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OurToothbrush

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  • Forest of trees

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  • I actually support the side which is magnitudes less violent. And there is a difference between killing fascists like the Soviets did and killing anti-colonial freedom fighters but mostly civilians like the colonial powers did.

    You can only oppose everyone if your opposition doesn't actually do anything. If you're actually affecting things your opposition of one will strengthen the other. You have to be against the US empire and for multipolarity or against multipolarity and for the US empire. There isn't a third option.

  • Forest of trees

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  • "Both sides" is when you equivocate two things which are not equal, you're looking for "whataboutism" which is not an actual fallacy, claiming "you're doing whataboutism" was a PR tactic first used by British colonizers when Irish people brought up British violence in response to anti-IRA propaganda.

  • How likely is it that the Trump administration will attempt to deanonymize online antifascists and leftists and imprison them?

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  • Online? No. Online disorganized leftists aren't actually leftists, they're leftist sympathizers. You need to be in a leftist org to actually be a leftist.

    You're not a threat unless you're actually doing stuff.

  • Biden allows Ukraine to use US arms to strike inside Russia

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  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • A better analogy would be handing magazines to a mass shooter whenever he ran out of ammo

  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • what they then choose to do with it is on them, not us.

    Why do you believe this? Don't people have a responsibility to not give weapons to people knowing they will be used for genocide?

    Also, us? Are you part of the Biden admin?

  • The End of American Exceptionalism

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  • The US isn't a democracy though, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where every election we get to select which group of oppressors will wield state power against us until the next one.

    Also decline is caused by anticolonial resistance and the logic of capitalism breaking down. I would suggest reading Lenin's "imperialism" and Fanon's "wretched of the earth"

  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • Yeah didn't he call for the creation of "greater israel" in the region or something?

  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • What do you call giving weapons with the knowledge that they will be used for genocide?

    Does the recipient obviously lying "oh they'll just be used for defense" while they continue to commit genocide with previous shipments of weapons give the democrats plausible deniability in your book?

  • Delection

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  • The acquisition and accumulation of wealth

    There is the problem, you don't even know how to define capitalism. I would suggest reading "wage labor and capital" and "value price and profit"

  • Delection

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  • Just so you know you can't defeat fascism without defeating capitalism. I recommend reading "the economy and class structure of german fascism" and "fascism and social revolution".

    In general individual action doesn't really help address social problems.

    Politics isn’t gonna fix what is being undermined and dissassembled in our Democracy right now.

    I dont think electoral politics will work but you have to expand your definition of politics if you think electoral politics is all that politics is.

  • Delection

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  • He didn't though, Jill stein got like 40 percent, Harris and Trump got 20 each.

    Honestly this simplification comes off as disingenuous and attempting to play Arab voters are more conservative and backwards.

  • Delection

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  • I think the correct thing to do to give yourself agency moving forward is to project blame onto 10 million people staying home.

    I think that this will let you further develop yourself and do the things required to meet your goals.

    What do you have agency over right now? Are you part of any democratically run political organization right now?

  • After issuing threats on provision of aid, US decides there will be no consequences for Israel

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  • Because it is causing the issue by propping up an apartheid state and giving them the weapons they're using to commit genocide

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  • Youre correct that there was a purge of military in Nazi Era Germany, but beyond that you kind of misunderstand the very collaborationist relationship that the nazis and the existing military industrial apparatus. I would really suggest reading The Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism by Alfred Sohn-Rethel for a little bit of a contextualization of why what you're saying is kinda surface level analysis. Separately I'd recommend Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt.

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  • Hey, Israel is a proxy state for the US. It doesn't control the US that way.

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  • I've read a lot of stuff on the development of the military industrial complex in Germany and fascism's relationship to it both while it was gaining power and had power and I'm not seeing any parallels, could you explain?

  • Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Advanced Course

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  • Fair enough. There are plenty of cool folks to learn from in both orgs, I just don't think there structure and orientation toward the more advanced sections of the working class really align with historical lessons.

  • Marxism-Leninism Study Guide: Advanced Course

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  • Go join DSA and apply to Red Star or MUG once you have some experience and leadership. Successful struggle generally takes place within mass parties, even if and because the mass parties start off with a lower level of consciousness.

    Now is an important time as the national leadership is basically split between relatively cool factions and social democrats with Trots making up deciding votes. The convention is this Summer, and right now the right wing has lost a lot of credibility in the eyes of membership after licking the boot of the unsuccessful kamala campaign. If you want to make a difference in turning the biggest instrument for channeling growing class consciousness back into democrat support into something that genuinely engages in class struggle, now is a critical time to engage.