Commiejones

I cant imagine going on youtube without U block and sponsor block.

You made it! Congratulations on surviving another revolution around the sun.

The CIA has the ability to cut the top brass out. The general in charge of southcom stepped down because the CIA's Special Activities Center was calling shots that he didn't authorize.

That's not gonna protect her face, which is where the fascists like to shoot unarmed people.

"Would"? I'm sitting at 85% sure usa will.

The response will not be kinetic of course but I think they will give a fullhearted condemnation. I think they will take legal actions. It might even start the breakup of nato even if it won't be immediate. I think Europe will be seeing the parallels to the the nazis and start trying to figure out what to do.

Its a bit of a slog. I only got halfway though vol 2 and told myself its ok because Marx didn't finish writing it either.

Volume 1 has some really good stuff in it but other parts are really dry.

I found the best way to understand the more technical parts was to listen to a chapter as an audio book and let it stwe in my brain for a bit. then follow along reading it on a second pass, and then do a 3rd listen followed by listening to the next chapter and so on.

Capital lays it all out in minute detail.

Every positive thing workers get from a bourgeoisie government is appeasement.

The bourgeoisie do not deserve what they have. They stole and murdered to obtain their initial capital that they call "primitive accumulation". They exploit our labor and then give us pennies on the dollar and collude to keep wages low. Then they tell us to be grateful or they will find someone else. The government to help them with this by messing with interest rates to keep businesses from growing too fast so unemployment remains constant which makes it so they can replace workers who demand "too much".

If they didn't have to pay wages at all they wouldn't. If we get 6 pennies instead of 5 that one extra penny is buying their own neck. Just like how slave states balanced the application of the whip to keep them from revolting, the capitalist system balances wages and social programs to keep the workers from striking and revolution.

Need to print some knock offs that say "My parents were so ashamed that I joined the falun gong cult that they told me they were dead."

"My dad robbed a store so he could go to prison instead of come to my falun gong cult dance recitals. He said watching me was like torture."

Israel started letting a trickle of food in and that is just about the only thing in favor of Gaza. All the resistance agreed to was a prisoner exchange and further talks.

The resistance mostly stopped fighting back. The yellow line keeps getting moved forward. Israel has been demolishing tunnels on their side of the yellow line. Many leaders of the resistance have been assassinated since the ceasefire. The resistance is organizing elections within their ranks to replace assassinated leaders but there is no sight of a government or statehood.

None of the terms israel agreed to in the ceasefire were honored. They have recaptured many of the prominent figures they had released and they haven't let in 99% of the things they agreed to.

Its like 85% as bad as could be.

You've got a lot of "I have heard"s that sound like you misheard them. You heard this one correctly though:

That I’m too propagandized from the West.

Look at usa giving weapons to israel while they commit a genocide. Look at the western press justifying/whitewashing/playing down/ and now just not reporting the genocide. Remember the first time they bombed a hospital and the pres went for like a week agreeing with the zionists that it was a Hamas rocket?Nothing they tell you can be trusted. If they tell you the sky is blue grab an umbrella because the sky is grey and raining. If they tell you water is wet go double check. This goes for almost everything you learned in school, everything you've seen on tv or in movies, everything you have heard in church, etc.

That democracy is a bourgeoisie invention to control the proletariat

You misheard this one. Democracy means rule by the people. Representative democracy where people vote once every few years is not democracy. Liberal Representative Democracy is an invention meant to keep the lower classes from revolt with the illusion of control.

That Ukraine is full of Nazis/Russia is threatened by NATO

Even BBC reported the fact that the 2014 coup put neo-nazis in power. The post 2014 veneration of Bandera is well documented with dozens of statues and streets named after him in the years between the coup and the SMO. Bandera was an anti-semitic fascist who's OUN was responsible for mass killings and genocide. Nato specifically excluded the USSR after ww2 because they saw it as a threat. (they were also directly involved in the counter revolution in USSR between ww1 and 2) After the breakup of the USSR Putin asked to join Nato and Clinton said yes at first but then said the deep state said no. If it was a peaceful alliance and they wanted peace with Russia they would have invited the Russians. NATO was always made to keep the europeans from fighting each other by focusing them on the USSR and then Russia.

That all states are authoritarian, as if China’s or NK’s authoritarianism was better than Spain’s or France’s. That authoritarianism is just an insult to throw to socialist states.

"authoritarian" means having a system of centralized power that demands obedience to authority and limits personal freedom. To exist a state must by its very nature be authoritarian.The way China uses its authority is to make sure everyone has what they need and nobody has so much wealth they can use it to buy the right to harm others.In the west the authority is used to protect the rich from their own mistakes (like with bank bailouts) and protect their ability to exploit workers.

That LGTB and racism are irrelevant to the movement (which I don’t really think is the general feeling, but still have been told several times)

Race and sexuality are irrelevant. Racism and Homophobia are not irrelevant because they are weaponized identity. Identity politics are a tool of the ruling class used to divide workers. If white and black workers are fighting each other they aren't fighting the exploiters. We need to fight all forms of bigotry because we want the emancipation of all people and we need all people to be rowing the same way.

Thats al I have for now.

Pedo adjacent at best. He is an anti-communist liberal, pumped up by the imperialist theory industry because his ideas present no threat to the white supremacists patriarchal capitalist ruling class.

you should give Mexican leadership a chance Unless you are yourself living in Mexico

These are the words you used. If that isn't what you meant I'm sorry for taking you at your word but I cant read your mind.

In a different setting I think it is fine to give critical support to Sheinbaum because she is much better than the alternatives. But this is Lemmygrad we don't need to indulge in false hope that a bourgeoisie party will do anything other than capitulate to international capitalist interests.

Sheinbaum and her party are demsoc. Giving them a chance is giving demsocs a chance. She has been attempting to appease trump and expecting that to change is wishful thinking.

Next time you could just say "unless you have better information." As historical materialists we need to not fall into the rhetorical trap of using "lived experience." Its subjective, individualist and anecdotal. A maze is easier to solve from a above than from inside. It's a bad line when they use it and it is just as bad for us.

not the same thing. Rodriguez saying they want peace is not giving ground. Would you prefer she call on us to bomb them to hell? She is still demanding the return of Maduro and saying he is the president.

Are you really saying "give the dem-soc a chance"?

Unless you are yourself living in [country]

haven't we seen this line enough from coup supporters to know it is cringe? We use Historical materialism not "lived experience." Time will tell but Sheinbaum's track record is spotty at best.

Mexico introduced 50% tariffs in December.

The sarcasm here is just a little too good.

Oh thats nice. I'm waiting till the season is all out because watching one episode a week is annoying

when it enters the territory of dehumanization that’s when it crosses a line

This is the straw that broke my liberalism. When the SMO started and all of reddit was chanting "death to orks" I realized that the difference between the western "rules based order" and nazism was cosmetic.

I'm autistic so if I talk to anyone more than a 2 minutes I've said "the billionaires are destroying the planet and will kill us all if we don't kill them first" If they don't run from that we are good. I'll push back on bigotry but If they want the billionaires dead I'll be willing to explain that all prejudice is a learned behavior that is fostered by the ruling class to keep us divided.

I was just looking at new movie torrents and saw "12 hrs in october" and I had to go look at the comments. 4/5 were calling it out as zionists propaganda.