What Trump Derangement Syndrome does to a mf

Can you name a single instance of going “full circle” in human history?

How’s that “anarchist” instance going?

Putin wanted Ukraine to denazify since before the invasion and has stated as much. If you look at the actual Minsk Accords, they aren’t demanding the ousting of the Ukrainian government. What Putin does care about are the literal Nazi paramilitary-turned-military who were spearheading the attacks on Donbas for eight years. The banderites are a real problem in Ukraine for many reasons and represent a political problem to Russia, it makes perfect sense for denazification of Ukraine to be a sincere demand, though obviously Russia doesn’t give a shit about denazifying itself beyond occassional checks on the actual ethnonationalist political movements (like Navalny, Rest In Power Piss)

But the war is here now, and I think the only thing keeping your average Ukrainian from living in a war zone is western arms shipments, and tbh that’s the only argument that I find really resonates with me.

What are you smoking to accept this broken logic? The ukrofascists having infinite resources is the main thing keeping Ukrainians in a warzone. If they are cut off, the Russians overrun them and the war is over.

What matters isn’t the intellectual or moral credibility of the law, just that it’s on the books and can be used to pursue modern goals. Explaining these things in terms of credibility or intelligence is missing the point, which is christofascism.

Bailing water forever is not strategy

Should be pretty doable if you keep a little packet of seeds on your person

The problem with your criticism of China is; no matter how mild, by merely having it you act as a fifth column for the left, even when what you say is true

Ah, because wasting time talking about something useless is something we should avoid, right?

sometimes you have to lie for the benefit of the left, we should not spread false information about working conditions in China, unless lying benefits the left.

God fucking damn it, were you the person who was on this last time too? If so, please just delete your account. No, lying is antithetical to democracy, the people are not being given a real choice if that choice is misrepresented to them. “Communists disdain to hide their aims,” as Marx said.

Trotsky had to die because he was a wrecker who, having escaped the USSR, could hardly be subdued and kept alive.

The standard (and incredibly fash) line is that they’re cynically manipulating the Notoriously Compassionate USians because our compassion is actually our greatest weakness against the unfeeling removed of the East.

I think you are thinking of yourself as being static and unchanging relative to this new turn. You have changed and you will keep changing. If communism is what you believe in, then there’s nothing stopping you from making yourself into more of a communist.

I think most elements of most premodern societies were significantly religious, so there are some other biases involved in that.

I think the threads are super annoying and Vamp was being especially annoying in them, but banning him over this rather than having some kind of intervention is really childish and irresponsible

Freudian slip here that Hamas is just another way of saying Palestine to them

It shouldn’t be hard to understand that what the US cares about are the rights of capital and of empire, not human rights

“It’s a Bad Country and the actions taken against it by the US are the fault of the Bad Country’s leadership, not the US”

“Oh, but I’m not supporting the US, merely absolving them of guilt”

Chickenshit nonsense

This was true of, what? Denmark? But not the Nordic countries writ large.

However what is important to remember is that the sanctions are imposed based on the regimes actions against it’s population

I don’t know every single sanction against the DPRK, but over the last 40 years the sanctions have all been in connection to nuclear development and things like that. Also, it’s rich that you talk about communists being hypocrites while you take western powers at their word for why they are imposing sanctions that starve people by your own admission. The US has done and is doing much crueler things to the people of these states than the states themselves have ever done in any but the most unhinged fantasies.

equal competition for the power

Show me any state where there is an “equal competition for power” in any general sense. The Democrats and Republicans having similar degrees of power means nothing but a duopoly if they each exist above democracy as private entities (and they do) and there is no “equal” competition with more progressive groups.

But it is true that political opposition is forbidden and the only allowed party is the communist, right?

Calling for the overthrow of the entire government apparatus is forbidden there, as it is everywhere, but opposing particular policies and platforms is normal.

Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?

I hate when people try to be slick, and it’s even more annoying when they suck at it:

Well it’s a one party dictatorship, and . . . the responsibility lies on the Cuban leadership.

All this ignoring that you are misrepresenting both Cuba and the effect of the sanctions.