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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • One is a country, one is an individual, to say that any individual is more important to the war than the United States is the literal definition of Great Man Theory (i.e. childish nonsense).

    This is without getting into other considerations like how Netanyahu is a scapegoat for faux-progressives who want to deflect away from how this genocide has enthusiastic support from many powerful institutions within Israel. It is an Israeli project much more than Netanyahu's personal project.

    P.S. Assassinating Putin wouldn't end the war in Ukraine either (nor would assassinating Zelensky or Biden)

  • China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait

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  • The NED is notorious for basically being a CIA cut-out

  • US lawmakers pass Tibet policy bill that questions China’s claims over region

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  • Tibet was de facto independent for a while, but it re-joined China voluntarily circa 1950. About 10 years later, with some help from western agitation and assets, the theocratic ruling class felt too threatened by development empowering their serf population and sought to secede in order to maintain their fiefdom. Mao sent in the PLA and crushed the secessionist revolt.

    You really can't "no u" this one because of Imperial China, the PRC's claim to Tibet is completely valid. You'd probably have more luck trying with Xinjiang, though evidently that is viewed as slightly played-out now.

  • Are you a 'tankie'

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  • Are you a 'tankie'

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  • It might be helpful to the survey to include a y/n so they don't need to guess whether you are a dom or a sub in that situation

  • Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No

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  • It's countless layers of hypotheticals away from reality and I think recommending bourgeois governments liquidate their bourgeoisie is silly in the way that, in medieval times, recommending the kings of the world abolish noble titles and the monarchy is silly, you aren't going to get these institutions to just kill themselves. What I support is the proletariat, by reason of having class antagonism with the bourgeoisie, fighting a war against the former's control of the state.

    What do you support?

  • Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No

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  • That depends on if you do or do not want to fight a global revolutionary war against the bourgeoisie, since they would never allow such a thing to succeed in their liberal republics

  • Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No

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  • No, the 2% is for the ones who obey the law, and is enforced with something more like 100% for those who break the law.

  • Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No

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  • Capital flight only exists where it is allowed to exist. It is possible and, in fact, advisable to have laws allowing for the seizure of assets in such a scenario.

  • Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expired on May 20th

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  • But there are some logistical difficulties involved in holding an election in a country currently being invaded, especially with the invasion being broadly successful.

  • Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expired on May 20th

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  • Is that also why they banned all those opposition parties? They were just getting in the way of executing the war?

  • Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expired on May 20th

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  • Russia did hold elections and is "liberal democratic" but Russia has hardly been turned into a warzone in the same way. There are probably other examples worth citing.

  • We had an r/place at my engineering school

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  • No need to resort to incoherent name-calling.

    Russia invaded Ukraine, but war is not genocide, as much as the banderite government likes to turn everything into genocide to minimize their history of the original Banderites and other collaborators perpetrating the actual Holocaust.

    If Russia wanted to carry out the war in a way that involved genocide, just carpet-bombing cities or things like that, it absolutely could, it has maybe the second or third strongest air force in the world. Luckily for everyone involved (other than perhaps frontline Russians), Russia knows that it shouldn't do that, and so it isn't.

    I don't see why you feel the need to so readily call people who disagree with you fascists. I don't think you're a fascist, I just think you're a well-meaning individual who was tricked by the PR of a liberal-fascist alliance. What would make me a fascist? I certainly don't like Russia, I don't have some fantasy of the Eurasian peninsula united under the Russian Federation. I'm not here to tell you that Putin is a good guy, he's a mafioso like you see at the head of most liberal states. I've got no problem with people speaking Ukrainian, though I sure wish they'd find a better national hero than, it must be repeated, a literal perpetrator of the Holocaust, but I also think those weirdos in Russia who worship the pogromist Tsar Nicholas II should get a better idol as well. Please, tell me what kind of fascist I am.

  • We had an r/place at my engineering school

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  • The closest thing to genocide in Ukraine is the conscription carried out by the banderite government for the meat grinder of an unwinnable war.

  • take my hand and I'll show you the world

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    Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

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  • The only thing it's useful for is an approximate answer to the question "Who does the Economist Group want to lionize?"

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    Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

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  • but works alot more like the type of socialism that's common in Europe.

    i.e. not the socialism of Marx

    but I still think the Nordic countries are what most people would refere to as at least a little bit socialist.

    If you ignore that country with 1.4 billion people and a few others, i.e. the majority of country calling their countries socialist.

    Maybe the proper term is social democratic?

    Yes, that is the proper term

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    Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

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  • Only one of those four is white, and it's a classic reactionary tactic to downplay him compared to the Georgian and the older Han Chinese example

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    Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

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  • Because authority carried out under the pretenses of private property is whitewashed in liberal states, who are the ones in your question doing the "considering".