As unsatisfying as it would be for the imperial core not to be subject to the same external horrors that they’ve inflicted on the rest of humanity, the world should not need to stoop to the level of the colonizers. The imperial core will continue to grow weaker as China and successive countries that develop continue to build an alternative model of global coexistence. These Western colonizers will then cannibalize their own and eventually succumb to the movements led by their own exploited populaces. At least, that’s the best case scenario for the world.

What is insane though is that libs won’t admit this is a Holocaust because it hasn’t reached those numbers yet. As if they need millions of people dead for Gazans to “earn” their empathy.

Israel has already possibly surpassed Warsaw ghetto massacre numbers with no end in sight. And after the Warsaw Uprising the numbers increased dramatically. Not only that, they’re trying to instigate a regional war to settle more of the Middle East and Northern Africa, just like Germany did with Europe. Israel is fucking mimicking the Nazi playbook right before our all of our eyes.

I wouldn’t be shocked if Putin was just saying this shit for the lolz

Americans on average are poorer than they were during the Great Depression. The only reason this awful economy is not considered a depression is because of capitalist propaganda. It’s all just being held up by “vibes.”

So far this decade seems to be defined by Western empire maneuvering and provoking its victims to “attack first.” We saw it with Russia and we saw it with the Palestinian resistance.

The protests for Palestine have also persisted for over two months now, similar to the 2020 George Floyd protests. They may be slowing some, but they are still happening. If anything, people are likely being recruited into actual organizational and educational work and finding sustainable levels of involvement, which while less sexy, is on the whole more crucial than chanting in the street.

And after decades of failed adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and now witnessing the US response to Israel’s genocide, hardly anyone here of proper age is gonna be willing to fight and die for the ruling class’s profits. The resistance to a US draft now would be enormous, bigger than with Vietnam. Cities would shut down and burn from riots. The US isn’t going to be winning any major overseas land invasion while also having to go to war with its populace at home all across the country. A draft here would be very very difficult for the ruling class to pull off without a seriously successful propaganda campaign, which is becoming rapidly inconceivable as the citizens continue to wake up.

Just about the only thing that I can see possibly working out in the US’s favor for a draft is if they can pull off a false flag attack of enormous damage.

Reminds me of that photo of all the Japanese politicians physically wrestling for a single pen.

All I can find online is Maduro joking about how his moustache is similar and Western press running with “omg see guys he admits he wants to a kill bazillion people like Stalin”

Thank you

Interesting. Can you give me a source/example? Just a jumping off point for my own research?

I’m not educated nearly enough on this particular matter to have an informed opinion on it.

But I will say that, even though communists support Venezuela’s sovereignty and their struggle against Western imperialism, I feel like a lot of communists forget that Venezuela is not a communist country and that Maduro is not a communist. In fact, the relationship between the communists of Venezuela and Venezuelan leadership has been deteriorating pretty heavily over the past decade. The left shouldn’t expect the ruling party of Venezuela to behave like a principled communist party and not be too surprised if they end up violating the sovereignty of another country for their own national interests.

I know no one is seriously claiming Maduro (and by some extention Chavez) is a communist, but he does seem to get romanticized as if he were one.

Sorry if this feels unrelated, so take this comment as just a side-note.

American Averagism

These acts have always seemed like a symptom of psychosis to me. I suspect these people likely planned to end their lives anyway, as an act of protest or not. :\

Edit: Apologies, didn’t mean to be unempathetic. I just think it’s tragic that world events have driven this much pain into person that they are driven to the point of ending their life.

It’s possible to both recognize how a state (Russia, Iran) can occupy an anti-imperialist position due to their circumstances and also recognize that they have seriously bigoted domestic politics.

I know very few people here that are genuinely happy.

Idk if it’s unfortunate.

Now he’s gotta live with a shank wound and worry about it happening again at any moment from around any corner. Sounds worse tbh.

They’re gonna teach it the N word aren’t they

Yeah. Considering how many Marxist parties have failed to even get off the ground, there’s no high horse to even sit on here.

I agree. It’s obviously a term used in conversations with people who have a common understanding with you. And we need to seize opportunities to point out that liberals’ beliefs are equally as propagandistic when we are debating them.