Nah they’re just advocating for hierarchies. Like a fascist would… It’s not an honest argument.

There was a highly popular video on reddit just a couple of days ago that had two people being taken away by police during impromptu interviews. One was apparently opposed to Putin (though I have no idea if that’s true I’m just going off context) and the other seemed to support the war (against based on context) yet they were both taken away. It was kind of funny, like the perfect comedic timing that made it seem like a skit.

The staggering number of people condemning Russia as a police-state, stifling free speech, etc., etc., was so considerable that you’d think one of them would have the presence of mind to bring up the very recent experience with the exact same thing in the USA. Actually, it could be said that it was worse given that many of the police officers were not in uniform and driving unmarked vehicles just grabbing people off the street.

It’s like they all forgot.

It’s always nice when they say the quiet part out loud.

Oh no, now all the moron liberals are definitely going to think that Putin/Russia are communists…

That’s not going to happen.

What isn’t? I only really made one, maybe two, ‘sort-of’ predictions. I really only said that once the Russia-Ukraine war is over, maybe 6 months after, the USA public will have mostly moved on, because they have notoriously short memories.

The sanctions are going to bankrupt the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Japan.

It’s literally not possible for a country that enjoys total control over its own currency to go bankrupt. That applies to the USA, Canada, UK, and Japan. The EU might also apply as a whole but not any member country. No country with monetary sovereignty can default when the debt is written in its own currency.

I don’t know how it is that you have come to this position, what analysis you have done, but it seems overly optimistic to me.

It’s not really that fucked up, it’s just a game. Silent Hunter 3 is the same thing. And in that game there’s nothing political at all, you just captain a submarine. Silent Hunter 4 (or 5 I can’t remember) has you playing an American sub captain and doing the same thing in the Pacific. Just a game.

If you have the original version, something high resolution, I may be able to edit it.

The UK, and the west in general, only had nice things to say about China as long as they could make a shit ton of money operating in China’s markets. Now that China is reigning in capitalism, slowly but surely, the seemingly endless profits are disappearing. Also, NATO always needs a villain, otherwise, how can it justify its existence? Once this whole thing with Russia comes to an end and the people in the imperial countries (mostly America, sorry Americans) forget that it happened they’ll go back to ramping up anti-China messaging (from my own perspective it seemed to be less pervasive the last few weeks but that could just be me).

Why would you even bother? Do you like feeling bad? Lol

Hitler is the baseline for “evil” to a lot of people. So everything is a comparison to Hitler, and how evil he was. Therefore when they say “even Hitler didn’t do ‘that’” what they’re trying to say is this current action by such and such person is even more evil than Hitler, who is of course the most evil person they can imagine.

The biggest reason, as far as I can tell anyway, that the left opposes nuclear power, like the CPC (Canada) has in their platform opposition to nuclear power, is not the power itself but the weapons that ‘could’ be made from it. Unfortunately, they seem to be misunderstanding nuclear power itself. For example, there exists technology to generate nuclear power in such a way that weapons are not possible to be created from the by-product. Instead of supporting such technologies, which they are likely unaware of, they simply condemn nuclear power altogether. With this anti-nuclear sentiment, which spans communists and liberals alike, that means the burden of green energy has to come from far less efficient sources such as wind, solar, geothermal, etc., or from more geographically limited sources like hydroelectric.

Sure, why not? Socialism is the intermediate period before communism which is “communal ownership” of, well, everything. It’s pretty reasonable to expect this period to last quite a long time and to take whatever form is necessary for the country that is undertaking it.

Eh, sports stuff is a bad area for Marxists I think. On one hand, we can argue that the players generate the profits but aren’t getting their proper value. On the other hand, they get paid ~$700,000 per year.

Besides, the season is still going to be 162 games, so nothing is lost in that regard and they managed to negotiate some seemingly good stuff.

