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@ CascadeOfLight @hexbear.net

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  • How US was able to invade Venezuela and kidnap its leader in hours?

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  • Between their military and police force, which are in many ways functionally interchangeable, the US accounts for over 60% of the world's military budget. This is the effect of bringing to bear a century of total global domination and the power and experience gained from that, particularly in special forces operations. The staging and planning of this attack probably ran into the billions of dollars, not even counting the actual purchase price of the weapons, ships and aircraft involved, or the training costs of personnel, or the cost of putting up the spy satellites they will have used, etc.

    It's certainly surprising they could outright capture and extract him, rather than just bomb him or gun him down, but when you look at the total volume of military hardware used to pull it off, it's not that hard to believe.

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • I hope this lack of a response means you took my advice and went to bed

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • But seriously what's your deal

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • So it's something secret?

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • Then what are you trying to do?

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • It took hundreds of years for the whole of Europe to transition through the stages of feudalism, leading up to its political overthrow and replacement with bourgeoise democracies, whether true republics or consitutional monarchies. The first European republic, France, was even defeated by a coalition of monarchies and had its royalty restored! But that didn't change the gradual transition of economic forces that lead inescapably to the political dominance of the capitalist class. The monarchies of Europe didn't lose their power all at once, but as the capitalist class gained power they flipped one by one, or else had the actual political power of their aristocracy quietly stripped away. Thus it is with capitalist republics across the world today. Over perhaps hundreds of years, capitalist republics will become socialist, some socialist projects will be overthrown by coalitions of capitalists the way France was (e.g. the Paris Commune, the USSR, Yugoslavia) but as the capitalist economy was superior to the feudal economy in terms of industrial output - even in countries that still had a monarchy, like the German or British Empires - so the socialist centrally-planned economy is superior to the capitalist one, even when there are still markets present, which will eventually lead to global political domination by the working class. After the last capitalist republic has been overthrown, and the working class has fully eliminated capitalist ownership, hence the capitalist class, hence competing class interests entirely, then the structures and organizations required for that task can be decomissioned, some kind of borderless world government can be instituted, all economic activity can be directed for the fulfillment of needs, etc. And probably, in regions far from the front lines and risks of capitalist sabotage, such conditions would probably already be well-established in practice. But it could take another one or two hundred years to reach that point.

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • I'm gone for one day and come back to this

    You've been posting every couple of hours for almost an entire day, when did you even sleep?? You replied 17 times in this comment chain without even trying to substantially respond to a single point I made. In every thread I've ever seen you participate in, you exclusively argue without the slightest grace and in obvious bad faith. Do you think this is how you convince people of anything? Do you think an outsider reading this chain of replies will see you as anything other than vulgar and offputting? What exactly do you think you're accomplishing here? At least you make your opponents look incredibly reasonable and well-read by comparison. Your next move is to write a one-line reply responding to a single fragment of this comment, instead you should go to bed!

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • The United Kingdom has a monarch, is it not capitalist?

    Are political-economic systems something that switch instantly from one pure form to the next, or are they epochal changes stretching over hundreds of years?

  • [OC] The Hanna-Barbera Pit Massacre

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  • Alright gang, let's split up and search for clues!

    Gašper, Tomaž, take these grenades and go look at the bottom of that mineshaft

  • czechmate

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  • You've also never seen a world without the United States, whomst spends 60% of the world's military budget and has financed 100000000 coups

    Until all capitalists are destroyed and every single human endeavor on Earth is being democratically directed by the working class, a state will have to exist to wage class war

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • You really cannot be taking swings at Cuba, there is simply no reasonable way to look at this tiny country under total siege by the most powerful empire of all time, see how much better their people live than any other nation at the same level of income, and declare that it's a bad thing. Even a cursory investigation shows how much power the people have to change policy, it's probably the most democratic country in the world, maybe ever. Here's a short primer

    I mean, just read that section on mass organizations and tell me that isn't exactly what you profess to want. And this is from 2015, way before the 2022 Family Code referendum which made marriage equality a constitutional right (among various other highly progressive things) and was probably the most democratically-shaped document of all time, having been discussed in 133,000 public meetings across the nation, with 783,000 proposals for changes made by literally just regular people, in a process that took three and a half years and ended on the 25th revision, which was then adopted in a referendum by 87% of voters.

  • "ah, the op checks out. soyjack memes and using the fact that they self-describe as an anarchist as an excuse to support literally anything anti-marxist (regardless of truth) are their bread and butte

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  • Locked

    Bulletins and International News Discussion from December 29th 2025 to January 4th 2026 - A Bold Step Forward For The AES

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  • This might not count as news, but having talked to various friends and relatives over the holidays, I've managed to collect some purely anecdotal economic data, and the obvious conclusion is that the inevitable collapse of Europe is grinding slowly onwards.

    Workers and whole teams at companies in multiple industries are being made redundant - including important technical roles that have my friends confused as to how the company is even going to run now. Projects are being put on hold or shuttered. Tradesmen are competing for fewer jobs. A multi-year, multi-million dollar contract between an automaker and an advertizing firm just evaporated. There are fewer clients, smaller cohorts coming through training programs, less money in budgets for the kind of elevated make-work that the European middle class subsists on.

    Of course, no one I talked to, even discussing a few of these things in the same conversation, can link these events together, let alone conceptualize this as a tingling in the extremities, the warning signs of the entire continental economy's impending death by gradual, trickling blood loss from the killing blow of Nordstream. They all think it's just a bad year, rather than the best year anyone's going to have ever again. Not 'ever again', I must correct myself, in a mere 97 more years Europe will have completed its century of humiliation.

  • :peanis:

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  • I'm afraid I must ask you to cease and desist in the use of this character.

    Peanis is a registered trademark of Beanvel® and will soon be joining the Beanis™ Cinematic Universe (BCU©) - as soon as we have finished this third fourth fifth round of rewrites and reshoots.

  • Amerikkkan lib uses hypothetical Chinese occupation of Western US as an analogy to explain why more Ukrainian lives should be sent to the meat grinder

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  • Ukrainian Neonazis were ethnically cleansing Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens. Russia joined a civil war on the morally correct side.

    It's like if Egypt invaded Israel. Egypt is also an illiberal capitalist state, but they would still be on the right side of that conflict.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 24th to November 30th, 2025 - First as Farce, Then as Kinda Just Embarrassing - COTW: Mexico

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  • Critical support to the British Army for doing everything in their power to fuck up British soldiers

  • NASA Staff Horrified at Plan to Throw Out Incredibly Specialized Science Equipment Like Garbage

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  • $375 for a scanning electron microscope???

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from October 20th to October 26th, 2025 - The Fall of Boluarte - COTW: Peru

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  • The 'human waves' style of spycraft