional regular people I encounter in day-to-day American life. I definitely veer too far and I am a little schizo with substance abuse problems and so I do measure reactions such as this to the stranger things I play around with; I appreciate your reaction and the reaction of others and it helps me understand what is worth exploring mentally and what might be a waste of time. Blessed day to you.

Okay, you probably know more about the nitty gritty of the Romans than I do. I have an honest question, I'm not trying to troll or be stupid or argumentative I'm sincerely asking. Does it matter in its core? Like, is how the Roman Empire run, be it on a micro or macro level, is it functionally that different than the USian Empire? Is it weird to look at the USA as just a modernized, boiled down, truer-to-self version of the je ne sais quoi that was at the bedrock of Roman society. Not just in legislation but down to a psychological and interpersonal level. I'm not accepting that I am asking for a "vibes" answer but I look to hard and soft sciences with equal appreciation.

Hm, good points!

I understand I am using some terms MLs don't care much for, but I don't think it's at all weird to describe, for example, the United States as the spiritual successor to Britain, or the Nazis, or the Romans. This isn't just "vibes", this has evidence that can be pointed to, from the enslavement-friendly faux-meritocratic rigid caste system, to the bloody spectacle of the Coliseum, to the long evolution of ideas of Christendom and white supremacy and "Western values."

I believe there is an heir to the Romans because the Romans are nigh indistinguishable from modern Western imperialists to me, they behave much the same just in a radically different time period and historical/cultural context. Considering the Romans co-opted Christianity and this imperialized Christianity became the spinal column of Western hegemony, to this day with fascist Evangelicals being the most naked form of the classic US American (contested now with the culty scifi atheists of Silicon Valley). Modern Westerners adore and revere the Romans and all want to be the one who gets to say they are holding the baton passed to them by the Romans. I am sure much more links, both broad and microscopic, could be made the longer one compares the Romans to any modern Western imperialist society.

Why bother at all? "Know your enemy," I suppose. I want to not only know my enemy today, I want to understand their lineage, their history, for this is a truly wicked beast that has taken millenia to evolve and develop into the bastard that stands today.

Hm, perhaps all the Scandanavian fetishization is just the Vikings/Nords being turned into a white mascot, then?

I think if we spin it as a cult/a mental illness we could offer some empathetic support to people trying to escape. But yeah, other than that--and those types of people, a minority, will look for escape either way--we shouldn't cater to them, agreed.

The problem is, Democrats are fascist too, the Republicans just more nakedly so. Domestically, racial minorities, gender/sexuality minorities, and the poor all suffer just as thoroughly under D's as R's. Wars of extermination and plunder as still waged overtly and covertly across the globe by the USA regardless if the bombs are blue or red. Democrats do not functionally make anything better, they just virtue signal that they do. They are paid by the corporate oligarchy to be a sinkhole for leftward potential; look, they sat back and did nothing but say some glib words and pass around a few petitions when Republicans reversed Roe v. Wade. They'll cry crocodile tears and wring their hands and promise you ohh, ohh, ohh, we're trying our best, please please please oh please don't forget to donate and vote in this upcoming election oh please. They promise that it's just oh so hard to move the needle, and yet when they hold 2+ branches of government with supermajorities they do nothing, and yet when Republicans have 51% of the power they easily pass legislation and executive orders and unprecedented actions to get things done. You can say this is just the smug faux-moral superiority that the civilized Democrats are exhibiting, but it isn't, because look how quickly they are to act with the same decisive ruthlessness on matters of giving trillions to the banks, the CIA, Homeland Security, the army, the police, the oil and food and real estate and automobile tycoons, to horrid despots across the globe who do their dirty work for them.

Stop it. Stop making bullet point listicles and thinking of clever mental Olympic gold medal gymnastics to excuse to yourself that there are still good guys in American electoral politics and that if we just have a really viral peaceful protest and suck mud off of Democrat boots and watch another video essay and fight for progressive standpoints on social media that you can slowly change this society into something better. I'm sorry but you're tugging on a rock with the mass of the Moon as it rolls down the hill. The writing was on the wall decades ago: the United States didn't become fascist with Trump, it has always been fascist and you are only just now seeing some signs. When both Republicans and Democrats were more "moderate" in the previous century, this was still a fascist empire that is run by a ruling class that wants to enslave, invade, murder and steal. Every tiny good thing that has ever been administered by the USian ruling class has been to quash imminent revolutionary fervor, be it the New Deal or Civil Rights or faux-progressive Wokeism or stimulus checks.

Name one issue that Biden, Obama, Clinton, any of those evil fuckers did better than the Republicans. Abortion? War? Militarized police? Immigration? Clean water? Affordable healthcare, school, housing? Fascist violence? The environment? Corruption? Zero, zilch, nada, negative, they haven't done shit, and it's not because they want to and they're just spineless losers, it's because they're snakes who clink glasses with Republicans and the same privatized overlords who all chuckle at you because you're being a damn sucker, dude, and you're better than that. I understand you want a better society, we all do here. Give up the blue shit, it's not the route out. This ship is sinking, read the waters, all we can do now is ensure that in the chaos of the failing American federal state that we can defeat the fascists and create a truly just and equitable society.

That's two plusses to me!

There was a few specific things he said that rubbed me an Ultra sort of way, I can't remember much in particular.

I do remember specifically him and Hakim talking about China some 3-5ish years ago, which can be summed up by Hakim saying he was "hesistantly optimistic" about China and Paul chiming that he was "hesitantly pessimistic"--in context of whether or not China was actually socialist.

Perhaps he has changed, but people who get sucked into anti-Chinese leftist spaces tend to, in my experience, get worse with time, not better. Love to be wrong though.

This is a fair point. Hm. Maybe they're genuinely concerned about escalation, nuclear proliferation? They only want to deal with one Nazi regime at a time and maybe mowing down the routing Nazis all at once will make Poland or the Baltics all slide into conflict at once? Like, control the flow, leak the dam don't burst it. Speculation.

Boop. 3 solid replies so far!

Will watch before answering!

Thank you so much, very informative.

Wait, did I read that correctly: USA provides reparative aid to Vietnam in exchange for the bodies of dead American soldiers from the invasion of Vietnam?

Ww3 started the moment the Nazis and Japanese were defeated

I think the real indicator of the war to me has always been the casualty rate and the resources spent. It went from 5 dead UKR to 1 dead RUS right from the start, now we're at 10:1 ratios--atrociously bad. The billions in Western weapons, tanks, and cold hard cash have all evaporated; their economies are in shambles while Russia's "fortress economy" lives up to its name.

It only looks like a stalemate if we look at it from the lens of territory. If Russia defined its own victory conditions as capturing all of Ukraine territorially in the shortest amount of time, they could have swept the entire country in a month or two. However, Russia defines victory by minimizing its own losses while bleeding Ukraine, minimizing civilian losses and destruction of civilian infrastructure, beating the West in the economic arm wrestle, and ensuring that liberated Ukranian territory is not a frothing hotbed of Neo Nazi paramilitary terrorist activity. By all of these self-defined victory metrics, they have consistently been performing exemplarily with only minor hiccups.

Even when some form of peace declaration is signed, the war won't be over. Banderites and their NATO masters will be waging war with Russia until the West as we know it has completely collapsed and been reinvented.

I think slow and steady has done them nothing but good, they are in no rush, why start now?

I can't trust Marxist Paul's opinion on China so I dont wanna spend the time, but I'd love to be wrong

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