Can any brits weigh in here, what’s the vibe? Are average british folk really falling for this shit? It seems so obviously like a politically motivated attack that the lib in me can’t help but think this kind of clampdown will hurt their cause (the power of optics!)
Taiwan will never align with China because China (says it) wants to take it over for “face” reasons. If the CPC just went like okay, that whole Taiwan, China thing was stupid we just don’t want you to spread propaganda against us, it will probably go farther.
What do you base either of these assertions on?
It’s “stochastic”. Which I’m guessing you both know, but since I’m incapable of humor and a stickler for details, I’ll just say it anyway
https://www.information.dk/indland/2009/09/vilde-mennesker-zoo
Denmark did this shit too
Yo can you just tell me what page of the Black Book? Just want to check your sources real quick
Talking to other Danes is so frustrating. They will agree with you on basically every critique and point of contention, then turn around and say they’re living in the best country in the world, or that we should be “grateful” or some shit. Can’t imagine any other population in the world is as high on its own farts.
To be fair, all their hard work bending down to kiss an assortment of rings and boots take a real toll on their bodies.
That could’ve been my Cuban-led axis of evil if only the mods weren’t so square
I’ve played diplomacy with 48 hour turns and all forms of communication
Damn, that sounds insane! How long did the game last?
I wasn’t around back in the day, but that sounds hilarious - and more fun than than the very straight-laced game I joined back then (although tbf I was in my early teens and playing in my second language, definitely out of my depth)
Ah yes, the democrats - famously harm reduction candidates on the issue of genocide. Did you see that it was revealed recently that the Biden/Harris camp never actually worked for a ceasefire? Yet somehow defending them is “harm reduction”. This is so obviously just about you feeling better about genocide because your “team” happens to be the ones in charge.
You literally called active support for fascist genocide “milquetoast”. Seems a pretty fair assumption.
Completely dogmatic way of thinking. I should remind you that you just said “Cuba and Vietnam are not engaged in combat with Nazis and imperialists currently.” to the suggestion that materially supporting those socialist countries would be more than/equally as productive materially supporting Russia. So which is it? Are there alternatives, or is “die for a country marginally less fascist than the country they’re fighting because Lenin said so”?
I support DPRK, again critically, that doesn’t mean I think it’s a good idea for young DPRK men to die in this conflict. There are again, thousands of better ways to support socialism than to throw your life away shoulder to shoulder with reactionaries. That’s my two cents. Probably going to stop responding to you once you call me a chauvinist again.
Russia being the aggressor who wants to take all the territory
Fucking quote me on that. Why are you putting words in people’s mouth and ascribing them intentions you know nothing about?
I said “territorial ambitions”, and Russia is completely transparent about having designs on Crimea, and parts of east Ukraine. That it is part of a fight against NATO encroachment doesn’t suddenly change the fucking material facts of what the war is. If you go fight for Russia, you’re going to risk your life in a trench to take or hold some tiny village or hill. That’s a fact. That’s a completely coherent position to take without having to “fall back on the western narrative”.
I am, as are just about everyone else I have ever talked to on this site, happy to call Russia’s fight a fight against NATO and imperialism. It’s your insane leap from that fact to “it’s your duty as a communist to die for Russia” that everyone is reacting against.
I find the fact that you find dying in a ditch for Russia, a country that at most deserves critical support, for the reasons many others have stated here (capitalist society, persecution of minorities etc.) somehow more important or pressing than joining the fight against fascism by moving to and helping build a nation with actual, existing socialism to be an absurd set of priorities.
What the fuck. Cuba, Vietnam, China, DPRK and Laos are all fighting fascism all the time. Are you seriously suggesting that fighting on the frontlines of a deeply reactionary capitalist country is the only way to combat fascism and imperialism. Because that is delusional.
Since when does “critically supporting” Russia mean die on the front lines for their territorial ambitions?
I was about to ask why anyone would suspect foul play this long after his death, then clicked the link and immediately realized I’m dumb and that prince Andrew is very much still alive.
Just curious, why do you see NATO expansion as an overstated factor in the war? You say yourself that the war is about control of spheres of influence, and what is NATO but part of the US’s power projection?
A few years ago, a Hungarian friend was educating me on the incredible corruption of the Orban regime. IIRC, he showed me a photo of the Hungarian equivalent of a supreme court justice shaking Orbans hand and apologizing - apologizing for having sentenced Fidesz (Orban’s party) to a totally symbolic fine for breaking some rules about campaign ads or something.
This seems a lot like that. Yet the same libs who would talk about how awful the Hungarian system is will surely keep telling me that the US is, despite its flaws, a beacon of democracy.
Thank fucking god