I will say that if it was indeed a “million-dollar fund” to help workers, as in not players, there are 30 stadiums with probably hundreds of total staff. One single million dollars is to help them while the players make easily 10x more money than these workers is pretty much just PR. Like when a billionaire donates $500,000 to a charity.

Now the USSR can rise again? Yes? Please?

Seems like you’re getting pretty stressed out. I commiserate with that. My advice? Avoid the media, avoid social media; twitter, reddit, facebook, etc., for at least a couple weeks. Maybe even see if you can talk to a psychologist/psychiatrist, maybe if you have medical insurance it’s covered?

Take a break. Remember that we still live in the system that we have, and we should try to make the most of it. Maybe even rise above it but definitely not let it overwhelm us.

https://cdn-cf-east.streamable.com/video/mp4/lmg7ab.mp4?Expires=1647235740&Signature=I1LxNrS2tSic6dvr7jd7bLeAKNr5AnWSZL1nJtxcoSAjIw9GZE4CY7ntLQdYMZudt0GCJvNwlgZ-cOBHKlqkL11jIEDW5bnxqGTzugVyyHohpjzeX3X3AgEaRurnRn2bZ8Cug6c7cwPdiGc7Wq7yFMVwNKZS0eQJZLSLHwmAaUOcQd3G~AxXQT2d26Ck3ZKO4EyeIvRyNjxV274pwaZZJzb3JbuoYFo0OXcrGho~w0R5IkQyH-N4IECVeLB5DeH1fHxFsMqiEbL~Iy8BUiSyNM4WIua7XjbpD-TAEa2D9ZVqFVet5MNUVmxM6XvTlU39OjjZ2kTfuUXLalNjRmDjUQ__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIEYUVEN4EVB2OKEQ

oof that’s a big ass link, you can find the built-in media file if you look at the source data for the page

Use this one instead, it’s shorter:

https://bit.ly/3KzEAEx

https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs

After watching Shaun’s video on Harry Potter this has an entirely different subtext to it.

Thanks for the link.

I just chalk it up to people finding the appeal of these increasingly popular labels, socialist/communist, and applying it to themselves with only the thinnest understanding of what they mean and what they represent.

“This used to be common among the non-American members of NATO, but with countries across the alliance now ramping up their military budgets as a direct response to Russia,” and this is exactly what they wanted. Sink hundreds of millions (billions) of dollars on an expense that objectively does nothing to improve the material conditions of the working class.

These specific points that the article raises are fucking absurd:

• “The Royal Canadian Navy has no amphibious capability. The fleet doesn’t have a single landing craft or assault ship.” – Why does it need this capability if NATO is supposed to be a ‘defensive’ alliance?
• “The army has no self-propelled artillery. To throw shells at an enemy, Canada does it the same way we’ve been doing it since the First World War: We tow one of our 60-or-so guns to the battlefield and set it up.” – This kind of builds off my first point, if you’re supposed to be defensive you can maintain a static, defensive position and field artillery (instead of SPGs) is fine, why would we spend more money on something that isn’t necessary?
• “The navy can’t really resupply itself at sea. Canada’s last resupply ship kept catching fire, so until a replacement is completed, navy ships need to be refuelled and restocked using a former container ship that is not rated for combat.” – Now this is more of a real problem; the RCN isn’t great and it can be fairly reasonably argued that a navy can be used for more than just offensive and imperialistic operations. It can also provide natural disaster assistance and other non-combat tasks. Personally, I’d give them a pass on bringing this up.
• “We’re not doing great on drones. Armed Bayraktar drones have proved to be an exceedingly cheap way for Ukraine to target incoming Russian columns. But even for a Canadian military that loves to cheap out on air support, we’re still years away from getting an armed drone.” – I don’t even think I need to point out why this is a stupid critique to raise.
• “Even the official prime ministerial transport is an outdated embarrassment. The RCAF operates the Airbus CC-150 that is currently flying Trudeau around Europe, and as the National Post’s Colby Cosh noted in a recent column, the interior is notable for being strewn with extension cords.” – Nor this…