Hey, resident of said US colonial territories here! If your failing, deindustrialized and diseased country permanently annexes my country I’m probably moving to Cuba!

You need to understand that the purpose of a system is what it does. Democrats who have done nothing except roll over as more and more rights are taken away as quite literally just as guilty of the outcome as the Republicans who vote the bills into law. They are voluntarily upholding and enacting this system. They don’t deserve our sympathy.

I promise you literally everyone in this thread already would happily toss Mike Johnson and whatever other transphobic cronies in a pit and a live grenade to follow. We’re allowed to be pissed off at the lack of resistance and solidarity from supposed representatives of the community in question.

You’re mostly correct except Russia obviously doesn’t want to annex Ukraine, only the majority Russian parts that have been treated as second class citizens by Ukraine’s nazi government. If they annexed all of it, they’d only create larger problems for themselves in the borders with NATO members; keeping Ukraine neutral is the whole point (and is beneficial for everyone except arms dealers as you pointed out)

If you were alive in the Cuban missile crisis you’d be saying some wild stuff like “Turkey NEEDED those nukes!”

Path of Exile 2 reveal tomorrow!

I love the idea of the Quartering correctly configuring his pronouns when making his account. Thank you for your patience!

Oh that’s not the only reason. The national bourgeoisie also opposes it because federal taxes and inheritance law doesn’t favor them.

I’d recommend checking out the interview he did with Marc LaMont Hill, he talks about how his parents viewed the Soviet Union a bit more. I think he talks about that more in older interviews when things weren’t moving so fast in Palestine.

To establish enough commodity production to meet the needs of the population, and distribute it accordingly. That’s really the whole end goal. Socialism is the means to achieve that.

More prescient medium-term goals are mitigating the effects of climate collapse and to decolonize the Global South. How do I contribute to those, as someone who lives in the Global South? By joining a union and buying a gun, basically.

Missing Puerto Rico which has Lockheed Martin, Honeywell, Northrop Grumman, RTX, Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, etc.

Why does PR have like a thousand arms manufacturers? Cheapest labor inside the US where the locals are US citizens. Other unincorporated territories didn’t get the Jones act. Any sensitive work that requires clearance winds up incentivizes to operate in PR for the extreme wage difference, it’s the periphery within the core.

IMO he’s just an old fart. He’s never been a liberal, he started his career as a Maoist and has always defended the Soviet Union, the PFLP, and other official bad guys. I wish he could apply dialectical materialism to gender as well as he can to mostly everything else, but he’s too stuck in the past.

That’s definitely true, but exploitation free industrialization is close to unprecedented. There’s a good reason the USSR had to adopt the NEP.

That seems like it just exacerbates the issue, though. What industry remains in the core is extremely capital intensive and is only sustainable because of exploitation of the Global South; making it more capital intensive is incompatible with deconstructing imperialism.

it’s wild that a dog in a balaclava wrote this

Bit idea: nudist guy presenting an argument to the nudist world police about why they have to invade America: “look what they make the women wear!” (picture of clothes)

I think this crowd is probably more enthusiastic about cheese pizza.

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